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ATS Medical to exhibit its innovative cardiac surgery products at the EACTS meeting

ATS Medical, Inc., manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services announced a number of professional educational opportunities that will focus on ATS Medical products at the upcoming European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (EACTS) meeting.

15 Oct 2009

Three poster presentations to be presented by the clinical pharmacy team of First DataBank

First DataBank, a leading provider of drug databases that help drive patient safety, today announced that members of the company’s clinical pharmacy team, knowledgeable in the application of drug information systems for safe medication prescribing and clinical decision support in pediatrics, will present three poster presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, October 17-20, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

15 Oct 2009

GeckoSystems to discuss CareBot's graceful movement enabled by GeckoMotorController

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced today that during their first annual "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference November 4-5, 2009 attendees will be able to observe and discuss the CareBot's™ graceful movement enabled by the GeckoMotorController™.

15 Oct 2009

ADI and CeTeCancer collaborate for research project

Radient Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a US-based pharmaceutical company, announced today it has entered into a collaboration agreement through its wholly owned subsidiary AMDL Diagnostics, Inc. (ADI) with CeTeCancer -- a Chilean-based research laboratory -- to validate the effectiveness of Radient Pharmaceuticals' Onko-Sure™ in vitro diagnostic (IVD) cancer test as an early detection and prevention test for lung cancer.

15 Oct 2009

A study on development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant

A multidisciplinary group at Malaga University, headed by Ignacio Moreno-Torres, is collecting information on the milestones that mark the development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant (CI) and studying to what extent the social and family environment affects this development. This research is funded with 101,000 euro by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Innovation.

15 Oct 2009

Laerdal Medical Corporation launches a new Advanced version of the ALS Patient Simulator

Building on the success of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Patient Simulator and in response to growing interest from emergency care providers across the United States, Laerdal Medical Corporation introduces ALS Simulator Advanced.

From Laerdal 15 Oct 2009

Linguamatics launches I2E 3.1 text mining platform for pharmaceutical companies

Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced the availability of I2E 3.1 for unlocking value from the wealth of unstructured text resources available to pharmaceutical companies. I2E is a high performance natural language processing (NLP)-based text mining platform that streamlines knowledge discovery from text.

15 Oct 2009

National Biological to market Quantel's 308 Excimer System in the U.S.

Quantel SA (Euronext: QUA), a leading manufacturer of solid state lasers, announced today that it has entered into a Distribution Agreement with National Biological, a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for medical and cosmetic treatments, for Quantel's 308 Excimer System for monochromatic UVB treatment of psoriasis and vitiligo in the United States.

15 Oct 2009

Boehringer Ingelheim implements the iStudyReporter Bioanalytics reporting solution

Boehringer Ingelheim is a group of companies dedicated to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. It is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Boehringer Ingelheim’s business areas include Prescription Medicines, Consumer Health Care and Biopharmaceuticals, as well as Pharma Chemicals and Animal Health.

15 Oct 2009

First Priority implements Global Vision's automated inspection solutions

During tough economic times, First Priority, manufacturer of generic veterinary pharmaceutical products, implemented Global Vision's automated inspection solutions in an effort to reduce costs without compromising efficiencies and quality of their products.

15 Oct 2009

NAHC completes BlackBerry Report

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) today announced the completion of The BlackBerry® Report: The National State of the Home Care Industry Study.

15 Oct 2009

DNA Link to provide NimbleGen Sequence Capture service in Korea

Roche NimbleGen, a Roche Company, has announced the first Certified Service Provider (CSP), DNA Link, Inc., who will provide service in Korea for NimbleGen Titanium Optimized Sequence Capture coupled with services from 454 Life Sciences, Roche´s center of excellence for sequencing.

15 Oct 2009

Phonak issued with a fine by the German competition authority

Phonak GmbH, the German subsidiary of Switzerland’s Sonova Holding AG (SIX:SOON), has today been issued with a fine by the German competition authority (BKA) following inquiries undertaken by the latter as part of an investigation into the German hearing systems market. Despite the allegations, Sonova was able to reach an agreement with the German Federal Cartel Office and will not appeal against the decision.

15 Oct 2009

New maintenance medium for human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells

STEMCELL Technologies Inc. (STEMCELL) is pleased to announce the release of TeSR™2, a defined, animal-protein free maintenance medium for human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. This medium takes a step towards addressing the needs of researchers working towards the culture of their cells in a medium free of animal-derived proteins.

15 Oct 2009

Phase Forward and Merck project wins the Society for Clinical Data Management Data Driven Innovation Award

Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that a joint project with customer Merck & Co. has won the 2009 Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) Data Driven Innovation Award competition. This annual honor recognizes the year’s best advancement in clinical data management technology or service.

15 Oct 2009

Pervasive Integration provides cost-effective data integration solution to healthcare companies

Pervasive Software Inc., a global value leader in embeddable data management and agile data integration software, is providing the flexible, cost-effective data integration required for challenging, increasingly regulated healthcare IT environments.

15 Oct 2009

Somanetics obtains exclusive sublicense to new cerebral autoregulation technology

Somanetics Corporation today announced that it has signed an Exclusive Sublicense Agreement with Raba Equity Partners II, LLC ("Raba coreFoundry"). Under terms of the agreement, Somanetics has obtained exclusive rights, subject to specified rights of the U.S. Government and rights retained by The Johns Hopkins University, to new cerebral autoregulation technology developed at The Johns Hopkins University.

15 Oct 2009

Innovative technologies and devices feature at AdvaMed 2009

The exhibit hall at AdvaMed 2009 on the third floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center is brimming with displays of cutting edge medical technology, organizations committed to the advancement of research and development in the MedTech industry, and innovative devices designed to improve the health and health care of people all over the world.

15 Oct 2009

NCCN updates NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Cervical Cancer Screening

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recently made updates to the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology(TM) for Cervical Cancer Screening that include a new section providing recommendations for women who have positive results for the HPV High Risk DNA test but negative cervical cytology screen/Pap smears.

15 Oct 2009

Endoscope: Less invasive alternative to laparoscopic techniques or conventional surgery

Mayo Clinic surgical researchers are reporting a 93 percent success rate in recent animal tests of endoscopic repair of perforated ulcers. The goal is to advance the use of an endoscope -- which allows access to organs through natural openings, such as the mouth -- for a less invasive alternative to laparoscopic techniques (surgery performed through a small incision) or conventional surgery.

15 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

ATS Medical to exhibit its innovative cardiac surgery products at the EACTS meeting

Three poster presentations to be presented by the clinical pharmacy team of First DataBank

GeckoSystems to discuss CareBot's graceful movement enabled by GeckoMotorController

ADI and CeTeCancer collaborate for research project

A study on development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant

Laerdal Medical Corporation launches a new Advanced version of the ALS Patient Simulator

Linguamatics launches I2E 3.1 text mining platform for pharmaceutical companies

National Biological to market Quantel's 308 Excimer System in the U.S.

Boehringer Ingelheim implements the iStudyReporter Bioanalytics reporting solution

First Priority implements Global Vision's automated inspection solutions

NAHC completes BlackBerry Report

DNA Link to provide NimbleGen Sequence Capture service in Korea

Phonak issued with a fine by the German competition authority

New maintenance medium for human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells

Phase Forward and Merck project wins the Society for Clinical Data Management Data Driven Innovation Award

Pervasive Integration provides cost-effective data integration solution to healthcare companies

Somanetics obtains exclusive sublicense to new cerebral autoregulation technology

Innovative technologies and devices feature at AdvaMed 2009

NCCN updates NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Cervical Cancer Screening

Endoscope: Less invasive alternative to laparoscopic techniques or conventional surgery

Synthetic Biology and the Pursuit of Living Diagnostics

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