Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from May 2007

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from May 2007

... but 2 of 3 goals for Imagify add up to concern by Street.(Acusphere claims cardiac imaging breakthrough ...)
May 3, 2007... If Acusphere (Watertown, Massachusetts) succeeds in its quest to secure FDA approval for its Imagify contrast agent, it says that testing for coronary artery disease (CAD) could be much simpler and less expensive, as opposed to today's gold...

Study: SpectRx cervical cancer test more effective vs. Pap/HPV.
May 3, 2007... Ahead of its pivotal trial data--a trial targeted, but not guaranteed, for completion later this year--SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said its non-invasive test for cervical cancer was more effective at correctly identifying cervical disease from...

POC tests fueled by economics, 'low resource' opportunities.(2nd of 3 stories)(point of care )
May 3, 2007... ST. LOUIS -- The Oak Ridge Conference, organized here by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC, Washington) and now in its 39th year, provides a forum for presentation of the latest developments in clinical diagnostics and...

MDD's state of the industry book offers sector overview.(Industry overview)
May 3, 2007... The latest version of our annual overview of the med-tech industry, the Medical Device Daily State of the Industry Report 2007, is now available. The book, which totals just under 500 pages, includes an introductory section featuring...

Affymetrix, Illumina products part of German genetic study.(International report)
May 3, 2007... Illumina (San Diego) and Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) reported that Germany's National Genome Research Network (NGFN) has selected Illumina products to conduct what it said is one of the world's largest genetic research projects to...

Merge Healthcare releases new Fusion MX RIS/PACS system.
May 3, 2007... Since the introduction of its Fusion integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS)--RIS/PACS--about three years ago, Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee) reported release of an improved version of...

Bipartisan-backed bill would expand colorectal screening reimbursement.(Diagnostic roundup)
May 3, 2007... A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced legislation that would expand reimbursements for colorectal cancer screening. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland), would set reimbursements for colorectal cancer...

Diabetes gene variants identified.(Diagnostic roundup)(Disease/Disorder overview)
May 3, 2007... Personalized medicine is on the march, and recent discoveries in the genetic factors leading to diabetes mellitus may soon allow doctors and patients to detect a propensity toward Type II (insulin-resistant) diabetes before symptoms surface....

New emergency care guidance from CMS.(Diagnostic roundup)
May 3, 2007... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a new guidance designed to clarify rules regarding emergency services at hospitals that draw on the Medicare buck. Such hospitals will no longer be allowed to "rely on 9-1-1 services as a...

NVCA report shows VC interest surging in life science investment.
May 3, 2007... According to a new study, the life sciences market was the place for the investment dollars of venture capitalists in 1Q07, with the medical device sector in particular seeing record numbers. National Venture Capital Association (NVCA;...

3M, Gen-Probe will collaborate for development of HCAI tests.(New ventures)(healthcare-associated infections)
May 3, 2007... 3M (St. Paul, Minnesota) and Gen-Probe (San Diego) said they have formed a worldwide collaboration to develop rapid, easy-to-use nucleic acid tests to detect certain dangerous healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) such as...

OTN (South San Francisco, California) and Oncology Molecular Imaging (OMI; Jupiter, Florida) reported an exclusive strategic agreement.(New ventures)
May 3, 2007... OTN (South San Francisco, California) and Oncology Molecular Imaging (OMI; Jupiter, Florida) reported an exclusive strategic agreement. OTN, a physician services company, will provide customers with information and access to OMI's radiation...

Lumera extends collaboration with S.C. medical university.(Agreements roundup)(South Carolina, United States)(Brief article)
May 3, 2007... Lumera (Bothell, Washington), a developer of nanotechnologies, reported extending a collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC; Charleston, South Carolina) to develop an antibody array measuring the levels and...

Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) reported signing an agreement with the Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit), a research center for brain cancer, to provide the company with samples of metastases found in brain tissue.(Agreements roundup)
May 3, 2007... Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) reported signing an agreement with the Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit), a research center for brain cancer, to provide the company with samples of metastases found in brain tissue. The samples will then be...

DR Systems makes awards to 5 new facilities worth $6.5 million.(Grants/contracts)
May 3, 2007... DR Systems (San Diego), maker of the Unity RIS/PACS, reported five new contracts with healthcare facilities, totaling nearly $6.5 million. The company also reported a record sales year in 2006. The five new facilities contracts are...

BD Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 3, 2007... BD Diagnostics (San Diego) reported that it has submitted to the FDA, for 510(k) clearance, the first assay for the rapid and simultaneous identification of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant...

Diagnostic HYBRIDS.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 3, 2007... Diagnostic HYBRIDS (Athens, Ohio) reported the release of its [D.sup.3] IFA enterovirus identification kit for the qualitative identification of enteroviruses in cell culture by immunofluorescence. The kit, for in vitro diagnostic use, utilizes...

Fluidigm.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 3, 2007... Fluidigm (South San Francisco, California) has introduced the BioMark system based on nanofluidic chips, for real-time PCR, known as dynamic arrays, and with advantages compared to 96-well plates, including: 24 times the number of PCR assays...

NeuroLogica.(Product Briefs)(launch of computed tomography scanner)(Brief article)
May 3, 2007... NeuroLogica (Danvers, Massachusetts) reported launch of its CereTom OTOscan in-office computed tomography scanner optimized for otolaryngology. The OTOscan provides the images of both bone and soft tissue. The CereTom OTOscan is revolutionizing...

Compugen.(People in Places)
May 3, 2007... Ronit Lerner has been named CFO of Compugen (Tel Aviv, Israel). Additionally, Rachel Bart was named general counsel. Lerner formerly was the CFO at Shunra Software. Bart previously was assistant general counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals....

Exagen Diagnostics.(People in Places)
May 3, 2007... Paul Garrett has been named marketing director of Exagen Diagnostics (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Garrett formerly worked at Esoterix. Exagen makes genomic marker-based in vitro diagnostic kits.

E-Z-EM.(People in Places)
May 3, 2007... E-Z-EM (Lake Success, New York reported that Dennis Curtin, VP/CFO, has resigned to pursue other opportunities. Joseph Cacchioli, currently the company's VP/Controller, will serve as acting CFO. E-Z-EM makes contrast agents for gastrointestinal...

SunTech Medical.(People in Places)
May 3, 2007... Elliott Holloway has been named marketing communications specialist for SunTech Medical (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina). Most recently, Elliott was a graphic designer and account executive for Evolve. SunTech makes non-invasive blood...

ThromboVision.(People in Places)
May 3, 2007... ThromboVision (Houston) has named Clarice Motter to be interim CFO/controller and LeAnn Latham as director of regulatory affairs. Motter served previously in the same capacity for MicroMed Technology. Latham formerly was director of regulatory...

Clinical molecular diagnostics a growing segment of market.(Oak Ridge Conference)
May 10, 2007... New technologies for molecular diagnostics were highlighted in a number of presentations at the recent Oak Ridge Conference. The market for clinical molecular diagnostic products now exceeds $2.2 billion worldwide and is one of the most rapidly...

Beckman Coulter matches IMI's $1.67 billion offer for Biosite.
May 10, 2007... Seeing that it was time to pony up or move on, Beckman Coulter (BC; Fullerton, California) upped its offer for Biosite (San Diego), matching the $90-a-share offer of rival bidder Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts). If...

MediCult paying $23m cash for IVF diagnostics company.
May 10, 2007... MediCult (Jyllinge, Denmark) is broadening its footprint in the assisted reproductive technologies (ART) market by paying approximately DKK126 million ($23 million) in cash for Humagen Fertility Diagnostics (Charlottesville, Virginia). ...

Philips, NAHC and Fazzi launch major study of home telehealth.
May 10, 2007... In what is being pitched as the largest and most comprehensive study in the history of home healthcare technology, two major industry players in the sector, together with a third consulting firm, reported the launch of a national study on the...

Naviscan adds 'C' round $15m to push its PET scanning tech.
May 10, 2007... Naviscan PET Systems (San Diego), specializing in high-resolution PET scanners, reported completing a $15 million Series C round of financing led by QuestMark Partners (Baltimore) and joined by Sanderling Ventures, Mayo Medical Ventures and...

InSight Health Services Holdings (Lake Forest, California) reported that the offer to exchange shares of InSight's common stock for up to $194.5 million aggregate principal amount of 9-7/8% senior subordinated notes due 2011 of InSight's wholly owned subsidiary, InSight Health Services, has been extended and will expire at 11:59 p.m., EST, May 16, unless extended.
May 10, 2007... InSight Health Services Holdings (Lake Forest, California) reported that the offer to exchange shares of InSight's common stock for up to $194.5 million aggregate principal amount of 9-7/8% senior subordinated notes due 2011 of InSight's wholly...

Biosite.(National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation)(Biosite Diagnostics Inc.)(Brief article)
May 10, 2007... Biosite (San Diego) reported that, in accordance with NASDAQ rules, 18 non-officer employees were granted with the following terms: each option has been classified as a non-qualified stock option, has an exercise price equal to the fair market...

TomoTherapy (Madison, Wisconsin) has filed for an IPO of 10.9 million shares, with the price range of $15-$17 a share.
May 10, 2007... TomoTherapy (Madison, Wisconsin) has filed for an IPO of 10.9 million shares, with the price range of $15-$17 a share. The company is the developer of the Hi-Art System, a radiation delivery system designed to change the intensity of the...

GE Healthcare grants NorDiag access to isolation patent.(Deals roundup)
May 10, 2007... GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK), a unit of General Electric (Fairfield, Connecticut), reported that it has granted NorDiag (Bergen, Norway) access to GE Healthcare patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. The license,...

Enzo Biochem (New York) reported that its subsidiary, Enzo Life Sciences, and Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) have entered into an agreement covering the supply of certain of Enzo's products to Abbott Molecular for use in their fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) product line.(Deals roundup)
May 10, 2007... Enzo Biochem (New York) reported that its subsidiary, Enzo Life Sciences, and Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) have entered into an agreement covering the supply of certain of Enzo's products to Abbott Molecular for use in their...

Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of real-time imaging systems and image-guided therapies for the operating room, reported completing the purchase of all intellectual property, certain capital assets and inventory from Xillix Technologies (Richmond, British Columbia).(Deals roundup)
May 10, 2007... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of real-time imaging systems and image-guided therapies for the operating room, reported completing the purchase of all intellectual property, certain capital assets and inventory from Xillix...

Case wins $27 million NIH contract for continued tuberculosis research.(Grants/contracts)
May 10, 2007... Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Cleveland) reported that its Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) has received a $27 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of...

Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of imaging systems and image-guided therapies for the operating room, has priced its previously reported private placement of 2 million common shares at $7.50 a share, for gross proceeds of about $15 million.
May 10, 2007... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of imaging systems and image-guided therapies for the operating room, has priced its previously reported private placement of 2 million common shares at $7.50 a share, for gross proceeds of about $15...

Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said that through Cytyc Development, it has made a venture investment in Combinent BioMedical Systems (Boston), an early-stage company developing a vaginal implant for delivering a combination of drugs, currently given orally and intravenously.
May 10, 2007... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) said that through Cytyc Development, it has made a venture investment in Combinent BioMedical Systems (Boston), an early-stage company developing a vaginal implant for delivering a combination of drugs,...

Lumera extends its collaboration with Institute for Systems Biology.(Agreements roundup)
May 10, 2007... Lumera (Bothell, Washington), focused on nanotechnology, reported extending its collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB; Seattle) with the goal of using Lumera's ProteomicProcessor to identify biomarkers associated with drug...

Gen-Probe (San Diego) reported Tuesday at the BIO 2007 International Convention in Boston that Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts) would market and sell its Mycoplasma Tissue Culture Non-Isotopic (MTC-NI) test to its biopharmaceutical customers.(Agreements roundup)
May 10, 2007... Gen-Probe (San Diego) reported Tuesday at the BIO 2007 International Convention in Boston that Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts) would market and sell its Mycoplasma Tissue Culture Non-Isotopic (MTC-NI) test to its biopharmaceutical...

Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and healthcare IT provider Misys Healthcare Systems (Raleigh, North Carolina) said they will join forces to develop an integrated software platform that enables homecare agencies to provide care to chronically ill patients, while achieving operational efficiencies in monitoring and managing their patients.(Agreements roundup)
May 10, 2007... Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and healthcare IT provider Misys Healthcare Systems (Raleigh, North Carolina) said they will join forces to develop an integrated software platform that enables homecare agencies to provide...

$109M startup boost for Danish proteomics.
May 10, 2007... Proteomics research in Denmark has received a substantial boost--in the form of a DKK600 million (US$109 million) grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (Gentofte) to establish a new center for protein research at the University of Copenhagen....

Madagascar selects OraQuick HIV test.
May 10, 2007... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) reported being selected by the government of Madagascar and its National AIDS Control Program to be the exclusive first-line provider of rapid HIV screening tests for the country's outreach program...

Avantis Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
May 10, 2007... Avantis Medical Systems (Sunnyvale, California) reported receiving FDA clearance for its Third Eye Retroscope auxiliary endoscopy system. The retroscope is an imaging device used during colonoscopy to provide an additional view that can reveal...

Cytyc.(Product Briefs)(introduction of mammosite radiation therapy system)(Brief article)
May 10, 2007... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts) reported that five-year follow-up results for the initial clinical trial of the MammoSite radiation therapy system (RTS) were presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons...

Diamics.(Product Briefs)(introduction of cercol cervical sample collector)(Brief article)
May 10, 2007... Diamics (Novato, California) reported that it has begun high-volume manufacture of its CerCol cervical sample collector. The initial GMP qualification run passed inspection and met product specifications. Diamics' representatives in China have...

Janus Health.(Product Briefs)
May 10, 2007... Janus Health (San Diego) has premiered JanusOS, the first patent-protected mobile patient management system that provides the tools and services physicians need to bring care directly to the home. The JanusOS solution streamlines and supports...

Dindyal Ramkissoon was named VP of sales and marketing of Acacia Research's (Newport Beach, California) CombiMatrix group subsidiary, Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics. Ramkissoon previously worked for Applied Spectral-Imaging.(People in Places)
May 10, 2007... Dindyal Ramkissoon was named VP of sales and marketing of Acacia Research's (Newport Beach, California) CombiMatrix group subsidiary, Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics. Ramkissoon previously worked for Applied Spectral-Imaging. Acacia Research...

Aushon BioSystems.(People in Places)
May 10, 2007... Ken Titlebaum was named CFO and Mike Tognotti was named VP of worldwide sales of Aushon BioSystems (Burlington, Massachusetts). Titlebaum joined Aushon from E Ink Corp., and Tognotti came from CombiMatrix. Aushon makes products for...

EPIX Pharmaceuticals.(People in Places)
May 10, 2007... EPIX Pharmaceuticals (Lexington, Massachusetts) reported that its chairman of the board of directors, Christopher Gabrieli, has decided to retire from the board, effective as of the date of the EPIX annual meeting of stockholders on June 27....

Millipore.(People in Places)
May 10, 2007... Charles Wagner has been named CFO of Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts). Wagner will assume the role on August 15, and current CFO Kathleen Allen will stay on through February 18, 2008 to assist with the transition. Wagner is currently the VP...

ThromboVision.(People in Places)
May 10, 2007... ThromboVision (Houston) has named Clarice Motter to be interim CFO/controller and LeAnn Latham as director of regulatory affairs. Motter served previously in the same capacity for MicroMed Technology. Latham formerly was director of regulatory...

Hansen wins FDA clearance for Sensei Robotic Catheter System.(Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions)
May 17, 2007... Using mapping catheters during electrophysiology (EP) procedures may have just gotten a bit easier. Hansen Medical (Mountain View, California) used last week's scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington) to banner FDA...

Siemens rolls out syngo DynaCT to push real-time EP scanning.(Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions)
May 17, 2007... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) unveiled its newest device for the electrophysiology lab at the scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington) last week. With the roll-out of syngo DynaCT Cardiac, it billed...

Test to assess genetic MI risk expected to be out this year.(International report)
May 17, 2007... LONDON -- A genetic variant has been identified that can increase the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) by more than 60% among people who have two copies of it. The variant, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that has been tracked down by...

BC refusal to raise Biosite offer gives IMI victory in bidding war.(Deals roundup)
May 17, 2007... In a move that apparently brings an end to the auction competition targeting the acquisition of Biosite (San Diego), Beckman Coulter (BC; Fullerton, California) late Monday issued a statement saying that it will not increase its $90-a-share...

Senate passes bill renewing the device user fee provision.(Washington report)
May 17, 2007... By a vote of 93-1, the Senate last week passed the FDA Revitalization Act, which would reauthorize the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA) and includes other device-related provisions. The single "no" vote was cast by...

Avid 'C' round raises $26 million; Novadaq boosts funding to $30m.(Financings roundup)
May 17, 2007... Avid Radiopharmaceuticals (Philadelphia), a developer of molecular imaging products for neurodegenerative diseases, reported it has raised a $26 million Series C financing round. The round was led by Safeguard Scientifics, which provided...

SpectraScience.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... SpectraScience (San Diego) reported completing a placement of common shares to accredited investors, raising $1,135,000. Jim Hitchin, company CEO, said, "The funding will be used to complete a clinical trial, seek FDA approval and...

Alliance Imaging.(Financings roundup)
May 17, 2007... Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California), a healthcare services provider of diagnostic imaging services, reported the underwritten public offering of 1,443,065 shares of its common stock by Viewer Holdings, a fund controlled by an affiliate of...

IRIS receives purchase award from VA for urinalysis systems.(Contract news)
May 17, 2007... IRIS (Chatsworth, California), a developer of medical devices, diagnostic systems and consumables, reported receiving a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Award from the U.S. Veterans Administration's Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), to...

HemoSense to provide INRatio monitoring system to LabCorp.(Agreements)(Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings)
May 17, 2007... HemoSense (San Jose, California) reported signing an agreement with Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) to supply the HemoSense portable INRatio PT/INR monitoring system to identified LabCorp laboratories....

bioMerieux (Marcy L'Etoile, France), which focuses on in vitro diagnostics, and NuGEN Technologies (San Carlos, California), a private company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and labeling systems, have formedcross-licensing intellectual property and supply agreements for NuGEN's WT-Ovation RNA Amplification System.(Agreements)
May 17, 2007... bioMerieux (Marcy L'Etoile, France), which focuses on in vitro diagnostics, and NuGEN Technologies (San Carlos, California), a private company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and labeling systems, have...

Lenetix Medical gets lab permit in California.(Briefly Noted)(Lenetix Medical Screening Laboratory)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Lenetix Medical Screening Laboratory (Mineola, New York) reported that it has been granted a clinical laboratory permit by the State of California. Lenetix is a provider of rapid genetic risk assessment tools and diagnostic tests for...

FONAR in NASDAQ compliance.(Briefly Noted)
May 17, 2007... FONAR (Melville, New York) said it has received notice from NASDAQ that NASDAQ's listing qualifications panel had found it to be in full compliance with its listing requirements, including its share price, and the post-split price performance...

Sontra changes stock symbol.(Briefly Noted)
May 17, 2007... Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) reported that its common stock is now quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol SONT.OB. The Company's common stock was previously quoted on the "Pink Sheets" under the symbol SONT.PK. ...

Few studies offer new methods for ranking sudden death risk.(News analysis)(Disease/Disorder overview)
May 17, 2007... DENVER -- "Predictive" medicine is a growing enthusiasm in healthcare, but the cardiovascular sector may be furthest behind this particular R&D curve. While plenty of standard behavioral and associated disease signs and symptoms obviously point...

Patient sues GE firms claiming adverse effects of imaging agent.(Court report)
May 17, 2007... Greta Carolus, a former nurse and citizen of Loveland, Colorado, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against General Electric (Fairfield, Connecticut), GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin), and GE Healthcare...

Numira Biosciences.(People in Places)
May 17, 2007... Anthony Purchio, PhD, has been named chief scientific officer for (Irvine, California). Previously, Purchio was VP and chief scientific officer at Xenogen. Numira is a specialty R&D tools company focused on advances in genetics and molecular...

Pathwork Diagnostics.(People in Places)(appointment of W. David Henner and David Craford)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Pathwork Diagnostics (Sunnyvale, California), a genomics-based diagnostics company focused on oncology, has expanded its executive team, it said, to prepare for commercialization of its first product. W. David Henner, MD, PhD, was named chief...

SpectRx names new CEO to focus on diagnostic test market entry.(Mark Faupel)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Mark Faupel, PhD, has been named CEO of SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia). Faupel previously served as president/ COO and chief technical officer of the company. Faupel succeeds Mark Samuels, who retired, effective May 11. Samuels will remain as...

BD to move plastic tube business.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... BD (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) says that a $25 million expansion will add 100 jobs at the Durham, North Carolina, manufacturing plant where BD makes plastic laboratory pipettes and flasks for drug research. Over the next two years, BD said it...

Puffenberger to head Barnev North America.(International report)
May 17, 2007... Barnev (Cleveland, Ohio), developer of the Computerized Labor Monitoring (CLM) system, has named James Puffenberger president and director of sales and marketing, heading up the company's newly announced North American operations to be based in...

DMS reports robust growth in scanners.(International report)(Diagnostic Medical Systems)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Diagnostic Medical Systems (DMS; Montpellier, France), a manufacturer of medical scanning equipment, reported that it is back in the black and in a recent statement reported that it is ahead of its plan to realize 20% growth in revenues for...

IMI also reported last week that it acquired Benelux distributor Orange Medical (Tilburg, the Netherlands) in an all cash deal for about 4.2 million [euro] ($5.7 million).(Deals roundup)
May 17, 2007... IMI also reported last week that it acquired Benelux distributor Orange Medical (Tilburg, the Netherlands) in an all cash deal for about 4.2 million [euro] ($5.7 million). IMI said that its acquisition of Orange Medical, which has...

Sage-N Research (San Jose, California) has been granted a sublicense from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) to sell SEQUEST search engine products worldwide.(Deals roundup)
May 17, 2007... Sage-N Research (San Jose, California) has been granted a sublicense from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) to sell SEQUEST search engine products worldwide. The agreement provides for Sage-N to develop and sell products using...

New England Biolabs (NEB; Ipswich, Massachusetts) said it has licensed the Ergo bioinformatics software developed and maintained by Integrated Genomics (Chicago).(Deals roundup)
May 17, 2007... New England Biolabs (NEB; Ipswich, Massachusetts) said it has licensed the Ergo bioinformatics software developed and maintained by Integrated Genomics (Chicago). Financial terms were not disclosed. NEB will use the ERGO genome analysis...

Innovative Biosensors reclocates operations.(Briefly Noted)
May 17, 2007... Innovative Biosensors (Rockville, Maryland), makers of ultra-sensitive tests to detect harmful pathogens for both the clinical and biodefense markets, said that it has graduated from the University of Maryland College Park, Technology...

Abbott Molecular (Des Plaines, Illinois) and Celera (Rockville, Maryland) reported that Abbott has received FDA approval to market the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 viral load test for use on the company's m2000 automated instrument system.(Product Briefs)
May 17, 2007... Abbott Molecular (Des Plaines, Illinois) and Celera (Rockville, Maryland) reported that Abbott has received FDA approval to market the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 viral load test for use on the company's m2000 automated instrument system. The assay...

The Molecular Profiling Institute (Phoenix) and Specialty Laboratories (Valencia) reported that they are providing the CardioEvaluatR cardiovascular testing program for patients nationwide.(Product Briefs)
May 17, 2007... The Molecular Profiling Institute (Phoenix) and Specialty Laboratories (Valencia) reported that they are providing the CardioEvaluatR cardiovascular testing program for patients nationwide. The CardioEvaluatR program uses the infrastructure and...

Royal Philips Electronics.(Product Briefs)
May 17, 2007... Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) reported commercial release of Philips EP cockpit to support clinicians and staff in the treatment of cardiac rhythm disorders, including complex ablation therapies. This concept in...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(Product Briefs)(ultrasound platform launch)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Siemens Medical Solutions Ultrasound Division (San Diego) reported the 5.0 release of their Acuson Antares ultrasound platform. The 5.0 release offers innovations in five clinical application areas, including breast and OB/GYN imaging. For...

Stereotaxis.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
May 17, 2007... Stereotaxis (St. Louis) said that it has developed a new single-screen user interface that provides a high level of interventional lab integration. The product, Odyssey, is a proprietary Stereotaxis design that consolidates multiple information...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
May 17, 2007... Toshiba America Medical Systems (Tustin, California) reported completing enrollment for 400 patients in its CorE 64 (Coronary Evaluation on 64) study taking place in seven countries, the largest trial ever initiated evaluating the use of...