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Stason Pharmaceuticals to market Unilife's Unitract 1mL safety syringe in Japan, China and Taiwan

Unilife Corporation today announced that it has signed an exclusive five-year agreement with Stason Pharmaceuticals Inc, a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, to market the Unitract™ 1mL safety syringe in Japan, China and Taiwan. Stason's Taiwan-based strategic alliance affiliate, Standard Chem. and Pharm. Co., LTD, will act as the primary distributor of the product within these designated territories.

10 Mar 2010

$Advances in back care and treatment options for slipped disc, spine surgery and vertebral fractures$

Advances in back care and treatment options for slipped disc, spine surgery and vertebral fractures

Approximately 21 million visits were made to physicians' offices due to back problems in 2006. While countless adults experience back pain and stiffness, many suffer from serious spine and back conditions -including injury, herniated discs and the deterioration of the vertebrae. Three new studies presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) detail advances in back care and treatment options for specific back and spine conditions.

10 Mar 2010

Accelr8 Technology to present results of culture-free, quantitative pathogen identification study at 110th ASM

Accelr8 Technology Corporation today announced that it has received acceptance to present results for a study on 2-hour, culture-free, quantitative pathogen identification. The study was co-authored with principal investigators at the Denver Health Medical Center and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

10 Mar 2010

Smith & Nephew introduces BIORAPTOR Knotless Suture Anchor

Smith & Nephew's Endoscopy Division today announced the launch of the BIORAPTOR™ Knotless Suture Anchor, a device used to repair a torn labrum in the hip and shoulder. The anchor is among products featured at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting, which began today in New Orleans.

10 Mar 2010

ADHD News Network Broadcast wins Shire and P2M coveted 2010 Telly Award

After reviewing more than 13,000 entries, the Telly Awards® and their Silver Council announced the Shire and PharmtoMarket (P2M) produced "ADHD News Network Broadcast: 11/18/2009" had received the coveted 2010 Telly Award for video broadcasting and production.

10 Mar 2010

TGen deploys Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices to discover new treatments for diseases

Isilon® Systems today announced that The Translational Genomics Research Institute has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage solution powering its next-generation biomedical research. By using Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices, TGen has unified its mission-critical operations onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage, increasing workflow productivity and reducing costs to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for life-threatening diseases.

10 Mar 2010

ESWT applied with SANUWAVE’s Ossatron device results in 80% healing rate of nonunions of the tibia

SANUWAVE Health, Inc.,, an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area, today announced that a journal article titled Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Nonunion of the Tibia, was published in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma.

10 Mar 2010

OSI Pharmaceuticals deploys Veeva Systems' SaaS CRM application

Veeva Systems announced today that it will support OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. with its SaaS Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application, which OSI deployed to its sales team in February after a rapid implementation. OSI selected Veeva CRM® for its ease of use, relevant functionality, and speed.

10 Mar 2010

Astra Tech's OsseoSpeed TX implant line launched to the US market at AO Annual Meeting

Astra Tech, leading provider of comprehensive solutions for dental implant therapy, launched their OsseoSpeed™ TX implant line to the US market at this year’s AO Annual Meeting. The OsseoSpeed™ TX implant comes as the next step in the continuous evolution of the Astra Tech Implant System™ with its modified tapered apex design, first introduced with the launch of their narrow two-piece implant, OsseoSpeed™ TX 3.0 S in June 2008.

10 Mar 2010

FDA approves Abbott's TECNIS Multifocal 1-Piece intraocular lens for cataract patients

Abbott announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the TECNIS® Multifocal 1-Piece intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract patients with and without presbyopia.

10 Mar 2010

Reductions in tobacco use and increased screening for early detection reduces cancer death rates

A new American Cancer Society study finds progress in reducing cancer death rates is evident whether measured against baseline rates in 1970 or in 1990. The study appears in the open access journal PLos ONE, and finds a downturn in cancer death rates since 1990 results mostly from reductions in tobacco use, increased screening allowing early detection of several cancers, and modest to large improvements in treatment for specific cancers.

10 Mar 2010

Adult female stress urinary incontinence: Uroplasty launches new endoscopic injection needle

Uroplasty, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products to treat voiding dysfunctions, today announced the introduction of a newly designed endoscopic injection needle that can be used in conjunction with the system used to inject Macroplastique®. Macroplastique is a soft-tissue urethral bulking agent used to treat adult female stress urinary incontinence primarily due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency. This permanent, nonresorbable material is injected into the tissues surrounding the urethra to help improve urethral closure to enhance bladder control.

10 Mar 2010

Children's Hospital Boston develops new web site, releases video message on current state of stem cell research

Exactly one year to the day after President Obama's historic decision to reverse an eight-year restriction on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Children's Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program today announced the development of a unique, comprehensive web site and released a candid video message from its top researchers on the current state of stem cell research to introduce the new site: stemcell.childrenshospital.org.

10 Mar 2010

TNS acquires license to Ergothioneine Transporter from University of Cologne

Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc. announced that the company has acquired from the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, an exclusive license agreement on the invention entitled “Ergothioneine Transporter,” owned by the University.

10 Mar 2010

TMS blog: Issues surrounding provision of medical services in complex workers' compensation cases

Total Medical Solutions has launched an aptly named blog www.workcompcomplexcare.com that focuses on issues surrounding the provision of medical services in complex workers' compensation cases.

10 Mar 2010

NPL completes project to help UK company diagnose medical conditions by monitoring patients' breath

Bedfont Scientific Ltd is one of the market leaders in developing personal diagnostic gas sensors for the medical market.

From Bedfont® Scientific Ltd 10 Mar 2010

Growth rate of nonradiologists owning or leasing PET equipment higher than radiologists

Positron Corporation. The growth rate among nonradiologists who own or lease PET equipment was far higher than radiologists between 2002 and 2007, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

10 Mar 2010

BIOCRATES Life Sciences, CHENOMX announce co-marketing agreement

Austrian biomarker developer BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG announced today that it entered a co-marketing agreement with Canadian-based CHENOMX Inc. Both enterprises focus on a new and highly promising technology aimed at generating a metabolic profile of the human organism that can be used to monitor the effects of disease, nutrition, toxins, environment, or drugs on an organism.

10 Mar 2010

Japanese ablation devices market: Emerging trends that will fuel market growth

According to Millennium Research Group, the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the recent launch of irrigated-tip catheters into the Japanese market will drive the ablation catheter market by a compound annual growth rate of approximately 15% through 2014.

10 Mar 2010

Imaging tools may help address challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care: Study

New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging tools may help address the most challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation's President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern said today.

10 Mar 2010

Device / Technology News

Stason Pharmaceuticals to market Unilife's Unitract 1mL safety syringe in Japan, China and Taiwan

Advances in back care and treatment options for slipped disc, spine surgery and vertebral fractures

Accelr8 Technology to present results of culture-free, quantitative pathogen identification study at 110th ASM

Smith & Nephew introduces BIORAPTOR Knotless Suture Anchor

ADHD News Network Broadcast wins Shire and P2M coveted 2010 Telly Award

TGen deploys Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices to discover new treatments for diseases

ESWT applied with SANUWAVE’s Ossatron device results in 80% healing rate of nonunions of the tibia

OSI Pharmaceuticals deploys Veeva Systems' SaaS CRM application

Astra Tech's OsseoSpeed TX implant line launched to the US market at AO Annual Meeting

FDA approves Abbott's TECNIS Multifocal 1-Piece intraocular lens for cataract patients

Reductions in tobacco use and increased screening for early detection reduces cancer death rates

Adult female stress urinary incontinence: Uroplasty launches new endoscopic injection needle

Children's Hospital Boston develops new web site, releases video message on current state of stem cell research

TNS acquires license to Ergothioneine Transporter from University of Cologne

TMS blog: Issues surrounding provision of medical services in complex workers' compensation cases

NPL completes project to help UK company diagnose medical conditions by monitoring patients' breath

Growth rate of nonradiologists owning or leasing PET equipment higher than radiologists

BIOCRATES Life Sciences, CHENOMX announce co-marketing agreement

Japanese ablation devices market: Emerging trends that will fuel market growth

Imaging tools may help address challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care: Study

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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