Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from August 2003

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from August 2003

Lack of equipment, diagnostics for SARS could strain hospitals.(severe acute respiratory syndrome )
August 7, 2003... WASHINGTON -- Word last week from Chinese health officials that its government successfully treated the last known patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was no doubt good news for now, but a new outbreak in the U.S. could wreak...

Fischer Imaging makes moves to bolster European presence. (Report from Europe).(Fischer Imaging Corp. moves to Switzerland)
August 7, 2003... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report In moves designed to strengthen an already growing presence in Europe, Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado) has moved its European headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland, and has revised its distribution...

Corgenix to merge with Genesis; GenSci in chapter 11 dismissal. (Deals roundup).(Corgenix Medical Corp.)(Genesis Bioventures)
August 7, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Corgenix Medical (Westminister, Colorado) has signed a letter of intent to merge with Genesis Bioventures (GBI, Surrey, British Columbia), a biomedical development company focused on the development...

Siemens, Gamma Medica pact to speed pre-clinical R&D work.(animal research alliance)(Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.)
August 7, 2003... The term "pre-clinical" is of course a euphemism, a broad one for doing all sorts of animal research. And animal research is often fairly ugly. Involving the sacrificing of perhaps hundreds of mice, rats or other small animals to glean at any...

Primedex to restructure its convertible subordinated debt. (Financings roundup).(Primedex Health Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Primedex Health Systems (PMDX; Los Angeles, California), owner and operator of 57 California medical diagnostic imaging facilities, said it intends to restructure its outstanding 10% convertible...

ChromaVision Medical Systems. (Financings roundup).(financing agreement between ChromaVision Medical Systems Inc. and GE Commercial Finance )(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... ChromaVision Medical Systems (San Juan Capistrano, California), a provider of automated cell-imaging systems and manufacturer of the ACIS digital microscope system, reported that it has entered into an agreement for a financing line from GE...

Calypte Biomedical. (Financings roundup).(Marr Technologies invests in exchange for stock)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California), developer and marketer of the only two FDA approved HIV-1 antibody tests for use with urine samples, said it received a $2.5 million investment from Marr Technologies in exchange for 8.4 million...

DVI. (Financings roundup).(DVI Financial Services Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Specialty finance company DVI (Jamison, Pennsylvania) said that it would not make the scheduled interest payment due Aug. 5 on its 9 7/8% senior notes due 2004. Under the terms of the indenture governing the notes, the failure to make the...

Beckman, Fisher Scientific report sharp earnings gains. (Earnings roundup).(Beckman Coulter Inc.)(Fisher Scientific International Inc.)
August 7, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Laboratory equipment manufacturer Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) said sales increased by 6..9% in the second quarter ended June 30, totaling $551.8 million compared to $516.1 million in the...

Applied Imaging. (Earnings roundup).(company sales and earnings fall)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Applied Imaging (Santa Clara, California) said revenues fell by 10% in the second quarter ended June 30, totaling $4.8 million compared to $5.3 million in 2Q02. It had a net loss of $331,000 or 2 cents a share in the quarter vs. net income of...

Caliper Technologies. (Earnings roundup).(company sales and earnings)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Caliper Technologies (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported a net loss of $9.5 million or 39 cents a share in the second quarter ended June 30, an improvement from the loss of $11.4 million or 47 cents a share in the comparable period. The 2003...

Calypte Biomedical. (Earnings roundup).(revenue statistics of Calypte Biomedical Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California), maker of HIV-1 antibody tests for use with urine samples, said revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 totaled $749,000, down from $1.2 million for the comparable quarter. The net loss...

ViroLogic is awarded three SBIR grants for HIV tools. (Grants/contracts).(Small Business Innovation Research)(ViroLogic Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report ViroLogic (South San Francisco, California) has been awarded three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division...

Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said its Orchid Cellmark unit, which focuses on private forensic DNA testing. (Grants/contracts).(forensic dna testing contract with the Houston Police Department)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said its Orchid Cellmark unit, which focuses on private forensic DNA testing, has been awarded a contract by the Houston Police Department to conduct forensic DNA analysis for new cases as well as...

Alderon Biosciences. (Grants/contracts).(research grants awarded )(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Alderon Biosciences (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) has been awarded two new research grants. The grants are for HIV viral load monitoring and point-of-care blood lead screening. The company said the expected result of the projects...

Given Imaging. (Earnings roundup).(Given Imaging Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Given Imaging (Yoqneam, Israel) had revenues of $9.69 million in the second quarter ended June 30, up 35% from $7.18 million in the prior-year period, while the net loss improved to $3.35 million or 13 cents a share from the loss of $4.91...

Neoprobe. (Earnings roundup).(Neoprobe Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Neoprobe (Dublin, Ohio), a maker of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, said revenues increased to $1.89 million in the second quarter from $1.27 million in 2Q02. The net loss improved to $79,000 or 0 cents a share...

Physiometrix. (Earnings roundup).(Physiometrix Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Physiometrix (North Billerica, Massachusetts) said revenues increased by 120% in the second quarter ended June 30, totaling $200,524 compared to $91,293 in the year-earlier period. The company's net loss improved to $1.29 million or 15 cents...

Quidel. (Earnings roundup).(revenues of Quidel Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Quidel (San Diego, California) said revenues in the second quarter rose 6% to $18.9 million from $17.8 million a year earlier. The net loss was $367,000 or 2 cents a share vs. net income of $160,000 or 1 cent a share in the comparable...

Photogen reports revocation of Amersham Health patent. (Court report).(Photogen Technologies Inc.)
August 7, 2003... Photogen, Technologies (New Hope, Pennsylvania) reported that the European Patent Office recently revoked Amersham Health's (Princeton, New Jersey) European patent (EP) No. 620744 with claims directed to contrast agents. Photogen had brought...

The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman amd Rudman (New York) said a class-action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court. (Court report).(securities fraud lawsuit against Impath Laboratories Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Rudman (New York) said a class-action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Impath's (New York) publicly traded securities during...

Neogen (Lansing, Michigan) said that a federal court. (Court report).(Neogen Corp. wins trademark infringement case)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Neogen (Lansing, Michigan) said that a federal court has ruled in its favor in a trademark infringement lawsuit against Neo Gen Screening (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). In his ruling following the trial, Judge Robert Holmes Bell of the U.S....

Electropore eyes opportunities in China for unit's technology. (Agreements).(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... Electropure (Laguna Hills, California) reported the signing of an agreement with America China Technology Systems (ACTS), part of Ascendiant Capital Group (Irvine, California), for the development of business opportunities in China for the...

Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) have signed a definitive agreement covering development and distribution of R2's ImageChecker CAD technology, customized for Hologic's Lorad Selenia full-field digital mammography system. (Agreements).(Hologic Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) have signed a definitive agreement covering development and distribution of R2's ImageChecker CAD technology, customized for Hologic's Lorad Selenia full-field digital...

Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said that Global Connect Technologies has been appointed as exclusive sales agent for Medical Services' VScan rapid test kits for testing HIV 1 and 2, hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis in India and Thailand. (Agreements).(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said that Global Connect Technologies has been appointed as exclusive sales agent for Medical Services' VScan rapid test kits for testing HIV 1 and 2, hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis in...

Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) reported the signing of a patent and technology licensing agreement with the diagnostics division of Bayer HealthCare (Terrytown, New York), a member of the Bayer Group. (Agreements).(Sontra Medical Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) reported the signing of a patent and technology licensing agreement with the diagnostics division of Bayer HealthCare (Terrytown, New York), a member of the Bayer Group. Under the terms of the...

Imaging Holding formed. (Briefly Noted).(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... Eline Entertainment Group (Knoxville, Tennessee) has formed a new subsidiary, Imaging Holding, which will own and operate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) centers. Imaging Holding said its business strategy will be to locate centers in certain...

Sonosite. (Earnings roundup).(Sonosite Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Sonosite (Bothell, Washington) had $20.1 million in revenues in the second quarter ended June 30, up 21% from $16.6 million in the year-earlier period, with a net loss of $1.3 million or 9 cents a share, nearly half the loss of $2.5 million...

TriPath Imaging. (Earnings roundup).(TriPath Imaging Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) had second-quarter revenues of $13.25 million, up 45% from $9.13 million in the year-earlier period. The net loss was halved to $2.65 million or 7 cents a share from the prior-year loss of $5.42...

InSight Health Services (Lake Forest, California), a national provider of diagnostic imaging services, said that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has completed the purchase of the majority of assets of the mobile imaging business owned by CDL Medical Technologies (Wexford, Pennsylvania). (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * InSight Health Services (Lake Forest, California), a national provider of diagnostic imaging services, said that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has completed the purchase of the majority of assets of the mobile imaging business owned by...

LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it has signed an agreement to acquire the MetLife Insurance Testing Laboratory. (Deals roundup).(Lab Holdings Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it has signed an agreement to acquire the MetLife Insurance Testing Laboratory (Elmsford, New York), and entered into a long-term agreement to provide laboratory testing services to MetLife (New York) and its...

Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of clinical diagnostic and life science research products, said it has acquired Porex Bio Products (Petaluma, California), a manufacturer of plastic consumables for the clinical and research markets. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of clinical diagnostic and life science research products, said it has acquired Porex Bio Products (Petaluma, California), a manufacturer of plastic consumables for the clinical...

UK healthcare worker totals grow. (Report from Europe).(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... Figures released late last month by UK Health Minister John Hutton indicate that more physicians and nurses are working in the National Health Service (NHS) than at any time in the past 15 years. According to Hutton, the number of nurses in...

Spectral Genomics. (People In Places).(president and chief operating officer selected)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Robert Johnson has been named president and chief operating officer of Spectral Genomics (Houston, Texas). Since 1998, he has been COO and chief scientific officer of VitaCen. Spectral is a manufacturer and service provider of a catalog of...

Xilas Medical. (People In Places).(chief executive officer selected)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Donald Lawson has joined Xilas Medical (San Antonio, Texas) as chief executive officer and a director. Lawson most recently served as CEO of LightPath Technologies. Xilas Medical is commercializing a family of medical device products for the...

CompuMed. (Product Briefs).(CompuMed Inc. seeks patent for medical diagnosis software)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * CompuMed (Los Angeles, California) said it has filed a provisional U.S. patent application for a DICOM (digital communications and imaging in medicine) version of its OsteoGram system. The OsteoGram enables healthcare providers to screen,...

Digene. (Product Briefs).(Digene Corp.)(DNA cervical pap test)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported the publication of a new meta-analysis in the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine that demonstrates what it said is the superior sensitivity of the DNAwithPap test when used adjunctively with...

Digirad. (Product Briefs).(Digirad Corp. introduces nuclear gamma camera)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Digirad (San Diego, California) reported the release of what it said is the first upgradable nuclear gamma camera available on the market. Cardius-1 is a solid-state nuclear gamma camera with a single detector that is dedicated exclusively to...

Draximage. (Product Briefs).(Draximage Inc. develops diagnostic imaging agent )(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * Draximage (Mississauga, Ontario) received Health Canada approval to initiate two Phase II clinical studies of Infecton, a radiopharmaceutical diagnostic imaging agent for detecting and determining the location of infection in patients with...

NetImpact Holdings. (Product Briefs).(communicable disease identification and treatment system)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * NetImpact Holdings (San Antonio, Texas) said its subsidiary, SAO Data Integration Strategies, reported the integration of a communicable disease identification and treatment system into NetCare7.0, a healthcare and medical information...

OraSure Technologies. (Product Briefs).(HIV antibody test approved in Mexico)(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... * OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) said that it has received approval from the Ministry of Health in Mexico for its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test. Pursuant to this approval, the company can distribute the OraQuick test to...

ACOG suggests annual cytology screening. (Briefly Noted).(American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists )(Brief Article)
August 7, 2003... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) and said that the new, evidence-based practice bulletin, "Cervical Cytology Screening," issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG; Washington), notes that the best scientific...

Two Second Look systems from CADx receive FDA approval.
August 14, 2003... CADx Systems (Beavercreek, Ohio) has received FDA clearance for two computer-aided detection (CAD) products, its Second Look Digital and Second Look AD CAD systems, which paves the way for integration of those products with partner GE Medical...

Siemens Medical makes equity investment in VisEn Medical.(Financings roundup)
August 14, 2003... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) further confirmed its commitment to developing applications of molecular imaging by announcing an equity investment in VisEn Medical (Woburn, Massachusetts), a developer of agents and systems in...

Gen-Probe acquires another 65% of Molecular Light firm.(Report from Europe)
August 14, 2003... Gen-Probe (San Diego, California) has paid about $7.2 million in cash for 65.6% of the outstanding shares of Molecular Light Technology (MLT; Cardiff, Wales), giving it a total ownership of 82.6% when added to the 17% it previously held. ...

Diagnostic, life science sectors continue their acquisitive ways.(Dealmaking 2003)
August 14, 2003... As usual, much of the high-value mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity in the second quarter of 2003 continued to be in the diagnostics and life science sectors, areas that have shown no sign of slowing down in their zeal for consolidation....

Dade Behring in strong gains; ResMed sets 4Q, '03 records.(Earnings roundup)
August 14, 2003... Clinical diagnostics product manufacturer Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) posted strong gains in both revenues and net income for the second quarter ended June 30, with net income of $15 million or 36 cents a diluted share vs. a year-earlier...

FDA clears new saliva-based test for determining ovulation.
August 14, 2003... TCI Optics (Hauppage, New York) is introducing a saliva-based test, called OvuLook Ovulation Tester, to help women determine when they are ovulating in order to improve their chances of getting pregnant. Company officials say the...

Calypte ships order to China.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California), developer and marketer of the only two FDA approved HIV-1 antibody tests for use with urine samples, reported that the company has shipped an order of 150,000 HIV-1 EIA tests to its Chinese distributor,...

Medeikon founded, opens headquarters.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... Medeikon (Princeton, New Jersey) a developer of optical technology for medical imaging and sensing, reported the company's founding and the opening of its corporate headquarters in Princeton. Medeikon plans to develop its optical technology...

Caliper reduces headcount as part of integration with Zymark.
August 14, 2003... Caliper Technologies (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported last week that it was reducing its work force by about 50 positions, or 9% of its total headcount. The reduction is part of ongoing integration efforts resulting from the acquisition of...

LabOne acquires ScanTech.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it has acquired ScanTech Solutions (Earth City, Missouri) from Protective Life (Birmingham, Alabama) ScanTech is a provider of medical document retrieval services to life insurance carriers in the U.S. As part...

iCAD.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) said sales of its computer-aided detection and medical imaging products in the second quarter ended June 30 totaled $1.34 million compared to $485,686 a year earlier, an increase of 175%. Its net loss improved to...

International Remote Imaging Systems.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS; Chatsworth, California) said revenues declined by 7% to $6.5 million in the second quarter ended June 30. It had a net loss of $250,425 or 2 cents a diluted share vs. net income of $331,271 or 3...

LabOne.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it had revenues of $83.96 million in the second quarter ended June 30, up 12% from $75.03 million in the prior-year period, while net income was up 39% at $5.05 million or 30 cents a diluted share compared to...

Natus Medical.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Natus Medical (San Carlos, California) said revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 increased by 9% to $7.1 million from $6.5 million in 2Q02, with a net loss available to common stockholders of $1.2 million or 7 cents a share compared...

Orchid Biosciences.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Orchid Biosciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said revenues slipped slightly to $12.36 million in the second quarter ended June 30 from $12.38 million in the prior-year period. The net loss improved to $9.47 million or 18 cents a share from the...

Radiologix.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Radiologix (Dallas, Texas), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, said service fee revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 fell by 9.1% to $65 million from $71.5 million in 2Q02, which the company attributed to increased competition...

SeraCare Life Sciences.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * SeraCare Life Sciences (Oceanside, California) said revenues in the third quarter ended June 30 were $6.4 million, up from $6.1 million a year earlier. Net income was $628,000 or 8 cents a diluted share compared to $935,000 or 11 cents a...

Fischer Imaging gets Phase I SBIR grant from NIH unit.(Grants/contract awards)
August 14, 2003... Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado) reported receiving a $468,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), the grant supporting feasibility...

UK's Health Protection Agency unveils plans.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... The UK's new Health Protection Agency (HPA) last week published its five-year plan, a program of work to tackle what it described as "a broad range of threats to health." Its goals include preparing for new and emerging diseases and dealing...

H. pylori test rights acquired.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... DakoCytomation (Copenhagen, Denmark) has acquired intellectual property rights for Connex GmbH's (Martinsried, Germany) Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) test. Under the agreement. DakoCytomation acquires all rights to the product, including...

Aspect Medical, Datascope in agreement.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) has entered into a multiyear, worldwide licensing agreement with Datascope (Montvale, New Jersey) to integrate its Bispectral Index (BIS) technology into Datascope's fully configured patient...

Bio-Rad Laboratories.(Financing roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a manufacturer of clinical diagnostics and life science research products, said it has agreed to sell $225 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.50% seniors subordinated notes due 2013 in a...

Epix Medical.(Financing roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has priced its previously announced public offering of 4.3 million newly issued shares of common stock at $15 a share. The shares are being offered by the company through a prospectus supplement...

PML.(Financing roundup)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * PML (Wilsonville, Oregon) held a special meeting of stockholders last week for the purpose of amending the company's certificate of incorporation to effect a 1-for-150 reverse stock split of the outstanding shares of its common stock and...

Canon opens Japanese manufacturing facility.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... Canon (Irvine, California) has established a new multimillion-dollar medical device assembly facility in Japan dedicated, it said, "to supporting the growing U.S. market demand for digital radiography (DR) systems." The Kamisato office...

Eastman Kodak, Siemens in imaging systems sales pact.(Agreements)
August 14, 2003... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) and Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) entered an agreement in which Siemens' sales, force will sell medical imaging systems from Kodak's Health Imaging Group. This new three-year global...

National Imaging Resources.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * National Imaging Resources (NIR; Willoughby, Ohio) and Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York) have signed a one-year, renewable national sales and distribution agreement that will enable all NIR members to sell the 2D/3D Viatronix work station...

Questra.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Questra (Redwood City, California) said it has entered into a strategic relationship with Diagnostic Products (DPC; Los Angeles) for the expansion of applications for the Immulite family of instrument systems. The first applications, quality...

Xtria.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Xtria (Richardson, Texas), a provider of information solutions and services, has signed an agreement with national health care cooperative VHA (Irving, Texas) to provide picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) consulting services...

Beckman Coulter.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) reported that Amin Khalifa, vice president, finance, and chief financial officer, left the company, effective last Friday, to pursue other opportunities. James Glover, vice president, controller and...

Aurora Imaging Technology.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Aurora Imaging Technology (North Andover, Massachusetts) reported FDA 510(k) market clearance for its 1.5 Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI System, which it said is the only commercially available MRI system designed specifically and only for breast...

Bio-Rad Laboratories.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California) received FDA clearance for its HIV-1/HIV-2 PLUS O EIA test kit used for diagnostic testing and the screening of blood and blood products. The test simultaneously detects both HIV-1 (groups M and O)...

Biosite.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Biosite (San Diego, California) reported the start of the RABBIT (Rapid Assessment of Bedside BNP in Treatment of congestive heart failure) clinical trial, designed to evaluate measurements of b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in outpatients...

Eastman Kodak.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) launched several new products that offer greater efficiency and productivity in the capture, management and output of digital medical images at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators conference in...

Fujitsu Computer Products of America.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Fujitsu Computer Products of America (San Jose, California) unveiled a USB-powered Magneto-Optical (MO) drive bundled with DICOM image viewing software, the DynaMO Pocket with DICOM Viewer, at the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators...

Genyous Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Genyous Diagnostics (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported the beginning of clinical trials of a new, non-invasive early detection test for lung cancer. Data from this trial will support a submission to Health Canada for approval of the...

International Remote Imaging Systems.(Product Briefs)(iQ200 Automated Urinalysis System )(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * International Remote Imaging Systems (Chatsworth, California) reported the first shipments of the company's new iQ200 product platform. The iQ200 Automated Urinalysis System is the first fully automated system that integrates both the...

Zmed files patent suit against Nomos over tumor device.(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... Nomos (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) pooh-poohed the filing by Zmed (Ashland, Massachusetts) of another patent infringement suit against Nomos. The filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, Massachusetts, says that the latter company's BAT...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has modified its VScan rapid diagnostic test kit to be environmentally safe. Previously, the VScan test kit contained a resealable bag for disposal of the test cassette and lancet....

MiraiBio.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * MiraiBio (Alameda, California) introduced two fully integrated models of CCD-based imaging systems, the CCDBIO SmartImage personal and the CCDBIO SmartImage system at the Drug Discovery Technology World Congress in Boston, Massachusetts....

Molecular Devices.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, California) reported the introduction of SpectraMax M2, a dual-monochromator, multi-detection microplate reader with dual-mode cuvette port for fluorescence and absorbance assays. The SpectraMax M2, which debuted...

Quest Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 14, 2003... * Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) reported the availability of InSure, an FDA-cleared fecal immunochemical test to detect the presence of blood in stool samples. The test is intended to help physicians screen for colorectal cancer at...