2009 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Clinic to Highlight the Latest Developments in Cancer Care

CLEVELAND , June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Cancer therapies and diagnostics, including new technologies, enhanced biotech and drug developments, and the consumer market for genetic testing, will be at the center of Cleveland Clinic's 7th Annual Medical Innovation Summit, Oct. 5-7. The Summit will b...

Mayo Clinic CEO Offers New Vision for Personalized Patient Care

WASHINGTON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Denis A. Cortese, M.D., president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, offered a new vision for personalized healthcare in America at a time when Congress and the administration are discussing changes in the healthcare system. The Mayo Clinic is committed to i...

Cleveland Clinic Selects Laparoendoscopic Single-Site Surgery (LESS) as One of the Top Ten Innovations of 2009

Founder of Leader In LESS Instrumentation Is Selected for Industry Leader LESS Panel at Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambridge Endo, a pioneer in the rapidly emerging LESS (also called Single Port Access Laparoscopic Surgery or SPA) ma...

WWMR Announces Pain Clinic Physicians' Most Appreciated Companies: Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Endo Pharmaceuticals

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- WWMR, Inc., the marketing research leader in pain, announces results of the first annual "Most Appreciated Pain Drug Company Survey". The top three most appreciated companies are Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Endo Pharmaceuticals, according to the 100 pain clinic ph...

Cleveland Clinic Recognizes New Strategies for Creating Vaccines for Avian Flu as a Top Ten Medical Innovation for 2009

Novavax uses strategies to create vaccines for avian flu through genetically-engineered virus-like particles (VLPs) ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX ) announced today that its strategy for treating avian flu through genetically-engine...

Cleveland Clinic Recognizes Circulating Tumor Cell Technology as Top Medical Innovation for 2009

RARITAN, N.J., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Veridex, LLC announced today that the technology used in the CellSearch(R) System to measure circulating tumor cells (CTCs) was ranked as the top medical innovation for 2009 by the Cleveland Clinic, a leading multispecialty academic medical center. The ra...

Carilion Clinic Invests in Sight Saving Technology to Improve Patient Care: Carilion Clinic Teams Up with Retasure

Carilion Clinic teams up with Retasure Wake Forest, NC (PRWEB) August 29, 2008 -- Digital Healthcare, a Wake Forest, NC company specializing in risk assessment for diabetics, recently announced that the Carilion Clinic of Virginia has selected the Retasure solution to ...

WWMR, Inc. Announces Launch of New Pain Clinic Monitor

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Launch of the Pain Clinic Monitor, a new audit of Pain Clinics, was announced today by WWMR, Inc. a leader in pain reporting and analysis. First quarter 2008 results are now available, providing details on 2000 patients, the drugs they are prescribed and w...

Cleveland Clinic and Rutgers to Lead Newly Formed Institute for War Wounded

Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Develop Therapies for Critically Injured Service Members CLEVELAND, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinic and Rutgers University are leading one of two civilian research consortia to develop innovative medical therapies f...

Siemens Signs Multi-Year Agreement With Cleveland Clinic to Deploy Enterprise-Wide Cardiology PACS

Contract Allows for C-PACS Installation and Major Data Migration in Cleveland Clinic Facilities in the United States and Abroad CHICAGO, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Healthcare (http://www.siemens.com/healthcare ) has signed an agreement with the Cleveland Clinic, a...

Netsmart Technologies Announces Development Program on Microsoft for Local Public Health Clinic Management and Vital Records Software

Netsmart's Selection as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Provides Framework for Next Generation of Netsmart's Microsoft-Based Public Health Solutions ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and hu...

CNS Response, Inc Completes Neuro-Therapy Clinic Acquisition; Names Daniel A. Hoffman, MD Chief Medical Officer

Clinic to Serve as rEEG(R) 'Center of Excellence' Advancing Performance in Patient Outcomes, Costs and Convenience COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNS Response, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CNSO) announced today that it has completed the previously announced ac...

Follica Raises $5.5 M To Advance New Treatment for Androgenetic Alopecia Into the Clinic

BOSTON, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Follica Inc., a privately held developer of a novel therapy for androgenetic alopecia (male and female pattern hair loss caused by androgens in genetically susceptible men and women) and other hair follicle disorders, today announced a $5.5 million Series A finan...

Fourth Genmab Antibody Developed Under Roche Collaboration to Enter Clinic

Summary: An IND has Been Filed With the FDA for the Fourth Genmab Antibody Developed Under the Company's Collaboration with Roche. COPENHAGEN, December 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) announced today that an Investigational New Drug application (IND) for a Genmab antib...

CNS Response, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Neuropsychiatric Clinic

CNS Response to Establish "Center of Excellence" for rEEG(SM) Application, Research and Development COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNS Response, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CNSO) announced today has it signed a letter of intent to acquire the Neuro-Th...

Teramedica Signs Deal With Mayo Clinic - Digital Imaging solution improves healthcare

MILWAUKEE, Wi - Teramedica , a Milwaukee based company founded in April 2002 that develops enterprise software that manages the storage and distribution of digital medical images across the healthcare enterprise has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, M...

Marshfield Clinic charges ahead in genetic research

Clinics unique position gives it lead in cutting-edge field MARSHFIELD, WI - TV writers formulating a new drama series on a world-class genetic research laboratory might have problems locating Marshfield on a map of Wisconsin. But if they wanted a look at what is arguably ground zero for th...

Infertility linked to lawn chemicals by Marshfield Clinic researcher

Marshfield, Wis. Low-dose exposures to agricultural and lawn care pesticides may cause injury to developing embryos before a pregnancy is even noticed, according to a study conducted by researchers at Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation , and being published in the May 2004 issue of Environm...

GE Healthcare Software installed at clinic in Washington

Waukesha, Wis. GE Healthcare announced today that Rockwood Clinic , a group practice spread among 22 care facilities in the Spokane, Washington area, has purchased a suite of their Centricity Physician Office products. One of the new technologies the clinic is installing is GE's Patient Po...

WiSys to patent Marshfield Clinic discoveries

Marshfield, Wis. - An agreement struck to accelerate the transformation of healthcare research into commercial products and services has created visions of a medical discovery triangle connecting Milwaukee, Madison, and the Marshfield Clinic . Marking a milestone in the drive to facilitate sc...

Marshfield Clinic and UW combine to speed tech growth

Madison, Wis. - Quick quiz: Which Wisconsin institutions spend the most on research and development in the life sciences? Naming No. 1 is relatively easy: the University of Wisconsin-Madison ($764 million) is perennially among the top academic R&D centers in the United States. Second on th...

Merge subsidiary to provide software to Mayo clinic

Cedara Software, a Canadian subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare, said it will provide planning software to Mayo Clinic's orthopaedic surgeons . The company's OrthoWorks product will be integrated with Mayo's existing picture archiving and communications system (PACS), helping support...

TeraMedica to install software at Marshfield Clinic

Milwaukee, Wis. - Marshfield Clinic has reached an agreement to install clinical information management software developed by TeraMedica , a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company. The product, known as Evercore, will be deployed to integrate all of Marshfield's clinical data, includ...

Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading

...ome reports have stated," he concludes. Arizona Pain Specialists was co-founded by Dr. Paul Lynch and Dr. Tory McJunkin in Scottsdale, AZ. The clinic utilizes a comprehensive model including cutting-edge interventional pain treatments, chiropractic, biofeedback, relaxation therapy and features on-si...

Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy

...f tumor cells. Dr. Richard J. Trauger, Ph. D., will be chief executive officer of the new company. He will focus on bringing this concept forward into clinic trials and expanding the indications provided by the technology platform. "The potential for this technology platform is quite exciting," said...

Genomic Health Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Progress

...pendent clinical value beyond standard measures. Completed processing samples for our renal cancer gene identification study with the Cleveland clinic and Pfizer. Patents Were granted two new U.S. patents for the Onco type DX breast cancer test covering methods f...

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Acquires Exclusive License to Novel Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Technology From Stanford University

...ombat drug resistance to HCV polymerase and protease inhibitors. We are rapidly advancing novel small molecule inhibitors of NS4B-RNA binding into the clinic for the benefit of clinicians and HCV patients." "The unique two component nature of the NS4B-RNA target appears to decrease the virus' ability...

Insmed to Host Second Quarter 2009 Conference Call

... anticipated by the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks that product candidates may fail in the clinic or may not be successfully marketed or manufactured, we may lack financial resources to complete development of product candidates, the FDA may interp...

Atherotech Taps Canyons Medical Center Director, Lipidologist as Chief Medical Officer

...ther research and focus. The VAP lipid test has been a powerful tool in our clinic and thousands of others for both risk assessments and treatments complement...ned a master's degree in psychopharmacology, and his practice is a referral clinic for the Harvard Bipolar Research Group. He lectures extensively and has pub...

Marinus Pharmaceuticals Adds Two Life Sciences Veterans to its Board of Directors

...onics, GenVec, CardioNet and Spine Wave. Rein also serves as a Trustee of the Cleveland Clinic, Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of Cleveland clinic Innovations and Trustee of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Foundation. About Ganaxolone Ganaxolone is a synthetic neu...

Seasoned Dermatologist Nissan Pilest of Irvine, CA, Joins SDS Clinical Trials as Clinical Investigator for Dermatology Division

...nd Perlane and the new neurotoxin Dysport. He is the medical director of Total Dermatology, a full service laser, cosmetic and medical dermatology clinic located near the Spectrum in Irvine, Ca. The practice maintains an educational website www.TotalDermatology.com . Private patients may request consul...

PTC Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of PTC299 in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2

...genesis inhibitor improved hearing and led to tumor shrinkage in some patients," said Scott R. Plotkin, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Neurofibromatosis clinic at the Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology in the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. "If shown to be efficacious, we believe that its oral ad...

Biomodels Expands Efforts in Cancer Supportive Care, Pulmonary Fibrosis; Preclinical Research Organization Names Dr. Stephen T. Sonis as Partner

...especially patients with great clinical need," Dr. Sonis said. "Biomodels' success in assisting industry to make the transition from test tube to the clinic as smoothly, quickly, safely and predictably as possible has been exciting for me. "I look forward to our continued development of innovativ...

Looking Older Than You Are May Have Little to Do With Wrinkles

...nce with Sculptra a number of years ago while working in the Dermatology Department at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. She developed and oversaw the clinic for HIV lipoatrophy, the condition for which Sculptra was first used in the U.S. After man hundreds of patient visits and remarkable results, Dr. Fitz...

Regado Biosciences Expands Medical Advisory Board

...ist Hospital, Houston, Texas and Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University A. Michael Lincoff, MD , Director, Cleveland clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research (C5Research); Director, Center for Clinical Research and Vice Chairman, Lerner Research Institute and Vice C...

NeoStem Featured on CBS2 News; Success of Licensed Stem Cell Treatments Shown for Arthritis and Orthopedic Problems; Procedure to be Used by NeoStem Affiliate in China

...that rapidly grows a patient's own adult stem cells to treat a variety of musculoskeletal diseases. Interviews with Dr. Centeno at the Centeno-Schultz clinic near Denver, Colorado, and Dr. Robin Smith, CEO of NeoStem, were included. Dr. Max Gomez, CBS2's medical expert, stated that autologous adu...

2009: Immunotec announces important clinical research initiative: New study to be launched with the goal of improving the quality of the aging process

...itution, affiliated with the Universite de Montreal and has built, over the years, a close collaboration with McGill University . The IRCM Outpatient clinic is now associated with the CHUM (Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal). ...

Celtic Pharma Holdings Announces Investment in Novacta Biosystems Limited

...rch tools, a challenge that Novacta has successfully addressed through its proprietary technology platform. The most advanced programme will enter the clinic next year to treat infections caused by Clostridium difficile ("C. difficile"). The Wellcome Trust has provided in the order of GBP4m of translational...

YM BIOSCIENCES' SUBSIDIARY RESOLVES PROPOSED ARBITRATION WITH ONCOSCIENCE AG

...ties. Oncoscience's development program for cancer patients consist of its lead drug candidate nimotuzumab and a fusion protein that is entering the clinic this year to undergo Phase I trials. In the translational field, a first patent was granted from the Australian government at the end of 2008. Th...

Insmed Announces Results of IPLEX(TM) Phase II Trial in Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy

...receive a grant for an additional phase II trial, the FDA may interpret the results of studies differently than us, product candidates may fail in the clinic or may not be successfully marketed or manufactured, competing products may be more successful, our continuing efforts to grow the business and develo...