Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from April 2005

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from April 2005

Identifying pre-eclampsia gene could bring diagnostic testing.
April 7, 2005... LONDON -- The discovery in Dutch women of a mutant gene that causes pre-eclampsia--a common disease of pregnancy that threatens the health of both mother and fetus--might soon provide clinicians with the means to test newly pregnant women to...

Sorenson using molecular information to trace families.(Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation )
April 7, 2005... Just punch into the computer the numerical values of certain genetic biomarkers, and--just like that!--access your own family tree. What if all the individuals in the world could trace their genealogy through their genetic material this way?...

Xenomics files for Italian patent covering urine-based sampling.(Report from Europe)
April 7, 2005... Molecular diagnostics firm Xenomics (New York), a developer of next-generation medical DNA technologies, has filed a provisional patent in Italy for its technology enabling the detection of Transrenal-DNA of HIV and tuberculosis through the...

LabCorp in $150m Esoterix buy; vital images, TMS renew pact.(Deals roundup)
April 7, 2005... Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Esoterix (Austin, Texas), a provider of specialty reference testing, for...

Rosetta Genomics gathers in $4 million for preclinical work.(Report from Israel)
April 7, 2005... ZICHRON YAAKOV, Israel -- Rosetta Genomics reported completing its third financing round with $4 million from private investors led by Kadima High Tech, under Yossi Ben-Yosef. The company said it will use the financing to expand its...

License of cancer biomarker to Abbott a BioCurex 'major event'.
April 7, 2005... Despite its early struggles in a sluggish market, BioCurex (Richmond, British Columbia) is finally hitting its stride. The company agreed to license to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) technology using its Recaf (receptor for...

DOBI nets $9.66m in stock sale; Calypte notes offer garners $8m.(Financing roundup)
April 7, 2005... DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) reported that it has completed a private placement with a group of institutional and other investors for 21 million shares of its common stock at a purchase price of 50 cents a share, for expected...

Guardian in distributor pact with EGC for South America.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Guardian Technologies International (Herndon, Virginia), a developer of intelligent imaging informatics solutions, said that, on March 30, it entered into a distributor agreement with EGC International (Pompano Beach, Florida). EGC will...

Summit highlights quality gaps, disparity in U.S. healthcare.
April 7, 2005... WASHINGTON -- According to Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; Rockville, Maryland), escaping the healthcare quality "hook" is impossible. "We know we can do better," Clancy said. "None of...

Physiometrix' 10-K includes 'going concern'.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Physiometrix (North Billerica, Massachusetts) said that its 2004 financial statements included in the company's Form 10-K, filed on March 31, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, contained a "going concern" qualification from its...

E-Z-EM to switch to Nasdaq trading.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York) reported that its board has approved the decision to switch the listing of the company's common stock from the American Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq National Market. Effective April 12, the company's stock will...

Chemicon, OncoMethylome in pact.(Briefly Noted)(licensing agreements)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Serologicals (Norcross, Georgia) said that Chemicon International (Temecula, California), its wholly-owned subsidiary, and OncoMethylome Sciences (Liege, Belgium) have entered into an agreement in which OMS has licensed Chemicon's patented...

Arbios Systems.(People in Places)(appoints Amy Factor)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Amy Factor has been appointed interim CEO and a member of the board of Arbios Systems (Los Angeles). Dr. Jacek Rozga, founder of Arbios, will remain the company's president and chief scientific officer. The company said it has begun a search...

Compugen.(People in Places)
April 7, 2005... Eran Aharonson has been appointed vice president, computational life science research and development for Compugen (Tel Aviv, Israel). Aharonson joins Compugen from Advanced Recognition Technologies, where he served for 12 years, most recently...

Nanobac Life Sciences.(People in Places)(promotes Grant Carlson)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Grant Carlson has been promoted from vice president, business development to president and chief operating officer of Nanobac Life Sciences (Tampa, Florida), effective immediately. He now has day-to-day operational responsibility for Nanobac's...

Applied Biosystems Group.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), an Applera business, together with its joint venture partner MDS Sciex (Toronto), a division of MDS, reported the launch of two new mass spectrometers, the 3200 Q TRAP and the API 3200...

Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems (Foxborough, Massachusetts) reported that it has obtained FDA 510(k) clearances of its NeuroPort Cortical Microelectrode Array and NeuroPort Neural Signal Processor (NSP). The NeuroPort Array and NeuroPort...

Hypoguard.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Hypoguard (Minneapolis), a manufacturer of blood glucose monitoring systems, reported that it received clearance from the FDA that will allow people using the Advance Micro-draw blood glucose system to use alternate--site testing when checking...

Criticare Systems.(Product Briefs)(introduces Veris MRI monitoring system)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Criticare Systems (Milwaukee) reported the introduction of the Veris MRI monitoring system, a joint development effort of Medrad (Indianola, Pennsylvania) and Criticare. Criticare said that Veris is the first MRI monitor with 5-lead ECG...

NVE.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... NVE (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), which is focused on the commercialization of spintronics, a nanotechnology that experts believe represents the next generation of microelectronics, said that it has been notified by the U. S. Patent and Trademark...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2005... Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) said clinical researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC; Boston) reported the completion of the first chest pain evaluation using electrocardiogram--gated (ECG-gated) imaging...

GW Medical, assuming FDA OK, set to market 1st AD blood test.
April 14, 2005... If all goes as planned, GW Medical Technologies (Phoenix) expects to have a blood test for Alzheimer's disease (AD) on the market in the U.S. by late 2006. If approved, it would be the first such blood test on the market and the very first...

Electronic nose can sniff out earliest stage lung cancer.
April 14, 2005... The electronic nose, a device long used for safety and quality control in the food, wine and perfume industries, also can be used to detect early evidence of lung cancer, according to research conducted at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland). ...

Eucomed lauds EC's proposal on 7th Framework for Research.(International report)
April 14, 2005... The European medical technology industry association, Eucomed (Brussels, Belgium), said that it "welcomes" a European Commission (EC) proposal for a decision of the European Parliament concerning the 7th Framework Program for Research...

Mirabel raises $9m for breast screen for younger women.(Financings roundup)
April 14, 2005... Breast cancer screening system developer Mirabel Medical Systems (Austin, Texas) closed an over-subscribed $9 million second-round of funding on April 5, led by Stockton Partners (New York), a private equity firm. Mirabel said it plans to...

Recom Managed Systems.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Recom Managed Systems (Los Angeles) reported the completion of private placement financing of $3 million with an institutional investor at $3.20 per share. This is the second private placement reported by the company since April 1, bringing...

NJTC Venture Fund (Mount Laurel and Roseland, New Jersey), an $80 million early stage venture capital fund investing in New Jersey area companies, reported its seed investment in Sword Diagnostics (Chester, New Jersey).(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... NJTC Venture Fund (Mount Laurel and Roseland, New Jersey), an $80 million early stage venture capital fund investing in New Jersey area companies, reported its seed investment in Sword Diagnostics (Chester, New Jersey). Sword is developing...

ESA's Magellan Biosciences acquires Richard Scientific.(Deals roundup)
April 14, 2005... ESA Biosciences, a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences (both Chelmsford, Massachusetts), reported that it has acquired Richard Scientific (Novato, California), a national distributor of specialty liquid chromatography products for analytical,...

Illumina (San Diego) reported that it has completed its acquisition of CyVera (Wallingford, Connecticut), a developer of digital microbead technology.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Illumina (San Diego) reported that it has completed its acquisition of CyVera (Wallingford, Connecticut), a developer of digital microbead technology. The proposed deal was unveiled in February. The total paid for CyVera was $17.5 million,...

Panbio (Brisbane, Australia) has signed an agreement to acquire intellectual property from Corixa (Seattle) that it said would assist it in developing new assays for the diagnosis of the tick-borne diseases Ehrlichiosis and Babesiosis.(Deals roundup)
April 14, 2005... Panbio (Brisbane, Australia) has signed an agreement to acquire intellectual property from Corixa (Seattle) that it said would assist it in developing new assays for the diagnosis of the tick-borne diseases Ehrlichiosis and Babesiosis. Corixa...

CMS funds back small-practice adoption of EHR technology.
April 14, 2005... WASHINGTON -- There are many issues affecting the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), such as cost, interoperability, compatibility and data safety. For small- to medium-sized physician practices, the waters can be...

Respironics licenses Axeda's system for remote monitoring.(Grants/contracts)
April 14, 2005... Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts), a provider of device relationship management (DRM) software and services, reported that Respironics (Murrysville, Pennsylvania), a manufacturer of products and programs for the global sleep and...

Physiometrix' 10-K includes 'going concern'.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Physiometrix (North Billerica, Massachusetts) said that its 2004 financial statements included in the company's Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, contained a "going concern" qualification from its...

AHRQ council to update progress.(Briefly Noted)(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... The National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; Rockville, Maryland) will meet on Friday, from 9 a.m. to noon, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington. The meeting, which is open to the...

EPIX Pharmaceuticals.(People in Places)(appoints Sheila DeWitt)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Sheila DeWitt, PhD, has been named vice president of business development and strategic planning for EPIX Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Massachusetts). DeWitt most recently worked as a consultant to the biotech industry, including EPIX, leading...

Saliva Diagnostics Systems.(People in Places)(appoints Steve Peltzman)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Steve Peltzman has been named CEO of Saliva Diagnostics Systems (New York). He has been working closely with the company as a consultant for the last six months. Peltzman has more than 30 years of experience in technology-based healthcare...

Varian Medical Systems.(People in Places)(appoints John Kuo)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... John Kuo has been promoted by Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) to serve as corporate vice president and general counsel, effective July 2. Kuo, currently Varian's corporate secretary and associate general counsel, is replacing...

Senior execs to lead AdvaMed with Bailey's move to CTFA.(Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association appoints Pamela Bailey)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Last week began new, but interim, management of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington), with the departure of the association's president, Pamela Bailey, who on April 4 officially assumed the posts of president and...

Biomoda.(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Biomoda (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a developer of cancer diagnostics, said it has completed the first clinical validation of CyPath, its development-stage assay for cancer. These results indicate CyPath's ability to differentiate lung cancer...

Criticare Systems (Milwaukee) reported the introduction of the Veris MRI monitoring system, a joint development effort with Medrad (Indianola, Pennsylvania).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Criticare Systems (Milwaukee) reported the introduction of the Veris MRI monitoring system, a joint development effort with Medrad (Indianola, Pennsylvania). This program began in 2003 as a multi-year agreement with the goal of developing an...

EPIX Pharmaceuticals.(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... EPIX Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported initiation of a Phase II proof-of-concept trial for EP-2104R, its injectable MRI agent designed to detect blood clots throughout the body. In a Phase I trial, completed late last year,...

Mediscience Technology.(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) said that it is in development of an adjunctive instrument, called the Cancer Detection Map (CD-Map), to facilitate the acquisition of fluorescence images from surgical breast specimens following...

Molecular Devices.(intorduces reagent products for adsorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, California) reported the introduction of two new reagent products for adsorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) assay screening--Transil Membrane Affinity and Transil Human Serum Albumin (HSA)...

Radiometer.(Brief Article)
April 14, 2005... Radiometer (Westlake, Ohio) said its new TCM40 provides continuous and non-invasive monitoring of oxygen and carbon dioxide, together with oxygen saturation levels, using Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) sensors. The company said this advanced...

DexCom IPO to seek $56M; Sanarus adds $23M in round.(Financings roundup)
April 21, 2005... DexCom (San Diego) announced an initial public offering (IPO) pricing of 4.7 million shares of common stock at $12 a share, aiming to raise somewhat more than $56 million. The company filed for the IPO with the Securities and Exchange...

Agfa buys Heartlab for $132.5M; Hansen buys endoVia assets.(Deals roundup)
April 21, 2005... Agfa-Gevaert (Mortsel, Belgium) reported that it has agreed to acquire all of the shares of Heartlab (Westerly, Rhode Island), a supplier of image and information networks for cardiology. The purchase price will be $132.5 million in cash at...

UK's first ThinPrep Imaging System placed in lab firm.(International report)
April 21, 2005... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said last week that it has placed the first ThinPrep Imaging System in the UK at The Doctors Laboratory (TDL; London). TDL is the largest clinical pathology service in the independent healthcare sector in the...

Growth of med-tech sector a boon to Ireland's economy.
April 21, 2005... Irish eyes are smiling--on the medical technology sector. Or maybe they're smiling because of the med-tech sector. With more than 150 multinational companies involved in various aspects of the medical products industry--including both the...

Amphora agrees to purchase LabChip products from Caliper.(Grants/contracts)
April 21, 2005... Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported that it has entered into a new two-year, multi-million-dollar agreement in which Amphora Discovery (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) will purchase LabChip products, the deal...

Chronix Biomedical.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Chronix Biomedical (San Jose, California) reported that it has received a letter from the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) that it has been awarded a grant of up to EUR 500,000 ($650,000). The grant will fund the development of...

Judge tosses perjury charges, retains 55 counts vs. Scrushy.(Court report)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... A federal judge last week indicated that she would throw out three perjury charges against Richard Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), being tried for a conspiracy in a widespread accounting fraud by the...

Nanogen, deCode Genetics in pact for genomics assay.(Agreements roundup)
April 21, 2005... Nanogen (San Diego), developer of advanced diagnostic products, reported that it has entered into a supply and license agreement with deCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) to provide a new genomics assay for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...

Vitro Diagnostics opens East Coast office.(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Vitro Diagnostics (Aurora, Colorado), a biotechnology company developing the Vitrocell brand of human cell lines, reported the establishment of East Coast operations in central New Jersey. This facility will manage business development and...

LifeScan in worldwide alert on its blood glucose meters.
April 21, 2005... LifeScan (Milpitas, California), a maker of blood glucose testing systems, reported initiating a worldwide notification to all users of its OneTouch Ultra, InDuo and OneTouch FastTake meters that it may be possible for users to misinterpret...

Nanomix.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Nanomix (Emeryville, California), a company commercializing nanoelectronic detection devices, reported winning a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant. The Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award will support the production of a...

Cipher Holding (Oak Brook, Illinois) reported acquiring a secured convertible debt position in Positron (Houston).(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Cipher Holding (Oak Brook, Illinois) reported acquiring a secured convertible debt position in Positron (Houston), a manufacturer of positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, from Imagin Diagnostics Centres (Toronto). Cipher will issue...

Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported that it has granted a license for a homocysteine assay to the Roche Diagnostics Division of F. Hoffman-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland) under its U.S. patent No. 4,940,658, relating to homocysteine medical tests.(Financings roundup)
April 21, 2005... Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported that it has granted a license for a homocysteine assay to the Roche Diagnostics Division of F. Hoffman-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland) under its U.S. patent No. 4,940,658, relating...

Stressgen Biotechnologies (Victoria, British Columbia) said it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its biore-agents business to Stressgen Bioreagents Corp.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Stressgen Biotechnologies (Victoria, British Columbia) said it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its biore-agents business to Stressgen Bioreagents Corp., a newly formed company funded by Ampersand Ventures (Wellesley, Massachusetts/San...

Pegasus Pharmaceuticals (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) has acquired 51% of Heartview (Cleveland).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Pegasus Pharmaceuticals (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) has acquired 51% of Heartview (Cleveland), a company developing a portable heart-screening device which provides physicians with a method for earlier detection of heart disease. The...

Clinical Data.(People in Places)(appoints James Mulry)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... James Mulry has been named director of marketing, hematology for Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts). Prior to joining Clinical Data, Mulry was vice president of sales and marketing at ABX Diagnostics. Clinical Data, through its subsidiaries,...

diaDexus.(People in Places)(appoints Richard Lanman)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Richard Lanman, MD, was appointed executive vice president and chief medical officer of diaDexus (South San Francisco, California). Prior to joining diaDexus, Lanman served as executive vice president, corporate business development, and chief...

Illumina.(People in Places)(appoints Scott Kahn)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Scott Kahn, PhD, has been named vice president and chief information officer for Illumina (San Diego). Kahn previously was chief scientific officer at Accelerys. Illumina is developing next-generation tools enabling large-scale analysis of...

Mobile Aspects.(People in Places)(appoints James Thrall)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... James Thrall, MD, was elected chairman of the board of Mobile Aspects (Pittsburgh), a provider of radio frequency identification tracking solutions for the healthcare industry. Thrall, a member of Mobile Aspects' board of directors since 2002,...

Oakfield Instruments.(People in Places)(appoints John Giddings)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... John Giddings has been appointed CEO of Oakfield Instruments (Morrisville, North Carolina), an esophageal and urology diagnostic equipment provider. Giddings was formerly the sales and marketing director of Oakfield Instruments and has held...

Recom Managed Systems.(People in Places)(appoints Pamela Bunes)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Pamela Bunes has been named CEO and president of Recom Managed Systems (Los Angeles). Bunes was named to Recom's board of directors last month. She also was acting as a consultant to the company. Dr. Lowell Harmison, former principal deputy of...

Varian Medical Systems.(People in Places)(promotes John Kuo)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... John Kuo has been promoted by Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) to serve as corporate vice president and general counsel, effective July 2. Kuo, currently Varian's corporate secretary and associate general counsel, is replacing...

Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California), developer of the world's first microarray, reported the launch of the new GeneChip Globin-Reduction kits and associated protocol developed in conjunction with PreAnalytiX (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland).(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California), developer of the world's first microarray, reported the launch of the new GeneChip Globin-Reduction kits and associated protocol developed in conjunction with PreAnalytiX (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland), a...

Carl Zeiss Meditec.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Carl Zeiss Meditec (Dublin, California) reported commercial availability for its VISUCAMlite to capture digital images of the retina and posterior segment of the eye, which assists in the diagnosis and documentation of retinal diseases and...

Dade Behring.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) reported that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Emit II Plus Ecstasy Assay, the company's rapid screening method for use in detecting the presence of Ecstasy in human urine. The assay screens urine...

FEI.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... FEI (Hillsboro, Oregon) reported the launch of its new scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), the Titan 80-300, dedicated to corrected microscopy. The new S/TEM system yields atomic-scale imaging with resolution below 0.7 Angstrom....

Mediscience Technology.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) said that it is in development of an adjunctive instrument, called the Cancer Detection Map (CD-Map), to facilitate the acquisition of fluorescence images from surgical breast specimens following...

Novadaq Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) said that data on a 106-patient randomized clinical trial of its Spy Intra-operative Imaging System was presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery meeting in San Francisco. The study was designed...

SmartPill.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... SmartPill (Buffalo, New York), developer of the SmartPill Capsule, a non-invasive, ingestible device that captures biomedical data from within a patient's GI tract, reported that 510(k) clinical trials of its SmartPill ACT-I Capsule and GI...

Varian.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Varian (Palo Alto, California) said its Salt Tolerant Cold Probe yields more than 20% higher sensitivity in salty samples that mimic physiological conditions. At higher salt concentrations, the sensitivity gain can be even greater, as much as...

Orchid Biosciences seeks name change.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey), a leading global provider of identity DNA testing services, said that it is seeking stockholder approval to change its name to Orchid Cellmark. The company said it believes that the new name more...

Entelos, Diabetech team up.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Entelos (Foster City, California) and Diabetech (Dallas) reported a collaboration to combine their respective PhysioLab and GlucoDynamix system capabilities to improve outcomes for people living and working with Type 1 diabetes, including...

PerkinElmer, a leader in neonatal and prenatal screening, and JN Macri Technologies, an affiliate of NTD Laboratories (Huntington Station, New York), have signed a license agreement giving PerkinElmer rights.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... PerkinElmer, a leader in neonatal and prenatal screening, and JN Macri Technologies, an affiliate of NTD Laboratories (Huntington Station, New York), have signed a license agreement giving PerkinElmer rights to manufacture and sell kits for the...

Biosite.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Biosite (San Diego), a provider of rapid diagnostics designed to improve diagnosis of critical diseases, said that, in accordance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350, 44 non-officer employees were granted inducement stock options covering an...

Whatman.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2005... Whatman (Florham Park, New Jersey), a leader in separations technology, reported the launch of the EasyClone 384 plate, a single, versatile device to replace the existing workflows currently used by genomics institutes and laboratories. The...

Inaugural program highlights CT angiography for cardiology.(computed tomography)
April 28, 2005... Leading-edge imaging for cardiology will be the featured technology at an inaugural conference, opening tomorrow in Milwaukee, sponsored by the Wisconsin Heart Hospital. "CT [computed tomography] Angiography for Cardiologists" is the name...

XDx test could eliminate need for heart-transplant biopsies.
April 28, 2005... XDx (South San Francisco, California) earlier this month launched a test for the management of heart transplant patients in the hope that it will eliminate the need for potentially dangerous biopsies, which is the current method of determining...

BioCurex cites study showing solid results with Recaf test.(International report)
April 28, 2005... BioCurex (Richmond, British Columbia) said it has completed a study in which its Recaf blood test detected 92% of cervical cancers using a drop of blood. The specificity of the test was 95.7%. The study included 25 cervical cancer blood...

Calypte will cut staff by 65%, sell off in vitro diag business.
April 28, 2005... In a move to cut its burn rate by nearly one-half from the current rate of about $12.8 million a year, Calypte Biomedical (Pleasanton, California) said last week that it plans to slash its staff by 66%, reducing its number from 65 employees to...

Digirad CEO exits, new one is hired as result of probe.
April 28, 2005... Digirad (Poway, California), a provider of solid-state imaging products and services to physician offices, hospitals and imaging centers, reported that David Sheehan resigned as its president and CEO and as a board member, effective Thursday,...