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iCAD and AdMeTech Foundation sign a strategic partnership agreement

iCAD, Inc., an industry-leading provider of advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announces a strategic partnership with the AdMeTech Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to end prostate cancer as a patient care crisis and socio-economic problem.

19 Nov 2009

Radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day arrives at CTCA

A radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks, has arrived at Cancer Treatment Centers of America(R) (CTCA) in Philadelphia. CTCA will become the first in the country to offer this treatment option using the Novac7 technology from Rome, Italy.

19 Nov 2009

New CT scanner offers quality diagnostic images and emits minimum radiation

NYU Langone Medical Center is the first hospital in the Northeast to offer one of the world's fastest and most radiation dose efficient computed tomography (CT) scanner.

19 Nov 2009

BeamOne announces its newest electron beam medical device sterilization service center

BeamOne LLC announces that it will locate its newest electron beam medical device sterilization service center in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Ground breaking will begin on the new facility in Q4 2009, and it is anticipated to be operational during Q4 2010.

19 Nov 2009

Horizon Health International announces its two new websites

HORIZON HEALTH INTERNATIONAL CORP. (PINK SHEETS:HZHI) (The Company) is pleased to announce its two new websites.

19 Nov 2009

Endologix receives IDE conditional approval from FDA

Endologix, Inc., developer of minimally invasive treatments for aortic disorders, announced today that it has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) conditional approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to begin a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trial for a bilateral percutaneous approach to endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) utilizing the Company's IntuiTrak(TM) endovascular delivery system for the Powerlink® family of stent grafts.

19 Nov 2009

CareRadius suite, a first-ever care management system from Landacorp

Landacorp today announced the public release of CareRadius suite, the only care management application of its kind to successfully achieve a large-scale, live implementation.

19 Nov 2009

Update on FDA's review of BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System for patients with cervical carcinoma provided

BSD Medical Corporation (www.bsdmedical.com) today provided an update on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) review of the Company's Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) marketing submission for the Company’s BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System.

18 Nov 2009

GTS, the first company to develop and commercialize a unique form of ultrasound technology

Guided Therapy Systems, LLC (GTS), a leading medical technology company, is the first company in the world to develop and commercialize products that employ a unique form of ultrasound technology, Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound (ITU).

18 Nov 2009

BioMed Central and Quertle team up to introduce innovative semantic search tool for researchers

BioMed Central, the world's largest open access publisher with over 200 peer-reviewed journals has teamed up with Quertle LLC to add over 60,000 published articles into the latest version of their innovative online biomedical search tool.

18 Nov 2009

Fully integrated human genome sequencing and data processing service launched

Knome, Inc., a recognized pioneer in the personal genomics field, today announced the launch of KnomeDISCOVERY, the first fully integrated human genome sequencing and data processing service for researchers. The new offering meets rapidly emerging demand from biomedical researchers for a one-stop service that bundles affordable, research-tailored access to a broad range of next-generation sequencing platforms with discovery-supportive data management and analysis.

18 Nov 2009

Click4Care receives prestigious Healthcare IT Innovation Award

Click4Care, a leading provider of care management software for payors, today announced that its revolutionary software platform was voted Solution with the Greatest Market Potential in the insurer category by the hundreds of senior industry executives that attended the Healthcare IT Summit last week in La Quinta, Calif.

18 Nov 2009

St. Jude Medical announces implantation of the first patient in China with its Eon rechargeable neurostimulator

St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced today that a 62-year-old man from Shenzhen, Guangdong province has become the first patient in China to be implanted with the Eon™ neurostimulator, a rechargeable device used to help manage chronic pain. Despite prior back surgeries, the patient suffered from chronic back pain for more than a decade.

18 Nov 2009

Ionian Technologies receives supplemental funding from the Gates Foundation

Ionian Technologies, Inc., will continue its efforts to develop a rapid point-of-care diagnostics platform for use in the developing world with supplemental funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This grant from the Foundation will extend the total commitment to this program, which was initiated in November 2008, to $3 million over two years.

18 Nov 2009

W. L. Gore to distribute QXMédical's Q50 Stent Graft Balloon Catheter

W. L. Gore & Associates today announced it has entered into a partnership with QXMédical, LLC, a medical device development and marketing company. As part of the agreement, Gore will distribute the Q50 Stent Graft Balloon Catheter which is designed for use with aortic stent grafts that treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA).

18 Nov 2009

Unibased Systems Architecture and DST Technologies form a strategic relationship

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc., a resource, scheduling, and OR management system provider, and DST Technologies, Inc., a process automation and work management solution provider, today announced they have formed a strategic relationship for the purpose of jointly marketing their solutions to better serve clients in the healthcare industry.

18 Nov 2009

Power3 Medical Products launches Phase II trials for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases blood diagnostic tests

BioMedReports.com, the news portal which covers Wall Street's biomedical sector and delivers financial and investment intelligence to a community of highly informed investors, has issued a special report on Power3 Medical Products, the developer of several blood tests designed for early detection, monitoring and targeting of diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and breast cancer.

18 Nov 2009

Clinical Data commences patient enrollment in Stedivaze Phase III trial

Clinical Data, Inc. today announced that it has enrolled the first patient in its initial Phase III trial of Stedivaze™, a potential best-in-class vasodilator for use in cardiac stress testing. The study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of Stedivaze (apadenoson) for use as a pharmacologic stress agent in myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), a method for detecting defects in the blood supply to the heart.

18 Nov 2009

IBM scientists work with Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute to use BioMIMS to treat genetic skeletal diseases

IBM ( IBM) announced today that its Research scientists are working with the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, in Bologna, Italy, to use information technology to better address treatment and research for rare genetic skeletal diseases.

18 Nov 2009

Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System implemented at Premier Health Partners

Medworxx Inc., provider of healthcare solutions for patient flow, compliance and education, is pleased to announce that Premier Health Partners has implemented the Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System.

18 Nov 2009

Device / Technology News

iCAD and AdMeTech Foundation sign a strategic partnership agreement

Radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day arrives at CTCA

New CT scanner offers quality diagnostic images and emits minimum radiation

BeamOne announces its newest electron beam medical device sterilization service center

Horizon Health International announces its two new websites

Endologix receives IDE conditional approval from FDA

CareRadius suite, a first-ever care management system from Landacorp

Update on FDA's review of BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System for patients with cervical carcinoma provided

GTS, the first company to develop and commercialize a unique form of ultrasound technology

BioMed Central and Quertle team up to introduce innovative semantic search tool for researchers

Fully integrated human genome sequencing and data processing service launched

Click4Care receives prestigious Healthcare IT Innovation Award

St. Jude Medical announces implantation of the first patient in China with its Eon rechargeable neurostimulator

Ionian Technologies receives supplemental funding from the Gates Foundation

W. L. Gore to distribute QXMédical's Q50 Stent Graft Balloon Catheter

Unibased Systems Architecture and DST Technologies form a strategic relationship

Power3 Medical Products launches Phase II trials for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases blood diagnostic tests

Clinical Data commences patient enrollment in Stedivaze Phase III trial

IBM scientists work with Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute to use BioMIMS to treat genetic skeletal diseases

Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System implemented at Premier Health Partners

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Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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