Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week

Information Technology - Health Hero Network included in Medicare Chronic Care Improvement Program

Information Technology - Health groups, publishers go online to give patients access to research

Information Technology - HealthMedia partners with A.D.A.M., Inc., to promote behavioral change

Information Technology - Hospital implements emergency department information system

Information Technology - IT company signs 3-year agreement with Texas medical center for imaging services

Information Technology - Imaging center implements technology solution to decrease medical mistakes

Information Technology - Information source to biotechnology industry releases RNAi report

Information Technology - Life sciences, high-tech company launches new search engine for web catalog

Information Technology - Medical web site picks top 10 health stories of 2004

Information Technology - New capabilities augment NanoMate system for proteomic researchers

Information Technology - New practice management system starts shipping

Information Technology - New software aids in breast ultrasound

Information Technology - New software available for medical equipment industry

Information Technology - Real time therapy, dental transactions available for Brazil health insurance

Information Technology - Software companies join forces to enable provider contracting for health plans

Information Technology - Software provider, PharmaDirections partner to release stability study manager

Information Technology - Theragenomics knowledge management and discovery software for ADRs released

Inherited Disease - Pharma company provides update on recombinant human C1 inhibitor

Kidney Transplantation Risk Factors - Peritubular capillary C4d not linked to chronic rejection

Legal Issues - Medical imaging company prevails in 4-year intellectual property legal battle

Licensing - Delphi Medical licenses vital signs monitoring technology

Liver Support - Tissue engineered liver support systems not reliable for routine clinical use

Macular Degeneration - Grant will aid effort to build new diagnostic device

Mammography - Workup of patients with positive screening for breast cancer could be improved

Marketing - OASIS Wound Matrix and OASIS Burn Matrix to be launched in Central America

Maxillofacial Reconstruction - Usefulness of adjuvant treatment in maxillofacial surgery investigated

Medial Devices - ImageFlashPlates suitable for use in peptide-protein binding assays

Medical Device Reprocessing - FDA clearance granted for diamond drill burs

Medical Devices - Convection microfluidic systems facilitate DNA analysis

Medical Devices - First clinical use of steerable high intensity focused ultrasound

Medical Devices - Intubation suitable for airway protection in pediatric methadone OD

Medical Devices - Long-term efficacy of high impedance ventricular pacing leads evaluated

Medical Devices - Medical device co. receives FDA approval for ceramic-on-ceramic hip replacement

Medical Devices - Medical device company introduces tapered stem total hip system

Medical Devices - Medical device company receives IDE for use of embolic device in trial

Medical Devices - Novation contracts awarded for wound closure, surgical stapling, other products

Medical Devices - Novel approach to pulmonary injury treatment used in multiple trauma patient

Medical Devices - PTFE-covered stents improve TIPS function

Medical Devices - Recombinant BMP-7 superior to platelet-rich plasma in sinus grafting

Medical Devices - Speech software company filling orders for Talking Pill Bottle Starter Kits

Medical Devices - Usability lacking in many pacemaker programmers

Medical Devices - Vagus nerve stimulation safe and effective in long-term study

Medical Devices - Ventricular pacing improved sleep in apnea patient with ICD

Medical Education - Compusystems offers course in computer medical transcription

Medical Imaging - Company releases image package for early detection of breast cancer

Medical Imaging - Joint venture to provide outpatient imaging in Denver, Colorado market

Medical Imaging - Study questions accuracy of ads for body scans, lack of credible evidence

Menopause - Phase 3 study of estrogen vasomotor treatment for menopausal symptoms initiated

Mergers & Acquisitions - Acquisition of Heart Core B.V. completed

Mergers & Acquisitions - Healthcare services provider completes acquisition of software platform

Mergers & Acquisitions - Medical device company announces intent to acquire urology-focused CystoMedix

Mergers & Acquisitions - Medical diagnostics company and Epoch Biosciences merge

Mergers & Acquisitions - Schott AG Lumitec OLED research and development project acquired

Mergers & Acquisitions - Technology company and pharma company merge, announce U.S. pharma division

Microarray - Company launches Maui microarray hybridization system

Microarray - GeneSifter Data Center launched

Microbiology Testing - Milestone achieved in development of rapid molecular microbiology testing assay

Microfluidic Devices - Magnetic bead-based microfluidic mixer developed

Microvascular Research - Flow chamber studies may underestimate in vivo leukocyte adhesion

Molecular Scaffolds - Filamin is a versatile molecular scaffold for cell motility and signaling

Multiple Myeloma - Results of 2 clinical trials of T cells in multiple myeloma presented

Multiple Sclerosis - Multiple Sclerosis collaboration chooses information technology solution

Multiple Sclerosis - U.S. FDA approves drug delivery system for interferon treatment for MS patients

Nanotechnology - Two nanotechnology white papers released

Nearsightedness - U.S. FDA approves vision-correction treatment to correct nearsightedness

Neural Stem Cell Research - FGF-20 promotes differentiation of Nurr1 neural SCs into TH-positive neurons

Neural Stem Cell Research - Implanted embryonic dorsal root ganglion neurons/SC survive along auditory nerve

Neural Stem Cell Research - Mouse orthologue of ARX is marker of adult NSCs and forebrain GABAergic neurons

Neural Stem Cell Research - SVZa neural stem cells differentiate into distinct lineages in response to BMP4

Neural Stem Cell Transplantation - Neural SCT promotes long-term functional recovery after traumatic brain injury

Neuroscience - Anisotropic water diffusion in white matter characterized

Neuroscience - Cerebral response to light during circadian night elucidated

Neuroscience - Cobalt wire-based rat model of focal epilepsy constructed

Neuroscience - Extracellular matrix flanking avian fissura prima characterized

Neuroscience - Genes expressed during Drosophila CNS midline development identified

Neuroscience - Modulation of NAc dopamine release by adenosine receptors characterized

Neuroscience - Neurokinin-1 receptor antagonism elevates hippocampal ACh levels

Neuroscience - Neuronal HCN channels linked to synchrony development

Neuroscience - P2 purinoceptors modulate accumbal extracellular glutamate levels

Neuroscience - Propriospinal neurons have differential vulnerability to contusion damage

Neuroscience - Role of NK3 receptors in supraoptic vasopressin and oxytocin neurons clarified

Neuroscience - Role of c-Fes tyrosine kinase in hematopoietic and neuronal cells clarified

Neuroscience - Role of cytoskeletal protein abnormalities reviewed

Oncology - Novel microtubule-associated protein identified in mice

Ophthalmology - LASIK terms wavefront-guided and wavefront-optimized cause confusion

Ophthalmology - U.S. veterans group ends laser eye surgery by optometrists

Optic Atrophy - Role of reduced mitochondrial ATP production reported in optic atrophy

Orthopedics - Orthopedic Learning Center celebrates 10 years of surgical education

Orthopedics - Unilateral hinged external fixator of the elbow assessed for complex injuries

Otorhinolaryngology - Anesthesia for cervicofacial cancer surgery reviewed

Otorhinolaryngology - Laser microsurgery resolves vallecular cyst and comorbidities in infant

Pain - Dopamine receptors in rat brain can be altered during morphine withdrawal

Pain Medicine - Fatal intravenous abuse of transdermal fentanyl reported

Pain Therapy - FDA approves first-generation rechargeable neurostimulation systems

Papillomatosis - Cidofovir in papillomatosis minimizes need for repeated surgical excision

Pasteurization - Low pathogenic AI virus/ND virus inactivated in egg products via pasteurization

Patents - New patent allowed for laser pulse technology

Patents - U.S. Patent issued for optical genomic testing, channel detection

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery - Pediatric cardiac surgical technique facilitates surgical field exposure

Pediatric Surgery - Epidural analgesia reduces pain scores more than IV fentanyl analgesia

Pediatrics - Center for pediatric bioethics to be established in Seattle

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Technique provides prognostic data in patients undergoing revascularization

Personnel - Albert E. Heacox named senior VP of R&D for biosurgical device firm

Personnel - Biological products company names Gregory J. Melsen VP of finance, CEO

Personnel - Biotech incubator names new president and CEO

Personnel - Cardiovascular-focused company announces resignation of CFO M. Wayne Boylston

Personnel - Company focused on electron beam technology announces board of directors

Personnel - Company names CEO to lead pharmaceutical technologies, services business

Personnel - Corcept Therapeutics president appointed to board of directors

Personnel - Craig M. Walker appointed to medical device company's board of directors

Personnel - Daniel J. Webster, Jr. named interim president for device firm

Personnel - Information technology company announces president of Homecare Systems group

Personnel - Light based medical technology company appoints board member

Personnel - Medical device company announces management changes

Personnel - Medical device company announces members to board

Personnel - Medical device company names Debra Young vice president, chief financial officer

Personnel - Sander Perle, VP of dosimetry company, elected to CIRMS executive committee

Personnel - Speier to use medical device development experience in role as vice president

Personnel - Van Lent appointed to board of directors

Physiology - Gastric H⁺,K⁺-ATPase studied, role of proton pump inhibitors revealed

Physiology - Intrahepatic flow studied, clomipramine-mediated disruption revealed

Plastic Surgery - Quest for beauty backfires for paralyzed doctor, three patients

Prenatal Ultrasound - Study finds no apparent long-term effects from repeated prenatal US exams

Presbyopia - Medical device company announced phase II presbyopia trial results

Product Licensing - Company to license technology to diagnose Alzheimer disease

Prostate Cancer - Dye reversal microarrays used to identify cytogenetic abnormalities

Prostate Cancer - Pharma company announced draft decision for National coverage of Abarelix

Protein Signaling - Transcriptional activity of Smad proteins in development monitored in vivo

Proteomics - Plastic surface modification system enables on-chip enzyme microreactors

Proteomics - Regulation of BCL2 protein expression in B cells clarified

Proteomics - Self-assembly of human centrin 2 analyzed, calcium dependence revealed

Proteomics - Utility of capillary isoelectric focusing-mass spectrometry evaluated

Pulmonary Endothelium - Basis of pulmonary endothelium barrier dysfunction and RhoA activation revealed

Pulmonary Vein Isolation - Iatrogenic septal defects may occur in patients undergoing PVI procedures

Radiation Therapy - Radiation doses in pediatric radiology discussed

Reproduction - Different sperm survival produced by instrumental insemination

Reproductive Medicine - Passive stiffness of rat sperm determined

Reproductive Medicine - Train A protein secreted and reabsorbed by same epididymal cells

Respiratory Syncytial Virus - Dot-blot EIA rapidly detects RSV antigen from pediatric nasopharyngeal aspirates

Revascularization - Substantial differences exist concerning preoperative coronary revascularization

SARS Coronavirus - Statistical/mathematical approach used to analyze evolution of SARS coronavirus

Seizures - Neuropeptide-Y susceptibility in chemical-induced seizure models studied

Sensorineural Hearing Loss - Long-term hearing thresholds determined in Vibrant Soundbridge users

Sore Throat -  Fusobacterium necrophorum plays important role as simple sore throat cause

Spinal Cord Injury - $6.7 million granted for bionic war on disabilities

Stem Cell Research - Cell cycle kinetics important when expanding populations of neural stem cells

Stem Cell Research - Mechanical strain regulates expression of smooth muscle cell markers in MSCs

Stem Cell Research - Purified oligodendrocyte progenitors generated from embryonic stem cells

Stem Cell Research - SC expression of AML1/ETO fusion protein induces myeloproliferative disorder

Stem Cell Research - Transcription factor Gfi1 regulates self-renewal and engraftment of HSCs

Stem Cell Transplantation - Immature granulocyte fraction in PBSC is indicator for CD34+ cell mobilization

Stenosis - Report describes results of intracoronary radiation therapy

Stents - Report clarifies deployment strategies for the crush stent technique

Stroke - MDCT angiography can highlight patients who are at greater risk of stroke

Surgical Technology - Culture-expanded autogenous bone cells can improve bone formation

Surgical Technology - Mitral valve replacement feasible in some patients with one lung

Surgical Technology - Novel robotic system facilitates urologic microsurgery

Surgical Technology - Surgery technologies company receives CE Mark for Trocar Access System

Surgical Technology - Utility of aprotinin in major orthopedic and spine surgery reviewed

Surgical Technology - Utility of percutaneous tracheostomy reviewed

Telemedicine - Wounds can be successfully monitored remotely, according to study

Tissue Engineering - Cartilage-like tissue engineered with mesenchymal SCs and silk protein scaffolds

Tonsillitis - Acute tonsillitis studied, macrophage migration inhibitory factor implicated

Transgenics - Transgenic mouse mimics human disease

Transplant Medicine - UAMS surgeon performs successful implant of heart pump in child at ACH

Traumatic Brain Injury - Results from traumatic brain injury trial presented

Trends - Company develops artificial liver device

Type I Diabetes - Pancreatic islets isolated in porcine pancreas with new enzyme

Urinary Incontinence - Preoperative maximal flow rate may predict TVT procedure outcome

Urinary Incontinence - Sitting posture more effective for cystometry

Urinary Incontinence - Urine reagent strip's sensitivity too low to diagnose UTI in incontinent women

Urinary Incontinence - Vaginal cone is a non-surgical treatment alternative

Urogynecology - Abdominal and transvaginal suturing techniques yield similar results

Urogynecology - Radical hysterectomy may exacerbate pre-existing abnormal urodynamics

Urogynecology - Vesicouterine fistula can resolve spontaneously with only conservative care

Vaginal Fistula - Vaginal cuff scar excision is effective for primary and secondary repair

Vaginal Prolapse - Anterior colporrhaphy may adversely effect urethral sphincter function

Vascular Muscle - Growth of vascular smooth muscle studied, transactivation of receptor involved

Venous Reflux Disease - Study: Closure procedure provides superior patient benefits

Virology - Device has potential to treat both HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C

Wound Healing - BM-derived cells contribute to epithelial engraftment during wound healing