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AusBiotech, WMDO to offer online medtech courses

WMDO, the leading global provider of innovative online training for medical device professionals, and AusBiotech, Australia's leading biotechnology industry organization, announced today a strategic partnership that offers AusBiotech Members access to WMDO's professional online training.

7 Mar 2011

New website to encourage healthy behavior changes in Oklahomans

In 2010, Strong & Healthy Oklahoma, a division of the Oklahoma State Department of Health, conducted a 12-question survey to capture current physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco programs/resources across the state.

7 Mar 2011

Poll explores link between Americans' use of communication technologies and sleep habits

The 2011 Sleep in America- poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation finds pervasive use of communications technology in the hour before bed. It also finds that a significant number of Americans aren't getting the sleep they say they need and are searching for ways to cope.

7 Mar 2011

ShearWave Elastography increases performance of ultrasound breast cancer diagnosis

SuperSonic Imagine presented yesterday the validation of a world wide multicentre study, based on European recruitment, confirming the benefit of ShearWave Elastography when added to ultrasound for improved lesion classification.

7 Mar 2011

Multifunctional balloon catheter can improve cardiac ablation therapy

In an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can be a long and painful procedure as many catheters, with different functions, need to be inserted sequentially.

6 Mar 2011

Oxford Instruments patents to be auctioned off at ICAP Ocean Tomo's Spring 2011 Live IP Auction

The Oxford Instruments patents will be auctioned off at ICAP Ocean Tomo's Spring 2011 Live IP Auction on March 31, 2011 in New York City. Oxford Instruments has determined that these patents are not strategic for its ongoing business. The lots include: a concept for the use of magnetic particles for targeted cancer treatment, advanced sterilization techniques, an advanced imaging system, and an advanced microbolometer.

5 Mar 2011

Elsevier / Gold Standard announces enhancements to ProspectoRx

Elsevier / Gold Standard, a leading developer of drug databases and medication management solutions, announced today several enhancements to its pricing tool, ProspectoRx, including the addition of Federal Supply Schedule pricing to facilitate pricing analysis.

5 Mar 2011

Efficient medical treatments to be showcased at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries in treating a host of diseases at its 36th Annual Scientific Meeting March 26–31 at McCormick Place (West) in Chicago, Ill. The theme of the meeting is "IR Rising: Leading Image-guided Medicine," chosen to reflect interventional radiology's continued revolutionizing of modern medicine.

5 Mar 2011

Core Performance uses IBM software to help consumers reach their fitness goals

IBM today announced that a leading provider of corporate fitness services is using business rules software to customize individual workouts to help consumers reach their fitness goals in the New Year.

5 Mar 2011

BioAlliance Pharma awarded €2 million in funding to study Lauriad mucoadhesive technology

BioAlliance Pharma SA, a company dedicated to the supportive care and treatment of cancer patients, today announced the award of €2 million in funding over 30 months from the « Fond Unique Interministériel » (a French program supporting collaborative research projects) including an amount of €743,000 specifically allocated to BioAlliance Pharma.

5 Mar 2011

Philips introduces new innovative and cost-effective solutions for radiology at ECR 2011

At the European Congress of Radiology 2011, Royal Philips Electronics is ushering in a new era in radiology science with Imaging 2.0, a concept fueled by integration of technology, clinician and patient.

5 Mar 2011

Father of Juicing introduces Jay Kordich PowerGrind Pro to promote good health

\At the spry young age of 87 years, famed health guru Jay Kordich has been singing the praises of juicing for quite some time. But, never before in his 62 years in the business has Jay actually put his name on the side of a juicer.

5 Mar 2011

TearLab provides update on CLIA Waiver categorization application for TearLab Osmolarity System

TearLab Corporation announced today that it is in receipt of a communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indicating that the data submitted by the Company was not sufficient to gain approval of its CLIA Waiver categorization application for the TearLab Osmolarity System.

5 Mar 2011

Bovie settles patent infringement ligation with Salient Surgical and Medtronic

Bovie Medical Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced a settlement to the June 10, 2010, action brought by Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. against the Company.

5 Mar 2011

Stockholm court rules in favour of Occlutech against AGA-St Jude Medical

Occlutech GmbH, a leading European developer of minimally invasive implants for the treatment of structural heart disease, today announced that it has received a favourable court ruling from Stockholm, Sweden in the on-going patent litigation with AGA Medical -St Jude Medical.

5 Mar 2011

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

Ariadne, a leader in bioinformatics software and knowledge integration, announced that National Cancer Institute has renewed their license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system that includes the ResNet Mammalian database and Ariadne MedScan text processing technology for site-wide use.

5 Mar 2011

Medifocus to present on Microfocus APA-1000 at Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference

Medifocus Inc. is pleased to announce that two clinical presentations of the Company's breast cancer treatment system, the Microfocus APA-1000, will be made at the 21st Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference , March 12-16, 2011 in Las Vegas , NV.

5 Mar 2011

Researchers use qMRI to confirm effect of CS treatment in patients with OA

A group of Canadian researchers led by Prof. Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Head of the Osteoarthritis Research Unit at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, published a clinical trial in which they confirm, for the first time using quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the disease modifying effects of chondroitin sulphate, a symptomatic slow acting drug for osteoarthritis.

5 Mar 2011

Eveo to develop mobile solutions that encourage adherence

Medication non-adherence is as dangerous and costly as many diseases, causing up to 125,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Non-adherence, the failure to take drugs on time in the dosages prescribed, has been described as the world's "other drug problem."

5 Mar 2011

BNCT treatment proves effective in treating recurrent head, neck cancer

Biologically targeted BNCT treatment is based on producing radiation inside a tumour using boron-10 and thermal neutrons. Boron-10 is introduced into cancer cells with the help of a special carrier substance (phenylalanine), after which the tumour is irradiated with lowenergy neutrons.

5 Mar 2011

Device / Technology News

AusBiotech, WMDO to offer online medtech courses

New website to encourage healthy behavior changes in Oklahomans

Poll explores link between Americans' use of communication technologies and sleep habits

ShearWave Elastography increases performance of ultrasound breast cancer diagnosis

Multifunctional balloon catheter can improve cardiac ablation therapy

Oxford Instruments patents to be auctioned off at ICAP Ocean Tomo's Spring 2011 Live IP Auction

Elsevier / Gold Standard announces enhancements to ProspectoRx

Efficient medical treatments to be showcased at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

Core Performance uses IBM software to help consumers reach their fitness goals

BioAlliance Pharma awarded €2 million in funding to study Lauriad mucoadhesive technology

Philips introduces new innovative and cost-effective solutions for radiology at ECR 2011

Father of Juicing introduces Jay Kordich PowerGrind Pro to promote good health

TearLab provides update on CLIA Waiver categorization application for TearLab Osmolarity System

Bovie settles patent infringement ligation with Salient Surgical and Medtronic

Stockholm court rules in favour of Occlutech against AGA-St Jude Medical

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

Medifocus to present on Microfocus APA-1000 at Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference

Researchers use qMRI to confirm effect of CS treatment in patients with OA

Eveo to develop mobile solutions that encourage adherence

BNCT treatment proves effective in treating recurrent head, neck cancer

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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