Improves in Biological Technology

NEW Momentum(TM) Physician and Staff Scheduling Software for Imaging Centers, OB/GYN, and Other Specialty Practices Improves Productivity and Equity in Scheduling

ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Optronics, Inc., a leader in healthcare workflow software, announces Momentum((TM)) Physician and Staff Scheduler, an intelligent, hosted software solution that can simultaneously handle the most intricate scheduling policies, demand, personal requ...

New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials and nanostructures likely to have future industrial applications. Known as sequential...

ViroPharma Improves Financial Position Through Repurchase of $45 Million Principal Amount of Senior Convertible Notes

EXTON, Pa., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM ) announced it has repurchased, in a privately negotiated transaction, $45 million principal amount or 18 percent of the company's Senior Convertible Notes due March 2017 for total consideration of approximately $21.2 mil...

Misys Improves Efficiency and Performance at International Bank of Qatar

LONDON, February 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Misys Learning Suite Adoption Facilitates Best-Of-Breed Training Across Bank's Network Misys plc (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) will be imp...

New Multi-Center Study Finds Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Screening Significantly Improves Detection of Congenital Heart Disease in Newborns

Study Published in British Medical Journal Indicates Masimo SET May Also Reduce the Need for Pre-Operative Neonatal Intensive Care and Prevent Long-term Neurological Morbidity IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI ), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and...

Study Shows Machine Perfusion Significantly Improves Transplant Results

CHICAGO, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- A landmark study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrates that use of a specially-designed machine to store kidneys for transplantation offers significant benefits in kidney survival and function when compared to those stored in a ...

Pilot Study Finds Adding Topical Imiquimod To Laser Therapy Improves The Response Of Port Wine Stain Birthmarks

Two-thirds of all port wine stain birthmarks occur on the face. As such, there is a strong need for an effective, long-lasting treatment that safely fades these reddish-purple skin lesions that can have a huge impact on a patient's physical and emotional well-being. Now, a new study evaluating ...

Intensive Lifestyle Intervention Program for Overweight or Obese Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Reduces Weight and Improves Overall Liver Health

Research to be presented Sunday, November 2, 2008 at this year's liver meeting in San Francisco, California, October 31 - November 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is strongly associated with obesity, and there is no approved medical therapy for...

Case Western Reserve University researcher improves LCDs with 3-D nanoimaging process

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques...

Perceptive Informatics Improves Efficiency and Clinical Data Quality With Enhanced Version of EDC System

BOSTON, Oct 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perceptive Informatics, the industry's leading eClinical technology provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), today announced the release of an enhanced version of its award-winning DataLabs(R) Electronic Data Capt...

Bio-Pharma Industry Improves Patient Outcomes Through Continuing Medical Education (CME)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With limited information on actual return on investment for expenditures toward support of Continuing Medical Education activities, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industry executives are anxious to understand the value of CME support...

Beaumont Doctor's Invention Improves Cataract Surgery Outcomes

ROYAL OAK, Mich., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Beaumont Commercialization Center, a medical technology development company within Beaumont Hospitals, is making an innovative ophthalmic lens support system available for licensing. Timothy Page, M.D., a Beaumont ophthalmologist, developed the a...

Survey: 90% of Participating Surgeons Report Syndicom SpineConnect Improves Practice of Spine Surgery

'Convenience' and 'immediate feedback' key benefits of Web collaboration Zoomerang survey measures effectiveness of physician-focused online social networking DURANGO, Colo., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndicom, an innovative platform for online collaboration and kno...

Elusys' Anthim(TM) Dramatically Improves Survival of Animals Treated After Active Anthrax Infection

Single, Intramuscular (IM) Dose, Protects up to 75 Percent in Primate Study PINE BROOK, N.J., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. (Elusys), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-based therapies for the treatment of life-threatening infectious diseases, tod...

Perceptive Informatics Improves Clinical Site Monitoring Access and Flexibility With Portable USB Drive Capability

BOSTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perceptive Informatics, the technology subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), today announced the availability of its clinical site management and monitoring software, IMPACT(R) MySites, on a portable USB drive. Clinical mon...

Method to deliver molecules within embryonic stem cells improves differentiation

Embryonic stem cell therapies have been proposed for regenerative medicine and tissue replacement after injury or disease. However, the inability of stem cells to efficiently develop into the desired specific cell type such as muscle, skin, blood vessels, bone or neurons now limits the potential...

Special coating greatly improves solar cell performance

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of Californias Mojave Desert could power all of the United States electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and ineffici...

UW Medical Improves Business Intelligence

Physician practice embraces new tools to improve the quality of patient care MADISON, WI- The University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation has chosen to standardize on a business intelligence tool, Crystal Enterprise 9 to help physicians track information to improve the quality of patient ca...

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...

API Improves Hospital Efficiency

HARTFORD, WI - A Wisconsin heath information technology software vendor that develops specialized hospital staffing and management software is expanding its solutions to include a module that will integrate personnel, time and attendance records with data from other hospital computer systems. ...

NuEdge Improves Marketing Automation

MILWAUKEE-- NuEdge Systems , an Experian company providing marketing automation solutions, today introduced NuEdge Suite 3.0. NuEdge Suite allows companies to respond to the increasing complexity of consumer interactions: fickle buying patterns, multi-channel purchases and intense competition. ...

Logicare Improves Patient Education Systems Technology

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Clinical teachers can now better organize and plan their teaching by allowing authorized users to view information about a patient that is part of their instructional process due to the release of an enhanced software product from Logicare . Additionally the new software allows...

Dane County improves law enforcement and community services

MADISON - Dane County has begun using a network infrastructure developed by Citrix Systems, Inc. , to deploy software to its workers over the Internet from a central office, the company announced Tuesday. The countys IT staff will be able to provide 1,600 government employees across 45 departme...

Harvard advance improves stem cell research; not a medical revolution

Madison, Wis. - A Harvard research team announced on Sunday they have successfully created embryonic stem cells using ordinary skin cells, a finding that could affect some of the ethical debate over their use and open new research avenues. But a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor cautions ...

Prodesse gets new funding; improves flu assay

Waukesha, Wis. -- Prodesse, Inc. announced Monday that it has received additional business investment and that it has completed a major process improvement to its ProFlu-1 assay. The company reported that a group of its core investors, plus three new accredited individuals, have provided an...

Addition of imidazole during binding improves purity of histidine-tagged proteins

K. Hölscher, M. Richter-Roth, and B. Felden de Neumann GPC Biotech AG, Martinsried, Germany The purity of histidine-tagged proteins* purified by metal chelate affinity chromatography can often be improved by optimizing the imidazole concentration in the ...

Novel PCR Enhancing Factor Improves Performance of Pfu DNA Polymerase

pfuturbo DNA polymerase for robust, high-fidelity PCR amplification Holly Hogrefe Brad Scott Kirk Nielson Valerie Hedden Connie Hansen Janice Cline Frances Bai Jeff Amberg Ronda Allen Mark Madden Stratagene Stratagene announces the release of pfu...

Wisconsins entrepreneurial climate improves

Madison, Wis. Wisconsin cities are improving as places to grow new businesses, according to a national magazine. Among small cities, Green Bay is the fifth best "hot spot," while Madison is sixth among mid-sized cities. The trio of Kenosha-Chicago-Gary ranks 12 th among large cities. Mil...

Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading

...ocedure performed with a life-changing, pain-relieving outcome. Dr. McJunkin explained that "Clinical data show that this procedure relieves pain and improves patients' quality of life. I have seen amazing results from vertebroplasty in my practice and for my grandmother." Allen Burton, MD, Professo...

Cardium Announces New Orthobiologics Product Initiative Extending Gene Activated Matrix Technology to Deliver Bone Growth Factors

...rotein is considered to be one of the more potent members of the Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) family. By creating a chimeric variant that further improves the BMP-4 construct, the resulting protein was found to be produced very efficiently and to be highly effective. ( Click here to see x-ray images fr...

Heart disease: Research off the beating patch

...g the feasibility of using a synthetic mesh as a means to deliver living heart cells into a diseased heart, the group has already shown that the patch improves left ventricular function and blood flow when implanted into damaged heart muscle in a rat model of myocardial infarction. Dr. Goldman believes tha...

BioWa Announces License of POTELLIGENT(R) Technology to Merck KGaA

...ties on products. Other details of the agreement are not disclosed. About POTELLIGENT ((R)) Technology POTELLIGENT((R)) Technology improves potency and efficacy of antibody therapeutics, by enhancing ADCC, one of the major mechanisms of action for antibody therapeutics. POTELLIGENT((R)) T...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals Announces Reversal of Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mouse Model With Gamma-Secretase Modulator

...have also described the acute AB42 lowering effects of EVP-0962 in brains of non-transgenic as well as transgenic rodents. The fact that EVP-0962 also improves the cognitive deficits is very encouraging and confirms that EVP-0962 is an ideal molecule to test the AB-hypothesis in our upcoming human clinical tr...

Politicians to Drive on Straw-Based Bioethanol at the Climate Change Conference

... Danisco/Genencor Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, is a world leader in industrial biotechnology and a pioneer in enzyme innovation. Genencor improves process and product performance for a spectrum of industries, including biofuels. Find out more at www.danisco.com and www.genencor.com...

EMcision Announces 510(k) Clearance of the Habib EndoHPB, its Novel Bipolar RF Device for the Palliation of Biliary and Pancreatic Tumours

...ging of the stent. Use of the Habib™ EndoHPB prior to stent insertion improves the stent patency by delaying tumour growth. 2) Clearance of obstructed...be used to ablate the occluding tissue. "The EndoHPB significantly improves on the procedure for patients suffering from malignant biliary obstruction,...

New Drug Application for Exenatide Once Weekly Accepted for Review by FDA

...ffects as the human incretin hormone glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-1 improves blood sugar after food intake through multiple effects that work in concert...www.BYETTA.com . Important Safety Information for BYETTA BYETTA improves glucose (blood sugar) control in adults with type 2 diabetes. It is used wi...

FDA Clears Caspofungin (Cancidas(R)) Susceptibility Testing for TREK Sensititre(R) YeastOne(R) in Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Product Line

...ug choices. A wide array of cost-effective plate formats that deliver timely and reliable results not only supports pharmacy cost-control efforts - it improves patient care." About the Sensititre YeastOne Product Line TREK offers a wide range of FDA cleared and research-use-only (RUO) YeastOne dried...

Spectral announces publication demonstrating Toraymyxin(TM) significantly reduces mortality from sepsis in prospective controlled trial

...eptic shock caused by endotoxemia." The objective of this study was to determine whether Toraymyxin(TM), when added to conventional medical therapy, improves clinical outcomes and mortality compared with conventional therapy alone, in a targeted patient population with severe sepsis and/or septic shock asso...

SEP Signs REGURIN(R) Deal

...in- HCl und Propiverin-HCl auf sicherheitsrelevante Leistungen. Geriatrie Forschung 7 (2): 77-83 (1997) [12] Zinner N, et al. Trospium chloride improves overactive bladder symptoms: a multicenter phase III trial. The Journal of Urology 171(6): 2311-2315 (2004) [13] Rudy D, et al. Multicenter Pha...

Phase 3 Cystic Fibrosis Trial Results Presented at European Conference

...change in FEV1 when administered twice per day for six months. The key secondary endpoint of the trial was to assess whether Bronchitol further improves lung function in patients already being treated with the most commonly used CF therapeutic, rhDNase. Additional endpoints included changes in the For...