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India is poised to revolutionize biotechnology

India's health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player, with growing means and know-how to produce innovative as well as generic drugs and vaccines at costs small relative to those of giant Western firms, according to ground-breaking Canadian research.

10 Apr 2007

Role of black bloggers in the blogosphere

In the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers in the blogosphere, Brown University researcher Antoinette Pole assessed how bloggers of color use their medium for purposes related to politics.

10 Apr 2007

New imaging technology with use of novel contrast agent may predict heart attack in waiting

A new imaging technology may hold the key to not only stopping heart attacks in their tracks but also preventing them for ever occurring.

10 Apr 2007

Atrium Medical receives FDA approval for Omega 3 surgical mesh product

Atrium Medical Corporation is pleased to announce it has obtained US FDA 510(K) approval for a new Omega 3 surgical mesh product called C-QURLite(TM) Mesh.

10 Apr 2007

European research helps people with dementia improve their quality of life

As approximately 1.9 million elderly people in Europe experience a form of dementia. A pan-European research project is seeking to help them 'navigate their day' and improve their quality of life.

9 Apr 2007

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators offer lifesaving benefits, return to active life, and reduced cost

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine have discovered that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) -- electric monitoring devices that deliver a lifesaving shock in the event of a cardiac arrest -- help patients with heart problems live longer more active lives.

7 Apr 2007

Montefiore Medical Center launches human papilloma virus clinic

The only HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) Vaccine Clinic of its kind has been launched at Montefiore Medical Center.

7 Apr 2007

Alteon expands agreement with Biorap Technologies

Alteon has announced that it has entered into an expanded licensing agreement with BioRap Technologies, the commercialization arm of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research, Technion University, Israel, for all diagnostic devices or products for predictive purposes in vascular or cardiac diseases, including diagnostic assays for the measurement of the haptoglobin protein (Hp).

7 Apr 2007

Roche to acquire BioVeris

BioVeris Corporation has announced that the Company has reached a definitive agreement under which Roche will acquire BioVeris for $21.50 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $600 million.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 5 Apr 2007

Method for making new molecules based on flavonoids - implications for cancer therapeutics

You've heard of them -- the good-for-your-health compounds found in plants that we enjoy in red wine, dark chocolate, green tea and citrus fruits.

5 Apr 2007

Technology to make implantable devices safe for MRI

While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is already well established as a premiere non-invasive imaging technology, patients with implantable pacemakers, implantable cardiac devices, neurostimulators and other medical devices are often denied the evaluation their medical situation urgently requires.

5 Apr 2007

Formation of the United Kingdom Biometrics Institute

Prominent figures from the biometrics research and technologies sectors met at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus on Monday 2 April to celebrate the formation of the United Kingdom Biometrics Institute (UKBI).

5 Apr 2007

Almac announces study on colorectal pre-malignancies

Almac Diagnostics has announced a major study analysing colorectal polyp tissue samples using its novel Colorectal Cancer DSA microarray.

5 Apr 2007

UT Metroplex institutions to collaborate on biomedical research

Researchers from the three University of Texas campuses in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area are combining their expertise in biomedical science, engineering and physical sciences on projects aimed at solving real-world medical problems.

5 Apr 2007

CleveMed completes first virtually attended home sleep study using mobile phone broadband internet service

Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (CleveMed) announced that it recently conducted the first virtually attended sleep study using mobile phone broadband internet service from a subject's home.

5 Apr 2007

Handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes

Who would have guessed that when the Star Trek medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder makes its appearance in real life, the first user might be . . . your dentist.

5 Apr 2007

Clinical study of Ablatherm-HIFU to resume

The global leader in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of prostate cancer and the international leader in the development, production, and distribution of a wide portfolio of minimally invasive medical devices primarily for the treatment of urological diseases, announced the transfer of US clinical study responsibilities and conclusion of its management succession plan announced December 2006.

4 Apr 2007

St. Jude uses new technology with 3-D imagery to communicate nationwide

Despite a distance of more than a thousand miles, staff at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in Paterson, N.J., simultaneously reviewed diagnostic images from patients at the joint launch of the hospitals' new telemedicine equipment, making them the first two medical institutions in the country to employ this form of high-definition technology.

4 Apr 2007

CD4 Initiative to develop easy to use device that can measure CD4+ T-lymphocytes in HIV+ patients

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have been selected to participate in a collaborative initiative to develop a simple, affordable and rapid test to measure the immune systems of people infected with HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

4 Apr 2007

New blood test to rapidly detect levels of radiation exposure

In the event of a nuclear or radiological catastrophe -- such as a nuclear accident or a "dirty bomb" -- thousands of people would be exposed to radiation, with no way of quickly determining how much of the deadly substance has seeped inside their bodies.

4 Apr 2007