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IVAX Diagnostics signs two-year distribution agreement with Biomerica

IVAX Diagnostics, Inc., a fully integrated in vitro diagnostics company, and Biomerica, Inc., a global biomedical company, have signed a two-year agreement for the distribution of Biomerica's products in the U.S. and globally, with certain country and product exclusions.

13 Apr 2010

Sigma Life Science announces latest version of 'Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity' research portal

Sigma® Life Science, the innovative biological products and services brand of Sigma-Aldrich®, today announced a significant expansion to its web-based biological research portal for exploring dynamic gene-based content, Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity (http://www.wherebiobegins.com/yfg).

13 Apr 2010

Perceptive Informatics expands medical imaging capabilities with enhanced reporting solution

Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation, today announced that it has expanded its leading medical imaging capabilities with an enhanced reporting solution.

From Parexel 13 Apr 2010

NaviNet to discuss on the use and adoption of HIT at World Health Care Congress 2010

NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, today announced that Kim Labow, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, will participate in a panel discussion about innovative approaches to achieve meaningful use and adoption of health information technology.

13 Apr 2010

AVEO Pharmaceuticals to present preclinical data from translational research platform at AACR 2010

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced that preclinical data from its translational research platform and antibody pipeline will be presented during six poster sessions at the American Association for Cancer Research 101st Annual Meeting 2010 being held April 17-21, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

13 Apr 2010

Delcath's Phase III PHP-mel trial data accepted for presentation at ASCO's 2010 Annual Meeting

Delcath Systems, Inc., a medical technology company testing its proprietary treatment system for primary and metastatic cancers to the liver, announced today that the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has accepted an abstract for oral presentation of Delcath's Phase III Trial Data comparing percutaneous hepatic perfusion with melphalan (PHP-mel) to the best alternative care for patients with hepatic metastases from ocular or cutaneous melanoma for ASCO's 2010 Annual Meeting, to be held June 4-8, 2010 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

13 Apr 2010

SAGES 2010: Covidien to showcase technological advancements in bariatric, colorectal and hernia surgery

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, will preview a variety of new devices and showcase some of the Company's most innovative tools for endoscopic surgery and soft tissue repair at the 2010 Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) annual meeting held here.

13 Apr 2010

Dalhousie University interdisciplinary cooperation leads to innovation of Femoral Fracture Reduction device

It's late at night when most of the city is sleeping and the hospital is eerily quiet. But in the operating room, a tired but undeterred surgeon is struggling through a femoral fracture reduction on a young patient. The surgery, which is usually a meticulous and straightforward procedure, is not going smoothly. After wrestling with the fracture, he has no choice but to take a more invasive approach. He cuts open the femur and reduces the fracture—if not, displaced fat and marrow could cause a fat embolism in the lungs.

13 Apr 2010

$15M grant to support research and development of new health care IT infrastructure

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will lead the efforts of a $15 million grant recently announced from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services to support research and development of a new health care information technology infrastructure.

13 Apr 2010

GHG selects INetU as dedicated managed hosting provider for Valencia

Gorman Health Group announced today that they have chosen INetU as the dedicated managed hosting provider for their healthcare software platform, Valencia.

13 Apr 2010

Optovue founds "Eye-Give" non-profit foundation

Optovue, a pioneer in fourier/spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), has founded "Eye-Give," a non-profit foundation for the purposes of donating technology and funding to sight saving charities and organizations around the world.

13 Apr 2010

New website for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Industries practice

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today launched a new website for their Health Industries practice – www.pwc.com/healthreform – which will serve as a central point of access for PricewaterhouseCoopers' latest insight and analysis on the implications of health reform for health organizations including insurers, physicians, hospitals and other providers, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies and employers.

13 Apr 2010

IMX releases enhanced employer group reporting offering, Tru:Insights

Intelimedix, a business intelligence company focused on relational data analysis for faster, more accurate decision-making, has released an enhanced employer group reporting offering. The rebranded offering, Tru:Insights, empowers users to customize data analysis and information delivery and better identify and manage financial and medical risk.

13 Apr 2010

New Supramap web-based application to track and stop disease outbreaks

Pathogens can now be easily tracked in time and space as they evolve, an advance that could revolutionize both public health and inform national security in the fight against infectious diseases. Developed by researchers that include scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, Supramap is a new, powerful, web-based application that maps genetic mutations like those among the different strains of avian influenza onto the globe.

13 Apr 2010

Implanting blue light-filtering IOLs during cataract surgery may help preserve retina health

Implanting blue light-filtering intraocular lenses during cataract surgery helps maintain visual function and may preserve the health of the retina, specifically in disease states such as age-related macular degeneration, according to a comprehensive review published in the May/June 2010 edition of Survey of Ophthalmology.

13 Apr 2010

Older patients more likely to die in hospital following implantation of defibrillators: Report

Older patients may be more likely to die in the hospital following the implantation of defibrillators or pacemakers, according to a report in the April 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

13 Apr 2010

Real-time elastography method depicts liver hardness: Study

Palpation continues to be of great value in modern medicine, both practiced by doctors and as a technique for self-examination. However, palpation is limited to a few accessible organs, and the interpretation of the information sensed by the fingers is highly subjective.

13 Apr 2010

False claims to Medicare: Los Angeles DME company owner pleads guilty

The owner and operator of a Los Angeles durable medical equipment (DME) company pleaded guilty today to submitting nearly one half of a million dollars in false claims to Medicare, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.

13 Apr 2010

New medical imaging technique using pulsed laser and nanocages

New research findings suggest that an experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses a pulsed laser and tiny metallic "nanocages" might enable both the early detection and treatment of disease.

13 Apr 2010

Study investigates cerebral cortical response to biliary stimulation

The cortical response to esophageal, stomach or rectal stimulation has been studied using several different modalities including evoked potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and positron emission tomography. However, there is no information concerning the cerebral cortical response to sensory signals that originate in the biliary tract in humans.

13 Apr 2010

Device / Technology News

IVAX Diagnostics signs two-year distribution agreement with Biomerica

Sigma Life Science announces latest version of 'Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity' research portal

Perceptive Informatics expands medical imaging capabilities with enhanced reporting solution

NaviNet to discuss on the use and adoption of HIT at World Health Care Congress 2010

AVEO Pharmaceuticals to present preclinical data from translational research platform at AACR 2010

Delcath's Phase III PHP-mel trial data accepted for presentation at ASCO's 2010 Annual Meeting

SAGES 2010: Covidien to showcase technological advancements in bariatric, colorectal and hernia surgery

Dalhousie University interdisciplinary cooperation leads to innovation of Femoral Fracture Reduction device

$15M grant to support research and development of new health care IT infrastructure

GHG selects INetU as dedicated managed hosting provider for Valencia

Optovue founds "Eye-Give" non-profit foundation

New website for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Industries practice

IMX releases enhanced employer group reporting offering, Tru:Insights

New Supramap web-based application to track and stop disease outbreaks

Implanting blue light-filtering IOLs during cataract surgery may help preserve retina health

Older patients more likely to die in hospital following implantation of defibrillators: Report

Real-time elastography method depicts liver hardness: Study

False claims to Medicare: Los Angeles DME company owner pleads guilty

New medical imaging technique using pulsed laser and nanocages

Study investigates cerebral cortical response to biliary stimulation

The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

From street to lab: Advancing controlled substance testing with handheld Raman and FTIR

Reimagining light scattering for biotherapeutics

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