Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from February 2006

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from February 2006

Advanced imaging points to even better care on horizon.
February 2, 2006... WASHINGTON -- The field of medical diagnostics has come a long way since the advent of X-rays more than a century ago. And, moving forward, medical imaging in particular holds a wealth of promise for individuals and healthcare in general. ...

Premenopausal Type 1 diabetics need osteoporosis screening.
February 2, 2006... A new study to be published in the February issue of Diabetes Care shows that premenopausal women who have Type 1 diabetes should strongly consider preventive screening for osteoporosis, according to the researchers. The study found that...

Aurora Imaging's Breast MRI system OK'd in Europe, Canada.(International report)
February 2, 2006... Aurora Imaging Technology (North Andover, Massachusetts), manufacturer of the Aurora 1.5T Dedicated Breast MRI System, said it has achieved CE marking and quality system certifications for the device, as well as Canadian approval of the system....

Schultz: postmarketing focus predates problems of Guidant.('We can make the system more appealing')
February 2, 2006... Timing is everything, they say. And the timing of a recent report from the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), outlining a proposed increased emphasis on postmarket evaluation of medical devices, issued last week...

Researchers use MRI to ID transplanted heart rejection.
February 2, 2006... Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) researchers, led by Chien Ho, PhD, have developed what they call a "promising tool" that uses MRI to track immune cells as they infiltrate a transplanted heart in the early stages of organ rejection. ...

Bayer gets Abbott licenses; NeoGenomics gets $600,000.(Financings roundup)
February 2, 2006... Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) said it has been granted licenses under patent rights relating to free prostate specific antigen (PSA) and tacrolimus tests from Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois). Bayer said it...

Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, said it has received a $5 million credit facility from Biomed Solutions (Encinitas, California).(Financings roundup)
February 2, 2006... Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, said it has received a $5 million credit facility from Biomed Solutions (Encinitas, California), a company headed by Biophan CEO Michael Weiner....

Quest Diagnostics.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Quest Diagnostics (Lyndhurst, New Jersey) said its board expanded its share repurchase authorization by $600 million, bringing the amount available for repurchase to $722 million. The company in 2005 repurchased 7.8 million common shares for...

Somanetics.(Financings roundup)
February 2, 2006... Somanetics (Troy, Michigan) reported filing a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of 2.1 million common shares, in which the company expects to sell 2 million shares and a selling...

Stratagene posts $21m bond for damages against Third Wave.(Court report)
February 2, 2006... Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that Stratagene (La Jolla, California) has posted a $21 million bond with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in Third Wave's name that secures the damages and...

Centice reports spectroscopy deals with two companies.(Grants/contracts)
February 2, 2006... Centice (Durham, North Carolina) reported that Newport (Irvine, California), which focuses on spectroscopy instruments, has selected the company's Multimodal Multiplex Spectroscopy (MMS) technology for its new spectrometer platform. ...

Precision Dynamics.(Grants/contracts)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Precision Dynamics (PDC; San Fernando, California), which focuses on automatic wristband identification, reported the successful implementation of its automated bar code system for glucose testing to reduce patient and lab identification errors...

Paving the way for its entry into the molecular imaging market, VisualSonics (Toronto).(Grants/contracts)(VisualSonics Inc.)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Paving the way for its entry into the molecular imaging market, VisualSonics (Toronto), a developer of high-resolution, ultrasound-based, in vivo micro-imaging systems, reported it is in-licensing a contrast agent for the quantification of...

Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), a developer of "next-generation" biomedical technology, said that it has joined as a senior member the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern California (USC/BMES ERC; Los Angeles).(Grants/contracts)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), a developer of "next-generation" biomedical technology, said that it has joined as a senior member the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern...

Applied Imaging retains Aquilo Partners.(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) reported that the company has retained investment bank Aquilo Partners (San Francisco) to assist management in exploring strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value. The company said it...

UniPath signs 5-year pact with Roche Diagnostics.(Agreements roundup)
February 2, 2006... UniPath (Denver), a regional provider of pathology services, reported signing a five-year agreement with Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) to establish a Molecular Center of Excellence (MCOE), the only such facility to be granted this...

Royal Hospitals, Philips in 15-year deal.(International report)
February 2, 2006... The Royal Hospitals (Belfast, Northern Ireland) organization has signed a deal worth more than EUR 173 million with Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) to provide, maintain and replace medical equipment for monitoring,...

Askion to produce device for EOS.(International report)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS; Irvington, New York), a company focused on designing and developing a noninvasive, point-of-care instrument to assist in the early diagnosis of melanoma, said it has entered into an agreement with Askion (Gera,...

CTLM results featured at Arab Health.(International report)(computed tomography laser mammography)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI; Fort Lauderdale, Florida) included reports on an array of computed tomography (CT) laser breast imaging clinical results during last week's Arab Health 2006 conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The...

N.C. public health lab to use Cytyc's ThinPrep.(Briefly Noted)
February 2, 2006... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said that the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health (SLPH) is the first state public health laboratory to convert to the ThinPrep Imaging System for all cervical cancer screening. This builds...

Nasdaq denies Applied Imaging appeal.(Briefly Noted)
February 2, 2006... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) reported its receipt of a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel decision denying the company's appeal of a Nasdaq staff determination on Dec. 9, which found that the company failed to comply with the...

Ciphergen in compliance with Nasdaq.(Briefly Noted)
February 2, 2006... Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) said that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has informed the company that it has evidenced compliance with the requirements for continued listing on the Nasdaq National Market and that the "E"...

Clarient.(People in Places)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Stephen T.D. Dixon, executive vice president and CFO of Clarient (San Juan Capistrano, California), has resigned those posts effective Friday to pursue a new professional opportunity. He has served in those positions for Clarient since December...

Exagen Diagnostics.(People in Places)(appointments of Robert Mignatti and Jim McClintic)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Robert Mignatti has joined Exagen Diagnostics (Albuquerque, New Mexico) as president and chief operating officer. Exagen CEO Jim McClintic, who joined the company in October, will continue to guide the company's strategic direction. Mignatti...

Grant Life Sciences.(People in Places)
February 2, 2006... Indira Pottathil, PhD, has been appointed the first director of international marketing for Grant Life Sciences (Los Angeles). Since 1996, Pottathil has served as vice president of R&D at AccuDx, where she managed compliance efforts as well as...

Synova Healthcare.(People in Places)
February 2, 2006... Patricia Bowman has joined Synova Healthcare (Media, Pennsylvania) as vice president, marketing. Bowman brings more than 15 years of marketing management experience to Synova, most recently as a consultant for companies like GlaxoSmithKline....

VisEn Medical.(People in Places)
February 2, 2006... Janet Lankard has been appointed vice president of sales and technology collaborations for VisEn Medical (Woburn, Massachusetts), a newly created position to commercialize the company's Fluorescence Molecular Tomography system and optical...

Medical Alley/MNBIO adds two vice presidents to staff.
February 2, 2006... Medical Alley/MNBIO (St. Louis Park, Minnesota), a life sciences trade association serving Minnesota and surrounding areas, has added two new vice presidents to its staff. Dana Boyle will serve as vice president for business development, with a...

Abbott Point of Care.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Abbott Point of Care (East Windsor, New Jersey) reported that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its i-Stat Chem 8+ cartridge, a new point-of-care diagnostic test used to quickly assess basic metabolic status of patients in...

CardiArc.(Product Briefs)
February 2, 2006... CardiArc (Lubbock, Texas) said it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market its new cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging device, which the company said could lead to better cardiac diagnosis and fewer...

SenoRx.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... SenoRx (Aliso Viejo, California) said a study presented at the 2005 American Society of Breast Surgeons meeting in Los Angeles retrospectively analyzed the experience of 45 general surgeons in a variety of practice settings using the SenoRx Gel...

Synbiotics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Synbiotics (San Diego) has received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for U.S. marketing and distribution of its Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit, which provides fast and highly sensitive detection of the...

MSI cites sales activity in China, UAE.(International report)
February 2, 2006... Medical Services International (MSI: Edmonton, Alberta) said it has signed an agreement to start shipping VScan test kits into Anhui Province in China. MSI said the accord with a private hospital in the providence covers its test kits for HIV,...

Lifeline gets Chinese MastaScope order.(International report)
February 2, 2006... Lifeline Biotechnologies (Reno, Nevada) said it has received a $27,000 purchase order for the MastaScope from its Chinese distributor, Shanghai Science Medical Equipment Co. "This order is the result of what has been a concerted sales...

Distributor named for Chembio in Tanzania.(International report)(Brief article)
February 2, 2006... Chembio Diagnostics (Medford, New York) said it has named Anudha Ltd. to distribute the company's rapid HIV tests in Tanzania. Chembio, whose HIV Stat-Pak Dipstick is part of the national testing protocol in Uganda, established a regional...

New budget gives 3.8% hike to FDA, no increase for NIH.
February 9, 2006... WASHINGTON -- The FDA is set to receive a modest budget increase next year, about 4%, according to President George Bush's proposed fiscal request unveiled Monday. While that isn't much, it is substantially better than the proverbial piece...

F&S sees large growth for digital X-ray sector in Asia.
February 9, 2006... Frost & Sullivan (F&S; Palo Alto, California) outlined research from its report on growth prospects for digital X-ray modalities in Asia on Tuesday, when it suggested that the market for the two types of digital X-ray--digital radiography (DR)...

Medicsight plans 8 clinical studies of CAD in Japan.(International report)
February 9, 2006... Medicsight's (London) majority owned Japanese subsidiary, Medicsight KK (Tokyo), said it plans to initiate eight clinical studies in that country, jointly sponsored by the Japan National Cancer Center. The company said those clinical studies...

CDC develops rapid test to detect H5 strain of avian flu.
February 9, 2006... The FDA late last week reported the approval of a new laboratory test, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta), to diagnose H5 strains of influenza in patients suspected to be infected with the virus. The...

Nanogen completes its buy of Spectral's cardiac test biz.(Deals roundup)
February 9, 2006... Nanogen (San Diego) reported that it has completed the purchase of the rapid cardiac immunoassay test business of Spectral Diagnostics (Toronto) for C$9 million. Payment was comprised of C$5.65 million in cash and C$3.35 million in Nanogen...

Instant Technologies (IT; Norfolk, Virginia) reported that it has acquired Accu-Stat Diagnostics (Lake Forest, California) for an undisclosed sum.(Instant Technologies Inc. acquires Accu-Stat Diagnostics Corp.)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Instant Technologies (IT; Norfolk, Virginia) reported that it has acquired Accu-Stat Diagnostics (Lake Forest, California) for an undisclosed sum. Accu-Stat recently obtained FDA 510(k) clearances to sell its Accu-Stat line of home testing...

Masimo signs three-year pact with Novation for oximetry.(Grants/contracts)
February 9, 2006... Masimo (Irvine, California) said that it has signed a three-year, dual-source agreement with Novation (Irving, Texas), the healthcare contracting services company of VHA (also Irving) and the University Health System Consortium (UHC; Oak Brook,...

Spectrum Diagnostic Imaging (Cleveland), a provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services.(Grants/contracts news)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Spectrum Diagnostic Imaging (Cleveland), a provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services, has selected Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology (F&S; also Cleveland) to provide its radiology interpretation services. A letter of...

DR Systems (San Diego) reported six new RIS/PACS contracts totaling nearly $3.5 million.(Grants/contracts news)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... DR Systems (San Diego) reported six new RIS/PACS contracts totaling nearly $3.5 million. The facilities awarding the contracts include Portneuf Medical Center and Idaho Medical Imaging (both Pocatello, Idaho); Pueblo Medical Imaging (Las Vegas,...

Somanetics to move Nasdaq listing.(Briefly Noted)
February 9, 2006... Somanetics (Troy, Michigan) said that Nasdaq has approved its application to move its listing from the Nasdaq Capital Market (formerly known as the Nasdaq SmallCap Market) to the Nasdaq National Market. Somanetics' common shares began...

Medistem in pact with ICM for work with stem cells.(Financings roundup)
February 9, 2006... Medistem Laboratories (Scottsdale, Arizona), focused on "the ethical development of next-generation medical therapies from non-controversial adult stem cell sources," reported executing a licensing and royalty agreement with the Institute for...

Immucor director enjoined from future violations of SEC rules.(Court report)
February 9, 2006... The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported that William Duffey Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, entered a judgment concerning Mark Kishel, a director of Immucor (Norcross, Georgia), enjoining him from...

Zyvex, Diabetech in pact for glucose nanobiosensor implant.
February 9, 2006... Zyvex (Richardson, Texas), a molecular nanotechnology company specializing in micro and nanomanufacturing, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), and nanomaterials, has selected Diabetech (Dallas) as its medical device development and...

Escalon Medical (Wayne, Pennsylvania) reported that its subsidiary.(Deals roundup)
February 9, 2006... Escalon Medical (Wayne, Pennsylvania) reported that its subsidiary, Escalon Digital Vision, trading as Escalon Medical Imaging (EMI), has completed its previously reported purchase of the assets of MRP Group (Lawrence, Massachusetts), a private...

Pacific Mobile Diagnostics (PMD; Phoenix) reported acquiring Remote Access Diagnostic Radiography (RADR; Bloomfield, Colorado).(Deals roundup)
February 9, 2006... Pacific Mobile Diagnostics (PMD; Phoenix) reported acquiring Remote Access Diagnostic Radiography (RADR; Bloomfield, Colorado). Terms were not disclosed. PMD recently was spun off from SunAlliance Healthcare Services, a national healthcare...

Digirad certified for new ISO standard.(Briefly Noted)
February 9, 2006... Digirad (Poway, California), a provider of cardiovascular imaging services and solid-state nuclear medicine imaging products to physicians' offices, hospitals and imaging centers, said it has been awarded certification to the most recent...

Czech Republic reimbursement for PillCam.(International report)
February 9, 2006... Given Imaging's (Yokneam, Israel) PillCam SB Capsule Endoscope, used to diagnose diseases of the small intestine, has been making global inroads. The novel programmed mini-video in a swallowable capsule is moving fast to become the diagnostic...

CAD sets platform for European growth.(International report)
February 9, 2006... CAD Sciences (White Plains, New York), which is focused on production of advanced CAD technology for MRI of the breast, prostate and other organs, reported the establishment of a core base of reference centers, research collaborators and key...

Elbit to issue $135 million in debentures.(International report)
February 9, 2006... Elbit Medical Imaging (Tel Aviv, Israel) reported that its board has authorized a private issuance of unsecured non-convertible debentures to investors in Israel in a maximum aggregate principal amount of about NIS 630 million ($135 million)....

Diasys not in compliance with Amex.(Briefly Noted)
February 9, 2006... DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) reported that on Jan. 30, it received a letter from staff of the American Stock Exchange advising that the company was not in compliance with the Amex listing requirements in that it had shareholders' equity of...

Aspect Medical to relocate headquarters.(Briefly Noted)
February 9, 2006... Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts), reported that it has entered into a lease agreement to relocate its corporate headquarters to 1 Upland Rd. in Norwood, Massachusetts, in late 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, the...

Calypte Biomedical not in Amex compliance.(Briefly Noted)
February 9, 2006... Calypte Biomedical (Lake Oswego, Oregon) said that on Feb. 2, it received notice from the American Stock Exchange indicating that the company no longer complies with the exchange's continued listing standards set forth in the exchange's Company...

Investors kick in $6 million to OrSense.(International report)
February 9, 2006... OrSense (Rehovot, Israel), a developer of non-invasive glucose monitoring products, reported that several investors have committed an additional $6 million in funding to the company. The investment was led by Israel Healthcare Ventures. Other...

Advanced Medical Technology Association.(People in Places)
February 9, 2006... Christopher White, an attorney with more than 15 years' experience in healthcare law, has been named general counsel of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington). Since 2001, White has been a partner in the...

Guardian Technologies International.(Guardian Technologies International Inc. appoints Gregory Hare )(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Gregory Hare has joined Guardian Technologies International (Herndon, Virginia) as CFO. He replaces Bill Donovan, who recently was appointed Guardian's president and chief operating officer. From May 2001 until last month, Hare served as a...

Illumina.(People in Places)
February 9, 2006... Matthew Posard has been named vice president of marketing with Illumina (San Diego). Most recently, he spent more than six years in various sales and marketing director positions at Biosite. Illumina develops next-generation tools for the...

IRIS International.(People in Places)
February 9, 2006... Yvonne Briggs was appointed to the newly created position of vice president of business development for IRIS International (Chatsworth, California), a manufacturer of automated IVD urinalysis systems and medical devices. Prior to her...

Partners Imaging.(People in Places)
February 9, 2006... Robert Moss has been named national vice president of sales for Partners Imaging (Dallas). He joins the company from his previous position as regional vice president at Siemens Medical Systems. Partners Imaging provides computed tomography...

Perkin-Elmer.(People in Places)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Robert Friel has been named president of Perkin-Elmer's (Boston) Life & Analytical Sciences unit, which focuses on providing applications-based solutions to customers in the genetic screening, biopharma and analytical sciences markets. Friel...

Prototype.(Prototype Inc. appoints Fran Tuttle )(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Prototype (Windsor, Connecticut), a laboratory automation provider, named Fran Tuttle president and CEO and as a member of the board of directors. Tuttle has more than 25 years of experience in life sciences leadership, most recently as senior...

Third Wave Technologies.(Third Wave Technologies Inc. appoints Kevin Conroy)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported changes to the company's management team associated with the succession last month of Kevin Conroy to president and CEO. Maneesh Arora, senior vice president of commercial operations, will...

Agilent Technologies.(Product Briefs)
February 9, 2006... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California) reported the introduction of an entire portfolio of chromatography-based mass spectrometry (LC/MS) systems that is expected to nearly double its LC/MS market share by 2008. The Agilent 6000 Series...

GeneFluidics.(Researchers use GeneFluidics biosensors to diagnose urinary tract infections)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... GeneFluidics (Monterey Park, California) said research reported in the February Journal of Clinical Microbiology investigated its biosensor technology in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTI)--the second-most-common bacterial...

Signalife.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Signalife (Greenville, South Carolina), focused on the detection of cardiovascular disease through continuous ECG signal monitoring, reported that Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) has completed the Device Implementation, Validation and...

Synbiotics.(Synbiotics Corp. receive FDA approval for Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... Synbiotics (San Diego) has received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for U.S. marketing and distribution of its Avian Influenza Virus Type A Antigen Test Kit, which provides fast and highly sensitive detection of the...

Vidar Systems.(Product Briefs)
February 9, 2006... Vidar Systems (Herndon, Virginia), a provider of medical film digitizers, reported the full release of Clinical Express 3.0 software for mammography. Used with the Vidar CAD Pro Advantage Film Digitizer, Clinical Express 3.0 allows prior...

VirtualScopics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 9, 2006... VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a developer of image-related biomarkers, reported that it has been issued U.S. patent No. 6,984,981, "Magnetic Resonance Method and System Forming an Isotropic, High Resolution, Three Dimensional Diagnostic...

Caliper/Xenogen merger targets building in vitro--in vivo 'bridge'.(Deals roundup)
February 16, 2006... Two innovative providers of molecular diagnostic tools for life sciences research efforts, Caliper Life Science (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) and Xenogen (Alameda, California), yesterday unveiled plans to merge. In the deal, Caliper will issue...

New technologies transform the Asian diagnostics market.(1st of 3 parts)(Industry overview)
February 16, 2006... SINGAPORE -- The in vitro diagnostics market in Asia accounts for only about 12% of the global IVD market (see Table 1 on page 5), but is attracting growing interest from suppliers based in the U.S. and Europe as well as Asian competitors...

NorDiag, Transgenomic accord seen boosting cancer testing.(International report)
February 16, 2006... NorDiag (Bergen, Norway) and Transgenomic (Omaha, Nebraska) reported entering into an exclusive license and supply agreement that the companies said would unite their technologies in the fight against colorectal and pancreatic cancer. ...

NeoGuide gets 510(k) clearance for colon endoscopy system.(Company overview)
February 16, 2006... NeoGuide Systems (Los Gatos, California), a developer of technology to prevent and treat colorectal cancer, reported receiving FDA 510(k) clearance to market its NeoGuide Endoscopy System. The system is designed to enhance physician control...

'Leveling' imaging field of play pinches non-hospital providers.(Washington roundup)
February 16, 2006... The new White House budget (Diagnostics & Imaging Week, Feb. 9, 2006) has produced a variety of reactions, primarily, of course, from those who will feel the pinch of reductions--those reductions a product of current budget tightening in...

Roche, Applied Biosystems settle with Bio-Rad on PCR.(Court report)
February 16, 2006... Roche Molecular Diagnostics (RMS; Pleasanton, California) and Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California), an Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) company, said they have entered into a settlement agreement resolving their lawsuit pending in the...

Johns Hopkins lab, Hologic in bone health analysis pact.(Agreements roundup)
February 16, 2006... The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL; Laurel, Maryland) has signed an agreement with Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), granting it exclusive, worldwide rights to the lab's bone health analysis technology. Hologic is...

Accumetrics raises $8.25M; Nighthawk sets IPO pricing.(Financings roundup)
February 16, 2006... Accumetrics (San Diego), a privately held company that makes the VerifyNow family of diagnostic tests that measure platelet function, said it has raised $8.25 million in its Series C financing. The syndicate of investors was led by...

AFP Imaging in accord with Henry Schein on X-ray sensors.(Grants/contracts)
February 16, 2006... AFP Imaging (Elmsford, New York) said that it has signed an agreement with Easy Dental, a subsidiary of Henry Schein (Melville, New York), for the production and supply of CMOS technology intraoral digital X-ray sensors. The Easy-Ray...

Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) reported signing an agreement with the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) to license a portfolio of patents in the field of intra-operative fluorescence-guided imaging of nerves.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
February 16, 2006... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) reported signing an agreement with the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) to license a portfolio of patents in the field of intra-operative fluorescence-guided imaging of nerves, including image-guided...

Diagnostic kit maker Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland) reported that it purchased the remaining 16.3% ownership of its Brazilian subsidiary, Hemagen Diagnosticos Comercio, Importacao Exportacao.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
February 16, 2006... Diagnostic kit maker Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland) reported that it purchased the remaining 16.3% ownership of its Brazilian subsidiary, Hemagen Diagnosticos Comercio, Importacao Exportacao. Hemagen Brazil was established in...

Positron gets China okay for j-v.(International report)
February 16, 2006... Positron emission tomography (PET) scanner manufacturer Positron (Houston) said it has received Chinese government approval for a joint venture with Neusoft Medical Systems (Shenyang, China). The j-v business, known as Neusoft-Positron...