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Derycz Scientific to acquire TAAG for 368,000 shares of common stock

Derycz Scientific, Inc., a company pioneering a fresh way of facilitating information flow from content publishers to enterprise customers and their constituents, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Techniques Appliquees aux Arts Graphiques, S.p.A. for 368,000 shares of Derycz common stock in addition to an earn-out.

1 Mar 2011

Obama says he backs state flexibility for health law's coverage goals

The New York Times: "In remarks to the National Governors Association, Mr. Obama said he backed legislation that would enable states to request federal permission to withdraw from the law's mandates in 2014 rather than in 2017 as long as they could prove that they could find other ways to cover as many people as the original law would and at the same cost.

1 Mar 2011

Renishaw launches first RUO multiplex assay system

Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd, a world leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of surface enhanced Raman scattering and surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering, for research and molecular diagnostics applications, today announced the launch of its first research use only multiplex assay system which allows precious research samples to be 'screened' for 10 or more 'targets', from a single sample.

1 Mar 2011

New GuLF STUDY to look at health effects of oil spill on 55,000 cleanup workers, volunteers

A new study that will look at possible health effects of the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Horizon oil spill on 55,000 cleanup workers and volunteers begins today in towns across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

1 Mar 2011

Health Care REIT signs definitive agreement to acquire Genesis for $2.4 billion

Health Care REIT, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the real estate assets of privately-owned Genesis HealthCare, a leading provider of short-term post-acute, rehabilitation, assisted living and long-term care services, for a purchase price of $2.4 billion.

28 Feb 2011

EDMA supports the Rare Disease Day

On the occasion of the 2011 Rare Disease Day, EDMA, the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association, underlines the crucial role the In Vitro Diagnostic industry can play to diagnose rare diseases.

28 Feb 2011

UCH installs GE's CARESCAPE Monitor B850 to enhance clinical decision making in the NICU

GE Healthcare today announced that the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) has installed the new CARESCAPE™ Monitor B850, the company's latest advance in bedside patient monitoring, to help enhance clinical decision making in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Deployed in UCH's 50-bed NICU and Neonatal OR, the CARESCAPE Monitor B850 enables access to critical patient information from any bedside monitor anywhere in the unit.

28 Feb 2011

Capario releases Portal v3.7 of provider portal application

Capario, a leading provider of revenue cycle management solutions that connect healthcare payers and providers nationwide, announces the release of version 3.7 of its provider portal application, which features new services and system enhancements based on submitter feedback. The release also contains Capario's 5010 submitter testing tool.

28 Feb 2011

Deal to avert gov't shutdown appears within reach

A recent short-term spending plan that emerged from the House Appropriations Committee includes millions of dollars in cuts to federal health programs. Meanwhile, congressional efforts to reach agreement on a long-term spending plan may be getting more complicated.

28 Feb 2011

USPI fourth quarter consolidated net revenues increase 3.5% to $154.2 million

United Surgical Partners International, Inc. today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

28 Feb 2011

Aeterna Zentaris receives $2.5M net sales milestone payment from Cowen Royalty

Aeterna Zentaris Inc., a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrinology, today announced that it had received a net sales milestone of $2.5 million from Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, L.P..

28 Feb 2011

EPA approves BioNeutral's Ygiene 206 antimicrobial disinfectant

BioNeutral Group, Inc., a specialty life science technology-based company, today announced that it has received approval and registration from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to the Company's regulatory application for its Ygiene™ 206.

28 Feb 2011

First Edition: February 28, 2011

Today's headlines include news about the budge struggles the nation's governors continue to face -- with Medicaid spending a central issue.

28 Feb 2011

OTI receives additional order for 100,000 MediSmart healthcare biometric ID cards in Kenya

On Track Innovations Ltd., a global leader in contactless smart card solutions, has received an additional order for 100,000 MediSmartTM healthcare biometric ID cards for use by Kenyan-based Smart Applications International Ltd., a provider of technology driven secure healthcare solutions.

28 Feb 2011

Alexion joins EURORDIS, NORD and medical communities to observe Rare Disease Day 2011

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. joins the European Organization for Rare Diseases, the National Organization for Rare Disorders and families, governments, companies and medical communities around the world in observing the fourth annual Rare Disease Day today.

28 Feb 2011

CardioFocus completes $30.6M private financing

CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the Endoscopic Ablation System for the transcatheter treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, announced the completion of a $30.6M private financing.

28 Feb 2011

Ventas to acquire NHP shares for $7.4 billion

Ventas, Inc. and Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. today announced that the Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which Ventas will acquire all of the outstanding shares of NHP in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion, creating one of the largest publicly traded REITs and the leading healthcare REIT by equity value.

28 Feb 2011

U.S. District Court rules in favor of Hologic in breast brachytherapy patent infringement lawsuit

Hologic, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of Hologic, by reversing the previous decisions reached by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in favor of SenoRx, Inc.

From Hologic, Inc. 28 Feb 2011

Investing in adolescents can help reduce poverty, improve health, UNICEF report says

Additional investment in the world's 1.2 billion adolescents - 88 percent of whom live in the developing world - has the potential to help alleviate inequality and poverty, UNICEF said in its annual State of the World's Children report released on Friday, IRIN reports.

28 Feb 2011

FDA clears Ascom's ClinicalConneX | Cardiomax medical device

Ascom Inc., a leading supplier of mission critical on-site wireless communications, is pleased to announce ClinicalConneX as its new integration suite powered by Ascom's Unite Professional Messaging and Alarm Application.

28 Feb 2011