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Elsevier / MEDai launch new version of Pinpoint Review clinical surveillance system for hospitals

Elsevier / MEDai, a leading provider of advanced clinical analytic healthcare solutions, announced today the launch of the latest version of Pinpoint Review(R), its real-time, clinical surveillance system for hospitals. The new version will feature an expanded set of clinical watch triggers, expanded core measure alerts and three new predictions: ICU Admission Prediction, Length of Stay Prediction and Mortality Prediction.

14 Feb 2011

Contaminated alcohol prep pad may have caused sudden death of two year old

A lawsuit filed in Federal court claims that a contaminated alcohol prep pad manufactured by Triad Group, Inc. caused the sudden death of a two year old boy. The lawsuit claims Bacillus cereus bacteria from a contaminated alcohol prep pad caused a deadly meningitis infection.

14 Feb 2011

FHC supports San Francisco's female condom campaign

The Female Health Company is supporting the launch of San Francisco's social marketing campaign to raise awareness and use of the FC2 Female Condom® among people living at risk of HIV infection. The FC2 Female Condom remains the only FDA-approved method of female-initiated HIV prevention available.

14 Feb 2011

Chimerix announces completion of $45 million Series F financing

Chimerix, Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing orally-available broad spectrum antiviral therapeutics, today announced the completion of a $45 million Series F financing. New Leaf Venture Partners led the round, with participation by new investors Pappas Ventures and Morningside Group, as well as existing investors Canaan Partners, Sanderling Ventures, Alta Partners, Asset Management Company and Frazier Healthcare Ventures.

14 Feb 2011

Cord Blood America purchases minority interest in Stem Cells VIDAPLUS

Cord Blood America, Inc., the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, announced today that it has purchased a minority interest in Stem Cells VIDAPLUS, a Spanish-owned company which preserves umbilical cord stem cells at the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology of the Red Cross in Frankfurt, Germany.

14 Feb 2011

Tianyin Pharmaceutical's second quarter revenue increases 69.6% to $25.3 million

Tianyin Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the patented biopharmaceutical, modernized traditional Chinese medicine, branded generics and other pharmaceuticals, announced the financial results for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2011.

14 Feb 2011

University Hospitals to deploy Allscripts EHR for 1,400 physicians across Northeast Ohio

University Hospitals (UH), one of the nation's leading healthcare systems, will significantly expand its deployment of Allscripts ambulatory and acute care solutions to enable caregivers throughout Northeast Ohio to collaborate for a team approach to patient care.

14 Feb 2011

AP: Crooks find Medicare Part D an easy target

Crooks are taking advantage of lax oversight in Medicare's Part D prescription drug program to obtain highly addictive drugs including oxycodone, Ritalin, and methadone, according to results of a federal probe.

14 Feb 2011

BioTime to merge Glycosan with OrthoCyte

BioTime, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to merge Utah-based Glycosan BioSystems, Inc. (Glycosan) with BioTime's wholly-owned subsidiary, OrthoCyte Corporation. The acquisition is expected to close by March 18, 2011.

14 Feb 2011

FDA grants BrainStorm's NurOwn orphan drug designation for treatment of ALS

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies and therapeutics, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to the Company's NurOwn™ autologous adult stem cell product candidate for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

14 Feb 2011

Questcor's pricing issue

After Questcor Pharmaceuticals raised the price of the drug Acthar, its sole product, more than 10-fold in 2007, its shares began a climb from pennies to $14 and change. Acthar

14 Feb 2011

IMRIS fourth quarter sales increase 26% to $25.2 million

IMRIS Inc. today reported its results for the fourth quarter 2010 highlighted by record financial performance that included strong revenue growth and the Company's second consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA1 and earnings. All figures are reported in Canadian dollars.

14 Feb 2011

Neoprobe achieves accrual goal in Lymphoseek Phase 3 study in breast cancer/melanoma

Neoprobe Corporation, a diversified developer of innovative oncology surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that a multi-center Phase 3 study of Lymphoseek® has enrolled clinical subjects to achieve the minimum analysis goal of 196 lymph nodes, the study's primary accrual objective.

14 Feb 2011

Nolato Medical adds liquid silicone injection molding to US facility

Nolato Medical is excited to announce the addition of liquid silicone injection molding to its US facility in Baldwin WI, Nolato Contour. Nolato Contour is currently adding its third clean room, a Class 7 clean room that will accommodate the new liquid silicone injection molding machines. Completion for the building and equipment expansion is scheduled for the spring of 2011.

14 Feb 2011

Best Practices publishes new report on 'Innovations in Patient-Focused Initiatives'

For the biopharmaceutical industry, the changing healthcare marketplace has increased the importance - and difficulty - of interacting with patients to improve outcomes. New technologies and access restrictions have created both opportunities and challenges for approaching and engaging patient populations to improve disease control.

14 Feb 2011

Med DataCare Pro and home-based billers join to create healthcare professional network

Med DataCare Pro, a healthcare service provider based in Dallas since 1999, now joins hands with home-based billers to create a network of healthcare professionals at a national level for the mutual benefit of home-based billers, physicians and Med DataCare Pro.

14 Feb 2011

Kyocera and JMM open new Orthopedic Design Center in the U.S.

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp., Orthopedic Division, today unveiled its new Orthopedic Design Center in Somerset, N.J., formed in collaboration with Japan Medical Materials Corporation (JMM) - a Kyocera Group company.

14 Feb 2011

Huntington Insurance adds HealthWarehouse.com to prescription drug benefit program

HealthWarehouse.com, Inc., a leading retail mail-order pharmacy, and Huntington Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and leader in employee benefits products, announced today a partnership that will give customers across the Midwest access to low-cost generic prescription medication.

14 Feb 2011

GW plays key role in NIH's Management of Myelomeningocele Study

Researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center played a key role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of a surgical procedure to repair a common birth defect of the spine, which if undertaken while a baby is still in the uterus, greatly reduces the need to divert, or shunt, fluid away from the brain. The study was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 9, 2011.

14 Feb 2011

Bohai second quarter net revenues increase 32% to $22.2 million

Bohai Pharmaceuticals Group, Inc., a China-based pharmaceutical company engaged in the production, manufacturing and distribution of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China, today reported record financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2011 ended December 31, 2010.

14 Feb 2011

Medical News

Elsevier / MEDai launch new version of Pinpoint Review clinical surveillance system for hospitals

Contaminated alcohol prep pad may have caused sudden death of two year old

FHC supports San Francisco's female condom campaign

Chimerix announces completion of $45 million Series F financing

Cord Blood America purchases minority interest in Stem Cells VIDAPLUS

Tianyin Pharmaceutical's second quarter revenue increases 69.6% to $25.3 million

University Hospitals to deploy Allscripts EHR for 1,400 physicians across Northeast Ohio

AP: Crooks find Medicare Part D an easy target

BioTime to merge Glycosan with OrthoCyte

FDA grants BrainStorm's NurOwn orphan drug designation for treatment of ALS

Questcor's pricing issue

IMRIS fourth quarter sales increase 26% to $25.2 million

Neoprobe achieves accrual goal in Lymphoseek Phase 3 study in breast cancer/melanoma

Nolato Medical adds liquid silicone injection molding to US facility

Best Practices publishes new report on 'Innovations in Patient-Focused Initiatives'

Med DataCare Pro and home-based billers join to create healthcare professional network

Kyocera and JMM open new Orthopedic Design Center in the U.S.

Huntington Insurance adds HealthWarehouse.com to prescription drug benefit program

GW plays key role in NIH's Management of Myelomeningocele Study

Bohai second quarter net revenues increase 32% to $22.2 million

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