Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from June 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from June 2004

Two firms' cardiac diagnostic tests cleared for sale by FDA.
June 3, 2004... Two companies have received FDA clearance for new cardiac diagnostic tests that could greatly aid in the rapid detection of a potential heart attack, and one in particular could be the wave of the future for emergency room diagnosis of that...

Eucomed issues 10-point plan to heighten competitiveness.(Report from Europe)
June 3, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Eucomed (Brussels, Belgium) last week sent the European Commission 10 proposals addressing issues that it said hamper Innovation and competitiveness in the European medical technology sector. ...

UK researchers see the light, turn it on to various cancers.
June 3, 2004... Scientists at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) say they are less than a year away from submitting photocathode detectors for clinical trial For the detection of skin, bronchial and other cancers. The photocathode technique is based...

Nucleic acid diagnostic gains will drive continued growth.(Oak Ridge Conference, 2nd of 4)
June 3, 2004... SAN JOSE, California -- A number of advances in nucleic acid diagnostics were described at this year's Oak Ridge Conference, organized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC Washington), that will help drive continued growth...

Lawmakers urge CMS to add more PET cancer applications.
June 3, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The Senate Cancer Coalition is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore, Maryland) to provide coverage of positron emission tomography (PET) for the treatment of seven additional cancer indications, for...

ViroLogic, Aclara Bio to merge, focus on personalized medicine.(Deals roundup)
June 3, 2004... Aiming to sharpen Its diagnostic capabilities and ride the wave of targeted therapies and "personalized medicine" for cancer, ViroLogic (South Sail Francisco, California) has hatched a plan to take over Aclara Biosciences (Mountain View,...

SenoSite (Bothell, Washington), a leader in the manufacturing of high-performance, hand-carried ultrasound, has acquired privately held SonoMetric Health (Salt Lake City, Utah).
June 3, 2004... In other dealmaking activity: * SenoSite (Bothell, Washington), a leader in the manufacturing of high-performance, hand-carried ultrasound, has acquired privately held SonoMetric Health (Salt Lake City, Utah), a developer of proprietary...

Siemens, Biosense Webster in R&D agreement on 3-D images.(Agreements roundup)
June 3, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) reported an ongoing research and development agreement with Biosense Webster (Diamond Bar, California) to create 3-D images of the heart as a...

Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a pioneer in developing confocal microscopy and multi-photon technology, reported the sale of its UK-based confocal microscopy business to Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).
June 3, 2004... * Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a pioneer in developing confocal microscopy and multi-photon technology, reported the sale of its UK-based confocal microscopy business to Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany). Terms of the sale...

Calypte raises $9.3M privately; Positron eyes $2M from Imagin.(Financing roundup)
June 3, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Weak Staff Report Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California), a manufacturer of HIV diagnostic tests, said it has raised $9,3 million in a private placement to accredited investors, the company is issuing 23.25 million...

R2, MedAssets agreement is extended in new contract.(Grants/contracts)
June 3, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), which focuses on medical computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, reported a three-year agreement with MedAssets HSCA (St. Louis, Missouri), a group...

BioMedical Diagnostics.(People In Places)
June 3, 2004... BioMedical Diagnostics (BMD; Marne-la-Vallee, France) has appointed Patrick Poty chief executive officer and chairman of the managing board. Before joining BMD, Poty was vice-president of Noveon, a U.S.-based specialty chemical company, in...

Eastman Kodak.(People In Places)
June 3, 2004... Todd VanderVen has been named vice president and general manager, programs, marketing and business development, for Eastman Kodak's (Rochester, New York) Health Imaging Group. VanderVen formerly served as director, business development, for the...

QTL in agreement with United First Responders.(Briefly Noted)
June 3, 2004... QTL Biosystems (Santa Fe, New Mexico) reported an agreement for United First Responders (Fayette County, Pennsylvania) to manufacture QTL's hand-held sensor to detect anthrax, ricin and other potential bioterrorism pathogens. The system is...

European shareholder push eyed by Isonics.
June 3, 2004... Isonics (Golden, Colorado), a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers to the semiconductor industry and isotopes for life sciences and healthcare applications, as well as a developer of isotopically engineered semiconductor materials...

Amnis.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Amnis (Seattle, Washington) reported the issuance of eight new U.S. patents covering the architecture, subsystems, algorithms, cell probing techniques and applications of the imageStream platform technology. The imageStream System enables...

Associates of Cape Cod.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Associates of Cape Cod (East Falmouth, Massachusetts) reported FDA clearance of Glucatell, a serological assay that is intended for the qualitative detection of beta-glucan in the serum of patients with symptoms of or medical conditions...

8D Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... 8D Diagnostics (Sparks, Maryland; reported that it has been granted FDA clearance for the 8D ProbeTec ET Legionelia pneumophila DNA Amplified Assay. Based on BD's real-time nucleic acid amplification technology; Strand Displacement...

Calypte Biomedical.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) said that it has developed a rapid test for HIV-1/2 that can be performed on an oral fluid sample. HIV results are available from the Calypte Oral Fluid Test within 20 minutes. In-house evaluation of the...

DiaSys.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) said it presented additional patent claims for its in vitro assay technology to detect and monitor kidney disease. The company said kidney malfunction may go undetected by current methods of testing until 80% or...

International Medical Innovations.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... International Medical Innovations (Toronto, Ontario) said a scientific abstract featuring its lung cancer-screening test, LungAlert, was presented at the American Thoracic Society conference last week In Orlando, Florida. The findings of this...

Palatin Technologies.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Palatin Technologies (Cranbury, New Jersey) said it has reached an agreement with the FDA on the name NeutroSpec for the company's infection Imaging product that is in the final stages of the FDA approval process. The agency's Division of...

QRS Diagnostic.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... QRS Diagnostic (Plymouth, Minnesota) reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved a new patent on its design of medical devices contained in com ore purer cards. U.S, patent No. 6,712,762 is a continuation of patent No....

Somanetics.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Somanetics (Troy, Michigan) said that the results of the first randomized, prospective and blinded study using its Invos Cerebral Oximeter brain oxygen monitoring system showed statistically significant reductions in both stroke and the overall...

Vasamed.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Vasamed (Minneapolis, Minnesota) reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted it a method patent for a new pulse oximeter that incorporates signals from a laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) end an impedance cardiograph (ICG) to...

Vision-Sciences (Natick, Massachusetts) reported the launch of its Flexible Trans-Nasal Esophagoscope (TNE) with Slide-On EndoSheath System to the gastrointestinal market at the recent Digestive Disease Week meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.(Product Briefs)
June 3, 2004... Vision-Science (Natick, Massachusetts) reported the launch of its Flexible Trans-Nasal Esophagoscope (TNE) with Slide-On EndoSheath System to the gastrointestinal market at the recent Digestive Disease Week meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana....

Accelr8 focuses on development of BACcelr8r to detect bacteria.
June 10, 2004... Accelr8 Technology (Denver, Colorado) already is getting physician impressions of its BACcelr8r rapid microbial diagnostic platform now in development, and the response has been along the lines of naming it a future standard of care. "They...

Viva Diagnostika deal gives Inverness a German distributor.(Report from Europe)
June 10, 2004... Inverness Medical (Waltham, Massachusetts), a manufacturer of rapid diagnostic products for the consumer and professional markets, reported that it has acquired Viva Diagnostika (Cologne Germany), a closely held distributor of professional...

Advances in technology seen expanding immunoassay use.(Oak Ridge Conference, 3rd of 4)
June 10, 2004... SAN JOSE, California -- Advances in immunoassay technology described at this year's Oak Ridge Conference organized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington) promise to expand the clinical applications of...

Celera Diagnostics reports on two genes linked to heart attack.
June 10, 2004... As part of its ongoing association studies in several cardiovascular indications, Celera Diagnostics (Alameda, California) has presented data linking genetic variations in two genes with increased risk for myocardial infarction (MI), commonly...

Bio-Rad buys MJ GeneWorks, spins off Cell Science Division.(Deals roundup)
June 10, 2004... Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a manufacturer of clinical diagnostics and life science research products, reported signing an agreement setting forth terms for the acquisition of MJ GeneWorks and its subsidiaries for about $47...

Epix overallotments exercised; Gambro signs $750m facility.(Financings roundup)
June 10, 2004... Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said that the initial purchasers of $75 million in aggregate principal amount of the company's 3% convertible senior notes due 2024 have exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional $25...

Target Discovery in technology effort with Groton Biosystems.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... Target Discovery (Palo Alto, California), a discovery biology company, said it has entered into a product technology collaboration with Groton Biosystems (Acton, Massachusetts), a subsidiary of Groton Technology. Target Discovery and...

Confirma in alliance with iCAD.(Briefly Noted)
June 10, 2004... Confirma (Kirkland, Washington), which focuses on computer-aided-detection (CAD) for breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), said it has formed a strategic alliance with iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a leader in CAD for X-ray mammography, to...

TDS Telemedicine gets diabetic retinopathy screening pact.(Grants/contracts)
June 10, 2004... TDS Telemedicine (TDS: Corpus Christi, Texas) said that Nueces County, Texas, has confirmed that the county awarded the diabetic retinopathy screening program contract to TDS. The contract, funded for $550,000 of telemedical diagnostic...

Molecular Imaging moves headquarters.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... Molecular Imaging (San Diego, California), a provider of molecular imaging services to healthcare entities in the U.S., said it has moved its corporate offices. The new corporate address and contact information is 9530 Towne Centre Drive, Suite...

Accelerated payment garners $4.25m for Fischer Imaging.(Court report)
June 10, 2004... Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado) said it has reached an agreement with Thermo Electron (Waltham, Massachusetts) to accelerate the remaining payments owed Fischer from a 2002 patent settlement into a single payment of $4.25 million. Together...

Avitar.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * David Greaves has been named vice president of sales for Avitar (Canton, Massachusetts). Greaves most recently held the position of vice president, U.S. sales, with Heroix. Avitar develops products in the oral fluid diagnostic market, disease...

Battelle's.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Rudy Barnes has joined Battelle's (Columbus, Ohio) Office of External Relations as director of government relations for Department of Energy programs. Barnes spent the past five years serving as legislative director for Rep. John Spratt of...

Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) said that interim analysis of an ongoing study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston, Massachusetts) has demonstrated that brain-monitoring technology was able to predict the effectiveness of antidepressant medications in treating depressed patients with 83% accuracy.(Product Briefs)
June 10, 2004... * Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) said that interim analysis of an ongoing study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston, Massachusetts) has demonstrated that brain-monitoring technology was able to predict the...

Diasys.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Diasys (Waterbury, Connecticut), a global healthcare products company, said it has amended patent claims to its immunoassay to detect free light chains in urine. The test has been expanded to include monitoring, screening and adjunctive test...

Home Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Home Diagnostics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) said its TrueTrack Smart System has received FDA approval for alternate site testing. For the first time, patients will have the ability to draw a blood sample from their forearm, in addition to...

iCAD.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) said it has received FDA approval for release of its Second Look 200 system for early detection of breast cancer with substantially improved cancer detection software. The new combination of Second Look 200 with...

Molecular Devices.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, California) reported the introduction of FLIPR Tetra system at the Molecular Devices Drug Discovery Conference in Berkeley, California. The company said the FLIPR Tetra is the only microplate detection system...

Nanosphere.(Product Briefs)
June 10, 2004... * Nanosphere (Northbrook, Illinois) said researchers have developed a colorimetric detection capability for its nanoparticle-based molecular detection systems that will further simplify the identification of genomic DNA, RNA and protein targets...

OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California) said its Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington) subsidiary is introducing the Ultraview SL patient monitoring system.(Product Briefs)
June 10, 2004... * OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California) said its Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington) subsidiary is introducing the Ultraview SL patient monitoring system. The four new products in the Ultraview SL series translate into distinct clinical...

RAE Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * RAE Systems (Sunnyvale, California) reported being awarded U.S. patent 6,734,435 for pioneering photoionization detection (PID) improvements based on the work of Hong Sun, PhD, and Peter Hsi, PhD. PIDs are used to detect levels of toxic...

Cardinal Health.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * John Parker has been appointed to the newly formed European management team of Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio), with that group to be based in the UK. Parker joined Cardinal Health in December 2003 through the acquisition of Intercare where he...

CeMines.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * CeMines (Evergreen, Colorado), which uses genomics and proteomics information as the fundamental building blocks for gene regulation, has appointed David Busam vice president of finance/administration and chief financial officer. Busam spent...

Eastman Kodak.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Philip Lewis has been named national sales manager of the Health Imaging Group, Professional Services, U.S. and Canada, and vice president. Health Imaging, for Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York). Previously, Lewis was a member of the senior...

Matritech.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) reported that Karen Vaccaro, PhD, vice president, research and development, will be retiring, effective June 25. Following her retirement, Vaccaro will continue to serve the company in an advisory capacity...

Nanogen.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Nanogen (San Diego, California) has appointed David Ludvigson president and chief operating officer, replacing Bruce Huebner. Ludvigson is currently executive vice president and chief financial officer. Huebner has resigned to pursue other...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported that it has received FDA marketing clearance for its C-panel flat-panel detector (FPD). Designed specifically for cardiac imaging, C-panel FPD technology delivers high-resolution...

TriPath Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina)reported the presentation of an independent study at the 40th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Ontology (ASCO) on the prognostic utility of Melastatin gone expression in primary...

UriDynamics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2004... * UriDynamics (Indianapolis, Indiana) introduced HydraTrend, the first over-the-counter urine test strips kit for monitoring an individuals hydration status over time, at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Indianapolis,...

Better evidence seen as key to quicker CMS reimbursements.(MDMA annual meeting)(Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
June 17, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Say the word "location" three times really fast and you've got the basic mantra for how to pick prime real estate. And currently, the parallel mantra for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore, Maryland), as...

IOM report urges expanded U.S. access to mammograms.
June 17, 2004... Mammograms are not perfect, but no other technology has proved better at detecting breast cancer early, when it is easier to treat. However, only about 60% of the women old enough to need routine mammograms get them because of lack of...

Aussie firm's 'simple blood test' for TB under FDA review.
June 17, 2004... "TB is not going away," declares Lee Reichman, MD, executive director of the New Jersey Medical School National Tuberculosis Center (Newark, New Jersey). In light of that tough reality, one way to curb the spread and treat those who need...

New sensors seen boosting testing at the point of care.(Oak Ridge Conference, 4th of 4)(PortaScience)
June 17, 2004... SAN JOSE, California--New point-of-care (POC) testing technologies were an important topic at this year's Oak Ridge Conference, organized by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington). Self-testing products for...

ComMedica telemedicine link joins A&E, specialist burn unit.(Report from Europe)
June 17, 2004... Web-based telemedicine software provided by ComMedica (Woking, UK) will soon speed up treatment of patients with burns and cuts at St. Mary's NHS Trust (Paddington, UK). A new electronic image-sharing link will join St. Mary's Pediatric...

Court upholds ruling favoring Competitive Tech vs. LabCorp.(Court report)
June 17, 2004... Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a November 2002 decision of a senior judge of the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado, that Laboratory...

GTx, diaDexus collaborating on prostatic neoplasia effort.(Agreements)
June 17, 2004... GTx (Memphis, Tennessee) said it has entered into a collaboration with diaDexus (South San Francisco, California). Under the terms of the agreement GTx will provide clinical samples from its now-completed Phase IIb clinical trial program...

Boston Biomedica completes sale of Source Scientific unit.(Deals roundup)
June 17, 2004... Boston Biomedica (BBI; West Bridgewater, Massachusetts) said it has completed the sale of substantially all of the assets as well as selected liabilities of BBI Source Scientific, the company's instrumentation division, to Source Scientific, an...

Cytyc registers $250m resale; Aria secures $5.5m in funding.(Financings roundup)
June 17, 2004... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts), a developer of women's health products, has filed a registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC relating to the resale of $250 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% convertible notes due 2024 and...

Health funds are told they must cover new genetic tests.(Report from Israel)
June 17, 2004... The Israeli Ministry of Health notified all health funds, hospitals, and genetic and oncological institutes that the health funds (Kupat Holim)--or HMOs--are obligated by law to cover the costs of genetic testing in their basket of services....

Quest to provide docs access to pharmacy info.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey), the largest U.S. provider of diagnostic laboratory testing, information and services, said that it has entered into an agreement with Express Scripts (St. Louis, Missouri), a pharmacy benefit...

Lifestream in pact with Walgreens.(Briefly Noted)(Walgreens agrees to distribute Cholesterol Monitor of Lifestream Technologies)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... Lifestream Technologies (Post Falls, Idaho), a developer and marketer of consumer cholesterol monitors and professional screening instruments, said that Walgreens (Deerfield, Illinois) has agreed to distribute the Lifestream Cholesterol Monitor...

LabOne to break ground on new facility.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... Diagnostic services provider LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it has signed an agreement to acquire 25.05 acres in the Techsolve Business Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the company's future 136,000-square-foot laboratory. The agreement is subject to...

General Electric.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * Sir William Castell has been named vice chairman of the board of directors of General Electric (GE; Fairfield, Connecticut). Castell, who is president and chief executive officer of GE Healthcare, also is an executive officer and a member of...

Schick Technologies.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * Schick Technologies (Long Island City, New York) has named President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Slovin to the posts of president and chief executive officer. Former CEO David Schick has resigned from the position and from the board...

Advanced Magnetics.(Product Briefs)(Ferumoxytol is currently in Phase II clinical trials )(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * Advanced Magnetics (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported the presentation of data on ferumoxytol, the company's investigational magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) contrast agent, at the American Society of Neuroradiology meeting in Seattle,...

BD.(Product Briefs)(BD seeks approval from FDA to use Paradigm Link blood glucose meters)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * BD (Becton, Dickinson; Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) said it has submitted a 510(k) application seeking FDA clearance to use the BD Logic and Paradigm Link blood glucose meters for alternate-site testing (off-finger).

BioLucent (Aliso Viejo, California) said a recently published study by Swedish mammographer Laszlo Tabar, MD, confirmed that the company's MammoPad breast cushion significantly reduces the discomfort many women feel during mammograms.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * BioLucent (Aliso Viejo, California) said a recently published study by Swedish mammographer Laszlo Tabar, MD, confirmed that the company's MammoPad breast cushion significantly reduces the discomfort many women feel during mammograms. Gail...

Cambridge Heart.(Product Briefs)(Cambridge Heart reports receipt of patent)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * Cambridge Heart (Bedford, Massachusetts) reported the receipt of patent No. 6,735,466 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office titled "Analytical signal method for analysis of T-wave alternans." The company also received a notice of...

Merge eFilm.(Product Briefs)(Merge eFilm releases Fusion PACS version 1.2.7, a suite software)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * Merge eFilm (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) reported the release of Fusion PACS version 1.2.7, an integrated repository of healthcare information and suite of software application modules that provide picture archiving and communications system (PACS)...

TriPath Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... * TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) reported the presentation of an independent study at last week's meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on the prognostic utility of Melastatin gene expression in primary melanoma...

New HQ for Applied Imaging.(Briefly Noted)(head quaters)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2004... Applied Imaging reported the opening of its new corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, relocating from offices in Santa Clara, California. The company's 24,000-square-foot facility houses all corporate functions and features...

Veridex maps path to growth through oncology diagnostics.
June 24, 2004... Although the company was formed in 2001, cancer diagnostics firm Veridex (Raritan, New Jersey) made its official coming-out debut at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, earlier this month. Veridex...

Lab Tests Online replicated in version for United Kingdom.(Report from Europe)
June 24, 2004... The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington), publisher of Lab Tests online, a web site for laboratory testing information, has launched a second version of the site in the United Kingdom. The new version of Lab Tests...

CMS to expand reimbursement of PET for assessing Alzheimer's.(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services )(positron emission tomography )
June 24, 2004... In the modern med-tech environment, broad reimbursement has become the key to technology maturation. In this regard, positron emission tomography (PET) is making progress--albeit somewhat slowly. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

Siemens introduces 'hybrid' imaging with SPECT and CT.(Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography-Computed Tomography)(Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.)
June 24, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) used its appearance at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this week to unveil what it calls a "new concept in hybrid imaging technology." The...

Immunetics gets FDA okay of QuickELISA anthrax test.
June 24, 2004... Until recently, the only places one could be tested to determine if he or she had been infected with anthrax was at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta, Georgia) or the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute of...

LabOne in debenture offering; given imaging prices shares.(Financings roundup)
June 24, 2004... LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said it intends to offer $90 million in aggregate principal amount of convertible senior debentures due 2034 to qualified institutional buyers. The company also intends to grant the initial purchasers an option to...

Calypte Biomedical.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2004... * HIV diagnostic test maker Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) said it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering shares of common stock purchased and shares of common stock underlying...