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Linden Capital Partners acquires Chesapeake

Chesapeake IRB the leading provider of technology enabled independent institutional review board ("IRB") services to the clinical research industry, is pleased to announce it has been acquired by Linden Capital Partners, a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm that invests world-class resources in exceptional healthcare companies.

12 Jan 2016

SIMnext introduces DR Doppler Dynamic Ultrasonography Training System

Health care professionals now have a new way of accessing ultrasound training in a mobile and affordable manner using the DR Doppler Dynamic Ultrasonography Training System (DR Doppler), a training tool from SIMnext, LLC, a medical simulation research and development company based in Peoria, Ill.

12 Jan 2016

Apollo Care Connect acquires Healarium's population health management technology and operating platform

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., an integrated population health management company, is pleased to announce that Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ApolloMed, has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc.

12 Jan 2016

AliveCor Mobile ECG to be integrated into LifeWatch's remote cardiac monitoring service

AliveCor, Inc., the leader in FDA-cleared ECG technology for mobile devices, announced today a strategic partnership with LifeWatch AG, a leading developer of medical solutions and remote diagnostic monitoring services to the digital health market.

From AliveCor, Inc. 12 Jan 2016

Credit Value Partners closes $12.0 million DIP credit facility with Health Diagnostic Laboratory

Credit Value Partners, LP, as agent for funds and accounts under its management ("CVP"), a registered investment advisor specializing in corporate debt investments, announced that it closed a $12.0 million revolving DIP credit facility with Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc.

12 Jan 2016

Aria 3B Orthopaedic Institute announces winners of first annual High School Sportsmanship Award

The Aria 3B Orthopaedic Institute, a part of the Aria Health system, today announced the winners of the first annual High School Sportsmanship Award, a local scholarship program, sponsored by the Aria Health Foundation, developed to recognize those high school athletes who embody sportsmanship on and off the field.

12 Jan 2016

Genomics portfolio expanded by Illumina

Illumina, Inc., the global leader in sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced the newest addition to its industry-leading next-generation sequencing (NGS) portfolio with the launch of the MiniSeq Sequencing System.

From Illumina, Inc. 12 Jan 2016

Syapse closes $25 million Series C funding round

Syapse, the leader in precision medicine software, has completed the first close of a $25 million Series C funding round. The financing round is being led by Ascension Ventures, a subsidiary of Ascension, the nation's largest non-profit and Catholic health system.

12 Jan 2016

Malaysian scientists join forces with Harvard experts to help revolutionize lung disease treatment

Malaysian scientists are joining forces with Harvard University experts to help revolutionize the treatment of lung diseases -- the delivery of nanomedicine deep into places otherwise impossible to reach.

12 Jan 2016

Biennial mammograms starting at age 50 very safe for women

In a comprehensive modeling study, researchers from UC Davis and other institutions have found that breast cancer screening with digital mammography poses only a small risk of radiation-induced breast cancer for most women. However, the research showed increased risk for women with large breasts or breast implants, who must often receive extra screening views, increasing their radiation exposure.

12 Jan 2016

Determinations of breast density could be unreliable, study finds

A systematic review of the scientific literature on dense breasts by researchers at UC Davis and other institutions has found that determinations of breast density can be unreliable and that as many as 19 percent of women are re-categorized as dense rather than non-dense or vice versa from one mammogram to the next.

12 Jan 2016

NeuroSky develops cost-effective, secure medical monitoring solution to improve remote patient care

Leading brain-computer interface and healthcare sensor company NeuroSky has created a cost-effective and secure medical monitoring solution that could radically improve remote patient care for people with long term chronic illnesses.

12 Jan 2016

Cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin could become effective treatment for Parkinson's

A clinical trial using cholesterol-lowering treatment Simvastatin in people living with Parkinson's is getting underway in centres across the country -- with the hope that it could become one of a number of effective treatments available to treat Parkinson's.

12 Jan 2016

Strathspey Crown Holdings announces acquisition of Novus Via assets

Strathspey Crown Holdings LLC announced today the acquisition of the portfolio companies of Novus Via LP, a Nevada-based venture capital investment firm focused on end-stage development and commercialization of advanced electromagnetic and electrochemical technologies spanning healthcare, clean energy and coherent acoustics. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

11 Jan 2016

Cedars-Sinai researcher receives $2.5 million grant to develop risk assessment tool for sudden cardiac arrest

A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute physician researcher has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a risk assessment tool that could identify patients susceptible to sudden cardiac arrest, a usually fatal heart rhythm malfunction.

11 Jan 2016

AiCure closes $12.25 million in Series A fundraising round

AiCure, an artificial intelligence company connecting the world's patients to better treatments and improved health, has closed a Series A fundraising round with $12.25 million. The consortium is led by New Leaf Venture Partners, with additional participation from Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Biomatics Capital, established by Boris Nikolic, former Chief Advisor for Science and Technology to Bill Gates.

11 Jan 2016

Maxim Healthcare Services earns three 2015 Best Compliance Practice Awards

Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc., a leading provider of home healthcare, medical staffing and population health and wellness services, has been recognized for excellence in compliance and ethics programming by the Health Ethics Trust for the second year in a row.

11 Jan 2016

CHOP recognized as LGBT Healthcare Equality Leader for second year in a row

For the second year in a row, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been recognized as an LGBT Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the country's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization.

11 Jan 2016

European clinicians to discuss broadcasts of latest research presented at 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Today, Janssen-Cilag International NV announced that for the first time, European clinicians in six countries will meet to view and discuss broadcasts of the latest scientific research presented at the 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, co-sponsored by ASCO®.

11 Jan 2016

Wyss Institute scientists develop better assay for testing hemostasis

Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have devised a better assay for testing blood's clotting tendency, also known as hemostasis, which could one day prove lifesaving in a variety of clinical situations in which a patient's health is jeopardized by abnormal blood coagulation and platelet function.

11 Jan 2016

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Linden Capital Partners acquires Chesapeake

SIMnext introduces DR Doppler Dynamic Ultrasonography Training System

Apollo Care Connect acquires Healarium's population health management technology and operating platform

AliveCor Mobile ECG to be integrated into LifeWatch's remote cardiac monitoring service

Credit Value Partners closes $12.0 million DIP credit facility with Health Diagnostic Laboratory

Aria 3B Orthopaedic Institute announces winners of first annual High School Sportsmanship Award

Genomics portfolio expanded by Illumina

Syapse closes $25 million Series C funding round

Malaysian scientists join forces with Harvard experts to help revolutionize lung disease treatment

Biennial mammograms starting at age 50 very safe for women

Determinations of breast density could be unreliable, study finds

NeuroSky develops cost-effective, secure medical monitoring solution to improve remote patient care

Cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin could become effective treatment for Parkinson's

Strathspey Crown Holdings announces acquisition of Novus Via assets

Cedars-Sinai researcher receives $2.5 million grant to develop risk assessment tool for sudden cardiac arrest

AiCure closes $12.25 million in Series A fundraising round

Maxim Healthcare Services earns three 2015 Best Compliance Practice Awards

CHOP recognized as LGBT Healthcare Equality Leader for second year in a row

European clinicians to discuss broadcasts of latest research presented at 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Wyss Institute scientists develop better assay for testing hemostasis

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