Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from November 2004

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from November 2004

Nanogen's second-generation NanoChip offers more for less.
November 4, 2004... Nanogen (San Diego) recently introduced the second-generation instrument in its line of products for advanced molecular diagnostics. Under development for three years, the new NanoChip 400--which will be available beginning in January--is...

Siemens Medical awarded joint patent with Northwestern, CCF.
November 4, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) said it has been awarded a U.S. patent for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) self-gating, a new technology that is designed to eliminate the need to obtain an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal...

Universities create firm with molecular diagnostics focus.(Report from Europe)
November 4, 2004... Belgium's Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghent University have created a joint subsidiary called Peakadilly NV (Ghent, Belgium) to develop and market a new generation of molecular diagnostics known as protein...

Orchid gets forensic DNA contract.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... Orchid BioSciences (Princeton, New Jersey) said its Orchid Cellmark (Abingdon, UK) business has been selected by the Thames Valley Police as its exclusive provider of forensic DNA testing services. The three-year, multimillion-dollar...

deCode reports trial results.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... deCode genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) reported the principal results from its Phase IIa trial of DG031, a developmental compound being studied for the prevention of heart attack. The trial was designed to examine the effect of various doses...

Invitrogen buys DNA Research; Pall to add Ciphergen division.(Deals roundup)
November 4, 2004... Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California) has acquired privately held DNA Research Innovations Ltd. (DRI; Kent, UK), a developer of products for the purification of DNA and other nucleic acids. Invitrogen paid $35 million in cash, and may make...

Invitrogen buys DNA Research; Pall to add Ciphergen division.(Deals roundup)
November 4, 2004... Pall (East Hills, New York) said last week that it plans to acquire Ciphergen Biosystems' (Fremont, California) BioSepra Process Division in a deal valued at $32 million. The transaction is expected to close within 45 days. The BioSepra...

Media Cybernetics (Silver Spring, Maryland), a provider of scientific image analysis software, said Nippon Roper (Tokyo) has acquired the assets of Planetron (Tachikawa, Japan).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Media Cybernetics (Silver Spring, Maryland), a provider of scientific image analysis software, said Nippon Roper (Tokyo) has acquired the assets of Planetron (Tachikawa, Japan), the Media Cybernetics software distributor in Japan. ...

Bico (Pittsburgh) reported that it has entered into an agreement and plan of merger with cXc Services (Dove Canyon, California).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Bico (Pittsburgh) reported that it has entered into an agreement and plan of merger with cXc Services (Dove Canyon, California), with the surviving entity continuing as the publicly traded company under the Bico name and the trading symbol...

Conference hoping to focus industry interest on Colorado.(BioWest 2004)
November 4, 2004... As the BioWest 2004 conference wound down last week, sponsors of the event described how they hope their aggressive efforts to promote the state of Colorado to the bioscience industry will reap big dividends on the financial front, as well as...

Electro-Optical Sciences gets $9m in 'C' round extension.(Financings roundup)
November 4, 2004... Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS; Irvington, New York), a developer of medical computer vision technology, reported closing a $9 million extension of its Series C preferred financing. In addition, the company reported securing a protocol...

Lifeline to focus on cancer.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... Lifeline Biotechnologies (Reno, Nevada) said it intends to focus its efforts solely on the cancer products it has under development. These include the MastaScope, which is being introduced worldwide to breast surgeons. Other products under...

Fischer, Virtual Imaging in component supply agreement.(Agreements)
November 4, 2004... Fischer Imaging (Denver) said it has signed an agreement with Virtual Imaging (Delray Beach, Florida) to supply components to be incorporated into a digital X-ray system designed for trauma and general radiographic use. Fischer will sell...

CardioMag Imaging awarded STTR of $100,000 by NIH.(Grants/contracts)(National Institutes of Health )
November 4, 2004... CardioMag Imaging (Schenectady, New York) and its project partner, Dirar Khoury, PhD, department of medicine, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), have been notified by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National...

Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California), a hospital-focused clinical reference laboratory, has signed a multi-source group purchasing agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California), a hospital-focused clinical reference laboratory, has signed a multi-source group purchasing agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, which operates the group purchasing programs of...

The Canary Fund (Woodside, California) has been established with a goal of changing the course of cancer research.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * The Canary Fund (Woodside, California) has been established with a goal of changing the course of cancer research. Founded this year by Silicon Valley executive Don Listwin, Canary Fund is based in the vision of Nobel Laureate Lee...

Public-private collaboration focuses on Type 2 diabetes.
November 4, 2004... A joint public-private collaboration to decipher the genetic causes of Type 2 diabetes and make their findings freely available to scientists worldwide was unveiled last week. The project will involve the Broad Institute, a joint project of...

In Vivo, Inverness in collaboration.(Briefly Noted)(In Vivo Medical Diagnostics )(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... In Vivo Medical Diagnostics (IVMD; Inverness, Scotland) said that the company is supporting Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts), a manufacturer and marketer of rapid diagnostic products for the professional and consumer...

Binax.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Binax (Portland, Maine), a developer of rapid diagnostic tests, said that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for the NOW Influenza A & B test. This latest test from Binax replaces two individual tests, NOW Flu A and NOW Flu B, and...

Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts), an operating company of Bruker BioSciences, and Eppendorf AG (Hamburg, Germany) introduced at the Human Proteomics Organization Conference in Beijing the Prespotted AnchorChip, a second-generation disposable AnchorChip MALDI target for gel-based and LC-MALDI-based expression proteomics.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts), an operating company of Bruker BioSciences, and Eppendorf AG (Hamburg, Germany) introduced at the Human Proteomics Organization Conference in Beijing the Prespotted AnchorChip, a second-generation...

Confirma.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Confirma (Kirkland, Washington), a maker of computer-aided-detection (CAD) systems for magnetic resonance imaging, said it has achieved ISO 13485:2003 and CE-marking certifications for its CADstream system. The ISO Certification signifies...

Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported that the FDA has cleared its Given Diagnostic System, including the PillCam ESO video capsule for imaging the esophagus.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) reported that the FDA has cleared its Given Diagnostic System, including the PillCam ESO video capsule for imaging the esophagus. The new PillCam ESO video capsule is the same size as the company's small-bowel...

IMI International Medical Innovations.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * IMI International Medical Innovations (Hamilton, Ontario) said the accumulation of sterol in skin tissues, as measured by its PREVU Point of Care Sterol Test, provides new information about a patient's risk of coronary artery disease (CAD),...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has begun to ship the VScan HIV rapid test kit to Japan. The company now ships the VScan HIV test kits to six different countries in Southeast Asia, not including China. With its...

Medicsight.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Medicsight (Boston) reported it has received FDA clearance for Medicsight Colon CAR 1.2, an image analysis software tool designed to be used with CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, to assist radiologists in searching for and measuring...

Medwave.(Product Briefs)
November 4, 2004... * Medwave (Danvers, Massachusetts) said a study examining the utility of its Vasotrac non-invasive blood pressure monitor, primarily in regard to its intrusiveness after prolonged continual readings, was recently published in the Journal of...

Cytyc.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) has named Timothy Adams vice president, CFO and treasurer, a role he will assume on Nov. 8. Adams most recently served as CFO for Modus International. He replaces Leslie Teso-Lichtman, who has been acting...

MDS.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Wilf Lewitt, executive chairman of the board of directors of MDS (Toronto), will step down from that post, but will continue on as a member of the board until the 2005 annual meeting, where he will not stand for re-election. Current board...

Quidel.(People in Places)
November 4, 2004... * Quidel (San Diego), a provider of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests, named Thomas Foley, PhD, a 30-year veteran of the clinical diagnostics industry, to the newly created position of chief technology officer, effective Nov. 8. Foley most...

Nikon Instruments.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Nikon Instruments (Melville, New York) reported the addition of two new illumination systems to its family of imaging products. The Nikon White Light Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) illuminator is a cost effective alternative to...

Olympus.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Olympus (Melville, New York) said it has introduced the DSU spinning disk confocal system, designed to provide optical sectioning and motorized operation with the flexibility of an arc lamp excitation source. The DSU system uses the company's...

Varian.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Varian (Palo Alto, California) reported the availability of OnTrak OraTube, which combines the convenience of onsite oral fluid collection with laboratory-certified results. OraTube is an extension of the company's drugs of abuse oral fluid...

Vision-Sciences (Natick, Massachusetts) reported the launch of the VSCI flexible Trans-Nasal Esophagoscopy (TNE-Bx) with Slide-On EndoSheath and Biopsy capability at the American Academy of Otolaryngology meeting last month in New York.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2004... * Vision-Sciences (Natick, Massachusetts) reported the launch of the VSCI flexible Trans-Nasal Esophagoscopy (TNE-Bx) with Slide-On EndoSheath and Biopsy capability at the American Academy of Otolaryngology meeting last month in New York. The...

Meeting labs' needs is seen as key to making automation work.(Laboratory Automation Conference)(American Association of Clinical Chemistry )
November 11, 2004... ATLANTA -- The high points and sometimes challenges of automating clinical laboratories were the subject of the day at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC; Washington) conference on "Laboratory Automation: Optimizing Strategies...

New head with familiar face or AdvaMed diagnostic group.
November 11, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington) is shoring up support for its diagnostics sector with a new post within the organization. The association reported on Monday that Jeff Ezell, currently...

Nymox prepares for launch of its AlzheimAlert test kit.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... Nymox Pharmaceutical (Maywood, New Jersey) reported receipt of the CE mark for its AlzheimAlert test kit, allowing sale of the product in the European Union. The company said fulfillment of the requirements would allow European clinical...

Varian plans imaging applications lab.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... A day after completing its acquisition of a UK maker of MRI magnets, Varian (Palo Alto, California) reported plans to build the first imaging applications laboratory in that country. The new laboratory, to be located at Magnex Scientific...

Minicam zeroes in on nodes, tumors.(Report from Europe)
November 11, 2004... Euromedical, part of the French Eurorad-Euromedical group, has introduced the Minicam, which it said is the first CE-marked miniature ambulatory gamma camera that provides reliable imaging to surgeons before and throughout surgical procedures....

Joint Motiva project targets self-management of illness.
November 11, 2004... "Must-see TV" could find itself with an expanded meaning--in the healthcare arena--based on an innovative communication program recently launched by Royal Philips Electronics (Andover, Massachusetts), Comcast (Philadelphia) and cardiovascular...

FDA reviews the process of its Critical Path initiative.
November 11, 2004... ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- More than just ensuring healthcare safety, the FDA wants to help encourage and facilitate healthcare innovation--with feedback and help from industry. That was the message last Friday as the FDA's science board advisory...

Radiologix to retire PresGar pact for $15.2m plus debt.(Financings roundup)
November 11, 2004... Radiologix (Dallas), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, reported an agreement to purchase and retire a contract with an affiliate of PresGar Medical Imaging (Orlando, Florida) that provides PresGar with an exclusive and perpetual right...

CTI buying maker of imaging systems for research animals.(Deals roundup)(Computer Telephony Integration)(ImTek)
November 11, 2004... CTI Molecular Imaging (Knoxville, Tennessee), a provider of positron emission tomography (PET) equipment, molecular imaging biomarkers and services, reported acquiring ImTek (also Knoxville), a provider of micro-CT systems for imaging...

Siemens Medical to be tech provider to Holy Redeemer.(Agreements)
November 11, 2004... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) and Holy Redeemer Health System (Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania) reported that they have entered into a multifaceted agreement that makes Siemens the principal technology and service provider for...

Ophthalmic Imaging to provide systems.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OIS; Sacramento, California), a provider of ophthalmic digital imaging systems, said it would provide imaging systems for a leading European ophthalmic imaging company, of which MediVision Medical Imaging (Yokneam,...

Medicare patients to get heart disease screening.(Briefly Noted)
November 11, 2004... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore) recently reported the 2005 Physician Fee Schedule, which guarantees access to preventive cardiovascular screenings for 39 million Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. This action will...

Advanced Medical Technology Association.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed; Washington) has appointed two new staff members. Seth Radus was named associate vice president, federal government relations. Radus joined AdvaMed from the law firm of Baker Donelson,...

Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) reported three additions to management at its wholly owned Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) subsidiary.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) reported three additions to management at its wholly owned Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) subsidiary. Addy Alsumde, MD, PhD, has been named director, clinical affairs. Alsumde most recently was with...

Pacific Biometrics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Jennifer Henry-Smith has joined Pacific Biometrics (PBI; Seattle) as division vice president for business development. She joins PBI from ACM Medical Laboratory, where she was director of business development. Henry-Smith will be stationed in...

Quidel.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Quidel (San Diego), a provider of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests, named Thomas Foley, PhD, a 30-year veteran of the clinical diagnostics industry, to the newly created position of chief technology officer, effective Nov. 8. Foley most...

R2 Technology.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Terance Kinninger has been named vice president and CFO of R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) technology for medical imaging. He previously served as chief operating officer and CFO of Bridge...

Response Biomedical.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Michael Groves, PhD, has been appointed to the post of vice president, sales and marketing, at Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia). He formerly was vice president of international sales and marketing for both Abbott...

Strategic Diagnostics.(People in Places)
November 11, 2004... * Stanley Musial, CFO and vice president of Strategic Diagnostics (Newark, Delaware), a provider of antibody products and analytical test kits for the food safety and water quality industries, plans to resign at year-end to pursue other...

Agilent Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California) reported the introduction of what it said is the industry's first fully automated, high-throughput lab-on-a-chip system for basic life science research and drug discovery. The Agilent 5100...

Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) reported that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for the GR17 Flat Panel Detector (FPD) developed by its subsidiary, Anrad (Saint-Laurent, Quebec), which makes flat-panel X-ray detectors based on amorphous Selenium technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) reported that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for the GR17 Flat Panel Detector (FPD) developed by its subsidiary, Anrad (Saint-Laurent, Quebec), which makes flat-panel X-ray detectors based on amorphous...

Avitar.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Avitar (Canton, Massachusetts) reported the introduction of the ORALscreen Drugometer, a one-step, oral fluid drug test based on the company's oral fluid collection and processing technology. The test is administered just like a thermometer,...

BioLok (Deerfield Beach, Florida) said it was "encouraged" by research results from New York University (New York) and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) on the in vitro and in vivo testing of BoneGen TR, its newly patented, time-released calcium sulfate product.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * BioLok (Deerfield Beach, Florida) said it was "encouraged" by research results from New York University (New York) and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) on the in vitro and in vivo testing of BoneGen TR,...

Hitachi Medical Systems America.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Hitachi Medical Systems America (Twinsburg, Ohio) said it has received FDA clearance to market its new Sceptre P3 PET/CT system. Dual Attenuation Correction allows the combination of both computed tomography (CT) and sealed source attenuation...

Medical Services International.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) reported that its VScan HIV test kit has received full regulatory approval in Nigeria. The company said many Nigerian businesses have initiated programs for the testing of employees. The...

Nymox Pharmaceutical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Nymox Pharmaceutical (Maywood, New Jersey) said it has filed an amendment to its premarket approval application (PMA) for its urine NTP test kit. The amendment was filed in response to the company's discussions and meetings with the FDA, and...

Varian Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) said it has received FDA clearance for cone-beam computed tomography (CT) imaging using its On-Board Imager device for real-time image-guided radiation therapy with its Clinac and Trilogy linear...

Viasys Healthcare.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2004... * Viasys Healthcare (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) said its NeuroCare Group has released and received the first orders for the new Telocin Diagnostic Ultrasound System. The Telocin system provides ultrasound imaging solutions in peripheral...

NASA, docs team up to detect astronaut in-flight arrhythmias.
November 18, 2004... The same National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) turbojet used to film the weightless scenes for the movie "Apollo 13"--nicknamed the "Vomit Comet" for its gut-wrenching effects--has also recently been used to help determine how...

UK to undertake bowel cancer screening program in 2006.(Report from Europe)
November 18, 2004... The UK plans to roll out a national screening program for bowel cancer, the first cancer-screening program in England for both men and women and one of the first of its kind in Europe, beginning in April 2006. Some 37.5 million [pounds...

French firm's celiac test cleared in U.S.(Report from Europe)
November 18, 2004... BioMedical Diagnostics (BMD; Marne-la-Vallee, France) said the FDA has granted clearance for its celiac disease diagnostic kit, FIDIS Celiac. The kit obtained the CE mark in April 2003 and is now compliant with U.S. registration regulations,...

GenVault names European director of sales.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... GenVault (San Diego), a leading company in integrated biosample management, reported the appointment of Roderick Westrop, PhD, as director of sales, Europe. In his new post, Westrop's primary focus will be on building a strong sales team...

BioImagene and Scimagix in image informatics merger.(Deals roundup)
November 18, 2004... BioImagene (San Jose, California) and Scimagix (San Mateo, California) reported the completion of their merger. The combination of BioImagene's core competency in image analysis with Scimagix' image management and data mining technology...

Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati) reported that it has executed a letter of intent to acquire all the outstanding capital stock of O.E.M. Concepts (Toms River, New Jersey), a producer and distributor of biological components.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati) reported that it has executed a letter of intent to acquire all the outstanding capital stock of O.E.M. Concepts (Toms River, New Jersey), a producer and distributor of biological components. The purchase...

Rapid Bio Tests (RBIO; Springfield, Oregon) said it has entered into a letter of intent dated Nov. 8 to acquire a 100% equity interest in Mirae Tech Co. Ltd. (South Korea).(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Rapid Bio Tests (RBIO; Springfield, Oregon) said it has entered into a letter of intent dated Nov. 8 to acquire a 100% equity interest in Mirae Tech Co. Ltd. (South Korea). Terms of the letter call for Rapid Bio Tests and Mirae Tech to...

Schultz settles into his role as CDRH 'problem solver'.(Daniel Schultz)
November 18, 2004... WASHINGTON -- In late July, when Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford picked Daniel Schultz, MD, to lead the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), he said Schultz had "the ideal combination of skills, experience and...

Biophan outlines strategic initiatives for 2005, beyond.
November 18, 2004... Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), a developer of next-generation biomedical technology, unveiled its strategic initiatives for 2005 recently. The announcement by CEO Michael Weiner outlines the current year's key milestones...

Biosite, Stratagene facing patent infringement suits.(Court report)
November 18, 2004... Diagnostic firm Biosite (San Diego) reported that Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) has filed a complaint against it, alleging infringement of two of its patents (U.S. patent nos. 5,366,609 and 4,816,224) in the U.S. District Court Southern...

ViOptix Canada secures $9.2m in Series C funding.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... ViOptix (Fremont, California), a manufacturer of noninvasive local tissue oxygen measurement devices with applications in plastic, reconstructive and vascular surgery, reported that it has secured $9.2 million in a Series C venture round of...

ChondroGene (Toronto) reported receiving a $1 million payment from Pfizer (New York) as the third and final research milestone in a collaborative agreement commenced October 2002, the first two $1 million payments received in April 2003 and January 2004.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * ChondroGene (Toronto) reported receiving a $1 million payment from Pfizer (New York) as the third and final research milestone in a collaborative agreement commenced October 2002, the first two $1 million payments received in April 2003 and...

Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) said it made an equity investment in Valeo Medical (Nashville, Tennessee), a privately held company focused on developing a serum-based test for endometriosis.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) said it made an equity investment in Valeo Medical (Nashville, Tennessee), a privately held company focused on developing a serumbased test for endometriosis. Terms of the investment were not disclosed....

Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland) reported extending its offer to exchange $6.09 million principal amount of its 8% senior subordinated secured convertible notes, due 2005, for common stock and modified notes.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Hemagen Diagnostics (Columbia, Maryland) reported extending its offer to exchange $6.09 million principal amount of its 8% senior subordinated secured convertible notes, due 2005, for common stock and modified notes. The exchange offer was to...

Immucor (Norcross, Georgia), a developer of automated instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, reported that its board has approved a 3-for-2 stock split, to be effected in the form of a 50% stock dividend to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Nov. 22.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Immucor (Norcross, Georgia), a developer of automated instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, reported that its board has approved a 3-for-2 stock split, to be effected in the form of a 50% stock dividend to shareholders...

Geron (Menlo Park, California) said it has entered into two non-exclusive license agreements with Revivicor (Blacksburg, Virginia) under which that company is granted rights to use Geron's nuclear transfer technology for animal cloning.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * Geron (Menlo Park, California) said it has entered into two non-exclusive license agreements with Revivicor (Blacksburg, Virginia) under which that company is granted rights to use Geron's nuclear transfer technology for animal cloning. ...

Spectral Diagnostics in pact with three purchasing groups.(Grants/contracts)
November 18, 2004... Spectral Diagnostics (Toronto) reported the completion of pricing agreements with three large group purchasing organizations (GPOs) through Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio). Through Spectral's exclusive distribution agreement with Cardinal...

The Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland) laboratories have implemented Digene's (Gaithersburg, Maryland) Rapid Capture System to screen women for high-risk types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer, with Digene's DNAwithPap Test.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... * The Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland) laboratories have implemented Digene's (Gaithersburg, Maryland) Rapid Capture System to screen women for high-risk types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer, with Digene's...

Applied Imaging restates financial statements.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Applied Imaging (San Jose, California) reported that it intends to restate its financial statements for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2003, and its quarterly financial statements for 1Q04 and 2Q04. Accordingly, the previously issued financial...

SourceOne in distribution agreement with CompuMed.(Agreements roundup)
November 18, 2004... SourceOne Healthcare Technologies (Mentor, Ohio), a distributor of medical imaging systems, equipment, radiographic consumable supplies, and service to healthcare providers, and CompuMed (Manhattan Beach, Calif-ornia), a developer of...

CardioDynamics.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Mark Florence has been named to the newly created position of vice president of sales at CardioDynamics (San Diego), a leader in impedance cardiography technology. He previously served as vice president and general manager, marketing & sales,...

LabOne.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Diagnostics services provider LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) has hired Kent McAllister as senior vice president for information services and chief information officer. McAllister joins LabOne having previously served as chief information officer for...

Response Biomedical.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Michael Groves, PhD, has been appointed vice president, sales and marketing, at Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia). He formerly was vice president of international sales and marketing for both Abbott Point-of-Care and i-STAT....