Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from May 2005

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from May 2005

Cleveland Clinic researchers get blood-brain test patent.
May 5, 2005... Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland) reported that they have received a U.S. patent for technology they developed to measure damage to a person's blood-brain barrier, which is responsible for blocking foreign substances from reaching...

IDX to buy RealTimeImage in deal valued at about $15.5m.(Deals roundup)
May 5, 2005... IDX Systems (Burlington, Vermont) reported that it has agreed to acquire the assets of RealTimeImage (RTI; San Bruno, California/Tel Aviv, Israel), a developer of web-based medical specialty imaging solutions, for an estimated deal value of...

Personalized medicine closer than many think, says Burrill.(International report)
May 5, 2005... HELSINKI, Finland -- Speaking last week at BioFinland 05 at the Helsinki Fair Center, Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Co. (San Francisco), said the era of personalized medicine and theranostics is closer than many think. Increasingly,...

F&S sees slowdown in rate of growth for medical imaging.(Frost & Sullivan)
May 5, 2005... The global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan (F&S; Palo Alto, California) is projecting a slowdown in the medical imaging market in 2005, estimating that while it will grow to almost $14 billion in revenues this year, that is less than 10% in...

Inverness, Quidel in accord that settles patent litigation.(Court report)
May 5, 2005... Diagnostics manufacturers Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) and Quidel (San Diego) reported entering into an agreement terminating all domestic and international intellectual property litigation between them. The...

iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) reported that it has received a letter from R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California).(Court report)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) reported that it has received a letter from R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), the company's principal competitor, advising it of R2's position that iCAD's Second Look products allegedly infringed on U.S....

Correlogic collaboration eyes prostate cancer blood test.(Grants/contracts news)
May 5, 2005... Correlogic Systems (Bethesda, Maryland) reported a research collaboration with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU; also Bethesda) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine...

Atom Sciences (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) was awarded a $100,000 Small Business Innovative Research grant.(Grants/contracts news)
May 5, 2005... Atom Sciences (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) was awarded a $100,000 Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National Institutes of Health's (Bethesda, Maryland) Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop a diagnostic tool for...

Cardiology Associates (Mobile, Alabama), a 25-physician cardiology group, has installed the GE Light-Speed Volume CT (VCT) Scanner from GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin).(Grants/contracts news)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Cardiology Associates (Mobile, Alabama), a 25-physician cardiology group, has installed the GE Light-Speed Volume CT (VCT) Scanner from GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin). The LightSpeed VCT is the world's first volume CT system. It is...

MicroFluidic Systems (MFSI; Pleasanton, California) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; Fort Detrick, Maryland).(Grants/contracts news)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... MicroFluidic Systems (MFSI; Pleasanton, California) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; Fort Detrick, Maryland) to evaluate the...

Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has entered a license agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (also Boston).(Grants/contracts news)
May 5, 2005... Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has entered a license agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (also Boston) to obtain exclusive, worldwide diagnostic rights to their discovery...

Berlex (Montville, New Jersey), a U.S. affiliate of Schering AG (Berlin), said the company has been awarded a new contract by Premier (San Diego).(Grants/contracts news)
May 5, 2005... Berlex (Montville, New Jersey), a U.S. affiliate of Schering AG (Berlin), said the company has been awarded a new contract by Premier (San Diego), a group purchasing organization, to provide contrast media for MRI to members of the Premier...

SourceOne Healthcare Technologies (Mentor, Ohio) and Shimadzu Medical Systems (Torrance, California) have signed a contract giving SourceOne rights to market and distribute a mobile X-ray system specifically manufactured by Shimadzu for SourceOne in the U.S.(Grants/contracts news)
May 5, 2005... SourceOne Healthcare Technologies (Mentor, Ohio) and Shimadzu Medical Systems (Torrance, California) have signed a contract giving SourceOne rights to market and distribute a mobile X-ray system specifically manufactured by Shimadzu for...

Crawford: safety issues at FDA require better communication.(Lester Crawford)
May 5, 2005... WASHINGTON -- Sounding a call for a more communicative culture at the FDA, its acting commissioner, Lester Crawford, addressed a lunchtime crowd gathered at last week's BIO-Windhover 2005 conference. "It's a new world for the FDA," he said,...

Dade reports on variety of actions; HDI brings in $822k.(Financings roundup)(Hypertension Diagnostics )
May 5, 2005... Clinical diagnostics maker Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois) reported that its board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend plan, the first in its history, and has declared that the initial dividend of 6 cents a share of common...

MedMira test products in UAE.(International report)
May 5, 2005... MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia), a developer of rapid flow-through diagnostic technology, said it has successfully completed the registration process with the Ministry of Health in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The registration enables...

New CFO for In Veritas.(International report)(Martin Thorp appointed in In Veritas Medical Diagnostics )(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Martin Thorp has been named CFO of In Veritas Medical Diagnostics (IVMD; Inverness, Scotland). He has been an independent consultant since 2002, including serving as a strategic advisory non-executive board member of Grant Thornton. In...

MSI Nigerian contract is signed.(International report)(Medical Services International)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Medical Services International (MSI; Edmonton, Alberta) said its received a contract from the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria to supply that country with rapid VScan HIV 1 & 2 test kits. The contract was reported by the company last...

Siemens Medical Solutions USA (Hoffman Estates, Illinois), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG (Erlangen, Germany), reported the expiration of the initial offering period of its previously announced tender offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of CTI Molecular Imaging (CTI: Knoxville, Tennessee) and the commencement of a subsequent offering period.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions USA (Hoffman Estates, Illinois), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG (Erlangen, Germany), reported the expiration of the initial offering period of its previously announced tender offer to acquire all of the issued...

Motion DNA (Phoenix) reported that its board, in a majority vote, has approved an acquisition offer made last week by Formula 51-2.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Motion DNA (Phoenix) reported that its board, in a majority vote, has approved an acquisition offer made last week by Formula 51-2. Two members of the board approved the buyout, while a third voted "in favor of pursuing other suitors," the...

N.C. group to hold medical device forum.(Briefly Noted)(North Carolina)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... The North Carolina Medical Device Organization (NCMD; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) is hosting three FDA speakers who will discuss issues such as submission best practices, new guidance, and dispute resolution. The forum, "FDA...

Nasdaq to look at 10-K filing.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) said that Nasdaq notified the company that, in rendering a determination regarding the company's continued listing on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market, it will consider its delinquency in the filing of its...

Biomoda (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a development-stage in vitro diagnostics firm, and life science company Cytomyx (Lexington, Massachusetts) have entered into an agreement for Cytomyx to provide human clinical samples to Biomoda for its diagnostic test development program.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Biomoda (Albuquerque, New Mexico), a development-stage in vitro diagnostics firm, and life science company Cytomyx (Lexington, Massachusetts) have entered into an agreement for Cytomyx to provide human clinical samples to Biomoda for its...

CareTech Solutions.(People in Places)(appoints Brian Ferrell)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Brian Ferrell will head the U.S. sales organization of CareTech Solutions (Troy, Michigan), an information technology and health information management outsourcing company for hospitals and health systems. Ferrell brings more than 20 years of...

Orchid BioSciences.(People in Places)(appoints Raymond Land)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Raymond Land has been appointed senior vice president and CFO of Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey), effective June 6. Land succeeds Michael Spicer, who resigned in December. Land previously was CFO for Genencor International, recently...

Zonare Medical Systems.(People in Places)(appoints Lars Shaw)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Lars Shaw has joined Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California) as vice president of marketing. Prior to Zonare, Shaw was director of worldwide general imaging marketing at Siemens Ultrasound. Zonare Medical manufactures...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)(Intellectual property)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Nanogen (San Diego) said that it has been issued European patent No. 0943158B1, "Affinity-based self-assembly systems and devices for photonic and electronic applications," by the European Patent Office. The new nanotechnology patent relates to...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania), in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston), said it has developed a prototype area-detector based, volume computed tomography (CT) system.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania), in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston), said it has developed a prototype area-detector based, volume computed tomography (CT) system. The system was developed on a...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2005... Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) said it demonstrated its 64-slice cardiac CT performance of the Aquilion 64 CFX at the Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS; Houma, Louisiana). CIS is one of the largest heart centers...

Tm Bioscience wins first-ever FDA okay for DNA test for CF.
May 12, 2005... Tm Bioscience (Toronto) and the FDA reported earlier this week that Tm Bioscience's Tag-It Cystic Fibrosis Kit is the first FDA-approved DNA-based blood test to assist in detecting cystic fibrosis (CF). It was approved as the first multiplexed...

Robot-assisted, image-guided surgery sectors seen growing.(Report from Europe)
May 12, 2005... The popularity of minimally invasive surgery is seen as boosting the growth prospects in Europe for enabling technologies such as robot-assisted surgery (RAS) and image-guided surgery (IGS), according to a report by global consulting firm Frost...

Biophan cites study findings clarifying MRI safety reports.(Heart Rhythm 2005)(Magnetic resonance imaging)
May 12, 2005... NEW ORLEANS -- Among a variety of diagnostic technology studies presented at last week's annual scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (Washington), Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York) released the results of its recent...

Fujirebio's mesothelioma test is under review by the FDA.
May 12, 2005... Fujirebio Diagnostics (FDI; Malvern, Pennsylvania) has submitted a 510(k) application to the FDA for clearance of Mesomark, the first blood test for mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure that occurs in the lining of the body's...

Thermo Electron completes $833.5 million buy of Kendro.(Deals roundup)
May 12, 2005... Analytical instruments manufacturer Thermo Electron (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported completing its previously announced purchase of Kendro Laboratory Products, a division of SPX (Charlotte, North Carolina). Thermo in January unveiled the...

Siemens Medical Solutions USA (Hoffman, Estates, Illinois), a unit of Siemens (Malvern, Pennsylvania/Erlangen, Germany), reported that the subsequent offering period of the previously reported tender offer.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Siemens Medical Solutions USA (Hoffman, Estates, Illinois), a unit of Siemens (Malvern, Pennsylvania/Erlangen, Germany), reported that the subsequent offering period of the previously reported tender offer to acquire all issued and outstanding...

IQLM to separate lab quality report at first conference.(Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine)
May 12, 2005... ATLANTA -- The Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine (IQLM) met for the first time as a group here late last month to discuss as one of its primary topics: how to go about developing a national report card on quality specifically for...

IQLM conducts quality survey with CLMA members.(Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine)(Clinical Laboratory Management Association)
May 12, 2005... As one of its starting points, the Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine (IQLM) commissioned a survey conducted by the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA; Wayne, Pennsylvania), and surveys were sent to CLMA members in...

InSite Vision adds $9 million; Fisher ups 'shelf' to $1 billion.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... InSite Vision (Alameda, California), an ophthalmic diagnostics, therapeutics and drug-delivery company, said it has entered into definitive agreements for a $9 million private financing of common stock and warrants for common stock. The...

HTG.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... HTG (Tucson), a provider of array-based gene expression assay technology and services to the life sciences, said it has closed on $3.4 million in Series B financing. Solstice Capital, Valley Ventures, Emerging Technology Partners, Deimos...

Paradigm Medical Industries.(Financings roundup)
May 12, 2005... Paradigm Medical Industries (Salt Lake City) reported completing a $2 million to $5 million financing involving the sale of secured convertible notes. The financing was obtained through the NIR Group (Roslyn, New York) and Laidlaw & Co. (New...

Xenomics in pact with N. Shore Long Island Jewish System.(Grants/contracts)
May 12, 2005... Xenomics (New York), a developer of next-generation medical DNA technologies, has executed a contract with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (LIJ), one of the nation's largest healthcare institutions, to begin conducting human...

Settlement gives Applera more licensing of PCR from Roche.(Court report)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), an Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) business, reported that Applera has reached an agreement with Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Switzerland) to expand their licensing program for polymerase chain...

Stratagene (La Jolla, California) reported that it has filed suit against Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin), charging alleged infringement of patents covering its proprietary FullVelocity technology.(Court report)
May 12, 2005... Stratagene (La Jolla, California) reported that it has filed suit against Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin), charging alleged infringement of patents covering its proprietary FullVelocity technology for the quantitative detection of...

Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) and Luminex (Austin, Texas) reported that they have agreed to licensing terms giving Digene access to Luminex's xMAP bead-based multiplexing technology for use in women's diagnostics.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) and Luminex (Austin, Texas) reported that they have agreed to licensing terms giving Digene access to Luminex's xMAP bead-based multiplexing technology for use in women's diagnostics. Digene acquired...

Biophan Technologies (Rochester, New York), focused on MRI/device compatibility, has made a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reporting its acquisition of aMRIs and MR Comp.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2005... Biophan Technologies (Rochester, New York), focused on MRI/device compatibility, has made a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reporting its acquisition of aMRIs and MR Comp, German companies conducting research and development in...

Repligen.(Court report)
May 12, 2005... Repligen (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported that it has resolved its dispute with an unnamed former licensor of SecreFlo, a diagnostic form of secretin. Repligen will receive a payment of $750,000 and will continue to market SecreFlo "for the...

Undiagnosed diabetic neuropathy high.(Briefly Noted)
May 12, 2005... A new national survey commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (ADA; Alexandria, Virginia) revealed that, while the majority of people with diabetes experience symptoms associated with diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage)--a serious...

GE Healthcare.(Heart Rhythm 2005)
May 12, 2005... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported that it to date has the largest global installed base of 64-detector volume computed tomography (CT) systems. The company said that installations of its next-generation system, the LightSpeed VCT, in...

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.(Financings roundup)
May 12, 2005... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) said its board of directors has authorized a new stock repurchase program under which LabCorp may purchase up to an aggregate of $250 million of its common stock...

Possible new breast cancer biomarkers.(Report from Europe)
May 12, 2005... Scientists from a joint research study conducted by Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), and the Norwegian Radium Hospital (Oslo, Norway) reported the discovery of a new set of potential prognostic biomarkers for early stage...

Newborn screening lab application.(Report from Europe)
May 12, 2005... The QuadraMed International (Sydney, Australia) division of QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia) reported completing implementation of a newborn screening lab information application for use with the company's Affinity Laboratory system at Great Ormond...

Biosense Webster.(Product Briefs)
May 12, 2005... Biosense Webster (Diamond Bar, California) reported the launch of the Cartomerge Image Integration Module for diagnosing heart arrhythmias. The Cartomerge enables electrophysiologists to create 3-D electro-anatomical maps that are registered...

Draxis Health.(Product Briefs)
May 12, 2005... Draxis Health (Mississauga, Ontario) said preliminary results from its Canadian trial indicate that Fibrimage imaged deep vein thrombosis (DVT) but that the review of patient data and charts is required to complete analysis of the trial. The...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)
May 12, 2005... Nanogen (San Diego) said it has been issued two patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for technologies related to genetic analysis. Patent No. 6,884,584 claims the use of Nanogen's MGB probes on traditional solid-phase support. Patent...

Roche Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
May 12, 2005... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis), a division of F. Hoffman-La Roche, said it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Accu-Chek Aviva meter, its newest blood glucose meter for the management of diabetes. The meter will be available for...

Accellent.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Larry Czapla has been appointed executive vice president and general manager of the Cardiology Division of Accellent (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota). Accellent established its Cardiology Division headquarters to provide outsource and contract...

CareTech Solutions.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Brian Ferrell will head the U.S. sales organization of CareTech Solutions (Troy, Michigan), an information technology and health information management outsourcing company for hospitals and health systems. Ferrell brings more than 20 years of...

DiagnoCure.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Thom Skinner has been named CFO of DiagnoCure (Quebec City, Quebec), a provider of cell-based assays and molecular diagnostics for the early detection of cancers. Most recently, Skinner served as interim CFO for Aventis Pharma and integration...

eCardio Diagnostics.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Robert Jordan has been appointed executive vice president of eCardio Diagnostics (The Woodlands, Texas), a provider of advanced technology cardiac arrhythmia monitoring. Most recently, Jordan served as an executive with Diagnostic Monitoring...

Illumina.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Christian Henry was named vice president and CFO of Illumina (San Diego), effective June 6. Henry most recently served as CFO for Tickets.com, and prior to that was vice president, finance and corporate controller of Affymetrix. Henry will...

Invitrogen.(People in Places)
May 12, 2005... Mark Gardner has been promoted to chief marketing officer for Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California). He has served Invitrogen in several roles since 2003, most recently as vice president of commercial marketing. Invitrogen provides life science...

FDA 'open' to revamp of user fees, Crawford tells group.(MDMA annual meeting)
May 19, 2005... WASHINGTON -- Acting FDA commissioner Lester Crawford said this week that the FDA is open to considering an overhaul of--or perhaps even a "different system" than--the current user fee program put in place by the Medical Device User Fee and...

MicroMaxx joins SonoSite's 'ruggedized' hand-held line.
May 19, 2005... SonoSite (Bothell, Washington) is launching its next-generation hand-carried ultrasound (US) device, MicroMaxx, which is designed to offer an improvement in image quality over its previous generation device, called Titan. Even as the...

GE reports delivery of 500th Discovery PET/CT scanner.(American Society of Clinical Oncology)
May 19, 2005... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Orlando, Florida, that it has delivered its 500th Discovery PET/CT (positron emission tomography/ computed tomography)...

Some clouds seen in sunny investing climate for sector.(Medtech Investing Conference)
May 19, 2005... MINNEAPOLIS -- The climate for investing in the medical technology sector is at least warm and perhaps hot. Borrowing from the chart indicating steak-doneness, let's go with "medium well." But for those who lean toward the "half-empty" side...

Invitrogen in $20M Caltag buy; Magellan purchases TekCell.(Deals roundup)
May 19, 2005... Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held immunological assay manufacturer Caltag Laboratories (Burlingame, California) in a cash transaction totaling $20 million. Caltag makes antibodies...

Medeorex (New York) said it has agreed to acquire privately held CardioGenics (Toronto).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Medeorex (New York) said it has agreed to acquire privately held CardioGenics (Toronto). The transaction is scheduled to close by June 24. The acquisition will be completed through a merger between CardioGenics and a to-be-formed wholly...

Will pulse oximeters be next in receiving OTC status?(over-the-counter )
May 19, 2005... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland -- Within the last year, we have seen automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) go from available by prescription only to approval for over-the-counter (OTC) sale. Could pulse oximeters be next? Maybe so, but probably...

Xenogen files counter-claims vs. AntiCancer in patent case.(Court report)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Xenogen (Alameda, California), a maker of imaging systems, said has filed its answer to a patent infringement complaint filed by AntiCancer (San Diego). Concurrent with this filling, Xenogen filed counter-claims against AntiCancer claiming that...

InterGenetics closes on $6M; Assay Designs in $5M round.(Financings roundup)
May 19, 2005... InterGenetics (Oklahoma City), a genetic-based cancer risk testing and treatment company, reported that it has closed its $6 million private placement, with the majority of its investors residing in Oklahoma and Texas. InterGenetics plans...

LifeScan in meter 'notification' over interpretation of results.
May 19, 2005... LifeScan (San Jose, California), a maker of blood glucose test systems for diabetes, said it has launched "a worldwide notification" concerning its OneTouch Ultra, InDuo and OneTouch FastTake Meters, saying that users "may misinterpret their...

MedMira gets supply order from Hong Kong for HIV test.(International report)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... MedMira (Halifax, Nova Scotia), a developer of rapid flow-through diagnostic technologies, reported receiving a monthly standing order for the next year from Goodman Medical Supplies, its Hong Kong distributor, for the MiraCare Rapid HIV Test,...

Agilent to broaden efforts in India.(International report)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California) last month reported plans to introduce its DNA microarray-based genomics solutions into India's growing life sciences market. The company currently sells technologies for the biotechnology,...

Protedyne opens office in UK.(International report)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Laboratory automation supplier Protedyne (Windsor, Connecticut) has opened an office in the UK. Located in Essex, the new office houses the company's European sales and support groups. Ashley Gould, the company's regional manager for...

Israeli firm gets Nasdaq extension.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Healthcare Technologies (Petach-Tikva, Israel) reported that it has received notice from the Nasdaq market that the company provided a definitive plan outlining its ability to achieve and sustain compliance with the exchange's rules, and has...

Gingrich says healthcare tech needs to be in catch-up mode.(VHA Leadership Conference)
May 19, 2005... ATLANTA -- Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said at the VHA Leadership Conference here on Monday that the healthcare industry must not only transform for the future, but that it has a lot of catching up to do --about 30 years'...

GenVault (San Diego), which bills itself as an integrated biosample management company, reported that it will acquire full rights to the DNA labeling intellectual property invented by Nigel Atkinson and Brian Haarer, researchers at the University of Texas (Austin).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... GenVault (San Diego), which bills itself as an integrated biosample management company, reported that it will acquire full rights to the DNA labeling intellectual property invented by Nigel Atkinson and Brian Haarer, researchers at the...

Health Discovery Corp.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Health Discovery Corp. (HDC; Savannah, Georgia) said it has completed the acquisition of a support vector machine (SVM) patent portfolio, which includes issued patents and pending patent applications, as well as, the immediate launch of a new...

Vencor International (Beverly Hills, California) reported the termination of its relationship with AccuDx (San Diego).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Vencor International (Beverly Hills, California) reported the termination of its relationship with AccuDx (San Diego). After additional due diligence, it was mutually determined that merging the technologies of Vencor and AccuDx would not...

Medi-Photonics requests meeting with FDA.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Mediscience Technology (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) said that its wholly owned subsidiary, Medi-Photonics Development, has requested a formal meeting with the FDA to discuss the CD-Ratiometer, an optical biopsy device as an adjunct to diagnosis...

iCAD adds Mamassist as reseller.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, said it has added Mamassist (Statesville, North Carolina) to its reseller channel, their agreement enabling Mamassist...

Imunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania), a developer of cell- and molecular-based diagnostic and life science research products with a focus on cancer.(American Society of Clinical Oncology)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... Imunicon (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania), a developer of cell- and molecular-based diagnostic and life science research products with a focus on cancer, reported the presentation of further data from its trial in metastatic breast cancer...

OxiGene.(American Society of Clinical Oncology)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... OxiGene (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported that a clinical investigator studying the company's lead vascular targeting agent, Combretastatin A4 Prodrug (CA4P), has noted that CA4P is well tolerated when combined with radiotherapy thus far in the...

ViroLogic.(American Society of Clinical Oncology)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2005... ViroLogic (South San Francisco, California) reported the presentation of data demonstrating the ability of its eTag Assay System to provide a direct measure of activated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor type 2 (VEGFR2, also...