The future of the internet came into slightly better focus today when International Domains regulator ICANN, announced it will allow the use of web addresses written wholly in non-latin characters.
“Right now Internet address endings are limited to Latin characters – A to Z,” explained ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush in the body’s statement. This means that, [...]

DUBAI — International experts are expected to address the growing prevalence of diabetes in the United Arab Emirates at the two-day Emirates Diabetes Congress (EDC 2009), which will take place in Dubai on 7 & 8th November 2009
The event, part of the activities to ‘World Diabetes Day’ in the country, The even will bring together [...]

MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 28 Siemens Healthcare’s SOMATOM® Definition Flash dual-source computed tomography (CT) scanner is now poised to assist Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, Fla., to better serve its pediatric patients. The SOMATOM Definition Flash requires only a fraction of the radiation dose that systems previously required to scan even the tiniest anatomical details. [...]

Although malaria has been controlled in many local and regional populations, the permanent elimination of malaria parasites throughout the world remains an elusive goal, and the disease continues to claim nearly one million lives each year.
In 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates called for a renewed effort to eradicate malaria worldwide. Some skeptics have questioned [...]

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, October 2, 2009 – “Offsurance, Inc., a Delaware headquartered global healthcare company will now become a wholly owned subsidiary of Offsurance, Limited, a Scottish technology startup”, says a beaming CEO, Amir Bavi.
Mr. Bavi is visibly impressed about the future of his company “Scotland has the right mix that identifies winner organizations and provides [...]

The Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems School has implemented “We Serve,” the school’s newest program that focuses on community outreach for students majoring in biomedical engineering.
The program provides an opportunity for biomedical engineering students to go to partnering non-profits, interact with the patients, use what they know in the classroom and apply it to [...]

Oct 28, 2009 (Datamonitor Financial Deals Tracker via COMTEX) — MMSI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Merit Medical Systems, Inc., a US-based disposable medical products company, has concluded a license agreement with Vysera Biomedical Limited, an Ireland-based medical devices company, for certain intellectual property and know-how for valve technology.
Under this agreement, [...]

The fifth annual SC MedTech Conference is to run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Westin Poinsett hotel in Greenville.
Gregory F. Zaic, a senior partner with Nexus Medical Partners, is the planned keynote speaker.
Zaic will focus on the challenges companies are facing in the current economy, as well as the status of medtech [...]

Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s BioMedical Division Announces Multiple Hyperbaric Chamber Sales
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCC) (“ETC” or the “Company”) BioMedical Division today announced a record month for sales of their Baramed monoplace chambers. Dave Mitchell, Vice President of ETC Controls Group, said, “A total
of 15 chambers have been [...]

MINNEAPOLIS Clinical trial results published in this week’s Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) describe six-month outcomes for patients using the Melody® Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve from Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT). The valve is implanted through a catheter procedure instead of open-heart surgery in patients with congenital heart disease affecting the function of their [...]

Scottish Biomedical leading biological research services company in UK has made specialist histone deacetylases (HDAC) services, available to the scientific community handling issues connected to integral human enzymes.
HDACs – enzymes involved in gene expression that are pivotal to every biological process in the human body – have been implicated in a number of diseases including [...]

Nowhere has the effect of the financial crisis been more evident than in the job market, as a number of companies, particularly in the real estate sector, have been forced to make swingeing cuts in order to deal with the fall out from the global financial crisis. Kershaw Leonard has released its annual Cost of [...]

Consultants from Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai will present a series of professional development sessions, in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, a division of Johnson & Johnson (Middle East) Inc., for eye care professionals from across the GCC
The programme sessions will cover the role of eye care professionals in Diabetes, clinical advances in Keratoconus [...]

New schizophrenia research conducted into issues affecting those in biomedical science jobs has prompted one expert to suggest some of the problem may be down to basic functions in certain brain areas.
Professor Phillip McGuire, from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), remarked that, although the origins of [...]

BARRINGTON, Ill GE Healthcare, one of the leading providers of healthcare information technology, today announced its selection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide extensive surveillance data for H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity throughout the United States. Every 24 hours, GE Healthcare reports information gathered from its nationwide electronic database of [...]