Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from August 2008

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from August 2008

FDA clears Pathwork test that better identifies type of tumor.
August 7, 2008... A test developed by Pathwork Diagnostics (Sunnyvale, California) that can help healthcare professionals determine what specific type of cancer cells are present in a malignant tumor has been cleared by the FDA. The Pathwork Tissue of...

Group urges against prostate cancer screening in older men.(Watchful waiting preferable to intervention)
August 7, 2008... Sometimes a cure can have effects worse than the disease -and have faster, even deadlier, effect. A prominent case in point: Men 75 or older should not be screened for prostate cancer, according to the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force...

Bureaucracy, corruption are a problem for diag firms.
August 7, 2008... WASHINGTON--One of the sessions held at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington), had more the feel of the symposium of old, with considerable audience participation. The session,...

ThromboVision files for 510(k) okay of its T-Guide platelet test.
August 7, 2008... A device that uses light-scattering technology to determine platelet aggregation in cardiac patients is now heading out to make its way through the regulatory process. With its clinical trials of ThromboGuide (T-Guide) platelet aggregation...

Advisory committee members' interest capped out at $50K.(Washington roundup)
August 7, 2008... WASHINGTON -- The increased scrutiny of FDA advisory committees has the agency jumping to appease its many critics, and the agency held a conference call Monday to announce a set of guidelines to govern the appointment of advisory committee...

CMS proposes alternate quality test for labs.(Washington roundup)
August 7, 2008... Clinical lab operators are sometimes no more happy than those making medical devices about the regulatory burden imposed by FDA and CMS, although those burdens are substantially different. So when the director of the division of lab services at...

NHS provides 10 million [pounds sterling] to form 3 new biomedical research units.(International report)
August 7, 2008... The National Health Service in the UK has reported the formation of three new biomedical research units which it said will be at the forefront of a [pound]10 million drive to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as heart disease, asthma...

iCAD SecondLook now available in Europe.(International report)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions, reported that its SecondLook Digital CAD technology, customized for use with Sectra's (Link[o..]ping, Sweden) MicroDose Mammography system, is now available...

CAD use in Italian cancer screening effort.(International report)
August 7, 2008... About 26,000 residents within Italy's Piemonte region will be involved in its Proteus project, described as the first program in the world to use CAD to screen patients for colon cancer, part of the Italian province's cancer prevention efforts....

CompuMed gets Chinese okay for OsteoGram.(International report)
August 7, 2008... CompuMed (Los Angeles), a provider of diagnostic software solutions, said it has received approval from China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to market its OsteoGram system for screening, diagnosing and monitoring osteoporosis. ...

CleveX raises private $1.4 million; IDS secures data collection funds.(Financings roundup)
August 7, 2008... CleveX (Columbus, Ohio) reported that it has closed $1.4 million in equity financing that will help accelerate its growth in commercializing tools to assist in the excision of cancerous and non-cancerous skin lesions. The company said it...

Michelson Diagnostics.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Michelson Diagnostics (MDL, Kent, UK) received 600,000 [pounds sterling] ($1.18 million) in a new funding round for its Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems for cancer diagnosis. The capital injection forms part of a new funding round...

CardioNet.(Financings roundup)
August 7, 2008... A group of CardioNet (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) investors will sell 5 million shares of CardioNet stock for $26.50 a share, the company said Friday. CardioNet will not receive any proceeds from the sale, which is expected to close Wednesday....

ProUroCare, Artann Laboratories in prostate imaging agreements.(Deals roundup)
August 7, 2008... ProUroCare (Minneapolis) reported entering into two agreements with Artann Laboratories (Trenton, New Jersey) to complete development, conduct clinical trials and file for FDA clearance on the company's ProUroScan prostate imaging system. ...

Bioheart (Sunrise, Florida) reported that it has agreed to acquire Medicalgorithmics (Warsaw, Poland) and the rights to that company's PokcetECG, a real-time wireless beat-to-beat, heart monitor system for long-term, fully-automated ECG arrhythmia analysis.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Bioheart (Sunrise, Florida) reported that it has agreed to acquire Medicalgorithmics (Warsaw, Poland) and the rights to that company's PokcetECG, a real-time wireless beat-to-beat, heart monitor system for long-term, fully-automated ECG...

Veridex (Raritan, New Jersey), a business of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey) developing in vitro diagnostic oncology product.(Deals roundup)
August 7, 2008... Veridex (Raritan, New Jersey), a business of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey) developing in vitro diagnostic oncology product, reported closing its previously disclosed acquisition of the assets of Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley,...

VWR International (West Chester, Pennsylvania), a laboratory supply company, reported acquiring Spektrum-3D Kft (Debrecen, Hungary).(Deals roundup)
August 7, 2008... VWR International (West Chester, Pennsylvania), a laboratory supply company, reported acquiring Spektrum-3D Kft (Debrecen, Hungary), a private scientific laboratory supply distributor. Spektrum-3D distributes laboratory chemicals,...

Alliance Imaging.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Alliance Imaging (Newport Beach, California), a national provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services and radiation therapy services, reported that it has acquired Medical Outsourcing Services (MOS; Naperville, Illinois), a mobile...

SonoSite and GE settle first of 2 handheld ultrasound lawsuits.(Court report)
August 7, 2008... SonoSite (Bothell Washington), a developer of hand-carried ultrasound, on Friday reported the resolution of a lawsuit filed against the company last year by General Electric (GE; Fairfield, Connecticut) in federal district court in Madison,...

Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems gets new U.S. Exer-Rest patent.(Patent watch)
August 7, 2008... Steven Mrha, COO for Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems (NIMS; North Bay Village, Florida), reported that the U.S. Patent Office has issued it Patent NO. 7,111,346, titled, "Reciprocating movement platform for the external addition of pulses of...

ExAblate trial under way in U.S.(International report)
August 7, 2008... InSightec (Tirat Carmel, Israel) reported that the first U.S. patient has been treated in the company's pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the non-invasive, radiation-free ExAblate magnetic resonance-guided focused...

CDX Holdings.(People in Places)
August 7, 2008... CDX Holdings (Irving, Texas) said that George Poste, DVM, PhD, was named non-executive vice chairman and chief scientific advisor of CDX Holdings and non-executive chairman of CMDx. Poste has been a director of Caris Dx, and now CDX Holdings,...

DiagnoCure (Quebec) said that four colorectal cancer opinion leaders have agreed to serve on the advisory board of its subsidiary DiagnoCure Oncology Laboratories.(People in Places)
August 7, 2008... DiagnoCure (Quebec) said that four colorectal cancer opinion leaders have agreed to serve on the advisory board of its subsidiary DiagnoCure Oncology Laboratories. The new advisory board members are Edith Mitchell, MD, clinical professor of...

DxS.(People in Places)
August 7, 2008... DxS (Manchester, UK) reported the appointment of Ron Long as non-executive director. Long holds board positions including Medivir AB, and Procognia Israel Ltd. DxS is a molecular diagnostics company specializing in cancer treatment.

IRIS International.(People in Places)
August 7, 2008... IRIS International (Chatsworth, California) said that Edward Voboril has been elected to the company's board, expanding the board to eight members. Voboril is currently chairman of the board of Analogic. Voboril retired this year as chairman of...

Vermillion exploring alternatives.(Med-tech news and notes)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Vermillion (Fremont, California) reported hiring ThinkPanmure, an investment bank, to assist in identifying and evaluating alternatives intended to enhance the potential of the company's proteomic tests (OVA1 and VASCLIR) and pipeline of...

Abbott Laboratories.(Product Briefs)
August 7, 2008... A new diagnostic marker, called urine NGAL, for early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients can distinguish AKI from other forms of kidney dysfunction and save lives by preventing kidney failure, according to research...

Atherotech.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama) said that its VAP cholesterol test is now included in Biophysical Corporation's newly released health assessment, BiophysicalCheck. This means that the VAP test, with its ability to identify far more areas of...

Cepheid.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) has introduced its GeneXpert Infinity-48 high-throughput system, as an addition to its GeneXpert family of molecular diagnostic testing systems. Cepheid says the GeneXpert system is a self-contained, integrated...

Dormio Tech.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Dormio Tech (Chatsworth, California), a division of CHAD Therapeutics, said that it received FDA clearance to market the company's FloChannel diagnostic system, Dormio's first product for the large and rapidly growing sleep disorder market....

ImaCor.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... ImaCor (Uniondale, New York) reported receiving FDA clearance for its ClariTEE probe and Zura imaging system. The ClariTEE probe is a miniaturized transesophageal echocardiography probe which facilitates episodic monitoring of cardiac function....

Nonin Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 7, 2008... Nonin Medical (Minneapolis) has entered the clinical testing phase with its technology to measure regional oxygen saturation. The most common application for this technology is the continuous monitoring of the regional blood oxygenation in the...

Thermo Fisher Scientific.(Product Briefs)
August 7, 2008... Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) showcased a range of solutions for clinical applications at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's 2008 Annual Meeting. Among the technologies, products and capabilities featured to...

HDC entering gene-based diag with new prostate cancer test.(Clinical report)
August 14, 2008... A new player has entered the molecular diagnostics field, a field that has been seeing, as of late, strong developmental activity and regulatory okay. Following on the heels of other companies, Health Discovery Corporation (HDC; Savannah,...

UCLA research team develops saliva test for oral cancer.
August 14, 2008... Most of the substances found in blood can also be detected and analyzed from saliva. But biomarkers in saliva are at much lower concentrations, challenging researchers to develop more sensitive biosensors for a variety of diagnostics. Who...

Grassley bill proposes disclosing ties for 'pod lab' imaging work.(Washington roundup)
August 14, 2008... The sharp rise in the amount of imaging services done under Medicare Part B has not gone unnoticed in the last days of the 110th Congress, and in an attempt to take the edge off that growth clip, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Nebraska) has proposed a...

Rosetta study focuses on CUP cancer cases at M.D. Anderson.
August 14, 2008... When treating cancer patients, doctors usually find it helpful to know where the cancer began. That's one reason Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) wants to validate its microRNA-based test designed to identify the primary site of cancer of...

Royal Philips launches hand-held ultrasound for cardiologists.
August 14, 2008... If you can't get the patient scheduled promptly for imaging tests, bring the tests to the bedside. That's the story behind the launch of a hand-held ultrasound system from Royal Philips Electronics (Andover, Massachusetts), the Philips...

Lab21 offers predisposition tests from deCODE genetics.(International report)
August 14, 2008... Lab21 (Cambridge, UK) said it has entered into a partnership with deCODE genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) to offer deCODE's tests for predisposition to a growing number of common diseases. The license allows Lab21 to offer its clients in the...

Tenet Healthcare to move corporate headquarters.(Med-tech news and notes)
August 14, 2008... Tenet Healthcare (Dallas) said it will move its corporate headquarters from North Dallas to Fountain Place at 1445 Ross Avenue. Most of the corporate functions currently performed at Tenet's existing headquarters at 13737 Noel Rd.,...

Viaspace awarded pact for robotic chemicals detection.(Agreements/contracts)
August 14, 2008... Viaspace (Pasadena, California), subsidiary Ionfinity has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II contract for its proposal titled "Advanced Robotic Detection of Chemical Agents, Toxic Industrial Gases, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)s for...

InforMedix Holdings (Rockville, Maryland) reported an alliance with Audiopoint (also Rockville).(Agreements/contracts)
August 14, 2008... InforMedix Holdings (Rockville, Maryland) reported an alliance with Audiopoint (also Rockville), to provide voice-enabled communications, automatic speech recognition, and medication compliance and persistence information services in real-time...

ProUroCare, closing on $175,000 in new funds, brings total to $2m.(Financings roundup)
August 14, 2008... ProUroCare Medical (Minneapolis) reported closing a private placement of $175,000 of units consisting of unsecured, subordinated, convertible promissory notes and common stock purchase warrants. The proceeds will be used to pay certain...

Immucor closes $117m BioArray buy; Bederra unit enters two j-vs.(Deals roundup)
August 14, 2008... Immucor, (Norcross, Georgia) a developer of automated instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, said it has closed its previously reported $117 million acquisition of BioArray Solutions (Warren, New Jersey), maker of the...

Covidien (Mansfield, Massachusetts) reported the acquisition of technology assets from CardioDigital (Portland, Oregon), a company that develops advanced signal processing techniques for patient monitoring.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
August 14, 2008... Covidien (Mansfield, Massachusetts) reported the acquisition of technology assets from CardioDigital (Portland, Oregon), a company that develops advanced signal processing techniques for patient monitoring. The technology will be used by...

NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi; San Jose, California) reported the acquisition of Dome Imaging Systems, the medical business unit of Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon).(Deals roundup)
August 14, 2008... NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi; San Jose, California) reported the acquisition of Dome Imaging Systems, the medical business unit of Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon). Dome makes medical display products for diagnostic imaging and patient care...

Gene Express (Wilmington, North Carolina) reported that it has signed three definitive agreements with NeoGenomics Laboratories (Fort Myers, Florida) to license the SEM Center and StaRT-PCR (Standardized Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) Technology.(Deals roundup)
August 14, 2008... Gene Express (Wilmington, North Carolina) reported that it has signed three definitive agreements with NeoGenomics Laboratories (Fort Myers, Florida) to license the SEM Center and StaRT-PCR (Standardized Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain...

Solis Women's Health.(People in Places)
August 14, 2008... Stefanie Cavanaugh was named CFO of Solis Women's Health (Austin, Texas). Prior to joining Solis, Cavanaugh was corporate controller for Reable Therapeutics. Solis Women's Health is a healthcare provider focused exclusively on the screening and...

SonoSite.(People in Places)
August 14, 2008... James Branman has been named VP, U.S. sales, at SonoSite (Bothell, Washington), as well as a member of the company's executive committee. Branman has held sales management positions at SonoSite since 2001, most recently as director of U.S....

ThermoGenesis.(People in Places)
August 14, 2008... Tiffany Olson has been named to the board of ThermoGenesis (Rancho Cordova, California). Olson previously was president/CEO of Roche Diagnostics, North America. ThermoGenesis makes products for processing and storing adult stem cells.

Vital Images.(People in Places)
August 14, 2008... Vikram Simha has been named chief technology officer and executive VP of engineering for Vital Images (Minneapolis). Simha most recently was chief technology officer and senior VP of 3D engineering. Vital Images is a provider of advanced...

Quest and UC Boulder awarded $1 million for endoscope R&D.(Grants)
August 14, 2008... Quest Product Development (QPD; Wheat Ridge, Colorado), with partner University of Colorado (Boulder), has been awarded a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the National Institutes of Health to continue the development of a...

Dilon Technologies (Newport News, Virginia) reported the introduction of the Dilon 6800 Access, a transportable version of the Dilon 6800 gamma camera designed to meet the needs of customers that want to move the camera between medical centers.(Product Briefs)
August 14, 2008... Dilon Technologies (Newport News, Virginia) reported the introduction of the Dilon 6800 Access, a transportable version of the Dilon 6800 gamma camera designed to meet the needs of customers that want to move the camera between medical centers....

Exact Sciences (Marlborough, Massachusetts) reported publication of a study in which stool and blood plasma were assessed in a head-to-head comparison for the detection of colorectal cancer (CRC).(Product Briefs)
August 14, 2008... Exact Sciences (Marlborough, Massachusetts) reported publication of a study in which stool and blood plasma were assessed in a head-to-head comparison for the detection of colorectal cancer (CRC). Using an improved BEAMing DNA detection...

GE Healthcare.(Product Briefs)
August 14, 2008... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported release of a new pre-clinical computed tomography (CT) scanner designed to accelerate research for cardiovascular disease and drug development. The GE eXplore CT 120 scanner uses X-ray-source...

HemCon Medical Technologies.(Product Briefs)
August 14, 2008... HemCon Medical Technologies (Portland, Oregon) reported new antibacterial indications approved by the FDA, including a barrier against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), for its HemCon bandages, ChitoFlex dressings and KytoStat...

ICON.(Product Briefs)
August 14, 2008... ICON (Dublin, Ireland) said that its medical imaging division has become the first commercial imaging core laboratory to offer quantitative coronary angiographic (QCA) analysis with an integrated electronic case report form. This new service...

Inverness Medical Innovations.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 14, 2008... Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) said that it has received licensure from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make the BinaxNOW Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit. The BinaxNOW AI Antigen Test is an...

Nova.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 14, 2008... Nova (Waltham, Massachusetts) is offering a soft-ware enhancement for its StatStrip Glucose and StatSensor Creatinine point-of-care monitoring systems that allow off-line entry of POC test results for immediate data capture. With the enhanced...

More progress is seen in fight vs. cancer: Cangen, Dai Nippon developing test for early lung disease.
August 21, 2008... Early stage lung cancer often is caught by accident via an imaging test for another problem. Screening for lung cancer, typically via chest X-rays or sputum tests, has been unreliable and isn't recommended even for high-risk patients. ...

More progress is seen in fight vs. cancer: MVV tests effectiveness of multiple treatments on tumors.
August 21, 2008... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer A new assay will give clinicians their first practical laboratory test to guide the use of new-generation drugs that can kill cancer cells by simply cutting off their blood supply, according to an article...

Power3 banners nearing first definitive Alzheimer's test.(Based on clinical control group ...)
August 21, 2008... Medical research is essentially a merry-go-round, the riders constantly reaching for the difficult-to-grasp brass rings (or in this case, gold). Such as developing devices for understanding the activity in a cell, or for hearing the off-beat...

FiatLux combines lush gaming visuals with CT, MRI scans.
August 21, 2008... Take the sleek visual prowess of any PC or next-generation console game, then combine it with CT and MRI scans and you have FiatLux Imaging's (Washington) latest software brainchild the FiatLux Visualize. The company received FDA 510(k)...

Nanogen to join forces with French diagnostics firm.(Deals roundup)
August 21, 2008... In an effort to accelerate its profitability, Nanogen (San Diego), a developer of molecular and rapid in vitro diagnostic products, has agreed to combine its business with the Elitech Group (Paris), a private French diagnostics company, in an...

Success brings Covidien to launch venture capital effort.(New ventures)
August 21, 2008... Just a year removed from its amicable split-off from Tyco International (Pembroke, Bermuda), Covidien (Mansfield, Massachusetts) finds itself in a rather unique situation. On one hand, the company is enjoying more freedom to grow the business,...

HDC creates firm to make breast cancer tests.(New ventures)
August 21, 2008... Health Discovery Corp. (HDC; Savannah, Georgia) reported that Dr. Richard Caruso will change his role with the company from member of the board of directors to senior advisor in order to activate a new independent company called Smart...

Qiagen introduces new test for HLA drug companion use.(International report)
August 21, 2008... Dutch diagnostics firm Qiagen (Venlo, the Netherlands) has introduced a new molecular diagnostic test to type the HLA-B*5701 allele, a genetic variation in the Human Leucocyte Antigen system. The company said that HIV patients carrying the...

Bruker buying surface imaging firm.(International report)
August 21, 2008... Bruker AXS (Karlsruhe, Germany) reported that it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the equity of Surface Imaging Systems (S.I.S.; Herzogenrath, Germany), a company with annual revenues of about $3 million. The transaction is expected to...

Demand of cardio imaging equipment grows.(International report)
August 21, 2008... Cardiovascular monitoring systems are increasingly in demand in Europe, according to global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan (F&S; London). The need for sophisticated, but user-friendly equipment at affordable rates will offer market...

CMS says PGP pilot groups earned $16.7m in incentives.(Washington roundup)
August 21, 2008... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that all physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration improved the quality of care delivered to patients with congestive heart failure, coronary...

CMS may stop paying for chiropractor X-rays.(Washington roundup)
August 21, 2008... CMS is proposing to eliminate reimbursements to patients for X-rays taken by an MD or doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO), and used by a chiropractor to determine a subluxation. The American Chiropractic Association (ACA; Arlington,...

Pediatric CT vendor summit set.(Washington roundup)
August 21, 2008... The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging (ARSPI; Reston, Virginia) will host a pediatric CT vendor summit to discuss product development to standardize radiation dose estimation settings and display language for pediatric CT...

MDR to pioneer use of Positron Emission Mammography in NY.(Agreements/contracts)
August 21, 2008... Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology (MDR; New York) reported that it will be the first imaging facility in Manhattan to offer Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) in the fight against breast cancer. This installation will provide Manhattan Diagnostic...

InterGenetics reports new distribution of OncoVue.(Med-tech news and notes)(Brief article)
August 21, 2008... InterGenetics (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) reported the addition of 14 new clinical sites in nine new states for the distribution of OncoVue, the first broadly applicable genetics-based breast cancer risk test. OncoVue uses both gene-based...

Health Discovery wins patent to use SVM in image analysis.(Patent watch)
August 21, 2008... Health Discovery (Savannah) said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent No. 7,383,237 on its claims covering the use of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in computer-aided image analysis for analysis of digitized microscopic...

SpectraScience.(Patent watch)(Brief article)
August 21, 2008... SpectraScience (San Diego) said it has been awarded a patent for correcting image misalignment between at least two images in a sequence of images due at least in part to tissue sample movement. U.S. patent No. 7,406,215 is titled "Methods...

Aspyra.(People in Places)
August 21, 2008... Mike Pusateri has been named regional sales manager for the Western U.S. region for Aspyra (Calabasas, California). Pusateri has held positions in companies such as Agfa Healthcare and Stryker Endoscopy, and was founder/CEO of Empire Group....

Helicos BioSciences.(People in Places)
August 21, 2008... Steve Lombardi was named CEO of Helicos BioSciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Lombardi joined Helicos in June 2006 as senior VP of sales and marketing. Helicos BioSciences is focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies for the...

NewCardio.(People in Places)
August 21, 2008... Vincent Renz was named president of NewCardio (Santa Clara, California). He previously was COO of ClinPhone. NewCardio is a cardiac diagnostic and services company.

University Hospitals receives $22.6m donation from patrons.(Grants roundup)
August 21, 2008... University Hospitals (Cleveland) reported it has received one of the largest financial gifts in its 143-year history--a $22.6 million donation from well-known Northeast Ohio philanthropists, the Harrington and McLaughlin families. The donation,...

BioImagene closes on $26m; ABM receives $750,000 in shares.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
August 21, 2008... BioImagene (Cupertino, California), a provider of digital pathology solutions for cancer diagnosis and preclinical research, reported the closing of a $26 million Series D financing round led by Burrill & Co. Ascension Health Ventures,...

Conmed Linvatec.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 21, 2008... Conmed Linvatec's (Utica, New York) arthroscopy unit received FDA clearance for marketing of the Bio Mini-Revo suture anchor for use in the repair of the labrum in the hip joint. The hip labrum is a form of cartilage that lines the rim of the...

Duramed Pharmaceuticals.(Product Briefs)
August 21, 2008... Duramed Pharmaceuticals (Pomona, New York) said that its AmniScreen product is the first and only FDA-approved at-home screening test for amniotic fluid leakage during pregnancy, a condition that may lead to serious complications such as...

Invitrogen.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
August 21, 2008... Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California) reported the launch of Dynabeads MAX Legionella, which enables a process for targeting and concentrating legionella from environmental water samples. The Dynabeads MAX Legionella provides a rapid and highly...