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Researchers use new techniques to investigate the nature violence

Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD, assistant professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will present portions of an ongoing study about the daily activities of youth and their risk of being violently injured.

22 Feb 2010

Caliper Life Sciences forms SAB to develop additional solutions for next generation sequencing workflows

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced the formation of a scientific advisory board to guide its efforts in automated sample preparation for next generation and third generation sequencing platforms. Caliper worked closely with leading genome centers to develop the LabChip® XT, which was announced today, and is now expanding its efforts to develop additional solutions for next generation sequencing workflows.

22 Feb 2010

Research paves way for building tabletop X-ray laser that can be used for high-resolution imaging

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal.

22 Feb 2010

Robot-assisted surgery advantageous over laparoscopic surgery for uretero-pelvic junction obstruction

A comparison of two types of minimally invasive surgery to repair kidney blockages that prevent urine from draining normally to the bladder found that robot-assisted surgery was faster and resulted in less blood loss and shorter hospital stays.

22 Feb 2010

Researchers develop new tool to understand how cancer grows

Researchers have a new tool to understand how cancers grow -- and with it a new opportunity to identify novel cancer drugs. They've been able to break apart human prostate tissue, extract the stem cells in that tissue, and alter those cells genetically so that they spur cancer.

22 Feb 2010

Scientists develop new mathematical model to understand CML better

Doctors can now understand better chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), including how it responds to therapy, thanks to a new mathematical model for the disease, developed by scientists in Portugal, Belgium and the United States. The work, to be published in the June edition of the journal Haematologica, also reveals that current therapies - which are not believed to cure CML - with the right protocol can actually get rid of the disease, and provides guidelines on how to do that.

21 Feb 2010

OrthoAccel Technologies promotes AcceleDent System for enhancing orthodontics at 7th IOC

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc., developers of the AcceleDent System, which is an acceleration device to enhance orthodontics, recently exhibited at the 7th International Orthodontic Congress (IOC) in Sydney, Australia, which is held by the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO) every five years. The 8th IOC in 2015 will be hosted in London.

20 Feb 2010

Cappella promotes serial IVUS analysis & Sideguard 3.25 device at Rome JIM

Cappella, Inc. (Cappella), a medical device company developing dynamic solutions for the treatment of coronary bifurcation disease, promoted their serial IVUS analysis & Sideguard® 3.25 device during the Joint Interventional Meeting (JIM) in Rome. Gary S. Mintz, MD, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, USA presented "Positive Vessel Remodeling Using Sideguard in Coronary Bifurcations" during the New Technologies 1 Symposium.

20 Feb 2010

American Well honored as one of the most innovative companies in Healthcare

American Well™ has been honored as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Healthcare by Fast Company in its annual Most Innovative Companies issue. American Well was recognized for extending Online Care to consumers and physicians nationwide in partnership with top health plans and delivery networks. Other leaders on Fast Company's list include Google, Cisco, Apple and GE, along with such rising newcomers as Twitter and Gilt Groupe.

20 Feb 2010

Physio-Control restarts unrestricted global shipments of LIFEPAK defibrillators following FDA approval

Physio-Control Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc., announced today it received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that having successfully met requirements for improvements to the quality system, the company may resume unrestricted worldwide shipments of its external defibrillators.

20 Feb 2010

Ethicon Endo-Surgery resolves longstanding patent litigation with Hologic

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Hologic, Inc., and Hologic subsidiary Suros Surgical Systems, Inc., settling litigation in Ohio and dismissing pending cases in Delaware. The disputes involved patents relating to the Ethicon Endo-Surgery MAMMOTOME® Breast Biopsy System, and the Hologic ATEC and EVIVA biopsy devices. Under the terms of the agreement, Ethicon Endo-Surgery will receive $12.5 million from Hologic.

From Hologic, Inc. 20 Feb 2010

HIT Roundup: The push for electronic records continues

The Patriot-News: "A statewide partnership has been awarded a $100 million grant in federal economic stimulus funds to expand access to broadband Internet in 39 counties across south and central Pennsylvania, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter and Robert P. Casey said Thursday." One purpose of the network is to link medical facilities (Miller, 2/18).

19 Feb 2010

Genoptix signs multi-year licensing agreement with HistoRx for AQUA technology

Genoptix, Inc., a specialized laboratory service provider, and HistoRx, Inc. (privately held), a diagnostics company, today announced a multi-year licensing agreement for AQUA® technology and several diagnostic assays based on it.

19 Feb 2010

First hands-on workshop on E-beam and X-ray Irradiation Technologies

The National Center for Electron Beam Research, located on the campus of Texas A&M University, will conduct a week-long, hands-on workshop in E-Beam and X-ray Irradiation Technologies April 4-8.

19 Feb 2010

$Caliper Life Sciences introduces automated nucleic acid fractionation instrument, LabChip XT$

Caliper Life Sciences introduces automated nucleic acid fractionation instrument, LabChip XT

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today introduced the LabChip XT, an automated nucleic acid fractionation instrument.

19 Feb 2010

Loxogon's new healthcare software application integrates multiple hospital information systems in real-time

Loxogon, Inc. today announced the release of a new healthcare software application specializing in operational intelligence solutions.

19 Feb 2010

InfoLogix to present at SAP Insider Logistics and Supply Chain Conference

InfoLogix, Inc., a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries, announced today that it will be presenting and exhibiting at the SAP Insider Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Orlando, Florida on February 22-26, 2010.

19 Feb 2010

Universal Detection Technology to commence marketing of passive zone security sensor

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today test results for its passive zone security sensor, developed through its partnership with Precision Sensors Instrumentation (PSI), a leading developer of security sensors.

19 Feb 2010

Major challenge facing today's toxicologists: Developing test systems to predict toxicity of compounds

Attagene Inc., a leader in developing innovative technologies for analyzing gene regulatory pathways, announced today the online publication of a paper in Chemical Research in Toxicology, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that highlights results of their collaborative work with the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT).

19 Feb 2010

Low-cost lab-on-a-chip diagnostic tests become attractive area of research

Scientists in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device - microscopic technology that can transport fluids for medical tests and other purposes in a lab-on-a-chip.

19 Feb 2010

Device / Technology News

Researchers use new techniques to investigate the nature violence

Caliper Life Sciences forms SAB to develop additional solutions for next generation sequencing workflows

Research paves way for building tabletop X-ray laser that can be used for high-resolution imaging

Robot-assisted surgery advantageous over laparoscopic surgery for uretero-pelvic junction obstruction

Researchers develop new tool to understand how cancer grows

Scientists develop new mathematical model to understand CML better

OrthoAccel Technologies promotes AcceleDent System for enhancing orthodontics at 7th IOC

Cappella promotes serial IVUS analysis & Sideguard 3.25 device at Rome JIM

American Well honored as one of the most innovative companies in Healthcare

Physio-Control restarts unrestricted global shipments of LIFEPAK defibrillators following FDA approval

Ethicon Endo-Surgery resolves longstanding patent litigation with Hologic

HIT Roundup: The push for electronic records continues

Genoptix signs multi-year licensing agreement with HistoRx for AQUA technology

First hands-on workshop on E-beam and X-ray Irradiation Technologies

Caliper Life Sciences introduces automated nucleic acid fractionation instrument, LabChip XT

Loxogon's new healthcare software application integrates multiple hospital information systems in real-time

InfoLogix to present at SAP Insider Logistics and Supply Chain Conference

Universal Detection Technology to commence marketing of passive zone security sensor

Major challenge facing today's toxicologists: Developing test systems to predict toxicity of compounds

Low-cost lab-on-a-chip diagnostic tests become attractive area of research

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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