US FDA hs Indicated that they plan to closely monitor the sale of genetic tests directly to consumers, Te FDA Friday told this to five companies involved in the business — including two in the Bay Area — their products are medical devices that require the government’s approval. Among the companies the US Food and [...]

February 25, 2010 — US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time  and movement through the regulatory process required for clinical application. The new partnership was made public yesterday in a briefing on the NIH [...]

Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and devices to measure how much radiation people absorb after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts’ first phase will be worth $35 million; [...]

18th December 2009 WASHINGTON, — Significant changes are needed in healthcare reform legislation to prevent senior citizens and the disabled from facing a difficult time obtaining homecare products through Medicare. The current legislation would likely prevent or delay many Medicare beneficiaries from receiving critical medical equipment that helps sustain their lives and allows them to [...]

17th December 2009 New Brunswick, NJ USA The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research has opened the 2010 call for nominations. The $100,000 Award recognizes individuals whose efforts have made significant transformational contributions towards the improvement of human health. Nomination forms are available at www.pauljanssenaward.com and will be accepted until February 15, 2010. The [...]

14th December 2009 Madison USA: Kevin Conroy the CEO of Madison-based company, Exact Sciences Corp. says the number of deaths from colon cancer could be reduced significantly if people had an easy, reliable method of detecting the disease in its early stage. Although a colonoscopy is very effective, the invasive nature of the procedure is [...]

WASHINGTON — Doctors and hospitals should stop using a device from Steris Corp. to sterilize surgical tools after reports of malfunction, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The Mentor-based company’s modified SS1 sterilizer device has not been cleared as safe and effective. Users have reported problems that could result in patients becoming infected from [...]

12th August 2009  Minnesota USA – The University of Minnesota-bred start-up, based on the regenerative tissue work of Dr. Doris Taylor, will be called Miromatrix Inc. (It seems like any biomedical company worth its salt must have an “x” in its name). The company, which is developing a way to grow transplant organs in labs, has [...]

KLAS  issues its yearly Top 20 mMedical Equipments Awards for 2009 . Among the  CT the top vote went to  Toshiba Aquilion 64, Digital XRay went to Shimadzu RAD Speed, Magnetic Resonance (MR) – 1.5T went to Toshiba Vantage 1.5T MR. Mammography Digital went to GE Senographe DS. For Smart pumps the top voted was B Braun Outlook [...]

7th December 2009 : Mexico City has announced plans for what it hopes will be a world-class centre for biomedical and nano-medical research. The new research center will be called “Campus Biometropolis”, the city hopes to attract investment and become an “engine for the transformation” of Mexico’s economy. For the pharma industry, the news is [...]

2nd December 2009 : The pharmaceutical market in Central and Eastern Europe is dominated by generic drugs. This subdivision was worth €17.2bn in 2008 and is expected to develop by around 14% per annum between 2009 and 2011. The growth rate of the innovative drug market, which was worth €12.4bn in 2008, will be slower, [...]

1st December 2009 : Lucrative opportunities await manufacturers in the European wireless patient monitoring devices market, particularly in the wireless assisted living devices segment. This segment is growing at a rapid pace. The primary reason for this growth is rising awareness levels among an ageing population about devices that help in attaining a better standard [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Acuo Technologies, developers of high-performance medical image management software, data migration tools and services have announced a new product called AcuoShare that allows image sharing across the networks of hospitals, clinics & affiliates. The AcuoShare solution is based on the versatile Acuo Technologies DICOM Services Grid(TM) Software. The Acuo [...]

Researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research say they’ve developed a new type of genetic screen for human cells to pinpoint specific genes and proteins used by pathogens. The identification of such factors could aid the future development of new therapeutics to combat infectious disease. Their paper, titled “Haploid genetic screens in human cells identify [...]

SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 Singapore announced on Friday that it will inject 36 million Singapore dollars (25.9 million U.S. dollars) into new programs to give a greater push to its growing medical technology industry locally. The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s leading research agency said that the programs included the collaboration between A*STAR [...]