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Georgia Hospital Association selects onFocus enterprise performance management solution

onFocus Healthcare, Inc. today announced that it is the exclusive enterprise performance management solution to the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and its more than 200 hospitals. This partnership allows onFocus to extend its web-based software, onFocus|epm™, and performance optimization service programs through increased collaboration with GHA member hospitals and management teams.

28 Jan 2011

Annual mammogram screening at younger age reduces breast cancer deaths

A new study questions the controversial U.S. Preventative Service Task Force recommendations for breast cancer screening, with data that shows starting at a younger age and screening more frequently will result in more lives saved.

28 Jan 2011

Magnetic nanoparticles for ovarian cancer treatment

A paper published in the January issue of the journal Nanomedicine could provide the foundation for a new ovarian cancer treatment option - one that would use an outside-the-body filtration device to remove a large portion of the free-floating cancer cells that often create secondary tumors.

28 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the first use of the Blazer® Open-Irrigated Catheter in the U.S. as part of the BLOCk-CTI clinical trial. BLOCk-CTI is a prospective, randomized trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in patients with sustained or recurrent Type 1 atrial flutter.

28 Jan 2011

Positive results from RXi's sd-rxRNA technology for development of novel therapeutics

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a recognized leader in RNAi-based therapeutics, announced today that, as part of its collaboration with miRagen Therapeutics, positive data were generated demonstrating that RXi's sd-rxRNA technology can be used, in vitro, to specifically enhance the activity of a microRNA of high interest to miRagen.

28 Jan 2011

Gene signature can accurately predict breast cancer outcomes

Researchers from McGill University's Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have discovered a gene signature that can accurately predict which breast cancer patients are at risk of relapse, thereby sparing those who are not from the burdens associated with unnecessary treatment.

28 Jan 2011

EHIL creates new software tool to protect health research participants' privacy

In recognition of Data Privacy Day 2011, the Electronic Health Information Laboratory is making a new software tool freely available to the medical research community to protect personal privacy while helping to advance medical research.

28 Jan 2011

Golden Helix releases new Sequence Analysis Module for SNP & Variation Suite

Golden Helix, Inc. today announced the release of a new Sequence Analysis Module for its SNP & Variation Suite software. The new module introduces innovative tertiary analysis methods for next-generation DNA sequencing studies.

27 Jan 2011

Disabled and elderly people can benefit from new hand-held computer

Disabled and elderly people could find it easier to navigate around town and city centres with a new hand-held computer being developed by a geographical information systems professor at Kingston University in South West London.

27 Jan 2011

Medtronic releases CD HORIZON SOLERA Spinal System in the U.S.

Continuing a stream of recent advancements for stabilization of the spine, Medtronic, today announced both the release of its CD HORIZON SOLERA Spinal System in the U.S. and a limited market release in Japan.

27 Jan 2011

FDA grants 510(k) clearance to Sonitus Medical's SoundBite Hearing System

Sonitus Medical, Inc., a medical device company that manufactures the world's first non-surgical and removable hearing prosthetic to transmit sound via the teeth, today announced that it has received FDA clearance for its SoundBite Hearing System. The FDA 510(k) clearance is the first for the company and the product.

27 Jan 2011

As recording technology rapidly improves, neurons give up their secrets cell by cell

Scientists at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), designated the "#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America" by U.S. News & World Report since 1991, report that, thanks to improvements in technology and data analysis, our understanding of the functional principles that guide the development and operation of the brain could improve drastically in the next few years.

27 Jan 2011

Despite reimbursement cuts the diagnostic imaging market to grow at 5% over next five years: MRG

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, although the overall diagnostic imaging market has been limited by reimbursement cuts and poor economic conditions, the next five years will see unit growth of approximately 5%.

27 Jan 2011

GE to establish Global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Ontario

GE announced an agreement to establish its first Global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Toronto, Ontario. GE and its digital pathology joint venture, Omnyx™, will invest $7.75M along with a $2.25M grant from the Health Technology Commercialization Program created by HTX and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

27 Jan 2011

Blue Shield of California implements MedeAnalytics' Medical Management Analytics

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, announced today that Blue Shield of California is now live with MedeAnalytics' Medical Management Analytics for use within its Healthcare Services Division. Blue Shield's goal is to provide its medical directors and case managers with actionable information to drive improvements in how clinical services are utilized.

27 Jan 2011

TD2 and Flagship Biosciences offer combined oncology and pathology services

TGen Drug Development (TD2) and Flagship Biosciences today announced a strategic alliance that should help speed new drugs safely into human testing and quickly benefit cancer patients.

27 Jan 2011

Rethink Autism to offer free web-based program for parents and teachers

An estimated 637,000 children ages 3-17 in the U.S. had a current Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis in 2007 according to a widely accepted study published in Pediatrics. That represents a 67% increase from a previous estimate by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, which reported autism rates of 66 per 10,000 children in 2002.

27 Jan 2011

SRI awarded DOE grant to expand MetaCyc database and enhance Pathway Tools software

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced today it has been awarded a grant by the Department of Energy (DOE) to expand its MetaCyc database and enhance its Pathway Tools software. This project will give SRI's bioinformatics tools even greater utility in the emerging area of bioenergy, or renewable energy derived from biological sources.

27 Jan 2011

NuGEN, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement in next generation sequencing sample preparation methods

NuGEN Technologies, Inc. and Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. today announced a co-marketing agreement for the development of automated methods for next generation sequencing sample preparation on Caliper's Sciclone® NGS Workstation.

27 Jan 2011

Precise Biometrics launches new generation of fingerprint readers

Biometric systems are no longer reserved for Government users. Enterprise markets such as Banking and Corporations are increasingly seeing the benefits offered by biometric solutions. To accommodate these new opportunities, Precise Biometrics launches a new generation of competitive fingerprint readers which are designed to meet a range of specific but different customer demands.

27 Jan 2011

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Georgia Hospital Association selects onFocus enterprise performance management solution

Annual mammogram screening at younger age reduces breast cancer deaths

Magnetic nanoparticles for ovarian cancer treatment

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

Positive results from RXi's sd-rxRNA technology for development of novel therapeutics

Gene signature can accurately predict breast cancer outcomes

EHIL creates new software tool to protect health research participants' privacy

Golden Helix releases new Sequence Analysis Module for SNP & Variation Suite

Disabled and elderly people can benefit from new hand-held computer

Medtronic releases CD HORIZON SOLERA Spinal System in the U.S.

FDA grants 510(k) clearance to Sonitus Medical's SoundBite Hearing System

As recording technology rapidly improves, neurons give up their secrets cell by cell

Despite reimbursement cuts the diagnostic imaging market to grow at 5% over next five years: MRG

GE to establish Global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Ontario

Blue Shield of California implements MedeAnalytics' Medical Management Analytics

TD2 and Flagship Biosciences offer combined oncology and pathology services

Rethink Autism to offer free web-based program for parents and teachers

SRI awarded DOE grant to expand MetaCyc database and enhance Pathway Tools software

NuGEN, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement in next generation sequencing sample preparation methods

Precise Biometrics launches new generation of fingerprint readers

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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