Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from May 2006

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from May 2006

Diagnostic Products scooped up by Siemens in $1.86 billion deal.(A big conglomerate enters in vitro diag market)
May 4, 2006... Siemens (Erlangen, Germany), the international conglomerate that usually thinks big in terms of medical imaging, will now enter the smaller, but rapidly growing, healthcare world of in vitro diagnostics. Siemens last week rolled out plans...

Replikins: predicting global epidemics replication data.(Company overview)
May 4, 2006... Founded within the last month and based on technology aimed at predicting future epidemics, Replikins (Boston) has developed a software program for calculating the spread of influenza strains and is preparing to launch animal studies involving...

Metabolic 'signature' of urine could dictate drug treatment.(Report from Europe)
May 4, 2006... LONDON -- The era of personalized drug therapy is inching closer, but the investigations to determine which is the best drug is likely to include a urine test, as well as your genotype. Researchers in Europe have shown that it is possible...

Lewin Group report: industry finds holes in user fee program.(1st of two articles)(Survey)
May 4, 2006... Be careful what you ask for. That might be the best advice to the medical device industry after what has turned out to be its initial experience with the FDA's device user fee program. In a report that is likely to come as no great...

GE's new 16-slice wide bore scanner able to image obese.(1st of two articles)
May 4, 2006... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported winning FDA clearance for its new wide bore computed tomography (CT) system, which consists of two configurations and, according to the company, is the "most powerful 16-slice wide bore CT." One...

Applera, Beckman Coulter settle; SEC fines BodyScan executive.(Court report)
May 4, 2006... Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut) and Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) reported that they have established the terms of a settlement to resolve all legal disputes between them regarding claims to certain Beckman Coulter patented capillary...

Monitoring technology developer Masimo (Irvine, California) reported that Dolphin Medical (Hawthorne, California) has agreed that it will discontinue its Dolphin ONE product line.(Court report)
May 4, 2006... Monitoring technology developer Masimo (Irvine, California) reported that Dolphin Medical (Hawthorne, California) has agreed that it will discontinue its Dolphin ONE product line. The discontinuation is part of an agreement between Dolphin and...

Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) and Resonant Medical (Montreal) reported that they have resolved the patent issues between them and settled their outstanding litigation in return for what they called "certain payments" to Varian.(Court report)
May 4, 2006... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) and Resonant Medical (Montreal) reported that they have resolved the patent issues between them and settled their outstanding litigation in return for what they called "certain payments" to Varian....

QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia) and MedCath (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported that the companies have reached an out-of-court agreement regarding the lawsuit pending between them.(Court report)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... QuadraMed (Reston, Virginia) and MedCath (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported that the companies have reached an out-of-court agreement regarding the lawsuit pending between them. With the settlement, QuadraMed has agreed to pay MedCath $2...

Digital Angel tagging to be used in Brazil Hoof and Mouth effort.(International report)
May 4, 2006... Digital Angel (St. Paul, Minnesota), specializing in identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring, reported entering into an agreement with the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corp. (Embrapa) to conduct a joint pilot program to...

Bruker Daltonics wins Russian registration.(International report)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts) reported obtaining registration of its complete MALDI-TOF product line of microflex, autoflex TOF or TOF/TOF, and ultraflex TOF/TOF mass spectrometers, as well as of its ClinPro-Robot sample...

Quantum Sniffer at Milipol Qatar Exhibition.(International report)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Implant Sciences (Wakefield, Massachusetts), a manufacturer of products for national security, medicine and industry, reported that its Quantum Sniffer technology and products will be exhibited May 15-17 at the 6th Annual Milipol Qatar...

DOBI Medical secures private placement of $6 million.(Financings roundup)
May 4, 2006... DOBI Medical (Mahwah, New Jersey) said it has secured a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors for the private placement of $6 million in principle amount, of secured convertible debentures maturing on Aug. 28, 2007, and...

DexCom.(Financings roundup)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... DexCom (San Diego) reported that the underwriters of its follow-on offering of common stock, which priced on April 26 have exercised their option to purchase an additional 717,375 shares of common stock from DexCom to cover over-allotments. ...

Neogen.(Financings roundup)
May 4, 2006... Neogen (Lansing, Michigan) has filed a registration statement with the SEC for the offering from time to time of up to 1,000,000 of its common shares. Neogen develops products and services dedicated to food and animal safety. The company's...

Electronic prescribing standards being tested by Quest in 2 states.(Financings roundup)
May 4, 2006... Quest Diagnostics (Lyndhurst, New Jersey) said that its healthcare information technology subsidiary, Med-Plus, will test electronic prescribing standards in two new pilot programs starting this month. MedPlus will conduct testing in pilot...

White middle-aged English healthier than those in U.S.(Study report in JAMA)
May 4, 2006... White middle-aged English are healthier than their American counterparts, and in both countries lower income and education levels are associated with poorer health, according to a new comparison of key American and English health surveys. ...

3M Deutschland to acquire SBG.(Report from Europe)
May 4, 2006... 3M Deutschland (Neuss, Germany) reported that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SBG (Berlin), a developer of diagnosis related groups (DRG) software for hospitals, including related trademarks and patents. Terms of the...

Elekta receives $11 million order from U.S.(Report from Europe)
May 4, 2006... Elekta Synergy (Stockholm, Sweden) said that six of its systems for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) have been purchased by Providence Health System (Seattle). Providence, which operates 18...

Primagen gets expanded CD133 license.(Report from Europe)
May 4, 2006... Primagen Holding (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a molecular diagnostics company, reported that the exclusive, worldwide license for the CD133 diagnostic biomarker has been expanded to include the cardiovascular field. Primagen originally...

Aperio Technologies.(People in Places)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Richard Middelberg has joined Aperio Technologies (Vista, California) as vice president of finance and administration. Middelberg joins Aperio from dj Orthopedics, where he was vice president and general manager of the consignment inventory and...

Critical Path Institute.(People in Places)
May 4, 2006... The Critical Path Institute (C-Path; Tucson, Arizona) has appointed Ellen Feigal, MD, a cancer researcher, to the position of director of medical devices and imaging. Feigal is on sabbatical from Translational Genomics Research Institute...

HealthSouth.(People in Places)
May 4, 2006... Dexanne Clohan, MD, a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, has been named chief medical officer of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama). Previously, Clohan had experience as a medical director for Aetna, Meridian Health...

Hemagen Diagnostics.(People in Places)
May 4, 2006... Deborah Ricci has resigned as secretary and CFO of Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland), effective May 10. The company said it has begun a search for a replacement. Hemagen Diagnostics offers more than 150 FDA-cleared proprietary medical...

iCAD.(People in Places)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Kenneth Ferry will join iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) on May 15 as president, CEO and a member of iCAD's board. The company's current CEO and president, W. Scott Parr, has been appointed non-executive vice chairman of the board of iCAD. Ferry...

Radlink.(People in Places)(appointment of Daniel Valentino)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Daniel Valentino, PhD, has joined Radlink (Redondo Beach, California) as chief scientist and technology officer, a newly created position. Richard Gerlach, who co-founded the company and served as its chief scientist since 1999, will continue...

VirtualScopics.(People in Places)
May 4, 2006... Jeffrey Markin has been named chief operating officer of VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York). Markin is leaving Eastman Kodak after 26 years of service, where his most recent post was in Kodak's health group as vice president and general...

SCAR changes name, reports new headquarters.(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR; Great Falls, Virginia) reported the changing of the organization's name to the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), effective immediately. SCAR also said that it will be...

Aperio Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Aperio Technologies (Vista, California), a provider of microscope slide scanners and related software in the field of digital microscope slide imaging, reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No....

Canon U.S.A.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Canon U.S.A. (Lake Success, New York) said it showcased the latest addition to its family of portable digital radiology (DR) systems--the Canon CXDI-50C--at the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology Show held last week in Austin,...

Cardiac Science.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... Cardiac Science (Bothell, Washington), a provider of advanced cardiac monitoring and external defibrillation products, reported that the FDA has granted the company 510(k) regulatory clearance to market a new resting electrocardiograph, the...

EKM.(Product Briefs)
May 4, 2006... EKM (San Diego), which develops knowledge management solutions for the government and scientific sectors, reported the introduction of a new version of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)--LIMS Made Simple and Affordable. With its...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)
May 4, 2006... Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said that it has completed testing on its latest development of the VScan Malaria test kit and the kit is ready for market. The new kit is the first to test for all four types of malaria. The...

NuGEN Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 4, 2006... NuGEN Technologies (San Carlos, California), which develops RNA amplification and labeling systems, reported the release of an application note detailing results of a U.S. government lab study in which NuGEN's Ovation Biotin system provided...

Synova Healthcare.(Product Briefs)
May 4, 2006... Synova Healthcare (Media, Pennsylvania), a subsidiary of Synova Healthcare Group, reported that the Fem-V Vaginal Infection Test will be introduced at the 54th annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,...

Thermo Electron and Fisher in $10.6 billion consolidation.(Lab equipment blockbuster)(Company overview)
May 11, 2006... This deal isn't as large as the merger of Guidant into Boston Scientific. But at about $10.6 billion, it's still pretty big. And it is perhaps one of the largest consolidations ever in the laboratory equipment and services sector. Thermo...

Kodak hires firm to investigate Health Group 'alternatives'.
May 11, 2006... On the heels of its report of another quarterly loss--consecutively, its sixth--Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) late last week said that it is exploring "strategic alternatives" for its Health Group. The company said it has retained...

Metabolic 'signature' of urine could dictate drug treatment.(International report)
May 11, 2006... LONDON -- The era of personalized drug therapy is inching closer, but the investigations to determine which is the best drug is likely to include a urine test, as well as your genotype. Researchers in Europe have shown that it is possible...

Linked ICD/monitoring device trial launched by Medtronic.
May 11, 2006... Medtronic (Minneapolis) this week reported the launch of a new clinical trial--billing it as a "landmark" event--for a new heart failure (HF) device that combines the capabilities of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) with a new...

More money following good money led by 'scope device.(Report from Israel)
May 11, 2006... ZICHRON YAAKOV, Israel -- When you like something, you don't want to dilute it. So it is with start-ups: thus, GI View (Ramat Gan) has raised $10 million in its third financing round, led by veteran investors Israel Healthcare Ventures...

Micromedic, BioRap in collaboration.(Report from Israel)
May 11, 2006... Micromedic Technologies (Tel Aviv), a publicly traded holding company specializing in medical devices and cancer therapies, with a market cap of about $4.5 million, has signed an agreement to collaborate with BioRap-Technologies (Haifa), a...

Home Diagnostics files for IPO seeking to raise up to $115M.(Company overview)
May 11, 2006... Home Diagnostics (HD; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) reported that it has registered for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to $115 million in common stock, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 1985,...

Hologic to buy AEG for $26.56M; Serologicals closes Linco buy.(Deals roundup)
May 11, 2006... Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), a provider of diagnostic and digital imaging systems focused on women's health, reported acquiring AEG Elektrofotografie (Warstein, Germany) and its group of related companies for EUR 21 million ($26.56...

In vitro diagnostics market continues rapid growth.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Advances in human genomics, bioinformatics, miniaturization, and microelectonics--often blended with IT and computer technology--have led to a rapid growth spurt in the market for in vitro diagnostic tests, with worldwide sales expected to...

Aurora Imaging raises $10m; Qiagen in large refinancing.(Financings roundup)
May 11, 2006... Aurora Imaging Technology (North Andover, Massachusetts) reported the sale of $10 million of Series C preferred stock to two equity funds managed by the Pharos Capital Group (Pharos Capital Partners II and Pharos Capital Partners II-A;...

Qiagen.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Qiagen (Venlo, the Netherlands) reported the pricing of $270 million of senior convertible notes, due 2026, to be sold in minimum denominations of $100,000 to institutional investors outside the U.S. The company also granted the initial...

Bioheart in licensing agreement with for injection needle.(Agreements roundup)(Tricardia)(Varian )(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Bioheart (Sunrise, Florida), which is developing cell therapies for heart repair, reported the signing of a patent licensing agreement with Tricardia (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) for patents covering an improved injection needle. The needle will...

GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) reported a program for clinical development of high-field MRI of the body.(Agreements roundup)
May 11, 2006... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) reported a program for clinical development of high-field MRI of the body. This collaboration, announced at the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the...

Researchers invest $71 million for investigating rare diseases.
May 11, 2006... The National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) rolled out plans to launch the first clinical studies of its Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), which was funded at $71 million for the initiative in 2003. More than...

deCode Genetics discovers genetic variant in prostate cancer.
May 11, 2006... Scientists at deCode genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) along with academic colleagues in Iceland, the U.S. and Sweden reported the discovery of a common genetic variant that predisposes to prostate cancer. The variant was discovered in Iceland...

Welch Allyn builds on Asian 'hub'.(International report)
May 11, 2006... Welch Allyn (Skaneateles Falls, New York) reported that it has acquired Malaysian medical products distributor MediAids--a move that will give the company said will give it "critical mass within a centralized Asian hub and complement its...

Calypte completes trial in South Africa.(International report)
May 11, 2006... Calypte Biomedical (Lake Oswego) reported completing clinical studies in South Africa permitting the company to initiate sales of its Aware HIV-1/2 Oral Fluid (OMT) rapid test product in that country. This is a new approval for OMT in addition...

Cholestech LDX in 'Test the Nation' program.(International report)
May 11, 2006... Cholestech (Hayward, California) reported that Flora pro.activ (London), the UK's leading cholesterol-lowering brand, has selected the Cholestech LDX System, a cholesterol monitoring tool, as part of the "Test the Nation" program. Cholestech...

Biophan Technologies.(Product Briefs)
May 11, 2006... Biophan Technologies (Rochester, New York), a developer of next-generation medical technology, said that it has filed a U.S. patent application for the use of halloysite nanotubes for controlled release of drugs. The technology uses halloysite...

BodyMedia.(Product Briefs)
May 11, 2006... BodyMedia (Pittsburgh), a provider of continuous body monitoring systems for clinical and consumer healthcare markets, said it has received another patent on the current and next generations of its wearable body monitoring platform. U.S. patent...

Chembio Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Chembio Diagnostics (Medford, New York) said it has developed Dual Path Platform (DPP) technology for rapid diagnostic tests that offers significant advantages over the lateral flow technology used in commercially available rapid diagnostic...

Cybernet Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Cybernet Medical (Ann Arbor, Michigan), a developer of telemedicine technology for outpatient care, reported the release of a telemonitoring solution for its web-based electronic patient record system, MedStar. MedStar users can now offer...

Eklin Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
May 11, 2006... Eklin Medical Systems (Santa Clara, California), a provider of veterinary PACS, Practice Information Management (PIMS) software and digital radiography products, said it has added two new options to its RapidView diagnostic workstation product...

Guardian Healthcare Systems.(Product Briefs)
May 11, 2006... Guardian Healthcare Systems (Herndon, Virginia), a division of Guardian Technologies International, reported the release of FlowPoint 6.1, an integrated, web-based radiology information system (RIS) and PACS that enables healthcare enterprises...

Nymox Pharmaceutical.(Product Briefs)(Clinical report)
May 11, 2006... Nymox Pharmaceutical (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey) said that positive results from clinical studies of the company's AlzheimAlert test will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Toronto later this...

Duncan Ross has joined AtCor Medical Holdings (West Ryde, Australia) as president and CEO of its North American business, AtCor Medical (Lisle, Illinois).(People in Places)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Duncan Ross has joined AtCor Medical Holdings (West Ryde, Australia) as president and CEO of its North American business, AtCor Medical (Lisle, Illinois). Ross brings to AtCor more than 23 years of experience, including four years as president...

DOBI Medical International.(People in Places)(appointment of Steve Barnett and Michael Jorgensen)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Steve Barnett, a member of the board of directors of DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) since April 2005, has been appointed to serve in the role of non-executive vice chairman of operations. Barnett is the former co-founder of...

Epix Pharmaceuticals.(People in Places)
May 11, 2006... Michael Astrue has resigned as interim CEO of Epix Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a developer of pharmaceuticals for MRI. Astrue was appointed to the position in September 2005 after the former CEO left the company. Epix has signed...

iCAD.(People in Places)
May 11, 2006... Stacey Stevens will join iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, June 1 as vice president of marketing and strategy. She was most recently vice president,...

Medeikon.(People in Places)(appointment of Willard Hennemann)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Willard Hennemann, PhD, will join Medeikon (Ewing, New Jersey) as vice president of vascular systems/marketing, a new position. Prior to joining Medeikon, Hennemann has held various positions of increasing responsibility at Cordis, Medtronic,...

Partners Imaging.(People in Places)(appointment of David Hoglund, Scott Cummings and Peter Rodrigues)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Partners Imaging (Dallas) is expanding its national sales effort to include the addition of three regional sales directors to develop computed tomography partnerships with cardiologists throughout the U.S. The Southeast region will be managed...

Sensitron.(People in Places)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... Mark Zielazinski has been appointed chief operating officer of Sensitron (San Mateo, California). Zielazinski, with more than 23 years of healthcare experience, was formerly the chief information officer of El Camino Hospital. Sensitron is a...

OcuSense.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 11, 2006... OcuSense (San Diego), a developer of doctor's office-based tests for eye care, has received notice from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of issuance of a core patent, No. 7,017,394. "Tear Film Osmometry" claims a lab-on-a-chip approach to...

Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon), a manufacturer of flat-panel display systems, said it has selected ATI Technologies (Markham, Ontario).(Product Briefs)
May 11, 2006... Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon), a manufacturer of flat-panel display systems, said it has selected ATI Technologies (Markham, Ontario), a manufacturer of 3-D graphics, PC platform technologies and digital media silicon solutions, to provide...

CDC proposing HIV testing as standard for those ages 13-64.
May 18, 2006... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta) is proposing changes to its recommended guidelines for HIV infection testing to include everyone ages 13 to 64, regardless of their risk of contracting the disease, which still...

Bladder cancer test gets added data support as 'gold standard'.(AUA preview)
May 18, 2006... When the American Urological Assocation (AUA; Linthicum, Maryland) has its annual meeting in Atlanta beginning Friday, among the presenters will be a representative from Abbott Molecular (Des Plaines, Illinois) to report results of a new study...

Ultra-high field VISTA program to use Philips' Achieva system.(International report)
May 18, 2006... Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) reported that it has been awarded two contracts to supply its Achieva 7.0T (Tesla) MRI whole-body research systems to Leiden University Medical Center and University Medical Center Utrecht....

Biovest sees having AutovaxID on market late '06, delivery '07.
May 18, 2006... Biovest International (Worcester, Massachusetts), a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals (Tampa, Florida), said the FDA has advised it that its AutovaxID device requires no further review by the agency, which decided the...

AdvaMed lauds proposed law pushing new diagnostic tests.(Washington roundup)
May 18, 2006... The Advanced Medical Technologies Association (AdvaMed; Washington) issued a statement last week praising the introduction of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives designed, it said, "to knock down the barriers patients and their...

Riverside closes $225M fund; Life Therapeutics gets $26.9M.(Financings roundup)
May 18, 2006... Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on middle-market healthcare and technology companies, reported the closing of its third private equity fund, Riverside Fund III, at $225 million of committed capital. Riverside...

Lifestream, RAB in accords on patents and trademarks.(Deals roundup)
May 18, 2006... Lifestream Technologies (Post Falls, Idaho), a supplier of cholesterol monitors, reported that it has entered into a patent and trademark assignment and license assumption agreement with RAB Special Situations Fund for the sale of certain...

America's Blood Centers signs expanded accord with Chiron.(Grants/contracts)
May 18, 2006... Group Services for America's Blood Centers (Washington) said it has signed a multi-year agreement with Chiron (Emeryville, California), a business unit of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, for the purchase of the Procleix West Nile Virus Assay...

Stratagene settles with Takara in enzyme blend patent dispute.(Court report)
May 18, 2006... Stratagene (La Jolla, California), a maker of specialized life science research and diagnostic products, said it has settled litigation and "significantly strengthened" its patent portfolio pertaining to enzyme blends. On May 11,...

GE Healthcare, St. Jude partner on cath lab imaging system.(Agreements roundup)
May 18, 2006... GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) and St. Jude Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) reported that they have entered a "significant development and collaboration agreement" that is intended to bring an integrated imaging and monitoring capability to...

deCODE genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Ilumina (San Diego) reported the formation of an alliance under which the companies plan to co-develop and commercialize DNA-based diagnostic tests in several major disease areas.(Agreements roundup)
May 18, 2006... deCODE genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Ilumina (San Diego) reported the formation of an alliance under which the companies plan to co-develop and commercialize DNA-based diagnostic tests in several major disease areas. The alliance will...

SurModics (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), a provider of surface modification technologies in the areas of biocompatibility, site-specific drug delivery, biological cell encapsulation, and medical diagnostics, and Donaldson (Minneapolis).(Agreements roundup)
May 18, 2006... SurModics (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), a provider of surface modification technologies in the areas of biocompatibility, site-specific drug delivery, biological cell encapsulation, and medical diagnostics, and Donaldson (Minneapolis), a provider...

Women ill-informed about lung cancer potential.(Briefly Noted)
May 18, 2006... A new national poll shows that American women show little concern about developing lung cancer, despite the fact that it is the No. 1 cancer killer of women. Lung cancer will kill more than 70,000 women this year--more than breast cancer (about...

AmeriPath, Molecular Profiling tout new prostate cancer assay.
May 18, 2006... AmeriPath (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida), a provider of physician-based anatomic pathology, and the Molecular Profiling Institute (MPI; Phoenix), a specialty reference lab, have introduced PCA3 ProfileR, a test that they say "for the first time...

EU license issued to Aastrom unit.(International report)
May 18, 2006... Aastrom Biosciences (Ann Arbor, Michigan) reported that it has received a human pharmaceuticals manufacturing license, through its wholly owned subsidiary, for the production of the company's Tissue Repair Cell (TRC) products. Aastrom said that...