The Inovio Biomedical products CEO — who has led pioneering efforts to develop ground breaking vaccines to battle the flu, HIV and cancer — will present today at the OneMedForum Investor Conference…
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Pan-European prices for lab reagents and equipment
The big lab groups are now negotiating with suppliers at a Pan-European level. Jean-Paul Rigaudeau, chief executive at Unilabs (2009 sales up 8% at €400m) says the change has come in the…
GE Works to Reverse Breast-Exam Edict
Can General Electric Co. sway the government’s guidelines on breast-cancer exams? After government advisers created a political tsunami last year by saying women under 50 don’t need regular breast-cancer checkups, Washington lawmakers…
PTC Windchill Software to Enable Leading Medical Device Manufacturer to Advance Global Product Design Strategies
PTC The Product Development Company®, today announced that GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has selected Windchill, PTC’s PLM software, and Pro/ENGINEER to replace its legacy data management and MCAD…
British Library’s PubMed Central Launched
Developed in direct consultation with researchers, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) aims to become the information resource of choice for the UK biomedical and health research community. Helping researchers access and exploit over…
Diabetes in elderly could triple Dementia risk
A research conducted by Alzheimer’s Research Trust scientists at King’s College London,has shown that a possible link exists between type 2 diabetes and dementia in elderly people. The study claims that diabetes,…
Lead can have lethal effects on childrens kidney.
Lead exposure is known to have undesirable effects on the kidney both in adults as well as children. Despite the elimination of lead from gasoline and paint it was discovered that most…
Novartis Pays Proteus $24M as Part of Sensor-Based Organ-Transplant Product Partnership
Proteus Biomedical will receive $24 million worth of cash and equity investments up front as part of an exclusive, worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop pharmaceuticals incorporating the company’s…
TV addiction can be more deadly than expected
A recent study conducted by a group of Australian researchers puts people who spend prolonged hours sitting before their TV sets on high alert.The message from them is that every hour spent…
Painkillers Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and the Swine Flu
12th January 2010 Experts have shown their concern the addiction to prescription painkillers which kill thousands of Americans a year has become a largely unrecognized epidemic. The prescription drugs cause most of…
Healthcare IT- the fastest growing sector of healthcare innovation
Healthcare IT- the fastest growing sector of healthcare innovation • Healthcare IT is a $100 billion global business, comparable in scale to a Latin american economy, and is predicted to grow at…
Athens implementing Eclipsys PeakPractice Solutions to connect patients and physicians
ATHENS, GA – Athens Regional Medical Centre is Northeast Georgia’s largest health care services, committed to excellence and dedicated to improving the health, wellness and quality of life. At this point, the…
Biobanking:A treasure for biomedical scientists
The concept of biobanking has become more important than ever considering the fast pace advancements in the field of genomics.Genomics as we are aware involves intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of…
Hospital Information System-A management tool
A hospital information system (HIS), is a comprehensive, integrated information system that manages the administrative, financial and clinical functions of a hospital. This encompasses paper-based information processing as well as data processing…
Urine test to detect snoring disorders
Snoring, refers to a vibration of respiratory structures. It is thought to be the result of obstructed air movement during breathing while sleeping. In some cases the sound may be soft, but…