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Alliance Data, PDS sign multi-year agreement for patient financing and marketing services

Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS), a leading provider of loyalty and marketing solutions derived from transaction-rich data, today announced it has signed a multi-year agreement with business support services provider, Pacific Dental Services (PDS) to provide patient financing and marketing services via a private label credit card program for dental and orthodontic procedures, performed in affiliated dental practices.

30 Sep 2009

Aprima Medical Software announces application hosting partnership with MednetwoRx

Aprima Medical Software (originally iMedica), a leading developer of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) systems for medical practices, today announced a reseller and application hosting partnership with Texas-based MednetwoRx.

30 Sep 2009

Ascent Healthcare Solutions selects TrackWise EQMS software to manage key quality processes

Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise® software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance solutions, today announced that Ascent Healthcare Solutions, Inc. a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability has selected its TrackWise Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS) to streamline organizational quality practices and improve compliance with industry regulations.

30 Sep 2009

Lumenis to discuss different treatment options for laryngeal cancer at 2009 AAO-HNS

Lumenis Ltd., the world's largest medical laser company, announced today they will be focusing their attention at this year's AAO-HNS annual meeting in San Diego, California, on an educational event to discuss different treatment options for laryngeal cancer.

From Lumenis Inc. 30 Sep 2009

Caraco enters into a consent decree with the FDA regarding its drug manufacturing operations

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the company's drug manufacturing operations. The decree provides a series of measures that, when satisfied, will permit Caraco to resume manufacturing and distributing those products that are manufactured in its Detroit area facilities.

30 Sep 2009

SBIR grant from NIH to GenVec for metastatic cancer research

GenVec, Inc. announced today that it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the research of a new approach to treating metastatic cancer. Under this grant, valued at over $300,000, GenVec will investigate the hypothesis that the delivery of a specific gene will stimulate an antitumor response that could control cancer metastases.

30 Sep 2009

FDA approves Mylan Pharmaceuticals' Carbidopa and Levodopa tablets

Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Carbidopa and Levodopa Tablets USP, 10mg/100mg, 25mg/100mg and 25mg/250 mg.

30 Sep 2009

ANXeBusiness highlights the importance of disaster plan readiness during H1N1

ANXeBusiness Corp., a leading provider of networking and security managed services, today issued advice for IT organizations on the importance of disaster plan readiness, proper employee education and preparation for organizations to maintain business continuity during the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

30 Sep 2009

US Farms, Nature's Best enter distribution partnership

US Farms, Inc. (Pink Sheets: USFM) today announced its distribution partnership with Nature's Best, Inc. and subsequent shipment of its Aloe365 Juice and US Farms Aloe Body Gel products. Nature's Best is one of the leading privately held health product distribution companies in the United States. Retailers can now place their orders for US Farms Aloe based products directly with Nature's Best in a timely, efficient manner.

30 Sep 2009

Phase III clinical trial results demonstrate effectiveness of spinosad suspension

ParaPRO, LLC announced today the results of two Phase III clinical studies published online this month in the journal Pediatrics (Pediatrics 2009; 124:e389-e395) which concluded that a spinosad suspension was significantly more effective in eliminating head lice (pediculosis capitis) than permethrin.

30 Sep 2009

Third version of Personal Wellness electronic Record released by The Quantum Group

The Quantum Group, Inc. announced that the third version of PWeRTM (Personal Wellness electronic RecordTM), PWeR 3.0, has deployed according to schedule. PWeR is the one patient, one record™ medical record platform that the Company believes is a relevant and real solution to meet current federal healthcare mandates and stimulus programs.

30 Sep 2009

Research study on teens who underwent laparoscopic bypass surgery

According to a recent study of clinical characteristics of teens who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery from 2002 until 2007, doctors may have a much narrower window of opportunity to reverse morbid obesity in teens than previously thought.

30 Sep 2009

Sun Pharma Global issues notice to Labopharm regarding its generic versions of Ryzolt

Labopharm Inc. today announced it has received notice from Sun Pharma Global FZE advising that Sun has submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval to market 100, 200 and 300 mg generic versions of Ryzolt(TM) (tramadol hydrochloride extended-release 100, 200 and 300 mg tablets) in the United States.

30 Sep 2009

LONDON & PACIFIC HEALTHCARE provides Debtor-in-Possession Financing for DRMC

LONDON & PACIFIC HEALTHCARE, INC. (PINK SHEETS: LDPH) (FRANKFURT: EGU) today announced that its subsidiary, London & Pacific Capital Advisors, served as a placement agent and financial advisor to Downey Regional Medical Center Hospital (“DRMC”), in securing a $10.0 Million Debtor-in-Possession Financing through Healthcare Finance Group.

30 Sep 2009

Æterna Zentaris announces results of its cetrorelix pamoate clinical development program TQT trial

Æterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS; TSX: AEZ) (the "Company"), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on endocrine therapy and oncology, today reported that the 043 Thorough QT (TQT) trial, which is part of the cetrorelix pamoate clinical development program in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), met its primary endpoint.

30 Sep 2009

Orphan drug designation for pixantrone applied by Cell Therapeutics

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") announced today that it has applied to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for orphan drug designation for pixantrone. CTI initiated the process of obtaining marketing approval in Europe in July, 2009, for the treatment of relapsed or refractory aggressive NHL.

30 Sep 2009

Hologic's ThinPrep integrated imager receives CE marking approval

Hologic, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced it has received CE marking approval for its ThinPrep® integrated imager.

From Hologic, Inc. 30 Sep 2009

Thermaltherapeutic Systems announces the completion of $2.75 Million Series A financing

ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc., developers of a highly portable platform technology to standardize hyperthermic perfusion announced today the completion of $2.75 Million Series A financing.

30 Sep 2009

First telemedicine-assisted video laryngoscopic intubation using GlideScope Video Laryngoscope

The Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, led by Dr. John C. Sakles, recently performed the first telemedicine-assisted video laryngoscopic intubation using the GlideScope Video Laryngoscope to assist Northern Cochise Community Hospital, a small, rural healthcare facility in Southern Arizona.

30 Sep 2009

IDRI and Academia Sinica sign Memorandum of Understanding

On behalf of The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative, the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Academia Sinica, a research institution based in Taiwan, to collaborate in target-based screening for the discovery of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs.

30 Sep 2009

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Alliance Data, PDS sign multi-year agreement for patient financing and marketing services

Aprima Medical Software announces application hosting partnership with MednetwoRx

Ascent Healthcare Solutions selects TrackWise EQMS software to manage key quality processes

Lumenis to discuss different treatment options for laryngeal cancer at 2009 AAO-HNS

Caraco enters into a consent decree with the FDA regarding its drug manufacturing operations

SBIR grant from NIH to GenVec for metastatic cancer research

FDA approves Mylan Pharmaceuticals' Carbidopa and Levodopa tablets

ANXeBusiness highlights the importance of disaster plan readiness during H1N1

US Farms, Nature's Best enter distribution partnership

Phase III clinical trial results demonstrate effectiveness of spinosad suspension

Third version of Personal Wellness electronic Record released by The Quantum Group

Research study on teens who underwent laparoscopic bypass surgery

Sun Pharma Global issues notice to Labopharm regarding its generic versions of Ryzolt

LONDON & PACIFIC HEALTHCARE provides Debtor-in-Possession Financing for DRMC

Æterna Zentaris announces results of its cetrorelix pamoate clinical development program TQT trial

Orphan drug designation for pixantrone applied by Cell Therapeutics

Hologic's ThinPrep integrated imager receives CE marking approval

Thermaltherapeutic Systems announces the completion of $2.75 Million Series A financing

First telemedicine-assisted video laryngoscopic intubation using GlideScope Video Laryngoscope

IDRI and Academia Sinica sign Memorandum of Understanding

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Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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