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OraSure granted FDA approval for final phase studies of OraQuick Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test

OraSure Technologies, Inc., the market leader in oral fluid diagnostics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has granted an investigational device exemption (IDE) for the Company to conduct the final phase of clinical testing for FDA approval of its OraQuick® Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test for sale in the consumer or over-the-counter ("OTC") market.

22 Nov 2010

f-star and Boehringer Ingelheim enter joint discovery agreement for new antibody-derived therapeutic products

f-star Biotechnologische Forschungs-und Entwicklungsges.m.b.H today announced the signing of a collaboration and license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim for joint discovery of new antibody-derived therapeutic products based on f-star's Modular Antibody Technology.

22 Nov 2010

TIS wins Brandon Hall silver award for Custom Content category excellence

Tata Interactive Systems, a global leader in innovative learning solutions, won a coveted Brandon Hall silver award for excellence in the Custom Content category.

22 Nov 2010

SESCAM selects WeatherBug weather monitoring solution for emergency services operations

WeatherBug®, the leading provider of consumer and professional weather products and services and operator of the largest weather observing and lightning network, announced its selection by SESCAM (Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha), a regional healthcare organization in central Spain that serves more than two million living throughout the region of Castilla-La Mancha.

22 Nov 2010

PointCross releases SDIS technology to BioPharma industry

PointCross announces the release of its Study Data Integration and Search (SDIS) technology and associated services to the BioPharma industry for private use with legacy and current studies.

22 Nov 2010

Scientific workshop to focus on advanced analytical techniques

Almac, in association with the Royal Society of Chemistry, hosted a scientific workshop focusing on advanced analytical techniques used to optimise, monitor and control solid state properties during the development of new medicines.

20 Nov 2010

German researchers use binocular rivalry to interpret mechanism of brain functions

Researchers around Andreas Bartels at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neurosciences (CIN) and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany used this phenomenon to decipher a key mechanism of the brain functions that contributes to conscious visual perception.

20 Nov 2010

CSU invents artificial body parts that look, feel, behave, and bleed like real skin, muscles and vessels

In the last 50 years, modern medicine has made astounding advances in surgery, yet many of today's veterinary and human medicine students still hone basic surgical and suturing skills on carpet pads and pig's feet before transitioning to a live patient. An invention by Colorado State University veterinarians provides students with artificial body parts that look, feel, behave, and even bleed just like real skin, muscles and vessels.

20 Nov 2010

National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

IBM announced today that the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) has adopted IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management (BPM) software to help automate its donor and patient management process. Both processes are critical to facilitate the matching of donors to patients needing cellular transplants.

20 Nov 2010

NCI’s website helps women to live a smoke-free life

Are you ready to quit smoking and willing to share the good, bad, and ugly about your experience If so, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) wants to feature you on their Smokefree Women Web site as part of the Women Who Quit campaign.

20 Nov 2010

CAP offers complimentary EHR support services for members

To help its physician members and their office administrators make informed decisions when implementing or upgrading an Electronic Health Record system, this month the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. began offering complimentary EHR support services exclusively to its more than 11,000 members.

20 Nov 2010

Medtronic's implantable device delivers positive results for abdominal aortic aneurysms treatment

An implantable medical device used in the minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, the Endurant Stent Graft System from Medtronic, Inc., delivered strong results through one year of patient follow-up in the company's U.S. pivotal study, according to clinical data presented at VEITHsymposium.

20 Nov 2010

Eastern Virginia professor says average doctor may be toting new pocket-sized ultrasound machine

Since the Civil War, the stethoscope has been a standard tool of the trade for physicians. Soon, the average doctor may be toting another valuable diagnostic tool: a pocket-sized ultrasound machine.

20 Nov 2010

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals®, the industry's most comprehensive software suite used by clinicians, patients and healthcare executives to promote high quality, safe care, has received Complete EHR certification — deeming the software capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

20 Nov 2010

Palmetto GBA to cover PTNS therapy for patients with overactive bladder

Uroplasty, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products to treat voiding dysfunctions, today announced that Palmetto GBA for California, Nevada and Hawaii, a regional Medicare carrier, now covers posterior tibial nerve stimulation using the Urgent PC Neuromodulation System for the treatment of the symptoms of overactive bladder.

20 Nov 2010

Cascade reaffirms position on non-invasive detection of melanoma by SkinSpect device

Cascade Technologies, Corp. announced today that, in response to significant recent attention to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel evaluation of Mela Sciences' MelaFind device, the company has received a number of inquiries about its similar instrument.

20 Nov 2010

Waterstone Group honors Coastal in Best Emerging Organization category

Coastal Contacts Inc., the leading online retailer of contact lenses and prescription eyeglasses and its Canadian subsidiary Clearly Contacts.ca, today announced that it had been selected as one of Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures of 2010.

20 Nov 2010

New multimode imaging could help detect blood stain at crime-scene investigations

Chemists at the University of South Carolina have developed a camera with the ability to see the invisible and more. The new technology, called multimode imaging in the thermal infrared, could eventually be used in crime-scene investigations, since it can capture blood stains that the human eye can't see.

20 Nov 2010

Insertable cardiac monitors may help physicians diagnose, treat patient with syncope: PICTURE trial

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the publication of data showing that use of its Reveal family of Insertable Cardiac Monitors led to diagnosis and specific treatment for 78 percent (170 of 218) of patients who experienced a recurrent syncopal (fainting) event during the course of the study.

20 Nov 2010

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

Today, HealthPort, a leading health information technology provider announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Solution Services Division based out of Columbia, SC to CompuGroup Medical AG.

20 Nov 2010

Device / Technology News

OraSure granted FDA approval for final phase studies of OraQuick Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test

f-star and Boehringer Ingelheim enter joint discovery agreement for new antibody-derived therapeutic products

TIS wins Brandon Hall silver award for Custom Content category excellence

SESCAM selects WeatherBug weather monitoring solution for emergency services operations

PointCross releases SDIS technology to BioPharma industry

Scientific workshop to focus on advanced analytical techniques

German researchers use binocular rivalry to interpret mechanism of brain functions

CSU invents artificial body parts that look, feel, behave, and bleed like real skin, muscles and vessels

National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

NCI’s website helps women to live a smoke-free life

CAP offers complimentary EHR support services for members

Medtronic's implantable device delivers positive results for abdominal aortic aneurysms treatment

Eastern Virginia professor says average doctor may be toting new pocket-sized ultrasound machine

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

Palmetto GBA to cover PTNS therapy for patients with overactive bladder

Cascade reaffirms position on non-invasive detection of melanoma by SkinSpect device

Waterstone Group honors Coastal in Best Emerging Organization category

New multimode imaging could help detect blood stain at crime-scene investigations

Insertable cardiac monitors may help physicians diagnose, treat patient with syncope: PICTURE trial

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

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