Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from November 2002

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from November 2002

New immunoassay casts doubt on tests of prion disease, still used today.
November 7, 2002... Tentatively diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (vCJD), a 22-year-old woman was back in the news recently. A resident of Florida, she is the first vCJD case reported in the U.S. Her likely diagnosis with the human version of...

SHL cited as a telemedicine firm that `makes real money'. (CIBC World Markets Health Care Conference).
November 7, 2002... Noting the long-time presence of telemedicine ventures in the marketplace, SHL Telemedicine (Tel Aviv, Israel) co-president Erez Alroy distinguished his firm as "a company that makes real money." Alroy discussed SHL's operations during a...

Roche Diagnostics in push on continuous glucose monitoring. (Report from Europe).
November 7, 2002... Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany) is involved in a development program focus on new technologies for continuous glucose monitoring. Meinhard Schmidt, vice president of diabetes professional systems, said the company's goal is "to design...

Personal Medical Record is focused on preventive care.
November 7, 2002... Computerized Screening (CSI; Sparks, Nevada) this week launched its Personal Medical Record (PMR), the latest innovation in its Health Station system focused on preventive health care. PMR allows a patient to check vital statistics such as...

Legal costs decline, sales up, loss still steep for Igen. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... With conclusion of its litigation vs. Roche Diagnostics, legal costs for diagnostics innovator Igen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) declined to just $900,000 during the second quarter ended Sept. 30 and revenue increased by some 43% to $13.4 million...

AmeriPath. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), a provider of cancer diagnostics and genomic and related information services reported net revenue for 3Q02 of $123.7 million, a 17% increase over the $106.1 million revenue in the year-ago period. Third...

SpectRx to sell off BiliCheck business to focus elsewhere. (Deals roundup).
November 7, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imagine Update Staff Report SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) said it plans to sell its non-core BiliChek business, which it said would allow it to focus more closely on the diabetes and cancer markets. The company made the...

DMS Imaging (Fargo, North Dakota), a member of the DMS Health Group, reported purchasing Mobile Diagnostic Services (Fall River, Wisconsin), which will become a division of DMS Imaging as DMS Portable X-Ray. (Deals roundup).
November 7, 2002... * DMS Imaging (Fargo, North Dakota), a member of the DMS Health Group, reported purchasing Mobile Diagnostic Services (Fall River, Wisconsin), which will become a division of DMS Imaging as DMS Portable X-Ray. The transaction involved "an...

DVI (Jamison, Pennsylvania), an independent specialty finance company for healthcare providers worldwide.
November 7, 2002... DVI (Jamison, Pennsylvania), an independent specialty finance company for healthcare providers worldwide, said its subsidiary, DVI Financial Services, has assigned its purchase rights, under a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all...

HealthSouth says CEO cleared of early Medicare information. (Court report).
November 7, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report HealthSouth (Birmingham, California) reported that what it termed "an outside investigation conducted by a national law firm," has cleared its chairman of the board, Richard Scrushy, of early inside...

Classen to head up Bayer healthcare. (Report from Europe).
November 7, 2002... Bayer (Leverkusen, Germany) has announced the appointment of Rolf Classen, who until now has headed the company's diagnostics division, to replace Frank Morich as head of Bayer's healthcare unit. Morich is the second senior healthcare...

Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) reported filing suit vs. Agfa-Gevaert NV (Mortsel, Belgium), that suit charging infringement of Kodak patents covering medical X-ray technologies. (Court report).
November 7, 2002... Eastman Kodak (Rochester, New York) reported filing suit vs. Agfa-Gevaert NV (Mortsel, Belgium), that suit charging infringement of Kodak patents covering medical X-ray technologies. Filed in U.S. District Court in Rochester, the complaint...

Applied Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Applied Imaging (Santa Clara, California), a supplier of automated imaging systems used in genetics and pathology laboratories for the analysis of chromosomes in cancer and prenatal disorders, reported record sales and earnings in the third...

Caliper Technologies. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Caliper Technologies (Mountain View, California), developer of the LabChip system for use in pharmaceutical, clinical diagnostic and other settings, said revenues slipped slightly from year-earlier levels in both the third quarter and nine...

Fischer Scientific. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Fisher Scientific (Hampton, New Hampshire) reported record sales and earnings in both the third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30. For the quarter, sales increased 13.9% to $$830.9 million from $729.5 million in the third quarter of last...

Given Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said revenues in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 grew by an eye-popping 480% to $7.5 million from $1.26 million in the same period of last year, marking the company's fourth consecutive quarter of increased...

LabOne. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) said revenues increased 28% in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, totaling $74.6 million against $58.23 million a year earlier. Net income was $$3.75 million or 23 cents a diluted share compared to a loss of $3.4g...

Quidel. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Quidel (San Diego, California), a provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, said revenues in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 slipped to $14.5 million from $16.6 million in 3Q01. The net loss for the quarter was $1.19 million or 4...

SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported revenue for the third quarter of $1.6 million, compared to $570,000 in the year-ago period, saying the increase was the result of a one-time, $1 million milestone payment from Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois), under a program to commercialize the company's continuous glucose monitor. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported revenue for the third quarter of $1.6 million, compared to $570,000 in the year-ago period, saying the increase was the result of a one-time, $1 million milestone payment from Abbott Laboratories (Abbott...

Tri-Path Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
November 7, 2002... * Tri-Path Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina), a developer of solutions for the detection, diagnosis, staging and treatment of cancer, said sales grew to $9.83 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $5.25 million in the prior-year...

Bio-Reference Laboratories. (People In Places).
November 7, 2002... * Yale Arkel, MD, has been named medical director of the new hemostasis and thrombophilia laboratory of Bio-Reference Laboratories (Elmwood Park, New Jersey). Arkel has held numerous positions in the research and academic communities, where he...

CTI Molecular Imaging. (People In Places).
November 7, 2002... * Greg Brophy has been named senior vice president and general counsel of CTI Molecular Imaging (Knoxville, Tennessee). Brophy previously was a partner with Alston & Bird LLP. CTI Molecular is a supplier of products and services for positron...

Fisher Imaging. (People In Places).
November 7, 2002... * Peter Cardle has been named vice president and general manager, European operations, for Fischer Imaging (Denver, Colorado), in a restructuring of the executive team. Other appointments include Craig Stevenson, vice president and general...

Specialty Laboratories. (People In Places).
November 7, 2002... * Michael Dugan, MD, has been named vice president and co-laboratory director at Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California). Dugan most recently served as chief of pathology and medical director of clinical laboratories at Santa Monica...

Trinity Boitech. (People In Places).
November 7, 2002... * Rory Nealon is joining Trinity Biotech (Dublin, Ireland) as chief financial officer, effective Dec. 31. Nealon currently serves as finance director of Conduit plc, a telecommunications service provider. Previously he was a manager with both...

The VAP (Vertical Auto Profile) Expanded Cholesterol Test from Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama), a cardiodiagnostic company and specialty reference laboratory, steers physicians toward customized drug therapy to fix multiple cholesterol abnormalities rather than just treating elevated LDL cholesterol. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * The VAP (Vertical Auto Profile) Expanded Cholesterol Test from Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama), a cardiodiagnostic company and specialty reference laboratory, steers physicians toward customized drug therapy to fix multiple cholesterol...

Bio-Rad Laboratories. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California), a manufacturer of life science research products and clinical diagnostics, said it has received a veterinary biological permit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)for its rapid test used...

iCAD. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * iCAD (Hudson, New Hampshire), which designs, develops and markets computer aided detection (CAD) imaging technology and systems for the early detection of breast cancer, has introduced the MammoReader II Computer Aided Detection system. By...

i-STAT. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... i-STAT (East Windsor, New Jersey), a manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic systems for blood analysis, reported its submission of a 510(k) filing with the FDA for a cartridge for the i-STAT System to perform the kaolin-based activated...

Karl Storz Endoscopy-America. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * Karl Storz Endoscopy-America (Culver City, California), which focuses on diagnostic and operative endoscope technology, unveiled the new 4mm Bettocchi Hysteroscope System with a 5 Fr (1.67mm) operating channel. Utilizing revolutionary 2mm...

Misonix (Farmingdale, New York) and Focus Surgery (Indianapolis, Indiana) said Focus has submitted the final documents to the FDA for a pre-market approval application for approval to market the Sonablate 500 for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * Misonix (Farmingdale, New York) and Focus Surgery (Indianapolis, Indiana) said Focus has submitted the final documents to the FDA for a pre-market approval application for approval to market the Sonablate 500 for the treatment of benign...

Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics. (Product Briefs).
November 7, 2002... * Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics (West Chester, Pennsylvania), said a new research study, published in the August 2002 issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, demonstrates that its GC-C technology may be employed as a...

OraSure's OraQuick test is quickly okayed by the FDA.
November 14, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Senior Staff Writer Late last week, medical testing company OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) became the first company in the U.S. to gain FDA approval for a rapid, point-of-care test designed to...

LabCorp to purchase Dianon Systems for $598 million cash. (Deals roundup).
November 14, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) has agreed to acquire Dianon Systems (Stratford, Connecticut), a provider of cancer and genomic diagnostic testing services....

3-D imaging by Internet is aim of France Telecom and IRCAD. (Report from Europe).
November 14, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Correspondent IRCAD (Strasbourg, France), the French institute for research into abdominal cancers, and France Telecom, the national telephone system, are planning to launch by 2004 a new concept called Argonaute...

Response unveils more RAMPs for detection of deadly toxins. (Bioterror: fighting back).
November 14, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer After launching a diagnostic test for anthrax this summer, Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) has now added two more bioterrorism agents to the list of those it can detect with its RAMP...

Bio-Rad says sales, earnings up in both quarter, nine months. (Earnings roundup).
November 14, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Bio-Rad (Hercules, California), a maker of life sciences research products and clinical diagnostics, said revenues in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 grew by nearly 21% to $224.88 million from...

Changes for healthcare seen in wake of Republican gains.
November 14, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Washington Editor WASHINGTON -- With Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate and last week's elections marking only the third time in a century that the party in the White House gained seats...

Activists urge HIV rapid test developer to seek CLIA waiver.
November 14, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Washington Editor WASHINGTON -- OraSure Technologies' (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) new rapid test for HIV, approved last week by the FDA, has been eagerly awaited by the public health community, but the clearance was...

Molecular Staging given grant for osteoarthritis biomarker chip. (Grant/contract news).
November 14, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Molecular Staging (New Haven, Connecticut) received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to...

Caliper, Ambion in collaboration on RNA amplification system. (Agreements roundup).
November 14, 2002... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Caliper Technologies (Mountain View, California) and Ambion (Austin, Texas) a privately held RNA-based products company, have initiated a research collaboration to develop an RNA amplification...

AuntMinnie.com (Tucson, Arizona), a resource for radiology professionals, has launched a new Molecular Imaging Digital Community. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * AuntMinnie.com (Tucson, Arizona), a resource for radiology professionals, has launched a new Molecular Imaging Digital Community. The addition to the AuntMinnie network is designed to provide focused news and information related to molecular...

Bayer Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) said the FDA has granted approval of Gen-Probe's (San Diego, California) premarket approval application covering Bayer's Versant hepatitis C virus RNA qualitative assay. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * Bayer Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) said the FDA has granted approval of Gen-Probe's (San Diego, California) premarket approval application covering Bayer's Versant hepatitis C virus RNA qualitative assay, a nucleic acid probe diagnostic...

BSD Medical. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * BSD Medical (Salt Lake City, Utah) said it has completed the introduction of two new systems to the medical community at targeted medical conferences. At the European Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology conference in Prague, Czech...

IDX Systems. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * IDX Systems (Burlington, Vermont) will introduce the Imagecast workflow solution at the 2002 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) tradeshow, Dec. 1-6 in Chicago. Imagecast is the new brand name for IDX's complete line of specialty...

Inspeck. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * Inspeck (Montreal, Quebec), which is focused on 3-D healthcare solutions, introduced its most recent imaging system, the BFD (for breast and face digitizer) 1300, which specializes in face and torso plastic surgery communication, simulation...

Masimo. (Product Briefs).
November 14, 2002... * Masimo (Irvine, California) said an original manuscript, "Detection of Hyperoxemia in Neonates: Data from Three New Pulse Oximeters," has been published in the November 2002 issue of Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. The study's objective was...

BioEnterprise. (People In Places).
November 14, 2002... * Mathew Jennings has been promoted from vice president to president of BioEnterprise (Cleveland, Ohio). He assumes this responsibility from Bill Sanford, who will continue as board chairman. BioEnterprise is a business formation and...

Toshiba America Medical Systems. (People In Places).
November 14, 2002... * Dane Peshe has been promoted from national product sales manager to director, MRI and Nuclear Medicine Business Unit, for Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS; Tustin, California). TAMS is a developer of medical imaging equipment.

AMA session highlights fetal and breast imaging advances.
November 21, 2002... NEW YORK -- There's good news ahead for women and fetal health, thanks to advances in imaging technology. Carol Benson, MD, shared the latest findings in mammography and fetal cardiac surgery imaging at an American Medical Association (AMA;...

Genome campus at science park finally gets go-ahead. (Report from Europe).
November 21, 2002... After five years of wrangling, planning permission has been granted for a science park at the Genome Campus in Cambridge, UK, to allow companies to set up alongside the academics at the Sanger Institute who carried out the UK's share of the...

Innovation is important, but reimbursement also is key. (Medical Technology Investment Summit).
November 21, 2002... NEW YORK -- New technologies that change the way medicine is practiced. That's the bar--lofty though it may seem--that those who are focused on the development of innovative medical products set for themselves. Innovation was either the...

IRIS earnings slip, but says it sees sales growth from iQ 200. (Earnings roundup).
November 21, 2002... International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS; Chatsworth, California) said net income for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 slipped to $103,794 or 1 cent a diluted share from $279,564 or 2 cents a share in 3Q01. The company said that despite the...

37Point9 completes purchase of EZ Trac Lab, eyes another. (Deals roundup).
November 21, 2002... 37Point9 (San Diego, California) reported concluding its purchase of EZ Trac Lab (Irvine, California) from Stason Pharmaceuticals. The closure came with the signing of a renewable one-year note for $175,000. EZ Trac Lab, an early-stage...

Oxford Biosensors raises $6M to advance pair of products. (Financings roundup).
November 21, 2002... Oxford Biosensors (Oxford, UK), a developer of hand-held medical diagnostics equipment, has concluded second-round funding of $6 million, which it said would allow it to progress "from product development into product manufacture and...

TissueInformatics launches tissue lab.
November 21, 2002... TissueInformatics (Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania) reported launch of its TissueAnalytics Laboratory, calling it "the industry's first high-capacity service laboratory for the automated quantitative analysis of tissue structure expression." ...

Diabetes research center opens in Hershey.
November 21, 2002... The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) reported the launch of the $6.3 million JDRF Center for Mechanisms and Intervention of Diabetic Retinopathy at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania). The center,...

Abaxis. (People in Places).
November 21, 2002... * Richard Schoen has been named vice president of marketing and sales for Abaxis (Union City, California). Most recently, Schoen was vice president, business development, for Colorado MEDtech. Abaxis manufactures portable blood analysis...

HealtheTech. (People in Places).
November 21, 2002... * James Dennis has been appointed president and chief operating officer of HealtheTech (Golden, Colorado), which develops and markets medical devices and software that measure and monitor certain health parameters. He previously held positions...

Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems. (People in Places).
November 21, 2002... * Paul Williams has been appointed director of marketing for the Mideast, Africa and Asia for Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems (NIMS; North Bay Village, Florida). He will be headquartered in Dubai. Prior to joining NIMS, Williams was managing...

QRS Diagnostic. (People in Places).
November 21, 2002... * Greg Newman has been promoted from business development and OEM sales manager to director, sales and marketing, for QRS Diagnostic (Plymouth, Minnesota). QRS Diagnostic uses innovative software technology to develop medical devices designed...

AMDL. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * Researchers at the University of Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany) concluded that the DR-70 test developed and marketed by AMDL (Tustin, California) "reliably differs between cancer patients and healthy controls and therefore promises to become...

Covance. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * Covance's (Princeton, New Jersey) Central Diagnostics facility in Reno, Nevada, launched Digitography, which it said is the industry's first system for use in clinical trials that allows on-screen digital electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform...

HemoSense. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * HemoSense (Milpitas, California) said its INRatio PT Monitoring System (INRatio) for patients on oral anticoagulant therapy was granted the CE mark for use by patients in the home. INRatio is a new generation of portable, handheld analyzers...

KDDI (Tokyo). (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * KDDI (Tokyo), a global telecommunications services provider, demonstrated its real-time, high-definition bio-science image transmission over IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, during this week's SC 2002 Conference in Baltimore,...

Quidel. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * Quidel (San Diego, California), a provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported worldwide availability of its UrinQuick Urine Chemistry Analyzer. The company said the analyzer provides advanced software capabilities and newly...

R2 Technology. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), which focuses on computer-aided detection (CAD) and visualization, said the company has been selected as the exclusive CAD provider for the European Commission-sponsored SCREEN (for Soft-Copy REading...

TriPath Imaging. (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said that 32 studies describing the clinical and laboratory performance of its SurePath test pack and FocalPoint slide profiler were presented during the recent annual meeting of the American...

Zimmer Holdings (Warsaw, Indiana) entered into an agreement with Merge eFilm (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). (Product Briefs).
November 21, 2002... * Zimmer Holdings (Warsaw, Indiana) entered into an agreement with Merge eFilm (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), a medical image and information management solutions provider, to include Zimmer implant templates in the eFilm Workstation. Financial terms...

Roche gets FDA okay for its proBNP test for heart failure.
November 27, 2002... Roche (Basel, Switzerland) has received FDA approval of its Elecsys proBNP (pro-B-type natriurectic peptide) assay for the diagnosis of congestive heart failure. "Our official launch was Nov. 20, and we started shipping [Monday]," said...

Roche Diagnostics goes from strength to strength in sales. (Report from Europe).
November 27, 2002... Roche Diagnostics' (Mannheim, Germany) sales are still growing at double-digit rates this year, well ahead of market growth both in Europe and North America, the company reported. In spite of press rumors that Novartis (Basel, Switzerland) is...

Cirino heading Platinum's new imaging distribution effort. (Report from Europe).
November 27, 2002... Jerry Cirino, formerly a top-level executive with Marconi Medical Systems (Cleveland, Ohio), has been picked to lead the charge necessary to integrate two medical imaging distribution and equipment firms as an expanded focus for healthcare...

Alliance spinning Imagent to Photogen, keeping Oxygent. (Report from Europe).
November 27, 2002... In a spin-off move that, as the sportswriters might say, could benefit both teams, Alliance Pharmaceutical (San Diego, California) has agreed to sell off its medical imaging assets--primarily related to its Imagent product--to Photogen (New...

Elan sells Athena Diagnostics to Behrman for $112 million. (Deals roundup).
November 27, 2002... Elan (Dublin, Ireland) is continuing its selloff, placing price tags on programs and products as if hosting a biotechnology lawn sale, and saying it is progressing nicely toward its goal of raising $1 billion by the end of 2003. Monday, it...

Elbit Medical Imaging. (Deals roundup).
November 27, 2002... * Elbit Medical Imaging (EMI; Tel Aviv, Israel) said that Elscint Ltd., in which EMI holds about a 58% interest, has agreed to sell its manufacturing, assembly, engineering and integration operations at its Ma'alot facility in Northern Israel...

PerkinElmer in tender offer; Impac IPO gains $30 million. (Financings roundup).
November 27, 2002... PerkinElmer (Wellesley, Massachusetts) last week commenced a cash tender offer for its outstanding 6.8% notes due Oct. 15, 2005. In connection with the tender offer, PerkinElmer is also soliciting consents to amend the indenture under which the...

Hypertension Diagnostics. (Financings roundup).
November 27, 2002... * Hypertension Diagnostics (St. Paul, Minnesota) said it has raised $57,400 in gross proceeds from the exercise of its redeemable Class A warrants in the company's offering of up to 2.36 million redeemable Class B warrants. Holders of the...

Bio-logic Systems. (Financings Roundup).
November 27, 2002... * Bio-logic Systems (Mundelein, Illinois) reported that its board has authorized repurchase of up to 250,000 shares of its common stock. Bio-logic Systems designs and markets computerized medical electro-diagnostic equipment.

The Audax Group. (Financings Roundup).
November 27, 2002... The Audax Group (Boston, Massachusetts), through SWR Investments LLC, has acquired a controlling interest in Swissray International (Elmsford, New York), with a "significant equity investment," which was not disclosed. The transaction is...

DOE to support research on retinal micro-electronics. (Grants/contract news).
November 27, 2002... The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE; Washington) said that it would commit $9 million over three years to support retinal research at the Doheny Eye Institute on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC; Los Angeles, California)....

Quest Diagnostics. (Deals roundup).
November 27, 2002... * Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) has again extended the expiration date for its previously announced cash election exchange offer for all outstanding shares of the common stock of Unilab (Tarzana, California). The offer was extended...

Competitive Tech reports $1.1M award in dispute with LabCorp. (Court report).
November 27, 2002... Diagnostics firm Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported that a U.S. District court judge in Colorado has issued an order reaffirming that Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina)...

Gen-Probe. (Court report).
November 27, 2002... * Gen-Probe (San Diego, California) reported that it has initiated an arbitration proceeding with the Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Service in San Diego, California, concerning its collaboration with Bayer AG (Frankfurt, Germany) for nucleic...

Abaxis. (People in Places).
November 27, 2002... * Richard Schoen has been named vice president of marketing and sales for Abaxis (Union City, California). Most recently, Schoen was vice president, business development, for Colorado MEDtech. Abaxis manufactures portable blood analysis...