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Biomatrica announces strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel

Biomatrica, Inc., a leader in room temperature biostability technology, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel. IQT is the independent, strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

24 Feb 2011

InfraReDx to showcase LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System at CRT 2011

InfraReDx, Inc., a medical device company providing intelligent cardiovascular diagnostic imaging technologies, today announced that its LipiScan™ IVUS Coronary Imaging System will be featured in several presentations during the annual Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) 2011 meeting, being held February 27 through March 1, 2011 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

24 Feb 2011

'Current Concepts' article outlines ultrasound use among clinicians

Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the "stethoscope of the future," predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician's neck. According to a new report in The New England Journal of Medicine, that day has arrived.

24 Feb 2011

Accelrys releases Pipeline Pilot NGS Collection at Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference its entrance in the rapidly growing next generation sequencing (NGS) market with the release of the NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot.

24 Feb 2011

New vaccine offers hope against Hepatitis C

Immunology: Three percent of the world's population is currently infected by hepatitis C. The virus hides in the liver and can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer, and it's the most frequent cause of liver transplants in Denmark.

24 Feb 2011

Nonsurgical methods to identify critical lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nonsurgical methods for identifying critical lymph nodes to help doctors determine courses of treatment for breast cancer patients.

24 Feb 2011

ViewRay's radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software receives FDA marketing clearance

ViewRay™, Inc., a privately held medical device company, has received U.S. FDA marketing clearance for its radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software.

24 Feb 2011

Xenogenics retains Emmes to assist with development, execution of its capital formation strategy

Xenogenics Corporation, a majority owned subsidiary of MultiCell Technologies, Inc., is pleased to announce it has retained the Emmes Group to assist with the development and execution of its capital formation strategy to help finance expanded human clinical trials of its Ideal BioStent.

24 Feb 2011

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

Ingenuity Systems, a leading provider of information and analytics solutions for life science researchers, today announced a research collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing data analysis.

24 Feb 2011

Solos Endoscopy to launch new urology product line

Solos Endoscopy, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company is set to introduce a new product line consisting of urology surgical and diagnostic instruments.

24 Feb 2011

ACT receives patent for its single-blastomere technology

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, announced today that it has been issued a patent on its "single-blastomere" technique. Patent Number 7,893,315 broadly covers ACT's proprietary single-blastomere technology that provides a non-destructive alternative for deriving human embryonic stem cell lines.

23 Feb 2011

California researchers receive InHealth grant to evaluate device-intensive procedures

The Institute for Health Technology Studies has awarded a $263,000 grant to a research team at the University of California, Berkeley, to identify and analyze the strategies that hospital systems employ to evaluate and purchase implantable medical devices for cardiac, spinal, and orthopedic procedures.

23 Feb 2011

FDA clears Agendia's breast cancer recurrence assay

Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that the company has received its fifth U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for MammaPrint, its widely used breast cancer recurrence assay.

23 Feb 2011

Ibio acquires Orphan Drug Designation and Fabry disease therapeutic program from Kentucky

iBio, Inc. today announced it has acquired Orphan Drug Designation for plant-produced human alpha galactosidase A and related property rights from an affiliate of Kentucky Bioprocessing LLC and has initiated a program, based on its iBioLaunch platform, to develop an improved version of the enzyme for therapy of Fabry disease.

23 Feb 2011

FDA clears Entellus Medical's new FinESS Endoscope

Entellus Medical, a Minnesota-based medical technology company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the company's new FinESS Endoscope.

23 Feb 2011

MEDSEEK chosen by Trinity Health to implement online patient experience

MEDSEEK, a provider of enterprise eHealth solutions that give patients, clinicians and administrative staff an optimal 360-degree online experience, today announced plans to deepen its relationship with long-time partner Trinity Health. It will develop, design and implement the healthcare system’s fully integrated online patient experience.

23 Feb 2011

Versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor

At today’s International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC2011), imec, Holst Centre and NXP present a versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor, CoolBioTM, meeting the requirements of future wearable biomedical sensor systems. The biomedical signal processor consumes only 13pJ/cycle when running a complex ECG (electrocardiogram) algorithm at 1MHz and 0.4V operating voltage. This C-programmable chip is voltage and performance scalable supporting a frequency range of 1MHz up to 100MHz with an operating voltage from 0.4 to 1.2V.

23 Feb 2011

Hearing aids with the latest technology through NHS

In the UK we are fortunate enough to have a free provision of hearing aids by way of the NHS. Over the last few years, the NHS has switched from analogue to digital hearing aids for the majority of patients. These hearing instruments are of a reasonable quality and are programmed to match the patients hearing loss. Fantastic! I hear you say, but there's perhaps a little more to this situation than meets the eye.

23 Feb 2011

Orthopaedic groups select Entrada's automated clinical documentation solution

Two large orthopaedic groups have become the most recent customers of Entrada, a company changing the way physicians document patient encounters and use electronic health records (EHRs).

23 Feb 2011

Dual lab tests accurately predict vein graft blood clots in patients during CABG

A team of heart experts at Johns Hopkins has found that dual lab tests of blood clotting factors accurately predict the patients whose blood vessels, in particular veins implanted to restore blood flow to the heart during coronary artery bypass grafting, are more likely to fail or become clogged within six months.

23 Feb 2011

Device / Technology News

Biomatrica announces strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel

InfraReDx to showcase LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System at CRT 2011

'Current Concepts' article outlines ultrasound use among clinicians

Accelrys releases Pipeline Pilot NGS Collection at Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

New vaccine offers hope against Hepatitis C

Nonsurgical methods to identify critical lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer

ViewRay's radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery software receives FDA marketing clearance

Xenogenics retains Emmes to assist with development, execution of its capital formation strategy

Covance Genomics Lab, Ingenuity enter research collaboration for NGS data analysis

Solos Endoscopy to launch new urology product line

ACT receives patent for its single-blastomere technology

California researchers receive InHealth grant to evaluate device-intensive procedures

FDA clears Agendia's breast cancer recurrence assay

Ibio acquires Orphan Drug Designation and Fabry disease therapeutic program from Kentucky

FDA clears Entellus Medical's new FinESS Endoscope

MEDSEEK chosen by Trinity Health to implement online patient experience

Versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor

Hearing aids with the latest technology through NHS

Orthopaedic groups select Entrada's automated clinical documentation solution

Dual lab tests accurately predict vein graft blood clots in patients during CABG

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