Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from December 2003

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from December 2003

Earlier, faster, more accurate detection are major themes.(Radiological Society of North America annual meeting)
December 4, 2003... Finding disease earlier, more accurately and with the latest in imaging technologies was the theme of a variety of early presentations at this year's 89th scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America...

Health Protection Agency bill published in United Kingdom.(Report from Europe)
December 4, 2003... A bill to establish the Health Protection Agency (HPA) as a non-departmental public body in the UK was published last Friday. The bill will create a new non-departmental public body that will be a source of advice and support in health...

IBM Life Sciences expands into 'information-based' medicine.(Radiological Society of North America annual meeting)
December 4, 2003... Last year marked the debut appearance for IBM Life Sciences (Somers, New York) at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA; Oak Brook, Illinois), taking place once again this week in the sprawling McCormick Place...

Cancer and genetic testing continue their rapid growth.(San Diego Conference, 2nd of 4 stories)
December 4, 2003... BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Although infectious disease testing will continue to be the dominant component of the molecular diagnostics market for at least the next decade, the cancer and genetic testing segments are expanding rapidly and are...

iCAD, CADx Systems to merge; Sterion buys SOS International.(Deals roundup)
December 4, 2003... iCAD Systems (Nashua, New Hampshire) reported that it will merge with CADx Systems (Beavercreek, Ohio) and CADx' parent company, Qualia Computing. The company are now working on a joint and coordinated basis, and the merger is expected to be...

Eastman Kodak.(Deals Roundup)(mergers and acquisitions)
December 4, 2003... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) reported the completion of its purchase of Algotec Systems (Raanana, Israel), a developer of advanced picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), for $42.5 million in cash (Diagnostics & Imaging...

iCAD placement will net $5.9M; MDI closes on $4 million bridge.(Financings roundup)(ICAD Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), which makes computer-aided detection (CAD) imaging technology and systems for the early detection of breast cancer, said it has entered into a definitive agreement for a private placement of 1.26 million units of...

Molecular Diagnostics.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... Molecular Diagnostics (MDI; Chicago, Illinois) said it has closed on its $4 million secured Bridge II financing. This allows the company to complete any of the numerous private equity investment transactions it has been negotiating. ...

Breakaway Imaging.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Breakaway Imaging (Littleton, Massachusetts), a developer of medical imaging systems for surgery, has completed its second round of financing. A convertible note offering was recently closed in the amount of $3 million. Participation in this...

SpectRx.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said it received a planned $1 million from Respironics (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) as part of the sale of its BiliChek Non-invasive Bilirubin Analyzer product line. The payment completes the base compensation...

GE Medical gets contract for mammography systems.(Grants/contracts)
December 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report GE Medical Systems (Waukesha, Wisconsin) was awarded a contract to install and service 80 new mammography systems by the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social, a healthcare agency of the Mexican...

Fischer imaging.(Grants/contracts)
December 4, 2003... * Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado), which makes medical imaging systems for the diagnosis of disease, said that it has received a fast-track Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI; Bethesda,...

Exhibit floor, meeting rooms are awash with product data.(RSNA notebook)
December 4, 2003... Manufacturers involved in the imaging sector are using the gigantic exhibit floor of the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA, Oak Brook, Illinois) annual gathering at Chicago's McCormick Place convention center as a focal point for...

R2 Technology.(RSNA notebook)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) said the impact of the computer-aided detection (CAD) on the evaluation of chest CT exams is the focus of seven research papers being presented during RSNA. The developer of what it calls the only...

CTI Molecular Imaging.(RSNA notebook)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * CTI Molecular Imaging (Knoxville, Tennessee), a leading provider of position emission tomography (PET) equipment, molecular probes and services, reported the introduction of a new-generation PET/CT scanner with three times higher spatial...

Beckman Coulter in settlement for $23 million from Flextronics.(Court report)
December 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Contract manufacturer Flextronics International (San Diego, California/Singapore) has reached a settlement agreement with Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) in which it will pay the laboratory...

OraSure opened Nasdaq Monday.(Briefly Noted)(OraSure Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), which focuses on oral fluid diagnostics, reported that in recognition of World AIDS Day, the company opened the Nasdaq Stock Market on Monday. OraSure President and Chief Executive Officer Mike...

SenoRx gets CMS reimbursement for devices.(Briefly Noted)(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... SenoRx (Irvine, California), a breast cancer interventional medical device company, said that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Baltimore, Maryland) have created a transitional device pass-through reimbursement code for the...

Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said that its Orchid Cellmark unit was awarded two contracts from the FBI to develop specific aspects of the company's SNP technology for additional forensic DNA testing applications.(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said that its Orchid Cellmark unit was awarded two contracts from the FBI to develop specific aspects of the company's SNP technology for additional forensic DNA testing applications. The goal of the...

CPS Innovations (Knoxville, Tennessee), a unit of CTI Molecular Imaging, reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the company an apparatus patent in connection with the development of the PET/CT scanner.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * CPS Innovations (Knoxville, Tennessee), a unit of CTI Molecular Imaging, reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the company an apparatus patent in connection with the development of the PET/CT scanner. This patent...

Diagnostic Products.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Diagnostic Products (Los Angeles, California) said it has been granted FDA clearance to market Immulite 2000 Third Generation Allergen-Specific IgE assay. The assay includes such characteristics as a 0.1 kU/L detection limit, which is 3.5...

Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado) and R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) said that clearance has been granted by the FDA for the use of R2's mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) technology with Fisher's SenoScan digital mammography system.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado) and R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) said that clearance has been granted by the FDA for the use of R2's mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) technology with Fisher's SenoScan digital mammography...

Oak Ridge Micro-Energy.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Oak Ridge Micro-Energy (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) said it is developing a thin film rechargeable lithium microbattery for implantable devices that will enable physicians to assess and treat a variety of conditions in a noninvasive manner. The...

RAE Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * RAE Systems (Sunnyvale, California) reported the launch of the ToxiRAE II, a single-gas personal monitor that provides continous readabouts of toxic gas concentrations. The ToxiRAE II has a large, easy-to-read LCD screen that provides a...

Schering AG.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Schering AG (Berlin, Germany) reported EU approval for its contrast agent Cadovist 1.0 for use in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). The new indication was approved in the variation procedure with Germany as reference member state, and was...

Advanced Optics Electronics (Albuquerque, New Mexico) has named Daniel Pierpont to the position of senior financial analyst.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Advanced Optics Electronics (Albuquerque, New Mexico) has named Daniel Pierpont to the position of senior financial analyst. Advanced Optics Electronics makes large-scale flat panel displays. In addition to its core business, the company has...

McKesson Information Solutions.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * Greg Arnsdorff has joined the medical imaging business of McKensson Information Solutions (Alpharetta, Georgia) as vice president of deputy general manager. He will relocate to Vancouver, British Columbia. Arnsdorff's experience in...

ResMed.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2003... * ResMed (San Diego, California) reported that Christopher Roberts, PhD, executive vice president, would leave the company on Dec. 31 to become chief executive officer of Cochlear, effective Feb. 1. Roberts will remain a non-executive member of...

Gathering offers pure research, forecast of latest uses for MRI.(Radiological Society of North America)
December 11, 2003... While a plethora of companies busy marketing their newest and best across the huge McCormick Place convention center exhibit space during last week's annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA; Oak Brook, Illinois), quite...

Cogtest releases new Windows version of neurocognitive tests.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Cogtest plc (London), a developer of tools for use in clinical trials to assess brain function, last week reported the release of a new, automated battery of neurocognitive assessments instruments that are able to run in a Windows 2000...

Studies highlight differences in Digene, Cytyc test approaches.(Radiological Society of North America)(Digene Corp.)(Cytyc Corp.)(HPV DNA test )
December 11, 2003... Two studies highlighting the continuing investigation of how best to detect cervical cancer also underline the difference between how two companies, Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) and Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts), are pursuing detection....

New detection technologies bring expanded applications.(San Diego Conference, 3rd of 4 stories)
December 11, 2003... BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Among the new technologies described at the annual San Diego Conference, organized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington) and held here in late October, were advanced molecular detection...

Caliper reports reorganization, phase two workforce reduction.(Caliper Technologies Corp.)
December 11, 2003... Microfluidics and labchip specialist Caliper Technologies (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) on Friday reported the second phase of a planned workplace reduction, along with the reorganization of its senior management team. The company said in a...

Lawsuit forces HealthSouth to remove 5 directors, reorganize.(Court report)
December 11, 2003... Under pressure from a lawsuit by the teachers pension system in Louisiana, a major shareholder in HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), the healthcare services conglomerate will replace five directors who served while company executives engaged in...

Tower Imaging Medical Group (Beverly Hills, California) has terminated its relationship with RadNet Management (Los Angeles, California) and its affiliates.(Court report)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Tower Imaging Medical Group (Beverly Hills, California) has terminated its relationship with RadNet Management (Los Angeles, California) and its affiliates. Tower Imaging physicians will no longer be providing diagnostic imaging at any of the...

World Diagnostics ceases corporate status.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... World Diagnostics (WDI; Miami, Florida) has ceased corporate status in connection with the termination of its business and its insolvency. On March 31, pursuant to demand notices provided to WDI, the senior secured creditor liquidated the...

Report: Neothermia's en-bloc reduces unneeded biopsies.(RSNA notebook)(NeoThermia Corp.)(breast cancer diagnostic equipment)
December 11, 2003... Neothermia (Natick, Massachusetts), a developer of minimally invasive systems for the diagnosis of cancer, reported on the first clinical presentation of data for its en-bloc breast biopsy system made at the 89th annual meeting of the...

Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) unit of Royal Philips Electronics, introduced several new digital imaging technologies, including Brilliance, its new family of computed tomography (CT) scanners and the industry's first 40-slice CT scanner.(RSNA notebook)
December 11, 2003... Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) unit of Royal Philips Electronics, introduced several new digital imaging technologies, including Brilliance, its new family of computed tomography (CT) scanners and the industry's first 40-slice...

Tm Bioscience gets C$7.3m from Technology Partnerships Canada.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Tm Bioscience (Toronto, Ontario) said its C$25 million research and development projects to develop several genetic tests will be supported by a C$7.3 million investment from Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC), a special operating agency of...

Confirma.(Financings roundup)(Confirma Technology Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Confirma (Kirkland, Washington), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) for medical imaging, reported completing a private placement of $3 million in venture capital financing, led by its current investors, including Versant Ventures,...

Nanosphere (Northbrook, Illinois), in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), has developed a new detection method employing gold particles of between four and 100 nanometers as labels for nucleic acid assays.(San Diego Conference, 3rd of 4 stories)(Nanosphere Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Nanosphere (Northbrook, Illinois), in collaboration with researchers at the Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), has developed a new detection method employing gold particles of between four and 100 nanometers as labels for nucleic...

OraSure Technologies.(San Diego Conference, 3rd of 4 stories)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is developing a new, high-sensitivity detection method, the UpLink System, which uses up-converting phosphor particles (UPT particles) as labels in nucleic acid tests and immunoassays. The UpLink...

Ribomed.(San Diego Conference, 3rd of 4 stories)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Ribomed (Phoenix, Arizona) has developed a new method for nucleic acid detection employing a process known as abortive transcription, or abscription. The method relies on the generation of short oligomers (two to 12 bases in length) that are...

BioArray Solutions.(San Diego Conference, 3rd of 4 stories)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * BioArray Solutions (Warren, New Jersey), has developed a rapid assay format for quantitative multiplexed gene expression monitoring (mGEM) that uses the Random Encoded Array Detection (READ) assay platform. The READ platform combines bead...

Distribution deal for IDS.(Report from Europe)(Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDS; Fort Lauderdale, Florida), has signed a distribution agreement with Biomedical International (Rome, Italy) to sell its CT Laser Breast Imaging System (CTLM) in Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Russia, Hungary,...

SenoRx gets CMS device reimbursement.(Briefly Noted)(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)(SenoRx Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... SenoRx (Irvine, California), a breast cancer interventional medical device company, said that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore, Maryland) have created a transitional device pass-through reimbursement code for the...

Roche diagnostic products CE-marked.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany), reported the receipt of CE mark certifications for all of its in vitro diagnostics (IVD) products currently marketed in the European Union. The tests are all products of research from Roche Molecular...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(RSNA notebook)(enhanced magnetic resonance system)
December 11, 2003... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania/ Erlangen, Germany) introduced the Magnetom Avanto, its newest high-end 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) system based on total imaging matrix technology (TIM). TIM is a seamless, whole body...

SonoSite.(RSNA notebook)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * SonoSite (Bothell, Washington) highlighted enhancements to the Titan, its next-generation ultrasound system. Introduced earlier this year, the Titan system is a high-resolution, compact ultrasound system that addresses a range of clinical...

Objective Data Storage of (ODS; Columbia, Maryland), a developer of healthcare image storage systems, featured its new MediDisc Image Recording System.(RSNA notebook)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Objective Data Storage of (ODS; Columbia, Maryland), a developer of healthcare image storage systems, featured its new MediDisc Image Recording System. The MediDisc System, which begins shipping this month, is a solution for receiving,...

Premier to include Biotronik products in CRM portfolio.(Grants/contracts)(Premier Purchasing Partners)(cardiac rhythm management)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... Biotronik (Lake Oswego, Oregon) said that Premier Purchasing Partners (Chicago, Illinois), a U.S. healthcare alliance, has accepted inclusion of Biotronik's home monitoring products in its cardiac rhythm management (CRM) portfolio. The...

Shared P.E.T. (Canton, Ohio), which calls itself "the highest-volume mobile positron emission tomography (PET) company in the U.S.," demonstrated Firetide's (Honolulu, Hawaii) Wireless Instant Networking.(RSNA notebook)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Shared P.E.T. (Canton, Ohio), which calls itself "the highest-volume mobile positron emission tomography (PET) company in the U.S.," demonstrated Firetide's (Honolulu, Hawaii) Wireless Instant Networking. Firetide's Hot Point Wireless Mesh...

EP MedSystems.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Kristine Fuimaono has joined EP MedSystems (West Berlin, New Jersey) as director of marketing. She most recently held the position of global marketing director at Biosense Webster. EP MedSystems develops cardiac electrophysiology products...

International Remote Imaging Systems.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS: Chatsworth California), reported that John Caloz, corporate vice president and chief financial officer, has left the company. IRIS manufactures automated in vitro diagnostics urinalysis systems and...

Masimo.(People in Places)(Masimo Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Masimo (Irvine, California), a leader of motion- and low perfusion-tolerant pulse oximetry, reported three new officers. Yoshi Tsutsumi a close advisor and board member of Masimo Japan, has been appointed president of Asia/Pacific. Olivier...

Medtox Diagnotics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Dr. Robert Bohannon has joined Medtox Diagnotics (Burlington, North Carolina) as vice president of technology, research and development. Bohannon has been issued a number of patents in the fields of immunology, molecular biology, epidemiology...

VivoMetrics.(People in Places)(Vivometrics Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Alex Derchak, PhD, has joined VivoMetrics (Ventura, California) as director of clinical research. Derchak previously was a senior scientific communications associate in the global scientific information and communications at Eli Lilly....

Abbott Laboratories' (Abbott Park, Illinois) MediSense Products (Bedford, Massachusetts) unit reported the worldwide launch of the Precision PCx 2.2.1 system, an enhanced version of its hand-held, point-of-care blood glucose testing system.(Product Briefs)(medical diagnostic software)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Abbott Laboratories' (Abbott Park, Illinois) MediSense Products (Bedford, Massachusetts) unit reported the worldwide launch of the Precision PCx 2.2.1 system, an enhanced version of its hand-held, point-of-care blood glucose testing system....

Cygnus.(Product Briefs)(Cygnus Inc. improves glucose monitoring device)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Cygnus (Redwood City, California) reported that the FDA has approved its premarket approval supplement for the company's third-generation GlucoWatch Biographer, a glucose monitoring device. The FDA approved modifications to the...

Digene.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported that its hc2 High-Risk HPV DNA Test, hc2 CT/GC Test, hc2 Gonorrhea (GC-ID) Test and hc2 Chlamydia (CT-ID) Test have been CE-marked in the European Union under the In Vitro Diagnostics Directive. The...

Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said that the results of a Phase II MS-325 clinical trial have been published in the December issue of Radiology.(Product Briefs)(vascular imaging contrast agent)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said that the results of a Phase II MS-325 clinical trial have been published in the December issue of Radiology. MS-325, a contrast agent designed specifically for vascular imaging with magnetic...

Ivax Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(automated testing equipment)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Ivax Diagnostics (Miami, Florida) said it presented its new Parsec instrument system at the 2003 MEDICA Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany, last month. The new automated system is designed in a modular format, making it scalable to fit the...

RAE Systems.(Product Briefs)(personal gas detector)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * RAE Systems (Sunnyvale, California) reported the launch of the ToxiRAE II, a single-gas personal monitor that provides continuous readouts of toxic gas concentrations. The ToxiRAE II has an easy-to-read LCD screen that provides a...

TheraSense.(Product Briefs)(TheraSense Inc. improves glucose monitors)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * TheraSense (Alameda, California) has submitted a premarket approval application with the FDA for its FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitor. The filing follows recently presented clinical data on the Navigator that included results of...

Xilas Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
December 11, 2003... * Xilas Medical (San Antonio, Texas) reported that its Vibration Perception Threshold (VPT) Meter has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA. The Xilas VPT Meter is a noninvasive clinical assessment instrument that is fast and easy to use,...

Abbott Labs plans i-STAT buy; Beckman acquires Q3DM assets.(Deals roundup)
December 18, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Senior Staff Writer Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) said this week it would buy i-STAT (East Windsor, New Jersey), a manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic systems for blood analysis. Abbott and...

Colonoscopy technology battle: standard vs. virtual procedure.(Radiological Society of North America)
December 18, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Managing Editor Medical conferences frequently provide battlegrounds for technology wars, and this year's annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA, Oak Brook, Illinois) was no exception....

Roche Diagnostics gets new indications for proBNP assay.(Deals roundup)(B-type natriuretic peptide)
December 18, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana) has secured FDA clearance for its Elecsys proBNP Immunoassay for the claims of risk stratification for congestive heart failure (CHF) and in acute coronary...

Microfluidics, microanalytical devices finding roles in lab.(San Diego Conference, 4th of 4 stories)
December 18, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Contributing Writer BALTIMORE, Maryland--Although new detection technologies are playing an important role in driving expansion of the applications of molecular diagnostics, technologies for automation of specimen...

Apogent completes refinancing via $300m in debt securities.(Financings roundup)(Apogent Technologies Inc.)
December 18, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report In a recapitalization initiative, Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) reported that it would offer privately up to $300 million principal amount of floating rate senior convertible debt...

deCode finds two more genes in obesity-disposition studies.(Report from Europe)(deCODE genetics Inc.)
December 18, 2003... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Following a gene discovery reported in September, deCode genetics (Reykjavik, iceland) said Thursday that its scientists have discovered common versions of two additional genes that significantly...

New cancer device.(Mitradep, a cancer detection and removal device)
December 18, 2003... ProMetic Life Sciences (Montreal, Quebec) said its wholly owned UK subsidiary, ProMetic BioSciences Ltd., has entered Into an exclusive worldwide agreement with Mitra Medical Technology AB (Lund, Sweden) for the manufacture and supply of the...

ThinPrep Pap Test gets CE mark.(Report from Europe)(pap test receives marketing approval in Europe)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) has joined the parade of companies reporting that their products have met the requirements of the European In Vitro Medical Devices Directive (IVDD), which took effect earlier this month. Cytyc said the various...

Beckman, Thymed collaborate on immune monitoring assays.(Agreements roundup)(Beckman Coulter)(Thymed GmbH )
December 18, 2003... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) and Thymed GmbH (Mainz, Germany) said they have entered into a strategic relationship to address the growing demand for standardized immune monitoring assays...

Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts), a provider of device relationship management (DRM) enterprise software and services, said that FujiFilm Medical Systems USA (Stamford, Connecticut) has licensed the Axeda DRM system.(Agreements roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts), a provider of device relationship management (DRM) enterprise software and services, said that FujiFilm Medical Systems USA (Stamford, Connecticut) has licensed the Axeda DRM system. The Axeda DRM...

Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), a provider of specialized medical imaging equipment for women's health, signed a distribution agreement with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut), which provides integrated on-site and off-site storage and archiving services for digital medical images.(Agreements roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), a provider of specialized medical imaging equipment for women's health, signed a distribution agreement with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut), which provides integrated on-site and off-site storage and...

Abbott names its hospital products spin-off Hospira.(Abbott Laboratories names new company)
December 18, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) said it has come up with a name for its hospital products spin-off, plans for which were first disclosed in late summer (Diagnostics & Imaging Week, Aug....

Adaltis (Montreal, Quebec), an international diagnostic company, reported that it has received an equity investment of $10.8 million from CITIC Pacific Ltd.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Adaltis (Montreal, Quebec), an international diagnostic company, reported that it has received an equity investment of $10.8 million from CITIC Pacific Ltd. (Hong Kong), a Chinese industrial conglomerate. Pierre Larochelle, president and...

Genzyme.(Financings roundup)(Genzyme Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has closed on its previously reported sale of 1.25% convertible senior notes. The initial purchasers exercised their option to purchase another $90 million of the notes, raising the gross proceeds to...

Hemagen Diagnostics.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland), a manufacturer of diagnostic test kits, reported that it began making purchases of its common stock on the open market in conjunction with the stock purchase plan that the company adopted in October....

Ikonisys.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Ikonisys (New Haven, Connecticut), a developer of cell-based diagnostic products for the obstetrical and oncology markets, said a group of private investors led by Saint Simeon Marketing e Investimentos Lda has purchased $3.5 million in...

Medical Media Systems (MMS; West Lebanon, New Hampshire), a provider of remote 3-D medical imaging and treatment planning solutions.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Medical Media Systems (MMS; West Lebanon, New Hampshire), a provider of remote 3-D medical imaging and treatment planning solutions for aortic aneurysms and other diseases, has closed on an oversubscribed series B equity financing for $3.5...

Lifestream Technologies.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Lifestream Technologies (Post Falls, Idaho), a developer and marketer of consumer cholesterol monitors and professional screening instruments, said that the $1.5 million of its recent financing being held in escrow was released. The funds...

Swissray International.(Financings roundup)(reverse stock splitting)(Brief Article)
December 18, 2003... * Swissray International (Elmsford, New York) reported completing its previously announced 1-for-750 reverse stock split of the company's issued and outstanding common stock. The reverse split became effective at the open of trading Dec. 1,...