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Hospitals to get more bargaining clout for medical devices

The Wall Street Journal: "Hospitals lack leverage when negotiating prices for high-cost implants like defibrillators and replacement hips because individual doctors, rather than hospitals, typically select the products they use in their patients. Since these doctors often aren't hospital employees, they have little incentive to bargain-hunt.

17 May 2010

Dehaier Medical Systems becomes exclusive China distributor of Welch Allyn's patient monitors

Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd., an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical products in China, said today that it has become the exclusive China distributor of Welch Allyn's patient monitors.

17 May 2010

Aastrom Biosciences initiates treatment in Phase 2 catheter-based clinical trial for dilated cardiomyopathy

Aastrom Biosciences, Inc., the leading developer of autologous cellular therapies for the treatment of severe cardiovascular diseases, today announced that the first patient has been treated in the company's U.S. Phase 2 catheter-based clinical trial to treat dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Treatment was performed by interventional cardiologist Timothy D. Henry, M.D., FACC, at the Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, MN.

17 May 2010

TriReme Medical receives FDA expanded clearance for GliderXtreme PTA balloon catheter

TriReme Medical, Inc. (TMI) announced today that it has received FDA clearance for an expanded matrix of sizes for its GliderXtreme™ PTA balloon catheter. GliderXtreme™ is now approved for the percutaneous transluminal treatment of lesions in the peripheral vasculature in balloon diameters from 2.0 – 5.0mm and in balloon lengths up to 200mm.

17 May 2010

Freescale Semiconductor receives ZigBee Certification for wireless health and wellness solutions

Freescale Semiconductor today announced it has received ZigBee Certified product status for its ZigBee Health Care wireless health and wellness processing platforms. The ZigBee Certified products status is awarded to products that have been tested and met criteria for interoperability that enable wireless devices to securely and reliably monitor and manage noncritical, low-acuity health care services.

17 May 2010

AngioDynamics launches Morpheus Smart PICC Triple Lumen CT PICC

AngioDynamics announced today the launch of the first member of its new generation of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) for procedures involving the use of contrast media in computed tomography (CT) - the Morpheus Smart PICC Triple Lumen CT PICC.

17 May 2010

MicroStockProfit.com: BSMD's total worldwide revenues for first-quarter 2010 decline 2%

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring BioSphere Medical Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

17 May 2010

Berman Institute experts available for comment on direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic test kits

Journalists covering the recent announcement by Pathway Genomics that it will sell health-related genetic marker tests to consumers—and the subsequent decision by Walgreens to postpone sales of the kits pending clarification of their legal status—are invited to interview Berman Institute experts Joan Scott or Gail Javitt.

17 May 2010

NPL launches new Measurement Network

The National Physical Laboratory is launching a new Measurement Network to provide comprehensive access to the latest measurement science. It will bring together nineteen existing NPL knowledge transfer clubs and networks into a central hub - making it easier for a wide range of stakeholders to engage with NPL and for new groups to develop as technologies change.

17 May 2010

FDA has right to request more information from genetic testing kit manufacturers: Law Professor

"The FDA was right to request more information from the manufacturer of the genetic testing kit before its sale to consumers," says IU School of Law-Indianapolis Professor David Orentlicher.

17 May 2010

Blood-flow fMRI to be used to study brain-wide impact of neural circuitry changes

Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging to show them what the brain is doing when people respond to different stimuli.

17 May 2010

New data from MVP trial on ICDs shows health care use burden

Medtronic, Inc. today released new data from the MVP trial that implantable defibrillator patients receiving anti-tachycardia pacing were less likely to have health care utilization after treatment as compared to those receiving shock therapy.

17 May 2010

UNC-developed technique has broad applications in cancer, biomedical research

A precise understanding of cellular growth and movement is the key to developing new treatments for cancer and other disorders caused by dysfunctional cell behavior. Recent breakthroughs in genetic medicine have uncovered how genes control whether cellular proteins are turned 'on' or 'off' at the molecular level, but much remains to be understood about how protein signaling influences cell behavior.

17 May 2010

Novel internet-based strategy effective in patients with severe prednisone dependent asthma

Patients with severe asthma who use an internet-supported strategy and daily monitoring of exhaled nitric oxide were able to control their asthma with lower overall dosing of oral corticosteroids than patients who underwent usual care, according to research from the Netherlands.

17 May 2010

Web seminar for hospitals considering central archive for MRIs, X-rays, CT scans, patient data

Iron Mountain Incorporated, the information management company, will hold a Web seminar May 18 for hospitals considering a central archive for MRIs, X-rays, CT scans and other patient data that is spread across separate technology systems.

15 May 2010

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

HistoRx , Inc., announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent protecting the company's methods for determining a cancer patient's prognosis based on sub-cellular localization of biomarkers.

15 May 2010

IpAuctions schedules sale of Zassi's pouchless ostomy management technology IP portfolio

IpAuctions™ has scheduled a live international corporate sale of the extensive IP portfolio of pouchless ostomy management technologies owned by Zassi Holdings, Inc. Zassi, the Florida-based firm, fosters breakthrough medical devices that are materially evolving the life sciences industry.

15 May 2010

Computerized model for treating nicotine addiction wins first place at ISEF science competition

A project using cutting edge computer modeling to identify potential new medications for nicotine addiction won first place distinction at the annual Addiction Science Awards at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) --- the world's largest science competition for high school students.

15 May 2010

Winners of 2010 IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards announced

The International Association for Dental Research and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare today announced the 2010 winners of the annual IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards. The three prestigious awards recognize research in innovative oral care technologies that may maintain and improve oral health and the quality of life.

15 May 2010

Hospira's I.V. administration set product line to be standardized to non-DEHP

Hospira, Inc., a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, will expand its commitment to non-DEHP products by transitioning customers to its portfolio of non-DEHP intravenous administration sets.

15 May 2010

Device / Technology News

Hospitals to get more bargaining clout for medical devices

Dehaier Medical Systems becomes exclusive China distributor of Welch Allyn's patient monitors

Aastrom Biosciences initiates treatment in Phase 2 catheter-based clinical trial for dilated cardiomyopathy

TriReme Medical receives FDA expanded clearance for GliderXtreme PTA balloon catheter

Freescale Semiconductor receives ZigBee Certification for wireless health and wellness solutions

AngioDynamics launches Morpheus Smart PICC Triple Lumen CT PICC

MicroStockProfit.com: BSMD's total worldwide revenues for first-quarter 2010 decline 2%

Berman Institute experts available for comment on direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic test kits

NPL launches new Measurement Network

FDA has right to request more information from genetic testing kit manufacturers: Law Professor

Blood-flow fMRI to be used to study brain-wide impact of neural circuitry changes

New data from MVP trial on ICDs shows health care use burden

UNC-developed technique has broad applications in cancer, biomedical research

Novel internet-based strategy effective in patients with severe prednisone dependent asthma

Web seminar for hospitals considering central archive for MRIs, X-rays, CT scans, patient data

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Historx's AQUA technology

IpAuctions schedules sale of Zassi's pouchless ostomy management technology IP portfolio

Computerized model for treating nicotine addiction wins first place at ISEF science competition

Winners of 2010 IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards announced

Hospira's I.V. administration set product line to be standardized to non-DEHP

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