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FDA to monitor genetic testing
US FDA hs Indicated that they plan to closely monitor the sale of genetic tests directly to consumers, Te FDA Friday told this to five companies involved in the business — including…
NIH and FDA Collaborate to Speed Therapies
February 25, 2010 — US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time…
Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures
Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and…
Healthcare Bills Will Hamper Medicare Services for Seniors and the Disabled
18th December 2009 WASHINGTON, — Significant changes are needed in healthcare reform legislation to prevent senior citizens and the disabled from facing a difficult time obtaining homecare products through Medicare. The current…
Nominations Open for the 2010 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
17th December 2009 New Brunswick, NJ USA The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research has opened the 2010 call for nominations. The $100,000 Award recognizes individuals whose efforts have made significant…
Company wants to ease colon cancer detection
14th December 2009 Madison USA: Kevin Conroy the CEO of Madison-based company, Exact Sciences Corp. says the number of deaths from colon cancer could be reduced significantly if people had an easy,…
FDA Warns of Problems With Steris Corp. Sterilization Device
WASHINGTON — Doctors and hospitals should stop using a device from Steris Corp. to sterilize surgical tools after reports of malfunction, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The Mentor-based company’s modified…
University of Minnesota Organ Transplant Spin-Off moves Closer to Reality
12th August 2009 Minnesota USA – The University of Minnesota-bred start-up, based on the regenerative tissue work of Dr. Doris Taylor, will be called Miromatrix Inc. (It seems like any biomedical company worth…
2009 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical Equipment
KLAS issues its yearly Top 20 mMedical Equipments Awards for 2009 . Among the CT the top vote went to Toshiba Aquilion 64, Digital XRay went to Shimadzu RAD Speed, Magnetic Resonance (MR) – 1.5T…
World-class medical research hub planned in Mexico
7th December 2009 : Mexico City has announced plans for what it hopes will be a world-class centre for biomedical and nano-medical research. The new research center will be called “Campus Biometropolis”,…
Generics will continue domination on the pharmaceutical market in Europe until 2011
2nd December 2009 : The pharmaceutical market in Central and Eastern Europe is dominated by generic drugs. This subdivision was worth €17.2bn in 2008 and is expected to develop by around 14%…
Ageing Demographic Boosts Uptake of Wireless Patient Monitoring Devices in Europe
1st December 2009 : Lucrative opportunities await manufacturers in the European wireless patient monitoring devices market, particularly in the wireless assisted living devices segment. This segment is growing at a rapid pace….
Acuo Technologies Enables Sharing of Imaging Studies Securely and Affordably
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Acuo Technologies, developers of high-performance medical image management software, data migration tools and services have announced a new product called AcuoShare that allows image sharing across…
Scientists Use Knockout Cells to Discover New Genes Involved in Viral and Bacterial Resistance
Researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research say they’ve developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens. The identification of such…