Medical Device Business Week

Assurant, Inc. - Insurance products company appoints member to board of directors

Athens University Medical School - Surgical drainage not justified in AIDS-related cardiac tamponade

Bacterial Dysentery - Taiwan warns travelers to be on alert against bacterial dysentery

Basilea - BAL4079 moves into phase III

Baxter International, Inc. - Regulatory application submitted in Japan for Advate

Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. - CuraGen, partner advance investigational compound for diabetes

Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation - Study shows Avelox IV is successful in treating pneumonia in elderly patients

Baylor College of Medicine - Multiple mechanisms are involved in pathogenesis of phenotypes in cardiomyopathy

Beckman Coulter, Inc. - Stem cell monitoring system available to labs on flow cytometry system

Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceuticals firm provides business update

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - Troxerutin can protect non-malignant tissue from radiation damage

Bio-One Corporation - Nutritional supplements firm reports third quarter revenue to exceed $10M

BioMS Medical Corp. - Lead investigator named for multiple sclerosis trial

BioSource International, Inc. - Genomics company reports breakeven net income

BioStar - Real-time PCR GBS detection test rapidly screens intrapartum vaginal specimens

BioVisioN AG - Milestone reached in a research collaboration with Novo Nordisk

Biogen Idec, Inc. - Biotech company reports $132M in net income

Bioject Medical Technologies, Inc. - Drug delivery firm reports 43% increase in revenue

Bionomics Limited - Epilepsy diagnostic maker reports strong cash position

Blue Care Network of Michigan - Weight loss program introduced by Michigan provider

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Bone marrow found for woman seeking South Asian donors

Breast Cancer - Women put bra art on display to promote health

Brigham & Women's Hospital - Safety data should not be extrapolated from early to new HIV protease inhibitors

Brigham and Women's Hospital - Irregular menstrual cycles linked to increased risk of disease

Bristol-Myers Squibb - Pediatric HIV/AIDS medical centers to be built in Africa

Bristol-Myers-Squibb - F₁ F₀ -ATPase contributes to decline in energy reserve during ischemia

British Columbia Cancer Research Center - Notch4 requires ankyrin repeats to staunch endothelial sprouting

British Columbia Center for Disease Control - Core antigen assay can't confirm active hepatitis C virus infection

Business Update - Healthnotes releases Version 7.9 of touchscreen kiosk software

Business Update - MedImmune eyes expansion in Frederick, Maryland