Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from March 2006

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from March 2006

Mayo says cardiac test could assess moderate-risk adults.
March 2, 2006... A research team at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) used a non-invasive tool, called an arterial tonometer, to discover an association between stiffness in arteries and the presence and amount of coronary artery calcium, which the clinic...

Point-of-care testing seen as growing Asian market sector.(3rd of 3 parts)
March 2, 2006... SINGAPORE -- Sophisticated point-of-care tests are becoming important factors in the Asian in vitro diagnostics market, as discussed at the inaugural Diagnostics Asia 2006 conference, organized by IBC Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore) and held here in...

Public-private fund created for early investing in France.(International report)
March 2, 2006... Inserm-Transfert, the venture capital subsidiary of France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) has teamed up with three other funds to create a new venture capital firm to provide seed capital and proof-of-concept...

Study: Angiography may not ID cardiac disease in women.(Report)
March 2, 2006... Angiography for female patients who have presented with symptoms of cardiac distress appear to be not effective in determining the possible extent of coronary artery disease that may actually exist, according to new research. Therefore,...

Sarbanes-Oxley changes are proposed by SEC committee.
March 2, 2006... WASHINGTON -- Smaller life sciences companies soon could see some relief from one of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's more burdensome regulations, if the SEC adopts recommendations put forth by an advisory committee last week. Importantly for the...

Race still on for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring.(Report from Israel)
March 2, 2006... ZICHRON YAAKOV, Israel -- A feverish race continues for a stand-alone, non-invasive monitoring device that does not need to be used along with conventional blood glucose monitoring of blood samples, and three Israel companies are among the...

Israeli firm in telemedicine effort.(Report from Israel)
March 2, 2006... Visonic (Tel Aviv), a maker of electronic security systems and home management systems, reported strengthening its position in home healthcare by entering the telemedicine sector through a partnership agreement with TMT Telemedicine Web Medical...

Intermagnetics General files shelf registration with SEC.(Financings roundup)
March 2, 2006... Intermagnetics General (Latham, New York) reported filing a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enabling it to offer preferred stock, common stock, senior and subordinated debt and warrants, as well as units and...

Cepheid.(Financings news)
March 2, 2006... Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California), said it has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to an underwritten public offering of 10 million primary shares of common stock plus an option to...

HealthSouth.(Financings news)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) said it plans to issue up to $300 million of convertible perpetual preferred stock through an offering to qualified institutional buyers via a private placement exemption under the Securities Act of 1933. ...

Imagin Molecular (Oakbrook, Illinois) reported that the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Positron Acquisition, has reached an agreement with Positron (Houston) to convert a convertible promissory note into about 70 million shares of Positron common stock.(Financings news)
March 2, 2006... Imagin Molecular (Oakbrook, Illinois) reported that the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Positron Acquisition, has reached an agreement with Positron (Houston) to convert a convertible promissory note into about 70 million shares of Positron...

Patent dispute ending with Inverness buy of ACON unit.(Court report)
March 2, 2006... A nearly three-year-long patent dispute between two medical diagnostics companies reached an unexpected ending recently with one company agreeing to buy the other's rapid diagnostics business. Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham,...

The U.S. District Court in Denver has dismissed a longstanding patent infringement lawsuit filed by Medtronic (Minneapolis) against BrainLAB (Westchester, Illinois).(Court report)
March 2, 2006... The U.S. District Court in Denver has dismissed a longstanding patent infringement lawsuit filed by Medtronic (Minneapolis) against BrainLAB (Westchester, Illinois). The suit originally was filed in 1998. The court ruled that, as a matter...

HealthSouth.(Court report)
March 2, 2006... The Birmingham News last week reported that a federal judge has denied the latest attempt by Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) to have the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against him dismissed,...

Schering in radiopharma sale; legacy assets to cornerstone.(Deals roundup)
March 2, 2006... Schering (Berlin) reported that its French subsidiary, Schering SAS, would transfer the radiopharmaceutical business of CIS bio international to a consortium formed by the Belgian companies Ion Beam Applications and the Institut National des...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania), with its subsidiary PETNET Pharmaceuticals (Knoxville, Tennessee), reported acquiring New England PET-NET Manufacturing & Distribution Center (Woburn, Massachusetts).(Deals roundup)
March 2, 2006... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania), with its subsidiary PETNET Pharmaceuticals (Knoxville, Tennessee), reported acquiring New England PET-NET Manufacturing & Distribution Center (Woburn, Massachusetts), enabling the provision of...

CytoCore (formerly Molecular Diagnostics; Chicago) said it has entered into an agreement to purchase a contract from a private individual giving the holder the right to receive a 10% undiluted interest in Diamics.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... CytoCore (formerly Molecular Diagnostics; Chicago) said it has entered into an agreement to purchase a contract from a private individual giving the holder the right to receive a 10% undiluted interest in Diamics, a privately held company...

Genetic Technologies forms alliance with MetaMorphix.(Agreements roundup)(Becton, Dickinson and Co contracts with Quest Diagnostics )(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... Genetic Technologies (GTG; Melbourne, Australia) reported forming an alliance with MetaMorphix (MMI; Beltsville, Maryland), a developer of new genetic markers. In 2004, MMI took a license to the GTG non-coding patents, and since then the...

Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) reported that its CombiMatrix (Mukilteo, Washington) group has established a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.(Agreements roundup)
March 2, 2006... Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) reported that its CombiMatrix (Mukilteo, Washington) group has established a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness...

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) reported that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut).(Agreements roundup)
March 2, 2006... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) reported that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) to commercialize the university's new blood testing...

MedMira signs Dutch distributor for HIV test.(International report)
March 2, 2006... MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia) said it has signed a distribution agreement with Clindia Benelux of the Netherlands for the MiraCare Rapid HIV Antibody Test. Clindia will begin sales of the rapid test in late March. Initially, MedMira's...

Two more countries add Zonda tests.(International report)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... Zonda (Moraga, California), which is focused on development of test products that serve the medical diagnostic, bacterial food testing and environmental surfaces testing markets, reported that it has received the first order for its HandiLab-C...

Radiology meeting features DOBI system.(International report)(Dynamic Optical Breast Imaging Medical International)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) said it would exhibit its latest Dynamic Optical Breast Imaging (DOBI) technology, the ComfortScan system, at the European Congress of Radiology, which begins Friday and runs through next Monday...

More distributors for DiaSys.(International report)
March 2, 2006... DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) said it has signed three-year exclusive distribution agreements with Rochem Biocare for territories that cover Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Panama. The agreements guarantee minimum orders of $1.46 million for...

UT Imaging opens in Houston.(Briefly Noted)
March 2, 2006... UT Imaging (Bellaire, Texas), a partnership between UT Physicians, the medical practice of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and Outpatient Imaging Affiliates (Nashville, Tennessee), has officially opened. UT Imaging...

Accuray expands facilities.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... To meet the growing worldwide demand for its CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, robotic radio-surgery manufacturer Accuray (Sunnyvale, California) reported the opening of an expanded manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale. The facility...

VivoMetrics to conduct space sleep study.(Briefly Noted)
March 2, 2006... VivoMetrics (Ventura, California), in partnership with the University of Limerick and with sponsorship from the European Space Agency, said it would be conducting a study to evaluate and determine the quality of sleep of astronauts while in...

HealthTronics opens anatomical pathology lab.(Briefly Noted)
March 2, 2006... HealthTronics (Austin, Texas) reported that it has opened its anatomical pathology laboratory, which has as its primary focus service to the urology community. The lab is located in a life sciences building on the campus of the Medical College...

Digital X-ray units gaining acceptance.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... With the wealth of clinical applications and diverse systems choices, digital X-ray units are steadily gaining acceptance by technologists and physicians alike for the ease of use of digital images over film-based X-ray, according to a study by...

Clinical Data.(Product Briefs)
March 2, 2006... Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts), which is commercializing pharmacogenomics to guide drug utilization, reported that its Vital Diagnostics division has received FDA clearance to market a wide-range C-reactive protein (wrCRP) assay,...

Dade Behring.(Product Briefs)
March 2, 2006... Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) reported that it has launched the Cyclosporine Extended Range test for use on its Dimension family of chemistry analyzers and the V-Twin and Viva-E drug testing analyzers. The Cyclosporine Extended Range test,...

SenoRx.(Product Briefs)(introduction of encor)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... SenoRx (Aliso Viejo, California), which makes minimally invasive devices for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, reported that it has made available a new 7-Gauge size probe for its recently launched breast biopsy device, EnCor. EnCor...

Stereotaxis.(Product Briefs)
March 2, 2006... Stereotaxis (St. Louis) reported that Central Baptist Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky) became the first U.S. center to treat a patient's cardiac arrhythmia using the company's partnered 3-D Localized Ablation Catheter. This diagnostic and...

Eastman Kodak.(People in Places)
March 2, 2006... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) has named two vice presidents in health solutions-related units. David Kiser has been named director and vice president, health, safety and environment, and Anne LeGrand general manager, output systems and...

Xenomics.(People in Places)(L. David Tomei)(Randy White)(Brief article)
March 2, 2006... L. David Tomei, PhD, co-founder of Xenomics (New York), has been appointed CEO of the company. Tomei will remain in his post as co-chairman. He replaces former CEO Randy White, PhD, who has left the company to pursue other interests. The...

Kamen, Collins in fresh spins on innovation, leadership.(AdvaMed annual meeting)(Conference notes)
March 9, 2006... NAPLES, Florida -- The importance of innovation and leadership for business success are standard and too often overly repetitive fare for conference attendees. Not so for Dean Kamen and Jimmy Collins, two speakers during last week's annual...

Clinical Data refines unit structure after acquisitions.
March 9, 2006... Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts), which focuses on providing molecular and pharmacogenomics services as well as clinical diagnostics, reported further refinement of its organizational structure following acquisitions in 2005. The...

PGxHealth "builds upon existing assets acquired from Genaissance Pharmaceuticals in the areas of genomics-based, clinical diagnostics, therapeutic efficacy and safety biomarker development for drug utilization.".
March 9, 2006... * PGxHealth "builds upon existing assets acquired from Genaissance Pharmaceuticals in the areas of genomics-based, clinical diagnostics, therapeutic efficacy and safety biomarker development for drug utilization." The division has begun a...

Cogenics' business and lab operations are represented by the combined operations, sales and marketing infrastructure of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Lark Technologies and Icoria.
March 9, 2006... * Cogenics' business and lab operations are represented by the combined operations, sales and marketing infrastructure of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Lark Technologies and Icoria. The division provides a comprehensive range of in-house...

Vital Diagnostics is derived from the operations of Clinical Data Sales & Service, Vital Scientific NV, Vital Diagnostics Pty. Ltd., and Electa Lab.(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... * Vital Diagnostics is derived from the operations of Clinical Data Sales & Service, Vital Scientific NV, Vital Diagnostics Pty. Ltd., and Electa Lab. This division is geared toward servicing the clinical laboratory in the traditional clinical...

Companies unveil products, report accords at congress.(International report)
March 9, 2006... Last week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, one of Europe's largest radiological gatherings, featured a number of companies reporting new agreements, appointments and product developments. Royal Philips...

Boston gathering to focus on investing in area's med-tech.
March 9, 2006... The Boston MedTech Conference: Growth & Financing Strategies, which will make its bow next week, represents the belief by several area venture capitalists and others interested in the med-tech sector, that it was about time that such a...

Advanced Magnetics raises $31.7m in share offering.(Financings roundup)
March 9, 2006... Advanced Magnetics (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported an offering of 1,233,214 shares of common stock, garnering net proceeds of about $31.7 million. The company said it would use the proceeds to fund clinical development programs,...

In other financing news, diagnostics company MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia) reported acquiring C$6.5 million in equity financing from the Morningside group.(Financing roundup)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... In other financing news, diagnostics company MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia) reported acquiring C$6.5 million in equity financing from the Morningside group. Morningside will buy 10,833,333 equity units at 60 cents a unit, for total proceeds of...

Diverse groups protest cuts in imaging reimbursement.(Washington roundup)
March 9, 2006... A letter signed last week by some 30 medical societies, technology associations, healthcare providers and patient advocates has asked congressional leaders to reconsider the cuts made in medical imaging services for Medicare beneficiaries in...

PA fines Geisinger for failing to perform required testing.(Court report)(The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection)(Geisinger Medical Group)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP; Harrisburg) said it has fined Geisinger Medical Group (Danville, Pennsylvania) $900,000 for not performing required equipment testing and falsifying records at its Lock Haven,...

Exagen opens Austin office.(Briefly Noted)
March 9, 2006... Exagen Diagnostics (Albuquerque, New Mexico), which develops and commercializes genomic marker-based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) kits for prognosis and prediction of treatment response, has opened a new business office in Austin, Texas. ...

Shimadzu, Third Wave agree to develop POC instrument.(Agreements)
March 9, 2006... Shimadzu (Tokyo) and Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that the companies have signed an agreement for the development and commercialization of a point-of-care instrument that could bring molecular diagnostics to the...

Masimo (Irvine, California) reported signing a three-year, multi-source agreement with Premier (San Diego).(Agreements)(Clinical report)
March 9, 2006... Masimo (Irvine, California) reported signing a three-year, multi-source agreement with Premier (San Diego), a group purchasing organization for Masimo's SET pulse oximetry and Rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry, in-cluding stand-alone monitoring...

Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics Division (Tarry-town, New York), a member of the Bayer Group (Leverkusen, Germany).(Agreements)
March 9, 2006... Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics Division (Tarry-town, New York), a member of the Bayer Group (Leverkusen, Germany), reported a licensing agreement with Signet Laboratories (Dedham, Massachusetts) under which Signet will conduct research with...

Genetic Technologies (GTG; Melbourne, Australia) reported an alliance with MetaMorphix (MMI; Beltsville, Maryland), a developer of new genetic markers.(Agreements)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... Genetic Technologies (GTG; Melbourne, Australia) reported an alliance with MetaMorphix (MMI; Beltsville, Maryland), a developer of new genetic markers. In 2004, MMI acquired a license to the GTG non-coding patents, and since then the two...

Chembio cites advances in Nigeria, Ethiopia.(International report)
March 9, 2006... Chembio Diagnostics (Medford, New York) said the Nigerian Ministry of Health has designated the company's HIV 1/2 Stat-Pak as a screening test in four out of the eight testing protocols that comprise Nigeria's Interim National Testing...

Ireland labs adopting ThinPrep test.(International report)
March 9, 2006... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said that all laboratories performing cervical cancer screening in Ireland are adopting the company's ThinPrep Pap Test. Most of the laboratories in Ireland had completed the conversion process last year,...

Universal Detection Technology (UDTT; Los Angeles), a developer of early warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats.(Agreements)
March 9, 2006... Universal Detection Technology (UDTT; Los Angeles), a developer of early warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, reported that it has signed a joint development agreement with...

Beckman Coulter.(People in Places)
March 9, 2006... James Glover, senior vice president and CFO of Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California), will retire from the company effective June 30 after 23 years of service. Beckman Coulter is a manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests...

Exagen Diagnostics.(People in Places)(appointment of Dr. Thomas Williams)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... Dr. Thomas Williams has been named chief science officer and vice president, research and development of Exagen Diagnostics (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Prior to joining Exagen on a full-time basis, Williams served as the company's special...

Pacific Biometrics.(People in Places)
March 9, 2006... Patrick Jackle has joined Pacific Biometrics (Seattle) as business development manager. Jackle brings to PBI more than 15 years of healthcare sales experience, most recently as district manager of Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Pacific Biometrics is...

Zonare Medical Systems.(People in Places)
March 9, 2006... Cornel Schoelgens has been named managing director-Europe for Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California), the company reported this week at the European Congress of Radiology meeting in Vienna, Austria. Schoelgens joins Zonare with more...

AFP Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... AFP Imaging (Elmsford, New York) reported a new digital dental product introduction at the opening of the annual Chicago Midwinter Dental Meeting, as the company formally unveiled its new Rotograph Digital Panoramic X-Ray machine and software...

Ikonisys.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... Ikonisys (New Haven, Connecticut), which is developing products for diagnosing diseases early using chromosome FISH dot counting and rare-cell identification and analysis, reported that the FDA has cleared for marketing its automated...

Point Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... Point Biomedical (San Carlos, California), a developer of products for diagnostic, molecular imaging and drug delivery applications based on its biSphere technology, reported that the new drug application for CARDIOsphere (PB127) has been...

Spacelabs Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington), a provider of patient monitoring systems, reported the availability of a new addition to the UltraviewSL line of patient monitors. The UltraviewSL 2600 is an advanced compact monitor with options that...

VirtualScopics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a developer of image-related biomarkers, said that the company co-authored and presented three studies at last month's International Society for Optical Engineering medical imaging meeting in San Diego. The...

PerkinElmer sells components business unit to Tara Capital.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 9, 2006... PerkinElmer (Wellesley, Massachusetts), a leader in health sciences and photonics, said it has sold the assets of its semiconductor components business to Tara Capital for cash and assumed liabilities totaling about $26.5 million and an earnout...

Heart-specific diagnostics may save time, money--and lives.(American College of Cardiology)
March 16, 2006... ATLANTA -- As an ever-increasing number of Americans are diagnosed with heart conditions, it has become increasingly important that new heart-specific diagnostic technologies and procedures are developed that are easier and more effective than...

GE rolls out multicenter trial effort to validate 64-slice CT.(American College of Cardiology)
March 16, 2006... ATLANTA -- Building on an overarching emphasis on cardiac imaging during this year's scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology (Bethesda, Maryland), GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) unveiled plans for the first in a series of...

Reimbursement issues termed key factor for device sector.(Frost & Sullivan Medical Technologies 2006)
March 16, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO -- Reimbursement expert Rhonda Fellows was preaching to the choir during her presentation at the Frost & Sullivan Medical Technologies Executive MindXchange this week. When she described reimbursement as a "critical...

Orasure 'extremely encouraged' by HIV test home trial plans.
March 16, 2006... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), developer of the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test, on Friday expressed optimism concerning recommendations made earlier in that day by the Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC) of...

Centice, PerkinElmer, others roll out new lab solutions.(PITTCON 2006)(Centice Corporation)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... Centice (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), a developer of advanced sensor technology, unveiled new laboratory systems this week at the 57th annual Pittsburgh Conference and Exhibition Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied...

PerkinElmer.(PITTCON 2006)
March 16, 2006... PerkinElmer (Boston), a global leader in health sciences and photonics, showcased new application-based laboratory solutions and product enhancements, including its latest WinLab32 for Atomic Absorption software with an integrated quality...

Bruker Daltonics.(PITTCON 2006)
March 16, 2006... Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts), a unit of Bruker BioSciences which develops life science tools based on mass spectrometry, introduced the new AccuScreen method for high resolution, accurate mass extracted ion chromatograms on its...

HemoCue reports win in patent dispute with EKF-diagnostics.(Court report)
March 16, 2006... HemoCue AB (Angelholm, Sweden) has claimed victory resolving a two-year-old patent dispute with EKF-diagnostics (Magdeburg, Germany). It reported that a Dusseldorf district court found that an EKF testing product infringes HemoCue's patent,...

Siemens, Chongqing Haifu in MRI/HIFU woman-focused pact.(International report)
March 16, 2006... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) and Chongqing Haifu Technology (Chongqing, China) reported a collaboration to develop an MRI-guided, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system, with a focus on women's health...

Varian.(PITTCON 2006)(Varian Analytical Instruments)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... New "information-rich" detection systems are among the recently introduced products highlighted by Varian (Palo Alto, California) at the gathering, the company said. The 500-MS LC Ion Trap is a new liquid chromatograph/ mass spectrometer,...

Ikonisys gathers in 'D' $10m; Pacific Bio adds $3.8 million.(Financings roundup)(Pacific Biometrics Inc.)
March 16, 2006... Ikonisys (New Haven, Connecticut), which is focused on the development of products for prenatal and cancer diagnosis and screening and fertility, reported the closing of a $10 million Series D private equity financing. The round was led by...

Elbit Medical Imaging (EMI; Tel Aviv, Israel) said it has agreed with Israeli investors to issue about NIS 102 million of unsecured non-convertible Series A debentures and about NIS 2 million of unsecured non-convertible Series B debentures.(Financings roundup)
March 16, 2006... Elbit Medical Imaging (EMI; Tel Aviv, Israel) said it has agreed with Israeli investors to issue about NIS 102 million of unsecured non-convertible Series A debentures and about NIS 2 million of unsecured non-convertible Series B debentures....

HealthSouth.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) has entered into a credit agreement providing up to $2.55 billion in senior secured financing with a group of financial institutions and an interim loan agreement that provides $1 billion of senior unsecured...

Asuragen formed as spin-off of Ambion unit sale to Applied Bio.(Deals roundup)(Applied Biosystems Group)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... Asuragen (Austin, Texas) reported completing its formation as a new molecular diagnostic company resulting from the completion of the $273 million sale of the Research Products Division of Ambion (Austin) to Applied Biosystems Group (Foster...

SunTech Medical (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), a subsidiary of SunTech Medical Group (Oxford, UK), specializing in motion-tolerant, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring products and technology, has acquired an equity position in Empirical Technologies (Charlottesville, Virginia).(Deals roundup)(Empirical Technologies corporation)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... SunTech Medical (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), a subsidiary of SunTech Medical Group (Oxford, UK), specializing in motion-tolerant, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring products and technology, has acquired an equity position in...

OnCURE Medical (Newport Beach, California), a provider of outpatient radiation therapy services, reported acquiring a radiation cancer therapy center in Avon Park, Florida, from Radiation Oncology Associates.(Deals roundup)
March 16, 2006... OnCURE Medical (Newport Beach, California), a provider of outpatient radiation therapy services, reported acquiring a radiation cancer therapy center in Avon Park, Florida, from Radiation Oncology Associates. Dr. Shyam Paryani, OnCURE...

ChoicePoint (Alpharetta, Georgia) said it has acquired ShortStop (Green Bay, Wisconsin), which operates a network of drug/health testing clinics.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... ChoicePoint (Alpharetta, Georgia) said it has acquired ShortStop (Green Bay, Wisconsin), which operates a network of drug/health testing clinics. Terms were not disclosed. The ShortStop network specializes in urine drug test collections,...

Metrologic, Spacelabs team up in bar code/monitoring accord.(Agreements roundup)
March 16, 2006... Metrologic Instruments (Blackwood, New Jersey) reported the signing of a multiyear, worldwide agreement with Spacelabs Medical (Issaquah, Washington), a patient monitoring division of Spacelabs Healthcare. Spacelabs will market and sell...

LDX System used in Swiss screening.(International report)
March 16, 2006... The Swiss Heart Foundation (Berne, Switzerland), a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting cardiovascular research and promoting cardiovascular health, featured Cholestech's (Hayward, California) LDX System, a cholesterol...

New Australian facility for Xytos.(International report)(Brief article)
March 16, 2006... Xytos (Indianapolis), which introduced a new cancer diagnostic procedure and treatment in November of last year, said it has completed the purchase of a new medical facility in Mulgrave, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The company said...