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FDA approves Spectranetics PMA for manufacturing site change for CVX-300 laser system

Spectranetics Corporation today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Company's premarket approval application (PMA) supplement requesting a manufacturing site change for the CVX-300® laser system.

20 Jan 2011

ERC selects Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database to track and award research funding opportunities

Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database was selected by the European Research Council (ERC) to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world.

20 Jan 2011

ACD CPR performed with combination of ResQPump and ResQPOD could save lives of cardiac arrest patients

A combination of two devices could save the lives of thousands of cardiac arrest patients each year if implemented nationwide, suggests clinical trial results published in today's online edition of The Lancet.

20 Jan 2011

Neuros Medical announces initial feasibility study results of HFAC Nerve Block technology

Neuros Medical, Inc., a medical device company announced today initial feasibility study results of their patented high frequency alternating current (HFAC) Nerve Block technology from their first patient. The study is a short-term, 30-day test per patient, focusing on chronic residual limb pain. Nearly one million patients suffer from chronic residual limb pain in the U.S.

20 Jan 2011

Ingenix announces formation of new Life Sciences division

Ingenix, a leading provider of health care information, technology and consulting services, today announced the formation of Ingenix Life Sciences, a newly-organized division that focuses Ingenix's capabilities in assisting life sciences clients to identify, analyze and measure the value of their products.

20 Jan 2011

CHI responds to FDA recommendations for 510(k) regulatory review process

California Healthcare Institute today released a statement in response to new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations that could transform the 510(k) regulatory review process for new medical devices, greatly affecting innovation and public health in California.

20 Jan 2011

Cognizant to deliver commercial operations solutions to Lilly

Cognizant, a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, announced that it has been selected by Eli Lilly and Company, one the world's leading innovation-driven pharmaceutical companies, to deliver an end-to-end set of services to help Lilly's U.S. sales and marketing operations be more effective, efficient, and innovative.

20 Jan 2011

NMDP selects Velos to supply new Product Fulfillment and CDR System

The National Marrow Donor Program announced today that it has selected Velos, a leading California health care software provider, to supply its new Product Fulfillment and Clinical Data Repository System.

20 Jan 2011

No robust conclusions possible on advantages or disadvantages of PET

Malignant gliomas are fast-growing brain tumours with poor prospects of recovery depending on disease stage. Experts hope that the examination of patients by means of positron emission tomography (PET) is more helpful in the choice of the right treatment than other procedures. In a final report the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has now investigated the benefit of PET in the detection of recurrences. According to this report, no robust conclusions are possible on the advantages or disadvantages of PET.

20 Jan 2011

Brains of migraine sufferers show higher proportion of lesions of brain microvessels

Recent work, in particular the CAMERA study, has used MRI to study the brains of migraine sufferers and has shown that a higher proportion of these patients exhibit lesions of the brain microvessels than the rest of the population.

20 Jan 2011

Ultrasound device shows promise in breaking up pulmonary embolisms: Research

A tiny ultrasound device that helps dissolve blood clots is showing promise in breaking up potentially deadly pulmonary embolisms, blockages of blood vessels in the lungs that can occur after long plane rides, surgery and extended bed rest.

20 Jan 2011

Medidata extends Grants Manager web-based budgeting application with new Contracting module

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today extended the Grants Manager® web-based budgeting application with a new Contracting module, enabling sites and sponsors to negotiate clinical trial site budgets directly online, eliminating the burden of managing hundreds of email messages and reducing budgeting cycle times.

20 Jan 2011

Model guides creation of more patient-centered personal health records

Personal health records have great potential to help patients manage their health, but technology needs to be designed with the patient in mind - which means doing more than helping patients access health information, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University family medicine physicians published in the Jan.19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

20 Jan 2011

Waters signs land-purchase agreement with Royal Bank of Scotland for new MS Headquarters in UK

Waters Corporation today announced it signed a land-purchase agreement with The Royal Bank of Scotland for a new Mass Spectrometry Headquarters in Wilmslow, Cheshire, near Manchester, U.K.

20 Jan 2011

OSC and RINCH offer support to speed discovery techniques of childhood diseases

Worried about her high fever and severe abdominal pain, a young couple rushed their baby daughter to the emergency department of Nationwide Children's Hospital. Physicians there found a lump in her belly, and, after examining X-rays and blood work, confirmed the parents' worst fear: their 18-month-old little girl had neuroblastoma, a rare pediatric cancer that involves the adrenal glands.

20 Jan 2011

ETPN, Nanobiotix introduce Nanomed TV to provide information on Nanomedicine

Nanomed TV www.dailymotion.com/nanomedTV foresees to become the main hub for Nanomedicine thanks to its initiators, two major European players in nanomedicine: the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine and Nanobiotix.

20 Jan 2011

Bluechiip, STMicroelectronics enter partnership to manufacture unique MEMS-based tracking tags

STMicroelectronics, the leading supplier of MEMS devices for consumer and portable applications, and Bluechiip Limited, an innovative early-stage company that has developed a groundbreaking tracking solution, today announced that the two companies are to cooperate in the manufacturing of unique MEMS-based tracking tags, aimed at a range of different markets, but initially in healthcare, such as biobanks.

20 Jan 2011

Device / Technology News

FDA approves Spectranetics PMA for manufacturing site change for CVX-300 laser system

ERC selects Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database to track and award research funding opportunities

ACD CPR performed with combination of ResQPump and ResQPOD could save lives of cardiac arrest patients

Neuros Medical announces initial feasibility study results of HFAC Nerve Block technology

Ingenix announces formation of new Life Sciences division

CHI responds to FDA recommendations for 510(k) regulatory review process

Cognizant to deliver commercial operations solutions to Lilly

NMDP selects Velos to supply new Product Fulfillment and CDR System

No robust conclusions possible on advantages or disadvantages of PET

Brains of migraine sufferers show higher proportion of lesions of brain microvessels

Ultrasound device shows promise in breaking up pulmonary embolisms: Research

Medidata extends Grants Manager web-based budgeting application with new Contracting module

Model guides creation of more patient-centered personal health records

Waters signs land-purchase agreement with Royal Bank of Scotland for new MS Headquarters in UK

OSC and RINCH offer support to speed discovery techniques of childhood diseases

ETPN, Nanobiotix introduce Nanomed TV to provide information on Nanomedicine

Bluechiip, STMicroelectronics enter partnership to manufacture unique MEMS-based tracking tags

Covidien launches Puritan Bennett 520 ventilator in Europe

QBC Diagnostics releases ParaLens Advance to provide benefits of LED fluorescence microscopy

Precision Therapeutics to present pancreatic cancer data at 2011 ASCO GI Symposium

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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