Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from March 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from March 2004

Draximage gets FDA okay for stronger form of imaging agent.(MDP-25)
March 4, 2004... Draximage (Mississauga, Ontario) has received approval from the FDA to produce and market a new formulation of a diagnostic product for preparing a skeletal imaging agent that is used to show areas of accelerated bone remodeling, or formation...

UK funds recruitment effort to boost radiography staffs.(Report from Europe)
March 4, 2004... The UK Department of Health has allocated 3.4 million [pounds sterling] in government funding to boost the number of radiographers working in the National Health Service (NHS), initiating a recruitment and retention strategy to increase the...

Genzyme to be 'lead bidder' to purchase Impath unit for $215M.(Deals roundup)
March 4, 2004... Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Impath (New York) reported entering into an agreement under which Genzyme will become the lead bidder to purchase the assets of Impath's Physician Services business unit, a leader in the oncology testing...

SpectRx initiates trials for cervical cancer detection test.(Report from Europe)(non-invasive cervical test)(Guided Therapeutics)
March 4, 2004... SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported last week that it is initiating FDA pivotal clinical trials of its non-invasive cervical test by submitting final protocols to hospitals participating in the study. It also reported that any device...

Firm seeks backers to bring BreastScan device to market.(BreastScan IR)
March 4, 2004... Infrared Sciences (Hauppage, New York) is seeking investors or partnership alternatives to bring its product, BreastScan IR, to market, now that it has a 510(k) approval in hand. BreastScan IR uses digital infrared imaging to assist in the...

Commitment from life sciences is sought in bioterrorism fight.(International Council for the Life Sciences Industries)
March 4, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The potential misuse of science to develop or release destructive weapons has prompted two research organizations to form a global council charged with establishing ways of improving public safety through use of responsible,...

Spectral Genomics in license agreement with Affymetrix.(Agreements roundup)(Kereos)
March 4, 2004... Spectral Genomics (Houston, Texas) said it has entered into a license agreement that provides Spectral with a worldwide license to certain Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) parents to manufacture and sell spotted DNA arrays for use in the...

Hitachi developing non-invasive glucose monitor for diabetics..(Report from Japan)
March 4, 2004... Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo) has reported the development of a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device for diabetic that instead of requiring blood specimens uses sensors to detect physiological parameters related to the body's metabolism. ...

CeMines closes series A; terms, details not disclosed.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... CeMines (Evergreen, Colorado), a privately held company developing Molecular FingerPrinting technology for the early detection and treatment of cancer, reported closing a round A funding through a private placement. Terms and details of the...

Ventana says injunction blocks sales of BenchMark Discovery.(Court report)
March 4, 2004... Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) reported that the U.S. District Court in Boston, Massachusetts, indicated that an injunction would be entered that precluded it from the future manufacturing and sale of its BenchMark/ Discovery...

CardioMag Imaging set to begin digital classification of MCGs.(Grants/contracts)(Magnetocardiograms)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... Following successful completion of a National Science Foundation (NSF: Arlington, Virginia) Phase I grant in 2003, CardioMag Imaging (Schenectady, New York) said it would now improve its digital "Automatic Classification of Magnetocardiograms."...

Diagnostic service provider LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) has completed the purchase of the assets of NWT's (Salt Lake City, Utah) Northwest Toxicology drug testing division.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Diagnostic service provider LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) has completed the purchase of the assets of NWT's (Salt Lake City, Utah) Northwest Toxicology drug testing division. The purchase price is $10 million, subject to adjustment based on net...

Biosite (San Diego, California), a provider of medical diagnostics, said the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) has granted the company certain diagnostic rights to myeloperoxidase (MPO).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Biosite (San Diego, California), a provider of medical diagnostics, said the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) has granted the company certain diagnostic rights to myeloperoxidase (MPO), a marker of inflammation in the walls of coronary...

Bayer Biological Products (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) has received approval from the FDA for in-house nucleic acid testing (NAT) of HIV in plasma donations.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Bayer Biological Products (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) has received approval from the FDA for in-house nucleic acid testing (NAT) of HIV in plasma donations. Based on this approval, Bayer BP said it becomes the first plasma...

Given Imaging.(Product Briefs)(M2A capsule endoscope)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said that the Pediatric Accessory Kit and Pediatric DataRecorder have been cleared in the U.S. to facilitate pediatric use of its M2A capsule endoscope. Designed for children and small stature patients, the kit...

Imaging Diagnostic Systems (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) said Schering AG (Berlin, Germany) has requested an additional CTLM system as part of a collaboration involving studies of fluorescent compounds in their quest of breast cancer detection.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Imaging Diagnostic Systems (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) said Schering AG (Berlin, Germany) has requested an additional CTLM system as part of a collaboration involving studies of fluorescent compounds in their guest of breast cancer detection....

Lifeline Bio Technologies.(Product Briefs)(breast microendoscope)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Lifeline Bio Technologies (Reno, Nevada) reported that it has completed the required documentation for compliance and FDA clearance of its breast microendoscope. The diagnostic device will provide visual images for physicians to examine the...

Nellcor.(Product Briefs)(MAX-FAST sensor)
March 4, 2004... * Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) recorded the results of a study that found the Nellcor MAX-FAST Forehead Sensor provides accurate and more reliable oxygen saturation values during pulse oximetry monitoring of patients in the Pediatric...

SmartPill Diagnostics (Buffalo, New York) reported that Massachusetts General Hospital's (Boston, Massachusetts) Institutional Review Board has approved physiological trials using the SmartPill Capsule.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... SmartPill Diagnostics (Buffalo, New York) reported that Massachusetts General Hospital's (Boston, Massachusetts) Institutional Review Board has approved physiological trials using the SmartPill Capsule. The trials will generate data that...

Metrika.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Jeffrey Purvin has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Metrika (Sunnyvale, California). Prior to joining Metrika, Purvin was president of the Interventional Products Division of Datascope. Metrika manufactures the AlcNow...

Pediatrix Medical Group.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Alan Spitzer, MD has been named vice president, research and education, at Pediatrix Medical Group (Fort Lauderdale, Florida). Spitzer most recently served as professor of pediatrics and chief of the division of neonatology at the State...

Research Corporation Technologies.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2004... * Research Corporation Technologies (RCT; Tucson, Arizona) reported the promotion of two of its vice presidents to key management positions. Shaun Kirkpatrick has been named president and chief operating officer, and Christopher Martin has been...

Roche, Bayer Biological get nod for HIV-1 plasma testing.(Cobas AmpScreen HIV-1 Test v1.5)
March 11, 2004... Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) reported last week receiving FDA approval for its Cobas AmpScreen HIV-1 Test v1.5 for use as a qualitative in vitro rest for the direct detection of HIV Type 1, or HIV-1, in both source plasma and organ...

Code of business practice is adopted by industry group.(Report from Europe)(Eucomed)
March 11, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Eucomed (Brussels, Belgium), a trade association for the European medical Technology industry, has adopted a new code of Business Practice. The new code, which Eucomed said updates and replaces a...

Nanogen raises $33.7 million; AngioDynamics registers IPO.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Nanogen (San Diego, California) said it has sold 4.25 million shares of its common stock to Institutional investors at a price of $7.94 per share. For gross proceeds of about $33.7 million. After...

'Intelligent' system detects earliest signs of heart attack.(Report from Canada)(Vital Positioning System)
March 11, 2004... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Canadian Correspondent A Canadian company has created a device that it says can detect a heart attack up to eight minutes before a patient experiences symptoms of the attack, then can alert emergency medical staff...

Heartlab reports it will purchase telecardiology firm CardioNow.(Deals roundup)
March 11, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Heartlab (Westerly, Rhode Island), a developer of cardiac image and information management software, said it will purchase CardioNow (Encinitas, California), a provider of telecardiology and image...

Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) has signed an agreement under which it will acquire the assets of OpTx.(Deals roundup)
March 11, 2004... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) has signed an agreement under which it will acquire the assets of OpTx (Englewood, Colorado), a privately held supplier of software for medical oncology practices in cancer clinics. According...

Whatman aims FTA technology at detecting pathogens in food.
March 11, 2004... Whatman (Clifton, New Jersey) has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the FDA to use its FTA technology For the development of a universal template preparation protocol for the detection of human...

BioShield II bill will address areas of concern to companies.
March 11, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The House version of Project BioShield expected to pass the Senate in the next few months is considered a satisfactory first step needed to entice drug companies to enter the biomedical countermeasure business, insiders here said....

Aspect Medical earns FDA nod for new BISx system processor.
March 11, 2004... Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) has received 510(k) clearance flora the FDA for the BISx system, a level-of-consciousness anesthesia monitoring solution that provides the processing technology required to obtain BIS (for...

U.S. Army buys 3 telepathology solutions from Trestle Holdings.(Grants/contracts)
March 11, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Trestle Holdings (Irvine, California), a supplier of tissue Imaging and telemedicine applications, said the U.S. Army purchased three additional MedMicro products, the company's live telepathology...

Diagnostic Ultrasound forms customer care unit.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Diagnostic Ultrasound (Bothell, Washington), which makes ultrasound devices, reported the creation of a new customer care subsidiary. The Diagnostics Ultrasound Customer Care Corp. was created to improve the company's business processes and...

4-D Neuroimaging goes private.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... 4-D Neuroimaging (4-D, San Diego, California) reported that in order to maximize its ability to serve its growing customer base and to develop further improvements to its widely used MEG technology. It has completed a "going private"...

Biosite enters collaboration with DMI BioSciences for biomarker.(Agreements)
March 11, 2004... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Biosite (San Diego, California), a provider of novel, rapid medical diagnostics, said it has entered into a license and collaboration agreement with DMI BioSciences (Englewood, Colorado) under which...

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Lab Corp; Burlington, North Carolina) reported a definitive agreement with Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, Washington), a not-for-profit healthcare provider to provide laboratory services to Swedish facilities through Jan. 31, 2015.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Lab Corp; Burlington, North Carolina) reported a definitive agreement with Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, Washington), a not-for-profit healthcare provider to provide laboratory services to Swedish...

Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) reported that Pacific Rim Pathology Laboratory (San Diego, California) has implemented the ThinPrep Pap Imaging System.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) reported that Pacific Rim Pathology Laboratory (San Diego, California) has implemented the ThinPrep Imaging System. Pacific Rim has been offering the ThinPrep Pap Test since November 2000, processing about...

Broad participation urged in health consultation.(Report from Europe)(British government asking for public input on health policy)
March 11, 2004... Surrounded by shoppers, retailers, doctors and nurses at a superstore care in east London last week, Health Secretary John Reid unveiled details of a huge national consultation on how to improve the UK's health and well-being. Reid...

Ciphergen Biosystems.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... William Sullivan has joined Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) as vice president, diagnostics operations, in its newly formed Diagnostics Division. Prior to joining Ciphergen, he was vice president of diagnostic manufacturing at Visible...

OraSure Technologies.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) reported that Mike Gausling, its president and chief executive officer, plans to retire from the company and its board of directors by the end of 2004. Gausling has been OraSure's president and CEO...

TriPath Imaging.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) reported the promotion of Johnny Powers, PhD, to senior vice president. Powers previously served as general manager for TriPath Oncology, a wholly owned subsidiary of TriPath imaging, since July...

AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York), a wholly owned subsidiary of E.Z.EM.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York), a wholly owned subsidiary of E.Z.EM, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock worth an estimated $30.6 million. A...

Synarc.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Synarc (Maynard, Massachusetts), a provider of specialized medical imaging and molecular marker services for global clinical trials for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices industries, has closed on a $10.2 million private...

Biomerica.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Biomerica (Newport Beach, California) reported that it has introduced a new 10-minute rapid diagnostic test for detecting Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium responsible for more than 85% of ulcers. The one-step test initially will be marketed...

OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) said its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test was reported to produce substantially fewer false-positive results than traditional lab-based HIV tests or other FDA-approved rapid HIV tests when used in a laboratory setting.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) said its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test was reported to produce substantially fewer false-positive results than traditional lab-based HIV tests or other FDA-approved rapid HIV tests when used...

Point Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Cardiosphere)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Point Biomedical (San Carlos, California), said it plans to submit a new drug application later this year after comparing two pivotal Phase III trials of Cardiosphere, a myocardial perfusion imaging agent used with ultrasound. The trials were...

Seradyn (Indianapolis, Indiana) has received FDA clearance for a hemoglobin A(1C) assay for use on Abbott Laboratories' (Abbott Park, Illinois) Architect c8000, Architect ci8200 and Aeroset immunochemistry systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Seradyn (Indianapolis, Indiana) has received FDA clearance for a hemoglobin A(1C) assay for use on Abbott Laboratories' (Abbott Park, Illinois) Architect c8000, Architect ci8200 and Aeroset immunochemistry systems. Tracking hemoglobin A(IC)...

Tecan.(Product Briefs)(EVO Clinical)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Tecan (Mannedorf, Switzerland) reported the introduction of Freedom EVO Clinical, a series of automated liquid handling solutions for diagnostic laboratories. The Freedom EVO Clinical provides flexible, scalable and upgradeable solutions for...

TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) reported the presentation of an independent study at the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) reported the presentation of an independent study at the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, that demonstrates that melastatin gene expression as measured...

Varian Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(On-Board Imager accessory)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) reported that it has received FDA clearance of the On-Board Imager accessory for its Clinac and Trilogy medical linear accelerators. The new imaging accessory is designed to improve the precision...

Viatronix.(Product Briefs)(V3D-Colon system)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2004... Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York) said a study published in the December 2003 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology and The New England Journal of Medicine found the Viatronix V3D-Colon system to be more reliable and accurate than two...

Imalux gets FDA nod for optical coherence tomography device.
March 18, 2004... Imalux's (Cleveland, Ohio) years of investment spent developing its particular optical coherence tomography (OCT) device has paid off, with the company reporting last week that the FDA had cleared the tissue-imaging system for U.S. marketing....

Health first Europe aims at better access to technology.(Report from Europe)
March 18, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Organizations representing patients, healthcare workers, academics, health experts and the medical technology Industry have reported the creation of a new alliance, Health First Europe (Brussels,...

Spectral buys bacterial firm; new unit for pacific biometrics.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Spectral Genomics (Houston, Texas) has acquired Bacterial Barcodes (also Houston), the company that developed the DiversiLab System based on proprietary rep-PCR technology for bacterial strain...

Masimo introduces portable Rad-5 pulse oximetry system.(Report from Europe)
March 18, 2004... Masimo (Irvine, California) has released its Masimo SET Rod-5 Handheld Signal Extraction Pulse Oximeter, or Rad-5, which it said incorporates all of the primary features of its Radical Signal Extraction Pulse Oximeter and is designed to help...

Association launched to assist Southeast medical device firms.(Southeastern Medical Device Association)
March 18, 2004... A new organization, the Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA; Atlanta, Georgia), is being launched to support medical device companies in the Southeastern U.S. SEMDA will serve as a networking community to assist inventors and...

ScImage partners with Stryker on orthopedic imaging PACS.(Agreements)
March 18, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report ScImage (Los Altos, California), a. provide: of Image and information management and distribution solutions and medical imaging workstations, said that it is partnering with Stryker (Kalamazec,...

Primedex's RadNet unit to offer $150 million in senior notes.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Primedex Health Systems (Los Angeles, California) reported that it is planning to offer about $150 million In senior notes, due 2012, in a private offering, The notes would be issued by Primedex's...

Large Scale Biology.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... Large Scale Biology (Vacaville, California) said it has completed an $8.2 million private placement. Institutional investors acquired 5.2 million shares of newly issued common stock, and the company also issued warrants with a five-year term to...

AgaMatrix.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... AgaMatrix (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a developer and manufacturer of blood glucose monitoring products for the diabetes market, said a group of executives previously associated with Inverness Medical Technology (Waltham, Massachusetts), have...

Nellcor says it will appeal patent case ruling won by Masimo.(Court report)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report, Nellcor (Pleasanton, California), a developer of pulse oximetry solutions, said that it expects to appeal a recent jury finding of willful infringement of a patent held by Masimo (Irvine,...

HealthSouth.(Court Report)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) reported that the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, has granted its request and issued a temporary restraining order to prevent acceleration of its outstanding notes. HealthSouth said it sought this...

Boston Life Sciences.(Court Report)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... Boston Life Sciences (Boston, Massachusetts) said that a lawsuit, recently filed by Robert Gipson, Thomas Boucher and Ingalls & Snyder against it and its directors, has been dismissed in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The suit challenged the...

Corgenix Medical (Westminster, Colorado) and Genesis Bioventures (CBI; Surrey, British Columbia) have signed a definitive merger agreement for Genesis to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Corgenix in a stock-for-stock transaction.(Deals roundup)
March 18, 2004... Corgenix Medical (Westminster, Colorado) and Genesis Bioventures (CBI; Surrey, British Columbia) have signed a definitive merger agreement for Genesis to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Corgenix In a stock-for-stock transaction. ...

MDS Diagnostic Services (Toronto, Ontario) has sold its laboratory operations in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia, to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) in an asset purchase transaction that became effective on Monday.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... MDS Diagnostic Services (Toronto, Ontario) has said its laboratory operations in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia, to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) in an asset purchase transaction...

Red Cross to use Abbott's hepatitis B assay.(Briefly Noted)(American Red Cross )(Abbott Laboratories )(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) said its current contract with the American Red Cross (ARC; Washington) has been amended to supply a second infectious disease test For screening donated blood. Through this amendment, Abbott will now...

NanoSignal to sell SLICES in Europe, Mideast.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... NanoSignal (Los Vegas, Nevada) said it has entered into a joint venture agreement with an unnamed, Swiss-based investment company to sell NanoSignal's SLICES magnetic resonance imaging system in Europe and the Mideast. The JV agreement will be...

AD PathLabs.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Joel Chan, MD, has been named vice president and medical director of hematopathology for AD PathLabs (Newport Beach, California). Chan was previously director of diagnostic hematopathology for the western division of Impath. AD PathLabs...

Atherotech.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama) has appointed Ricky Thomas chief financial officer. Thomas brings more than 24. years of financial and accounting experience to the company. Atherotech is a specialty reference laboratory focused on improving...

Ray Earl has been named vice president of sales for Diamedix (Miami, Florida), a wholly owned subsidiary of IVAX Diagnostics (also Miami).(People in Places)
March 18, 2004... * Ray Earl has been named vice president of sales for Diamedix (Miami, Florida), a wholly owned subsidiary of IVAX Diagnostics (also Miami). Earl has held a number of management positions in the diagnostics industry, including careers at...

Epix Medical.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a developer of pharmaceuticals for magnetic resonance imaging, has promoted Thomas McMurry, PhD, to vice president of research. McMurry joined Epix in March 1993 as director, synthetic chemistry, and...

Fischer Imaging.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Mary Beth Wallingford has been named controller of Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado). She has worked for Fischer in a contract capacity over the past year, helping to complete the company's restatement of financial information. Wallingford...

NeoGenomics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Gary LaBarge has joined NeoGenomics (Fort Myers, Florida) as area sales manager for Southeast Florida. Most recently, LaBarge was employed with Impath, where his positions included Florida district manager. NeoGenomic's principal operations...

Radiologix.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Radiologix (Dallas, Texas), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, reported the appointments of Richard Sabolik, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Michael Silhol, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary....

SourceOne Healthcare Technologies.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * SourceOne Healthcare Technologies (Mentor, Ohio) has named Robert white to the newly created position of chief operating officer and senior vice president. White previously served as senior vice president, sales and marketing for SourceOne....

Xillix Technologies.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... David Marsh has been appointed director of North American sales for Xillix Technologies (Richmond, British Columbia), a developer of fluorescence endoscopy for the early detection of cancer. Marsh comes to Xillix with more than 20 years of...

Xtrana.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * James Chamberlain, a director of Xtrana (Broomfield, Colorado), has been appointed interim chief executive officer, replacing Timothy Dahltorp, who is leaving the company March 19. James Chamberlain is the founder of Biosource International,...

OraSure moves manufacturing to Pennsylvania.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), which focuses on oral fluid diagnostics, reported that the FDA has approved the transfer of manufacturing of its OraSure HIV-1 oral specimen collection device from Oregon to the company's...

Artemis Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Artemis Medical (Hayward, California) reported that It has been issued U.S. patent No. 6,699,205, titled "Biopsy localization method and device," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. This patent is the parent to a series of applications...

DiagnoCure (Quebec City, Quebec) reported the launch of Odyssee, the First automated version of its non-invasive bladder cancer test, immunoCyt/uCyt+.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * DiagnoCure (Quebec City, Quebec) reported the launch of Odyssee, the First automated version of its non-invasive bladder cancer test, immunoCyt/uCyt+. Market introduction is taking place this week at the United States and Canadian Academy of...

Eastman Kodak.(Product Briefs)(Dryview 8900 Laser imaging System)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Eastman Kodak (Rachester, New York) reported worldwide availability of a new software upgrade For the Kodak Dryview 8900 Laser imaging System that supports the printing of high-resolution digital mammography images. The announcement was made...

Imaging Sciences International.(Product Briefs)(compact cone beam computed tomography)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Imaging Sciences International (Barfield, Pennsylvania) introduced a new compact cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) system that provides what the company termed "unprecedented" 3-D, digital imaging at hail the cost of medical CT units and...

International Technidyne (Edison, New Jersey), a subsidiary of Thoratec (Pleasanten, California), reported a new name for its recently acquired IRMA blood analysis system.(Product Briefs)(IRMA TRUpoint)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * International Technidyne (Edison, New Jersey), a subsidiary of Thoratec (Pleasanton, California), reported a new name for its recently acquired IRMA blood analysis system. The newly designated IRMA TRUpoint measures pH, blood gases,...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2004... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberra) reported that Beijing official have approved the shipping of VScan HIV 1 & 2 rapid test kits to certain provincial police departments to start a mandatory testing program for HIV in drug...