Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from January 2006

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from January 2006

CAS is 2nd company to win U.S. cerebral oximeter okay.(Company overview)
January 5, 2006... With its FDA 510(k) clearance last week, CAS Medical Systems (Branford, Connecticut) became the second company to have a cerebral oximeter monitor approved for sale on the U.S. market. The company's Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Adult...

NCI study shows chest X-rays produce many false positives.
January 5, 2006... A new study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; both Bethesda, Maryland), shows that screening for lung cancer with chest X-rays can detect early lung cancer but also can produce many...

UK genetic study offering up new clues for surviving sepsis.(Report from Europe)(Report)
January 5, 2006... LONDON -- Whether someone survives the multiple organ failure that can follow severe infection--a condition known as sepsis--might depend on whether they have a certain variant of DNA within their mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles...

2005: a year of big non-events but set for '06 achievement.(News analysis)
January 5, 2006... If the year 2005 was anything, it was a period of transition for the med-tech arena. Or more precisely--and more wordily--it was a year when a variety of things were set to happen, or supposed to happen, and then didn't take place, but are now...

Quidel reports new claims for QuickVue Influenza test.(Clinical report)
January 5, 2006... Quidel (San Diego), a provider of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, reported that it has obtained FDA clearance for it what it called "new and improved" claims for the QuickVue Influenza A+B test. The company's QuickVue Influenza...

As one very large-scale project launches, another is called for.(Beating cancer the high-throughput way)
January 5, 2006... Big Science had a busy time this past month, with one large-scale project, the Cancer Genome Atlas, announced on Dec. 13 and another, the Human Epigenome Project, called for by cancer researchers Dec. 15. "It's amazing how the timing worked...

Spirus Medical raises $5.9M; Corgenix closes two financings.(Financings roundup)
January 5, 2006... Spirus Medical (Stoughton, Massachusetts), a developer of diagnostic and therapeutic systems for gastroenterology, urology and gynecology, reported raising $5.9 million in a Series A preferred stock financing. BioVentures Investors, Point...

HealthSouth rejects Scrushy's call for $100m in severance, bonuses.(Court report)(Richard Scrushy)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) has rejected founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy's demand for more than $100 million in severance pay and bonuses. "Scrushy systematically plundered HealthSouth by directing enormous accounting fraud,...

Bridgetech files for listing.(Briefly Noted)(Bridgetech Holdings International)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... Bridgetech Holdings International (San Diego), a company focused on maximizing the potential of emerging healthcare products and services in China and the U.S., has filed its Form 10-SB registration statement with the Securities and Exchange...

DGT acquires Italian subsidiary; clinical data acquires Elekta.(Deals roundup)(Del Global Technologies)
January 5, 2006... Del Global Technologies (DGT; Valhalla, New York) reported that it has acquired the remaining shares of capital stock of its Italian subsidiary, Villa Sistemi Medicali (Milan, Italy), that it did not already own. The company had previously...

Perlegen, Pfizer in accord on patient-response gene studies.(Agreements roundup)
January 5, 2006... Perlegen Sciences (Mountain View, California) reported a four-year research collaboration with Pfizer (New York) for whole genome and replication studies that may identify genes associated with major diseases and predict patient responses to...

SunGard Availability Services (Wayne, Pennsylvania) reported a strategic alliance with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut) to deliver SunGard's Service for Medical Images (SMI).(Agreements roundup)
January 5, 2006... SunGard Availability Services (Wayne, Pennsylvania) reported a strategic alliance with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut) to deliver SunGard's Service for Medical Images (SMI), a study management service to store and access digital images...

IVD harmonization sought.(Report from Europe)(in vitro diagnostic)
January 5, 2006... In a move aimed at harmonizing diagnostics regulations, the European parliament last month amended the medical devices directive (MDD) of 1993 to bring in the IVD directive (98/79/EC) in 1998. The directive is made up of a number of...

CardioMag trades on AIM in London.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... CardioMag Imaging (Schenectady, New York), developer of a non-invasive Magnetocardiograph (MCG) heart function visualization product for the cardiology community, said that its common stock has been admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the...

bioMerieux exercises RNA option.(Report from Europe)
January 5, 2006... Gen-Probe (San Diego) said bioMerieux SA (Marcy L'Etoile, France) has exercised a second option to develop diagnostic products for certain undisclosed disease targets using Gen-Probe's ribosomal RNA technologies, pursuant to a year-old...

AABB joins Lab Tests Online.(Briefly Noted)
January 5, 2006... AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks; Washington) is the newest partner to join the professional collaboration behind Lab Tests Online (www.labtestsonline.org), the award-winning patient education web site for...

Imaging Diagnostics contracts with M Squared.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI; Fort Lauderdale, Florida) said that M Squared Associates (Washington) has been selected by IDSI to audit and monitor the company's clinical trials. M Squared Associates will provide both expertise in...

Howard Stern, co-founder of E-Z-EM and AngioDynamics, dead at age 74.(Obituary)
January 5, 2006... Howard Stern, co-founder of E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York) and its AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) division, which he co-founded in 1988, has passed away as the result of brain cancer. He was 74. Stern co-founded E-Z-EM in 1962 to...

Life Therapeutics.(People in Places)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... Helen Nasser has been appointed CFO of Life Therapeutics (Atlanta), effective Jan. 1. Current CEO John Manusu will assume the post of executive director and will reside in Australia, where the company originated. Nasser has served Life...

Omron Healthcare.(People in Places)
January 5, 2006... Isao Ogino, general manager of marketing and business development of Omron Healthcare Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan), will assume the role of CEO of Omron Healthcare (Bannockburn, Illinois), succeeding the organization's current chairman and CEO, Kaz...

PDI.(People in Places)
January 5, 2006... Beth Jacobson has resigned as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of PDI (Saddle River, New Jersey). PDI is a diversified sales and marketing services provider to the diagnostics, medical device and...

Sourcebook offers overview of cardiovascular tech sector.
January 5, 2006... Advances in Cardiovascular Technology: State of the Industry and Emerging Markets, Vol. 3, is now available from the publishers of Medical Device Daily. This sourcebook provides a comprehensive overview of recent leading-edge developments...

Clario Medical Imaging.(Product Briefs)
January 5, 2006... Clario Medical Imaging (Seattle), the medical imaging subsidiary of LumenIQ, reported that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its z3D Contrast Acuity software. z3D initially will be distributed to customers through a license...

Digirad.(Product Briefs)
January 5, 2006... Digirad (Poway, California), a provider of cardiovascular imaging services and solid-state nuclear medicine imaging products, reported the completion of the clinical testing of its mobile Cardius-3M imaging system. Digirad's subsidiary, Digirad...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)
January 5, 2006... Nanogen (San Diego), developer of advanced diagnostic products, reported that its subsidiary Epoch Biosciences has been issued two patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for technologies related to genetic analysis. U.S. patent No....

Spacelabs Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington), a provider of patient monitoring systems, reported the availability of a wireless networking option for its UltraviewSL compact monitors that is capable of operating on a hospital' existing wireless...

SpectraScience.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 5, 2006... SpectraScience (Minneapolis) reported that it has received notification from the European Patent Office that a patent will be issued for its "optical Biopsy Forceps and Method of Diagnosing Tissue." The company has developed its WavStat Optical...

Patient monitoring and HIT are growth sectors for Medtronic.(JPMorgan Healthcare Conference)
January 12, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO -- Stepping to the podium shortly after a JPMorgan Chase (New York) official hailed the "compelling" economics of healthcare as a sector of interest for investors, Medtronic (Minneapolis) Chairman and CEO Art Collins offered up...

BD to acquire molecular test firm GeneOhm for $230 million.(Becton, Dickinson)
January 12, 2006... In what is the largest new healthcare deal thus far in 2006, BD (Becton, Dickinson; Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) said it will acquire GeneOhm Sciences (San Diego), a privately held company developing molecular testing for the rapid detection of...

GeneLink wins Australian patent for assessing oxidative stress.(International report)
January 12, 2006... GeneLink (Jersey City, New Jersey) reported that the Australian patent office issued it a patent for its oxidative stress test, entitled "Kits and methods for assessing oxidative stress," the second patent it has received for a family of...

SpectRx completes beta phase of cervical cancer test device.
January 12, 2006... SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported that it has built and successfully tested its first pre-production, non-invasive cervical cancer detection device, a device that, if approved, could immediately shift a market long-dependent on Pap testing....

FDA clears Roche NT-proBNP test for cardiac risk assessment.
January 12, 2006... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) has received FDA clearance for what the company says is the first and only natriuretic peptide test to be green-lighted by the FDA for risk assessment of cardiac events in people with stable coronary artery...

Cancer experts gather at BrainLAB symposium.
January 12, 2006... BrainLAB (Westchester, Illinois) reported that more than 60 medical experts from 40 cancer centers in 23 states gathered at its first U.S. BrainLAB Radiotherapy user meeting at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Orlando). The two-day conference, titled...

GE Healthcare closes $1.2b acquisition of HIT firm IDX.
January 12, 2006... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported completing its $1.2 billion acquisition of IDX Systems (South Burlington, Vermont), a healthcare information technology (HIT) provider. Together, the companies said they will create a leading HIT...

XDx adds $26.5m in new equity; Eragen raises 'A' $12 million.(Financings roundup)
January 12, 2006... XDx (South San Francisco), a molecular diagnostics company, reported completing a $26.5 million financing, with a post-money valuation of more than $115 million. Duff, Ackerman & Goodrich led the investment, with participation from Intel...

Applera restructures Celera j-v; Kyphon acquires InnoSpine.(Deals roundup)
January 12, 2006... Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) said its board of directors has approved a restructuring of its Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) joint venture, whereby, effective Jan. 1, Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California) has transferred its...

Natus Medical (San Carlos, California) reported completing its purchase of Bio-logic Systems (Mundelein, Illinois) through the acquisition of all Bio-logic common stock for $8.77 a share.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Natus Medical (San Carlos, California) reported completing its purchase of Bio-logic Systems (Mundelein, Illinois) through the acquisition of all Bio-logic common stock for $8.77 a share. In addition, for each share that was subject to a...

Applied Biosystems in DNA pact with Hitachi High-Technologies.(Agreements roundup)
January 12, 2006... Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), an Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) business, reported that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Hitachi High-Technologies, an affiliate of Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo) to develop and...

Charles River Laboratories International (Wilmington, Massachusetts), a provider of systems used for drug discovery and development, and Luminex (Austin, Texas) reported that they have entered into a licensing agreement whereby Charles River will use Luminex's xMAP technology within Charles River's Research Models and Services business segment.(Agreements roundup)
January 12, 2006... Charles River Laboratories International (Wilmington, Massachusetts), a provider of systems used for drug discovery and development, and Luminex (Austin, Texas) reported that they have entered into a licensing agreement whereby Charles River...

Cangen Biotechnologies (Bethesda, Maryland) reported expansion of its ongoing research collaboration with Olympus (Tokyo), initiated in May 2005, to develop a hybrid DNA-based and protein-based test for early detection of lung cancer.(Agreements roundup)(Clinical report)
January 12, 2006... Cangen Biotechnologies (Bethesda, Maryland) reported expansion of its ongoing research collaboration with Olympus (Tokyo), initiated in May 2005, to develop a hybrid DNA-based and protein-based test for early detection of lung cancer. The...

Diagnostic Ultrasound (DU; Bothell, Washington), a provider of hand-held ultrasound instruments, reported purchasing Saturn Biomedical Systems (Burnaby, British Columbia), a manufacturer of the GlideScope video laryngoscope.(Deals roundup)
January 12, 2006... Diagnostic Ultrasound (DU; Bothell, Washington), a provider of hand-held ultrasound instruments, reported purchasing Saturn Biomedical Systems (Burnaby, British Columbia), a manufacturer of the GlideScope video laryngoscope. Saturn's...

Imagin Molecular (Oak Brook, Illinois) reported forming a wholly owned subsidiary, Imagin Nuclear Partners (INP) that will own , operate and administer out-patient medical diagnostic imaging centers that utilize positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (CT) scanning equipment.(Deals roundup)
January 12, 2006... Imagin Molecular (Oak Brook, Illinois) reported forming a wholly owned subsidiary, Imagin Nuclear Partners (INP) that will own, operate and administer out-patient medical diagnostic imaging centers that utilize positron emission tomography...

Breast MRI CAD gets CPT code.(Briefly Noted)
January 12, 2006... CAD Sciences (White Plains, New York) reported the creation of the first ever Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code that can be used for Breast MRI CAD. The new CPT code was established by the American Medical Association...

PhotoCure grants rights to GE Healthcare.(International report)
January 12, 2006... PhotoCure (Oslo, Norway) reported that it has provided exclusive licensing rights to GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, England), outside of the U.S. and the Nordic region, to market Hexvix (hexaminolevulinate), PhotoCure's optical molecular...

Vasamed's AcQtrac CE-marked.(International report)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Vasamed (Minneapolis), a developer of non-invasive, hemodynamic assessment technology, reported receiving the CE mark for its new AcQtrac System which provides real-time measurements of hemodynamic parameters that allow physicians to manage a...

Minrad unveils new international pacts.(International report)(Minrad International)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Minrad International (Buffalo, New York) reported six new international contracts, four for inhalation anesthetics and two for its real-time, image-guided medical devices. The company said that the contracts are expected to produce a...

Spirus Medical.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Spirus Medical (Stoughton, Massachusetts), specializing in the use of helix technology for ease of access in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, has received $5.9 million in a first-round Series A preferred stock financing from STD Med (also...

Xillix Technologies.(Financings roundup)
January 12, 2006... Xillix Technologies (Richmond, British Columbia) reported receiving new financing of $5.5 million from Hercules Technology Growth Capital (Palo Alto, California), a debt-and-equity capital provider to technology and life science companies....

Advanced BioPhotonics.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Advanced BioPhotonics (Bohemia, New York) said it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that serves to complete the second milestone of its previously reported financing. The company received $1...

Biophan Technologies.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Biophan Technologies (Rochester, New York) said it has amended an agreement with financing partner SBI Brightline XI for the sale of up to 10 million shares of its stock, to be sold in tranches of 1 million shares each at a price of $3 a share,...

Anrad.(Anrad promotes Mervat Faltas)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Mervat Faltas, vice president of operations for Anrad (Saint-Laurent, Quebec) has been named president of Anrad. Faltas joined Anrad in July 2005, as vice president of operations. Previously, he served as president and CEO of ITF Optical...

Paradigm Medial Industries.(People in Places)
January 12, 2006... Raymond Cannefax has been named president and CEO of Paradigm Medical Industries (Salt Lake City), replacing John Yoon, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Cannefax previously served as Paradigm's vice president of sales and...

Intact Medical.(People in Places)
January 12, 2006... Daniel Beney has been appointed vice president of sales of Intact Medical (Natick, Massachusetts). Previously Beney served as director of sales, Eastern area, for Conceptus. Intact Medical develops minimally invasive systems for the volumetric...

Xenomics.(Xenomics Inc. appoints Dr. David Robbins )(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Dr. David Robbins has been named vice president of product development for Xenomics (New York), to accelerate the commercialization of the company's non-invasive technology based on proprietary Transrenal-DNA. Robbins led the development and...

Husband/wife team to lead branch of NHGRI.
January 12, 2006... The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI; Baltimore) reported the appointment of a husband-and-wife scientific team, Joan Bailey-Wilson, PhD, and Alexander Wilson, PhD, as the new co-chiefs of its Inherited Disease Research Branch,...

Medical Home Products (MHP; St. Petersburg, Florida) said it has completed its agreement to merge with Sequoia Asset Management (Encinitas, California).(Deals roundup)
January 12, 2006... Medical Home Products (MHP; St. Petersburg, Florida) said it has completed its agreement to merge with Sequoia Asset Management (Encinitas, California). MHP said the move will further broaden its overall product portfolio and accelerates...

Biosite.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Biosite (San Diego) reported submitting a 510(k) application with the FDA for diagnostic tests for myeloperoxidase (MPO), a biomarker of inflammation in the walls of coronary arteries. Biosite said it plans to offer a single Triage MPO Test and...

CAS Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
January 12, 2006... CAS Medical Systems (Branford, Connecticut) said that the FDA has cleared for marketing its new Model 750E Series Monitor. Coming just six months after the launch of the 750C Monitor, the 750E incorporates either 3- or 5-lead ECG with impedance...

Mediscience Technology.(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) reported filing an investigational device exemption application with the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The filing is subject to evaluation by the FDA to determine when a...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)
January 12, 2006... Nanogen (San Diego) said it has expanded its molecular reagent product portfolio to include two new products to detect sequences for respiratory viral pathogens: a multiplex solid-phase hybridization set of reagents that can be employed to...

Welch Allyn.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Welch Allyn (Skaneateles Falls, New York) introduced a new aneroid to complete its line of sphygmomanometers featuring DuraShock technology, the company's gear-free, shock-resistant innovation in blood pressure product design. The new blood...

Xoft.(Product Briefs)
January 12, 2006... Xoft (Fremont, California), a developer of new technologies for the practice of radiation oncology through electronic brachytherapy, which uses proprietary miniaturized X-ray tube technology, reported that it has received clearance from the FDA...

Zila.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 12, 2006... Zila (Phoenix) said it has enrolled the first patients in its Phase III clinical trial for OraTest, its oral cancer detection product. Zila began its new Phase III clinical trial after reaching an agreement under the FDA's special protocol...

Diag firms attract investor interest as test value grows.(JPMorgan Healthcare Conference)
January 19, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO -- Those involved with the medical diagnostics sector like to refer to how diagnostics--despite accounting for under 5% of hospital costs and less than 2% of total healthcare expenditures--are responsible for between 60% and 70%...

Lab equipment makers pushing new systems to meet lab needs.(JPMorgan Healthcare Conference)
January 19, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO -- As diagnostic test makers roll out new products as part of sector-wide growth (see accompanying story), the labs that run such tests are being peppered with pitches for new equipment on which to do their work. Almost in...

Proteome technologies used in identifying biomarkers for HD.(International report)
January 19, 2006... Proteome Systems (Sydney, Australia) reported an "early outcome" from its collaboration with the HighQ Foundation (New York) in identifying multiple biomarkers for Huntington's disease (HD) using its Proteom discovery platforms. It said...

BD Diagnostics gets FDA nod for its Viper robotics system.(International report)
January 19, 2006... BD Diagnostics (Baltimore) reported that the FDA has granted clearance for a robotic system called the BD Viper System that can essentially mimic the laboratory movements of a lab technologist for in vitro infectious disease molecular...

TomoTherapy adds 'E' $14m; Matritech closes on placement.(Financings roundup)
January 19, 2006... TomoTherapy (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that it raised $14 million of new equity capital in late December. The company said the new capital would boost its accelerating growth and expand operations as it meets what it termed "worldwide...

NanoLogix (Sharon, Pennsylvania) reported receiving a financing commitment "fostered" by The Nutmeg Group.(Financings roundup)
January 19, 2006... In other financing activity, NanoLogix (Sharon, Pennsylvania) reported receiving a financing commitment "fostered" by The Nutmeg Group. The company said that an initial commitment of $750,000 will enable it to reach key milestones in...

GTG reports lawsuit dismissal; Scrushy to appeal on repayment.(Court report)
January 19, 2006... Genetic Technologies (GTG; Melbourne, Australia) reported that via a settlement agreement executed in December, the U.S. District Court for Northern California formally dismissed the lawsuit between it and Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) on Dec....

Clinical Data in research pact with university's cancer unit.(Agreements roundup)
January 19, 2006... Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts), a developer of pharmacogenomics and clinical diagnostics, said it has entered into a collaborative research agreement with the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI; Pittsburgh). Clinical...

Source MDx reports grant for molecular diagnostics in HCV.(Grants/contracts news)
January 19, 2006... Source MDx (Boulder, Colorado) reported being awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant by the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) to develop a molecular diagnostic test that will characterize hepatitis C- (HCV) infected...

SeraCare closes acquisition of Serologicals subsidiary.(Deals roundup)
January 19, 2006... SeraCare Life Sciences (Oceanside, California) reported that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of the Milford, Massachusetts, diagnostic manufacturing facilities and product lines of the Celliance subsidiary of Serologicals...

FDA recalls immunodiagnostics kit produced by Ortho-Clinical.
January 19, 2006... The FDA has reported the recall of the Vitros Immuno-diagnostic HBsAg Confirmatory Kit made by Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (Raritan, New Jersey), saying that "an unknown component in the diluting solution used to test blood and serum samples may...

Study cites tau protein increase in AD.(Briefly Noted)
January 19, 2006... Applied NeuroSolutions (Vernon Hills, Illinois) said that according to a study soon to be published in Neurobiology of Aging an increase in a specific, abnormal brain protein appears to herald the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The...

Breast MRI CAD gets CPT code.(Briefly Noted)
January 19, 2006... CAD Sciences (White Plains, New York) reported the creation of the first-ever Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code that can be used for Breast MRI computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). The new CPT code was established by the...

Two get CE mark, one cites China progress.(International report)
January 19, 2006... Several diagnostics firms have reported recent international actions on product approval applications. * Tm Bioscience (Toronto), a developer of genetic tests, reported that its Tag-It Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Kit has won the CE mark. The...

Scottish screening program extends Cytyc pact.(International report)(Brief article)
January 19, 2006... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said the Scottish Cervical Screening Program has extended the current national contract with Cytyc UK for the supply of Cytyc's ThinPrep Pap Test to all Scottish laboratories. The exclusive contract is...

Immunicon in pact with Kreatech.(International report)
January 19, 2006... Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) reported entering into a supply and marketing license agreement with Kreatech Biotechnology (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) for use of Kreatech's Universal Linkage System (ULS) system with its...

Advanced BioPhotonics.(People in Places)
January 19, 2006... Robert Ellis has joined Advanced BioPhotonics (Bohemia, New York) as senior vice president, business development. Ellis has held executive leadership positions at GE Medical Systems and Sony Electronics. He was also the administrative director...

Aperon Biosystems.(People in Places)
January 19, 2006... Aperon Biosystems (Menlo Park, California), focused on the management of asthma, has appointed Richard Lotti as its president and CEO. Most recently, Lotti was president and CEO of Converge Medical. Aperon is developing a biosensor platform...

Cardiovascular Services of America.(People in Places)(Tim Attebery as vice president for business development )(Brief article)
January 19, 2006... Tim Attebery has been named senior vice president for business development with Cardiovascular Services of America (Brentwood, Tennessee), effective Feb. 1. Attebery has served as CEO of South Carolina Heart Center since 1998. Cardiovascular...

Digirad.(People in Places)(promotion of Mark Casner )(Brief article)
January 19, 2006... Digirad (Poway, California), a provider of cardiovascular imaging services and solid-state nuclear medicine imaging products to physician offices, hospitals and imaging centers, named Mark Casner CEO and a member of the board of directors....

Home Access Health.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
January 19, 2006... Home Access Health (Hoffman Estates, Illinois), manufacturer of the only FDA-approved at-home HIV-1 test, reported that it has begun providing next-business-day results for its Express HIV-1 Test System. The accelerated, next business-day...