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Sanvita deploys Pivotstream to integrate prescriber data into web-based analytics portal for sales and management

Faster, better intelligence about physicians, competitors, and markets will now enable Sanvita LLC, a leading provider of Consumer Blood Glucose products, to optimize their strategic decision making ability. Pivotstream, the on-demand analytics and business intelligence provider, integrates prescriber data into a web-based analytics portal for Sanvita sales and management.

11 Mar 2010

iReminder’s white paper highlights key developments in HPV vaccine compliance and marketing efforts

Automated reminder and follow-up calls for HPV vaccinations increase adherence rates from 5% to over 20%, according to a new white paper published by iReminder, LLC. The Scotland National Health Service is the leader in HPV vaccination compliance, with rates as high as 92% for the first dose and 87.8% for the second dose. The laggard is Mississippi, USA where HPV vaccination rates are as low as 15.8%.

11 Mar 2010

Lorom West certifies to ISO 13485: 2003 QMS for Medical Devices

Lorom West, a premier manufacturer of custom cables, wire harnesses, PCB and high quality OEM/ODM products today announced successful certification to the ISO 13485: 2003 Quality Management Standard (QMS) for Medical Devices.

11 Mar 2010

Safeguard Scientifics' aggregate partner company revenue rises 46% in 2009

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a holding company that builds value in growth-stage life sciences and technology companies, today announced that aggregate revenue of its partner companies for the year was $262 million, up 46% from $179 million in 2008, exceeding the company’s 2009 guidance of $223 million to $243 million, as adjusted to reflect the inclusion of two new partner companies.

11 Mar 2010

StemCells reports net loss of $5.23M for fourth-quarter fiscal 2009

StemCells, Inc. today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. The Company's results include the operations of Stem Cell Sciences Plc (SCS) since April 1, 2009.

11 Mar 2010

Tyco International declares quarterly dividend of CHF 0.22 per share

The Board of Directors of Tyco International Ltd. today declared a quarterly dividend of 0.22 Swiss Francs (CHF) per share, payable on May 26, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 30, 2010, subject to a required filing with the Swiss Commercial Register.

11 Mar 2010

Miami Children’s Hospital installs Toshiba InfinixTM CF-i bi-plane system with CAT-880B hybrid catheterization table

In hybrid catheterization procedures it is crucial that the imaging system provides the flexibility to quickly and easily access both the patient and ancillary equipment. To form its new hybrid catheterization suite, Miami Children’s Hospital, a pioneer in hybrid procedures, recently installed Toshiba America Medical Systems’s InfinixTM CF-i bi-plane system with the new CAT-880B hybrid catheterization table.

11 Mar 2010

Columbia Laboratories' fourth-quarter 2009 net revenues up 21%

Columbia Laboratories, Inc. today reported financial results of the three- and twelve-months periods ended December 31, 2009.

11 Mar 2010

Senetek closes Security Purchase Agreement with DMRJ

Senetek PLC today announced the closing of a Security Purchase Agreement, a Note and a Warrant Purchase Agreement DMRJ Group, LLC on March 4, 2010. DMRJ Group, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company affiliated with Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund L.P., an accredited institutional investor with its investment manager headquartered in New York, New York.

11 Mar 2010

Auditory cortex development becomes vulnerable if it does not receive appropriate stimulation at right time

Hearing scientist Daniel Polley, Ph.D., an investigator at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's Eaton-Peabody Laboratories of Auditory Physiology, has gained new insight into why a relatively short-term hearing deprivation during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after hearing is restored to normal.

11 Mar 2010

ADI’s 20-bit DAC enables superior image clarity, resolution, and contrast in medical imaging systems

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans provide extraordinarily clear images of the human body and are commonly used to diagnose a wide range of illnesses and injuries, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancerous tumors, and torn ligaments. Analog Devices, Inc., the leading provider of data conversion technology and longtime collaborator with the medical imaging industry, today introduced a breakthrough in data conversion that gives clinicians and radiologists the superior image clarity they need to see smaller anatomical structures and abnormalities, such as breast cancer cells, than ever before.

11 Mar 2010

NIH panel recommends delivery options for women: VBAC or cesarean

An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans.

11 Mar 2010

Fewer injections to treat neutropenia in childhood cancer patients

For patients like 10-year-old Sabrina Jo Spence, new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators meant fewer injections to combat the drop in white blood cells following her recent chemotherapy.

11 Mar 2010

Investigators develop new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data

Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish between health and disease states.

11 Mar 2010

Proposed rule to exchange EHR's without patients' consent will affect Americans' health privacy

The proposed federal rule to create and exchange electronic health records without patients' consent threatens Americans' health privacy, warns the Institute for Health Freedom.

11 Mar 2010

Data from novel Hedgehog pathway inhibitor program to be presented at upcoming conferences

Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an innovative drug discovery and development company, today announced that members of its senior leadership and scientific teams will be leading discussions and presenting data from its novel Hedgehog pathway inhibitor program – an emerging area of cancer research – at several upcoming conferences.

11 Mar 2010

Primordial, Charlotte Radiology announce partnership

Primordial, a leading vendor of communications, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, and Charlotte Radiology, one of the largest radiology groups in the United States, announced today a partnership to deploy and further develop Primordial’s applications for use by Charlotte Radiology physicians across numerous hospitals and imaging centers.

11 Mar 2010

Harvard School of Public Health launches Firearms Research Digest database

A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles more accessible to reporters, law enforcement, public health officials, policymakers, and the general public.

11 Mar 2010

Genomatix systems utilized to analyze cis and epigenetic elements that control reproductive events

The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix Genome Analyzer last year at their labs in Detroit, MI in order to support the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.

11 Mar 2010

Refining treatments to target only key heart-related mechanisms may improve effectiveness

Current drugs used to treat heart failure and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat) have limited effectiveness and have side effects. New basic science findings from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related mechanisms.

11 Mar 2010

Medical News

Sanvita deploys Pivotstream to integrate prescriber data into web-based analytics portal for sales and management

iReminder’s white paper highlights key developments in HPV vaccine compliance and marketing efforts

Lorom West certifies to ISO 13485: 2003 QMS for Medical Devices

Safeguard Scientifics' aggregate partner company revenue rises 46% in 2009

StemCells reports net loss of $5.23M for fourth-quarter fiscal 2009

Tyco International declares quarterly dividend of CHF 0.22 per share

Miami Children’s Hospital installs Toshiba InfinixTM CF-i bi-plane system with CAT-880B hybrid catheterization table

Columbia Laboratories' fourth-quarter 2009 net revenues up 21%

Senetek closes Security Purchase Agreement with DMRJ

Auditory cortex development becomes vulnerable if it does not receive appropriate stimulation at right time

ADI’s 20-bit DAC enables superior image clarity, resolution, and contrast in medical imaging systems

NIH panel recommends delivery options for women: VBAC or cesarean

Fewer injections to treat neutropenia in childhood cancer patients

Investigators develop new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data

Proposed rule to exchange EHR's without patients' consent will affect Americans' health privacy

Data from novel Hedgehog pathway inhibitor program to be presented at upcoming conferences

Primordial, Charlotte Radiology announce partnership

Harvard School of Public Health launches Firearms Research Digest database

Genomatix systems utilized to analyze cis and epigenetic elements that control reproductive events

Refining treatments to target only key heart-related mechanisms may improve effectiveness

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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