Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week articles from January 2003

Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week archives from January 2003

Vacuum-assisted device promotes healing in patients with diabetes-related wounds.
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The use of a vacuum- assisted closure (VAC) device to treat diabetes-related vascular wounds that were resistant to other forms of therapy was largely...

Retinal thickness analysis beats optical coherence tomography for detecting retinopathy.
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The retinal thickness analyzer (RTA) was significantly more sensitive than optical coherence tomography (OCT) at detecting diabetic retinopathy in...

Microsurgery breakthrough uses $1 pump.(microsurgery teaching model)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Using a second-hand electric pump and food coloring from a grocery store, neurosurgeons in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have created a breakthrough...

Preliminary findings reported from hard-copy versus soft-copy mammography study.(Vidar Systems Corp.)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vidar Systems Corp., the leading manufacturer of medical film digitizers, announced a mammography clinical study being conducted at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution comparing radiologists' accuracy...

FDA clears extended-wear hearing device.(InSound XT Series Hearing Device from InSound Medical Inc. )
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- InSound Medical, Inc., announced that the InSound XT Series Hearing Device, the first extended-wear hearing device, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment...

'Stippling' software speeds 3-D computer pictures.
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ancient artists used a technique called stippling - in which pictures are created by painting or carving a series of tiny dots - to produce drawings on cave walls and utensils thousands of years ago....

3F Therapeutics names new chief financial officer.(Louis H. Bunn)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 3F Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held medical device manufacturer announced that is has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Louis H. Bunn as senior vice president, finance and...

MedQuest Products names Zaf Zafirelis president and CEO.(Zafiris G. Zafirelis)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The MedQuest board of directors has named Zafiris G. Zafirelis as president and CEO. This move comes at a time when MedQuest is completing the final clinical design of its HeartQuest System and is...

Moore Medical names John M. Zinzarella VP of finance, CFO, and treasurer.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Moore Medical Corp. (MMD), announced that it has elected John M. Zinzarella vice president of finance, treasurer, and chief financial officer. Zinzarella joined Moore Medical in October 2001 as vice...

Novation, St. Jude Medical, ink agreement for AF suppression devices.(St. Jude Medical Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novation (the supply company of VHA, Inc., and University HealthSystem Consortium [UHC]) announced that it has initiated a purchasing agreement with St. Jude Medical, Inc., (STJ) for cardiac rhythm...

Breast diagnostics company expands relationship with Premier.(Hologic Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hologic, Inc., (HOLX), announced it signed an amendment of its contract with Premier, one of the nation's foremost purchasing and supply chain management organizations, for the purchase and sale of the...

Diamond DX FFDM system to be demonstrated.(by Instrumentarium Imaging)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Instrumentarium Imaging will demonstrate the Diamond DX FFDM system at RSNA 2002. The system consists of the Diamond DX digital mammography unit, including the modality workstation for the...

Instrumentarium Imaging, Suros pair up products.(Suros Surgical Systems Inc.'s ATEC breast biopsy system compatable with Instrumentarium Imaging's stereotactic unit)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Suros Surgical Systems, Inc., recently announced to Instrumentarium Imaging that the Suros patented ATEC (Automated Tissue Excision and Collection) breast biopsy system is compatible with...

iCAD subsidiary launches mammography film digitizer.(Howtek Devices Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Howtek Devices Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of iCAD, Inc., (ICAD), announced the introduction of a specialty film digitizer designed for fast, very high- quality digitization of mammography films....

Court denies requests for stay of injunction in stent dispute.(between Boston Scientific Corp., Cook Inc., and Guidant Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX) announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has denied requests by Cook, Inc., and Guidant Corporation for a stay of the permanent injunction...

Ocular Sciences awarded new patent for Toric lens design.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ocular Sciences, Inc., (OCLR), a soft-contact-lens manufacturer that distributes exclusively through the eye-care professional, announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a patent for a...

Next generation Smart Cycler II launched.(DNA analysis system from Cepheid)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cepheid (CPHD) announced the launch of its next generation real-time DNA analysis system, the Smart Cycler II. The Smart Cycler system, which has become a standard real-time analysis instrument for...

Technique to diagnose skin cancer could also help prevent blindness.(SIAscope from Astron Clinica)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new technique to aid early detection of skin cancer could also help fight serious eye diseases such as those caused by diabetes. The technique has been developed at the University of Birmingham...

Heart valve business to be sold for $116M.(Centerpulse Ltd. to sell Carbomedics and Mitroflow businesses to Snia S.p.A.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Centerpulse, Ltd., (CEP) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Carbomedics and Mitroflow mechanical and tissue heart valve business to Italian medical device company Snia...

Nyer announces first quarter overall revenue growth of 15%.(Nyer Medical Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nyer Medical Group, Inc., (NYER) announced results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2003 with earnings of $.05 per share, with overall revenue increasing 15.4% to $14,512,850 for the quarter ended...

Uroplasty reports second quarter financial results ending September 30, 2002.
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Uroplasty (UPST) reported its worldwide financial results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2002. For the quarter, the company had worldwide net sales of $1,288,875, a 22% increase over...

Micro Therapeutics obtains $3 million bridge loan.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Micro Therapeutics, Inc., (MTIX) announced it has obtained a $3 million bridge loan from Micro Investment, LLC, to support the company's short-term working capital needs until the second stage of a...

Nanotechnology company receives more than $10 million.(Nanosphere Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nanosphere, Inc., a nanotechnology-based life-sciences company, announced it has received more than $10 million in third round financing. Proceeds will fund the commercialization of the company's...

Series E financing yields $7.3M for medical device reprocessor.(Alliance Medical Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alliance Medical Corporation (Alliance), a reprocessor of medical devices, announced that it has received $7.3 million in new funding, positioning the company for continued growth. The Series E...

Third round funding raises $2.1M.(Arryx Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arryx, Inc., a company that provides laser-based systems for applications in the agricultural, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries, announced that it has completed a $2.1 million third round of...

FDA clears use of GuideLines 6.0 Rules.(Bayer Corp. TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Test software okayed)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bayer Corporation, acting through its Diagnostics Business Group, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for GuideLines 6.0 Rules, the next-generation...

Composite Healthcare System II achieves milestone approval.(Department of Defense's Military Health System approves Intergic Corp.'s outpatient processing system )
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Integic Corporation announced that the Composite Healthcare System II (CHCS II) has successfully achieved milestone approval from the Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System (MHS). Based...

Emageon to provide medical image management for Allina, Sutter.(Allina Hospitals & Clinics; Sutter Health)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Emageon has been selected by Allina Hospitals & Clinics to provide its enterprise-class software technology solution to manage the storage and distribution of Allina's radiology and cardiology images...

Legal action taken against former employee.(Given Imaging Ltd. files improper use and filing of patent applications charge against Doron Adler, CByond Inc., and CByond Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Given Imaging, Ltd., (GIVN), announced that it has brought a legal action in the District Court in Haifa, Israel, against a former employee of the company, Doron Adler, and two companies that he...

Photogen to acquire medical imaging assets from Alliance.(Photogen Technologies Inc.; Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. )(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Photogen Technologies, Inc., (PHGND) and Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. (ALLP.OB) jointly announced that they have executed a term sheet for Photogen to acquire all of the assets of Alliance related to...

SURG II announces merger agreement.(with Chiral Quest L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minnesota-based SURG II, Inc., (SURG) announced that it has entered into an agreement to merge with privately held Chiral Quest, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will...

Medtronic Surgical, Accuray, to jointly market the CyberKnife.(Medtronic Surgical Navigation Technologies)(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Accuray, Inc., announced that it has partnered with Medtronic Surgical Navigation Technologies (SNT), a division of Medtronic, Inc., (MDT), to comarket Accuray's CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery...

High-tech ultrasound shows color, moving images before birth.(Voluson ultrasound system from GE Medical Systems)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Parents anxious to see images of their unborn children are used to seeing a grainy, black and white picture from the doctor's office. But thanks to new technology in ultrasound, patients at Rowan...

Report provides guidance on meeting JCAHO's alarm-safety goal.(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations National Patient Safety Goals for 2003)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) announced alarm safety as one of its National Patient Safety Goals for 2003, U.S. hospitals were faced with a host of...

PETNET to distribute microPET systems for new drug research.(PETNET Pharmaceuticals Inc. to distribute Concorde Microsystems Inc. microPET imaging systems)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PETNET Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a medical innovations company specializing in molecular probe technology, announced it has become the exclusive distributor for Concorde Microsystems, Inc.'s line of...

Automated external defibrillators installed in Port Authority stations.
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PULSE, a coalition of city emergency, human service, and private, non-profit organizations, will begin deployment of the first of 500 automated external defibrillators in transportation sites, downtown...

Environmental Tectonics wins major contract.(Brief Article)
January 5, 2003... 2003 JAN 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded a contract to deliver five of its Pro-Genesis III cGMP Legacy Control System upgrades to be fitted onto existing...

Study shows TS-2000 system 100% sensitive in detecting breast lesions under 1 cm.(TransScan Medical Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Data presented at the annual scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) shows that TransScan Medical, Ltd.'s TS-2000 system, a noninvasive imaging device that assists in the...

New system speeds mapping of blood vessel networks in live tumors.(RPI-Trace3D )
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rensselaer researchers have developed an automated system, called RPI-Trace3D, that can swiftly map capillaries in a live tumor. What used to take days of manually tracing the vessels, now takes 2...

Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy detects drusen better than photography.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy imaging is superior to photography for detecting drusen in the eyes of patients with age-related macular degeneration, ophthalmologists in Japan say. S. Ishiko and...

RF Technology reduces pain in bone cancer patients.(RITA Medical Systems Inc.)(radiofrequency ablation technology)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RITA Medical Systems, Inc., (RITA) announced that the results of a multicenter study on the use of its proprietary radiofrequency (RF) ablation technology confirm that the minimally invasive procedure...

Multicenter study: ISKD limb-lengthening system safe and effective.(intramedullary skeletal kinetic distracter)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Orthofix (OFIX) announced that clinical data from a multisite study of 25 patients with deformed limbs showed that its ISKD (intramedullary skeletal kinetic distracter) system proved to be safe and...

Tecan enters agreement on automated sample preparation systems.(with Abbott Laboratories)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Tecan announced a long-term supply agreement for the development and commercialization of an automated sample preparation system for molecular diagnostic assays. The...

ANS introduces GenesisXP spinal cord stimulation technology.(Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. )(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (ANS), Inc., (ANSI) announced the launch of GenesisXP, a new implantable pulse generator. The device combines the advanced capabilities and features of its...

Encore introduces new artificial knee implant.(3D Knee from Encore Medical L.P.)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Encore Medical Corp. (ENMC) announced that its subsidiary, Encore Medical, LP, has introduced the new 3D Knee, an artificial knee implant designed to provide increased knee strength, a higher and more...

Sulzer, ITC to comarket ProTime anticoagulation system.(Sulzer Carbomedics Inc. and Thoratec's International Technidyne Division have marketing agreement)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sulzer Carbomedics, Inc., (Carbomedics) has announced an agreement with Thoratec's International Technidyne Division (ITC) to comarket ITC's ProTime Microcoagulation System to cardiologists and...

Bionanotechnology firm names new management team.(Protiveris Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Protiveris, Inc., a bionanotechnology company commercializing proprietary bioMEMs technologies to facilitate protein research and the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, announced the appointment of...

ChromaVision names Stephen T. D. Dixon executive VP and CFO.(ChromaVision Medical Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ChromaVision Medical Systems, Inc., (CVSN), a provider of automated cell-imaging products and manufacturer of the ACIS Cellular Imaging System, announced that it has named veteran financial executive...

Nanogen announces senior management changes.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nanogen, Inc., (NGEN) announced that Bruce A. Huebner has been named as president and chief operating officer. Huebner has been a consultant to Nanogen since August 2002, prior to which he served...

Spectranetics names Martin T. Hart to board of directors.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Spectranetics Corp. (SPNC) announced the appointment of Martin T. Hart to the company's board of directors. Hart, whose appointment was approved per the terms of the settlement agreement reached...

ThermoGenesis names Kevin Simpson president and COO.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (KOOL) announced that Kevin Montell Simpson has been appointed as the company's new president and chief operating officer, reporting directly to Philip Coelho, the company's...

STAAR Surgical receives CE Mark for the Toric Implantable Contact Lens.(STAAR Surgical Co.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- STAAR Surgical announced that it has received the CE Mark for the Toric Implantable Contact Lens (TICL). The TICL is the only posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens able to both reduce...

Roche receives FDA clearance for the COBAS AmpliScreen system.(Roche Diagnostics)(Food and Drug Administration)(blood testing system)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche Diagnostics Corp. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance of the company's COBAS AmpliScreen System. The COBAS AmpliScreen System is...

VIDAR unveils newest film digitizer.(Vidar Systems Corp. develops computer aided detection system)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VIDAR Systems Corp., a manufacturer of medical film digitizers, has launched its newest digitizer, the CAD PRO, designed specifically for the application of computer aided detection (CAD) for screening...

Response inks U.K. distribution agreement.(Response Biomedical Corp.)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Response Biomedical Corp. (RBM) has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Axis-Shield Diagnostics, Ltd., a provider of medical point-of-care diagnostic products, to market the RAMP System...

Boston Scientific announces launch of new balloon catheters.(Boston Scientific Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) announced the launch of 2 new balloon catheters in the United States, the Maverick2 Monorail Coronary Balloon Dilatation Catheter and the Quantum Maverick Coronary Balloon...

Olympus Optical and CompuCyte to expand distribution collaboration.(Olympus Optical Company Ltd.)(CompuCyte Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CompuCyte Corp. and Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., announced that they have entered into an agreement providing Olympus with an exclusive right to distribute CompuCyte's complete line of laser-based...

Roche Diagnostics introduces Elecsys proBNP assay.(pro-B-type natriuretic peptide)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche Diagnostics announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Elecsys proBNP (pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) assay, the first fully...

1-800 CONTACTS reaches agreement with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc., (CTAC) announced that it has reached an agreement with Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, to become an authorized retailer of Vistakon contact lenses. As...

Trellis Reserve isolated thrombolysis system receives FDA clearance.(Food and Drug Administration)(drug delivery system)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bacchus Vascular announced that it has been granted 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Trellis Reserve System with Integral Aspiration (IA) Technology. ...

STS Biopolymers' Medi-Coat antimicrobial coating now used in orthopedic devices.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- STS Biopolymers announced that their Medi-Coat antimicrobial coating is now available in the orthopedic medical device industry. OrthoGuard AB bone pin sleeves, coated with Medi-Coat antimicrobial...

Three U.S. airlines select MedAire as emergency medical kit provider.
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and AirTran Airways have each selected MedAire, Inc., to equip their fleets with emergency medical kits (EMKs). The combined agreements account for 2500 new EMKs...

New soft tissue fixation solution introduced for joint procedures.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Smith & Nephew Endoscopy, a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew, plc, (SN), announced the introduction of TwinFix Suture Anchors with Needles, a new anchor inserter and needle delivery system for soft-tissue...

Heart valve manufacturer reports preliminary 2003 second-quarter revenues.(MedicalCV Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MedicalCV, Inc., (MDCVU), issued preliminary revenues for its fiscal second quarter ended October 31, 2002. MedicalCV expects net sales for the fiscal 2003 second quarter to be between...

SurgiLight announces third-quarter, 9-month 2002 results.(SurgiLight Inc.)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SurgiLight, Inc., (SRGLE) announced that for the third quarter ended September 30, 2002, overall sales decreased as expected to $599,000 from $801,000 in the prior-year third quarter, including the...

Molecular sciences firm gets funding for enzyme-assaying technology.(Morewood Molecular Sciences Inc.)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Morewood Molecular Sciences, Inc., announced that it has received a second phase I small business innovation research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the amount of...

No more medical roulette: Publisher says internet will change in 2003.
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx is celebrating its twentieth year as a publisher by adding 20 new weeklies. The company's CEO is predicting major changes in the publishing industry and Internet in 2003. The Atlanta-based...

Emageon to provide image management solution for Baptist Health System.(Emageon Inc. and Baptist Health Systems Inc. form web site design contract)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Emageon, a leading provider of enterprise solutions for medical imaging, announced that Baptist Health System (BHS), headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, has chosen Emageon to deploy and manage its...

TRW offers CAD alternative to imaging-device manufacturers.(TRW Inc.)(computer-aided diagnosis)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- TRW, Inc., (TRW) is offering imaging-device manufacturers and PACS companies an alternate way to integrate computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) into their equipment. TRW is marketing its healthcare...

Thoratec provides update on destination therapy cost data.(Thoratec Corp.)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thoratec Corp. (THOR) updated information regarding the costs of implanting a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in patients suffering severe congestive heart failure that was presented at the...

Atrium wins unanimous verdict in Genzyme patent suit.(Atrium Medical Corp.)(Genzyme Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Atrium Medical Corp. announced that on November 26, 2002, a Federal court jury in Wilmington, Delaware, unanimously vindicated Atrium in the patent infringement suit brought against it by Genzyme Corp....

Vascular Solutions announces settlement of Datascope litigation.(Vascular Solutions Inc. and Datascope Corp. settle intellectual property case)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vascular Solutions, Inc., (VASC) announced that it has entered into an agreement that settles all existing intellectual property litigation with Datascope Corp. Under the terms of the settlement...

Clinical data: RF technology effective in treating cancerous lung tumors.(an investigational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RITA Medical Systems, Inc., (RITA) announced that the results of a clinical study on the use of its proprietary radiofrequency (RF) ablation technology confirm that the minimally invasive treatment...

Research: Combidex can detect lymph node disease in prostate and renal cancer.(an investigational magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Magnetics, Inc., (AVM) and Cytogen Corp. (CYTO) announced the presentation of data showing that Combidex, an investigational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent, is able to...

CardioMag Imaging receives National Science Foundation grant.(CardioMag Imaging Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CardioMag Imaging, Inc., (CMI) has been notified by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that it has been awarded a phase I small business innovation research grant (SBIR) in support of its proposal...

Thermo Electron names Marijn E. Dekkers CEO.(chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Richard F. Syron, chairman and chief executive officer of Thermo Electron Corp. (TMO), announced that Thermo's board of directors has unanimously concluded that retaining a full-time executive chairman...

Boston Scientific acquires Smart Therapeutics, Inc.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Smart Therapeutics, Inc., a development company focused on self-expanding technologies for intracranial therapies. ...

Boston Scientific to acquire stent-technology development company.(Boston Scientific Corp. acquires InFlow Dynamics)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the shares of InFlow Dynamics, Inc. InFlow Dynamics is a stent-technology development company whose...

Sutura announces merger.(Sutura Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sutura, Inc., a medical device manufacturer, announced that it has received an offer of merger to buy out all of its shareholders and provide the necessary operating capital to build its sales and...

AutoPix Automated Laser Capture Microdissection system launched.
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arcturus has announced the introduction of the AutoPix Automated Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) System for the isolation and analysis of pure cell populations from tissue sections and cytology...

Arcturus Engineering enters into strategic relationship.(Arcturus Engineering Inc. and Affymetrix Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Affymetrix, Inc., (AFFX) and Arcturus Engineering, Inc., announced that they have entered into a strategic relationship linking the provider of microarray technology with the laser capture...

Transmyocardial laser revascularization enhances left ventricular remodeling.
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Germany conducted a study in rats "to monitor perfusion changes in remote myocardium caused by transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR) and to investigate the influence of TMLR on...

United States Surgical introduces new orthopedic/sports medicine technology.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The USS Sports Medicine division of United States Surgical, a division of Tyco Healthcare Group, LP, announced the launch of new Polysorb Meniscal XLS staplers incorporating soft-back staple...

Centerpulse introduces minimally invasive unicompartmental knee instrumentation.(Centerpulse Orthopedics Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2003... 2003 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Centerpulse Orthopedics, Inc., a subsidiary of Centerpulse (CEP), announced the Natural-Knee Unicompartmental System Instrumentation for minimally invasive unicompartmental knee replacement (partial...