Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from September 2003

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from September 2003

EU clears Instrumentarium buy; Guidant licenses MediVas tech.(Deals roundup)
September 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report The European Commissioner has approved General Electric's (GE: Fairfield, New Jersey) EUR 2 billion ($2.17 billion) acquisition of medical devices maker Instrumentarium (Helsinki, Finland). To...

Gen-Probe registers for $150M; option boosts Epix to $65.8M.(Financings roundup)
September 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Diagnostics product maker Gen-Probe (San Diego, California) has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering the sale of various types of debt and/or equity...

Pyrosequencing unveils new executives as merger nears.(Report from Europe)
September 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Pyrosequencing AB (Uppsala, Sweden) reported the appointment of a new management team for the company in connection with the expected completion later this month of Pyrosequencing's merger with...

MaybeMOM device aims to take the maybe out of becoming one.
September 4, 2003... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer MaybeMOM (Lodi, New Jersey) says its product, the Mini Ovulation Microscope for determining ovulation, has clinically proven the diagnostic test is 98% accurate. The product, which uses saliva to...

Explosions hit Chiron in wake of animal rights protest push.
September 4, 2003... Chiron (Emeryville, California) was bombed last week in what may have been the latest and most violent offense in a string of harassment incidents brought by animal rights protesters. The company said that between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. PDT last...

IMI International signs research agreement with AtheroGenics.(Agreements roundup)
September 4, 2003... A Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report IMI International Medical Innovations (Toronto, Ontario) signed a collaborative research agreement with AtheroGenics (Alpharetta, Georgia). IMI's cardiovascular risk assessment test, Cholesterol...

PSS extends its relationship with Abbott for three years.(Grants/contracts)
September 4, 2003... PSS World Medical (Jacksonville, Florida) said it has entered into a new three-year agreement to renew its longstanding relationship with Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois). The agreement enables PSS to continue to market, on an...

Dianon settles Diapath suit; another HealthSouth guilty plea.(Court report)
September 4, 2003... Independent clinical laboratory testing services company Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) said a lawsuit brought by its recently acquired subsidiary, Dianon Systems (Stratford, Connecticut),...

Quinton Cardiology, QRS in agreement.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Quinton Cardiology Systems (Bothell, Washington), which focuses on advanced cardiology products, and QRS Diagnostic (Plymouth, Minnesota), a leader in the development of software-based medical devices contained on computer cards, jointly...

Sontra Medical can continue Nasdaq listing.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) said that its stock would continue to be listed on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market pursuant to a conditional exception from Nasdaq's minimum $2.5 million stockholders' equity requirement for continued...

Pricewaterhouse resigns Boston Biomedica.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Boston Biomedica (West Bridgewater, Massachusetts) reported that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC; New York) has resigned as the company's independent accountant, effective Aug. 22. The company said it has had a close working relationship with PwC...

Medical Services ships HIV tests to Congo.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Medical Services International (Edmonton, Alberta) said it has begun shipping VScan HIV test kits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The VScan test kit is a single-use, disposable, accurate (greater than 99%) test for rapid screening...

Esoterix.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Esoterix (Austin, Texas), a laboratory services company, named Naveen Kakarla senior vice president and general counsel and Barbara Wolf chief compliance officer. Kakarla has more than 10 years' experience as a practicing attorney and was most...

Synarc.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Brad Smith has been named chief financial officer and vice president of finance of Synarc (Maynard, Massachusetts). Smith joins Synarc from PatientKeeper. Synarc is a central radiology service dedicated exclusively to clinical trials and...

Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts) reported that Elekta AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has licensed the Axeda DRM system to further improve Elekta's service and remote diagnostics capabilities for its digital linear accelerators.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts) exported that Elekta AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has licensed the Axeda DRM system to further improve Elekta's service and remote diagnostics capabilities for its digital linear accelerators. The Axeda DRM...

CAS Medical Systems (Branford, Connecticut) said it has begun to incorporate OxiMax pulse oximetry technology developed by Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) into its Model 511 Cardio-Respiratory Monitor, the only apnea monitor with integral pulse oximetry cleared by the FDA for use with neonates, pediatric patients and adults.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... CAS Medical Systems (Branford, Connecticut) said it has begun to incorporate OxiMax pulse oximetry technology developed by Nellcor (Pleasanton, California) into its Model 511 Cardio-Respiratory Monitor, the only apnea monitor with integral...

North American Scientific.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... North American Scientific (Chatsworth, California) reported progress in the development of annexin-based molecular imaging of cell death with several presentations at the recent meetings of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine in...

Spire Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Spire Biomedical (Bedford, Massachusetts) said that it has received notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application covering a novel type of catheter with a miniature X-ray generator unit at its tip for...

Ventana Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Ventana Medical Systems (Tucson, Arizona) reported the publication of a clinical study in the journal Diagnostic Cytopothology. The study compared two different molecular HPV DNA testing methodologies on 762 of 10,861 women, aged 17 to 67,...

Healthcare Technologies net declines; NAS loss increases.(Earnings roundup)(Brief Article)
September 4, 2003... Healthcare Technologies (Ashod, Israel) said revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 slipped to $3.72 million from $4 million in the year-earlier period. Net profit was $51,000 or 1 cent a share, down sharply from $920,000 or 12 cents a...

Neoprobe's Quantix/OR looks to bring better science to CABG.(coronary artery bypass graft)(Neoprobe Corp.)
September 11, 2003... When it comes to surgery, one assumes mostly science is involved, or at least that's the hope. And this is especially true when it comes to coronary artery bypass graft procedures (CABG), an extremely common cardiac surgery for bypassing...

i-STAT receives FDA clearance for Cardiac Troponin I test.
September 11, 2003... i-STAT(East Windsor, New Jersey) suggests that 8 million people visit emergency rooms each year presenting with chest pain. The challenge for emergency room physicians then becomes determining those who are actually having coronary distress, or...

Chief executive is named for UK medical products agency.(Report from Europe)(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... The appointment of a chief executive for the UK's newly established Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was reported by the Department of Health recently. Kent Woods, professor of therapeutics at the University of...

QRS stays up with the times by converting card devices to CF.(compact flash)(QRS Diagnostic L.L.C.)
September 11, 2003... QRS Diagnostic (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is taking a slightly smaller view of its medical device card products by introducing the first in a series of compact flash (CF) cards to be used with personal computers, or more likely, personal digital...

Nanogen, Prodesse team up on disease detection tests.(Agreements)(Nanogen Inc.)(Nanogen Inc.)
September 11, 2003... Nanogen (San Diego, California) and Prodesse (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) signed a collaboration agreement to develop automated, highly-sensitive, microarray-based products to detect a number of infectious disease agents, including influenza,...

DakoCytomation A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), gained exclusive worldwide rights to two antibodies.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... * DakoCytomation A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), gained exclusive worldwide rights to two antibodies for prostate cancer diagnostics and monitoring from Corixa (Seattle, Washington). DakoCytomation will have the exclusive right to develop and...

Vital images (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has signed an agreement with Mirada Solutions Ltd. (Oxford, UK).(Agreements)(Vital Images Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Vital Images (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has signed an agreement with Mirada Solutions Ltd. (Oxford, UK) to integrate Mirada's positron emission technology (PET) and image fusion software into Vital Images' Vitrea software. Vitrea 2 features...

Dianon settles Diapath suit: Resmed, Respironics settle.(Court report)(DIANON Systems Inc. settles unfair trade case)(ResMed Inc. and Respironics Inc. settle patent infringement case)
September 11, 2003... Clinical laboratory testing services company Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) said a lawsuit brought by its recently acquired subsidiary, Dianon Systems (Stratford, Connecticut), against five...

Quidel (San Diego, California) reported that Physician Sales and Service (PSS; Jacksonville, Florida) began promoting and distributing Quidel's QuickVue Strep A product line.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Quidel (San Diego, California) reported that Physician Sales and Service (PSS; Jacksonville, Florida) began promoting and distributing Quidel's QuickVue Strep A product line, which allows for the rapid detection of group A streptococcal antigen...

Novamex acquires European patent for 'mad cow' method.(Deals roundup)(Novamex USA )
September 11, 2003... Novamex USA (Villa Saint-Laurent, Quebec) said it has completed the acquisition of European patent No. PCT/FR 02/00728, which covers a method used to develop a test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease) that can be performed...

ViroLogic awarded NIH grant to develop hepatitis C assay.(Grants/contracts)(National Institutes of Health)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... ViroLogic (South San Francisco, California) has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland), to develop a hepatitis C...

ChondroGene Ltd. (Toronto Ontario).(Earnings Reports)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... ChondroGene Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) said it had revenues of C$250,013 for the second quarter ended June 30 compared to zero revenues in the comparable period. Its net loss was C$587,895 or 2 cents a share compared to the year-earlier loss of...

Digital pregnancy test introduced.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Unipath (Bedford, UK), a women's health consumer and professional diagnostic provider, has launched the world's first home digital pregnancy test. The company said the Clearblue Digital Pregnancy Test has been developed to eliminate uncertainty...

tds reports growth of UK business.(Report from Europe)(tds Dermatology Ltd.)(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... tds Dermatology Ltd. (Manchester, UK), the UK operational arm of tds Telemedicine (Newark, New Jersey), has expanded its UK contractual base. (OTCBB: TDST) announced the expansion of its UK contractual base. The company has secured a...

New UK unit for Pensa.(Report from Europe)(United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Pensa (Ottawa, Ontario) has established a new UK subsidiary, Pensa Technology Solutions Ltd. (Birmingham, UK), aimed at better serving what the company terms "the increasing demand for regulatory compliance to the European life sciences...

Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts) reported that Elekta AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has licensed the Axeda DRM system to further improve Elekta's service and remote diagnostics capabilities for its digital linear accelerators.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Axeda Systems (Mansfield, Massachusetts) reported that Elekta AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has licensed the Axeda DRM system to further improve Elekta's service and remote diagnostics capabilities for its digital linear accelerators. The Axeda DRM...

bioMerieux.(Product Briefs)(bioMerieux Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... bioMerieux (Durham, North Carolina) said it has received FDA clearance for its VIDAS D-Dimer extended range D-dimer assay to exclude the presence of suspected deep vein thrombosis and aid in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in outpatients.

Masimo.(Product Briefs)(pulse oximetry technology)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Masimo (Irvine, California) reported the release of the 2004 Radical. The device debuts Masimo SET V4.1, a high-sensitivity, specificity and fidelity pulse oximetry technology; advanced probe off detection technology designed to minimize the...

North American Scientific.(Product Briefs)(cell death imaging system)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... North American Scientific (Chatsworth, California) reported progress in the development of annexin-based molecular imaging of cell death with several presentations at the recent meetings of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine in...

OraSure Technologies.(HIV-1 Antibody Test approved )(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test has been approved by the FDA for use in detecting HIV-1 antibodies in venipuncture whole blood specimens. The new approval for venipuncture whole blood is...

RITA Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... RITA Medical Systems (Mountain View, California) introduced the StarBurst Semi-Flex, a flexible radiofrequency ablation device targeting the interventional radiology market. The product is designed for ease of use during ablation procedures...

Spire Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(new patents)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Spire Biomedical (Bedford, Massachusetts) has received notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application covering a novel type of catheter with a miniature X-ray generator unit at its tip for providing...

Tensys Medical.(Product Briefs)(Tensys T-Line non-invasive, continuous, real-time blood pressure monitor)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Tensys Medical (San Diego, California) said anesthesiologists from the University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) and the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) will present two studies comparing the accuracy of the traditional, invasive...

Toshiba America Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)(new magnetic resonance imaging systems)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS; Tustin, California) has launched the Excelart Vantage, a new 1.5-tesla high-field magnetic resonance imaging system equipped, it said, with the world's shortest magnet. TAMS said that the system delivers...

Atherotech.(People In Places)(Atherotech Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Ted Fendley, PhD, has been named vice president of operations for Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama). Most recently, he served for more than 15 years as associate vice president at Laboratory Corporation of America. Atherotech is a...

Cepheid.(People In Places)(Cepheid Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Ira Marks has been named vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, for Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California). Marks most recently was senior vice president, corporate development and international operations, with Nanogen. Prior to joining...

DiaSys.(People In Places)(DiaSys Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Jeffrey Aaronson has been appointed chief financial officer of DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut). For the past eight years, Aaronson has served as vice president of finance for a privately held manufacturing firm in Connecticut. DiaSys develops...

Expression Analysis.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Thomas Goralski, PhD, has been named laboratory director for Expression Analysis (Durham, North Carolina). He most recently served as director of production biology at Perlegen Sciences, where he managed the high-throughput laboratory....

GMP Companies.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... GMP Companies (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) reported two new additions to its management team. Peter Feig, MD, joins the company as vice president of clinical development and Caron D'Ambruso joins as vice president of marketing. Feig was with...

Strategic Diagnostics.(People In Places)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Matthew Knight has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Strategic Diagnostics (Newark, Delaware), effective Sept. 15. Previously, Knight was group vice president and president of the Industrial Division of Nalco Chemical....

STS Biopolymers/MCTec.(People In Places)(employee promotions)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... John Lanzafame has been promoted from vice president of sales and marketing to president of STS Biopolymers/MCTec (Rochester, New York). He will temporarily continue to serve in the sales and marketing function. STS Biopolymers, in operation...

Swissray America.(People In Places)(employee promotions)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Swissray America (Elizabeth, New Jersey) reported the promotion of Leo Ferrini to vice president of sales, western region, and Steve Adelman to director of sales, eastern region. Ferrini, with more than 25 years of experience in medical imaging...

Transgenomic.(Product Briefs)(Transgenomic Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Transgenomic (Omaha, Nebraska) reported launch of the Surveyor line of bioconsumable kits for use in genetic variation discovery and detection. The product line complements and extends the capabilities of the company's WAVE System instrument...

Viatronix.(Product Briefs)(Viatronix Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 11, 2003... Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York) said that the company has received FDA clearance for using V3D Explorer, its general-purpose 2-D/3-D medical imaging workstation, for X-ray modality data. The V3D Explorer workstation can process large and...

Viatronix gets FDA approval for X-ray use on 3-D station.
September 18, 2003... Viatronix (Stony Brook, New York) has received an FDA green light to use its general-purpose 2-D/3-D medical imaging workstation V3D Explorer for X-rays, in addition to the modalities of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR),...

UK pharmacist study suggests larger role in cardio screening.(Report from Europe)
September 18, 2003... A study released at this week's British Pharmaceutical Conference in Harrogate, UK, said that Britain is a "heart disease time-bomb" waiting to happen. Researchers said that 43% of adults with high blood pressure who were tested for signs of...

Exact putting $100m on shelf; Bio-Imaging raises $10.8m.(Financings roundup)(Exact Sciences)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Exact Sciences (Marlborough, Massachusetts) last week reported the filing of a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission providing for the offer, from time to time, of common stock and debt securities, up to an...

GenDex wins patent for genetic predisposition to breast cancer.
September 18, 2003... Michael Swift, MD, has spent 30 years doing research on family populations, with a focus on predisposition to breast cancer. In 2002, Swift formed a company, GenDex (Ardsley, New York), which he serves as chief executive officer and scientific...

SourceOne switches to CADx in CAD distribution deal.(Agreements)(computer-aided detection technology)
September 18, 2003... R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, has reached agreement with, SourceOne Healthcare Technologies (Mentor, Ohio), a Platinum Equity company specializing in the distribution and service...

Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) said that its CombiMatrix (Mukilteo, Washington) operating unit is collaborating with Drs. Daniel Sabath and Stephen Schmechel of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington).(Agreements)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) said that its CombiMatrix (Mukilteo, Washington) operating unit is collaborating with Drs. Daniel Sabath and Stephen Schmechel of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) to develop a...

VHA selects MedPlus' ChartMaxx to offer to member institutions.(Grants/contracts)
September 18, 2003... MedPlus (Cincinnati, Ohio), a developer and integrator of clinical connectivity and data management solutions, reported that VHA (Irving, Texas) a national cooperative of not-for-profit healthcare organizations, has selected MedPlus' ChartMaxx...

GE gets final regulatory OKs to acquire Instrumentarium.(Deals roundup)(GE Medical Systems)(Instrumentarium Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... General Electric (GE; Fairfield, New Jersey), through its GE Medical Systems (Waukesha, Wisconsin) division, reported that it has received the final remaining required regulatory approvals for the acquisition of Instrumentarium (Helsinki,...

New guidelines for HPV DNA testing.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP, Washington) has published new guidelines for the use of HPV DNA testing in primary cervical cancer screening for women age 30 and older. The new...

Name changed to IRIS.(Briefly Noted)(IRIS International Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... International Remote Imaging Systems (Chatsworth, California, a manufacturer and marketer of automated IVD urinalysis systems and medical devices for hospitals and clinical laboratories worldwide, said it plans to change its name to IRIS...

Quidel (San Diego, California), a maker of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, has signed agreements for distribution of the company's entire product line in Germany and Italy.(Agreements)(Quidel Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Quidel (San Diego, California), a maker of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, has signed agreements for distribution of the company's entire product line in Germany and Italy. These agreements, which took effect Sept. 1, complete the...

MDS Diagnostic Services (Toronto, Ontario) is expanding its Memphis Pathology Lab (MPL; Memphis, Tennessee) joint venture with the addition of a new partner.(Agreements)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... MDS Diagnostic Services (Toronto, Ontario) is expanding its Memphis Pathology Lab (MPL; Memphis, Tennessee) joint venture with the addition of a new partner. Med Lab, the clinical outreach laboratory of Methodist Healthcare (also Memphis), will...

DiaSys posts its first profit; Somanetics has record sales.(Earnings roundup)(DiaSys Corp.)(Somanetics Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... DiaSys (Waterbury, Connecticut) reported its first quarterly profit in the fourth quarter ended June 30, with net income of $177,146 or 2 cents a share compared to a year-earlier loss of $239,426 or 3 cents a share. Revenues for the...

AMDL.(Earnings roundup)(AMDL Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... AMDL (Tustin, California), a "theranostics" company developing products for the detection and treatment of cancer, said product revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 totaled $59,168, up 37.4.% over $43,062 in the prior-year period. The...

Angeion.(Earnings roundup)(Angeion Medical Products)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Angeion (St. Paul, Minnesota) said revenues increased by 8.7% in the third quarter ended July 31 to $4.6 million from $4.2 million in the prior-year period. Its net loss was cut sharply to $681,000 or 19 cents a share from the 3Q02 loss of $2.4...

Biomerica.(Earnings roundup)(Biomerica Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Biomerica (Newport Beach, California) reported a net loss of $255,033 or 5 cents a share for the year ended May 31, down from the loss of $430,683 or 8 cents a share in the prior fiscal year. Consolidated sales for Biomerica and its Lancer...

The Cooper Companies (Lake Forest, California) said revenues increased to $108.4 million in the third quarter ended July 31, up 20% from $90.56 million in the year-earlier period.(Earnings roundup)
September 18, 2003... The Cooper Companies (Lake Forest, California) said revenues increased to $108.4 million in the third quarter ended July 31, up 20% from $90.56 million in the year-earlier period. Net income grew to $18.66 million or 58 cents a diluted share...

Criticare Systems.(Earnings roundup)(Criticare Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Criticare Systems (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) said net sales increased by 9% to $28.56 million in the fiscal year ended June 30 from $26.22 million in fiscal 2002. The company had a net loss of $938,596 or 8 cents a share compared to a loss of $1.43...

Bio-Imaging Technologies.(Financings roundup)(Bio-Imaging Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Bio-Imaging Technologies (Newtown, Pennsylvania) reported that it has made a private placement of stock with certain institutional investors, raising gross proceeds of about $10.8 million. Bio-Imaging has agreed to sell somewhat more than 1.76...

OraSure Technologies.(Financings roundup)(stock offering by OraSure Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... OraSure Technologies (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), a leader in oral fluid diagnostics, said that it plans to make a public offering of 5 million shares of common stock. The offering will be made pursuant to a registration statement covering shares...

AMDL.(Financings roundup)(AMDL Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... AMD (Tustin, California), developer and marketer of tests for the early detection of cancer and other serious diseases has completed a Regulation S private offering, which began in August. The company issued 1.21 million shares of AMDL common...

Sontra Medical.(Financing roundup)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) has completed a $3.1 million preferred stock financing that provided it with $2.9 million net of the placement agent fee. Under the terms of the financing completed on Sept. 12, individual investors,...

Agendia planning predictive array trials.(Report from Europe )(Agendia BV)
September 18, 2003... Agendia BV (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a recently formed start-up, is planning three large, scale clinical trials of a genomics-based method for predicting the chance of primary breast cancers to recur and metastasize. If successful, the...

U.S. firm adds European sellers/distributors.(Report from Europe)(Merge Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Merge Technologies (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), which does business as Merge eFilm, has signed agreements with four European companies to resell or distribute Merge eFilms' Fusion RIS/PACS and eFilm Workstation solutions into a European medical...

Abbott Laboratories.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Joseph Nemmers Jr. has been named senior vice president, diagnostic operations for Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinios). Nemmers most recently served as vice president, global commercial operations, diagnostics and has spent 23 years...

CardioNow.(People in Places)(CardioNow Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... CardioNow (Encinitas, California) has promoted Barry Adelmann to vice president of sales and marketing and Larry Heminger to vice president of research and development. The company also said that Dr. Raul Perez of Oakwood Medical has joined the...

Jacobson Resonance Enterprises.(People in Places)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Jacobson Resonance Enterprises (JRSE; Boynton Beach, Florida) reported three appointments and advancements. Anthony Fusco Jr. will join the company as vice president and chief operating officer. He previously served as chief executive officer...

Quidel.(People in Places)(Quidel Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Matt Heindel has been named senior vice president, global sales and marketing, for Quidel (San Diego, California). Previously, Heindel was vice president, sales and marketing, at Prism Enterprises. Quidel manufactures rapid point-of-care...

Bio-Rad Laboratories.(Product Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, California) received FDA 510(k) clearance for its D-10 Hemoglobin A1c system which includes both the D-10 instrument and Hemoglobin A1c test kit. This fully automated system provides the same level of precision...

Calypte Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Calypte Biomedical Corp. distributes HIV tests to Uganda)(Brief Article)
September 18, 2003... Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California), the developer of the only two FDA-approved HIV-1 antibody tests that can be used on urine samples, as well as an FDA-approved serum HIV-1 antibody Western blot supplemental test, reported that the...