Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from November 2003

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from November 2003

Sequenom IDs markers in four genes for cancer susceptibility.(Sequenom Inc.)(breast cancer genes identified)
November 6, 2003... Sequenom (San Diego, California) said it has identified genetic markers in four genes for susceptibility to breast cancer, with each gene having forms that increase or decrease the risk of developing breast tumors. The expectation is that...

Reid salutes partnership with U.S. healthcare firm, rips critics.(Report from Europe)
November 6, 2003... Speaking at the "Learning from Kaiser Permanente" conference in London Tuesday, UK Health Secretary John Reid blasted critics of a new National Health Service (NHS) partnership with the U.S. health maintenance provider. "Some people have a...

MDMA: FDA funding shortfall spells increased user fees.
November 6, 2003... According to the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA, Washington), medical device makers could be forced to pay more in user fees in the future because the Bush administration's revised proposal to fund the FDA Center for Devices and...

New prostate cancer diagnostic could bolster efficacy of PSA.(Report from Europe)
November 6, 2003... Researchers in Canada and a leading American expert on prostate cancer say a urine test developed by a Canadian firm is a significant advance over conventional prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests and could set a new, higher standard far...

HealthSouth's ex-CEO Scrushy indicted on 85 counts of fraud.(founder and former chief executive officer of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Corp., Richard Scrushy)
November 6, 2003... Richard Scrushy, founder and former chief executive officer of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), was indicted Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department on 85 counts of fraud, ranging from a variety of securities violations to activities that...

Roche Diagnostics.(Court report)(patent for polymerase chain reaction upheld)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) said that the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) has upheld its patent for key polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process enzymes (European patent No. 0258 017), as it did its...

Enzo Biochem.(Court report)(Enzo Biochem Inc. sues Affymetrix Inc. for breach of contract)
November 6, 2003... Enzo Biochem (Farmingdale, New York) reported that it's subsidiary, Enzo Life Sciences (also Farmingdale), has terminated its agreement with Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) and filed a lawsuit against Affymetrix in the U.S. District Court...

Geron raises $60M in offering; Genesis to sell $250M in notes.(Financings roundup)(Geron Corp.)(Genesis Health Ventures Inc.)
November 6, 2003... Geron (Menlo Park, California) said its previously announced public offering of 5 million common shares was priced at $12 a share for gross proceeds of $60 million. The offering is being made from a shelf registration statement that became...

CPS Innovations, Toshiba in PET distribution agreement.(Grants/contracts)(marketing and distribution agreements betwen CTI PET Systems, Toshiba Medical Systems, Cytogen Corp. and Matritech Inc.)
November 6, 2003... CPS Innovations (Knoxville, Tennessee), a unit of CTI Molecular Imaging (also Knoxvlile), and Toshiba Medical Systems (Tustin, California) have entered into a distribution agreement under which Toshiba will distribute CPS' positron emission...

Beckman Coulter.(Grants/contracts)(Beckman Coulter Inc. )(distribution agreements)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, California) has signed arenewed hematology agreement with Novation (Irving, Texas), the supply chain company of VHA (also Irving) and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC; Oak Brook, Illinois). The...

Gen-Probe's earnings double; Beckman Coulter posts gains.(Earnings roundup)
November 6, 2003... Diagnostic testing and blood screening products maker Gan-Probe (San Diego, California) said revenues Increased by 22% in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, totaling $52.3 million compared to $42.8 million in the comparable quarter. Net...

Alliance Imaging.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Alliance Imaging (Anaheim, California) said revenues slipped to $105.7 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $105.9 million a year earlier, with a net loss of $50.68 million or $1.06 a diluted shared vs. net income of $10.05 million...

American Bio Medica.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... American Bio Medica (Kinderhook, New York) said sales in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 grew by 31% to $3.98 million from $3.03 million a year earlier, while net income totaled $526,000 or 2 cents a diluted share, up from $438,000 or 2 cents...

Applied Imaging.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Applied Imaging (Santa Clara, California), a supplier of automated imaging systems for the analysis of chromosomes in cancer and prenatal disorders, said revenues in the third quarter were $4.83 million compared to $5.54 million a year earlier....

Given Imaging.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said sales for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 totaled $9.68 million up 60% over $7.46 million in the comparable period. The net loss improved to $9.03 million or 35 cents a share from $14.62 million or 58 cents...

Hycor Biomedical.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Hycor Biomedical (Garden Grove, California) had sales of $4.97 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up 10.2% from $4.51 million a year earlier. Net income declined to $73,000 or 1 cent a share from $332,000 or 4 cents a share in 3Q02....

Igen International.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said revenues for the second quarter ended Sept. 30 increased to $40.4 million from $13.4. million in the prior-year period and to $57.5 million in the six months from $25.4 million a year earlier....

Medtox Scientific.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Medtox Scientific (St. Paul, Minnesota) said revenues in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 slipped to $13.57 million from $13.63 million a year earlier. Net income fell to $383,000 or 8 cents a diluted share from $11.3 million or $2.27 a share...

Nanogen.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Nanogen (San Diego, California), a maker of molecular diagnostic products for gene-based testing, had revenues of $1.74 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 12% higher than the $1.55 million reported a year earlier. Its net loss...

Sonosite.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Sonosite (Bothell, Washington), maker of point-of-care ultrasound products, had revenues of $20.2 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up 0% from $18.5 million a year earlier. Its net loss improved sharply to $161,000 or 1 cent a share...

U.S. to grant more funds for bioterrorism.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... On Dec. 8, the Health Resources and Service Administration, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS; Washington), is issuing a Request for Application to make an additional $30 million in grant funds available to higher...

New subsidiary provides reagents.(Briefly Noted)(WetChem )(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Cal-Bay International (Tustin, California) reported the formation of WetChem, a subsidiary designed to expand the company's product line. WetChem is a manufacturer of chemical products and instruments for the laboratory, testing and quality...

Inamco completes its buys of two separate companies.(Deals roundup)
November 6, 2003... Inamco International (South Plainfield, New Jersey), a holding company whose subsidiaries manufacture and distribute generic pharmaceuticals and in vitro diagnostic test kits, said it has completed the acquisitions of two separate companies,...

Thermo Electron (Waltham, Massachusetts), a supplier of laboratory instruments and services, has acquired laboratory management systems (LMS: new castle, Delaware), a developer of regulatory instrument and consulting services to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.(Deals roundup)
November 6, 2003... * Thermo Electron (Waltham, Massachusetts), a supplier of laboratory instruments and services, has acquired Laboratory Management Systems (LMS: New Castle, Delaware), a developer of regulatory instrument and consulting services to the...

CPT code set for capsule endoscopy.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore, Maryland) established a higher national average global physician payment for the recently announced permanent CPT code for capsule endoscopy...

Minimally invasive standards online.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... The Society of Interventional Radiology (Fairfax, Virginia) has compiled and updated evidence-based standards for excellence in minimally invasive treatments into a supplement to the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, available...

Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) and artus GmbH (Delkenheim, Germany) reported the introduction of three nucleic acid-based tests for detecting infectious diseases, including the virus believed to cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) and artus GmbH (Delkenheim, Germany) reported the introduction of three nucleic acid-based tests for detecting infectious diseases, including the virus believed to cause Severe Acute Respiratory...

Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) said that Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) has informed Acacia's CombiMatrix group (Mukilteo, Washington) that Roche will not be launching its matriXarray product suite in 2003, as previously indicated by Roche.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) said that Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) has informed Acacia's CombiMatrix group (Mukilteo, Washington) that Roche will not be launching its matriXarray product suite in 2003, as previously...

Biosite (San Diego, California) has filed a 510(k) submission with the FDA seeking clearance to market the Triage BNP Test for Beckman Coulter's (Fullerton, California) Immunoassay Systems.(Product Briefs)(Biosite Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Biosite (San Diego, California) has filed a 510(k) submission with the FDA seeking clearance to market the Triage BNP Test for Beckman Coulter's (Fullerton, California) Immunoassay Systems. The Triage BNP Test measures B-type natriuretic...

Corgenix Medical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Corgenix Medical (Westminster, Colorado) has received clearance from the FDA to begin marketing 11 enhanced products for the laboratory diagnosis and risk assessment of blood clotting disorders. The modified test kits detect antibodies to...

Infectio Diagnostic.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Infectio Diagnostic (Quebec City, Quebec) has submitted its ultra-rapid screening test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to the FDA and to Health Canada. The new test will enable detection of MRSA in one hour, whereas...

International Medical Innovations'.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * International Medical Innovations' (Toronto, Onratio) LungAlert test for detection of early-stage lung cancer has been added to a major international study on lung cancer screening. The company has signed an agreement to join the Toronto site...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(live HIV testing begins)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) has agreed to begin live testing of its VScan HIV 1&2 rapid test kit in Florida. The results obtained will be used as part of the data necessary for approval of the test kit in the U.S. The...

Medtronic Surgical Naviation Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Medtronic Surgical Naviation Technologies (SNT; Louisville, Colorado), a manufacturer of image-guided surgery systems, debuted its compact intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the PoleStar N20, at the recent annual meeting...

Planar Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon) said it is expanding its offerings of flat-panel displays for the medical market with the new Adara QX line, a family of referral quality grayscale displays calibrated to the DICOM (Digital Imaging and...

Sontra Medical.(Products Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) said that clinical data from the first study it completed in diabetics with the Symphony continuous noninvasive glucose monitor will be presented at the Diabetes Technology Society meeting being held...

Fujirebio Diagnostics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 6, 2003... * Paul Touhey Jr. has been promoted from senior vice president of operations to president and chief operating officer for Fujirebio Diagnostics (Malvern, Pennsylvania). Fujirebio Diagnostics is a developer of in vitro systems primarily for...

Groups say ICD-9 irrevocably broken, urge ICD-10 adoption.
November 13, 2003... WASHINGTON -- A national advisory group took a bold step earlier this week in an effort to bring the nation's procedural and diagnostic medical coding classification system into the 21st century. The National Committee on Vital and Health...

Biophan, Boston Scientific in R&D-agreement for MRI safety.(Financings roundup)
November 13, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Biophan Technologies (Rochester, New York) reported entering into a joint development agreement with Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) focused on achieving broad compatibility between...

Accumetrics test identifies patients resistant to aspirin.(American Heart Association 2003)
November 13, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report ORLANDO, Florida--Patients who are found to be resistant to the antiplatelet effects of aspirin, as determined by the Accumetrics (San Diego, California) Ultegra Aspirin Test, were found to have...

Spectral gives Canadian launch to early sepsis testing in ICU.(Spectral Diagnostics Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer Spectral Diagnostics (San Diego, California) has launched in the Canadian market its Endotoxin Activity Assay (EAA), an FDA-approved test to diagnose an intensive care unit patient's likelihood to...

CSI offers screening on way to control of medical records.(Computerized Screening Inc.)
November 13, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff writer Computerized Screening (CSI; Sparks, Nevada) envisions its healthcare monitoring kiosks available in retailers and in some companies as offering individuals a way to have control over their...

Zivena, others get $8m Ohio grant lung cancer effort.(Grants/contracts)
November 13, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Zivena (Columbus, Ohio) is part of a team that has been awarded an $8 million grant from Ohio's Third Frontier Program to help in the battle against lung cancer. The team, consisting of doctors and...

Mammography Reporting, R2 in 3-year distribution pact.(Agreements)(distribution agreements between R2 Technology Inc. and Mammography Reporting System)
November 13, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), which focuses on computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, and Mammography Reporting System (MRS; Seattle, Washington), a provider of computerized systems...

IRIS reports revenue gains; Matritech up on NMP22 sales.(Earnings roundup)(International Remote Imaging Systems )(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS; Chatsworth, California), a maker of automated IVD urinalysis systems and medical devices for hospitals and clinical laboratories worldwide, reported a...

Bruker BioSciences.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Bruker BioSciences (Billerica, Massachusetts), the product of a July merger between Bruker Daltonics and Bruker AXS, reported combined earnings for the third quarter and the nine months ended Sept 30. Revenues for 3Q03 were $63.1 million, a...

CAS Medical Systems.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * CAS Medical Systems (Branford, Connecticut) said sales for the nine-month period ended Sept. 30 increased by 7.5% to just over $11.93 million, compared to about $11.08 million for the comparable period. Net income was $ 545,000 or 5 cents a...

Micro Therapeutics.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Micro Therapeutics (MTI: Irvine, California) said that for the third quarter, its net sales of $5.2 million represented a 77% increase over the prior year third quarter sales of $3 million. For the nine months, net sales rose 79% to $15.9...

Radiologix.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Radiologix (Dallas, Texas), a diagnostic imaging services provider, said lower volume due to competitive pressure caused it to swing to a loss in the third quarter The company posted a loss of $646,000 or 3 cents a share, down dramatically...

Cigna to cover Digene DNAwithPap test.(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) reported that Cigna Healthcare (Bloomfield, Connecticut) has updated its cervical cancer screening Clinical Resource Tool to include human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in combination with a Pap test for screening...

Direct Wireless now Health discovery.(Briefly Noted)(name changed to Health Discovery Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Direct Wireless Communications (Waco, Texas), focused on "first-phase" biomarker and pathway discovery for diagnostic markers and drug targets, has changed its name to Health Discovery Corp. The trading symbol for the company, which is publicly...

Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), a subsidiary of Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts), introduced its CIMT Screen, a measurement, analysis and reporting software package that can held identify patients with preclinical atherosclerosis and clarify cardiovascular risk at the meeting.(American Heart Association 2003)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), a subsidiary of Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts), introduced its CIMT Screen, a measurement, analysis and reporting software package that can held identify patients with preclinical...

IMI International Medical Innovations.(American Heart Association 2003)
November 13, 2003... * Cholesterol in the skin can provide a useful index of hidden cardiovascular disease, according to new study findings presented at the AHA meeting Monday. Levels of skin cholesterol measured non-invasively by Cholesterol 1,2,3, developed by...

Geron.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Geron (Menlo Park, California) reported that the underwriters of its recent public offering of 5 million shares of common stock have exercised their over-allotment option in full to purchase 750,000 additional shares, resulting in gross...

Cepheid.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... * Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) reported that SF Capital Partners, an institutional investor that participated in Cepheid's $10 million common stock offering completed in August, has exercised its option to purchase 555,556 additional shares,...

Pheromone Sciences.(Financings roundup)
November 13, 2003... * Pheromone Sciences (Toronto, Ontario) said that it would conduct a rights offering in which it will issue to holders of its outstanding common shares as of Nov. 20 one right for each common share held. Every four rights will entitle...

Enterix test covered by CMS.(Briefly Noted)(cancer tests covered by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Enterix (Falmouth, Maine) reported that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore, Maryland) has issued a National Coverage Decision Memorandum for the use of immunochemical fecal occult blood tests, including its InSure...

Confirma.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Dan Bickford has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for Confirma (Kirkland, Washington). Additionally, Chris Wood has been promoted to vice president of research and development, and Mary Gatewood has been promoted to...

Epix medical.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Stephen Knight, MD, president and chief operating officer of Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts), is leaving the company to become president of Fidelity Biosciences Croup, a unit of Fidelity Investments. He will oversee Fidelity's private...

HealtheTech.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... James Dennis, chief executive officer of HealtheTech (Golden, Colorado), has been named chairman of the company's board. Additionally, Alexander MacPherson has been promoted from general manager and chief marketing officer to president and...

Trestle Holdings.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Crosby Haffner, an executive consultant to Trestle Holdings (NewPort Beach, California), has been named interim president of Trestle following the departure of Andrew Borsanyi, who has resigned to pursue other interests. Trestle Holdings...

SpectRx.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Bill Arthur has been named president and chief operating officer of SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) and will lead the company's diabetes business. Arthur previously was vice president of sales for Medtronic MiniMed. SpectRx develops solutions for...

Calypte Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) said that it is submitting an application with the FDA for an investigational device exemption for its HIV-I lateral flow antibody Rapid Blood Test to be performed on whole blood. This represents the...

Cytyc.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) said more than 40 studies involving its ThinPrep Pap Test and ThinPrep Imaging System were presented during this week's 51st annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology in Orlando,...

Digene.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) filed a premarket approval supplement application with the FDA for a high-volume sample throughput instrument application for HPV testing using its Rapid Capture System. Through automated pipetting and microplate...

Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported preliminary results from a multi-center European study presented at the 11th United European Gastrointestinal Week Conference in Madrid, Spain, earlier this week.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Give Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported preliminary results from a multi-center European study presented at the 11th United European Gastrointestinal Week Conference in Madrid, Spain, earlier this week. A simple prep-less, ingestible procedure,...

iCAD.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) said it has received FDA approval to market its new iCAD iQ Computer Aided Detection system. The iQ system is designed specifically for women's health centers and breast clinics that perform less than 20 mammography...

Illumina.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Illumina (San Diego, California) said it is beta testing the BeadStation 500G for performing medium-scale genotyping using its field-proven single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technology. The system is designed to match the...

Nellcor.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Nellcor (Plesanton, California), pan of Tyco Healthcare, said that a study presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting last month in San Francisco, California, found the Nellcor Max-Fast Forehead Sensor provides a faster...

TheraSense.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... TheraSense (Alameda, California) released the results of its FreeStyle Navigator continuous glucose monitor home-use trial in scientific presentations for the third annual Diabetes Technology meeting in San Francisco, California. The home-use...

Tomen America (New York) and Nippon Kayaku (Tokyo) said the FDA has granted marketing clearance for the GlycoMark test.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... Tomen America (New York) and Nippon Kayaku (Tokyo) said the FDA has granted marketing clearance for the GlycoMark test. This blood test is cleared for the intermediate-term monitoring of glycemic control in people with diabetes. Data from a...

TriPath Imaging.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 13, 2003... TriPath Imaging (Burlington, North Carolina) said that 28 studies involving the research, clinical and laboratory use of its products for cervical cancer screening and non-gynecologic cytology were presented at the American Society of...

Imaging Diagnostic Systems gets Canadian ok for CTLM.
November 20, 2003... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IMDS: Fort Lauderdale, Florida) has made its first commercial entry to the North American market with its CT Laser Breast Imaging System, dubbed the CTLM, via a New Medical Device license approval from Health Canada....

Eucomed highlights med-tech role in treatment of diabetes.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 20, 2003... A Diagnostic & Imaging Week Staff Report Eucomed (Brussels, Belgium), the European medical technology industry trade association, used the occasion of World Diabetes Day last Friday to highlight the role that industry plays in benefiting...

Viterion wins FDA okay for telehealth monitoring system.
November 20, 2003... Viterion TeleHealthcare (Tarrytown, New York), a developer of products and services for the growing telehealth market In the U.S., said received FDA clearance for its home healthcare monitor, the Viterion 100 TeleHealth Monitor, a system...

PLSG creates $20 million pool for Pittsburgh-area life sciences.(Financings roundup)(Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse )
November 20, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) reported that it is moving forward with two programs armed at stimulating investment in early-stage life science companies in...

Intravascular ultrasound aids in study of cholesterol drugs.
November 20, 2003... Intravascular ultrasound played a key role in a recent study comparing Pfizer's (New York) cholesterol-lowering medicine Lipitor to Pravachol. The study found that Lipitor patients experienced a significant reduction in the progression of...

Philips, Cleveland Clinic in products/research alliance.(Grants/contracts)(Royal Phillips Electronics )
November 20, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Royal Phillips Electronics (Andover, Massachusetts) said that its medical systems division has reached a long-term strategic alliance with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF, Cleveland, Ohio),...

Ekips Technologies (Norman, Oklahoma) has received a $500,000 Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF; Arlington, Virginia) for continued hardware and software development of the company's flagship product.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 20, 2003... Ekips Technologies (Norman, Oklahoma) has received a $500,000 Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF; Arlington, Virginia) for continued hardware and software development of the company's flagship product. The Breathmeter, a...

Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and Aloka (Wallingford, Connecticut) reported the signing of an agreement giving Hologic exclusive distribution rights in the U.S. for ultrasound products manufactured by Aloka and customized to Hologic's specifications.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 20, 2003... Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) and Aloka (Wallingford, Connecticut) reported the signing of an agreement giving Hologic exclusive distribution rights in the U.S. for ultrasound products manufactured by Aloka and customized to Hologic's...

U.S., Japanese firms in effort on cancer diagnosis system.(Report from Japan)
November 20, 2003... Two Japanese firms are colaborating with a U.S. molecular pathology company in the development of a cancer diagnosis support system aimed at providing rapid and accurate detection and diagnosis assistance. Through the partnership, LifeSpan...

Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin), which focuses on molecular diagnostics, reported that Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML), the international reference laboratory of the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota), has selected the company's Invadertechnology as its generic testing platform for key blood clotting and cardiovascular disease risk factors.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 20, 2003... Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin), which focuses on molecular diagnostics, reported that Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML), the international reference laboratory of the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota), has selected the company's...

Andromed plans to refocus, divest its Androfact system.(Deals roundup)(Andromed Inc.)
November 20, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imping Week Staff Report Andromed (Montreal, Quebec) said it plans to divest its Androfact system in order to refocus its activities on its Androsonix technology platform while developing additional commercial partners for...

New CPT code for image analysis.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 20, 2003... ChromaVision Medical Systems (San Juan Capistrano, California), a provider of automated cell-imaging systems and manufacturer of the ACIS digital microscope system, said that it has recently learned of the new CPT code and reimbursement rates...