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NBC Universal's 'Healthy At NBCU' to connect its health and wellness content with consumers

NBC Universal will unveil a new company-wide initiative today, "Healthy At NBCU," aimed at connecting consumers, employees and marketers with its breadth of health and wellness content. The announcement was made by Lauren Zalaznick, President NBC Universal Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, who is spearheading the initiative.

15 Oct 2009

Northern Light partners with EBSCO Publishing to provide bio-pharma and health sciences news

Northern Light (www.northernlight.com) today announced a partnership with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) (www.ebscohost.com) that will let mutual customers directly search and access more than 4,000 bio-pharmaceutical, health sciences and general business magazines, journals and other news sources through Northern Light SinglePoint(TM) strategic research portals.

15 Oct 2009

New virtual reality training programme test perceptual skills of rugby players

Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's on a range of virtual training scenarios that test expert players' perceptual skills.

15 Oct 2009

Sangretech Biomedical signs amended license agreement with Bostwick Laboratories

Sangretech Biomedical LLC, a developer of dendritic cell therapies for cancer and infectious diseases, today announced it has executed an amended and restated license agreement with Bostwick Laboratories, Inc. providing Bostwick Scientific, the research division of Bostwick Laboratories, with exclusive rights to Sangretech’s dendritic cell technology in certain territories.

15 Oct 2009

LTC Hotline simplifies the process of long term care insurance

LTC Hotline -- a one-stop shopping center -- promises to simplify the process of finding the right long term care policy from the right carrier at the right price. "Traditionally," says Jonas Roeser, "consumers had to meet with an agent in person, or try to compare confusing quotes from multiple carriers.

15 Oct 2009

ATS Medical to exhibit its innovative cardiac surgery products at the EACTS meeting

ATS Medical, Inc., manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services announced a number of professional educational opportunities that will focus on ATS Medical products at the upcoming European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (EACTS) meeting.

15 Oct 2009

Three poster presentations to be presented by the clinical pharmacy team of First DataBank

First DataBank, a leading provider of drug databases that help drive patient safety, today announced that members of the company’s clinical pharmacy team, knowledgeable in the application of drug information systems for safe medication prescribing and clinical decision support in pediatrics, will present three poster presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics, October 17-20, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

15 Oct 2009

GeckoSystems to discuss CareBot's graceful movement enabled by GeckoMotorController

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced today that during their first annual "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference November 4-5, 2009 attendees will be able to observe and discuss the CareBot's™ graceful movement enabled by the GeckoMotorController™.

15 Oct 2009

ADI and CeTeCancer collaborate for research project

Radient Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a US-based pharmaceutical company, announced today it has entered into a collaboration agreement through its wholly owned subsidiary AMDL Diagnostics, Inc. (ADI) with CeTeCancer -- a Chilean-based research laboratory -- to validate the effectiveness of Radient Pharmaceuticals' Onko-Sure™ in vitro diagnostic (IVD) cancer test as an early detection and prevention test for lung cancer.

15 Oct 2009

A study on development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant

A multidisciplinary group at Malaga University, headed by Ignacio Moreno-Torres, is collecting information on the milestones that mark the development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant (CI) and studying to what extent the social and family environment affects this development. This research is funded with 101,000 euro by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Innovation.

15 Oct 2009

Laerdal Medical Corporation launches a new Advanced version of the ALS Patient Simulator

Building on the success of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) Patient Simulator and in response to growing interest from emergency care providers across the United States, Laerdal Medical Corporation introduces ALS Simulator Advanced.

From Laerdal 15 Oct 2009

Linguamatics launches I2E 3.1 text mining platform for pharmaceutical companies

Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced the availability of I2E 3.1 for unlocking value from the wealth of unstructured text resources available to pharmaceutical companies. I2E is a high performance natural language processing (NLP)-based text mining platform that streamlines knowledge discovery from text.

15 Oct 2009

National Biological to market Quantel's 308 Excimer System in the U.S.

Quantel SA (Euronext: QUA), a leading manufacturer of solid state lasers, announced today that it has entered into a Distribution Agreement with National Biological, a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for medical and cosmetic treatments, for Quantel's 308 Excimer System for monochromatic UVB treatment of psoriasis and vitiligo in the United States.

15 Oct 2009

Boehringer Ingelheim implements the iStudyReporter Bioanalytics reporting solution

Boehringer Ingelheim is a group of companies dedicated to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. It is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Boehringer Ingelheim’s business areas include Prescription Medicines, Consumer Health Care and Biopharmaceuticals, as well as Pharma Chemicals and Animal Health.

15 Oct 2009

First Priority implements Global Vision's automated inspection solutions

During tough economic times, First Priority, manufacturer of generic veterinary pharmaceutical products, implemented Global Vision's automated inspection solutions in an effort to reduce costs without compromising efficiencies and quality of their products.

15 Oct 2009

NAHC completes BlackBerry Report

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) today announced the completion of The BlackBerry® Report: The National State of the Home Care Industry Study.

15 Oct 2009

DNA Link to provide NimbleGen Sequence Capture service in Korea

Roche NimbleGen, a Roche Company, has announced the first Certified Service Provider (CSP), DNA Link, Inc., who will provide service in Korea for NimbleGen Titanium Optimized Sequence Capture coupled with services from 454 Life Sciences, Roche´s center of excellence for sequencing.

15 Oct 2009

Phonak issued with a fine by the German competition authority

Phonak GmbH, the German subsidiary of Switzerland’s Sonova Holding AG (SIX:SOON), has today been issued with a fine by the German competition authority (BKA) following inquiries undertaken by the latter as part of an investigation into the German hearing systems market. Despite the allegations, Sonova was able to reach an agreement with the German Federal Cartel Office and will not appeal against the decision.

15 Oct 2009

New maintenance medium for human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells

STEMCELL Technologies Inc. (STEMCELL) is pleased to announce the release of TeSR™2, a defined, animal-protein free maintenance medium for human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. This medium takes a step towards addressing the needs of researchers working towards the culture of their cells in a medium free of animal-derived proteins.

15 Oct 2009

Phase Forward and Merck project wins the Society for Clinical Data Management Data Driven Innovation Award

Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that a joint project with customer Merck & Co. has won the 2009 Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) Data Driven Innovation Award competition. This annual honor recognizes the year’s best advancement in clinical data management technology or service.

15 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

NBC Universal's 'Healthy At NBCU' to connect its health and wellness content with consumers

Northern Light partners with EBSCO Publishing to provide bio-pharma and health sciences news

New virtual reality training programme test perceptual skills of rugby players

Sangretech Biomedical signs amended license agreement with Bostwick Laboratories

LTC Hotline simplifies the process of long term care insurance

ATS Medical to exhibit its innovative cardiac surgery products at the EACTS meeting

Three poster presentations to be presented by the clinical pharmacy team of First DataBank

GeckoSystems to discuss CareBot's graceful movement enabled by GeckoMotorController

ADI and CeTeCancer collaborate for research project

A study on development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant

Laerdal Medical Corporation launches a new Advanced version of the ALS Patient Simulator

Linguamatics launches I2E 3.1 text mining platform for pharmaceutical companies

National Biological to market Quantel's 308 Excimer System in the U.S.

Boehringer Ingelheim implements the iStudyReporter Bioanalytics reporting solution

First Priority implements Global Vision's automated inspection solutions

NAHC completes BlackBerry Report

DNA Link to provide NimbleGen Sequence Capture service in Korea

Phonak issued with a fine by the German competition authority

New maintenance medium for human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells

Phase Forward and Merck project wins the Society for Clinical Data Management Data Driven Innovation Award

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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