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Heartland Regional Medical Center saves more than $3.3 million by utilizing PCS

Heartland Regional Medical Center of St. Joseph, Mo. has saved more than $3.3 million by utilizing Premier Consulting SolutionsTM (PCS) and Premier healthcare alliance technologies to improve quality and safety in cardiovascular services while delivering cost-effective care.

7 Jan 2010

BC Tech's new, miniature single use video camera can help reduce healthcare costs

BC Tech, a medical product development and manufacturing company, has launched a miniature single use video camera that can be integrated into medical devices to improve safety and help reduce healthcare costs.

7 Jan 2010

Dakim expands distribution of dementia-fighting Dakim BrainFitness System to Canada

Dakim, Inc. announced today that it is expanding distribution of its dementia-fighting Dakim® BrainFitness(TM) System to Canada through a partnership with Tock Tick, Inc. Dakim's touch screen-based system is the #1 cognitive stimulation product in U.S. senior living communities, providing an entertaining and easy-to-use brain workout that is specifically designed to help seniors maintain their brain health.

7 Jan 2010

Italian Civil Defense Authority receives SPIR Detect area radiation monitors from Mirion Technologies

The Mirion Technologies Health Physics Division announced it has delivered SPIR Detect area radiation monitors to the Italian Civil Defense Authority. These highly sensitive monitors are easy to deploy and can be installed permanently in a location or used as portable radiological monitors.

7 Jan 2010

Diffusion tensor imaging detects signs of Alzheimer's disease

A new type of brain scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), appears to be better at detecting whether a person with memory loss might have brain changes of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the January 6, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

7 Jan 2010

Response Genetics and Genetic Technologies sign exclusive distribution and services agreement

Response Genetics Inc., a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer, and Genetic Technologies Ltd. (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE), the leading private genetic testing laboratory in Australia, today announced an exclusive distribution and services agreement.

7 Jan 2010

Meridian Health and Cypak collaborate to improve patient care and clinical outcomes

Meridian Health and Cypak today announced a partnership to jointly develop new technology-based products and services aimed at improved patient care and clinical outcomes.

7 Jan 2010

Mayo Clinic research ends major controversy in cancer research

ChromoCure, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: KKUR) is pleased to announce the basis for the Company's technology confirmed by recent Mayo Clinic researchers. Their findings, which appear in the current issue of the journal Cancer Cell, along with an independent commentary on the discovery, end a major controversy in the field of cancer research as to whether aneuploidy is a cause or a consequence of cancer and further proves the aneuploidy basis of cancer.

6 Jan 2010

ORNL story tips for January 2010

World-class computing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be unleashed to save as much as $50 billion per year in fraud, waste and abuse in the nation's health care system.

6 Jan 2010

Physicians perform first implantation of leadless cardiac monitoring device for detecting arrhythmias

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, the pioneer of wireless remote monitoring technologies and leading manufacturer of implantable cardiac devices, today announced the first implantations of BIOTRONIK’s new leadless cardiac monitoring device performed by a team of physicians led by Professor Dr. Gerhard Hindricks, Director, Electrophysiology Department at the Leipzig Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany.

6 Jan 2010

New technique offers a low-cost alternative to make 'micromotors' for surgical instruments

Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers.

6 Jan 2010

U.S. market for urological devices to reach over $5.4 billion in 2016

According to a new global report series by iData Research, the leading authority in medical device, dental and pharmaceutical market research, the U.S. market for urological devices is estimated to more than double in value by 2016, reaching over $5.4 billion.

6 Jan 2010

LiveProcess platform allows hospitals to gather and distribute critical information during H1N1 pandemic

In Riverside County, California, one of the 32 states where the H1N1 pandemic continues to be widespread, there were 2478 hospitalizations/reported cases and 30 deaths from H1N1 as of December 16, 2009, and at press time, that number was still climbing. Riverside is the state’s fastest growing county and fifth largest in the country.

6 Jan 2010

Agilent Technologies, Covaris sign co-marketing agreement to streamline next-generation sequencing experiments

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) and Covaris Inc. today announced a co-marketing agreement in which Covaris S2 DNA shearing technology will be marketed with the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System to streamline next-generation sequencing experiments.

6 Jan 2010

Thomson Reuters' Clinical Xpert Navigator named in KLAS Awards

Thomson Reuters announced today that its Clinical Xpert((TM)) Navigator has been named the category leader for mobile data systems in the latest "Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services" report.

6 Jan 2010

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals and Fluidigm announce new initiative to analyze tumor cell heterogeneity

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Fluidigm Corporation today announced a new initiative to apply Fluidigm's unique microfluidic tools to the analysis of tumor cell heterogeneity, including cancer stem cells.

6 Jan 2010

Study reveals multiple ultrasound scans are more pronounced in low-risk pregnancies

Current use of prenatal ultrasounds in women with singleton pregnancies is 55% greater than in 1996, even in low-risk pregnancies. More than one-third (37%) of pregnant women now receive 3 or more ultrasound tests in the second and third trimesters of a given pregnancy, found an article http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj090979.pdf in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) www.cmaj.ca.

6 Jan 2010

Pharsight releases Phoenix NLME and Phoenix Connect

Pharsight, a market-leading provider of software and scientific services to improve productivity and decision-making in clinical drug development, today announced that it has released two new data analysis tools; Phoenix NLME and Phoenix Connect.

6 Jan 2010

British Medical Journal: Mandometer used in Swedish program helps obese children lose weight

The British Medical Journal released today a report on a study conducted in Bristol, United Kingdom, that found that a breakthrough Swedish program using a computerized device called "Mandometer"® was significantly more successful than standard treatment at helping obese children and adolescents lose weight, reduce meal size and decrease their body fat.

6 Jan 2010

University of Montreal expands treatment capacity with EON Reality's simulations system

EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced that the Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory at the University of Montreal expands their treatment capacity with a fully immersive environment from EON Reality. A new simulations system for rehabilitation and training of athletic performance, developed by Professor Jocelyn Faubert's team, will be immersed within the EON Icube, a technology that allows virtual training in a natural and realistic environment.

6 Jan 2010

Device / Technology News

Heartland Regional Medical Center saves more than $3.3 million by utilizing PCS

BC Tech's new, miniature single use video camera can help reduce healthcare costs

Dakim expands distribution of dementia-fighting Dakim BrainFitness System to Canada

Italian Civil Defense Authority receives SPIR Detect area radiation monitors from Mirion Technologies

Diffusion tensor imaging detects signs of Alzheimer's disease

Response Genetics and Genetic Technologies sign exclusive distribution and services agreement

Meridian Health and Cypak collaborate to improve patient care and clinical outcomes

Mayo Clinic research ends major controversy in cancer research

ORNL story tips for January 2010

Physicians perform first implantation of leadless cardiac monitoring device for detecting arrhythmias

New technique offers a low-cost alternative to make 'micromotors' for surgical instruments

U.S. market for urological devices to reach over $5.4 billion in 2016

LiveProcess platform allows hospitals to gather and distribute critical information during H1N1 pandemic

Agilent Technologies, Covaris sign co-marketing agreement to streamline next-generation sequencing experiments

Thomson Reuters' Clinical Xpert Navigator named in KLAS Awards

OncoMed Pharmaceuticals and Fluidigm announce new initiative to analyze tumor cell heterogeneity

Study reveals multiple ultrasound scans are more pronounced in low-risk pregnancies

Pharsight releases Phoenix NLME and Phoenix Connect

British Medical Journal: Mandometer used in Swedish program helps obese children lose weight

University of Montreal expands treatment capacity with EON Reality's simulations system

How does norepinephrine influence anxiety-related behaviours?

Transforming Lab Workflows with Cell Culture Automation

Building Bridges to Scalable Allogeneic Cell Therapy

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