Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from January 2003

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from January 2003

Magna-Lab coil sees through noise concealing coronaries. (Innovation adds range to magnetic resonace imaging).(Magna-Lab Inc. enhances magnetic resonance imaging device)
January 2, 2003... The chest is a noisy place. All that thump-thump... thump-thump... thump-thump, together with the many other sounds of inhaling and exhaling and miscellaneous random movements that take place there. All that movement and noise, of course,...

GlaxoSmithKline, Quest in testing services agreement. (Report from Europe).(GlaxoSmithKline PLC)(Quest Diagnostics Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Global pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK; London) and Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) have signed a long-term agreement under which will provide central laboratory testing...

Israeli firm's 2nd round supports miniature detection probe R&D. (Innovation adds range to magnetic resonace imaging).(TopSpin Medical raises research finance)
January 2, 2003... ZICHRON YA'AKOV, Israel -- TopSpin Medical (Tel Aviv, Israel), developer of an innovative miniature magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device with maximal detection, reported that it raised $16.5 million in its second round of financing. The...

Instrumentarium sells Spacelabs division to Quinton for $24m. (Deals roundup).(Instrumentarium Imaging Inc.)(Spacelabs Burdick)
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report While GE Medical Systems (GEMS; Waukesha, Wisconsin) maintained it would not have to divest any of its assets in its pending blockbuster $2.05 billion purchase of Instrumentarium (Helsinki,...

Molecular Diagnostics to settle with bridge financing company. (Financings roundup).(Molecular Diagnostics Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Molecular Diagnostics (MDI; Chicago, Illinois), a developer of cancer diagnostic technologies, has entered into a settlement agreement with Round Valley Capital, a secured lender that has previously...

PerkinElmer. (Financings roundup).(Perkin-Elmer Corp.)
January 2, 2003... * PerkinElmer (Boston, Massachusetts) reported that it substantially completed its previously announced refinancing plan to repay existing debt in order to extend existing shorter-term debt maturities. The company repaid its existing bank debt...

Applied Biosystems plans cuts in workforce to boost R&D.
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California) reported a restructuring that includes elimination of about 400 regular positions and 100 contract and temporary positions as part of...

Class actions filed against Cytyc charging overstocking. (Court report).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Two class action lawsuits have been filed against Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts), both alleging that the company released misleading press releases about its financial condition between July 25,...

Cytyc gets approvable letter for its ThinPrep Imaging system.
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) has received an approvable letter from the FDA for its ThinPrep Imaging system. Dubbed an "Imager," the device uses computer imaging technology to assist a...

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) has acquired certain assets of Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey). (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) has acquired certain assets of Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey), including SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) genotyping instruments, bioinformatic software and related consumables business....

Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey), a provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has extended the expiration date for its previously announced cash election exchange offer for all outstanding shares of clinical lab testing service provider, Unilab's (Tarzana, California) common stock. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey), a provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has extended the expiration date for its previously announced cash election exchange offer for all outstanding hares of clinical lab...

Cholestech (Hayward, California) sold its WellCheck testing services business to Impact Health (Wayne, Pennsylvania), a nationwide provider of clinical testing services, marketing services and self-testing products to the pharmaceutical, managed care, employer and health product retail industries. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Cholestech (Hayward, California) sold its WellCheck testing services business to Impact Health (Wayne, Pennsylvania), a nationwide provider of clinical testing services, marketing services and self-testing products to the pharmaceutical,...

Novitron unit, Dade Behring in automated instrument pact. (Agreements roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Novitron International (Newton, Massachusetts) and Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) said that Novitron's Dutch subsidiary, Vital Scientific NV, has signed a definitive agreement with Dade Behring...

Predictive medicine company IMI International Medical Innovations (Toronto, Ontario) said it has expanded its marketing partnership with McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania) to include the laboratory market for insurance testing throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. (Agreements roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Predictive medicine company IMI International Medical Innovations (Toronto, Ontario) said it has expanded its marketing partnership with McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania) to include the laboratory market for insurance...

Medco Health Solutions (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey), a provider of prescription healthcare services, revealed several strategic alliances that bring point-of-care technology to the mainstream of the medical marketplace. (Agreements roundup).
January 2, 2003... * Medco Health Solutions (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey), a provider of prescription healthcare services, revealed several strategic alliances that bring point-of-care technology to the mainstream of the medical marketplace. New point-of-care...

Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported an exclusive distribution agreement with Axis- Shield Diagnostics (Dundee, Scotland), a provider of medical point-of-care diagnostic products, to market the RAMP System and cardiac marker tests in the UK for the early detection of heart attacks. (Agreements roundup).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported an exclusive distribution agreement with Axis- Shield Diagnostics (Dundee, Scotland), a provider of medical point-of-care diagnostic products, to market the RAMP System and cardiac...

American Bio Medica (ABMC; Kinderhook, New York) reported the launch by Hema Diagnostic Systems (Miami Beach, Florida) of the Rapid-1-2-3 platform technology, an immunochromatographic testing system for infectious diseases, as a major breakthrough in the infectious disease testing efforts of both companies. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... American Bio Medica (ABMC; Kinderhook, New York) reported the launch by Hema Diagnostic Systems (Miami Beach, Florida) of the Rapid-1-2-3 platform technology, an immunochromatographic testing system for infectious diseases, as a major...

Nova Biomedical. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Nova Biomedical (Waltham, Massachusetts) received FDA clearance for the full test menu used on its Stat profile Critical Care Xpress Analyzer, including co-oximetry. With the inclusion of co-oximetry, the analyzer incorporates a total of 19...

OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), a developer of oral fluid diagnostics, reported publication of results of the first large-scale study of oral fluid drug testing in private industry with its Intercept testing system. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), a developer of oral fluid diagnostics, reported publication of results of the first large-scale study of oral fluid drug testing in private industry with its Intercept testing system. The results...

Oridion Systems (Jerusalem, Israel) received approval from the FDA to market its Helicobacter pylori bacteria breath test kit. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Oridion Systems (Jrerusalem, Israel) received approval from the FDA to market its Helicobacter pylori bacteria breath test kit. The company said the kit, with its BreathID Breath Test System, enables physicians to test for the bacteria, which...

Roche Diagnostics. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Following the recent FDA clearance of Roche Diagnostics' (Basel, Switzerland) COBAS AmpliScreen System for the blood banking industry, Roche has reported FDA clearance of the first two tests that are designed for use with the system--the...

SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said its SimpleChoice diabetes subsidiary will market the first Level 1-certified over-the-counter fingerstick hemoglobin A1c (glycohemoglobin) test for people with diabetes. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said its SimpleChoice diabetes subsidiary will market the first Level 1-certified over-the-counter fingerstick hemoglobin Alc (glycohemoglobin) test for people with diabetes. The company said Level 1 certification...

Stroke is focus of Proteome-Biosite accord. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Proteome Sciences plc (Cobham, UK) has entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement in the field of stroke with Biosite (San Diego California), a developer of diagnostic assays. Under the terms of the deal, Proteome Sciences will...

Toshiba America Medical Systems. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) received FDA marketing clearance on its Cardiac Functional Analysis software package for the Aquilion 16, the company's 16-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner. Performing segmented...

Tm Bioscience (Toronto, Ontario) and MetriGenix (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported the launch of the Tm100 Universal Array on MetriGenix's 4D Assay System. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... * Tm Bioscience (Toronto, Ontario) and MetriGenix (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported the launch of the Tm100 Universal Array on MetriGenix's 4D Assay System. The launch of the Tm100 Universal Array meets a goal of the licensing agreement between...

Atherosclerosis test developed. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Metabometrix Ltd. (London) has developed a blood test it says can replace angiograms in the detection of atherosclerosis. The test involves measuring the magnetic properties of the blood sample by nuclear magnetic resonance and analyzing the...

Roche/ExonHit develop BSE test. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
January 2, 2003... Roche Applied Sciences (Penzberg, Germany) and ExonHit Therapeutics (Paris) have under development a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) test for live animals. ExonHit's qualitative gene profiling DATAS (Differential Analysis of Transcripts...

Diagnostic is `first to benefit' from genomics, consumerism. (JPMorgan H&Q Healthcare Conference).(Quest Diagnostics Inc. )(industry trends and forecasts)
January 9, 2003... SAN FRANCISCO, California--With more than 70% of healthcare decisions being driven by a diagnostic test, Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) chairman and CEO Kenneth Fereeman sees continued steady growth for the diagnostic sector in...

G. Kelly Martin to head up Elan; new CFO at pyrosequencing. (Report from Europe).(Elan Corporation PLC)(PyroSequencing AB)
January 9, 2003... The board of embattled pharmaceutical and diagnostics firm Elan (Dublin, Ireland) has named C. Kelly Martin as the company's new president and CEO, with the appointment effective Feb. 3. Martin will also serve as a member of the company's...

Quest to divest in N. California as answer to FTC concerns. (Deals roundup).(Quest Diagnostics Inc.)(Federal Trade Commission)
January 9, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Rather than call off their lengthy merger engagement, potential lab sector mates Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, NewJersey) and Unilab (Tarzana, California) late last week unveiled specific changes in...

OmniCorder's infrared tech: a new `vision of the future'?(OmniCorder Technologies)
January 9, 2003... The past 12 to 24 months suggests a future much brighter for OmniCorder Technologies (East Setauket, New York), or so thinks its founder and CEO Mark Fauci. The December 2002 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurosurgery features a...

Parexel teams up with Quest for co-marketing of services. (Agreements roundup).(PAREXEL International Corp.)(Quest Diagnostics Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Parexel International (Boston, Massachusetts) a worldwide biopharmaceutical outsourcing company, and Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey), have formed a collaboration in which Parexel and Quest...

Welch Allyn Monitoring (Beaverton, Oregon) and Mortara Instrument (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) said they have signed a licensing agreement that provides Welch Allyn Monitoring with access to Mortara Instrument's Veritas cardiology technology for its Flexible Monitoring care products. (Agreements roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Welch Allyn Monitoring (Beaverton, Oregon) and Mortara Instrument (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) said they have signed a licensing agreement that provides Welch Allyn Monitoring with access to Mortara Instrument's Veritas cardiology technology for...

Axeda System. (Agreements roundup).(licensing agreement between Axeda Systems Inc. and Chiron Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts), a provider of device relationship management (DRM) enterprise software and services, announced that Chiron (Emeryville, California), a market leader in blood screening for hepatitis C and HIV-1, has...

Nymox, Pheromone raise funds via new private placements. (Financings roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Nymox Pharmaceutical (St. Laurent, Quebec) said it received private placements of $712,500. The placements were priced at $3.75 to $4.10 a share (178,500 common shares with no warrants). The...

Ivax Diagnostic. (Financings roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Ivax Diagnostics (Miami, Florida) said its board of directors has authorized the additional repurchase of up to 1 million shares of its publicly held common stock. The company has about 27.6 million shares outstanding, of which 7.6 million...

LabOne. (Financings roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) reported the prepayment $15 million of Series A senior subordinated notes, 11% coupon at 103% of principal on Dec. 31. The notes were originally issued in August 2001 as part of its financing of the acquisition of...

Proteome Biosite in POC pact for stroke.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... Proteome Sciences (London) has projected that it will be the first to commercialize a product based on proteomics when it recently announced a deal to sue its protein biomarkers for stroke in point-of-care diagnostic equipment. The company...

Genomatica wins SBIR award for drug toxicity prediction. (Grants/contract news).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Genomatica (San Diego, California), a developer of in Silico biology systems, said it has received a Small Business Innovative Research (SSIR) Grant from the Department of Defense, Defense Advanced...

TriPath Oncology. (Agreements roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * TriPath Oncology (Burlington, North Carolina), a wholly owned subsidiary of TriPath Imaging, has signed a definitive agreement with AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida) to commercialize a novel gene expression assay for malignant melanoma. The...

Quinton Cardiology. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Quinton Cardiology (Bothell, Washington) reported that it has closed on the previously announced acquisition of Burdick (Deerfield, Wisconsin), a cardiology business subsidiary of the Spacelabs Medical division of Instrumentarium for 524...

Elan (Dublin, Ireland), together with the other stockholders of Elan's subsidiary, Athena Diagnostics (Worcester, Massachusetts), has completed the sale of all of the outstanding stock of Athena Diagnostics to Behrman Capital and certain of its affiliated investment funds. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Elan (Dublin, Ireland), together with the other stockholders of Elan's subsidiary, Athena Diagnostics (Worcester, Massachusetts), has completed the sale of all of the outstanding stock of Athena Diagnostics to Behrman Capital and certain of...

AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a national provider of cancer diagnostics, genomic, and related information services, has acquired Nuclear Medicine and Pathology Associates (Augusta, Georgia) and Reference Pathology Services (Sandy, Utah). (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a national provider of cancer diagnostics, genomic, and related information services, has acquired Nuclear Medicine and Pathology Associates (Augusta, Georgia) and Reference Pathology Services (Sandy,...

Healthcare Technologies (Kiryat Minrav, Israel) said that it and its subsidiary, Savyon Diagnostics Ltd. (Ashdod, Israel), entered into an agreement with Dr. Martin Lee, founder and former CEO of Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory, to organize a new Israeli company to acquire Savyon's clinical laboratory diagnostics business for a purchase price of about $1.9 million. (Deals roundup).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Healthcare Technologies (Kiryat Minrav, Israel) said that it and its subsidiary, Savyon Diagnostics Ltd. (Ashdod, Israel), entered into an agreement with Dr. Martin Lee, founder and former CEO of Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory, to...

Thomas Grant, chairman, president and CEO of LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) cited the growth of that provider of risk assessment services and healthcare and substance abuse testing. (JPMorgan H&Q Healthcare Conference).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Thomas Grant, chairman, president and CEO of LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) cited the growth of that provider of risk assessment services and healthcare and substance abuse testing. He said LabOne conducts some 50,000 life insurance risk assessment...

Fisher Scientific. (JPMorgan H&Q Healthcare Conference).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Fisher Scientific (Hampton, New Hampshire), a provider of lab equipment to scientific researchers and clinical labs, said it sees the latter market growing consistently in the 3% to 4% range. "The graying of the baby boomers has a direct...

Atlas Medical moves, triples space.(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... Atlas Medical Technologies (Ontario, California) moved to a 25,000-square-foot facility in Ontario. The new location, it said, more than triples the company's previous capacity for producing refurbished CT and MRI scanners. Atlas Medical said...

School competition features NicAlert. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... Nymox Pharmaceutical (Basel, Switzerland) reported the conclusion of the first phase of a "stop smoking" campaign among high school students in Basel, using the company's NicAlert test to determine smoking product exposure levels in a...

Apogent Technologies. (People in Places).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Jeffrey Leathe has resigned his positions as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire). Dennis Brown, who served as Apogent's chief financial officer from 1993 until...

International Remote Imaging System. (People in Places).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Dr. Kshitij Mohan has been named president and CEO of International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS; Chatsworth, California). Mohan is a former chief of all medical device evaluations at the FDA and a former science examiner in the White House...

Eko Systems (Fairfax, Virginia) and Criticare Systems (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) reported a new product line consisting of Criticare Systems' line of physiological monitors and Eko systems' JEM technology called "DataCap". (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Eko Systems (Fairfax, Virginia) and Criticare Systems (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) reported a new product line consisting of Criticare Systems' line of physiological monitors and Eko systems' JEM technology called "DataCap". DataCap is a Windows...

Given Imaging. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Given Imaging (Atlanta, Georgia) said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a code and payment rate for capsule endoscopy for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The decision comes just 16 months after the M2A...

Metrika. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Metrika (Sunnyvale, California) has received FDA clearance to make its AlcNow diabetes monitor available to patients over-the-counter. AlcNow is the only diabetes test for use at home to obtain immediate glycated hemoglobin (HbAlc or AlC)...

Nymox Pharmaceutical. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * Nymox Pharmaceutical's (Maywood, New Jersey) said that its NicAlert enables physicians to quickly and easily determine the smoking status of their patients with chronic conditions where smoking is clearly contraindicated. The company said...

QRS Diagnostic. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * With the release of MedicSync, QRS Diagnostic (Minneapolis, Minnesota) now enables users of its Office Medic and Pocket Medic software to synchronize databases of patients' physiological data collected with QRS computer card medical devices....

UltraVisual Medical System. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 9, 2003... * UltraVisual Medical Systems (Madison, Wisconsin), a developer of scalable digital image management solutions, recently demonstrated systems integration and interoperability using its open standards-based products. VisualPACS, which physicians...

Beckman Coulter, Labcorp, alliance see growth in future. (JPMorgan H&Q Healthcare Conference).
January 16, 2003... SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Laboratory equipment manufacturer Beckman Coulter (BC; Fullerton, California) core strategy may have the most concise core strategy in the medical products universe: Simplify, automate, innovate. President and...

BD enters glucose monitoring, teams with MiniMed, Eli Lilly. (Agreements roundup).
January 16, 2003... BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.; Franklin Lakes, New Jersey), heretofore Focused on the injectable systems, surgical supplies and lab instruments markets, has introduced its first products in the blood glucose monitoring sector and done so with...

deCode and Roche diagnostics identify osteoporosis risk gene. (Report from Europe).
January 16, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report deCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany) reported that deCode scientists have identified specific variations within a single gene that confer significant...

With inventory high, Cygnus cuts `03 GlucoWatch forecast.
January 16, 2003... Cygnus (Redwood City, California) is downshifting its predictions for units of the company's GlucoWatch G2 Biographer expected to be shipped in 2003. The G2 Biographer is a watch-like device for measuring glucose levels in patients with...

GE's Finnish subsidiary begins tender offer for instrumentarium. (Deals roundup).
January 16, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report General Electric Finland Oy, a wholly owned Finnish subsidiary of General Electric (GE; Fairfield, Connecticut), said it has commenced the tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of...

Guidant among investors as CardioNet raises another $13M. (Financings roundup).
January 16, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report CardioNet (San Diego, California) said it has raised a total of $13 million in an expansion of its C round of venture financing, bringing the total amount raised in that round to $32 million. ...

Mutant gene for Parkinson's presages prenatal diagnosis. (From the Lab).
January 16, 2003... Out in California two decades ago, a bunch of heroin addicts tried shooting up a new synthetic designer narcotic they'd heard about. They ended up injecting a chemical toxin known as MPTP that sent four of them to the hospital with irreversible...

Alliance Imaging. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Paul Viviano has been named president and chief operating officer for Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California) and a member of the company's board of directors. Viviano fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Jamie Hopping in June 2002....

Calypte Biomedical. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Richard George, MD, has been named vice president of governmental affairs for Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California). Previously, George was senior vice president of research and development for infectious diseases at OraSure Technologies....

Enterix. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Nell Schlackman, MD, has been named medical director for Enterix (Falmouth, Maine). Schlackman previously was senior corporate medical director of Aetna U.S. Healthcare. Enterix is a diagnostics firm which has developed the inSure...

ITF Optical Technologies. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * ITF Optical Technologies (Montreal, Quebec) has appointed Mervat Faltas acting president and CEO. Faltas has been with ITF for 2 1/2 years, most recently as chief operating officer. Faltas succeeds Eric Geoffrion, who will be leaving the...

ResMed. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... Kieran Gallahue has been named president and chief operating officer of ResMed (San Diego, California). Gallahue previously was with Nanogen, where he held a number of positions, including president, chief financial officer and vice president,...

RF Industries. (People In Places).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Manny Gutsche has been named vice president of sales and marketing for RF Industries (RFI; San Diego, California), replacing Les Perlman, who has taken an extended leave of absence, according to the company. Gutsche previously was sales...

Cbyon. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Cbyon (Mountain View, California), which focuses on surgical visualization and navigation systems, has received approval from the National Standards Authority of Ireland notified body to affix the CE mark to its flagship product, Cbyon Suite....

Diametrics Medical. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Diametrics Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) filed a 510(k) application with the FDA for a creatinine test, for use with its IRMA (immediate Response Mobile Analysis) SL Blood Analysis System. The system is a portable blood analyzer that performs...

Given Imaging. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said information from a prospective trial comparing small bowel follow-through with video capsule endoscopy for suspected small bowel disease was published in the October 2002 issue of Gastroenterology. The...

i-STAT. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * i-STAT (East Windsor, New Jersey), a manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic systems for blood analysis, said that clinical trials of an i-STAT System cartridge to detect the presence of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a marker observed in...

Masimo (Irvine, California) said a new study presented at the annual meeting of the society for technology in Anesthesia meeting in San Diego, California, by Steven Barker, PhD, MD.(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * Masimo (Irvine, California) said a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia meeting in San Diego, California, by Steven Barker, PhD, MD, of the department of anesthesiology at the University of...

Meridian Bioscience. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been granted FDA clearance to market an additional claim related to its ImmunoCard Stat! E. coli 0157 Plus, a test that identifies the most dangerous Shiga toxin-producing E. cola bacteria that can...

OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which focuses on oral fluid diagnostics, said it has shipped more than 50,000 OraQuick rapid HIV-1 antibody tests to Abbott Laboratories (Abbot Park, Illinois). (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which Focuses on oral fluid diagnostics, said it has shipped more than 50,000 OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Tests to Abbott. Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois). The order was completed in late...

SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said it has re-initiated development work on its continuous glucose monitoring technology. (Product Briefs).(Brief Article)
January 16, 2003... * SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said it has re-initiated development work on its continuous glucose monitoring technology. SpectRx last week said that it was ending its development and license agreement with Abbott Laboratories, which Abbott...

LabCorp finishes Dianon buy; Variagenics turns away Acacia. (Deals roundup).(Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings)(Dianon Systems Inc.)(Variagenics Inc.)(Acacia Research)(various articles on mergers and acquisitions)
January 23, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff report Independent clinical laboratory testing services provider Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) has completed its previously announced acquisition of...

NHS issues diagnosis center tenders for 45 new cites. (Report from Europe).(National Health Service)(Brief Article)
January 23, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has given the first details of the 45 new diagnosis and treatment centers to be established in the UK and operated by commercial firms. The centers will...

Autopsies show discrepancies between clinician, pathologist.
January 23, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer Despite the fact that in 1994--the last year for which there is data--autopsies for all non-forensic deaths fell to about 6% from a high of 50% in the 1960s, autopsies continue to detect discrepancies...

Antibody blood test designed to manage prostate cancer. (From the Lab).
January 23, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Science Editor Annually, 35,000 to 40,000 American men die of prostate cancer (PC). Another 200,000 are diagnosed with the malignancy, which is the second-leading cause of neoplastic deaths among U.S. males. PC is...

Compugen, DPC in deal on prostate cancer assays. (Agreements roundup).(CardioMag Imaging Inc.)(Compugen Inc.)
January 23, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Diagnostic Products (DPC; Los Angeles) and Compugen (Tel Aviv, Israel) reported that that Compugen granted to Diagnostic Products a license to develop and commercialize diagnostic assays based on...

CardioMag gets $500,000; Cytyc to repurchase stock. (Financings roundup).(CardioMag Imaging Inc.)(Cytyc Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 23, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report CardioMag Imaging (CMI; Schenectady, New York), a developer of imaging and medical diagnostic devices for the early detection of heart disease, said it received a $500,000 investment from Empire...

Lab firm again awarded prison contract.(Bio-Reference Laboratories Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 23, 2003... Bio-Reference Laboratories (Elmwood Park, New Jersey) said the New York State Department of Corrections has awarded the Bio-Reference MediLabs division a contract to provide basic clinical laboratory services to all New York state prisons for a...