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Watermark Medical completes $15M equity investment from CA Technologies

Watermark Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical products and services company currently servicing the sleep-disordered breathing market, today announced the completion of a $15 million equity investment from CA Technologies. This equity investment in Watermark Medical represents CA Technologies' entry into the emerging Software-as-a-Service -based healthcare cloud market.

7 Jun 2010

XCell-Center GmbH announces approval of clinical trial in patients with chronic spinal cord injury

XCell-Center GmbH, Europe's leading provider of adult autologous stem cell therapy, announced approval of the first placebo controlled double blind clinical trial in patients with chronic spinal cord injury.

7 Jun 2010

Hospira to fund $2M loan to Javelin

Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that on June 4, 2010, Javelin received notice from Hospira, Inc. that Hospira will fund a $2 million loan to Javelin on June 10, 2010 under the existing loan agreement between Javelin and Hospira.

7 Jun 2010

Immunome selected as winner of annual New York Venture Summit Top Innovator award

Immunome, a discovery-stage antibody platform company focused on life-threatening infectious diseases, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a winner of the annual New York Venture Summit Top Innovator award by youngStartup Ventures. The companies awarded this honor have been identified as those that play a leading role in innovation for the Technology, Life Sciences and Clean-tech sectors.

7 Jun 2010

Preliminary outcomes and trends from Phase III pivotal study of Generex Oral-lyn reported

Generex Biotechnology Corporation, the leader in drug delivery for metabolic diseases through the inner lining of the mouth, today reported preliminary outcomes and trends from the ongoing Phase III pivotal study of Generex Oral-lyn, the Company's proprietary oral insulin spray product.

7 Jun 2010

Elekta Neuromag TRIUX system unveiled at Organization of Human Brain Mapping's Annual Meeting

At the Organization of Human Brain Mapping's 16th Annual Meeting (Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10), Elekta unveiled its next generation magnetoencephalography system, Elekta Neuromag TRIUX. A platform that addresses key requirements critical for monitoring normal and abnormal brain activity, Elekta Neuromag TRIUX was designed to operate in virtually any clinical environment – an advance welcomed by the growing number of Elekta Neuromag clinical and research facilities worldwide.

From Elekta 7 Jun 2010

Promising clinical data on CDX-011 in metastatic melanoma presented at ASCO Annual Meeting

Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the presentation of promising clinical data on CDX-011 in metastatic melanoma at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Illinois. The Phase 2 study has met its primary endpoint and the results support additional studies in this indication.

7 Jun 2010

Angiochem presents positive Phase 1/2 clinical data of ANG1005 for brain cancer at ASCO 2010

Angiochem, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing drugs that are uniquely capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) through LRP-1 targeting, announced today that complete phase 1/2 clinical data in two clinical studies of its lead oncology program, ANG1005, for the treatment of brain cancers, including glioblastoma (GBM) and brain metastases, were presented at the 2010 American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, June 4-8, in Chicago, IL.

7 Jun 2010

Alnylam presents interim data from ALN-VSP02 Phase I trial for liver cancer at ASCO 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today preliminary clinical data from its ongoing Phase I trial with ALN-VSP, a systemically delivered RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of advanced solid tumors with liver involvement.

7 Jun 2010

BGS develops new bio filters for testing E. coli, salmonella, listeria and pseudomonas in food samples

BioSpec Global Solutions Inc., and partner -ICBS Ltd., announced today that it has begun development of three new bio filter for the testing of E. coli, salmonella, listeria and pseudomonas in food samples. Development of the Antibody/antigen multiple discrete filters and optical system for the simultaneous analysis of E.coli, salmonella, listeria and pseudomonas in food samples.

7 Jun 2010

SEMHIE wins $3M contract for Social Security Administration's electronic medical records initiative

The Southeast Michigan Health Information Exchange announced today that it has won a $2,988,000 contract for an electronic medical records initiative from the Social Security Administration. This award comes to SEMHIE in partnership with its fiduciary, Southeastern Michigan Health Association and its project partners CNSI, The Object Management Group™, Computer Sciences Corporation and Oracle/Sun Microsystems.

7 Jun 2010

SponsorFit launches initiative to provide free exercise programs to educators

SponsorFit LLC, a privately held, hybrid company consisting of fitness, advertising, and marketing, today announced the launch of their initiative to provide free exercise programs to educators in the Washington, D.C. metro area through corporate sponsorships, whereby sponsors will receive numerous advertising impressions in a variety of benefits.

7 Jun 2010

CryoLife purchases patent involving formulation, use of recombinant human serum albumin and gluteraldehyde

CryoLife, Inc., an implantable biological medical device and cardiovascular tissue processing company whose products include BioGlue Surgical Adhesive, announced today that it has completed the purchase of U.S. patent # 6,329,337. The patent involves the formulation and use of recombinant human serum albumin and gluteraldehyde, and now becomes part of CryoLife's protein hydrogel patent portfolio, which includes BioGlue.

7 Jun 2010

Clinical trial data of XP19986, XP13512 to be presented at Associated Professional Sleep Society meeting

XenoPort announced today that data from clinical trials of its product candidates arbaclofen placarbil and XP13512 (gabapentin enacarbil) will be presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Society meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

7 Jun 2010

Phase 1 study data of Keryx' perifosine for recurrent pediatric solid tumors presented at ASCO

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Phase 1 data of KRX-0401 (perifosine) in recurrent pediatric solid tumors was presented yesterday in the pediatric solid tumor poster discussion session held at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) taking place in Chicago, IL.

7 Jun 2010

Clivatuzumab tetraxetan shows promising results in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer

Immunomedics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing monoclonal antibodies to treat cancer and other serious diseases, today announced that its proprietary antibody, clivatuzumab tetraxetan, labeled with yttrium-90 plus low-dose gemcitabine continues to produce promising efficacy results in patients with previously untreated, inoperable, locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer.

7 Jun 2010

Elsevier, InfoDesk partner to co-develop federated drug pipeline intelligence solution

Elsevier, a world-leading healthcare and scientific publisher, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Tarrytown, New York based InfoDesk to co-develop a federated drug pipeline intelligence solution for pharmaceutical and life science companies. The combination of Elsevier's business intelligence expertise and InfoDesk's technological know-how paves the way for the development of a powerful search and delivery tool that will increase productivity and improve the quality of results, securely inside or outside of a customer's firewall.

7 Jun 2010

Guardian Home Care Holdings, Cardiocom provide home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illnesses

Guardian Home Care Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of home care and hospice services, announced it has entered into a business relationship with Cardiocom to provide advanced home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illnesses. Cardiocom is a developer, manufacturer and clinical service provider of award-winning telehealth solutions.

7 Jun 2010

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust implements Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9

CSC announced today that Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 went live on June 1, 2010 at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, with the implementation completed on June 3, 2010.

7 Jun 2010

CompuMed, CSHC partner to promote CardioGram and CardioGramKids ECG for school health centers

CompuMed, Inc., a telemedicine and medical informatics company, has partnered with the nonprofit California School Health Centers Association to promote CompuMed's CardioGram and CardioGramKids electrocardiogram telemedicine technologies for use in school health centers throughout California.

7 Jun 2010

Medical News

Watermark Medical completes $15M equity investment from CA Technologies

XCell-Center GmbH announces approval of clinical trial in patients with chronic spinal cord injury

Hospira to fund $2M loan to Javelin

Immunome selected as winner of annual New York Venture Summit Top Innovator award

Preliminary outcomes and trends from Phase III pivotal study of Generex Oral-lyn reported

Elekta Neuromag TRIUX system unveiled at Organization of Human Brain Mapping's Annual Meeting

Promising clinical data on CDX-011 in metastatic melanoma presented at ASCO Annual Meeting

Angiochem presents positive Phase 1/2 clinical data of ANG1005 for brain cancer at ASCO 2010

Alnylam presents interim data from ALN-VSP02 Phase I trial for liver cancer at ASCO 2010

BGS develops new bio filters for testing E. coli, salmonella, listeria and pseudomonas in food samples

SEMHIE wins $3M contract for Social Security Administration's electronic medical records initiative

SponsorFit launches initiative to provide free exercise programs to educators

CryoLife purchases patent involving formulation, use of recombinant human serum albumin and gluteraldehyde

Clinical trial data of XP19986, XP13512 to be presented at Associated Professional Sleep Society meeting

Phase 1 study data of Keryx' perifosine for recurrent pediatric solid tumors presented at ASCO

Clivatuzumab tetraxetan shows promising results in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer

Elsevier, InfoDesk partner to co-develop federated drug pipeline intelligence solution

Guardian Home Care Holdings, Cardiocom provide home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illnesses

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust implements Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9

CompuMed, CSHC partner to promote CardioGram and CardioGramKids ECG for school health centers

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