Quest Diagnostics introduces four new tests panels for CAH

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:49:17 -0400

Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has extended its endocrine diagnostics menu with the introduction of four new tests panels for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an endocrine disorder found in newborns, children and women.

Clinical data from Boston Scientific endoscopy studies to be presented at DDW

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:30:00 -0400

Boston Scientific Corporation announces that seven abstracts and additional clinical data analyses will be presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), May 19 – 22 in San Diego.

Crownsville student receives Gordon E. Moore Award for pancreatic cancer test

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:52:40 -0400

Jack Andraka, 15, of Crownsville, Md. was awarded first place for his new method to detect pancreatic cancer at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the Public. Based on diabetic test paper, Jack created a simple dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine to determine whether or not a patient has early-stage pancreatic cancer.

Sprint launches My Wireless STS service for people with speech disabilities

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:47:20 -0400

Sprint today has made it easier for individuals with speech disabilities to initiate calls using a wireless phone.

Prenatal Diagnosis publishes Sequenom CMM’s MaterniT21 PLUS LDT clinical study

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:37:13 -0400

Sequenom, Inc., a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that a new publication from the large Women & Infants multi-center clinical study on the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine's (Sequenom CMM) MaterniT21 PLUS laboratory-developed test (LDT) has been published online in the peer-reviewed journal, Prenatal Diagnosis.

VirtaMed launches new virtual reality training simulator for knee arthroscopy

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:33:45 -0400

The Swiss company VirtaMed AG is launching ArthroS, a new virtual reality training simulator for knee arthroscopy. Surgeons get the chance to practice different operations numerous times before actually performing them on live patients - just as pilots improve their skills on flight simulators.

Survey: Health IT spending a high priority at not-for-profit hospitals

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:30:58 -0400

In other news, Partners HealthCare hopes to replace its patchwork approach to electronic health records with a single commercial system.

ACP recommends HHS to consider use of SNOMED-CT rather than ICD-10 for coding problems

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:29:56 -0400

The American College of Physicians (ACP) today urged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) implementation delay to consider specifying the use of Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Term (SNOMED-CT), rather than ICD-10, for coding problems in all situations.

Final results from C3BS-CQR-1 Phase II trial on heart failure

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:21:10 -0400

The Belgian biotechnology company, Cardio3 BioSciences (C3BS), a leader in the discovery and development of regenerative and protective therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, today announces that the final results of its Phase II clinical trial of C3BS-CQR-1 is will be presented at the late breaking clinical trial session at the European Society of Cardiology 2012 Heart Failure Congress in Belgrade, Serbia taking place on May 19-22.

Positive results from CardioKinetix Parachute system study on heart failure

Sat, 19 May 2012 04:40:48 -0400

CardioKinetix Inc., a medical device company pioneering a catheter-based treatment for heart failure, today announced two-year clinical results for the first-of-its-kind catheter-based Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device, a Percutaneous Ventricular Restoration (PVR) therapy for patients with ischemic heart failure.