Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from November 2005

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from November 2005

LabOne shareholders okay $934m merger with Quest.(Deals roundup)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Quest Diagnostics (Lyndhurst, New Jersey) and LabOne (Lenexa, Kansas) reported that in a vote held at a special meeting last week, LabOne shareholders approved the $934 million acquisition of the company by Quest. The shareholder vote...

VC money flowing at strong pace into life sciences firms.
November 10, 2005... Venture capitalists are putting money into life sciences companies at a clip that could meet or exceed last year's total, according to a quarterly analysis released last week. Notably, the sector has drawn more than one-quarter of all VC...

TomTec Imaging introduces 4-D mitral valve assessment.(International report)
November 10, 2005... TomTec Imaging Systems (Munich, Germany) has introduced its new 4-D MV-Assessment software, which the company said combines the strength of 2-D with the advantages of 3-D echocardiography to provide doctors with "important and partly...

Unanswered questions prompt HHS to look at Crawford's exit.(former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford)
November 10, 2005... Lawmakers concerned and mystified about the sudden retirement of former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford may soon get some answers. At the time of his resignation in September, some members of Congress requested an investigation, and last...

Electro-Optical prices its IPO; ForteBio closes $17.3m Series B.(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS; Irvington, New York), said on Friday that it has priced its initial public offering of 4 million shares at $5 a share. All shares are being offered by the company, with the shares to begin trading on the Nasdaq...

Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), a business of Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut), reported making an unspecified equity investment in VisiGen Biotechnologies (Houston).(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California), a business of Applera (Norwalk, Connecticut), reported making an unspecified equity investment in VisiGen Biotechnologies (Houston), a sequencing technology company, along with entering into a...

Bio-Rad in new microfluidics collaboration with Caliper.(Grants/contracts)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California) and Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported a new collaboration, under which the companies will study the feasibility of developing a new microfluidics system platform. Details...

Molecular Diagnostics files suit vs. ex-chairman's firm.(Court report)
November 10, 2005... Molecular Diagnostics (MDI; Chicago) has filed suit vs. Diamics (Novato, California) for unfair business practices, misappropriation of MDI trade secrets and proprietary information, and patent and copyright infringement. The civil suit...

HealthSouth.(Court report)
November 10, 2005... Richard Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama), last week pleaded not guilty to new charges against him in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Alabama. The plea comes following his recent indictment for bribery,...

CMS in launch of Physician Voluntary Reporting Program.(Washington roundup)
November 10, 2005... WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS; Baltimore) said last week that as part of its overall quality improvement efforts, it is launching the Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP) as an initial step toward the...

Pall.(Washington roundup)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... At the request of the FDA Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) Advisory Committee, Pall (East Hills, New York) presented during a meeting of the panel on Monday the latest research results on its prion technology to remove TSE...

FDA issues warning notice for Abbott glucose meters.
November 10, 2005... The FDA has issued a general notice concerning a problem with blood glucose meters made by Abbott Diabetes Care (Alameda, California). It said that the meters could be mistakenly switched from one unit of measurement to another, thus...

Nanogen meets ISO requirements.(Briefly Noted)
November 10, 2005... Nanogen (San Diego), a developer of diagnostic products, reported that the quality management system of its point-of-care division successfully meets the requirements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification...

MRI important for fetal heart measurements.(Briefly Noted)
November 10, 2005... MRI techniques can provide real-time measurements of volume in a fetal heart, and may better enable physicians to plan care for infants with heart defects, according to a new study. By producing 3-D measurements, functional MRIs may...

DOBI formulates China strategy.(International report)
November 10, 2005... DOBI Medical International (Mahwah, New Jersey) said it has developed a multi-faceted business strategy for China designed to increase the acceptance of its Dynamic Optical Breast Imaging (DOBI) product, the ComfortScan system, in the Far East....

Dade launches homocysteine for BN systems.(International report)(Dade Behring)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois), a leader in cardiac diagnostic testing, last week reported launching the homocysteine assay in Europe for use on its BN II and BN ProSpec diagnostic systems. Homocysteine is a cardiac marker used to...

Gamma Medica-Ideas.(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... Gamma Medica-Ideas (GM-I; Northridge, California) reported completing a private placement of $7 million (NOK 45.6 million). About 1.2 million new shares were issued in the private placement. Dr. Bradley Patt, president and CEO, said the...

The Molecular Profiling Institute (MPI; Phoenix) reported receiving $7.5 million in a Series B financing from three investors: AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) and Gen-Probe (San Diego).(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... The Molecular Profiling Institute (MPI; Phoenix) reported receiving $7.5 million in a Series B financing from three investors: AmeriPath (Riviera Beach, Florida), Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) and Gen-Probe (San Diego). Molecular...

Rubicon Genomics (Ann Arbor, Michigan) reported forming a multi-year agreement with Abbott Molecular, a division of Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois), to commercialize its MethylPlex methylation detection technology for diagnosis and prognosis of cancer.(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... Rubicon Genomics (Ann Arbor, Michigan) reported forming a multi-year agreement with Abbott Molecular, a division of Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois), to commercialize its MethylPlex methylation detection technology for diagnosis and...

PerkinElmer.(Financings roundup)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... PerkinElmer (Wellesley, Massachusetts), a global health sciences and photonics company, said it has signed a $350 million unsecured revolving credit facility with a term of five years. The new facility replaces a $100 million facility. The...

SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported that it received $1.5 million from Respironics (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) for the remaining potential earn-out from the March 2003.(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... SpectRx (Norcross, Georgia) reported that it received $1.5 million from Respironics (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) for the remaining potential earn-out from the March 2003 sale of the BiliChek product line. "We believe that this non-dilutive...

Microvision says it is in compliance with Nasdaq.(Briefly Noted)
November 10, 2005... Microvision (Bothell, Washington), which focuses on light-scanning technologies, said that it is in compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350(i)(1)(D). Nasdaq had determined that Microvision's transactions involving the sale of its...

Fujinon.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Fujinon's Medical Division (Wayne, New Jersey), a developer of advanced endoscopic systems, reported the launch of the first commercially available fully digital endoscope system with both Fuji Intelligent Chromo Endoscopy (FICE) and...

Given Imaging.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... Given Imaging (Yokneam, Israel) said that 16 independent studies of its PillCam SB were presented at the recent 13th United European Gastroenterology Week in Copehagen, Denmark, including one that confirmed data from past studies recommending...

Clinical Data.(appoints Carol Reed and John Schultz as senior vice president and chief medical officer )(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts) has named Carol Reed, MD, as senior vice president and chief medical officer and John Schultz as senior vice president, business development. Reed joins Clinical Data following the completion of the...

Exagen Diagnostics.(appoints James McClintic as president and CEO)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... James McClintic has joined Exagen Diagnostics (Albuquerque, New Mexico) as president and CEO. He succeeds Exagen founding CEO Waneta Tuttle, who will turn her attention to Southwest Medical Ventures, the venture development company she owns....

Synova Healthcare.(People in Places)
November 10, 2005... Synova Healthcare (Media, Pennsylvania), a subsidiary of Synova Healthcare Group, appointed Steven Schlisman vice president of sales to oversee all retail and professional sales activities. Schlisman's previous roles included director of retail...

Companies rushing to roll out new tests to detect avian flu.
November 10, 2005... As the avian flu virus gradually spreads worldwide, diagnostic firms are gearing up to meet the challenge. Qiagen (Venlo, the Netherlands) this week reported the global launch of two test kits for the detection of the much-feared virus. And...

Perceptronix studying buccal mucosa test for lung cancer.(American College of Chest Physicians)
November 10, 2005... Perceptronix (Vancouver, British Columbia) presented results of a new study that indicates that buccal mucosa, or cells scraped from the inner part of the cheek, may contain information that separates patients with lung cancer from high-risk...

GE Healthcare/Volcano in joint digital cath, IVUS development.
November 10, 2005... In an agreement that had its beginnings with discussions late last year, GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) and Volcano (Rancho Cordova, California) last month reported what they are calling a "significant" development collaboration to bring...

Varian's buy of Polymer Labs is valued at up to $65 million.(Deals roundup)
November 10, 2005... Life science company Varian (Palo Alto, California) reported that it has acquired PL International and its subsidiaries, including Polymer Laboratories (Shropshire, UK), for about $42 million in cash, net of acquired cash, subject to certain...

Emageon (Birmingham, Alabama) has acquired from Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) all the stock of that company's wholly owned subsidiary.(In other dealmaking activity)
November 10, 2005... * Emageon (Birmingham, Alabama) has acquired from Analogic (Peabody, Massachusetts) all the stock of that company's wholly owned subsidiary, Camtronics Medical Systems (Hartland, Wisconsin), for $40 million in cash. The transaction...

Owens & Minor (O&M; Richmond, Virginia) reported that its subsidiary Access Diabetic Supply has acquired certain operating assets of iCare Medical Supply.(In other dealmaking activity)
November 10, 2005... * Owens & Minor (O&M; Richmond, Virginia) reported that its subsidiary Access Diabetic Supply has acquired certain operating assets of iCare Medical Supply, a small, Florida-based, direct-to-consumer, diabetes and respiratory supply company....

VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a provider of image-based biomarker solutions to customers in the healthcare industry.(In other dealmaking activity)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... * VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a provider of image-based biomarker solutions to customers in the healthcare industry, reported the closing of a private placement of about $4.1 million and the simultaneous stock-for-stock merger with...

Regional provider of clinical laboratory and disease screening services Triad Laboratory Alliance (Greensboro, North Carolina).(In other dealmaking activity)
November 10, 2005... * Regional provider of clinical laboratory and disease screening services Triad Laboratory Alliance (Greensboro, North Carolina), doing business as Spectrum Laboratory Network (SLN), and Apax Partners (New York), reported that funds advised by...

$30m funding to boost firm's implanted glucose monitor R&D.(Financings roundup)
November 10, 2005... Sensors for Medicine and Science (SMS; Germantown, Maryland) said it has completed the second closing of a private financing, in the form of a Series C convertible preferred stock issue. Proceeds from both tranches of the financing exceed $30...

Aperio Technologies (Vista, California), a provider of virtual microscopy systems in the Healthcare IT industry, reported closing on a $17 million Series B round of financing.(In other financing activity)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... * Aperio Technologies (Vista, California), a provider of virtual microscopy systems in the Healthcare IT industry, reported closing on a $17 million Series B round of financing. Aperio said it will use the new capital for expanding sales and...

Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), a developer of advanced medical technology.(In other financing activity)
November 10, 2005... * Biophan Technologies (West Henrietta, New York), a developer of advanced medical technology, reported completing phase II and phase III of its development agreement with Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts). Completion of these...

Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York), a developer of 2-D/3-D clinical solutions--reported beginning a worldwide CAD integration partnership.(In other financing activity)
November 10, 2005... * Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York), a developer of 2-D/3-D clinical solutions--reported beginning a worldwide CAD integration partnership with Quantitative Imaging (QI; San Bruno, California), a developer of CAD solutions. Financial terms were...

DiagnoCure (Quebec City, Quebec), a developer of molecular diagnostics and cell-based assays for detection of cancer.(In other financing activity)
November 10, 2005... * DiagnoCure (Quebec City, Quebec), a developer of molecular diagnostics and cell-based assays for detection of cancer, said that "for financial consideration," it has licensed from Genzyme (Cambridge, Massachusetts) the worldwide exclusive...

Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) has granted to PathWork Informatics (San Jose, California) long-term non-exclusive access to its microarray technology.(In other financing activity)
November 10, 2005... * Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) has granted to PathWork Informatics (San Jose, California) long-term non-exclusive access to its microarray technology to develop and market in vitro diagnostics for the development of tests for cancers....

Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has obtained the exclusive marketing and distribution rights.(In other financing activity)
November 10, 2005... * Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has obtained the exclusive marketing and distribution rights to a confirming test kit for tuberculosis (TB). The kit is registered with the FDA. The company's existing VScan TB...

Wellstar (Holland, Ohio) said it has obtained funding in excess of $2 million to be used to launch of its subsidiary medical division.(In other financing activity)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... * Wellstar (Holland, Ohio) said it has obtained funding in excess of $2 million to be used to launch of its subsidiary medical division, Trillennium Medical Imaging (TMI). John Antonio, president of Trillennium and Wellstar, said, "[W]e will...

CTT says U.S. Supreme Court will hear LabCorp's appeal.(Court report)
November 10, 2005... Competitive Technologies (CTT; Fairfield, Connecticut) reported that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) in a homocysteine patent case. The...

Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California) said that it will record a pre-tax decrease of about $20.4 million.(In other legalities)
November 10, 2005... * Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California) said that it will record a pre-tax decrease of about $20.4 million to its previously reported first quarter FY06 results as the result of an arbitration ruling in a dispute with Amersham...

Genetic Technologies (Melbourne, Australia) said it has learned that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, has posted a revised case schedule and order on the court's web site.(In other legalities)
November 10, 2005... * Genetic Technologies (Melbourne, Australia) said it has learned that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, has posted a revised case schedule and order on the court's web site in connection with its patent dispute with...

Purdue researchers study gold nanorods for contrast imaging.
November 10, 2005... Researchers at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) are working on the development of what the university calls a new type of "ultra-sensitive" medical imaging technique using tiny nanorods which have gold as their major component. ...

AmeriPath grows GI diag services, names directors.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... AmeriPath (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida), a national provider of cancer diagnostics, genomics, and related information services, reported the expansion of its GI diagnostic services in the Northeast. A. Brian West, MD, the company's recently...

Confirma in 3-year pact with Amerinet for CAD for MRI.(Grants/contracts)
November 10, 2005... Confirma (Kirkland, Washington), which focuses on computer-aided detection (CAD) for MRI, reported a three-year agreement with healthcare group purchasing organization Amerinet (St. Louis). The agreement adds CADstream for MRI to Amerinet's...

Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) and Invivo (Pewaukee, Wisconsin).(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) and Invivo (Pewaukee, Wisconsin), a subsidiary of Intermagnetics General, reported a partnership that will integrate Invivo's CAD system with Siemens' Magnetom MRI systems for advanced breast...

IRIS International (Chatsworth, California), a manufacturer of automated IVD urinalysis systems and medical devices used in hospitals, clinics and reference laboratories worldwide.(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * IRIS International (Chatsworth, California), a manufacturer of automated IVD urinalysis systems and medical devices used in hospitals, clinics and reference laboratories worldwide, reported that its Sample Processing Division has entered into...

Bionomics (Adelaide, Australia) reported that it has licensed two genetic tests for the diagnosis of epilepsy to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Lab-Corp; Burlington, North Carolina).(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * Bionomics (Adelaide, Australia) reported that it has licensed two genetic tests for the diagnosis of epilepsy to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Lab-Corp; Burlington, North Carolina). The tests licensed to LabCorp will assist...

Fonar (Melville, New York) reported the signing of an agreement with Sony Electronics (Park Ridge, New Jersey) to resell the Sony FilmStation 14" x 17" dry film imager as a "first-ever,".(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * Fonar (Melville, New York) reported the signing of an agreement with Sony Electronics (Park Ridge, New Jersey) to resell the Sony FilmStation 14" x 17" dry film imager as a "first-ever," exclusive film imager offering to its customers.

Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS; Tustin, California), which focuses on ultrasound technology.(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS; Tustin, California), which focuses on ultrasound technology, said it has entered an agreement to provide Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Baltimore) the Aplio CV ultrasound system for use in a...

R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), which focuses on CAD technology for the earlier detection of breast cancer and other medical conditions.(In other grants/contracts news)
November 10, 2005... * R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), which focuses on CAD technology for the earlier detection of breast cancer and other medical conditions, said it has signed a new, three-year agreement with Consorta (Schaumburg, Illinois), a healthcare...

Focus offers genetics interpretive service.(BRIEFLY NOTED)
November 10, 2005... Focus Diagnostics (Herndon, Virginia) reported the release of GenomEx, a new genetics interpretive service that provides personalized interpretation and comprehensive reporting for complex genetic carrier testing. The company said the service...

Minrad International now trading on Amex.(BRIEFLY NOTED)
November 10, 2005... Minrad International (Buffalo, New York) reported that its common stock is now listed on the American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BUF. Minrad describes itself as an acute-care company with real-time image guidance, anesthesia...

Bruker Daltonics.(appoints Sebastian Meyer-Plath as vice president)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Sebastian Meyer-Plath has been appointed vice president for the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) detection business of Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts). Meyer-Plath had originally joined Bruker in 1993, and held several project...

Del Global Technologies.(People In Places)
November 10, 2005... Christopher Japp has been appointed president of the Del Medical Systems Group subsidiary of Del Global Technologies (Valhalla, New York). Japp comes to Del Global from St. Jude Medical International, where he served as vice president, cardiac...

MDS.(appoints Kenneth Horton as executive vice president)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Kenneth Horton has been appointed executive vice president, corporate development and general counsel for MDS (Toronto). Horton previously was vice president, acquisitions, ventures and general counsel, for the Life and Analytical Sciences...

Novadaq Technologies.(People In Places)
November 10, 2005... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) has appointed T. Bruce Ferguson, MD, and Peter Fitzgerald MD, PhD, as co-chief medical advisors for the company's cardiac business. Ferguson is a professor of surgery and physiology and chief of cardiac surgery at...

CardioMEMS.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... CardioMEMS (Atlanta), focused on the application of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology to create devices for the diagnosis and management of chronic diseases, reported FDA clearance and launch in the U.S. of the EndoSure Wireless...

CombiMatrix Group.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... The CombiMatrix Group (Mukilteo, Washington) of Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) said it has launched a new comprehensive influenza DNA microarray as well as services for the typing of influenza strains. CombiMatrix's Influenza...

Gamma Medica-Ideas.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 10, 2005... Gamma Medica-Ideas (Northridge, California), which is developing a new class of imaging systems that integrate multiple modalities to create more powerful diagnostic capabilities, said researchers from Harvard Medical School (Boston) are...

iCAD.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions, reported the availability of its PureLook Mammography Film Digitizer. PureLook is the film-to-digital acquisition module for the iCAD TotalLook, and...

Merge eMed.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... Merge eMed (Milwaukee), a Merge Healthcare company that provides medical imaging software and services, reported the release of Cedara I-ReadMammo digital mammography workstation software. This multi-modality, vendor-neutral mammography...

Welch Allyn.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... Welch Allyn (Skaneateles Falls, New York), a manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, reported the introduction of two multi-channel electrocardiographs. In addition to administering patient tests and managing patient...

Zargis Medical.(Product Briefs)
November 10, 2005... Zargis Medical (Princeton, New Jersey), a Speedus subsidiary and developer of computer-aided medical devices, reported the issuance of a new patent. U.S. patent No. 6,953,436, "Multi-modal cardiac diagnostic decision support system and method,"...

Merck among pharmas eyeing new device/diagnostic sectors.
November 17, 2005... Richard Clark, the new CEO of Merck (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey), recently told a group of analysts at a private meeting that he was considering expanding the company's operations into medical devices and diagnostics as a way to revive the...

Study: gene variant poses MI risk for African-Americans.
November 17, 2005... A team of scientists led by deCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) has discovered a gene variant they say confers increased risk of heart attack, moderately in those of European descent, but most particularly in African-Americans. The link...

Agendia gets the CE mark for MammaPrint gene expression. (International report).
November 17, 2005... Agendia's (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) MammaPrint microarray test has been registered as a medical device at the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, which enables MammaPrint to bear the CE mark. The MammaPrint gene expression service uses a...

Kodak a key supplier to RATU project. (International report).
November 17, 2005... Eastman Kodak's (Rochester, New York) Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of the RATU e-health project in Northern Finland. The extensive project is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs...

Patent issued for Lymphoseek. (International report).
November 17, 2005... Neoprobe (Dublin, Ohio), a developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, said that the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has received notification regarding the acceptance by countries representing the...

Fonar 360 installation under way. (International report).(Brief Article)
November 17, 2005... Fonar (Melville, New York) has reported that installation in the UK for the first of its room-size MR imaging units, the Fonar 360, where it will commence clinical trials to develop image-guided surgical procedures known as intraoperative MRI....

Diagnostics Products in NT-proBNP launch. (International report).
November 17, 2005... Diagnostic Products Corp. (DPC; Los Angeles) reported release outside the U.S of its assay for N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), a diagnostic marker of congestive heart failure (CHF) and a prognostic marker of CHF and...

NeoMatrix offering HALO Breast Pap Test System.
November 17, 2005... NeoMatrix (Irvine, California) has, in the FDA-cleared Halo Breast Pap Test System, what President and CEO Kevin Morton calls a "disruptive technology," but one that could have great benefits for women in knowing their risk for breast cancer....

Imaging companies unveil new cardiac assessment products. (American Heart Association).
November 17, 2005... DALLAS -- Several imaging product manufacturers were among the firms using the American Heart Association (AHA; Dallas) scientific sessions being held here this week as a podium from which they could report new product introductions. The...

NCI study: ovarian screening tests are useful but still risky.
November 17, 2005... To screen or not to screen? That is a key question of much modern medical diagnostics that isn't particularly well answered by a new study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI; Bethesda, Maryland) concerning some of the newest methods for...

IDX Systems achieves ACC-NCDR designation. (Briefly Noted).(Brief Article)
November 17, 2005... IDX Systems (Burlington, Vermont), a provider of healthcare information systems, said that its IDX Imagecast for Cardiology solution has achieved American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry (ACCNCDR; Bethesda, Maryland)...

SmartPill trial shows 'strong correlation' to scintigraphy.
November 17, 2005... SmartPill Corp. (Buffalo, New York), developer of the SmartPill pH.p Capsule, a non-invasive medical device that captures biomedical data from within a patient's gastrointestinal (GI) tract, reported that the clinical trial of its SmartPill...

Intraop offers more debentures; AmeriPath in credit refinancing. (Financings roundup).
November 17, 2005... Intraop Medical (Sunnyvale, California) reported issuing an additional $4.5 million of 7% convertible debentures to "a few select" institutional investors. The 7% convertible debentures mature in October or November 2008 and are...

Corgenix participating in $3.8m grant for tests of viral fevers grant for tests of viral fevers. (Grants/contracts).
November 17, 2005... Corgenix Medical (Denver), in partnership with Tulane University (New Orleans), the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; Fort Detrick, Maryland) and two corporate partners, will develop and manufacture improved...

Neothermia changes name to Intact Medical.(Brief Article)
November 17, 2005... Neothermia (Natick, Massachusetts), which focuses on minimally invasive systems for the diagnosis of breast cancer, said that it has changed its name to Intact Medical. With the name change, the company has re-named its FDA-approved breast...

SIR backs Senate push on AAA screening.
November 17, 2005... The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR; Fairfax, Virginia) voiced its support of the U.S. Senate's efforts to increase the early detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). A newly passed amendment would institute a one-time ultrasound...