No Blood Needed Thanks to Innovative Medical Technology

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A non-invasive blood monitoring device that removes the need to draw blood to monitor patients has won the 2008 Kerrin Rennie Award for Excellence in Medical Technology. The award was presented to Masimo Corporation on 24 September at the Medical Tec...

Improved governance needed to realize nanotech's benefits

WASHINGTON - Without an improved governance structure, the benefits of nanotechnology may be difficult to fully realize because the public will not trust the cutting-edge technology, says David Rejeski, director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). Rejeski testifies on Thursday, Apri...

Biotechnology Needed to Help Meet Growing Global Needs for Food, Feed, Fuel and Materials, DuPont Chairman & CEO Says at World Food Prize

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr., today told participants at the World Food Prize that biotechnology will enable the world to keep pace with the rapid growth in global demand for food, feed, fuel and materials. "Biotechnology...

Standards Needed for Advances in Healthcare Technology

MILWAUKEE - Patient record standardization was one of the hottest topics among both attendees and presenters at the Evolving Healthcare Technology Conference held Friday at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) . I have seen innumerable decisions made without the right info at the right time i...

More than ideas needed to make profits, experts say

Whitewater, Wis. Even the most innovative thinker has a lot of hard work to do before successfully bringing a new product to market, attendees learned at the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center s Ideas to Profits conference this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Industry l...

New facility giving API needed room to grow

Hartford, Wis. - A new 75,000-square-foot facility in the Dodge Industrial Park here is providing needed growing room for an expanding healthcare technology company. The company, API Inc., built the facility on 28 acres in the industrial park to replace two offices that were in separate loca...

More women needed in interface design

About a month ago, I wrote a post titled Worst Phone UI Ever, in which I vented my frustrations over the general lack of phone-ness on the Cingular 8125. Since that column, most people running start ups to develop mobile phone software and services have been a little sheepish when they come to ...

Tommy Thompson says capital needed for electronic health records

Waukesha, Wis. - To differentiate himself from other presidential wannabes, former Wisconsin governor and cabinet secretary Tommy Thompson is casting himself as the candidate of new ideas in the 2008 presidential race, and he outlined several ways to accelerate the adoption of electronic health r...

Tech Council online feature will help match job seekers to skills needed

Madison, Wis. - The Wisconsin Technology Council has teamed with JobSightUSA , a top-ranked winner in the 2005 Governor's Business Plan Contest, to match job seekers with positions based on specific "skill sets" rather than job titles. JobSightUSA helps companies that are considering locating...

With flawed schools exposed, real-world experience is needed

What kind of school systems are our taxes supporting? This question becomes very critical given the fact that jobs are being outsourced to other countries by the thousands and many leaders of public schools have lost touch with whats important. Educators better get with the program and start tea...

Hands-free Tissue Disruption No Homogenization Needed

MELT Total RNA Isolation System High quality RNA is suitable for both RT-PCR and microarray gene expression analysis Hands-free tissue disruption in minutes: no grinding or polytron re...

DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers

...ashington, DC In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Ch...(New York, NY) $16 million for five years to develop the enabling science needed to realize breakthroughs in the efficient conversion of sunlight into elect...

Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading

...e differences. Both studies reported that they were unable to enroll enough patients to have reasonable statistical power. One study noted that they needed 250 patients but only enrolled 131. "The trends in the data demonstrate that if the studies had enough patients, the group receiving vertebroplasty w...

The Law Offices of Brian D. Witzer Wins 6+ Million Dollar Verdict

...y rate. "As a doctor and pharmacist, the defendant should have known that a differential diagnosis and monitoring for an adverse reaction were needed before prescribing Allopurinol to my client." stated Brian D. Witzer, principal of the law firm. "Had the correct course of action been taken, my clie...

Cell Therapeutics Second Quarter Net Loss Decreases 54%; Pixantrone NDA Submitted to the FDA for Approval

...risks and uncertainties include statements about our ability to continue to reduce our operating expenses, our ability to continue to raise capital as needed to fund our operations, the development of OPAXIO, pixantrone, and brostallicin, which include risks associated with preclinical and clinical developm...

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

...tains hydrogen atoms, in this case ammonia borane, serves as a sort of structural support. The catalyst plucks the hydrogen from the ammonia borane as needed to run the device. The PNNL chemists in the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis study a rhodium-based catalyst that performs this job fairly well,...

The Foundation for National Institutes of Health Announces Unprecedented Product Donation by sanofi-aventis in the U.S.

...al companies will follow its lead." "We are proud to support the ability of the NIH to pursue new and cutting-edge research by freeing up much needed resources," said Marc Cluzel, M.D. Senior Vice President Research & Development at sanofi-aventis. "We have been committed to supporting clinical...

OmniComm Systems Acquires EDC Assets of Leading Phase I Clinical Software Vendor - Logos Technologies, Ltd.

...ns to pharmaceutical, contract research organizations and biotechnology companies with electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical management solutions needed to accelerate pharmaceutical research and development. About OmniComm OmniComm Systems, Inc. ( www.OmniComm.com ) provides customer-driv...

AEterna Zentaris Partner, Keryx, Announces Agreement with FDA on a Special Protocol Assessment for Phase 3 Trial with Perifosine (KRX-0401) for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

...pite this progress, patients continue to relapse, become refractory to prior treatments and eventually die from their disease. Thus, new therapies are needed to treat these patients and extend their survival. About Perifosine Perifosine is a novel, first-in-class, oral anti-cancer agent that modul...

Purdue Pharmaceutical Products L.P. and Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sign Exclusive Agreement to Commercialize Intermezzo(R) in the United States

...ity that we believe is ideally positioned to introduce Intermezzo ((R)) to physicians. Purdue has a demonstrated track-record in the key disciplines needed to drive the awareness and acceptance of Intermezzo ((R)), including successful experience marketing to national distributors, managed care organizat...

Novavax Announces Release Date of 2009 Second Quarter, Financial Results and Investor Conference Call

.../Events. Please connect to this website at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be needed to hear the webcast. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website for 90 days after the call and a replay of the conference call will also...

SyntheMed Receives US Patent on Novel Polymer Technology

...the c om pany's efforts to obtain and maintain FDA and other required regulatory approvals; (ii) potential inability to secure funding as and when needed to support the c om pany's future activities and (iii) unanticipated delays associated with manufacturing and marketing activities. Reference is m...

Aztech Controls Introduces Standardized Gas Sticks for Semiconductor Tool Hook Up

...ot;custom build to order" model used by most semiconductor end users can prove to be costly and may take up to 8 weeks or more to get a gas stick needed for tool hook up. This delays the customer's production and compromises the ability to meet demand and revenue projections. The cost of delays far exc...

NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power

...tion of fullerenes at the film bottom, both of which could improve the photovoltaic's efficiency or lifetime. "We've identified some key parameters needed to optimize what happens at both edges of the film, which means the industry will have a strategy to optimize the cell's overall performance," Germack...

Ricardo Launches Consortium to Evaluate Lubricant Challenges of Future Low Carbon Engine Technologies

...gies. With the environmental demand to reduce CO2 emissions and take vehicle fuel economy to new levels, significant innovations in lubricants will be needed to enable implementation of many very promising low friction and high efficiency engine technologies and increasing use of biofuels. While prev...

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on July 30, 2009

...t may be needed. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-877-627-6566 (United States) or 1-719-325-4922 (International). No passcode is needed for the call. The audio portion of the Web cast will be archived and available for replay for at least 14 days. About BioCryst BioC...

1 nano-step closer to weighing a single atom

...requency as mass is added. The sensitivity of such nanomechanical devices is intimately connected to how much energy they displace. So researchers needed to understand how damping (loss of energy) is transferred both to the fluid surroundings and within the nanostructures. With the lower the damping, th...

Histogen Hair Regrowth Clinical Trial Presented at ISHRS Annual Meeting

... is the first demonstration that compounds containing bioactive Wnt increase hair growth in humans." While additional clinical evaluation is needed to further examine product safety, efficacy and treatment specifications, the preliminary clinical trial of HSC represents a potentially significant n...

Time Clocks Technology Catches Up With Crooks

... with a mechanical time clock where you grab your clock card from the rack and punch or time stamp it made it pretty easy to satisfy payroll - all you needed was a "buddy" to punch your card for you. The consultant: "This exploit still exists even if you use a modern proximity tag or swip...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Exercise of Overallotment

...inties include the risk that the investors might not exercise their warrants, the Company might not be able to continue to raise additional capital as needed to fund its operations, the Company's intentions regarding the use of proceeds, and other risk factors listed or described from time to time in the Co...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants

...inties include the risk that the investors might not exercise their warrants, the Company might not be able to continue to raise additional capital as needed to fund its operations, the Company's intentions regarding the use of proceeds, and other risk factors listed or described from time to time in the Co...

Junying Yu, Leading Stem Cell Researcher, Joins Cellular Dynamics International

...ying is one of the top stem cell researchers in the world, and with her on our team we feel confident that we will be able to provide additional, much needed stem cell research tools and therapies to the preclinical, and eventually clinical, market faster." Robert Palay, chairman and chief execut...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Promotion of Don R. Webber to VP of Sales for their BioMedical Division

... emulated by others as he consistently produces top results. Tom Loughlin, ETC's COO, commented, "This was the piece of the puzzle that was needed to move our sales team to the next level. Don's leadership ability, strategic approach and market experience will allow us to more deeply penetrate th...

Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto Complete U.S. and Canadian Regulatory Authorizations for SmartStax Corn; Plans Set to Launch Seed Platform on 3 Million- to 4 Million-Plus Acres

...e success of the companies' research and development activities; the costs of and the companies' abilities to access and enforce intellectual property needed for the collaboration; the costs and requirements of regulatory compliance and the speed with which approvals are received; public acceptance of biote...

Wyeth Announces Stockholder Approval of Pfizer Merger at 2009 Annual Meeting

...ated: "The merger is in the best interests of our Company and our stockholders. Combined with Pfizer, we see opportunities for increased scale where needed and resources to become the world's premier biopharmaceutical company and an industry leader in human, consumer and animal healthcare, in both disease...

LS9's UltraClean Diesel Exceeds United States & Brazilian Fuels Specifications

...onal Agency of Petroleum ANP-7 specifications. A series of third-party tests confirms LS9's UltraClean™ Diesel meets the regulatory criteria needed for use in vehicles on American and Brazilian roads today. These tests also indicate that LS9 UltraClean™ Diesel overcomes key environmental an...

Sumavel(TM) DosePro(TM) (sumatriptan injection) Approved by FDA for Acute Migraine and Cluster Headache: First Product Featuring Novel DosePro Needle-Free Delivery System

...Tablets are a treatment option for some migraine sufferers, but not all patients are satisfied with tablet therapy. Fast-acting, non-oral options are needed particularly for those who experience migraine episodes associated with sudden onset, waking, nausea or vomiting. The FDA approval of Sumavel...

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Submits Comments to Hit Policy Committee About Meaningful Use and Electronic Health Record Certification

...robust versions Certification should work towards evidence-based standards for EHRs implementations Continued research and evaluation are needed to determine those EHR functions and capabilities that will assure value and benefits Julie McGowan, PhD, Chairperson of AMIA's Pub...

Studies Presented at International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease Reveal Substantial Economic Costs and Caregiver Burden Associated with Alzheimer's Disease

...edical Center . "This information shows that not only are AD patients more likely than their peers to suffer from other serious conditions, but their needed care takes a tremendous toll on their caregivers. All of this means increased burden and financial costs to individuals and the healthcare system." ...

Brain Monitor Eliminates Need for Routine Oxygen With Propofol - Friedberg's Triad Unveiled

...come close to death, like Tameka Foster's recent Brazilian experience. Brain monitoring was added to PK anesthesia in 1997. Since then, no PK patients needed any anti-vomiting medications or strong pain, narcotic medications for pain. Most anesthesia providers who give propofol have observed the wide va...