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19 Jul 2010

Competitive Technologies anticipates $1M revenue from sales of Calmare Pain Therapy Treatment

Competitive Technologies, Inc. today announced it expects revenue from sales of its Calmare® Pain Therapy Treatment for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 to be about $1 million, nearly double that of the prior quarter. The Company expects significant additional growth in Calmare medical device sales in upcoming quarters resulting from the growing U.S. sales force of over 35 sales representatives.

19 Jul 2010

International Health News: German hospitals worry over end of compulsory military service; Britain tops study on end-of-life care

The Wall Street Journal: German hospitals are worried that the end of compulsory military service could hurt their workforce as most young German men end up fulfilling their duties there and in other public-service venues. "Increasingly … conscription's main impact has little to do with military training at all.

19 Jul 2010

Pharma industry leaders reduce R&D time, costs with aspenONE Process Development software

Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical industry leaders are reducing their research and development time and costs using newly patented technology that is part of AspenTech's aspenONE Process Development for Pharmaceuticals software.

19 Jul 2010

Corgenix, ELITech establish broad strategic alliance

Corgenix Medical Corporation, a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, and the ELITech Group, a Paris, France-based, privately held group of companies and worldwide manufacturer and distributor of in-vitro diagnostic equipment and reagents, today announced a broad strategic alliance.

19 Jul 2010

Robotic therapies reduce blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures

Research conducted by surgeons from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center shows that using robotics reduces blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures to repair diseased arteries. Research results were presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery's 2010 Vascular Annual Meeting in Boston.

19 Jul 2010

Bionas launches new Bionas adcon reader for impedance-based, cellular analysis

Bionas GmbH announces the launch of its new Bionas® adcon reader for impedance-based, cellular analysis. The Bionas adcon reader technology is based on real-time monitoring of cellular impedance, thus giving real-time data about cell adhesion, membrane integrity, cellular morphology and cell proliferation for applications in toxicology, oncology, receptor signaling as well as the quality management of cells.

19 Jul 2010

GE Capital serves as sole lender to Mitralign for $5 million senior secured credit facility

GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services announced today that it served as agent and sole lender to Mitralign, Inc. for a $5 million senior secured credit facility. Mitralign will use the credit facility for working capital as the company advances development of its mitral valve repair device.

19 Jul 2010

Bay Area Hospital implements Unibased ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. today announced Bay Area Hospital (BAH) in Coos Bay, Oregon successfully implemented the Unibased ForSite2020® periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS). BAH contracted with Unibased for the complete ForSite2020 surgery management system suite in December 2009 with the goal of achieving total perioperative automation and moving forward with their hospital-wide electronic health record (EHR) initiative.

19 Jul 2010

Amira achieves two clinical development milestones in FLAP program for asthma

"Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its FLAP (5-lipoxygenase-activating protein) program, which is partnered with GlaxoSmithKline, has achieved two clinical development milestones."

19 Jul 2010

Homewood announces acquisition of Human Solutions

Homewood Corporation today announced it has acquired Human Solutions International Inc., based in Vancouver, one of Canada's leading providers of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

19 Jul 2010

IBA Dosimetry to showcase Blue Phantom[2] radiation therapy commissioning solution with LDA-99SC at AAPM

IBA Dosimetry, member of IBA Group, will showcase its latest innovation in radiation therapy commissioning solutions, the Blue Phantom[2] water phantom equipped with advanced Linear Diode Array technology (LDA-99SC), at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, July 18 - 22, 2010.

19 Jul 2010

Sharps Compliance enters new $5.0M Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank

Sharps Compliance Corp., a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the hospital and large healthcare facility setting, announced today that it has entered into a new $5.0 million, two-year Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.

19 Jul 2010

e-MDs selected for IFMC's HITREC Preferred Vendor List

e-MDs, an industry leader in the development and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions, announced they have been chosen for the IFMC's Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (HITREC) Preferred Vendor List. The list represents the best products designed to help smaller practices and clinics achieve meaningful use of EHRs.

19 Jul 2010

Oncolytics Biotech receives Canadian approval for combination REOLYSIN Phase 3 trial in head, neck cancer

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. today announced that it has received a No Objection Letter from Health Canada to conduct its Phase 3 trial examining REOLYSIN in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with platinum-refractory head and neck cancers.

19 Jul 2010

AMAC declares special cash dividend for second time

American Medical Alert Corp. a healthcare communications solutions provider, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a special cash dividend of $0.10 (ten cents) per common share. The dividend will be paid on or about October 1, 2010 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 13, 2010.

19 Jul 2010

NxStage Medical signs 5-year distribution agreement with Spindial

NxStage Medical, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that it signed a five-year distribution agreement with Spindial S.p.A., a distributor of renal care products, for the promotion, sale, delivery and service of the NxStage System One™ and certain of the Company's in-center products in Italy.

19 Jul 2010

ThermoGenesis anticipates $7.3 million revenue for fourth-quarter 2010

ThermoGenesis Corp., a leading supplier of innovative products and services that process and store adult stem cells, said today it expects revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, to be approximately $7.3 million and to report a small net loss for the quarter, in the range of $150,000 to $450,000, subject to final audit adjustments. The Company plans to report complete final results for the fourth quarter and all of fiscal 2010 and provide its outlook for fiscal 2011 in mid-September.

19 Jul 2010

Today's OpEds: Public opinion and health reform; Hospitals and cost cuts; Medicare fraud 'gusher'

Less than four months after Congress approved historic health care reform legislation, the Obama administration has been making good progress in bringing some early benefits to fruition and issuing rules to guide the reform process. Despite all of the critics' hype and scare tactics, some polls suggest that the public perception of reform is slowly improving (7/18).

19 Jul 2010

On Assignment acquires Sharpstream

On Assignment, Inc. announced today the acquisition of Sharpstream, a privately owned provider of search services for executive to middle managers in the life sciences sector globally.

19 Jul 2010

Medical News

New health care leaders named

Competitive Technologies anticipates $1M revenue from sales of Calmare Pain Therapy Treatment

International Health News: German hospitals worry over end of compulsory military service; Britain tops study on end-of-life care

Pharma industry leaders reduce R&D time, costs with aspenONE Process Development software

Corgenix, ELITech establish broad strategic alliance

Robotic therapies reduce blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures

Bionas launches new Bionas adcon reader for impedance-based, cellular analysis

GE Capital serves as sole lender to Mitralign for $5 million senior secured credit facility

Bay Area Hospital implements Unibased ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System

Amira achieves two clinical development milestones in FLAP program for asthma

Homewood announces acquisition of Human Solutions

IBA Dosimetry to showcase Blue Phantom[2] radiation therapy commissioning solution with LDA-99SC at AAPM

Sharps Compliance enters new $5.0M Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank

e-MDs selected for IFMC's HITREC Preferred Vendor List

Oncolytics Biotech receives Canadian approval for combination REOLYSIN Phase 3 trial in head, neck cancer

AMAC declares special cash dividend for second time

NxStage Medical signs 5-year distribution agreement with Spindial

ThermoGenesis anticipates $7.3 million revenue for fourth-quarter 2010

Today's OpEds: Public opinion and health reform; Hospitals and cost cuts; Medicare fraud 'gusher'

On Assignment acquires Sharpstream

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AI in Healthcare: How generative tools are transforming clinical practice

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