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U.S. Patent and Trademark office issues Patent on Positron’s Tech-Assist

Positron Corporation a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has allowed for issuance a Patent on Positron’s Tech-Assist™. The Tech-Assist™, invented under the direction of John A. Zehner, a nuclear pharmacist, dramatically reduces exposure to the worker while injecting radiopharmaceuticals into patients when performing Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging studies.

19 Feb 2010

Report examines how medical technology changes state of health care

Federal researchers Wednesday released a report that examines how medical technology is changing the state of health care.

19 Feb 2010

Gentel Biosciences launches integrated Proteomics Multi-System

Gentel Biosciences, a leader in proteomics discovery tools, today launched the Gentel Proteomics Multi-System™ providing “scan-to-analysis” functionality for multiplex immunoassays, lysate and antigen arrays as well as Western Blot, ELISA and tissue imaging, delivering multi-application value to researchers worldwide.

19 Feb 2010

RainDance Technologies enters into strategic agreement with Applied Biosystems

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, and Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies Corporation, announced today they have entered into a strategic agreement to co-market the first solution that combines microdroplet PCR-based sequence enrichment with next-generation sequencing.

19 Feb 2010

FDA may drop medical device 'fast track' amid overuse concerns

The Food and Drug Administration may eliminate a program that allows medical devices to be approved quickly because of concerns the program is overused, The Wall Street Journal reports. An internal FDA memo proposes the elimination or tightening of the "fast track" as officials question the use of private, third-party companies "hired by device makers to pre-review products.

19 Feb 2010

IMS Health launches IMS Aggregate Spend Compliance Services

IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, today announced the launch of IMS Aggregate Spend Compliance Services, a comprehensive set of solutions to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies comply with the growing number of federal and state transparency and marketing disclosure laws in the U.S., known as “aggregate spend” reporting regulations.

18 Feb 2010

Anulex Technologies announces the commercial availability of Xclose Plus Tissue Repair System

Anulex Technologies, Inc., a privately held medical device manufacturer focusing on spinal disc Preservation & Anular Repair™ products, announced the commercial availability of the Xclose™ Plus Tissue Repair System at the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves meeting in Orlando, Florida.

18 Feb 2010

Johns Hopkins Medicine acquires Naviscan Positron Emission Mammography for radiotracer research

Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the latest academic medical center to acquire the Naviscan Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scanner. The device will be utilized by Richard Wahl, M.D., F.A.C.R, Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in pre-clinical and translational research for the development of novel radiotracers.

18 Feb 2010

AltraVax acquires vaccine development technology package from Maxygen

AltraVax, Inc., a new, privately-held biopharmaceutical company, has acquired a vaccine development technology package from Maxygen, Inc. that gives AltraVax an exclusive license to develop vaccines for infectious diseases and is targeting influenza, a treatment for hepatitis B and HIV.

18 Feb 2010

Ear candles can cause serious injuries, warns FDA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers to steer clear of ear candles -- hollow cones that are about 10 inches long and made from a fabric tube soaked in beeswax, paraffin, or a mixture of the two.

18 Feb 2010

Merge Healthcare passes interoperability tests at IHE Connectathon

As a part of its ongoing commitment to interoperability standards, Merge Healthcare, a leading health IT solutions provider, announced that it successfully passed interoperability tests at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), North American Connectathon event in Chicago, Illinois. During the testing, which connects vendor solutions to promote better electronic information exchange, Merge demonstrated interoperability with every vendor pairing, which included some of the largest companies in the world.

18 Feb 2010

BIOGUARD wound dressings with Quick-Med’s NIMBUS antimicrobial technology to be sold by Medline Industries

Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. announced today that its licensee, Derma Sciences, Inc., has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Medline Industries whereby Medline will market and sell BIOGUARD™ wound dressings with Quick-Med’s proprietary NIMBUS antimicrobial technology. The agreement covers the acute care segment of the health care market, which includes nearly 6,000 hospitals in the United States plus surgery centers, wound care centers, and other associated health care facilities. Sales under this new agreement are expected to start later this month.

18 Feb 2010

Intezyne announces new patents covering IVECT Method in major pharmaceutical markets

Intezyne today announced the issuance of new patents that cover multiple dimensions of the Company’s revolutionary technology platform, the IVECTTM Method, in the major pharmaceutical markets of the United States, Europe, and Japan. All patents are wholly owned by Intezyne.

18 Feb 2010

Emtec to demonstrate thin client solution at HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition

Emtec, Inc., a systems integrator, announced today that it will demonstrate its thin client solution for healthcare in the Avnet booth #7467 at the HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition. This solution integrates the ThinIdentity™ virtual desktop infrastructure solution, smart card technology and stateless thin-client computing based on the Sun Microsystems™ Sun Ray virtual display client.

18 Feb 2010

Preferred Homecare implements Authentidate Holding's Inscrybe Healthcare web-based service

Authentidate Holding Corp., a worldwide provider of secure Health Information Exchange, workflow management services and telehealth solutions, today announced that Preferred Homecare, a leading provider of comprehensive home healthcare products and services, selected Authentidate's Inscrybe® Healthcare web-based service to further enhance the management of critical business workflows.

18 Feb 2010

IRA to offer Personal Genetic Health and Ancestry Testing to residents of Latin America

Pathway Genomics™ (www.PATHWAY.com), a privately held, venture-backed company today announced that the Instituto de Referencia Andino (IRA), a Clinical Laboratory and Division of Rochem Biocare will offer Personal Genetic Health and Ancestry Testing to residents of Latin America.

18 Feb 2010

Long-term solution for U.S. medical isotope shortage needed

The medical community has taken additional steps to help alleviate ongoing challenges facing physicians and patients due to the worldwide isotope shortage. SNM cautions that while this is good news, a long-term solution for the U.S. is needed urgently.

18 Feb 2010

AutoGenomics awarded ISO 13485 certification for quality management system

AutoGenomics, a leader in providing automated, molecular testing solutions announced today that the organization has been awarded the ISO 13485 certification in recognition of its outstanding quality management system throughout the organization. TUV SUD America Inc. was the Certification Body.

18 Feb 2010

Vertebroplasty effective in treatment of VCFs

The results of a study of more than 4500 patients from six Italian EVEREST (European Vertebroplasty Research Team) Centers (Dr. G.C. Anselmetti-Candiolo Torino, Dr. G. Bonaldi-Bergamo, Dr. P. Carpeggiani-Pisa, Dr. S. Masala-Roma, Dr. M. Muto-Napoli,) confirms the effectiveness of vertebroplasty in treating vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), finding that the procedure provides significant and sustained pain relief.

18 Feb 2010

La Pitie hospital performs 200 implants of SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced that Groupe hospitalier de la Pitié-Salpétrière (La Pitié) in Paris has performed 200 implants of the Total Artificial Heart, more than any other hospital in the world.

18 Feb 2010

Device / Technology News

U.S. Patent and Trademark office issues Patent on Positron’s Tech-Assist

Report examines how medical technology changes state of health care

Gentel Biosciences launches integrated Proteomics Multi-System

RainDance Technologies enters into strategic agreement with Applied Biosystems

FDA may drop medical device 'fast track' amid overuse concerns

IMS Health launches IMS Aggregate Spend Compliance Services

Anulex Technologies announces the commercial availability of Xclose Plus Tissue Repair System

Johns Hopkins Medicine acquires Naviscan Positron Emission Mammography for radiotracer research

AltraVax acquires vaccine development technology package from Maxygen

Ear candles can cause serious injuries, warns FDA

Merge Healthcare passes interoperability tests at IHE Connectathon

BIOGUARD wound dressings with Quick-Med’s NIMBUS antimicrobial technology to be sold by Medline Industries

Intezyne announces new patents covering IVECT Method in major pharmaceutical markets

Emtec to demonstrate thin client solution at HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition

Preferred Homecare implements Authentidate Holding's Inscrybe Healthcare web-based service

IRA to offer Personal Genetic Health and Ancestry Testing to residents of Latin America

Long-term solution for U.S. medical isotope shortage needed

AutoGenomics awarded ISO 13485 certification for quality management system

Vertebroplasty effective in treatment of VCFs

La Pitie hospital performs 200 implants of SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

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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