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CRF announces additional featured trials to be presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2010

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation has announced that in addition to the previously announced late breaking clinical trials and first reports, a series of additional featured trials will be presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 scientific symposium. These trials will focus on a wide range of significant topics in interventional cardiovascular medicine. TCT 2010 will take place September 21 - 25 in Washington, DC.

13 Aug 2010

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge initiative announces four new challenges

The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, an initiative designed to stimulate new innovative application development and data use, announces its four newest challenges which include prize money of over $15,000.

13 Aug 2010

Challenges in interrelated disciplines of information governance in effective e-Health systems

According to a new report from Accenture, healthcare organizations planning large investments in e-health solutions face challenges in five interrelated disciplines of information governance - data privacy, confidentiality, security, quality and integrity.

13 Aug 2010

MDS Nordion extends cobalt-60 long-term supply agreement with Ontario Power Generation

MDS Nordion, a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has extended its existing agreement with Ontario Power Generation Inc., the Canadian-based electricity generation company, until 2020 for the secure supply of cobalt-60 used in gamma sterilization technologies around the world.

13 Aug 2010

General Dynamics awarded $80.3M contract to support HHS Early Retiree Reinsurance Program

General Dynamics Information Technology's ViPS, part of its Health IT Solutions business sector, has been awarded a contract to support the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP). The total potential contract value is $80.3 million over four years if all options are exercised.

13 Aug 2010

EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD finalists announced

The names of the finalists in this year's EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD have been announced. The companies Addex Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland), Apeiron Biologics (Austria) and Galapagos Genomics (Belgium) have made it through to the final round.

13 Aug 2010

UMass Memorial selects McKesson's CytoCare robot to automate compounding of hazardous IV drugs

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Massachusetts has selected the CytoCare™ robot from McKesson to automate the compounding of intravenous (IV) drugs. The robotic technology will enable the 830-bed facility to more safely prepare hazardous IVs, protecting both their patients and their staff from exposure risks.

13 Aug 2010

Benvenue Medical commences treatment in U.S. with Blazer Vertebral Augmentation System

Benvenue Medical, Inc., a developer of minimally invasive solutions for spine repair, announced today that it has treated the first patient in the United States with the Blazer Vertebral Augmentation System - a new device for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). The case was performed by Francis Facchini, M.D., partner, VIR Chicago, at Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, Illinois.

13 Aug 2010

Integra LifeSciences adds iPASSAGE Retractor for minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today the addition of the iPASSAGE Retractor for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) of the lumbar spine. The iPASSAGE Retractor is a tissue sparing retraction system that allows the surgeon to make smaller incisions, potentially reducing tissue damage, blood loss and recovery time.

13 Aug 2010

Mercator signs license agreement with MD Anderson Cancer Center and closes $2.0 million seed round

Mercator Therapeutics, the first biopharmaceutical company to use in vivo phage display technology systematically to develop novel cancer drugs, today announced the signing of a license agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the closing of a $2.0 million seed round.

13 Aug 2010

NIEHS procures Provantis preclinical software solution for National Toxicology Program studies

Instem, a leading provider of early drug development software solutions, announced today that the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has purchased the Provantis® preclinical software solution to support the collection, management and maintenance of the reproductive, perinatal and developmental National Toxicology Program studies. These studies are done predominantly at contractor laboratories at various sites throughout the United States.

13 Aug 2010

New implantable device to prevent sudden cardiac arrest

Northwestern Memorial Hospital heart rhythm specialists recently gave a 34-year-old man a makeshift paramedic—who's always on duty—inside of his chest by implanting a device that did not require X-ray assistance and the usual snaking of wires leading to the heart. In fact, the innovative device rests just beneath the surface of the skin and its components are positioned using the patient's own anatomical landmarks.

13 Aug 2010

European Association of Urology to publish first case series on RALP

In European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology, a new section will be published as of the September issue: Case Series of the month. This series is dedicated to publishing promising studies which have so far only preliminary results. The Case Series reports on no more than 10 patients and includes illustrative images. A Continuing Medical Education question with multiple choice answers is also included to enable readers to earn CME points.

13 Aug 2010

Researchers develop new implantable metamaterials to destroy cancerous tissue

The research, reported online July 21, 2010, in the journal Advanced Materials, provides a promising path towards the development of a new class of metamaterial-inspired implantable biosensors and biodetectors.Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic composites, typically made of highly conducting metals, whose structures respond to electromagnetic waves in ways that atoms in natural materials do not. The most futuristic metamaterials would absorb all light, to create heat to destroy cancerous tissue, or bend light completely around an object, rendering that object invisible-an imaginary delight for fans of science fiction or spy novels.

13 Aug 2010

Gore announces first implantation in IDE clinical study of ACUSEAL Vascular Graft in hemodialysis patients

W. L. Gore & Associates reported that the first patient, in an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study evaluating the self sealing GORE® ACUSEAL Vascular Graft in patients on hemodialysis, has been surgically implanted with the device. The successful surgical procedure was performed on July 29, 2010 at Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina. Less than 24 hours after the device was implanted it was successfully cannulated or punctured for initial hemodialysis access.

13 Aug 2010

CLC bio, PSSC Labs announce new turnkey solution for full-genome assembly and analysis

Today, CLC bio and PSSC Labs announced a new turnkey solution, CLC Genomics Factory, for assembly, read mapping, and subsequent downstream analysis of very large amounts of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data. Built as a high-performance bioinformatics appliance, CLC Genomics Factory comes in three different sizes with varying numbers of compute nodes, capable of processing the data output from up to 10 Illumina HiSeq2000 or 7 Life Technologies SOLiD 4 systems.

13 Aug 2010

Peter Rullan offers Pixel Perfect skin treatment on Pixel CO2 laser purchase

Founder of the Dermatology Institute, Peter Rullan, M.D., has expanded his practice and is now offering Pixel Perfect™ treatments to his patients with the purchase of the Pixel CO2 laser from Alma Lasers.

13 Aug 2010

ARMC completes system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo, the inventor of Masimo rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry, Masimo rainbow Acoustic Monitorin, and Masimo SET Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, today jointly announced the completion of ARMC's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.

13 Aug 2010

Mass. docs will soon track patients who abuse prescription drugs; Wis. Catholic Church employees now eligible for birth control

The Boston Globe: "With a few computer keystrokes, Massachusetts physicians will soon be able to identify patients who travel from clinic to clinic in pursuit of potent prescription drugs that feed lethal addictions. State health regulators yesterday unanimously approved the new detection system designed to stop 'doctor shopping' by addicted patients who try to dupe doctors into prescribing narcotics. The practice, specialists said, has fueled a surge in drug-related deaths in Massachusetts" (Smith, 8/12).

13 Aug 2010

The Australian examines development of low-cost water purifiers by Indian companies

The Australian reports on how four large businesses in India are developing low-cost water purifiers for some of the country's "poorest of the poor."

13 Aug 2010

Device / Technology News

CRF announces additional featured trials to be presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2010

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge initiative announces four new challenges

Challenges in interrelated disciplines of information governance in effective e-Health systems

MDS Nordion extends cobalt-60 long-term supply agreement with Ontario Power Generation

General Dynamics awarded $80.3M contract to support HHS Early Retiree Reinsurance Program

EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD finalists announced

UMass Memorial selects McKesson's CytoCare robot to automate compounding of hazardous IV drugs

Benvenue Medical commences treatment in U.S. with Blazer Vertebral Augmentation System

Integra LifeSciences adds iPASSAGE Retractor for minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery

Mercator signs license agreement with MD Anderson Cancer Center and closes $2.0 million seed round

NIEHS procures Provantis preclinical software solution for National Toxicology Program studies

New implantable device to prevent sudden cardiac arrest

European Association of Urology to publish first case series on RALP

Researchers develop new implantable metamaterials to destroy cancerous tissue

Gore announces first implantation in IDE clinical study of ACUSEAL Vascular Graft in hemodialysis patients

CLC bio, PSSC Labs announce new turnkey solution for full-genome assembly and analysis

Peter Rullan offers Pixel Perfect skin treatment on Pixel CO2 laser purchase

ARMC completes system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology

Mass. docs will soon track patients who abuse prescription drugs; Wis. Catholic Church employees now eligible for birth control

The Australian examines development of low-cost water purifiers by Indian companies

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