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Salix Pharmaceuticals granted rights to use Lupin's bioadhesive drug delivery technology

Pharma Major, Lupin Ltd today announced that it has granted Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. the exclusive rights for the United States to its bioadhesive drug delivery technology for use with Rifaximin.

6 Oct 2009

Over 23 percent of physicians are e-prescribing, Surescripts announces

Surescripts, The Nation's E-Prescription Network, today announced that more than 140,000 (23 percent) of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States are now e-prescribing. At the current pace, Surescripts projects that its total number of active e-prescribers in 2009 will more than double the 74,000 active e-prescribers at the end of 2008.

6 Oct 2009

Drug database provider First DataBank to join the Health 2.0 Accelerator consortium

First DataBank, a leading provider of integrated drug databases for the healthcare industry, today announced that it will join PharmaSURVEYOR and a growing list of "Health 2.0 companies" as participants in the Health 2.0 Accelerator, a consortium focused on promoting integration of technology and the consumer experience to advance consumer-centric health care.

6 Oct 2009

New embolization technique offers better clinical outcomes in the treatment of liver cancer

The authors of a newly published paper in the September/October journal Vascular Disease Management conclude that the micro-bland embolization technique possible with Embozene(TM) Color-Advanced Microspheres leads to better clinical outcomes.

6 Oct 2009

Esterel Technologies announces membership in the Wind River Partner Validation Program

Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of model-based development solutions for mission- and safety-critical systems, has announced its membership in the Wind River Partner Validation Program for the industrial and medical markets, which offers validated software components and an ecosystem with a clear commitment to industry connectivity, vertical application stacks, and tools.

6 Oct 2009

AAOS to participate in "Get Connected" electronic prescribing program

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today announced their participation in "Get Connected," a program designed to help more of the nation's physicians and other prescribers use electronic prescribing.

6 Oct 2009

Medtronic receives global distribution rights for PEAK Surgical’s tissue dissection device

PEAK Surgical, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced an agreement that grants the Surgical Technologies business at Medtronic exclusive rights for global distribution and marketing of the PEAK PlasmaBlade® TnA (Tonsil and Adenoid) tissue dissection device for the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) market.

6 Oct 2009

Nano Mask retains AlvaMed for assistance in obtaining FDA approval of its anti-viral NanoMask

Nano Mask Inc today announced that it has retained AlvaMed LLC, an FDA consulting firm specializing in medical devices, to prepare the company's latest generation disposable, anti-viral NanoMask for FDA approval.

6 Oct 2009

AAAHC accreditation for Laser Spine Institute Tampa

Laser Spine Institute, leaders in minimally invasive spinal surgery, is pleased to announce the accreditation of LSI Tampa by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

6 Oct 2009

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital researcher receives the Millipore Guava Flow Cytometry Award

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today awarded Dr. Mari Hashitate Dallas of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., the Millipore Guava® Flow Cytometry Award.

6 Oct 2009

Cardiovascular Systems to build new manufacturing facility in Texas

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI), a medical device company developing and commercializing innovative interventional treatment systems for vascular disease, has signed a 10-year lease agreement for a new 46,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Pearland, Texas.

6 Oct 2009

Emergency Ultrasound Consultants, TSG collaborate to reduce medical errors

Emergency Ultrasound Consultants, LLC (EUC), the experts in point-of-care ultrasound education and quality assurance solutions, announced today a strategic partnership with The Sullivan Group (TSG), a world leading provider of patient safety, risk management and performance improvement solutions for healthcare professionals.

6 Oct 2009

Health plans launch initiative to make delivering and getting health care easier for patients and their physicians

Health plans today launched a landmark initiative to make delivering and getting health care easier for patients and their physicians by reducing the time, effort, and expense for the "paperwork" required for each patient office visit. The initiative, which will simplify information flow between health plans and doctors' offices, and later between health plans and hospitals, is comparable to what ATMs did for banks and consumers.

6 Oct 2009

Universal Detection signs deal with U.S. to become Featured U.S. Exporter of bioterrorism monitoring equipment in France

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that the company has entered an agreement with U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service to become a Featured U.S. Exporter (FUSE) of bioterrorism monitoring equipment in France.

6 Oct 2009

New wallet-sized card for detecting and monitoring concussions

In response to recent research that shows young athletes with repeated brain injuries are more at risk for future neurological problems, the Illinois Athletic Trainers Association (IATA) and the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN) are offering a wallet-sized card with tips for detecting and monitoring concussions.

6 Oct 2009

Direct Flow Medical releases clinical results of its new Percutaneous Aortic Valve System

Direct Flow Medical, Inc., www.directflowmedical.com, released its 12 month data from the initial clinical trial for a new device to treat valve disease without invasive thoracic surgery. Direct Flow Medical is a privately held, emerging medical device company developing a next-generation, catheter based, percutaneous delivered prosthetic aortic valve.

6 Oct 2009

Boston Scientific begins patient enrollments for MADIT-RIT clinical trial

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced its exclusive sponsorship and first enrollments of the MADIT-RIT clinical trial. This new trial follows in the tradition of three previous landmark trials: MADIT, MADIT II and MADIT-CRT, each exclusively sponsored by Boston Scientific and conducted under the leadership of Principal Investigator Arthur J. Moss, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester.

6 Oct 2009

Illumina launches IlluminaCompute for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform

At the BioIT World Europe Conference, Illumina, Inc. announced the launch of IlluminaCompute, a fully integrated computing solution for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform.

From Illumina, Inc. 6 Oct 2009

Spinal fusion dynamic stabilization system manufacturers ordered to conduct postmarket surveillance studies

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today ordered manufacturers of certain types of pedicle screw systems, called dynamic stabilization systems, to conduct postmarket surveillance studies to collect clinical data on a number of potential safety issues, including fusion rates and frequency of additional surgeries.

6 Oct 2009

Elekta Impac Software to demonstrate its integrated oncology EHR, MOSAIQ at EHR Symposium

Elekta Impac Software has been selected to demonstrate at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Symposium: Harnessing the EHR, From Incentives to Sustainability, October 6-7, in San Francisco, California.

From Elekta 6 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

Salix Pharmaceuticals granted rights to use Lupin's bioadhesive drug delivery technology

Over 23 percent of physicians are e-prescribing, Surescripts announces

Drug database provider First DataBank to join the Health 2.0 Accelerator consortium

New embolization technique offers better clinical outcomes in the treatment of liver cancer

Esterel Technologies announces membership in the Wind River Partner Validation Program

AAOS to participate in "Get Connected" electronic prescribing program

Medtronic receives global distribution rights for PEAK Surgical’s tissue dissection device

Nano Mask retains AlvaMed for assistance in obtaining FDA approval of its anti-viral NanoMask

AAAHC accreditation for Laser Spine Institute Tampa

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital researcher receives the Millipore Guava Flow Cytometry Award

Cardiovascular Systems to build new manufacturing facility in Texas

Emergency Ultrasound Consultants, TSG collaborate to reduce medical errors

Health plans launch initiative to make delivering and getting health care easier for patients and their physicians

Universal Detection signs deal with U.S. to become Featured U.S. Exporter of bioterrorism monitoring equipment in France

New wallet-sized card for detecting and monitoring concussions

Direct Flow Medical releases clinical results of its new Percutaneous Aortic Valve System

Boston Scientific begins patient enrollments for MADIT-RIT clinical trial

Illumina launches IlluminaCompute for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform

Spinal fusion dynamic stabilization system manufacturers ordered to conduct postmarket surveillance studies

Elekta Impac Software to demonstrate its integrated oncology EHR, MOSAIQ at EHR Symposium

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