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AVEO Pharmaceuticals completes initial public offering of 9M common stock shares at $9.00 per share

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced the completion of its initial public offering of 9,000,000 shares of its common stock. All shares were sold at an initial public offering price of $9.00 per share, resulting in aggregate net proceeds to AVEO of approximately $72,580,000 after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.

18 Mar 2010

Atrium Innovations acquires the assets of Trophic Canada for total cash consideration of $11M

Atrium Innovations Inc., a recognized leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of professionally endorsed, science-based products for the health and nutrition industry, today announced the purchase of the assets of Trophic Canada, a leading manufacturer and distributor of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements in the Canadian Health Food Store market.

18 Mar 2010

Bleach-based disinfectants more effective against noroviruses

Some 40% of commercial disinfectants used to clean surfaces are believed to be ineffective in eliminating noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for more than half of all foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks. According to a recent study published by Universit- Laval researchers in the Journal of Food Protection, only bleach-based disinfectants drastically reduce the concentration of these viruses.

18 Mar 2010

InvestorSoup.com: CYCC's total revenues for third-quarter of 2009 decrease by 14%

InvestorSoup.com announces an investment report featuring Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

18 Mar 2010

ETP releases presentation highlights of 2010 Epilepsy Pipeline Update Conference

The Epilepsy Therapy Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating new therapies for people living with epilepsy, today released presentation highlights following its successful 2010 Epilepsy Pipeline Update Conference held in San Francisco. Sponsored by ETP, this conference brings together leading clinical investigators, emerging CNS companies and academic innovators with investors and business development partners to facilitate professional collaboration, funding and partnerships that will accelerate patient access to new treatments.

18 Mar 2010

Health care reform: Obama, Hispanic voters differ on priorities

Hispanic voters are troubled by the direction of the country and are very concerned about the economy, spending, debt and national security, according to a new Resurgent Republic survey. The study, released today, showed that most are responsive to fiscally conservative messages and believe that President Obama is pursuing a different main priority on health care than what they think should be the top priority.

18 Mar 2010

Health Integrated recognized with URAC accreditation for innovative health management solutions

Health Integrated, a leading provider of Health Management Solutions to health plans, has been awarded full accreditation for case management, disease management and health utilization management by URAC, a Washington, DC-based healthcare accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the healthcare industry.

18 Mar 2010

Varian Medical Systems to showcase radiotherapy and radiosurgery solutions at medical events in Asia

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of medical technology for treating cancer with radiotherapy and radiosurgery, will showcase its technology at two medical events in Asia during the month of March:

18 Mar 2010

Popular home video game system modified to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve hand functions

Competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment: Myths and realities

Medicare has been touting the merits of the "competitive" bidding program for durable, or home medical equipment and services (HME) to convince Congress that the program is good for seniors. Unfortunately, proponents have conveyed misleading information and cherry-picked facts that exaggerate the benefits and ignore the severe shortcomings of the program.

18 Mar 2010

American Scientific Resources receives additional Bayer Healthcare order for Disintegrator Needle Destruction Device

American Scientific Resources, Inc., confirms today that it has received formal confirmation and payment advice for the additional purchase of its Disintegrator Needle Destruction Device from Bayer-Schering Pharmaceuticals.

18 Mar 2010

China’s healthcare reform one year later

In April 2009, the Chinese government announced the guidelines for healthcare reform, with the core principle of providing universal healthcare services to the country's 1.3 billion population. China will invest 850 billion RMB ($124 billion) on healthcare from 2009 to 2011, further stimulating demand for medical devices, in what is already one of the world's fastest growing markets for medical technology. One year later, a number of new regulations and guidelines are in place, which are beginning to reshape the structure of the Chinese healthcare industry.

18 Mar 2010

CCAC launches online campaign to raise colorectal screening awareness

As part of its March awareness month kick off, the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada has launched a unique campaign to encourage Canadian men and women to show their butts online so as to raise awareness about the importance of getting screened for colorectal cancer.

18 Mar 2010

China’s first open access journal Nano Research listed in Science Citation Index

Thomson ISI has announced that Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E). The academic journal, founded in July 2008, has been covered in the index from Volume 1, Issue 1. Nano Research is part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science, a collection comprising more than 90 journals.

18 Mar 2010

Reversal of aging shown in human stem cells

A team of North American collaborators from both industrial research centers (Biotime Inc, Mandala Biosciences LLC and Sierra Sciences LLC) and academic institutes (Ontario Cancer Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and The Scripps Research Institute) have demonstrated successful reversal of the developmental aging of normal human cells.

18 Mar 2010

Alpharma to pay $42.5M for settling alleged Kadian kickback scheme

Alpharma Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to the federal government and certain states to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that exposed an alleged kickback scheme by the pharmaceutical company to boost its sales of Kadian, a prescription painkiller.

18 Mar 2010

BUSM: Subject on unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training

Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues. The findings, which currently appear on-line in BioMedCentral Medical Education, represent a national model for addressing this issue for internal medicine residents.

18 Mar 2010

Palliative care continues to play vital role in the continuum of cancer care: Study

A study from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports that cancer centers in the United States provide patients and their families with palliative care, though the depth, range and integration of programs and services widely vary.

18 Mar 2010

Vycor Medical's VBAS medical retraction device advances neurosurgical technology

Vycor Medical, Inc., a medical device company that designs, develops and markets next generation neurosurgery retraction devices, today announced its ViewSite Brain Access System (VBAS) medical retraction device continues to gain ground. This "BioTech Breakthrough" - with the potential to impact several hundreds of thousands of patients and throngs of surgeons and medical facilities worldwide - is among a pioneering new breed of cost-reducing surgical devices designed to enhance performance, quality of life and surgical results.

18 Mar 2010

New combination drug treatment for parasitic intestinal roundworms shows promise

Several drugs currently in use or in development control parasitic worms in the same way. That concerns health workers In developing countries where reinfestations often require repeated treatments. If worms develop resistance to one drug, the other treatments would likely fail as well.

18 Mar 2010

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AVEO Pharmaceuticals completes initial public offering of 9M common stock shares at $9.00 per share

Atrium Innovations acquires the assets of Trophic Canada for total cash consideration of $11M

Bleach-based disinfectants more effective against noroviruses

InvestorSoup.com: CYCC's total revenues for third-quarter of 2009 decrease by 14%

ETP releases presentation highlights of 2010 Epilepsy Pipeline Update Conference

Health care reform: Obama, Hispanic voters differ on priorities

Health Integrated recognized with URAC accreditation for innovative health management solutions

Varian Medical Systems to showcase radiotherapy and radiosurgery solutions at medical events in Asia

Popular home video game system modified to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve hand functions

Competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment: Myths and realities

American Scientific Resources receives additional Bayer Healthcare order for Disintegrator Needle Destruction Device

China’s healthcare reform one year later

CCAC launches online campaign to raise colorectal screening awareness

China’s first open access journal Nano Research listed in Science Citation Index

Reversal of aging shown in human stem cells

Alpharma to pay $42.5M for settling alleged Kadian kickback scheme

BUSM: Subject on unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training

Palliative care continues to play vital role in the continuum of cancer care: Study

Vycor Medical's VBAS medical retraction device advances neurosurgical technology

New combination drug treatment for parasitic intestinal roundworms shows promise

Synthetic Biology and the Pursuit of Living Diagnostics

Modular, Scalable, Intelligent: How n6 Is Rethinking NGS Library Prep

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

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