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NeuroVasx cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System: first procedure in Spain performed

NeuroVasx, Inc., a medical device company that develops technologies for the treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke, announced today that the first procedure in Spain utilizing its cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System was performed in Madrid. cPAX received CE Mark earlier this year.

28 Oct 2009

Health Connector announces the expansion of existing relationship with Perot Systems

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority (Health Connector) and Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) (www.perotsystems.com) today announced an expansion of their existing relationship in which Perot Systems will use its Xcelys health plan administration software solution to provide additional premium billing and enrollment services to the state health insurance program.

28 Oct 2009

iMDsoft and Codonics launch an anesthesia solution with a syringe labeling system

iMDsoft®, a global leader in clinical information systems for perioperative, critical, and acute care, and Codonics of Middleburg Heights, OH, a leading provider of image distribution solutions for the medical industry, have announced an agreement that will complement iMDsoft’s anesthesia solution with an innovative syringe labeling system. The system will be fully integrated with the MetaVision® Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS).

28 Oct 2009

WFP to launch 4-month food voucher text message pilot program for Iraqi refugees

The World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday announced that it is launching a pilot program to send food vouchers via mobile phone text messages to Iraqi refugees in Syria, Agence France-Presse reports (10/27). This program is "the first of its kind in the world to use mobile phone technology," according to a WPF press release (10/27).

28 Oct 2009

Inventa Technologies secures capacity planning and visualization service contract

ANTs software inc., a leader in database migration solutions, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Inventa Technologies, Inc. has secured a contract with one of the nations leading health insurance providers to execute a capacity planning and visualization service project.

28 Oct 2009

Omnicare Clinical Research attains Rave Accredited Plus in Medidata’s ASPire to Win program for CRO's

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of hosted clinical development solutions, today announced that global contract research organization (CRO) Omnicare Clinical Research has attained Rave Accredited Plus, the most advanced level in Medidata’s ASPire to Win® program for CROs and other service providers.

28 Oct 2009

MMR Information Systems' MMRPro enables digitizing patient records without major makeovers

MMR Information Systems' MMRPro, which enables doctors who do not have an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system to digitize and store paper records through a secure Web-based portal, is envisioned as the bridge between fully paper-based medical offices and the adoption of computerized medical records to qualify for stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

28 Oct 2009

ACS podcast on medical adhesive

Scientists questing after a long-sought new medical adhesive describe copying the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions."

28 Oct 2009

PeriOptix showcases new Flip-Up Loupes at the American Dental Association’s 150th annual session

PeriOptixTM, one of the nation’s leading providers of high quality magnification and illumination systems for medical and dental professionals, displayed its systems at the American Dental Association’s 150th Annual Session on September 30 – October 4 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

28 Oct 2009

Pay for health care needs tax free: OptumHealth video explains all

OptumHealth Inc., a UnitedHealth Group company, has produced a short video that explains how health savings accounts (HSAs) can help people save and pay for health care needs – tax-free. The video was produced to help people who are making important health care plan decisions during this year’s open enrollment season.

28 Oct 2009

Modern functional brain imaging techniques can be a dynamic process of looking at psychopathology

Modern functional brain imaging techniques are available to psychiatrists and are promising modern-day 'telescopes' to explore in vivo brain activity. Modern psychiatric neuroimaging suggests that only phenomena that may be seen and mathematically computed throughout the scan are real.

28 Oct 2009

Micronics inks license agreement with Biosearch Technologies

Micronics, Inc., a leading developer of point-of-care molecular diagnostic products, announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Biosearch) for the right to make, have made, use and sell Micronics’ products that incorporate Biosearch’s proprietary fluorophores and quencher dyes for nucleic acid assays. Under the terms of the worldwide license, Biosearch has granted Micronics a royalty-free use of certain of its chemistries for inclusion in Micronics’ infectious disease tests for sale in underdeveloped countries.

28 Oct 2009

DSM Biomedical announces new non-biofouling coating technology for medical applications

DSM Biomedical, a global leader in biomedical materials, today announced the development of VitroStealth™, a breakthrough non-biofouling (NBF) coating technology. Specifically developed to combine state of the art non-biofouling properties with high durability and fast processing, VitroStealth™ coating is scratch resistant and reduces unwanted protein absorption and cellular adhesion on surfaces.

28 Oct 2009

Scientists discover that bacteria have the capability to clean wastewater

Sam Houston State University has applied for six federal patents, three of which have already been awarded, to protect the technology and engineering associated with a "revolutionary" packaged wastewater treatment system invented by its scientists, and it has formed a company to further develop, market and sell the systems.

28 Oct 2009

PureWellness announces enhancements to the PureWellness platform

PureWellness, Inc., a leading provider of online wellness solutions, announced the release of fourteen product additions and enhancements to the PureWellness platform.

28 Oct 2009

First spinal surgery in the U.S. using Osteotech's MagniFuse PC bone graft technology performed

Osteotech, Inc., a leader in the emerging field of biologic products for regenerative healing, announced today that MagniFuse PC (Posterior Cervical) Bone Graft, a new tissue-based product built upon the Company's proprietary MagniFuse bone graft technology platform, has been used for the first time in a spinal surgery in the United States.

28 Oct 2009

MolecularMD moves core operations to expanded facility

MolecularMD Corp announced today that it has moved their core operations to a expanded dedicated facility with capacity and functionality to support the expansion of its cancer molecular diagnostics business.

28 Oct 2009

Global sales volumes of Levulan Kerastick exceed one million units

DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.®, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology, announced today that global sales volumes of the Levulan® Kerastick®, an integral part of the Levulan® Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) technology platform, surpassed one million units.

28 Oct 2009

VitaSound Audio's Neuro-Compensator technology inbuilt into Sonomax Hearing Healthcare's Sono3 hearing aid

Sono3(TM), the innovative hearing aid based on patented instant custom fit technology from Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. appears to have found the perfect partner in the revolutionary Neuro-Compensator(R) software technology that has been developed by Vitasound Audio Inc.

28 Oct 2009

SIDS America launches informative website about SIDS

Less than two years ago, the world came crashing in on Bill and Cheryl Darnell, SIDS America founders, when they went to wake their infant son, Billy, for his morning feeding and found him dead. Billy, who had seemed perfectly healthy just a few hours earlier, had fallen victim to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the leading cause of death among infants between 1 and 12 months of age in America.

28 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

NeuroVasx cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System: first procedure in Spain performed

Health Connector announces the expansion of existing relationship with Perot Systems

iMDsoft and Codonics launch an anesthesia solution with a syringe labeling system

WFP to launch 4-month food voucher text message pilot program for Iraqi refugees

Inventa Technologies secures capacity planning and visualization service contract

Omnicare Clinical Research attains Rave Accredited Plus in Medidata’s ASPire to Win program for CRO's

MMR Information Systems' MMRPro enables digitizing patient records without major makeovers

ACS podcast on medical adhesive

PeriOptix showcases new Flip-Up Loupes at the American Dental Association’s 150th annual session

Pay for health care needs tax free: OptumHealth video explains all

Modern functional brain imaging techniques can be a dynamic process of looking at psychopathology

Micronics inks license agreement with Biosearch Technologies

DSM Biomedical announces new non-biofouling coating technology for medical applications

Scientists discover that bacteria have the capability to clean wastewater

PureWellness announces enhancements to the PureWellness platform

First spinal surgery in the U.S. using Osteotech's MagniFuse PC bone graft technology performed

MolecularMD moves core operations to expanded facility

Global sales volumes of Levulan Kerastick exceed one million units

VitaSound Audio's Neuro-Compensator technology inbuilt into Sonomax Hearing Healthcare's Sono3 hearing aid

SIDS America launches informative website about SIDS

Reducing polypharmacy through innovative drug formulation technologies

How innovation in dried blood spot testing is transforming neurological disease monitoring

Unlocking live single-cell functional insights

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