Radiology
Arizona Residents Get Help With Medicines Through PPA 2.0
June 4, 2010 12:41 pm | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsWASHINGTON , June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent article in Arizona 's Gilbert Examiner highlighted the Partnership for Prescription Assistance ( PPA ) and announced the launch of " PPA 2.0 ," the organization's online expansion of the program. PPA has helped more than 6.5 million...
Veteran International Health Care Executive Appointed CEO of BeneChill(R)
June 4, 2010 10:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsSAN DIEGO and STOCKHOLM , June 4 /- Amgen executive Alan Raffensperger has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of BeneChill, a privately held medical device company launching its first product, a novel cooling device for use by emergency response teams in the field, later this...
Siemens Donates MRI Scanner to Help Rebuild Phoebe Sumter Medical Center
June 4, 2010 10:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsAMERICUS, Ga. , June 4 /- After three long years of hardship to rebuild a cornerstone of the community, the staff of Phoebe Sumter Medical Center welcomed the arrival of a new MAGNETOM® ESSENZA magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, compliments of Siemens Healthcare. The new MRI...
St. Jude Medical and Hospitals in Ohio and Kentucky to Pay Almost $4 Million to Federal Government to Resolve Fraud Allegations
June 4, 2010 10:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsAKRON, Ohio , June 4 /- Working with an internal whistleblower, Attorney Warner Mendenhall , the Law firm of McLaughlin and McCaffrey, LLP, and Assistant United States Attorneys Alex Rokakis and Michelle Heyer have worked for four years to expose False Claims by St. Jude Medical, Inc. a...
Power Wheelchair From Medicare Helps Save Elderly Alabama Woman From Raging Fire That Destroyed Her Home of 40 Years
June 4, 2010 10:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsClose Call for Woman Who Needed Power Wheelchair to Escape the Blaze OPELIKA, Ala. , June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When Roena Hall , 75, received a power wheelchair through Medicare a year ago, it improved her mobility and relieved some of the pain in her back. But she didn't...
The SCOOTER Store Donates Scooter to High School Student With Muscular Dystrophy
June 4, 2010 10:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsMOSCOW, Idaho , June 4 /- Teenagers with Muscular Dystrophy (MD) are inspiring, and Isaac Aragon is no exception. Aragon is a 17-year-old high school student who has not let MD slow him down much. Although he visits Moscow Mountain Sport & Physical Therapy on a regular basis, he has...
I was here first
June 4, 2010 5:37 am | by Mass Device | News | CommentsWhy being a pioneer isn't all it's cracked up to be. I was chatting with a friend who's also in the medical marketing business. She reached for The Boston Globe magazine on my kitchen table and said, "Tell me what you think of this ad." It was for a major Boston hospital and...
Derycz Scientific to Exhibit at Digital Pharma West and Digital Pharma East
June 4, 2010 4:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsSANTA MONICA, Calif. , June 4 /- Derycz Scientific, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DYSC), a company that is pioneering a fresh way of facilitating the flow of information from content publishers to enterprise customers and their constituents, today announced that Reprints Desk, an...
China Medical Technologies Reports Financial Results for Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Full Year ended March 31, 2010
June 4, 2010 1:37 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsBEIJING , June 4 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Medical Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CMED ), a leading China -based advanced in-vitro diagnostic ("IVD") company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter ("4Q FY2009") and the full...
Maimonides Medical Center Implements Allscripts Care Management Solution
June 3, 2010 7:40 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsCHICAGO and BROOKLYN, N.Y. , June 3 /- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX ) today announced that Maimonides Medical Center, the premier academic medical center in Brooklyn , has adopted the Allscripts Care Management solution to increase the efficiency of utilization management and discharge...
VA: Medical device security breaches threaten patients
June 3, 2010 7:40 am | by Mass Device | News | CommentsMore than 122 medical devices were affected by malware in the last 14 months, according to a U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs official. More than 122 medical devices were infected by malware during the past 14 months at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs' network of 50,000...
Derdack Partner Conference 2010 - Online
June 3, 2010 7:40 am | by RealWire | News | Comments8th annual event for partners and affiliates 8th June 2010Potsdam, Germany, 3rd June, 2010: Derdack (www.derdack.com), provider of mobile messaging platforms and enterprise notification software today announced the Derdack annual partner conference; "DPC" will be online in 2010. In an...
/C O R R E C T I O N -- EPEMED/
June 3, 2010 1:38 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsIn the news release, "EPEMED, the European Personalised Medicine Association, Appoints Executive Director" issued on 3 Jun 2010 06:00 GMT , by EPEMED over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that contact details have now been made public. Complete, corrected...
Astellas Announces Successful Completion of Initial Tender Offer for Shares of OSI and Announces Subsequent Offer Period
June 3, 2010 1:38 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsTOKYO , June 3 /- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503) announced today the completion of the initial tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock in OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSIP). The initial offer period expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on June 2, 2010 ....
Over 205 Inches Lost by Chicago Area Patients at Complete Clinics Using Zerona(TM) Lipo Laser
June 2, 2010 6:39 pm | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. , June 2 /- Complete Clinics is proud to announce that patients have lost over 205 inches using the Zerona body sculpting laser. An average of 6.5 inches was lost amongst the patient base using Zerona, which is over double the industry average for other...
New Georgia Advanced Surgery Center Provides Women Many Unique Benefits
June 2, 2010 6:39 pm | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsCARTERSVILLE, Ga. ; June 2 /- The Georgia Advanced Surgery Center for Women (GASC) – Georgia 's first fully accredited surgical center for performing all major and minor gynecological surgeries in a true outpatient setting – has officially opened. The state-of-the-art...
Amedica® Receives Patent for Hip Implant Using Monoblock Ceramic Technology
June 2, 2010 6:39 pm | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsSALT LAKE CITY , June 2 /- Amedica Corporation, a spinal and orthopaedic implant and instrument manufacturer focused on unique silicon nitride (SiN) ceramic technologies, announced today that it has been granted United States Patent No. 7,695,521 covering its novel hip implant featuring a...
Questcor to Present at the Jefferies 2010 Global Life Sciences Conference
June 2, 2010 4:40 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsUNION CITY, Calif. , June 2 /- Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc . (Nasdaq: QCOR ) announced today that it will present at the Jefferies 2010 Global Life Sciences Conference on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, New York . Don M. Bailey , President and Chief...
CerviLenz plus progesterone could halve preterm birth risk
June 1, 2010 9:42 pm | by Mass Device | News | CommentsCombined with progesterone, the Cervilenz device could help answer the $26 billion-a-year problem of preterm birth in the U.S. By Mary Vanac CerviLenz is a simple, low-tech medical device that prompts a “why didn’t I think of that?” response from many...
MediSapiens Gets $ 1 Million for World's First Personalized Cancer Medicine Software
June 1, 2010 4:43 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsHELSINKI , June 1, 2010 /- MediSapiens, world's first software company for personalized cancer medicine in oncology clinics and drug development, completed $ 1 million ( EUR 0.8 million ) seed round investment from Veraventure, ETFIII advised by Eqvitec Partners, VTT Ventures and Lifeline...
Centene Corporation to Present at Two Upcoming Healthcare Conferences in June
May 28, 2010 11:41 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsST. LOUIS , May 28 /- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC ) today announced it will present at two upcoming healthcare conferences in the next few weeks. At the Goldman Sachs 31st Annual Global Health Care Conference, to be held June 14-17, 2010 , at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los...
US HIFU Acquires European Distribution Rights of the Sonablate® 500 Medical Device and Ownership of the Sonatherm® 600 Medical Device
May 28, 2010 6:40 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsCHARLOTTE, N.C. , May 28 /- USHIFU, LLC (US HIFU), a world leader in minimally invasive high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technologies and manufacturer of the Sonablate® 500 (Sonablate) medical device, announces the acquisition of certain Misonix (Nasdaq: MSON ) HIFU assets...
Reportlinker Adds Global Renal Dialysis Equipment Pipeline Analysis, Opportunity Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2016
May 27, 2010 10:42 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsNEW YORK , May 27 /- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Renal Dialysis Equipment Pipeline Analysis, Opportunity Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2016 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0202881/Global-Renal-Dialysis-Equipment-Pip......
Reportlinker Adds Medical Device Distributors - Europe
May 27, 2010 10:42 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsNEW YORK , May 27 /- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Medical Device Distributors - Europe http://www.reportlinker.com/p0202116/Medical-Device-Distributors---Europ... This register contains information about...
For the First Time, at EuroPCR, InspireMD Will Provide a Sneak Preview of the Next Generation MGuard Prime(R), a State of the Art Net Protective Cobalt Chromium Stent System
May 26, 2010 6:40 am | by Bio-Medicine.Org | News | CommentsPARIS , May 26, 2010 /- InspireMD, Ltd. announced today the next generation MGuard stent, MGuard Prime(R), a net protective Cobalt Chromium stent system. MGuard Prime(R) offers an advanced patented Cobalt Chromium design, superior flexibility and excellent deliverability on top of the...
