hit in Biological Technology

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

BETHESDA, Md., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) announced today that it had submitted additional written comments to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the HIT Policy Committee about meaningful use and electronic health record...

Third Annual DaVita Kidney Disease Awareness Walks to Hit 20 Cities in 2008

DaVita Expects 13,000 Walkers Across the U.S. Will Raise $1.5 Million to Help Fight Chronic Kidney Disease EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and failure (CKD), to...

Advanced Life Sciences to Hit the Road For $30 Million in Funding

After 16 years in the field and navigating at the helm of several companies, Michael Flavin, CEO of Advanced Life Sciences (which is located in Woodridge, Ill. across from Argonne National Laboratory ), sees a current opportunity to fund and advance his drug discovery company. Following a si...

Alzheimer's drug market to hit $5.5 billion by 2009, study says

Toronto-based Millennium Research Group predicts the Alzheimer's disease drug market in the United States, Europe and Japan will grow by 15 percent annually for the next five years. Pharmaceutical manufacturers profiled in Millennium's study, entitled "Global Markets for Alzheimer's Disease Me...

Cedara acquisition costs hit Merge Technologies numbers

MILWAUKEE - Merge Technologies, Inc. , a developer and provider of medical imaging and information management software and services, announced its second quarter results Tuesday morning, showing both growth and losses. Although quarterly revenue was at a record high of $18.8 million, the comp...

Rapid hit confirmation and early hERG liability testing using the IonWorks HT system

IONWORKS HT APPLICATION NOTE #4 By James Costantin, Ph.D., Yen-Wen Chen, Ph.D., Jinfang Liao, Ph.D., Jeff Quast, Andrew Wittel, Shawn Handran, Ph.D. and Naibo Yang, Ph.D. Molecular Devices Corporation, 3280 Whipple R...

Nuevolution Announces Worldwide Technology Cross-Licensing Agreement With GSK

...n Oliff, SVP Molecular Discovery Research of GSK and Alex Gouliaev, CEO of Nuevolution A/S continued "our innovative technologies allow small molecule hit and lead discovery at an unprecedented scale. This agreement secures both companies the rights to operate these powerful technologies to their fullest...

Bioinformatics Expert Dr. Jiaan Yang Joins Sundia MediTech With Innovative PFSC Technology

... (CRO) company based in Shanghai, China, to provide R&D outsourcing services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide, ranging from early hit screening, biological service, lead optimization, DMPK, candidate preclinical development, formulation development, API manufacture, and regulatory su...

Sundia MediTech Appoints Dr. Tong Xu as VP of Process Chemistry

... (CRO) company based in Shanghai, China, to provide R&D outsourcing services to biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide, ranging from early hit screening, biological service, lead optimization, DMPK, candidate preclinical development, formulation development, API manufacture, and regulatory su...

Expanding Indiana's Breakthroughs in Health Information Technology (Exibhit Indiana): Initiative to Advance the State's Health IT National Leadership and Assets Launched to Bring More Awareness to Sector

...organizations and a long history of groundbreaking hit research through the Regenstrief Institute at Ind...dership in HIT, BioCrossroads is spearheading Exib hit Indiana ( Ex panding I ndiana's B reakthroughs ... on advancing the development and effective use of hit within Indiana and across the U.S. The initia...

Greenway Medical Technologies To Display Live Interoperability Implementations at 2009 DIA Show

... healthcare providers and professionals nationwide, in 30 specialties and subspecialties, by enhancing the delivery of patient care through innovative hit software and on-demand services that allow physician practices to function at their highest level of efficiency. Greenway's Prime Suite is a comprehe...

Sundia's Animal Facility Passed Client and Government Inspection

...focused company, Sundia MediTech provides integrated drug discovery service to more than 80 top pharmaceutical companies worldwide, ranging from early hit screening, biological service, lead optimization, DMPK, candidate preclinical development, API manufacturer, regulatory submission. For more informati...

Biotech Shows Glimmer of an Upward Trend

...glimmer of an upward trend for biotech as evidenced by the performance of the Burrill Mid-Cap Biotech Index, whose members have been particularly hard hit during this economic downturn," said G. Steven Burrill, CEO, Burrill & Company, a San Francisco based global leader in life sciences with activiti...

As Other States Pull Back, Kansas Accelerates Innovation Investments at Bio International Convention

... therapeutic uses in fighting cancer. These "stealth" particles are expected to allow earlier disease detection and to improve the ability of drugs to hit their intended targets with fewer side effects. The company received a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institutes ...

CPM Resource Center and The Shams Group Partner To Help Hospitals Integrate Evidence-Based Clinical Content Into Information Systems

...rstCall/ -- - For the First Time, Hospitals Using MEDITECH and Other hit Solutions can use CPMRC's Interdisciplinary Clinical Content Through TSG's ...at use TSG's software solutions to better leverage their MEDITECH and other hit systems," said Diane Hanson, RN, BSN, MM, Executive Vice President and Gene...

Sandia researchers construct carbon nanotube device that can detect colors of the rainbow

...m a single-walled carbon nanotube. "In our eyes the neuron is in front of the retinal molecule, so the light has to transmit through the neuron to hit the molecule," says Sandia researcher Xinjian Zhou. "We placed the nanotube transistor behind the moleculea more efficient design." Zhou and his S...

The MedZilla Report: Febraury 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

...e Hopps, director of marketing for MedZilla.com, the internet's leading site for health care, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical jobs. "The bigger hit this month unfortunately came from biotech and pharmaceuticals, which have both seen difficulties over the past 18 months." While most of those c...

UB engineers prove that carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics

...or of the Electronics Packaging Lab in UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Now we know that's not true. Electronics based on metals have hit a wall. We are done with metals." Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes are extremely thin, hollow cylinders, measuring no thicker than a single atom. Thou...

Angiotech announces positive results from Bio-Seal(TM) clinical study

...eiving BioSeal. "We are extremely pleased that the Bio-Seal treatment arm hit the primary end point of clinical success," said Dr. William Hunter, Presid...0 minutes, 24 hours and 30 days after treatment. The Bio-Seal treatment arm hit the primary end point of clinical success, absence of pneumothorax at each ...

Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. Acquires BioProcessors Corp.

...e people and technologies of BioProcessors Corp., we will expand and grow the SimCell product line and markets during the coming year." "Seahorse hit the nail on the head with its XF96 instrument and their business has grown steadily. We believe that the SimCell technology will fuel continued growt...

Video: Experts Unite to Help People Manage Spring Nasal Allergy Sneezin'

...al allergy season quickly approaches, people living with nasal allergies should take steps to manage their symptoms and ward-off allergens before they hit home. To help the nation's estimated 40 million nasal allergy sufferers prepare for the spring nasal allergy season, UCB and sanofi-aventis have enlis...

CV Therapeutics Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results

...xa(R) net revenue - - Company retires more than $100 million in convertible debt in 2008 - - Ranexa prescriptions for first week in February hit record high according to IMS - PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CV Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVTX ) today reported financ...

Dow AgroSciences Delivering Beyond Expectations

...lated to recent acquisitions, restructuring charges of $3 million, and costs of $2 million related to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in the third quarter. Certain items in 2007 included: restructuring charges totaling $77 million primarily related...

World's First Website for Patients to Share Diagnostic-Quality Medical Images

...n better, your software was able to save these images in a format that could be viewed on a standard DVD player. Needless to say, the slide show was a hit at our family Christmas." "Many patients don't realize that they have a legal right to request copies of their medical images ," s...

Domain walls that conduct electricity

...measurements on thin films of the material created by Lane Martin of MSD; both are members of the Quantum Materials program. "To make the films we hit targets of ceramic oxides containing bismuth and iron with a laser pulse and convert the solid to a plasma plume that is deposited on the substrate," ...

Axikin Pharmaceuticals Spins out of Actimis

...r disease. "The establishment of Axikin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and the additional funding we have received to progress these assets, allows us to hit the ground running and provide significant continuity in the quest to bring our lead candidates to the clinic," said Kevin B. Bacon, Ph.D., founder, P...

Malaria: New Treatment is Upcoming

...o us, delivers immediate benefits because it acts rapidly, and unquestionably provides help to the populations of Africa and Asia, who are the hardest hit by the disease, but also to Westerners who visit those countries for business or pleasure." Developed by sigma-tau, the new ACT meets WHO clini...

Jubilant and BioLeap Announce New Partnership in Drug Discovery

...the limitations of library screening, thereby reducing the time and cost of traditional screening methods. Many current screening programs have hit barriers with regards to finding small molecule candidates for viable validated targets because of limitations in chemical diversity. BioLeap's techn...

Jatropha World 2009 Advance Access: Surprisingly Candid Interview Series Examines Biofuel Predictions Compared to Fossil Fuels

...n 2009. The impact of the global economic slowdown and crude oil volatilities on Jatropha's viability. When Jatropha seeds and oil supplies will hit the market. Jatropha co-products such as seedcake and glycerin. Developing an ideal Jatropha business model; Small-scale vs. Large-scale Jatroph...

Jatropha World 2009 Advance Access: Surprisingly Candid Interview Series Examines Biofuel Predictions Compared to Fossil Fuels

...n 2009. The impact of the global economic slowdown and crude oil volatilities on Jatropha's viability. When Jatropha seeds and oil supplies will hit the market. Jatropha co-products such as seedcake and glycerin. Developing an ideal Jatropha business model; Small-scale vs. Large-scale Jatroph...

CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders

...elow). In this letter I also want to review the general status of our Multikine cancer drug: 1. In the last few months we have hit major milestones. We signed a Multikine licensing agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals, a multinational pharmaceutical company, ...

WellCentive Launches New Health Information Exchange Platforms

...sily access patient data from a variety of outside hit systems. WellCentive Connect is a health care tec...rm which receives data from a variety of community hit systems and can forward it to physicians, insuranc...lows physicians and their staff to access multiple hit systems using a single user ID and password...

t2cure Acquires Patent Family on In Vitro Potency Testing of Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Application

...ed therapeutics a clinical reality for patients suffering from an acute heart attack or chronic heart failure." Each year, 40,000 patients are hit by a severe heart attack in Germany alone and many more are suffering from chronic heart disease. Currently there is no treatment available that can r...

Stanford: Quantum computing spins closer

...ts were conducted at a temperature of almost absolute zero, inside a strong magnetic field produced by a superconducting magnet. The researchers first hit the qubit with laser light of specific frequencies to define and measure the electron spin, all within a few nanoseconds. Then they rotated the spin w...

Debiopharm and Aurigene Sign Licensing Agreement for the Development and Commercialisation of Debio 0617, a Novel Inhibitor of an Undisclosed Oncology Pathway

...laborations and a pipeline of 15 discovery programs at various stages, from hit Generation to late-stage Pre-Clinical Optimization, and has filed 14 patent...ific leadership, Aurigene is a fully integrated operation with expertise in hit Generation to Drug Development Candidates for IND nomination. Debi...

Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity

...create positively charged water droplets. Water molecules in the droplets contain an extra proton and are called ions. When the charged water droplets hit the surface of the sample being tested, they transfer their extra proton to molecules in the sample, turning them into ions. The ionized molecules are...

Gold nanostar shape of the future

... contaminants, a dye would be attached to the nanostars and mixed with the sample to be tested. The sample would then be placed under a microscope and hit with a burst of laser energy. Sensors would pick up the Raman scattering and interpret the unique optical fingerprint. Khoury said that nanostars a...

AMDL, Inc. Named to Deloitte LLC Technology Fast 50

...g sales of these products have driven AMDL's year-over-year revenue growth by more than 100%, specifically in the past 24 months. The Company has also hit key business milestones over the past 12 months that position the Company for continued growth. This includes success in obtaining regulatory approval...

Scientists restore movement to paralyzed limbs through artificial brain-muscle connections

...the monkeys' performance during an initial two-minute practice and a two-minute peak performance period, the scientists found the monkeys successfully hit the target three times more frequently and with less error during the peak performance. In the future, greater control could be gained by using impla...

Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity

...create positively charged water droplets. Water molecules in the droplets contain an extra proton and are called ions. When the charged water droplets hit the surface of the sample being tested, they transfer their extra proton to molecules in the sample, turning them into ions. The ionized molecules are...