Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from July 2002

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from July 2002

Challenges eyed down the road in approaching new technology. (CLMA meeting gives a glimpse into the future).
July 11, 2002... NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Predicting the future is a bit less precise than looking into a crystal ball--it's hardly an exact science. But the future of diagnostic medicine was a central theme during the late-June joint meeting of the...

Automation, informatics drive the clinical diagnostics market. (CLMA meeting gives a glimpse into the future).
July 11, 2002... NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- As discussed by various speakers at the late-June meeting of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), the reimbursement and regulatory picture for the clinical laboratory services industry is beginning to...

Free radical assays are being developed for RA, renal disease. (Report from Europe).
July 11, 2002... Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is being used by Professor Paul Winyard and his group at the Bone and Joint Research Unit of Queen Mary University (London) in free radical-based assays. The university is collaborating with...

Flares somewhat tempered between Igen and Roche.
July 11, 2002... Perhaps a spate of legal fireworks is subsiding as Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) on Tuesday reported progress over the July 4th holiday in its negotiations with Roche Diagnostics GmbH, a division of F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel,...

Cygnus garners additional $15M from Sankyo Pharma. (Financings roundup).
July 11, 2002... Sankyo Pharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company Sankyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), will make additional milestone payments of $15 million to Cygnus (Redwood City, California), a company developing glucose monitoring...

Volcano Therapeutics. (Financings roundup).
July 11, 2002... * Volcano Therapeutics (Laguna Niguel, California), an early stage medical device manufacturer, said it has completed a $24 million round of private equity financing. Volcano Therapeutics is focused on the discovery and treatment of vulnerable...

BodyMedia (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a provider of body monitoring products, has closed its Series B preferred stock financing round. (Financings roundup).
July 11, 2002... * BodyMedia (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a provider of body monitoring products, has closed its Series B preferred stock financing round. The $6.5 million round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet and included Prescient Partners II, the...

Chiron and Ortho-Clinical sponsor blood documentary. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Chiron (Emeryville, California) and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (Raritan, New Jersey), a division of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey) reported that they will jointly sponsor a PBS...

Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) and Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) have signed a long-term alliance to develop a range of in vitro molecular diagnostic products aimed at disease detection, disease progression monitoring and therapy selection. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... * Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) and Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) have signed a long-term alliance to develop a range of in vitro molecular diagnostic products aimed at disease detection, disease progression monitoring...

Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana) reported signing two three-year contracts with Novation (Irving, Texas), the supply company of VHA (also Irving) and University Health System Consortium (UHC; Oakbrook, Illinois), one for chemistry products and one for immuno-chemistry products. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... * Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana) reported signing two three-year contracts with Novation (Irving, Texas), the supply company of VHA (also Irving) and University Health System Consortium (UHC; Oakbrook, Illinois), one for chemistry...

Bio-Rad (Hercules, California) has granted Nanogen (San Diego, California) a license to the C282Y and H630 mutations of the HFE gene for use on Nanogen's NanoChip system. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... * Bio-Rad (Hercules, California) has granted Nanogen (San Diego, California) a license to the C282Y and H630 mutations of the HFE gene for use on Nanogen's NanoChip system. The two mutations are the most common for the diagnosis of Hereditary...

Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Adaltis (Montreal, Canada) whereby Adaltis will distribute Calypte's serum HIV-1 Western Blot test. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Adaltis (Montreal, Canada) whereby Adaltis will distribute Calypte's serum HIV-1 Western Blot test. Aldatis, formerly known as Biochem Immunosystems,...

Isogenica Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) has agreed to a research collaboration with Graseby Dynamics Ltd. (London), a manufacturer of nuclear, biological and chemical detection equipment for military and civil defense applications. (Agreements).
July 11, 2002... * Isogenica Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) has agreed to a research collaboration with Graseby Dynamics Ltd. (London), a manufacturer of nuclear, biological and chemical detection equipment for military and civil defense applications. The collaboration...

Instrumentarium closes on $140M Spacelabs acquisition. (Deals roundup).
July 11, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Instrumentarium (Helsinki, Finland) reported closing on the acquisition of Spacelabs Medical (Redmond, Washington). It paid $14.25 per share in cash to Spacelabs' stockholders, for a deal value...

Computerized Medical Systems (CMS; St. Louis, Missouri) has acquired Burdette Medical Systems (BMSi; Champagne, Illinois) and its subsidiary Tayman Medical (St. Louis), a supplier of real-time ultrasound-guided brachytherapy planning systems. (Deals roundup).
July 11, 2002... * Computerized Medical Systems (CMS; St. Louis, Missouri) has acquired Burdette Medical Systems (BMSi; Champagne, Illinois) and its subsidiary Tayman Medical (St. Louis), a supplier of real-time ultrasound-guided brachytherapy planning systems....

Merge Technologies (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) reported closing the acquisition of eFilm Medical (Toronto, Ontario), a developer of medical imaging and information workflow products and services, for 1 million shares of Merge common stock. (Deals roundup).
July 11, 2002... * Merge Technologies (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) reported closing the acquisition of eFilm Medical (Toronto, Ontario), a developer of medical imaging and information workflow products and services, for 1 million shares of Merge common stock. Richard...

McKesson (San Francisco, California) completed its purchase of A.L.I. Technologies (ALI; Vancouver, British Columbia), a provider of enterprise picture archiving and communications systems (PACs). (Deals roundup).
July 11, 2002... * McKesson (San Francisco, California) completed its purchase of A.L.I. Technologies (ALI; Vancouver, British Columbia), a provider of enterprise picture archiving and communications systems (PACs). The ALI product line, now known as Horizon...

UMS United Medical Systems (UMS; Westborough, Massachusetts) has agreed to acquire the lithotripsy business of Alliance Imaging (Los Angeles, California), with the acquisition expected to close in July. (Deals roundup).
July 11, 2002... * UMS United Medical Systems (UMS; Westborough, Massachusetts) has agreed to acquire the lithotripsy business of Alliance Imaging (Los Angeles, California), with the acquisition expected to close in July. The acquisition will complement's UMS'...

Avitar. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Carl Good, PhD, was named vice president of R&D at Avitar (Canton, Massachusetts), a position he previously held from 1997-2000. Good has held numerous senior level positions, including vice president of diagnostic R&D for Millipore, director...

EZ-EM. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Brad Schreck has been appointed senior vice president-global marketing at EZ-EM (Westbury, New York), a manufacturer of contrast agents. Schreck, who previously held senior marketing positions at Pfizer/Howmedica, C.R. Bard, Tyco Healthcare,...

i-STAT. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Greg Shipp, MD, has been named vice president of medical affairs, a new position, for i-STAT (East Windsor, New Jersey). Most recently, Shipp was clinical program manager for the Microvasive Urology Clinical Affairs group of Boston Scientific...

Mike Smith has been appointed senior vice president and general manager, filtration technologies group, at Minntech (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a subsidiary of Cantel Medical (Little Falls, New Jersey). (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Mike Smith has been appointed senior vice president and general manager, filtration technologies group, at Minntech (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a subsidiary of Cantel Medical (Little Falls, New Jersey). Smith formerly was vice president sales...

Lark Technologies. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * David Buck has been promoted from vice president of European operations to senior vice president of operations and scientific director for Lark Technologies (Houston, Texas), a provider of genomic services for use in pharmaceutical,...

NeuroMetrix. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Gary Gregory has been named executive vice president, worldwide sales, for NeuroMetrix (Waltham, Massachusetts). Most recently, Gregory was senior vice president of sales and marketing for Primesource. NeuroMetrix, a spin-off from the...

Nucletron. (People in Places).
July 11, 2002... * Jack Coats was named president of Nucletron (Columbia, Maryland). Most recently, he was president of medical imaging company 3dMD. Nucletron BV (Veenendaal, the Netherlands) develops radiotherapy systems and thoracic imaging equipment for...

New plate-handling system. (Report from Europe).
July 11, 2002... Thermo Labsystems (Helsinki, Finland) has recently launched the Relay linear-track robotic arm designed to serve multiple instruments simultaneously and to form flexible systems for automated microplate handling in high-throughput environments....

Calypte Biomedical. (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) presented at the International AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain, updated results on its research to develop a rapid urine-based screening test for HIV-1 antibodies. The company said that preliminary...

Given Imaging. (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said Oxford Health Plans issued a coverage policy for reimbursement of capsule endoscopy for the small intestine to those among its 1.6 million beneficiaries around New York who may suffer from diseases of the...

Luminex. (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * Luminex (Austin, Texas) said it has been awarded U.S. patent No. 6,411,904 covering methods of detecting and measuring biological analytes. The patent is for the company's "Zero Dead-Time Architecture," which the company said offers speed...

Roche Molecular Diagnostics (Pleasanton, California) said a two-year research surveillance program, titled the SENTRY study, began between it and the International Clinical Virology Center (Buckinghamshire, UK). (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * Roche Molecular Diagnostics (Pleasanton, California) said a two-year research surveillance program, titled the SENTRY study, began between it and the International Clinical Virology Center (Buckinghamshire, UK). The study will examine a...

Siemens Medical Solutions. (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Iselin, New Jersey) introduced its new multi-specialty Sonoline G60 S ultrasound imaging platform at the International Congress of Radiology, July 1-5 in Cancun, Mexico, and the EUROSON 2002 Congress, July 3-5 in...

SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said results from a clinical study of its non-invasive cervical cancer detection devices indicate that the technology could potentially reduce by half the occurrence of false positives over that reported for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. (Product Briefs).
July 11, 2002... * SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said results from a clinical study of its non-invasive cervical cancer detection devices indicate that the technology could potentially reduce by half the occurrence of false positives over that reported for human...

Stronger MRI fields offer new device/MR interaction threat.
July 18, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Managing Editor Less is usually considered more, but don't tell that to Frank Shellock, PhD, an expert on magnetic resonance imaging and the risks that occur when MRI interacts with other medical devices. ...

Advances in info systems are boosting point-of-care testing.
July 18, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Contributing Writer NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Exhibitors and speakers at last month's annual meeting of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA; Wayne, Pennsylvania) here pointed to major advances...

UK plans $45M investment in genetics, `knowledge parks'. (Report from Europe).
July 18, 2002... UK Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced in April 2001 plans by the British government to capitalize on the advantages that genetics can bring to healthcare. The government plans to invest an additional $45 million in genetic testing,...

GE Medical contributes to record quarter for its parent. (Earnings roundup).
July 18, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Weeks Staff Report In reporting record earnings for the second quarter ended June 30, General Electric (Fairfield, Connecticut) cited its GE Medical Systems (GEMS; Waukesha, Wisconsin) unit as among the leading...

Abbott Laboratories. (Earnings roundup).
July 18, 2002... Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported gains in both sales and earnings in the second quarter and six months ended June 30. Quarterly sales totaled $4.31 billion, a 5.3% increase over $4.1 billion in the year-earlier quarter,...

Bio-Logic Systems.
July 18, 2002... Bio-Logic Systems (Mundelein, Illinois) said both sales and income declined in the first quarter ended May 31 vs. year-earlier figures. Sales decreased 17% to $7.2 million from $8.7 million in the prior-year period, while net income fell to...

TomTec acquires outstanding shares held by Kretztechnik. (Financings update).
July 18, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report TomTec Imaging Systems GmbH (Munich, Germany), a provider of solutions for medical ultrasound, said its senior management was able to retrospectively acquire outstanding shares held by Kretztechnik AG...

TA Associates (Boston, Massachusetts), a private equity and buyout firms said it has completed a $20 million investment in National Imaging Associates (NIA; Hackensack, New Jersey). (Financings update).
July 18, 2002... TA Associates (Boston, Massachusetts), a private equity and buyout firms said it has completed a $20 million investment in National Imaging Associates (NIA; Hackensack, New Jersey), a provider of radiology benefits management services in the...

Primedex Health Systems. (Financings update).
July 18, 2002... Primedex Health Systems (Los Angeles, California), owner and operator of 49 California medical diagnostic imaging facilities, said it has completed a new six-year refinancing package as to a portion of its debt with its major lender. This, it...

California complaint calls EBT imaging offer a `trendy' scam. (Court report).
July 18, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The office of California Gov. Gray Davis (Sacramento) has filed a complaint vs. ScanTech Imaging and four other associated businesses, charging that those groups developed an investment scare around...

Cepheid. (Earnings roundup).
July 18, 2002... Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California), which makes systems for detecting contaminants and biological agents, reported a wider quarterly loss as it spent more to bring its GeneXpert system to market. The company had a second-quarter net loss of $5.5...

LifePoint. (Earnings roundup).
July 18, 2002... LifePoint (Ontario, California) said it recognized its first revenues in fiscal 2002 ended March 31, bringing in $135,980 with the launch of the Impact Test System. According to the firm's audited financial results, the net loss for the year...

HIV drug resistance testing. (Report from Europe).
July 18, 2002... Two types of assays are used in Europe to assess resistance to HIV drugs; genotypic resistance testing and phenotypic resistance testing. Genotypic testing is an indirect measurement of potential drug activity, while phenotypic testing is a...

Cepheid. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... John Sluis has been named chief financial officer and vice president of finance for Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California). He most recently was CFO of Vysis, sold last year to Abbott Laboratories.

Laser Diagnostic Technologies. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... Robert Foster has been named vice president of marketing to support launch of the GDx NFA product by Laser Diagnostic Technologies (San Diego, California). Most recently, Foster was president of Competitive Advantage Consulting. Laser...

Photoelectron. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... Photoelectron (Lexington, Massachusetts) has reorganized its executive management team. Timothy Baker, current COO and CFO, has been elected president. Peter Nomikos, chairman of the board, president and CEO, will retain the CEO and chairman...

Quidel. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... Bill Elliott has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president at Quidel (San Diego, California). Previously, Elliott was chairman, president and CEO of Embion. Quidel develops rapid point-of-care diagnostics.

Sontra Medical. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... Sean Moran was named CFO of Sontra Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts), completing the company's management team following completion of the merger of its predecessor corporation, ChoiceTel Communications and Sontra Medical, announced June 24....

TechniScan. (People in Places).
July 18, 2002... Barry Hanover has been named chief operating officer of TechniScan (Denver, Colorado). Additionally, William Varley has been named vice president, marketing and sales, and Matthew Warnock vice president of intellectual property. Most recently,...

New grants awarded. (Briefly Noted).
July 18, 2002... The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has awarded Glycominds (Lod, Israel) and Schott Glass Technologies (Duryea, Pennsylvania) a $1 million grant to support a collaboration aimed at developing...

BioForce Nanosciences (Ames, Iowa) has received a National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) award of $500,000, a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant, for the construction and validation of NanoArrayer instrumentation. (Briefly Noted).
July 18, 2002... BioForce Nanosciences (Ames, Iowa) has received a National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) award of $500,000, a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant, for the construction and validation of NanoArrayer...

Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California) launched its Assays-on-Demand products based on information derived from the human genome. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California) launched its Assays-on-Demand products based on information derived from the human genome. The company said it is the first commercial product line to emerge using genomic data from both the...

Greenway Medical Technologies (Carrollton, Georgia), a provider of integrated software solutions for physician practices, said its PrimeSuite now includes medical illustrations from A.D.A.M. (Atlanta, Georgia), a developer and distributor of interactive health content. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... Greenway Medical Technologies (Carrollton, Georgia), a provider of integrated software solutions for physician practices, said its PrimeSuite now includes medical illustrations from A.D.A.M. (Atlanta, Georgia), a developer and distributor of...

Nellcor (Pleasanton, California), a unit of Tyco Healthcare (Exeter, New Hampshire), recently reported on a study published in the January issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia demonstrating that its N-395 Pulse Oximeter is more accurate than competitive units during the challenging condition of motion combined with low perfusion. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... Nellcor (Pleasanton, California), a unit of Tyco Healthcare (Exeter, New Hampshire), recently reported on a study published in the January issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia demonstrating that its N-395 Pulse Oximeter is more accurate than...

Rheologics. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... Rheologics (Exton, Pennsylvania) reported adding in vitro drug development and discovery capabilities of its device, the Rheolog. With Rheologics' in vitro technology, researchers can evaluate the effect drugs have on the biophysical properties...

Siemens Medical Solutions. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... Siemens Medical Solutions (Iselin, New Jersey) said the first customers for its new-generation health information solution, Soarian, went live on the first module of the product. Soarian Clinical Access gives clinicians browser-based, real-time...

Viasys Healthcare. (Product Briefs).
July 18, 2002... The NeuroCare Division of Viasys Healthcare (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) introduced SNAP, which it calls "the first EEG monitoring tool using handheld computer technology." SNAP is a single-channel EEG device that transforms a Handspring Visor...

Large chromosome 22 segments may speed hunt for diseases. (Report from Europe).
July 18, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Correspondent LONDON -- Companies and researchers trawling the genome for mutant genes that cause disease may have their greatest success by mining large segments of chromosome 22. The reason: Those gene segments...

Automation, informatics play larger roles for lab suppliers.
July 25, 2002... As the clinical laboratory industry moves toward higher levels of automation, advanced informatics systems and expanded utilization of alternatives such as point-of-care testing, suppliers are adopting a variety of new strategies to remain...

Bayer gets pharmacogenomics firm Visible Genetics for $61.4M. (Deals roundup).
July 25, 2002... Bayer Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) scooped up Visible Genetics (Toronto, Ontario) for $61.4 million in cash as the parties signed a definitive agreement for a deal that brings to Bayer VGI's Trugene HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA...

Natriuretic peptides growing as markers for heart failure. (Report from Europe).
July 25, 2002... Definitive diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) normally relies on functional investigations such as ECG and chest X-rays as well as cardiac imaging, particularly color Doppler echocardiography. As a more rapid, lower-cost approach,...

NIH tabs Agencourt purification kit for new sequencing project.
July 25, 2002... Agencourt Bioscience (Beverly, Massachusetts) was selected by the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) to supply its MCPrep Plasmid Purification kits as part of ongoing genome-sequencing projects. Agencourt's kits employ a...

Cygnus gets $12.5M milestone; Molecular Diag in $2.6M note. (Financings roundup).
July 25, 2002... Cygnus (Redwood City, California) said it received a milestone payment of $12.5 million from Sankyo Pharma, the U.S. subsidiary of Sankyo (Tokyo). The payment marked the third milestone payout from an expanded agreement for marketing and...

TA Associates (Boston, Massachusetts), a private equity and buyout firm, completed a $20 million investment in National Imaging Associates (NIA; Hackensack, New Jersey), a U.S. provider of radiology benefits management services. (Financings roundup).
July 25, 2002... TA Associates (Boston, Massachusetts), a private equity and buyout firm, completed a $20 million investment-in National Imaging Associates (NIA; Hackensack, New Jersey), a U.S. provider of radiology benefits management services. NIA's...

Quest Diagnostics reports gains in part due to latest acquisition. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) said revenues grew 14.7% in the second quarter ended June 30 to $1.07 billion from $931.5 million in the year-earlier period, reflecting the acquisition of American Medical Laboratories (AML; Chantilly,...

Aspect Medical Systems. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) said revenues increased and its net loss declined in the second quarter ended June 29. Revenues grew to $10.05 million from $8.97 million in the year-earlier quarter, while the net loss fell to...

Hycor Biomedical. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Hycor Biomedical (Garden Grove, California) said sales in the second quarter ended June 30 increase by 9% to $4.69 million from $4.29 million in the year-earlier period, while net income was $408,000, or 5 cents a diluted share, compared to...

Quinton Cardiology Systems. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Quinton Cardiology Systems (Bothell, Washington) said its net losses in both the second quarter and six months ended June 30 were down significantly from comparable periods, while revenues were essentially flat. For the second quarter,...

TheraSense. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * TheraSense (Alameda, California), maker of the FreeStyle glucose monitor, said second-quarter revenues grew to $59.23 million from $17.85 million in 2Q01 while the net loss fell to $31 million, or 8 cents a share from the loss of $14.75...

Tripath Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Tripath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said second-quarter revenues increased 21% to $9.13 million from $6.15 million in the year-earlier quarter, while the net loss increased to $5.42 million, or 14 cents a share, from the loss of...

Ventana Medical Systems. (Earnings roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona)said sales totaled $25.75 million in the second quarter ended June 30, a 21% increase over the $21.34 million reported in 2Q01. Net income for the quarter was $500,000 or 3 cents a share, compared with...

Group purchasing organizations becoming diagnostics partners. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... Exemplifying a continuing trend, a pair of large diagnostics firms have contracted with major group purchasing organizations to offer their tests to large consortiums of hospitals and other healthcare agencies. Laboratory Corporation of...

Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) and Philips Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), have signed a new business pact. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts)and Philips Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), have signed a new business pact. Until recently Analogic was the sole supplier of mid-range computed...

American Bio Medica (ABMC; kinderhook, New York) and Hema Diagnostic Systems (HDS; Miami Beach, Florida) have signed a multi-year contract manufacturing agreement that will lead to the introduction of a new on-site diagnostic test for HIV-1. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * American Bio Medica (ABMC; Kinderhook, New York) and Hema Diagnostic Systems (HDS; Miami Beach, Florida) have signed a multi-year contract manufacturing agreement that will lead to the introduction of a new on-site diagnostic test for HIV-1....

Dyax (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a biopharmaceutical company, has obtained exclusive rights from the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) to a newly discovered cancer target. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Dyax (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a biopharmaceutical company, has obtained exclusive rights from the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) to a newly discovered cancer target. Dyax will develop and commercialize therapeutic and diagnostic...

Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and Siemens Medical Solutions (Iselin, New Jersey), a unit of Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), finalized terms of an alliance first penned in a November letter of intent whereby the companies entered three agreements focused on advancing digital mammography technology. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and Siemens Medical Solutions (Iselin, New Jersey), a unit of Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), finalized terms of an alliance first penned in a November letter of intent whereby the companies entered three...

Genetic mutations may result in elevated homocysteine. (Report from Europe).
July 25, 2002... Elevated total homocysteine concentrations are generally regarded as major risk factors for thrombosis and atherosclerosis. While it has been accepted for some time that homocysteinuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is usually due to...

After 14 years, a decision in France. (Report from Europe).
July 25, 2002... In 1988 the first legal actions were taken by the French Association des Polytransfuses against the French blood transfusion service (CNTS) for having provided HIV-contaminated blood and blood products in 1985, and as a result infected in...

Ruling favors Immunomedics. (Report from Europe).
July 25, 2002... Immunomedics (Morris Plains, New Jersey) reported that a Dutch Appeals Court ruled that sales by F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland), of its carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) assay kits infringed Immunomedics' European patent for specific...

Molecular Diagnostics (MDI; Chicago, Illinois) is licensing to Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) its In-Cell HPV assay for an undisclosed license fee and on-going royalties. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Molecular Diagnostics (MDI; Chicago, Illinois) is licensing to Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) its In-Cell HPV assay for an undisclosed license fee and on-going royalties. The final agreement gives Ventana a license for MDI's...

Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said that PerkinElmer (Boston, Massachusetts) exercised its option to develop and sell fluorescence-based single nucleotide polymorphism diagnostic assays based on Orchid's SNP-IT genotyping technology. (Agreements roundup).
July 25, 2002... * Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said that PerkinElmer (Boston, Massachusetts) exercised its option to develop and sell fluorescence-based single nucleotide polymorphism diagnostic assays based on Orchid's SNP-IT genotyping...

AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a provider of cancer diagnostics, genomic and related information services, reported that it has purchased O'Quinn Medical Pathology Association (Augusta, Georgia), an anatomic pathology laboratory that provides pathology services to a 250-bed hospital and operates an independent outpatient laboratory. (Deals roundup).
July 25, 2002... * AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a provider of cancer diagnostics, genomic and related information services, reported that it has purchased O'Quinn Medical Pathology Association (Augusta, Georgia), an anatomic pathology laboratory that...