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MEDecision to deliver Alineo and Nexalign to AFMC

MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health care management solutions, today announced that it will deliver its Alineo® collaborative health care management platform and Nexalign® collaborative health care information exchange service to the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC).

12 Jan 2010

More women die of breast cancer in areas where mammography centers are few

More women die of breast cancer in areas where mammography centers are few and far between, according to research by a Medical College of Georgia radiology resident.

12 Jan 2010

Biocomposites' geneX ds, the resorbable bone graft material with negative surface charge launched

Biocomposites, the pioneers in synthetic bone graft materials have launched geneX ds, a dual syringe mixing and minimally invasive delivery system containing geneX, the unique resorbable bone graft material with a negative surface charge.

12 Jan 2010

TRIA Beauty receives OTC clearance from FDA for TRIA Laser Hair Removal System

TRIA Beauty, the leader in light-based therapeutic beauty devices, today announced it received an additional over-the-counter (OTC) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its flagship product, TRIA Laser Hair Removal System (LHRS).

12 Jan 2010

TriLink BioTechnologies and tebu-bio SA sign distribution agreement

TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink), a leading provider of custom nucleic acid-based compounds, announced it has signed a distribution agreement permitting tebu-bio SA (tebu) to sell its CleanAmp(TM) products. tebu-bio is a European based distributor that supplies over 750,000 reagents and lab services from manufacturers worldwide.

12 Jan 2010

AnaptysBio, Roche sign agreement for development of novel antibody therapeutics

AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody platform and product company, today announced it has signed an agreement with Roche for the development of novel antibody therapeutics.

12 Jan 2010

MedAssets and TPC sign multi-year agreement

MedAssets, Inc. today announced that the Texas Purchasing Coalition (TPC) has signed a multi-year agreement to utilize and benefit from MedAssets’ strategic supply chain solutions, including group purchasing (GPO) services, physician preference item (PPI) consulting services and spend management analytics. The

11 Jan 2010

Albertsons launches new online community to provide value-driven choices for healthier living

Albertsons, a SUPERVALU company, today launched a new online community, AlbertsonsWellbeing.com, that will provide users with tools to help them make easy, value-driven choices for healthier living.

11 Jan 2010

CHI selects Allscripts' EHR solution to enhance patient care

Allscripts announced today that Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution for its 1050 employed physicians to enhance the quality of patient care, improve communications, and deliver more cost-effective care.

11 Jan 2010

RMMC selects Allscripts' EHR and Practice Management solutions

Allscripts announced today that Renaissance Medical Management Company (RMMC) has selected the company's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solution to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for a minimum of 51 family practice and internal medicine physicians.

11 Jan 2010

Illumina launches HumanOmniExpress BeadChip for GWAS

Illumina, Inc. today announced the HumanOmniExpress BeadChip (OmniExpress), the newest addition to the Omni family of microarrays for genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

From Illumina, Inc. 11 Jan 2010

Institut Curie, Ipsogen sign scientific collaboration agreement in breast cancer domain

The INSTITUT CURIE and IPSOGEN (FR0010626028 - ALIPS) announce the signing of a scientific collaboration agreement in the breast cancer domain. Within the framework of this project, the current scientific knowledge on Ipsogen's MapQuant Dx Grade Genomic, HER2 and HR tests will be increased thanks to new data established from a large population of patients treated at the Institut Curie.

11 Jan 2010

New technique may help researchers to test amyloid hypothesis in AD development

Current Alzheimer's disease (AD) research indicates that accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein plaques in the brain is central to the development of AD.

11 Jan 2010

Gerresheimer Group sets up new medical plastic systems production facility in Brazil

The Gerresheimer Group has set up a new facility for medical plastic systems in Indaiatuba (Brazil). The plant is to commence operations early in 2010. On the basis of a long-term cooperation agreement with Novo Nordisk, components will be produced with state-of-the-art technology for insulin pen systems for diabetics.

11 Jan 2010

Bryant Ranch Prepack tracks medications from its manufacture to the patient with E Pedigree

“More and more physicians are realizing that prescriptions that leave the office are like money walking out of the door,” said Fred Ganjian, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Bryant Ranch Prepack, a leading supplier of prepackaged physician-dispensed prescription programs. “In this day of continuing pressure on physicians to cover their costs, physician-dispensed prescriptions have become increasingly important to a physician’s bottom line,” he added.

11 Jan 2010

SIRIUS XM Radio to broadcast medical breakthroughs and milestones of the last ten years

SIRIUS XM Radio today announced that it will broadcast The Dean's List: A Decade in Medicine, an in-depth special exploring the medical breakthroughs and milestones of the last ten years hosted by Dr. Andrew Brotman, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, NYU Langone Medical Center, on Doctor Radio, SIRIUS XM's 24/7 health and medical channel.

9 Jan 2010

NOTA questions FDA's attempted regulation of on-site tests

The National On-site Testing Associates, Inc. (NOTA) has been revived in response to an attempt by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate on-site, or point of collection, oral fluids drug and alcohol tests used by many small employers for non-medical purposes. NOTA is an association of manufacturers, users, and distributors of on-site drugs of abuse tests. These tests are sold throughout the world for use in workplace, sports, school, insurance, and criminal justice settings and numerous other non-medical applications. These tests are safe, accurate, cost effective, and easy to use.

9 Jan 2010

Phonak's "Hear the World Tour" exhibit to raise hearing loss awareness at Miami

The Hear the World initiative by Phonak will bring the Hear the World Tour - a traveling photography exhibit - to Macy's at Dadeland Mall (Miami, FL) to raise awareness about hearing loss, a growing issue that affects 31 million Americans. After officially joining forces in October 2009, Phonak and Macy's kicked-off a cross-country hearing awareness tour that debuted in Dallas and San Francisco in the fall.

9 Jan 2010

EON Reality supports BBU with immersive EON Icube environment for virtual reality therapy project

EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, supports the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU), in Cluj-Napoca, Romania with an immersive EON Icube environment for a virtual reality therapy project.

9 Jan 2010

U.S. Government's interoperable identity management standards meet NHIN’s requirements

Achieving the secure nationwide exchange of health information and patient medical information using the Internet will be advanced by adopting existing standards, technology and currently used approaches to authenticate digital identities, according to testimony presented today to the National Health Information Network (NHIN) committee advising on the development of a nationwide health information infrastructure. The testimony was delivered by SAFE-BioPharma Association, the non-profit that developed and maintains the SAFE-BioPharma® digital identity and signature standard.

9 Jan 2010

Device / Technology News

MEDecision to deliver Alineo and Nexalign to AFMC

More women die of breast cancer in areas where mammography centers are few

Biocomposites' geneX ds, the resorbable bone graft material with negative surface charge launched

TRIA Beauty receives OTC clearance from FDA for TRIA Laser Hair Removal System

TriLink BioTechnologies and tebu-bio SA sign distribution agreement

AnaptysBio, Roche sign agreement for development of novel antibody therapeutics

MedAssets and TPC sign multi-year agreement

Albertsons launches new online community to provide value-driven choices for healthier living

CHI selects Allscripts' EHR solution to enhance patient care

RMMC selects Allscripts' EHR and Practice Management solutions

Illumina launches HumanOmniExpress BeadChip for GWAS

Institut Curie, Ipsogen sign scientific collaboration agreement in breast cancer domain

New technique may help researchers to test amyloid hypothesis in AD development

Gerresheimer Group sets up new medical plastic systems production facility in Brazil

Bryant Ranch Prepack tracks medications from its manufacture to the patient with E Pedigree

SIRIUS XM Radio to broadcast medical breakthroughs and milestones of the last ten years

NOTA questions FDA's attempted regulation of on-site tests

Phonak's "Hear the World Tour" exhibit to raise hearing loss awareness at Miami

EON Reality supports BBU with immersive EON Icube environment for virtual reality therapy project

U.S. Government's interoperable identity management standards meet NHIN’s requirements

Flow chemistry, AI, and NMR: A next-gen approach to scalable API production

Digital pathology and the PathoVerse: A conversation with Dr. Singh

Bioprocess Efficiency with Cell Density Monitoring

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