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Masimo announces limited market release of Pronto-7 handheld hemoglobin spot-check testing device

Masimo, the inventor of Rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry™, Rainbow Acoustic Monitoring™, and Masimo SET® Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, today announced the international limited market release of Masimo Pronto-7 -- a new handheld device designed for quick and easy noninvasive hemoglobin (SpHb®) spot-check testing in virtually any environment.

23 Jun 2010

IsoRay, Hologic complete exclusive worldwide distribution agreement for GliaSite radiation therapy system

IsoRay, Inc. announced today that it has completed a license agreement with Hologic, Inc. for exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the GliaSite® radiation therapy system, the world's only FDA-cleared balloon catheter device used in the treatment of brain cancer. The system's balloon catheter is a landmark technology that allows physicians to treat more patients than ever before with brachytherapy or internal radiation and provides important benefits over other radiation treatment options.

From Hologic, Inc. 23 Jun 2010

California Providence hospitals select Allscripts for new homecare automation systems

Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center of Burbank, Calif., and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center of Torrance, Calif., announced they have selected Allscripts for their new homecare automation systems.

23 Jun 2010

Grant introduces new range of digital, analogue ultrasonic benchtop baths

Grant Instruments, a world-renowned supplier of scientific, life sciences and data acquisition products, has unveiled an advanced range of high quality, robust, fully-featured digital and analogue ultrasonic benchtop baths. The baths are designed to meet the growing need for reliable ultrasonic cleaning in laboratories and across pharmaceutical, medical, healthcare and industrial applications.

23 Jun 2010

BioWa signs two licensing agreements with GSK

BioWa, Inc. announced today that it has entered into two agreements with GlaxoSmithKline. BioWa and GSK have amended their existing 2007 arrangement in order to provide GSK with extended access to BioWa's POTELLIGENT Technology platform for the research, development and commercialization of their antibody therapeutics with enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The second license agreement provides GSK with access to BioWa's COMPLEGENT Technology for enhancing the complement-dependent cytotoxicity of select GSK therapeutic antibodies.

23 Jun 2010

imec researchers demonstrate biosensors that detect extremely low concentrations of disease markers

Researchers at the nanotechnology research centre imec have demonstrated biosensors based on novel nanostructure geometries that increase the sensitivity and allow to detect extremely low concentrations of specific disease markers. This paves the way to early diagnostics of for example cancer by detecting low densities of cancer markers in human blood samples.

23 Jun 2010

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awards £1.2 million to Bilayer Platform project

Scientists at the University of Southampton and Birkbeck College, University of London are developing a platform consisting of an array of artificial cell membranes that will enable more efficient testing of potential new drugs.

23 Jun 2010

Researchers develop experimental approaches, analysis tools to understand phenotypic expression

The Human Genome Project, along with numerous parallel efforts to solve the DNA sequences of hundreds of animal, plant, fungal, and microbe genomes in the last few decades, has produced enormous amounts of genetic data with which researchers are struggling to keep pace.

23 Jun 2010

Toshiba announces availability of Aegis breast imaging workstation with MR products

Improving the ability to efficiently process MR images used for breast cancer analysis, the AegisTM breast imaging workstation is now available with Toshiba America Medical Systems' MR products. The Aegis workstation was developed with the distinct needs of radiologists and technologists in mind, offering flexibility and workflow efficiency.

23 Jun 2010

US lags in health system performance

Despite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared to six other industrialized countries-Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom-on measures of health system performance in five areas: quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long, healthy, productive lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

23 Jun 2010

Wellstar International provides shareholder update

We have been working very hard to have our Trillennium Medical Imaging System ready to go to market. As most are aware we have been waiting for the Duke Study to be published in the ADVANCES IN SKIN AND WOUND CARE PUBLICATION JOURNAL. While everything has been submitted to the publisher and there have been two rounds of questions and clarifications resubmitted, we are confident and excited that we will have the results published in August or September.

23 Jun 2010

Recent objections would eliminate use of routine breast cancer screening mammograms: Authors

The firestorm that followed the November 2009 release of guidelines that would have reduced use of screening mammograms in women aged 40 to 49 highlights challenges for implementing the findings of comparative effectiveness research, according to a new analysis. Meeting such challenges - which may become more common due to increased funding for CER - requires better communication to the public and stakeholders about evidence and its connection to health care quality and efficiency.

23 Jun 2010

SPS receives $2.2M NHLBI grant to commercialize steerable cardiac mapping, ablation catheter technology

Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc. (SPS), an innovator in advanced medical devices based on its proprietary electroactive polymer (EAP) technology, today announced it has received a $2.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The SPS grant is one of only ten awarded nationwide by the NIH under a Recovery Act Limited Competition called The Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program.

23 Jun 2010

A*STAR physicist receives prestigious 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology

Physicist David William Townsend will be honoured with the prestigious 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology for the design, commercial development and clinical implementation of the PET/CT scanner. Prof Townsend will receive the medal jointly with his co-inventor, engineer Ronald Nutt, on 26 June 2010 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. IEEE is the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity.

23 Jun 2010

WFIRM chooses Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager to manage activities for clinical manufacturing center

Blue Mountain Quality Resources, Inc. (State College, PA) announced today that Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has chosen Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager to manage and document activities for its clinical manufacturing center.

23 Jun 2010

Corgenix receives new European patent for AtherOx technology

Corgenix Medical Corporation, a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, announced today the issuance of one new European patent for the company's AtherOx® (oxLDL/B2GPI) technology and the publication of an important clinical trial studying oxLDL/B2GPI levels in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

23 Jun 2010

ATP-driven bioluminescence predicts children at high risk for tooth decay: OHSU study

Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry have determined that ATP-driven (adenosine triphosphate-driven) bioluminescence - a way of measuring visible light generated from ATP contained in bacteria - is an innovative tool for rapidly assessing in children at the chair-side the number of oral bacteria and amount of plaque that can ultimately lead to tooth decay.

23 Jun 2010

EdgeBio introduces Science as a Service concept built on top of CLC Genomics Server

Today at the inaugural Beyond Sequencing conference in San Francisco, EdgeBio introduced their Science as a Service concept built on top of CLC bio's enterprise platform, CLC Genomics Server. EdgeBio's end-to-end service concept leads each scientist and project from conception and project design through bioinformatics and analysis.

23 Jun 2010

Scientists apply fuzzy logic modeling to predict aging progresses in cells, organisms

The process of aging disturbs a broad range of cellular mechanisms in a complex fashion and is not well understood. Computer models using fuzzy logic might help to unravel these complexities and predict how aging progresses in cells and organisms, according to a study from Drexel University in Philadelphia and Children's Hospital Boston.

23 Jun 2010

Proven Diagnostics signs contract to provide comprehensive laboratory services to Highmark members

Proven Diagnostics, a clinical diagnostic laboratory located in Bethlehem, Pa., announced today that it has signed a contract with Highmark, the largest health insurer in Pennsylvania.

23 Jun 2010

Device / Technology News

Masimo announces limited market release of Pronto-7 handheld hemoglobin spot-check testing device

IsoRay, Hologic complete exclusive worldwide distribution agreement for GliaSite radiation therapy system

California Providence hospitals select Allscripts for new homecare automation systems

Grant introduces new range of digital, analogue ultrasonic benchtop baths

BioWa signs two licensing agreements with GSK

imec researchers demonstrate biosensors that detect extremely low concentrations of disease markers

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awards £1.2 million to Bilayer Platform project

Researchers develop experimental approaches, analysis tools to understand phenotypic expression

Toshiba announces availability of Aegis breast imaging workstation with MR products

US lags in health system performance

Wellstar International provides shareholder update

Recent objections would eliminate use of routine breast cancer screening mammograms: Authors

SPS receives $2.2M NHLBI grant to commercialize steerable cardiac mapping, ablation catheter technology

A*STAR physicist receives prestigious 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology

WFIRM chooses Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager to manage activities for clinical manufacturing center

Corgenix receives new European patent for AtherOx technology

ATP-driven bioluminescence predicts children at high risk for tooth decay: OHSU study

EdgeBio introduces Science as a Service concept built on top of CLC Genomics Server

Scientists apply fuzzy logic modeling to predict aging progresses in cells, organisms

Proven Diagnostics signs contract to provide comprehensive laboratory services to Highmark members

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