Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from August 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from August 2004

New tests bring increasingly complex roles for laboratories.(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
August 5, 2004... LOS ANGELES, California -- New molecular tests that may improve cancer screening, prognosis and management are examples of diagnostics that could significantly impact the role of the clinical lab director, said Barbara Handelin, PhD, who...

Device groups disappointed with 16% boost in user fees.
August 5, 2004... The FDA released its schedule of device user fees this week, and the increases in those fees brought swift negative response from the med-tech industry. For FY05, the agency is putting the increase for most medical technology applications at...

Biomarkers for diagnosis of sepsis continue to be elusive.(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
August 5, 2004... LOS ANGELES, California -- Determining if sepsis has occurred in a patient is one of the most difficult challenges that face physicians in intensive care units around the world. Speaking at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's...

Sequenom cuts drug discovery to focus on diagnostic services.
August 5, 2004... Sequenom (San Diego, California) expects to save about $10 million a year by dropping its internal drug discovery program to concentrate on its Genetic Systems business unit in the genetic research and diagnostic services market. The...

Hall Effect receives funding, moving to Scottish incubator.(Report from Europe)(Company Profile)
August 5, 2004... Hall Effect Medical Products (Manchester, UK) reported that Inverness and Nairn Enterprise (INE), a UK government agency, has made a "significant investment" in the company that will result in Hall Effect relocating this month to The Green...

New colorectal cancer test.(Report from Europe)(ScheBo-Tumor M2-PK Stool Test)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... Scientists from Giessen Medical University (Giessen, Germany) have described a progressive new test that detects cancer cells in the stool through the enzyme Tumor M2-PK in the British Journal of Cancer. The ScheBo-Tumor M2-PK Stool Test is...

Acusphere to raise $21.5m; eRT buys 200,000 of its shares.(Financings roundup)
August 5, 2004... Acusphere (Watertown, Massachusetts), a company using porous microparticle technology for drug development, reported entering into agreements for a $21.5 million private placement of newly issued shares of common stock and the concurrent...

Prostate research group restructures.(Report from Europe)(Prostate Research Campaign UK)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... The Prostate Research Campaign UK, which is marking its 10th anniversary, is restructuring, it said, in order to "strengthen its fight against all prostate diseases." The charity's Founder, Anthony Kilmister, has been named life president...

Committee finds funding gaps in bioterrorism preparedness.
August 5, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing last month to assess the current status of the government and the U.S. healthcare community to deal with possible bioterror threats. In doing so, it found...

Synarc completes IoDP buy; Acceler8 sells software biz.(Deals roundup)
August 5, 2004... Synarc (Maynard, Massachusetts), a provider of specialized medical imaging and molecular marker services for global clinical trials, reported completing the acquisition of IoDP Medical Imaging Research (Paris), a provider of medical imaging...

Accelr8 Technology.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Accelr8 Technology (Denver, Colorado) has completed the sale of its software business, which consists of tools for legacy-code modernization and the resale of third-party software. The purchaser was not identified. According to Thomas...

Viasys Healthcare (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) reported that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Iceland's Taugragreining hf, a neurodiagnostic company.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Viasys Healthcare (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) reported that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Iceland's Taugragreining hf, a neurodiagnostic company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Taugagreining...

Summary judgment granted in patent case favors Gen-Probe.(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... Gen-Probe (San Diego, California) reported that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment in the company's favor in a patent infringement lawsuit initiated in 1999 by Enzo Biochem (Farmingdale,...

Premier Purchasing, Elekta in pact for radiation oncology.(Grants/contracts)(Company Profile)
August 5, 2004... Premier Purchasing Partners (Chicago, Illinois), the group purchasing division of Premier (San Diego, California), has entered into a three-year contract with Elekta (Norcross, Georgia) for radiation ontology solutions for its member hospital...

GTx, Tessera in collaboration on development of PIN test.(Agreements)
August 5, 2004... GTx (Memphis, Tennessee), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics primarily related to the treatment of serious men's health conditions, said that it has entered into a...

FDA clears Architect damaged heart muscle test from Abbott.(AACC notebook)
August 5, 2004... At last week's American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington) annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported receiving 510(k) clearance from the FDA for a Creatine...

Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) and Diagnostics Products (Los Angeles, California) previewed the system that will result from a recent agreement between the two companies.(AACC notebook)
August 5, 2004... * Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) and Diagnostics Products (Los Angeles, California) previewed the system that will result from a recent agreement between the two companies under which Dade Behring will integrate DPC's Immulite 2000 and...

During a workshop at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel sponsored by Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland), Alfred Lui, MD, medical director of Pathology, an independent anatomic pathology laboratory in Southern California, presented the results of two recent studies.(AACC notebook)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * During a workshop at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel sponsored by Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland), Alfred Lui, MD, medical director of pathology, an independent anatomic pathology laboratory in Southern California, presented the results of two...

New research said a newly identified health condition that is closely linked to breast and prostate cancer as well diabetes.(AACC notebook)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * New research said a newly identified health condition that is closely linked to breast and prostate cancer as well diabetes, especially among people of lower socioeconomic status, can be avoided by getting more exercise and making other...

Another report presented at the meeting said that herbal medicines can interfere dangerously with prescription medications, putting patients at high risk of lead poisoning, liver damage and other serious health effects.(AACC notebook)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Another report presented at the meeting said that herbal medicines can interfere dangerously with prescription medications, putting patients at high risk of lead poisoning, liver damage and other serious health effects. The study said more...

Agfa.(Product Briefs)(introduced Impax Mammography Diagnostic Workstation)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Agfa (Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) said that FDA has cleared its Impax Mammography Diagnostic Workstation. The multi-modality workstation delivers 'one-stop' review and results distribution for digital breast-imaging studies, while also...

AngioDynamics.(Product Briefs)(introduced Morpheus peripherally inserted central catheter)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) reported FDA clearance for the Morpheus peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) for use with computed tomography (CT) injectors. AngioDynamics said it expects to begin marketing the product to the...

CardioMag.(Product Briefs)(got licence for magneto-cardiograph (MCG) system)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * CardioMag (Schenectady, New York) said it has received FDA clearance to market in the U.S. its magneto-cardiograph (MCG) system, which can detect the magnetic field generated by a person's heart. An MCG procedure takes less than 10 minutes to...

Meretek Diagnostics (Lafayette, Colorado), an Otsuka subsidiary in the U.S., reported that Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. (Tokyo) received FDA clearance to market the POCone infrared Spectrophotometer.(Product Briefs)(introduced POCone infrared Spectrophotometer)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... Meretek Diagnostics (Lafayette, Colorado), an Otsuka subsidiary in the U.S., reported that Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. (Tokyo) received FDA clearance to market the POCone infrared Spectrophotometer. The company said POCone offers technological...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(introduced Aquilion 64 CFX computed tomography)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) has unveiled the new Aquilion 64 CFX computed tomography (CT) system optimized for examination of the coronary arteries. The Aquilion 64 CFX features Toshiba's 64-row Quantum detector for...

Viasys Healthcare.(Product Briefs)(introduced VMAX Encore system for pulmonary function)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Viasys Healthcare (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) reported the introduction of the VMAX Encore system for pulmonary function, cardiopulmonary stress and metabolic assessment testing. Marketed through Viasys Respiratory Technologies, the VMAX...

Guava Technologies.(People in Places)(appointed David King)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * David King, PhD, has been named vice president, product development, at Guava Technologies (Hayward, California). He previously was head of new product development and product integration at lolon, a maker of tunable optical components. Guava...

Lifeline Biotechnologies.(People in Places)(management changes)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2004... * Frank Clark has been named chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Lifeline Biotechnologies (Reno, Nevada). He replaces chairman of the board and chief financial officer Jim Holmes in the CEO post. Holmes will...

Labs play key role in finding source of endocrine problems.(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
August 12, 2004... LOS ANGELES, California -- For healthy individuals, the role that the thyroid and adrenal glands play may not be top of mind, but when problems arise, the clinical laboratory plays an integral role in finding the source of the problem. The...

Proteome Sciences optimistic following setback with Biosite.(Report from Europe)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... Proteome Sciences (Cobham, UK) explained why partner Biosite (San Diego, California) declined to use the UK firm's biomarkers in its first stroke diagnostic device, and gave an optimistic assessment of prospects for commercialising its...

Standards, protocols important in metabolic syndrome testing.(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
August 12, 2004... LOS ANGELES, California -- Metabolic syndrome: fact or fiction? That's a variation of the question Neil Harris, MD, of the University of Florida (Gainesvilie, Florida), asked his audience at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry...

Hospital study: CRT doesn't affect cognitive development.(Report from Europe)
August 12, 2004... Results of a Phase II study at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) using conformal radiation therapy (CRT) to treat children with ependymoma, a form of brain cancer, appears to hold promise for treating the disease in...

Fujirebio Diagnostics eyeing assay to detect mesothelioma.(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... LOS ANGELES, California -- Fujirebio Diagnostics (FDI; Malvern, Pennsylvania), which was among the exhibitors at the recent American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington) annual meeting and clinical expo here, has an assay in...

Palatin receives $2M milestone; DOBI places $5.16M in stock.(Financings roundup)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... Palatin Technologies (Cranbury, New Jersey) said it has received a $2 million milestone payment from its strategic collaboration partner, Mallinckrodt Imaging (Hazelwood, Missouri), a business unit of Tyco Healthcare (Mansfield, Massachusetts),...

MQ Associates (Alpharetta, Georgia), the parent company of MedQuest, said it intends to offer, through a private placement, senior discount notes due 2012, subject to market conditions.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... MQ Associates (Alpharetta, Georgia), the parent company of MedQuest, said it intends to offer, through a private placement, senior discount notes due 2012, subject to market conditions. The notes will be issued at a substantial discount. Prior...

Adeza Biomedical.(Financings roundup)(initial public offering of its common stock )(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... Adeza Biomedical (Sunnyvale, California) said it has filed a registration statement relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All of the shares are to be sold by Adeza. The...

Biotel completes buy of Agility; Neurome buys Digital Gene.(Deals roundup)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... Biotel (Minneapolis, Minnesota) reported completing the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Agility Centralized Research Services (Bannockburn, Illinois) for $240,000 in cash and up to an additional $260,000 in cash based on...

Beckman Coulter in pact with St. Joseph Health.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) has signed a new agreement with St. Joseph Health System (Orange, California) to provide the integrated healthcare delivery network with a wide range of diagnostic laboratory instrument systems, software...

SpectraScience receives court confirmation of Chapter 11 plan.(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... SpectraScience (Minneapolis, Minnesota) reported that it has received U.S. Bankruptcy Court confirmation of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan in. The expiration period for objections ended on Aug. 2, and the plan becomes effective Aug. 23. ...

Metabolon collaborates with Mass General on biomarkers.(Grants/contracts)
August 12, 2004... Metabolon (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) reported its collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) on a new biomarker study funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS;...

Beckman Coulter and NPE in cellular analysis collaboration.(Agreements)
August 12, 2004... Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) said it has entered into an exclusive licensing and development agreement with NPE Systems (Pembroke Pines, Florida) for NPE's novel flow-based cellular analysis systems. Beckman Coulter plans to...

CeMines creates Biosystems unit.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... CeMines (Evergreen, Colorado) has created a new business unit, the CeMines BioSystems Division. The creation of the unit follows the expansion of the company's diagnostics and therapeutics research division in June and its relocation from Los...

NCCLS changes name.(Briefly Noted)(to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... It's official NCCLS's (Wayne, Pennsylvania) members, volunteers, and customers can look forward to a new name for their organization in 2005. This summer, delegates voted and approved Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute as the new...

Calypte Biomedical signs sublicense with Abbott.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... Calypte Biomedical (Pleasanton, California) said it has signed a sublicense agreement with Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) for certain worldwide rights to patents relating to the manufacture and sale of lateral-flow rapid diagnostic...

Medical Home Products to go public.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
August 12, 2004... Medical Home Products (St. Petersburg, Florida), a portfolio company of COR Equity Holding, said that it has successfully completed the necessary filings to become a public company. Medical Home Products is publicly traded on the OTC under the...

MEDTAP broadens services.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... MEDTAP International (Bethesda, Maryland) said it has broadened its research and consultation services to include strategic reimbursement planning through the addition of PharmAnalysis Group (Arlington, Virginia), a provider of reimbursement...

AusAm Biotechnologies.(People in Places)(appointed Mark Straley)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * AusAm Biotechnologies (New York) reported that Mark Straley has been appointed chief operating officer. Previously, Straley was vice president and general manager. diagnostics at Bayer's Healthcare Division. AusAm Biotechnologies is focused...

Applied Imaging.(Product Briefs)(reported release of Ariol 2.0)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Applied Imaging (San Jose, California, reported the release of Ariol 2.0, the latest generation of us Ariol imaging analysis system, which combines screening for genetic abnormalities and protein expression in a single instrumentation...

Avitar.(Product Briefs)(got licence for diagnostic testing device)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Avitar (Canton, Massachusetts) reported receiving a notice of allowance for its "Diagnostic testing device and method of use thereof patent application. The patent includes an oral fluid collection and testing method and provides a precise...

Beckman Coulter.(Product Briefs)(introduced closed-tube sampling device on its Synchron LX20 Pro and Synchron LXi 725)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) introduced a new closed-tube sampling (CTS) device on its Synchron LX20 Pro and Synchron LXi 725 clinical systems to accommodate Sarstedt S-Monovette tubes. CTS technology features a device with the...

BioLucent.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * BioLucent (Aliso Viejo, California) said that a study in the July issue of Breast Journal confirms that the MammoPad breast cushion greatly reduces the discomfort many women experience during mammograms, even when compression force is...

CardioMag.(Product Briefs)(received approvals and international quality certificates to distribute its non-invasive magneto-cardiograph (MCG) medical diagnostic systems )(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * CardioMag (Schenectady, New York) said it has received comprehensive approvals and international quality certificates to distribute its new, non-invasive magneto-cardiograph (MCG) medical diagnostic systems in Europe, Canada and elsewhere....

Epix Medical.(Product Briefs)(announced human clinical trial of EP-2104R, an injectable magnetic resonance imaging)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said that it has initiated its first human clinical trial of EP-2104R, an injectable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that targets blood clots, or thrombi, in the body EP-2104P binds...

E-Z-EM.(Product Briefs)(introduced VoLumen, a low-density barium sulfate suspension )(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * E.Z.EM (Lake Success, New York) reported the introduction of VoLumen, a low-density barium sulfate suspension for use as an oral contrast in multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT studies. The...

Focus Surgery (Indianapolis, Indiana) said that the Mexican Ministry of Health has granted approval to U.S. HIFU (Charlotte, North Carolina), a development company, for the use of Focus's Sonablate 500 to treat prostate cancer with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Focus Surgery (Indianapolis, Indiana) said that the Mexican Ministry of Health has granted approval to U.S. HIFU (Charlotte, North Carolina), a development company, for the use of Focus's Sonablate 500 to treat prostate cancer with high...

Hitachi Medical Systems America.(Product Briefs)(released Version 2.0 enhancement package for the HI Vision 8500 Premium ultrasound system)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Hitachi Medical Systems America (Twinsburg, Ohio) reported the upcoming release of its Version 2.0 enhancement package for the HI Vision 8500 Premium ultrasound system. This software enhancement will provide users with a host of imaging and...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(received additional test results from ongoing studies of the VScan HIV 1 & 2 test kits)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) reported that it has received additional test results from its ongoing studies of the VScan HIV 1 & 2 test kits in the U.S. In one study using whole blood, the VScan HIV test kit demonstrated...

Olympus America.(Product Briefs)(announced AU3001 automated immunoassay system)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... *Olympus America (Melville, New York) said it previewed its new AU3001 automated immunoassay system at last month's American Association for Clinical Chemistry meeting in Los Angeles, California. The system's throughput is fast--up to 240 tests...

Power3 Medical Products.(Product Briefs)(reported patent application on proteomic testing and biomarker discovery methods)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... Power3 Medical Products (The Woodlands, Texas) reported the filing of a provisional patent application on proteomic testing and biomarker discovery methods using its protein biomarker footprints for early detection, monitoring and staging of a...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(Product Briefs)(introduced Magnetom CI imaging system )(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) said the FDA has cleared the first magnetic resonance Imaging system with 270 degree accessibility. The Magnetom CI system features the most compact, mid-field, C-shaped magnet, with the...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(demonstrated its advanced Aquilion 32 CFX )(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) said it recently demonstrated its advanced Aquilion 32 CFX using the 64-row Quantum detector cardiac computed tomography (CT) technology at the Cardiac CT conference held last month in...

Varian Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(announced enhancement for On-Board Imager system for Clinac and Trilogy)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2004... * Varian Medical Systems (Pale Alto, California) said it has received FDA clearance for a new suite of features that have been added to its On-Board Imager system for Clinac and Trilogy medical linear accelerators (linacs). With these new...

UK researchers develop test to detect esophageal cancer.
August 19, 2004... A new and simple test for esophageal cancer could be in general use within five years, allowing much earlier treatment and improving the outlook for patients. An initial evaluation has shown that it may allow accurate detection of this cancer...

CE mark given Medicsight's image analysis reader for lung.(Report from Europe)
August 19, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Medicsight (London) said it has received the CE mark for the Medicsight Lung CAR (Computer Assisted Reader), an image analysis software tool that assists radiologists in evaluating lesions or...

Karl Storz Endoscopy launches lung cancer detection system.(D-Light Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy System )
August 19, 2004... Karl Storz Endoscopy-America (Culver City, California) is marking the official commercial launch of its D-Light Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy System for the early detection of lung cancer after initially offering it to interested customers...

BioVeris settles two lawsuits vs. MSD, MST and Wohlstadter.(Court report)
August 19, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report BioVeris (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported that it has settled its two lawsuits against Meso Scale Diagnostics (MSD), Meso Scale Technologies (MST) and Jacob Wohlstadter, entering into an agreement...

MedMira completes financing, raises C$3.2 from 4 investors.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia) a developer of rapid flow-through diagnostic technology, said it has completed a financing with four private investors in Ontario and Alberta, raising a total of C$3.2...

Diagnostic Hybrids.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Diagnostic Hybrids (DHI; Athens, Ohio), a leading cell culture provider, reported receiving a $10 million minority investment led by Summit Partners. Kenson Ventures also participated in the investment. With this funding, DHI said it plans to...

Immucor.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Immucor (Norcross, Georgia) reported that its chairman, Edward Gallup, has resumed selling Immucor shares under his trading plan. Gallup announced the plan on Oct. 17, 2003, but temporarily suspended it this past March. He will resume selling...

ChondroGene Ltd.(Article cites gene-profiling work)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... ChondroGene Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) said an article published in a recent supplement to the journal Circulation details the company's gene expression profiling methods as part of its focus on genetic markers for detecting, staging and...

AVI BioPharma signs accord for testing of bioterror agents.(Grants/contracts)
August 19, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report AVI BioPharma (Portland, Oregon), said it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; Ft....

Commonwealth Biotechnologies.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Commonwealth Biotechnologies (Richmond, Virginia) reported receiving new contracts for work in biodefence and clinical lab trial support Under a $1.2 million contract, the company will develop reagents that can be used for detection of select...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Concord, California) said that its Ontology Workflow Solutions are the basis of a three-year contract with Premier Purchasing Partners (San Diego, California), which begins Sept. 1 and ends Aug. 31, 2007.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Concord, California) said that its Ontology Workflow Solutions are the basis of a three-year contract with Premier Purchasing Partners (San Diego, California), which begins Sept. 1 and ends Aug. 31, 2007. The 200-plus...

Tempus Software (Jacksonville, Florida), a division QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia), said St. Tammany Parish Hospital (Covington, Louisiana).(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Tempus Software (Jacksonville, Florida), a division QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia), said St. Tammany Parish Hospital (Covington, Louisiana), a VHA (Irving, Texas) member hospital, has awarded the division a contract to implement its TempusOne...

GenData, Battelle collaborate on new biomarkers for COPD.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report GenData Research (Salt Lake City, Utah) entered into a collaboration with Battelle (Columbus, Ohio) to discover, develop and commercialize biomarkers for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in...

Applied Imaging forms new subsidiary.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California), a supplier of automated imaging systems used in genetics and pathology laboratories for the analysis of chromosomes in cancer and prenatal disorders, has formed a subsidiary, called Circulating Tumor...

Competitive Technologgies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported receiving $6.7 million for itself and its clients from a homocysteine assay patent infringement case against Laboratory Corporation of America Hol-dings (LabCorp, Burlington, North Carolina).(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported receiving $6.7 million for itself and its clients from a homocysteine assay patent infringement case against Laboratory Corporation of America Hol-dings (LabCorp, Burlington, North...

Prometheus Laboratories (San Diego, California) entered into a settlement agreement with Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California) in which Specialty has agreed not to use.(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Prometheus Laboratories (San Diego, California) entered into a settlement agreement with Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California) in which Specialty has agreed not to use, offer or sell its 6-MP Drug MonitR assay for use in connection...

HealthSouth.(Court report)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... U.S. District Court Judge Karon Bowdre has postponed the criminal fraud trial of Richard Scrushy, founder of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), from next week until Jan. 5, 2005. Bowdre did not give a reason for delaying the case, which...

Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) said it has received FDA approval for its second hepatitis B assay on the Advia Centaur Immunoassay System in eleven weeks. The fully automated Anti-HBc-IgM assay is used to aid in the...

CliniComp.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... CliniComp (San Diego, California) reported the introduction of the Essentris OnWatch system, a new set of early intervention tools that help clinicians monitor patients in real-time and receive automatic warnings when a patient's vital signs...

E-Z-EM.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York) introduced VoLumen, a low-density barium sulfate suspension for use as an oral contrast in multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT studies. The company said VoLumen is...

Grass-Telefactor (West Warwick, Rhode Island), a product group of Astro-Med, has begun marketing the SleepTrek ambulatory sleep screener.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Grass-Telefactor (West Warwick, Rhode Island), a product group of Astro-Med, has begun marketing the SleepTrek ambulatory sleep screener. The small, lightweight, nine-channel data recorder was engineered for use in the home to screen patients...

Hologic.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 19, 2004... Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) received FDA clearance for its SecurViewDX breast Imaging workstation. The SecurViewDx is a dedicated, multi-modality workstation for display and interpretation of any screening or diagnostic digital mammogram,...