Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from June 2005

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from June 2005

CDRH pilot program bringing 510(k) process into 21st century.(Center for Devices and Radiological Health introduces Turbo 501(k) submissions)
June 2, 2005... ARLINGTON, Virginia -- A pilot program within the office of in vitro diagnostics (OIVD) at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is trying to cut down on the jungle of 510(k) submissions in paper. It's called Turbo...

New study refutes Stamey's claim that PSA era is over.(American Urological Association)
June 2, 2005... Physician scientists at Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital (both New York) said results of a study presented at last week's annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA; Linthicum, Maryland) in...

Study indicates NIOX system helps cut asthma medication.(International report)
June 2, 2005... A group of New Zealand researchers has shown that by using a simple exhalation test using the NIOX Nitric Oxide Monitoring System developed by Aerocrine (Solna, Sweden), anti-inflammatory medication prescribed to asthmatics can be reduced by...

GE unveils new imaging tech for diagnosing heart disease.(EuroPCR conference)
June 2, 2005... PARIS -- The EuroPCR meeting, which drew a throng estimated at about 10,000 to the Palais de Congres last week, is one of the few medical meetings in which industry and the medical field associate freely, even in event-sanctioned press...

InSite Vision adds $9 million; PolyMedica sets price range.(Financings roundup)
June 2, 2005... Ophthalmic diagnostics, therapeutics and drug-delivery firm InSite Vision (Alameda, California) said it has completed its previously reported $9 million private financing of common stock and warrants for stock. Terms of the agreements...

Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) and the College of Medicine of the University of Vermont (UVM; Burlington).(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) and the College of Medicine of the University of Vermont (UVM; Burlington) reported a collaboration between Applied Imaging's wholly-owned subsidiary, CTC (Vancouver, British Columbia), and UVM to develop...

Ties between devices, biologics increasing, Goodman says.(Jesse Goodman of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research)
June 2, 2005... ARLINGTON, Virginia -- The worlds of biologics and devices are increasingly coming closer together and, on occasion, overlapping. "On the device side, biologics really has changed over the last two or three years," Jesse Goodman, MD,...

Jury in Scrushy trial again gets instructions from judge.(Court report)(Richard Scrushy)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... For the second time, the judge in the trial of Richard Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth (Bir-mingham, Alabama), last week gave instructions to the jury now deliberating in the case charging him with masterminding a $2.7 billion...

Inverness adds Abbott tests in $56.5 million transaction.(Deals roundupm)
June 2, 2005... Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) said it would purchase the Determine/DainaScreen assets from Abbott Diagnostics (Abbott Park, Illinois) for $56.5 million. Determine/DainaScreen rapid diagnostic testing provide...

Princess Margaret Hospital adding Synergy from Elekta.(Grants/contracts)
June 2, 2005... Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH; Toronto) said that it would enhance its "leadership in image-guided radiation therapy" (IGRT) with the addition of an Elekta Synergy system from Elekta (Stockholm, Sweden). PMH also said that it will build "on...

One-third or more of Frazier's $475m fund will target devices.
June 2, 2005... California is seen by Frazier Healthcare Ventures (Seattle/Palo Alto, California) as "first and foremost on the cutting edge of medical devices," says Nathan Every, MD, general partner of the venture capital firm, which forthrightly describes...

Varian Medical develops new cargo-screening accelerator.(Fighting back)
June 2, 2005... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) re-ported that it has developed a type of X-ray linear accelerator that enables cargo-screening systems to automatically alert operators if suspicious materials are detected. The Varian Linatron K9...

Women explain why they didn't get Pap test.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... The most common reason many women give to explain why they didn't receive regular Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer is that their doctors didn't recommend the test, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

artus Gesellschaft to be acquired.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Qiagen (Venlo, the Netherlands), which describes itself as the leading global provider of enabling technologies and products for the separation, purification and handling of nucleic acids and proteins, said that its Qiagen GmbH subsidiary has...

East Africa sales office for Chembio.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Chembio Diagnostics (Medford, New York) said it has established an East Africa sales office as part of a new strategic effort to market its rapid HIV test kits in countries that are part of the U.S. Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief...

Bone density screening data reported.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... CompuMed (Los Angeles) presented data comparing digital and standard film-based versions of its OsteoGram osteoporosis screening system at last month's 3rd International Conference on Bone and Mineral Research in Xij-an, China. The...

AlzheimAlert kit to go before FDA panel.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Nymox Pharmaceutical (Maywood, New Jersey) said it has been informed that its premarket approval (PMA) application to the FDA for a kit version of its AlzheimAlert urine test will be go before a panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee...

Guardian Technologies International.(People in Places)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Guardian Technologies International (Herndon, Virginia), a developer of intelligent imaging informatics solutions for homeland security and radiology healthcare, has expanded its sales force by adding four sales executives with responsibility...

Luminex.(People in Places)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Luminex (Austin, Texas), a manufacturer of life science and biological testing technologies, has named Russell Bradley vice president, business development and strategic planning. Bradley served most recently as director of Beckman Coulter's...

Innovative Biosensors (IBI: College Park, Maryland), a developer of rapid pathogen tests, reported raising $3.5 million in a Series A financing led by Harbert Venture Partners.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Innovative Biosensors (IBI: College Park, Maryland), a developer of rapid pathogen tests, reported raising $3.5 million in a Series A financing led by Harbert Venture Partners. Other investors include New Markets Growth Fund and the Maryland...

Caris, an investment partnership founded by David Halbert, founder, former chairman and CEO of AdvancePCS.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Caris, an investment partnership founded by David Halbert, founder, former chairman and CEO of AdvancePCS, reported completing a $120 million recapitalization of Pathology Partners (Dallas), a developer of gastrointestinal (GI) diagnostic...

Alliance Imaging.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California) reported commencing an offer to exchange up to $150 million of its 7-1/4% senior subordinated notes, due 2012, for any and all of its outstanding 7-1/4% senior subordinated notes, due 2012, issued in a...

ACMI.(Product Briefs)(develops digital camera and video color sensor)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... ACMI (Southborough, Massachusetts), which manufactures diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic instrumentation products and systems, said that its global R&D group has developed the world's smallest digital camera and video color sensor. The...

GE Healthcare.(Product Briefs)(introduces computed tomography scanner)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) said its next-generation volume computed tomography (CT) scanner, the LightSpeed VCT, is being used to image the brains of stroke patients at University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor, Michigan). GE...

NanoLogix.(Product Briefs)(NanoLogix MycoExtract Buffer)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... NanoLogix (Sharon, Pennsylvania), a nanobiotechnology company developing technologies for the production of bacteria and disease testing kits, reported that its DNA extraction system and protocol is both easier, due to fewer steps, and quicker,...

Quidel.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Quidel (San Diego), a provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported that it has received third-party validation of its QuickVue Influenza A+B test in a study presented at the 21st annual Clinical Virology Symposium and annual...

TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) and Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) reported that TriPath Imaging has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the Ventana Image Analysis System when used with tissues stained for Estrogen Receptor (ER) and Progesterone Receptor (PR).(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) and Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) reported that TriPath Imaging has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the Ventana Image Analysis System when used with tissues stained for...

Xenomics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Xenomics (New York), a developer of medical DNA technologies, said it has filed a provisional patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office connected to its discovery of methods to detect the genetic abnormality Down syndrome through the...

Cardiac biomarker use lowers risk, seen increasing in ED.
June 9, 2005... In the coming age of proteomics, biomarkers are going to aid tremendously--and in fact already have begun that process--in cardiac medicine, said Robert Christenson, PhD, professor of pathology and professor of medical and research technology...

IVMD in accord to develop diagnostic for mental illness.(International report)(In Veritas Medical Diagnostics)
June 9, 2005... In Veritas Medical Diagnostics (IVMD; Inverness, Scotland) reported signing a commercial agreement on a joint project with the Ness Foundation, a Scottish-based neuro-developmental research organization. IVMD said it would apply its...

Biobanks seen accelerating move to personalized medicine.
June 9, 2005... The road toward personalized medicine still has a few gaps that need to be bridged before DNA-targeted therapies and diagnostics become the new standard of care. In order to maximize personalized medicine, a coordinated effort among drug...

Leavitt to form commission to speed national EHR system.(electronic health records)
June 9, 2005... Department of Health and Human Services (HHS; Washington) Secretary Mike Leavitt this week reported the creation of a commission to be chaired by Leavitt that will work to develop standards to ensure that most Americans have electronic health...

FDA's mammography program banners 10 years of MQSA.(Washington roundup)(Mammography Quality Standards Act)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... WASHINGTON -- The FDA's Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs (DMQRP) recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first mammography facility inspection under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). The first...

NIH: key to glucose balance found.(Washington roundup)(National Institutes of Health)
June 9, 2005... Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) say they've discovered the critical sequence of events by which insulin stimulates the entry of glucose into fat cells. "This finding provides useful information...

Agfa completes Heartlab buy; Merge eFilm, Cedara combine.(Deals roundup)
June 9, 2005... Agfa-Gevaert (Mortsel, Belgium) has completed its $132.5 million (EUR 106.5 million) acquisition of U.S. cardiology imaging and information networks manufacturer Heartlab (Westerly, Rhode Island). Agfa said it expects the deal to be...

XLR Medical will not receive $4.7m financing, as planned.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... XLR Medical (Point Roberts, Washington) reported that it has received notice that it will not be receiving $4.7 million in financing as previously disclosed in March. At that time, the company reported that it had negotiated a $4.7 million...

Bio-Rad Laboratories.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a manufacturer of life science research products and clinical diagnostics, reported completing its offer to exchange up to $200 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.125% senior subordinated...

TriPath Imaging.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) reported board approval of the accelerated vesting of stock options that were both unvested and "out-of-the-money" and held by current employees, officers and directors, with exercise prices greater...

Sanesco in pacts with LDN Germany and Capilab Brazil.(Agreements)(Sanesco International )
June 9, 2005... Sanesco International (Asheville, North Carolina), a new medical company that it says offers a new approach to practitioners of integrative medicine, reported two strategic alliances that significantly strengthen its marketing and R&D...

Scrushy lawyers say 'no plea bargain' as case lies in limbo.(Court report)
June 9, 2005... Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), will cut no plea bargaining deal with prosecutors in his corporate fraud trial and is ready for a retrial if necessary, his lawyers said as a deadlocked jury began its second...

BioSource subject to Nasdaq delisting.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... BioSource International (Camarillo, California) said that it received a notice from the Listing Qualifications Department of the Nasdaq market indicating that the company is not in compliance with Nasdaq requirements for continued listing, due...

Siemens ultrasound ranked No. 1.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions Ultrasound Division, part of Siemens (Erlangen, Ger-many) reported that it has been ranked the No. 1 ultrasound company for revenues in the U.S. for the fifth year in a row, by Klein Biomedical Consultants' (KBC; New...

Hamilton Thorne, CogniScent in pact for Electronic Nose.(Grants/contracts)
June 9, 2005... Hamilton Thorne Biosciences (Beverly, Massachusetts) and CogniScent (Weston, Massachusetts) reported a collaborative relationship for development and marketing of CogniScent's "Electronic Nose" device. CogniScent has granted Hamilton...

Focus Diagnostics (Herndon, Virginia), a leading provider of infectious disease testing services and diagnostic products.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Focus Diagnostics (Herndon, Virginia), a leading provider of infectious disease testing services and diagnostic products, reported an agreement with Luminex (Austin, Texas) with licensing terms providing Focus Diagnostics access to Luminex's...

Fonar (Melville, New York) said that it has sold and installed an Upright MRI at StandUp MRI (Riverhead, New York).(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Fonar (Melville, New York) said that it has sold and installed an Upright MRI at StandUp MRI (Riverhead, New York). The facility is operated and managed by Diagnostic Imaging Management Co. (DIMC), which is affiliated with Long Island...

Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) reported that it has been awarded diagnostic imaging contracts from HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG; Brentwood, Tennessee), a healthcare purchasing organization.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) reported that it has been awarded diagnostic imaging contracts from HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG; Brentwood, Tennessee), a healthcare purchasing organization. The agreements will provide...

Swissray International (Elizabeth, New Jersey) said it received orders for multiple direct digital radiography (ddR) systems from New England Baptist Hospital (Boston).(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Swissray International (Elizabeth, New Jersey) said it received orders for multiple direct digital radiography (ddR) systems from New England Baptist Hospital (Boston). The systems are scheduled to be installed starting in July. Digital...

Tm Bioscience (Toronto), which focuses on the commercial genetic testing market.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Tm Bioscience (Toronto), which focuses on the commercial genetic testing market, reported signing an agreement to supply the Emory Genetics Laboratory at Emory University (Atlanta) with the Tag-It ASR reagents for use in its Ashkenazi Jewish...

Roche opens world's largest PCR facility.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Roche (Indianapolis) on Tuesday dedicated its new manufacturing center in Branchburg, New Jersey. The facility is the largest polymerase chain reaction (PCR) manufacturing site in the world and was constructed to manufacture and supply Roche...

LCD monitors gaining ground.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Although analog-based cathode-ray tube (CRT) medical display monitors dominated the market until recently due to favorable pricing and economies of scale, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors are fast gaining ground over them, according to new...

Ukraine approval for VScan test kits.(International report)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Medical Services International (MSI; Edmonton, Alberta) said it has received regulatory approval to sell its VScan HIV test kits in the Ukraine. The company said market studies show that it should expect to sell in excess of 750,000 HIV test...

Uganda institute backs Calypte tests.(International report)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Calypte Biomedical (Pleasanton, California) said that the HIV/AIDS Reference and Quality Assurance Laboratory at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (Entebbe, Uganda) has issued a recommendation that the Uganda National Drug Authority grant...

Ex-Im Bank guarantee backs Turkish sale.(International report)
June 9, 2005... Exporter Marubeni America (San Francisco) is using a $13.7 million loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) to sell oncology medical equipment supplied by U.S. suppliers to Hacettepe Universitesi, a leading...

Avitar.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Avitar (Canton, Massachusetts) said it has received a notice of allowance on a patent for an oral fluid collection device used for DNA PCR-based (polymerase chain reaction) testing. The invention includes the use of Avitar's hydrophilic foam...

Biophan Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York) said U.S. patent No. 6,902,290 has been granted to the company. The patent teaches the placement of an electronic sensor within medical devices that can offset the image artifacts that interfere...

Xenomics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Xenomics (New York) said it has filed a U.S. patent application for technology enabling the improved detection of tuberculosis based on its proprietary Transrenal DNA technology, which uses urine samples. The tuberculosis testing application of...

Boston Scientific.(Lucia Luce Quinn has been named executive vice president )(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Lucia Luce Quinn has been named executive vice president of human resources for Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts). Prior to joining Boston Scientific in January, she served as senior vice president of Quest Diagnostics.

Fischer Imaging.(Steven Durnil was named chief operating officer )(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Steven Durnil was named chief operating officer of Fischer Imaging (Denver). Durnil joined the company as vice president of manufacturing and supply chain in July 2004. Fischer Imaging makes medical imaging systems for the screening and...

Pacific Biometrics.(Michael Murphy, PhD, has been named senior vice president of operations )(Brief Article)
June 9, 2005... Michael Murphy, PhD, has been named senior vice president of operations for Pacific Biometrics (PBI; Seattle). Murphy joins PBI from Laboratory Corp. of America, where he served as technical director responsible for three of its West Division...

Early testing and intervention seen as key to cutting costs.(American Diabetes Association)
June 16, 2005... SAN DIEGO -- The impact of diabetes on the American populace is big--mighty big. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA; Alexandria, Virginia), more than 18 million Americans now have diabetes, about 30% of them undiagnosed. ...

Pilot study shows Guardian aids in diabetes management.(American Diabetes Association)
June 16, 2005... SAN DIEGO -- The Medtronic Diabetes (Northridge, California) unit of Medtronic (Minneapolis) said participants in a pilot study--the study data reported over this past weekend--used its Guardian RT continuous glucose monitoring system to make...

Cleveland Clinic spin-off garners FDA approval for cardiac test.
June 16, 2005... Since the first publication of its study results in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in October 2003, a technology that detects an enzyme from "culprit lesions" of the heart--developed at The Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland) to determine...

New FDA guidance for CLIA waivers expected this summer.(Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)
June 16, 2005... The FDA says it is in the process of drafting new guidance as to which in vitro diagnostic tests are considered waived under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). While this process has been ongoing for "quite some time," an...

Electro-Optical reports $33M IPO; Invitrogen in $300M notes offer.(Financings roundup)
June 16, 2005... Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS; Irvington, New York) reported that it has filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission describing a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock to raise up to $33 million. The...

BMD adds 3rd round EUR 5M to back Fidis-Caris R&D, sales.(International Report)(Biomedical Diagnostics)
June 16, 2005... Diagnostics firm BMD (Biomedical Diagnostics; Marnela-Vallee, France) reported raising EUR 5 million ($6.25 million) in a new funding round--its third--following rounds of EUR 4.6 million ($5.75 million) in 2000 and EUR 9.3 million ($11.6...

German lab joins diagnostics working group.(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Bioscientia (Ingelheim, Germany), an international reference laboratory, said it will participate as a European site for a joint working group on molecular diagnostics initiated by Sequenom (San Diego) and Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern,...

Finnish university to get FLEX system.(from Gamma Medica )(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... The University of Kuopio (Kuopio, Finland) said that it has ordered a FLEX Pre-Clinical Imaging System from Gamma Medica (Northridge, California), with the system to be delivered this summer. The dual modality FLEX SPECT/CT system will be...

Bayer Diagnostics gets FDA okay for Advia hepatitis panel add-ons.
June 16, 2005... Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics Division (Tarrytown, New York) has received approval from the FDA for its automated hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and HBsAg confirmatory assays, allowing the company to offer more tests on its Advia Centaur...

FDA looks to end 'confusion' concerning drug test approvals.(Washington Roundup)
June 16, 2005... WASHINGTON -- The FDA this week released a public notice to address "consumer confusion" concerning tests used to check for drug use. The tests in question screen for such drugs as cocaine, marijuana, opiates, PCP and methamphetamine and are...

Spacelabs receives $6.3 million monitoring, telemetry contract.(Grants/contracts news)
June 16, 2005... Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington), a division of OSI Systems (Hawthorne, California), said it has received a contract for about $6.3 million from the University of Missouri Hospitals & Clinics, Missouri Rehabilitation Center and the...

DOBI retains Bio-Imaging Technologies.(DOBI Medical International)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) said that it has retained Bio-Imaging Technologies (Newtown, Pennsylvania), a provider of medical image management services for clinical trials. Bio-Imaging will manage clinical study image data...

OmniCorder becomes Advanced BioPhotonics.(Briefly Noted)(OmniCorder Technologies changes name)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... OmniCorder Technologies (Bohemia, New York) said that the company's shareholders approved a proposal to change its name to Advanced BioPhotonics at its recent annual meeting of shareholders. The company's Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board ticker...

Criticare becomes contact for Alaris monitors.(Criticare Systems Inc. enters into a marketing agreement with Alaris Medical Systems )(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Criticare Systems (Milwaukee) reported that as of Sept. 1, the company will become the direct point of contact for the customer base of Vital Check monitors made by Alaris Medical Systems (San Diego). Cardinal Health, Alaris products, has...

NeoGenomics.(Financings roundup)(enters into a equity distribution agreement with Cornell Capital Partners )(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... NeoGenomics (Fort Myers, Florida) reported entering into a standby equity distribution agreement (SEDA) with Cornell Capital Partners (Jersey City, New Jersey). Under the SEDA terms, the company may periodically sell to Cornell shares of common...

Cierra.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Cierra (Redwood City, California) reported receiving a $21 million financing led by Delphi Ventures (Menlo Park, California). The round also received support from current investors including Morgenthaler Ventures, Split Rock Ventures and...

Correlogic Systems.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Correlogic Systems (Bethesda, Maryland), a proteomics company developing pattern recognition technology for the detection of cancer and other diseases, reported receiving an equity investment--the amount undisclosed--from Quest Diagnostics...

Siemens ultrasound ranked No. 1.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions Ultrasound Division, part of Siemens (Malvern, Pennsylvania/Erlangen, Germany) reported that it has been ranked the No. 1 ultrasound company for revenues in the U.S. for the fifth year in a row, by Klein Biomedical...

Anthony Curro has joined Compumedics USA (El Paso, Texas), a division of Compumedics, as vice president of sales.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Anthony Curro has joined Compumedics USA (El Paso, Texas), a division of Compumedics, as vice president of sales. Curro previously headed the market development group, Northeast region, at Guidant. Compumedics manufactures computer-based...

Gen-Probe.(People in Places)(promotes Larry Mimms)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Gen-Probe (San Diego) reported that Larry Mimms, PhD, who the company said had spearheaded its entry into blood screening and oncology markets, has been promoted to executive vice president, R&D, effective June 20. Mimms replaces Jim Godsey,...

Nanoviricides.(People in Places)(appoints Eugene Seymour)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Eugene Seymour, MD, has joined Nanoviricides (West Haven, Connecticut) as CEO and chairman of the board. Seymour founded SDS, which makes the Hema-Strip rapid HIV antibody blood test, and a non-profit foundation that provided testing and...

Pacific Biometrics.(People in Places)(appoints John Jensen)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... John Jensen has joined Pacific Biometrics (Seattle) as controller. Pacific Biometrics provides specialized central laboratory and contract research services to support pharmaceutical and diagnostic manufacturers conducting human clinical trial...

AHRQ releases info on 5 costliest diseases.(Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research )
June 16, 2005... According to new statistics released by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (Washington), the five costliest medical conditions in the U.S. in terms of total spending for hospital and doctor visits, prescriptions drugs and other...

Aspect Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
June 16, 2005... Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) reported that data presented at the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, showed that the company's brain monitoring technology was able to predict changes in suicidal...

Cardinal Health.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2005... Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) reported the release of the Alaris Tri-Site Thermometer. The Alaris Tri-Site Thermometer features a "smart" adaptive algorithm that adjusts to the heat transfer characteristics of the appropriate body site, thus...