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Celsis International updates Drug Master Files with FDA

Celsis International, the global leader in rapid microbial detection, announced it has recently updated its Drug Master Files with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to include information on testing both non-sterile and sterile raw materials, in-process solutions and finished goods on the Celsis system.

28 May 2010

Flextronics to expand existing partnership with Citrix Systems

Flextronics today announced that it will expand its existing partnership with Citrix Systems, Inc. to include the joint design of Citrix's next generation hardware for WAN optimization and secure access appliances and primary outsourcing partner. Flextronics has provided manufacturing and logistics solutions to Citrix for more than five years.

28 May 2010

Applied Biocode receives CE Certified marking for BioCode-1000 Analyzer

Applied BioCode, Inc. announced that its BioCode-1000 Analyzer has been CE Certified under the compliance of Laboratory Equipment Standards EN55011, EN61010-1, EN61326-1, IEC61010, EN61000-3-2, and EN61000-3-3. The CE Certified marking that the BioCode-1000 Analyzer has met all relevant European Union consumer safety requirements.

28 May 2010

Positron Emission Mammography helps evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Study

In a recent study presented at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) helps evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

28 May 2010

Zargis Medical launches live-streaming version of Telemed platform at ATA

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it launched the live-streaming version of its ZargisTelemed™ platform at last week's American Telemedicine Association Conference (ATA) in San Antonio, TX. The system allows healthcare professionals to share stethoscope sounds in real-time with colleagues located anywhere in the world through the Internet or a private network. This technology is cleared for sale in the U.S. and 36 other countries.

28 May 2010

CompuMed's digital telemedicine technologies incorporated in Visio Mobile Diagnostics' healthcare services suite

CompuMed, Inc., a telemedicine and medical informatics company, reported its CardioGram® and OsteoGram® systems have been incorporated as core components of Visio Mobile Diagnostics' suite of telemedicine and digital x-ray-based healthcare services.

27 May 2010

HeartMate II left ventricular assist device also improves right side heart function

A state-of-the-art heart pump, designed to maintain a continuous flow of blood in end-stage cardiac patients with damage to the left side of the heart, also improves function on the right side of the heart, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute.

27 May 2010

St. Jude Medical's Epiducer lead delivery system for neurostimulation therapy receives CE Mark approval

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced European CE Mark approval of its new Epiducer™ lead delivery system for neurostimulation therapy. Unveiled at the Neurosurgery 2010 Congress in Lyon, France, the Epiducer lead delivery system is the first of its kind, allowing introduction of S-Series perc-paddle leads as well as multiple lead arrays through a single percutaneous entry point.

27 May 2010

TSO3 ships first new 3M Optreoz 125-Z sterilizer with STERIZONE Technology

TSO3 Inc. an innovator in sterilization technology for medical devices in healthcare settings using ozone, announces the shipment of the first new 3M(TM) Optreoz(TM) 125-Z sterilizer with TSO3 STERIZONE(R) Technology.

27 May 2010

Georgia Tech team wins top three awards in NHIN-CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge

Medicity, Inc. - the standard for health information exchange solutions that empower physicians, hospitals and communities to improve care coordination and collaboration - is proud to announce that a team of Georgia Tech students sponsored by Medicity took the top three awards in the recent NHIN-CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge in Miami.

27 May 2010

Guadalupe County Hospital to implement Phoenix's Total IT Solution featuring Medsphere's OpenVista EHR

Medsphere Systems Corporation, Phoenix Health Systems and Guadalupe County Hospital today announced Guadalupe's selection of Phoenix's Total IT Solution featuring Medsphere's OpenVista® electronic health record. Phoenix IT expertise paired with Medsphere's open-source EHR solution will enable this 10-bed Santa Rosa, N.M., acute-care hospital to secure federal stimulus support for health IT implementation while improving patient care.

27 May 2010

InfraReDx's LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System to be featured at EuroPCR 2010

InfraReDx, Inc., an innovative medical device company focused on developing novel diagnostic imaging technologies to accurately identify and characterize diseased coronary tissue and guide therapeutic interventions, today announced that its next-generation LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System will be featured at EuroPCR 2010, an international educational conference focused on introducing the latest techniques, updates and breakthrough science to the interventional cardiology community.

27 May 2010

Greater physician involvement leads to fewer low-yield exams

A new rule preventing medical support staff from completing orders for outpatient imaging exams that were likely to be negative resulted in a marked decrease in low-yield exams for patients, according to a study appearing in the June issue of Radiology.

27 May 2010

Computer virus infects scientist

A scientist at the University of Reading has become the first person in the world to be infected by a computer virus.

27 May 2010

Study of GCF advances efforts to develop early test for gum disease

A little-known fluid produced in tiny amounts in the gums, those tough pink tissues that hold the teeth in place, has become a hot topic for scientists trying to develop an early, non-invasive test for gum disease, the No. 1 cause of tooth loss in adults. It's not saliva, a quart of which people produce each day, but gingival crevicular fluid (GCF), produced at the rate of millionths of a quart per tooth. The study, the most comprehensive analysis of GCF to date, appears in ACS' monthly Journal of Proteome Research.

27 May 2010

FDA, EMA approve Repligen's proposal for Phase 3 re-read in RG1068 trial for pancreatic imaging

Repligen Corporation announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have approved the Company's proposal to re-analyze the images from our Phase 3 study to establish the utility of RG1068, synthetic human secretin, in improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pancreas (Phase 3 re-read).

27 May 2010

Covidien launches V-Loc 90 knotless wound closure device

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the global launch of the V-Loc 90 device, expanding its family of V-Loc absorbable wound closure devices. This latest addition to Covidien's knotless wound closure product line received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 11, 2010.

27 May 2010

Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS system for imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution

Today, Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS™, a powerful hard- and software package, which, in combination with any scanning electron microscope from Carl Zeiss, enables quick and efficient imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution.

27 May 2010

Oregon State University researchers make fundamental advance in robotics

Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important fundamental advance in robotics, in work that should lead toward robots that not only can walk and run effectively, but use little energy in the process.

27 May 2010

Study finds improvement in detection of breast cancer in mammograms over 9-year period

Researchers analyzing 2.5 million screening mammograms performed on nearly one million women found discrimination of cancerous from non-cancerous lesions improved over a nine-year period. Results of the study are published in the online edition of the journal Radiology.

27 May 2010

Device / Technology News

Celsis International updates Drug Master Files with FDA

Flextronics to expand existing partnership with Citrix Systems

Applied Biocode receives CE Certified marking for BioCode-1000 Analyzer

Positron Emission Mammography helps evaluate response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Study

Zargis Medical launches live-streaming version of Telemed platform at ATA

CompuMed's digital telemedicine technologies incorporated in Visio Mobile Diagnostics' healthcare services suite

HeartMate II left ventricular assist device also improves right side heart function

St. Jude Medical's Epiducer lead delivery system for neurostimulation therapy receives CE Mark approval

TSO3 ships first new 3M Optreoz 125-Z sterilizer with STERIZONE Technology

Georgia Tech team wins top three awards in NHIN-CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge

Guadalupe County Hospital to implement Phoenix's Total IT Solution featuring Medsphere's OpenVista EHR

InfraReDx's LipiScan IVUS Coronary Imaging System to be featured at EuroPCR 2010

Greater physician involvement leads to fewer low-yield exams

Computer virus infects scientist

Study of GCF advances efforts to develop early test for gum disease

FDA, EMA approve Repligen's proposal for Phase 3 re-read in RG1068 trial for pancreatic imaging

Covidien launches V-Loc 90 knotless wound closure device

Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS system for imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution

Oregon State University researchers make fundamental advance in robotics

Study finds improvement in detection of breast cancer in mammograms over 9-year period

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