Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from December 2007

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from December 2007

Zerhouni: imaging will redefine as 'core interdisciplinary science'.(Radiological Society of North American annual conference)
December 6, 2007... CHICAGO -- Elias Zerhouni, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, delivered the Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture, titled "Major Trends in the Imaging Sciences," at the Radiological Society of North America (Oak Brook,...

'Stereo' mammography bringing new dimension to breast imaging.(Radiological Society of North American annual conference)
December 6, 2007... CHICAGO -- Adults may recall the View-Master toy from their youth, with its circular cards filled with pictures that you popped into the system and then advanced with a lever on the side. Viewing the cards with a good light source in front of...

Study fuels debate over CT benefits versus cancer risk.
December 6, 2007... The value of CT scanning to diagnose injury or illness is undisputed, as is the fact that there are risks associated with this technology because it exposes patients to higher doses of radiation compared with plain-film X-ray. But...

Bruker BioSciences to acquire Bruker BioSpin for $914 million.(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... Bruker BioSciences (BRKR; Billerica, Massachusetts) reported an agreement to acquire the companies of the private Bruker BioSpin (Rheinstetten, Germany) for $388 million in cash and 57.5 million in BRKR shares, valued at $526 million at the...

Samsung develops flat-panel X-ray detector for radiology.(International report)
December 6, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Samsung Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) reported completing development of a flat-panel X-ray detector (FPXD) for radiology machines, in collaboration with Vatech, a South Korean medical machinery...

Grant in-licenses molecular HPV test.(International report)
December 6, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Grant Life Sciences (Los Angeles) said it has signed a final agreement with Alphagenics Diaco Biotechnologies in Italy to exclusively in-license the manufacturing and marketing rights to...

Natus completes purchase of Excel-Tech for $63.5 million.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... Natus Medical (San Carlos, California) said it has completed its acquisition of Excel-Tech (Oakville, Ontario). Natus completed the purchase by way of a statutory plan of arrangement in Canada under which Natus acquired all of the...

Harvard Bioscience (HBIO; Holliston, Massachusetts) said it has completed the sale of Genomic Solutions Division (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and its Belgian subsidiary, Maia Scientific (Geel), both part of its Capital Equipment business segment, to Digilab (Canton, Massachusetts).(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... * Harvard Bioscience (HBIO; Holliston, Massachusetts) said it has completed the sale of Genomic Solutions Division (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and its Belgian subsidiary, Maia Scientific (Geel), both part of its Capital Equipment business segment, to...

Opko Health (Miami) reported completing the acquisition of Ophthalmic Technologies (Toronto), a private Canadian company providing ocular imaging systems to eye care professionals.(Deals roundup)
December 6, 2007... * Opko Health (Miami) reported completing the acquisition of Ophthalmic Technologies (Toronto), a private Canadian company providing ocular imaging systems to eye care professionals. OPKO says it is developing a preclinical pipeline of...

biospace med closes on $18 million round.(International report)
December 6, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Orthopedic imaging company biospace med (Paris) has reported the closing of 12 million [euro] ($18 million) in venture capital financing, led by NBGI Ventures (London) and Credit Agricole Private...

Report: under-funded FDA puts public health and safety at risk.(Key problems: out-of-date IT, weak leadership)
December 6, 2007... The FDA no longer has the capacity to insure the safety of the public when it comes to food or medical products because it is woefully under-funded, under-staffed and lacks the resources to stay current on virtually every new scientific...

Cleveland Clinic testing Riverain X-ray CAD in early lung cancer.(RSNA notebook)
December 6, 2007... CHICAGO -- At the Radiological Society of North America (Oak Brook, Illinois) the Cleveland Clinic and Riverain Medical (Dayton, Ohio) jointly reported the establishment of the first study in a program to determine whether chest X-ray...

Orthocrat (Tel Aviv, Israel) used the meeting to showcase the latest updates to its TraumaCad software, its 2.0 edition.(RSNA notebook)
December 6, 2007... * Orthocrat (Tel Aviv, Israel) used the meeting to showcase the latest updates to its TraumaCad software, its 2.0 edition. The company said that TraumaCad 2.0 provides additional resources that facilitate more thorough and accurate planning of...

Ziehm Imaging (Nuremberg, Germany), a provider of mobile imaging solutions for healthcare, presented two fully digital (FD) radiology products at the meeting: Ziehm Vision FD and Ziehm Vision RFD.(RSNA notebook)
December 6, 2007... * Ziehm Imaging (Nuremberg, Germany), a provider of mobile imaging solutions for healthcare, presented two fully digital (FD) radiology products at the meeting: Ziehm Vision FD and Ziehm Vision RFD. The company said they are the first of...

Lung Flute receives CE mark.(International report)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Medical Acoustics (Buffalo, New York) said it has successfully registered its Lung Flute as a Class 1 medical device for sale in the European Union. The company said it "demonstrated conformity...

Anthro.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... Anthro (Portland, Oregon) reported the introduction the new Carl's Table, Model CT08--radiology furniture for reading soft copy and for teleradiology applications. The CT08 is an ergonomic desk with motorized height movement and increased leg...

Immunicon.(Product Briefs)
December 6, 2007... Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) said that it filed with the FDA a request for clearance of the Cellsearch circulating tumor cell kit as an aid in the monitoring of patients with metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer....

Merge Healthcare.(Product Briefs)
December 6, 2007... Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee) reported the introduction of eFilm Workstation version 3.0, an enhanced version of Merge's desktop diagnostic imaging software. eFilm offers enhancements in both a gold version and a platinum version that are...

PLC Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... PLC Systems (Franklin, Massachusetts) reported that it has discussed the results of its pilot safety study of the RenalGuard system and therapy with the FDA. Based upon the positive safety data already collected in the pilot study and its...

SPO Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 6, 2007... SPO Medical (New York) reported the introduction of the new PulseOx 6000 and PulseOx 6100. The PulseOx 6000 (finger device) and PulseOx 6100 (hand-held device) have both been designed for use by medical professionals, hospitals and managed care...

Neuro Kinetics.(People in Places)
December 6, 2007... Terri Ives has been named director of audiology for Neuro Kinetics (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Ives formerly was manager of clinical research at Sound ID. Neuro Kinetics makes non-invasive medical diagnostic equipment used for balance,...

Rosetta Genomics.(People in Places)
December 6, 2007... Ronen Tamir has been named executive VP of marketing and communication for Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel). Previously, Tamir was VP of investor relations for North America at Novartis. Rosetta Genomics makes micoRNA-based diagnostics and...

Aetna OKs PillCam coverage.(Briefly Noted)
December 6, 2007... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said that Aetna, the third-largest U.S. health insurer, has updated its capsule endoscopy policy effective last month and will now cover cirrhotic patients for the screening and surveillance of esophageal varices...

Report: minority breast cancer care, research still inadequate.(Disease/Disorder overview)(Report)
December 13, 2007... Racial and socioeconomic factors continue to play significant roles in how people are treated for breast cancer and how research is conducted, according to the State of Breast Cancer Report, recently published by Susan G. Komen for the Cure...

Pelikan draws in $69m for blood glucose monitoring.(Financings roundup)
December 13, 2007... Pelikan Technologies (Palo Alto, California) has raised $69 million in Series F financing to support commercial launch of its electronic lancing device and next-generation blood glucose system. Clarus Ventures led the preferred stock equity...

Breast cancer patients may avoid mastectomy with APA/chemo duo.
December 13, 2007... An invention originally conceived by missile defense specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, Massachusetts) is showing promise as a breast cancer therapy that could help women with large tumors avoid mastectomies....

Aspect says ATR monitoring predicts medication efficacy.
December 13, 2007... Sometimes the medicine can be as difficult to swallow as the illness. Such is the case for many of the 15 million patients suffering depression in the U.S., who today have a variety of FDA-approved medications to choose from, but finding the...

Next-generation monitoring devices to use Toumaz tech.(International report)(Toumaz Technology )
December 13, 2007... Toumaz Technology (Milton Park, UK) reported that it has signed a licensing and product development agreement in early December with an unnamed U.S.-based "strategic partner"--described only as a "leading global medical device business"--for...

IMI in pact to acquire BBI's outstanding share capital.(Deals roundup)(Inverness Medical Innovations)(BBI Holdings )
December 13, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Inverness Medical Innovations (IMI; Waltham, Massachusetts) and BBI Holdings (Cardiff, UK) reported that they have reached agreement on a proposal for Inverness to acquire all of BBI's outstanding...

Volcano.(Deals roundup)(Disease/Disorder overview)
December 13, 2007... * Volcano (San Diego), a provider of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and functional measurement (FM) products designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of vascular and structural heart disease, said it has reached a definitive agreement...

Caris Diagnostics (Irving, Texas) reported an agreement to combine with Molecular Profiling Institute (MPI; Phoenix) and its subsidiary, the Tissue Banking and Analysis Center, a CLIA-certified molecular diagnostics company focused on the development of molecular diagnostic tests based on genomic and proteomic profiling.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... * Caris Diagnostics (Irving, Texas) reported an agreement to combine with Molecular Profiling Institute (MPI; Phoenix) and its subsidiary, the Tissue Banking and Analysis Center, a CLIA-certified molecular diagnostics company focused on the...

U.S. HealthWorks Medical Group (Valencia, California) reported the acquisition of Inland Industrial Medical Group (Ontario, California).(Deals roundup)
December 13, 2007... * U.S. HealthWorks Medical Group (Valencia, California) reported the acquisition of Inland Industrial Medical Group (Ontario, California). Both companies offer employers comprehensive occupational healthcare, including injury and illness...

Toshiba, TomTec partnering on assessment of cardiac 4-D data.(Agreements)(Disease/Disorder overview)
December 13, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Toshiba Medical Systems (Tokyo) and TomTec Imaging Systems (Munich, Germany) reported an agreement to deliver new tools for assessing cardiac 4-D data and a collaboration to make them more widely...

Ark Diagnostics (Sunnyvale, California) and Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany) have signed a letter of intent to negotiate a collaboration agreement that would grant Roche distribution and commercialization rights for Ark's anti-HIV drug monitoring products.(Agreements)
December 13, 2007... * Ark Diagnostics (Sunnyvale, California) and Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany) have signed a letter of intent to negotiate a collaboration agreement that would grant Roche distribution and commercialization rights for Ark's anti-HIV drug...

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton California) reported that it is the industrial partner in a two-year research project to be carried out at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia and Laboraf Diagnostica e Ricerca San Raffaele SpA (Milan, Italy).(Agreements)
December 13, 2007... * Beckman Coulter (Fullerton California) reported that it is the industrial partner in a two-year research project to be carried out at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia and Laboraf Diagnostica e Ricerca San Raffaele SpA (Milan, Italy)....

Quidel (San Diego, California), a provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported the launch of a pilot program with Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche, Nutley, New Jersey) in the U.S. to develop a comprehensive approach to managing influenza.(Agreements)
December 13, 2007... * Quidel (San Diego, California), a provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported the launch of a pilot program with Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche, Nutley, New Jersey) in the U.S. to develop a comprehensive approach to managing...

Hologic.(Financial roundup)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... * Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), which specializes in diagnostic imaging products and interventional devices dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, reported the pricing of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible...

Third Wave Technologies.(Financial roundup)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... * Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that it has secured a five-year, $25 million line of credit with Deerfield Management, a healthcare investment fund. The credit facility is available to provide Third Wave with additional...

Asuragen.(Financial roundup)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... * Asuragen (Austin, Texas), a privately held molecular diagnostics company and molecular biology service provider, reported that it has secured $18.5 million in Series B financing. This funding round follows a $49 million Series A round the...

Nanogen.(Financial roundup)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... * Nanogen (San Diego), a developer of advanced diagnostic products, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a preliminary proxy statement for a special meeting of its stockholders. At the meeting, the stockholders will...

UK stroke strategy adds 105m for awareness.(International report)
December 13, 2007... Under a plan to revolutionize stroke services in the UK unveiled this week by Health Secretary Alan Johnson, anyone in a higher-risk group who suffers a minor stroke will receive an MRI scan within 24 hours. The strategy aims to accelerate...

Two Cepheid MRSA and SA tests released.(International report)
December 13, 2007... Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) reported the release of Xpert MRSA/SA-Blood Cultures (BC) and Xpert MRSA/SA-Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) tests under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The company said...

F&S sees growth in POC hemotology offerings.(International report)(Frost & Sullivan)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... The laboratory remains the primary site of hematology tests in Europe due to confidence in established methods of diagnosis, Frost & Sullivan (F&S; London) says in a new report. But it goes on to say that the rising awareness of the benefits of...

Biosense Webster (Diamond Bar, California) reported availability of its Cartosound Image Integration module with the new Soundstar 3-D catheter that can be used with the Carto XP Navigation System.(Product Briefs)
December 13, 2007... Biosense Webster (Diamond Bar, California) reported availability of its Cartosound Image Integration module with the new Soundstar 3-D catheter that can be used with the Carto XP Navigation System. The Cartosound module integrates real time...

BioServe.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... BioServe (Beltsville, Maryland) introduced ControlMatch, a new line of fully annotated control DNA and serum samples designed to help biomedical researchers efficiently validate new biomarkers and early-stage clinical trial drug candidates....

GE Healthcare.(Product Briefs)
December 13, 2007... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) said it now offers improved dose reduction results for both diagnostic cardiac and neuron perfusion CT exams. GE's SnapShot Pulse technology for prospectively gated diagnostic cardiac CT exams has been proven...

Lifeline Biotechnologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... Lifeline Biotechnologies (Reno, Nevada) said that its recent meeting with the managing engineer of Nanyang Technical University concerning the finalization of the First Warning System patient data interpretive software was encouraging....

Merge Healthcare.(Product Briefs)
December 13, 2007... Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee) introduced eFilm Workstation version 3.0, an enhanced version of Merge's desktop diagnostic imaging software. eFilm offers enhancements in both a gold version and a platinum version that are designed to accelerate...

PLC Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 13, 2007... PLC Systems (Franklin, Massachusetts) said it has stopped enrolling new patients in its pilot safety study of the RenalGuard system based on positive safety data already collected in the study and discussions with FDA. PLC will submit a request...

Emageon.(People in Places)
December 13, 2007... Emageon (Birmingham, Alabama) has named Chris Perkins as COO. Perkins previously served at Per-Se Technologies in senior executive positions, including executive VP, CFO, and COO, prior to its acquisition by McKesson earlier this year. Emageon...

Heartscape Technologies.(People in Places)
December 13, 2007... Barry Wilson has been elected to serve as independent director and chairman of the board of Heartscape Technologies (Columbia, Maryland), which makes an FDA-approved device that diagnoses heart attacks and ischemia.

Lucid.(People in Places)
December 13, 2007... William Shea has been elected chairman of Lucid (Rochester, New York) after previously serving as CEO of Conseco. Lucid specializes in medical imaging.

HERmark test may identify those most likely to respond to Herceptin.(San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report The latest in breast cancer research--from a test capable of identifying patients who are most likely to respond to the drug Herceptin, to a study revealing that not all node-positive patients...

User action, partnerships key for home test market growth.
December 20, 2007... The consumer-driven healthcare trend is pushing for more home diagnostics, way beyond the pregnancy tests and glucose monitors that currently comprise this $7 billion market. While this market is active now in the U.S., it is poised to grow...

Affymetrix SNP Array used in Ottawa institute's study.(International report)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) reported that the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI; Ottawa, Ontario) is using the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms)...

Wood 'sees' ArcScan's future in Artemis ultrasound device.(New venture)
December 20, 2007... Ed Wood, former CEO of a major Colorado device firm, recently had been enjoying what he called a "blissful retirement" from med-tech and its various enjoyments--that is, until he received a tug of his entrepreneurial spirit that he couldn't...

BMS sells off MI unit for $525m; IMI completes buy of Matritech.(Deals roundup)
December 20, 2007... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS; New York) reported that it will sell its Medical Imaging (MI) unit in Billerica, Massachusetts, to private equity firm Avista Partners for $525 million in cash. The...

OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California), a provider of electronic products for applications in the healthcare and security industries, reported that it has increased its ownership in Spacelabs Healthcare (Issaquah, Washington), listed on the London AIM Exchange, to more than 90%.(Deals roundup)
December 20, 2007... * OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California), a provider of electronic products for applications in the healthcare and security industries, reported that it has increased its ownership in Spacelabs Healthcare (Issaquah, Washington), listed on the...

Higher levels of HE4 may be sign of ovarian cancer, study reveals.(Clinical report)
December 20, 2007... Doctors may soon be able to detect ovarian cancer in its earliest, most curable, stage by testing patients for elevated levels of a substance called HE4 in their blood. Women with elevated levels of HE4 in their blood may be more likely to...

Confirma, GE Healthcare expand CADstream for breast MRI alliance.(Agreements)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Confirma (Bellevue, Washington) and GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported they have expanded their partnership to offer Confirma service to GE Healthcare customers with CADstream. ...

Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC; New York) reported that they will collaborate to develop microRNA-based diagnostic tests, early detection as well as prognosis, for diffuse large cell lymphoma (DLCL), transformed follicular lymphoma (TFL), and for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), three types of non-hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).(Agreements)
December 20, 2007... * Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC; New York) reported that they will collaborate to develop microRNA-based diagnostic tests, early detection as well as prognosis, for diffuse large cell lymphoma...

Nationwide Respiratory (Waterloo, Indiana) and Masimo (Irvine, California), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, reported that they have entered into a preferred provider agreement making Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology available to Nationwide's network of more than 150 respiratory homecare providers.(Agreements)
December 20, 2007... * Nationwide Respiratory (Waterloo, Indiana) and Masimo (Irvine, California), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, reported that they have entered into a preferred provider agreement making...

HealthSouth must pay $14.9m to U.S. over kickback claims.(Court report)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) and two physicians have agreed to pay the U.S. a total of $14.9 million to settle allegations that HealthSouth submitted false claims to the government and paid...

Genstar Capital a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in selected segments of the life sciences and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software services, reported that it has completed its previously disclosed $797 million acquisition of PRA International (Reston, Virginia), a global clinical research organization.(Deals roundup)
December 20, 2007... * Genstar Capital a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in selected segments of the life sciences and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software services, reported that it has completed its...

New South African unit for bioMerieux.(International report)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report bioMerieux (Marcy L'Etoile, France), a global provider of in vitro diagnostics, reported the opening of a subsidiary in South Africa, based in Johannesburg. The new subsidiary will provide support to...

Lymphoseek gets patent allowance in Japan.(International report)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Neoprobe (Dublin, Ohio), a developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, said that notification has been received by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)...

Isotope-producing reactor re-started in Canada.(International report)
December 20, 2007... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Canada's state-owned atomic energy company said earlier this week that it has reopened a nuclear reactor after that facility's shutdown created a critical shortage of radioactive isotopes used to...

Diagnostic Health moves home office.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... Diagnostic Health (Birmingham, Alabama) said that it has leased about 13,000 square feet and moved its home office operations to 22 Inverness Center Parkway in Birmingham, Alabama. DHC is a stand-alone, diagnostic imaging company created by...

AFP Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... AFP Imaging (Elmsford, New York) reported it has begun the delivery and installation of the new model VG (vertical generation) Cone Beam CT X-ray scanners (CBCT) to dentists in the U.S., Canada and Europe. AFP recently received regulatory...

Agendia.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... Agendia (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) said it has made its breast cancer prognosis test, MammaPrint, available to U.S. patients after receiving two clearances from the FDA. The first in February cleared MammaPrint as an in vitro diagnostic...

Lifeline Biotechnologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... Lifeline Biotechnologies (Reno, Nevada) said it has recently provided patient cases to Nanyang Technical University to aid in the development of the First Warning System's (FWS) interpretive analytical system. One objective is to make it more...

Medtronic.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... Medtronic (Minneapolis) reported FDA clearance of the Reveal DX and Reveal XT, new Insertable Cardiac Monitors (ICMs) that offer diagnostic and monitoring insights to cardiologists managing their patients with syncope (fainting) or abnormal...

AdvaMed.(People in Places)
December 20, 2007... Khatereh Calleja has been named associate VP of technology and regulatory affairs for AdvaMed (Washington), the medical technology association. AdvaMed said that Calleja will play a lead role in the association's policy efforts in the...

Paradigm Medical Industries.(People in Places)(Joy Roop )(Brief article)
December 20, 2007... Joy Roop has been named director of marketing and product specialist for Paradigm Medical Industries (Salt Lake City, Utah). Paradigm said that Roop will be involved in the redesign of the company's products and the development of marketing...

VivoMetrics.(People in Places)
December 20, 2007... VivoMetrics (Ventura, California), which provides non-invasive vital function monitoring, said it appointed Howard Baker to the position of president/CEO.

New breast cancer biomarkers may lead to improved treatment.
December 27, 2007... Orion Genomics (St. Louis) last week reported the discovery of new breast cancer biomarkers that it says may someday lead to earlier detection--and possibly better treatment--of the disease. The company said it has discovered and validated...

Report finds Ohio bioscience economic impact near $150m.
December 27, 2007... More than 800 bioscience-related entities are calling Ohio home, according to a report by Bio-Ohio (Columbus) released last week. In 2006, the overall economic impact of Ohio-based bioscience was $146 billion, representing 17.6% of Ohio's...

Consortium cites MammaPrint for breast cancer prognosis.(International report)
December 27, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Agendia (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading firm in the growing field of molecular diagnostics, said that an independent international consortium has demonstrated the prognostic power of the...

Philips to acquire Respironics in deal valued at $5.1 billion.(Deals roundup)
December 27, 2007... Respironics (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) reported that it will be acquired by Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), with Philips commencing a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the company for $66 a share...

Sequencing goes individualist, for subjects as well as practitioners.(Science breakthrough of the year)
December 27, 2007... In 2006, Time magazine named "You" as the Person of the Year, with a cover consisting of a mirror. In 2007, Science magazine has essentially done the same thing on a molecular level: the magazine has named human genetic variation as its...

IL extends critical care portfolio with HealthTrust, to Consorta.(Agreements)
December 27, 2007... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Instrumentation Laboratory (IL; Lexington Massachusetts) reported that its three-year contract covering its critical care portfolio with HealthTrust Purchasing Group (Brentwood, Tennessee) has been...

The Banner Alzheimer's Institute (Wilmington, Delaware) and AstraZeneca (Phoenix) reported that they will collaborate to help advance understanding of Alzheimer's disease.(Agreements)
December 27, 2007... * The Banner Alzheimer's Institute (Wilmington, Delaware) and AstraZeneca (Phoenix) reported that they will collaborate to help advance understanding of Alzheimer's disease and increase knowledge of potential new avenues for treatment through...

Neoprobe (Dublin, Ohio), a developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, said it has extended its marketing and distribution agreement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Cincinnati).(Agreements)(Ethicon Endo-Surgery )(Brief article)
December 27, 2007... * Neoprobe (Dublin, Ohio), a developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, said it has extended its marketing and distribution agreement with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Cincinnati). The amendment extends the rights for...

GE Healthcare (Princeton, New Jersey) a developer of diagnostic imaging technologies, reported that it has entered an agreement with Draximage (Kirkland, Quebec), a division of Draxis Health (Montreal, Quebec).(Agreements)
December 27, 2007... * GE Healthcare (Princeton, New Jersey) a developer of diagnostic imaging technologies, reported that it has entered an agreement with Draximage (Kirkland, Quebec), a division of Draxis Health (Montreal, Quebec), to become the exclusive...