Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from July 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from July 2004

Bayer gets FDA approval for added claims on cardiac test.
July 1, 2004... Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) said its BNP (B-type natrluretic peptide) test for cardiac patients has received FDA approval for two additional claims: the prediction of survival in patients after myocardial infarction in...

CTI Molecular Imaging rolls out MTI as new biomarker R&D arm.
July 1, 2004... CTI Molecular Imaging (CTI; Knoxville, Tennessee), a leading provider of positron emission tomography (PET) equipment, molecular imaging blomarkers and services, unveiled its new research and development entity, CTI Molecular Technologies (MTI;...

Task force warns Congress on perils of research funding cuts.
July 1, 2004... WASHINGTON -- A task force led by the Alliance for Aging Research (Washington) held a meeting on Capitol Hill last week to release its report highlighting recent developments in medical research and new technology and the need for increased...

Roche launches OMNI S blood gas analyzer, adds bilirubin test.
July 1, 2004... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana), a division of F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland), is introducing its OMNI 5 blood gas analyzer, which now has the ability to test for levels of bilirubin to test for jaundice and liver disease...

Natus to cut work force, divest low-margin Neogenesis unit.(Deals roundup)(Natus Medical Inc.)
July 1, 2004... Natus Medical (San Carlos, California), a maker of devices to monitor neonatal and infant medical disorders, reported during a Tuesday conference call that it will reduce operating expenses through a variety of restructuring moves. The...

LabOne debentures raise $90m; MTI note sale raises $21 million.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) reported the completion of its offering of $90 million in principal amount of 3.50% convertible senior debentures, due June 15, 2034, in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers. In addition, the company...

Micro Therapeutics.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Micro Therapeutics (MTI; Irvine California) reported raising $21 million from the sale of exchangeable notes. Funds managed by Warburg Pincus and The Vertical Group collectively purchased an aggregate of $15 million of the notes, with two other...

Ophthalmic Imaging Systems.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OIS, Sacramento, California), a provider of ophthalmic digital imaging systems, said that MediVision Medical Imaging Ltd., an Israeli company that is its major shareholder, sold 500,000 shares of the company's...

HealthSouth.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) said last Thursday that it had closed all of its consent solicitations for its outstanding public debt. As a result, the company has obtained the consents required to approve the amendments and waivers that...

Calypte meets ISO standard.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Calypte Biomedical (Pleasanton, California), a manufacturer of HIV diagnostic tests, said that its Rockville, Maryland, manufacturing facility has passed its quality system audit to obtain certification of its quality system to the...

Contract awarded to help UK pharmacists broaden reach.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The awarding of a contract to four organizations will help UK pharmacists have a major impact on improving public health, Health Minister Rosie Winterton said recently. Pharmacy HealthLink, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the...

Orchid's UK work on scrapie renewed.(Report from Europe)
July 1, 2004... Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said the UK government has renewed the company's scrapie genotyping contract for two more years. Under the terms of the agreement, Orchid BioSciences Europe will continue to be a major supplier of...

Two distributors named.(Report from Europe)(Arcturus Bioscience )(Biozym Scientific GmbH)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Arcturus Bioscience (Mountain View, California) has selected two firms to serve as distributors of its products and services in Germany/Austria and the UK. Biozym Scientific GmbH (Oldendorf, Germany) will be the distributor for...

Protein expression service offered.(Report from Europe)(German Resource Center for Genome Research )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The German Resource Center for Genome Research (Berlin, Germany) said it is providing a service to compile protein expression profiles by means of dedicated antibody chips. In addition to diagnostic applications, the organization said the...

SonoSite signs distribution pact with Aloka for Japan.(Agreements)
July 1, 2004... SonoSite (Seattle, Washington), which focuses on high-performance, hand-carried ultrasound, said it has signed a distribution agreement for Japan with Aloka (Tokyo) a manufacturer or ultrasound systems. The agreement names Aloka as...

ViroLogic gets grant for work on HIV replication capacity.(Grants/contracts)
July 1, 2004... ViroLogic (South San Francisco, California) said it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) to assess HIV replication capacity (RC), a gauge of...

Appeals court backs, reverses 2 lower court Cytogen rulings.(Court report)
July 1, 2004... Cytogen (Princeton, New Jersey), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, reported a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in a patient...

Advanced Magnetics submits FDA response.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Advanced Magnetics submits FDA response Advanced Magnetics (Cambridge, Massachusetts), developer of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles used in pharmaceutical products, and Cytogen (Princeton, New Jersey), an oncology-focused...

OraSure Technologies.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) has named Douglas Michels president and chief executive officer and appointed him to the board of directors. Michels will replace Mike Gausling, who is retiring. Gausling has been OraSure's...

Cholestech.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Cholestech (Hayward, California) reported FDA clearance of its High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP) test to determine the risk of cardiovascular disease. The new hs-CRP test cassette can be used on the company's existing Cholestech...

Home Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
July 1, 2004... * Home Diagnostics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) has introduced KetoCare Ketone Test Strips for urinalysis. The company said its KetoCare Ketone Test Strips are an important part of an effective diabetes management program as well as a positive...

Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) reported the debut of its family of OxiMax SoftCare Nonadhesive Pulse Oximetry Sensors in late june at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) convention in Tampa, Florida.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) reported the debut of its family of OxiMax SoftCare Nonadhesive Pulse Oximetry Sensors in late june at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) convention in Tampa, Florida. A...

OraSure Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) sais it has received FDA approval of its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test for use in detecting antibodies to HIV-2 in oral fluid samples. With this approval, the OraQuick HIV-1/2 Test is the...

Paradigm Genetics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Paradigm Genetics (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) reported that data presented at the Society of Toxicologic Pathology symposium demonstrated that its pathology software could automatically distinguish between normal and diseased...

Planar Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon) said it has received FDA approval to market the flat-panel Dome C5i system for displaying and viewing mammograms. Until now, the only FDA-cleared equipment for all soft-copy mammography reviews employed...

R2 Technology.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) reported that the FDA has cleared two software packages for use with the ImageChecker CT (computed tomography) system during review of multi-detector CT (MDCT) chest exams. One FDA clearance covers the...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) reported the introduction of a new image and patient data management system for entry-level digital echocardiography at the meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (Raleigh, North Carolina), which ended yesterday in San Diego, California.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) reported the introduction of a new image and patient data management system for entry-level digital echocardiography at the meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (Raleigh, North...

Biosite unveils new test panel with shortness-of-breath focus.
July 8, 2004... Biosite (San Diego, California) has introduced a new point-of-care panel that will be used to aid in the diagnosis of patients who present at emergency departments with shortness of breath, with the company saying that more than 10 million...

Medical imaging among focal points of GE research center.(Report from Europe)(General Electric)
July 8, 2004... General Electric (GE; Fairfield. Connecticut) has opened its new European Global Research Center in Catching, Germany, near Munich. GE said the 10,000-square-meter facility located on the campus of the Technical University of Munich, is the...

Sicel's OneDose cleared by FDA for monitoring tumors.
July 8, 2004... The scourge of cancer has been a difficult adversary, proving tricky to eradicate due to the oftentimes unpredictable nature of such tumors. Enter Sicel Technologies (Morrisville, North Carolina),with its OneDose surface dosimeter, a...

Infrared imaging, 'Oreo' team up vs. mold's unhealthy impact.
July 8, 2004... Device/drug combinations have become a familiar part of the medical technology scene and, with the introduction of drug-eluting stents, are even well known to the general public. But now comes another intriguing match-up: the use of both high-...

Director of med-tech institute will educate industry, public.(Martyn Howgill)
July 8, 2004... WASHINGTON -- "We are at the dawn, not the sunset, of enormously exciting breakthroughs in the way we care for people and prevent, diagnose, treat and manage disease," said Martyn Howgill, executive director of the newly created Institute for...

BD Biosciences acquires Atto for $25m; TriVirix in purchase.(Deals roundup)
July 8, 2004... BD Biosciences (San Jose, California) has acquired Atto Bioscience (Rockville, Maryland) In a cash transaction valued at about $25 million. Privately held Atto Bioscience specializes in optical instrumentation, software and reagents for...

Apogent extends expiration of tender offer for $250m in notes.(Financings roundup)(Apogent Technologies )(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Apogent Technologies (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) said last Friday that it had extended the expiration of the tender offer and consent solicitation period for its $250 million principal amount of 6% senior subordinated notes, due 2013, from July...

Roche, Promega offer differing views ruling by court on PCR.(Court report)(polymerase chain reaction )
July 8, 2004... Hoffman-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland) and smaller competitor Promega (Madison, Wisconsin) have issued separate and differing statements concerning a recent ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismissing a case...

Varian and Proxima in alliance for radiation therapy equipment.(Agreements roundup)(Varian Medical Systems)(Proxima Therapeutics )
July 8, 2004... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) and Proxima Therapeutics (Alpharetta, Georgia) have entered into an alliance to increase access to High-Dose-Rate (HDR) radiation therapy equipment for hospitals interested in offering partial...

Human Genome Institute gives grants for 2 additional CEGS.(Grants/contracts)(Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science)
July 8, 2004... The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI Bethesda, Maryland), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; also Bethesda), said it has awarded two new grants to establish Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) at Harvard...

Medical services TB test now standard in China.(Briefly Noted)(tuberculosis)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has received the latest results from the testing of its VScan TB rapid test kit in the People's Republic of China. The test results show that the VScan rapid test kit had specificity of...

Nellcor repackaging forehead sensor.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) said it is repackaging the OxiMax MAX-FAST Forehead Sensor and headband in one pouch. Until now, the two products were packaged separately. As part of the Nellcor OxiMax Pulse Oximetry System, the MAX-FAST...

ICON (Dublin, Ireland), a global contract research organization (CRO), and Beacon Bioscience (Doylestown, Pennsylvania), a medical imaging CRO.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... * ICON (Dublin, Ireland), a global contract research organization (CRO), and Beacon Bioscience (Doylestown, Pennsylvania), a medical imaging CRO, said that ICON has acquired a majority interest and invested an unspecified new equity in Beacon...

DOBI Medical International.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... * DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) reported closing a private placement of its Series A preferred shares on July 2, garnering gross proceeds of $3.05 million. The company sold 122 preferred shares, which carry a coupon of 8% per...

Affymetrix.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) reported the commercial availability of the GeneChip mapping 10K 2.0 Array and the GeneChip Mapping 100K Array Set. Affymetrix said these products offer a more affordable array for genotyping more than...

Immunicon.(Product Briefs)(Veridex)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Immunicon (Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania) said that it was informed by Veridex (Raritan, New Jersey), a Johnson & Johnson company, that the CellSearch Epithelial Cell Control Kit received FDA clearance for in vitro diagnostic use. The...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Nanogen (San Diego, California) said that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued it patent No. 6,753,148. "Methods and apparatus for detecting variants utilizing base stacking," covering the application of base stacking technologies...

Neogen.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Neogen (Lansing, Michigan) said it has developed a method to read, store and analyze results from lateral flow tests--the only lateral flow test reader available on the market. AccuScan provides an easy method to objectively read, store, and...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) said it has received an "approvable" letter from the FDA for the Mammomat NovationDR, a full-field digital mammography system. The FDA indicated in the letter that the Mammomat NovationDR is...

Alliance Imaging.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... * R. Brian Hanson will join Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California) as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 26. He will replace Kenneth Ord, who is retiring from the company. Hanson most recently was with Fisher...

Biosite.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Sarah Gunhouse has been promoted to vice president of U.S. sales for Biosite (San Diego, California). She previously served as director of U.S. sales and prior to that held regional sales director and sales manager positions at the maker of...

Cepheid.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... Kerry Flom, PhD, has joined Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) as vice president of clinical affairs. Most recently, Flom directed the clinical and regulatory submission groups for Abbott Molecular Diagnostics. Cepheid develops fully integrated...

Encore Medical.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2004... William Burke has resigned as chief financial officer of Cholestech (Hayward, California), effective Aug, 27, in order to join Encore Medical (Austin, Texas), a manufacturer of orthopedic products, as executive vice president and chief...

R2 tech granted FDA clearance for CAD lung module detection.
July 15, 2004... R2 Technology (Sunnydale, California), a leader in computer-aided detection (CAD) in the mammography sector, reported this week that it has received FDA approval for the ImageChecker CT CAD Software system. The company said this is the First...

Nerve regeneration clues taken from cancer gene's double life.(Report from Europe)
July 15, 2004... A gene known to play a role in cancer development could hold the key to new treatments for nerve injury. The gene, which encodes a protein called c-jun, is present at high levels in certain types of tumors--but damaged nerve cells also...

Confirma introduces CADstream 3.1 with SureLoc analysis tool.
July 15, 2004... Confirma (Kirkland, Washington) reported that it is offering its new CADstream 3.1 computer-aided detection device with an added analysis tool tailed the SureLoc, designed to allow for more convenient--and shorter-magnetic resonance imaging...

Zonare adds $34m equity round; LabOne raises additional $13.5m.(Financings roundup)(Zonare Medical Systems )
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California), a medical device company developing a next-generation ultrasound platform, reported closing a new round of financing, adding about $34 million in...

Quidel sees 2Q slump, suspends guidances and Kay to leave firm.
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report In conjunction with a report predicting a drop in 2Q04 earnings, Quidel (San Diego, California), a provider of point-of-care diagnostic tests, late last week said that it will provide no financial...

GE unveils LightSpeed VCT for faster analysis In the ER.
July 15, 2004... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) has reported the commercial introduction of the LightSpeed VCT or volume CT (computed tomography), which one product manager called "the beginning of the volume CT generation of CT, scanners." The new...

Bio-reference buys CGI assets; drew to accept revised offer.(Deals roundup)(Bio-Reference Laboratories buys Cancer Genetics)(Escalon Medical acquires Drew Scientific Group)
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Bio-Reference Laboratories (Elmwood Park, New Jersey) reported acquiring the molecular and cytogenetics facilities from Cancer Genetics (CGI Milford, Massachusetts) for about 52.5 million, The...

Olympus establishes its own sales, service offices in China.(Report from Japan)(Olympus (China) Investment Co. Ltd. (Beijing))
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Olympus (Tokyo) is moving to expand its sale of endoscopes and biological microscopes in China by absorbing its local sales agency in that country and establishing Olympus (Bailing) Sales & Service...

AK Specialty Vehicles in $6.4m pact for 13 mobile MRI units.(Grants/contract news)(AK Specialty Vehicles award Alliance Medical European contract)(Prime Medical to merge with HealthTronics Surgical Services)(Samaritan Pharmaceuticals and Samaritan Research Labs receive small business grant)
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report. Prime Medical Services (Austin, Texas) reported that its subsidiary, AK Speciality vehicles (AKSV, Chicago, Illinois), has been awarded a SEA million contract, plus the value of associated service...

Vital Signs settles lawsuit filed by former chief financial officer.(Court report)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Vital Signs (To[awe, New Jersey) reported settling a lawsuit filed in 2003 by Joseph Bourgart, a former chief financial officer of the company. Monetary terms of the settlement were not disclosed,...

Calypte Biomedical.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Calypte Biomedical (Pleasanton, California) reported that it has raised an additional $1.5 million in a private placement to accredited investors. The company issued 3.7 million shares of its common stock at 40 cents a share and five-year...

Trestle Holdings.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Trestle Holdings (Irvine, California) has reported completing the second tranche of its $3 million private placement. The company is selling up to 1.5 million units at $2 per unit, with each unit consisting of one common share and one-half a...

Cytyc.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission his declared effective its registration statement for resale of $250 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% convertible notes, due 2024, and the...

MedCath (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, MedCath Holdings, completed its private placement of $150 million of 9-7/8% senior notes, due 2012, and has entered into a new $200 million senior secured credit facility.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * MedCath (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, MedCath Holdings, completed its private placement of $150 million of 9-7/8% senior notes, due 2012, and has entered into a new $200 million senior secured credit...

Invitrogen forms biodefense unit.(Briefly Noted)(Biological Defense Systems formed and appoints executives)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California), a provider of life science systems for disease research and drug discovery, reported the formation of Biological Defense Systems (BDS), a new venture that will consolidate and expand the company's biosecurity...

Haemonetics to market Crit-Scan.(Briefly Noted)(sign marketing agreement with HemaMetrics)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts) said that it will market Crit-Scan, the first device to measure the hematocrit in blood without a painful needle stick to the finger or ear. Haemonetics and HemaMetrics (Kaysville, Utah), the developer and...

i3Achive to adopt 3G standards.(Briefly Noted)(standards enhance National Digital Mammography Archive)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... i3Archive (Berwyn, Pennsylvania), a provider of systems for managing digital mammography information, will become the first company to adopt the new third-generation (3G) standards for grid computing in a medical offering. i3Archive will...

Lifeshirt used to assess cyclers' cough.(Report from Europe)
July 15, 2004... British researchers have commenced a first-of-its kind study using the LifeShirt System made by VivoMetrics (Ventura, California) to analyze the incidence of cough among the Great Britain Cycling Team. The 18-month study will seek to...

Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed).(People In Places)(apointments)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Ralph Ives has been appointed executive vice president, global strategy and analysis, for the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington), heading the association's work on policy and trade issues in major overseas markets...

American Medical Alert.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Jack Rhian has been appointed president of American Medical Alert (AMAC; Oceanside, New York). Rhian has served as AMAC's chief operating officer for the past four years. Howard Siegel will retain the title of chief executive officer and...

Immunicon.(People In Places)(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Michael Kagen has been promoted from vice president, engineering, to vice president, operations, for Immunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania). John Verrant has been appointed to fill Kagan's position as vice president, engineering. Verrant...

Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics.(People In Places)(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics (TDT; West Chester, Pennsylvania) has appointed Daniel O'Shannessy, PhD, chief operating officer. O'Shannessy previously was senior director of strategic planning, ontology diagnostics, at Gen-Probe. TDT is...

Siemens targets Klaus Kleinfeld for CEO spot.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... A Medical Device Daily Staff Report Siemens AG (Frankfurt, Germany) on Wednesday nominated Klaus Kleinfeld, a member of its management board, to replace its chief executive officer, Heinrich von Pierer, early next year. Von Pierer will...

Paris life sciences partnership.(Report from Europe)(Genopole and Biocitech business parks)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... Two biotechnology science and business parks, Genopole (Evry, France) and Biocitech (Romainville, France), located in the Paris suburbs, nave signed a partnership charter to seal an alliance. The alliance is aimed at enhancing the appeal of the...

AntiCancer.(Product Briefs)(fluorescent protein technologies)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * AntiCancer (San Diego, California) reported receiving its sixth patent in a series from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering the use of fluorescent proteins for imaging of cancer, gene expression, stem cells and other processes in...

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) reported that it will debut Command Central, a suite of software and hardware that enables a single operator to monitor and access multiple Beckman Coulter laboratory instruments from a master workstation, at this year's annual conference of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (Washington).(Product Briefs)(Beckman Coulter Command Central software/hardware laboratory monitoring suite)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) reported that it will debut Command Central, a suite of software and hardware that enables a single operator to monitor and access multiple Beckman Coulter laboratory instruments from a master...

Epix Medical.(Product Briefs)(MS-325 clinical program)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported initiation of its post-new drug application clinical program with the first injection in a multi-center trial of MS-325 for high-resolution vessel imaging. MS-325 is a magnetic resonance...

Immucor.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Immucor (Norcross, Georgia) reported that the Japanese Ministry of Health and Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Directorate have licensed Galileo for distribution in their respective jurisdictions. Galileo is immucor's second generation,...

McKesson Information Solutions (Alpharetta, Georgia) reported roll-out of its new remote disease management and monitoring solution, Telehealth Advisor.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * McKesson Information Solutions (Alpharetta, Georgia) reported roll-out of its new remote disease management and monitoring solution, Telehealth Advisor. With Telehealth Advisor, patients collect their vital signs using medical peripherals and...

Palatin Technologies (Cranbury, New Jersey) reported receiving FDA approval to market NeutroSpec, an imaging agent indicated for the diagnosis of appendicitis in patients with equivocal signs.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2004... * Palatin Technologies (Cranbury, New Jersey) reported receiving FDA approval to market NeutroSpec, an imaging agent indicated for the diagnosis of appendicitis in patients with equivocal signs. NeutroSpec will be marketed and distributed by...

TriPath unveils research-use breast, cervical cancer tests.
July 22, 2004... On the same day that TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina), maker of the SurePath liquid-based Pap test, joined in the Nasdaq market opening in New York last Friday, the company reported that it was releasing two new molecular diagnostic...

Cervical Screening Wales in pact for TriPath's SurePath.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
July 22, 2004... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said last week that, after "an extensive technology evaluation," Cervical Screening Wales (Cardiff), the national Welsh cervical screening organization, has signed a five-year contract to use...

Zenogen IPO raises $29.4m; warrants bring IRIS $1.6m.(Financings roundup)
July 22, 2004... The initial public offering of Xenogen (Alameda, California) has raised $29.4 million, the company pricing 4.2 million shares at $7 apiece in the IPO. The shares traded up 7% on their first day on the market, to close at $7.50, on volume...

Ciphergen readies multi-marker Alzheimer's testing approach.
July 22, 2004... Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) said that it has about 20 biomarkers related to Alzheimer's disease, and its collaborator, Kaj Blennow, MD, PhD, a professor at the University of Gothenberg (Sweden), will present findings from a study...