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Olympus board resigns en masse | Wall Street Beat

February 27, 2012 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MassDevice.com Wall Street Beat

The new slate of directors for Olympus Corp. (TYO:7733) is already drawing fire from foreign investors in the endoscopy giant, after its entire board resigned en masse over a $1.7 billion accounting scandal that’s slashed its valuation by about 50% since October.

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: aesculap, Baxano Surgical, CerviLenz, cyberonics, Deals Roundup, depuysynthes, Dexcom, Dgimed Ortho, Johnson and Johnson, Marco Ophthalmic, Neurometrix, Nidek, Olympus, Osseon Therapeutics Inc., Personnel Moves, stjudemedical, Tornier Inc.

FDA clears Philips combination PET/MR scanner | Regulatory Roundup

November 28, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment


Philips Ingenuity Scanner

Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) landed 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market its Ingenuity whole-body PET/MR imaging system in the U.S.

The scanner performs both PET and magnetic resonance imaging scans, allowing doctors to acquire images at a significantly lower radiation dose than traditional PET/computer tomography scanners, which use x-rays to make images.

Filed Under: 510(k), News Well Tagged With: Cardiovascular Systems Inc., CerviLenz, General Electric, Philips, PositiveID Corp., Regulatory Roundup, Siemens

Diabetes: Stratatech lands $4.6 million to study antimicrobial skin graft for diabetic foot ulcers | Funding Roundup

November 1, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

ExpressGraft

Stratatech’s ExpressGraft

Stratatech Corp. won a $4.6 million grant to run a clinical trial from the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases.

The funds will support the first human study of Stratatech’s ExpressGraft Antimicrobial genetically engineered living skin substitute as a therapy for diabetic foot ulcers.

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, News Well Tagged With: CerviLenz, HyperBranch Medical Technologies, MiMedx Group Inc., Neuros Medical Inc., Sensors for Medicine and Science Inc., Stratatech Corp.

Boston University lands $13.6M to study cancer detection tools | Funding Roundup

October 24, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

BUSM

Boston University School of Medicine landed a $13.6 million grant from the U.S. Defense Dept. lung cancer research program to study technologies focused on the early detection of lung cancer.

The five-year study, the Detecting Early Lung Cancer Among Military Personnel consortium, will focus on veterans and active military personnel at number of military hospitals and VA medical centers across the country.

Smoking rates are 50 percent higher in military populations than civilian populations and veterans are between 25 and 75 percent more likely to develop lung cancer than non-veterans, according to BU.

Filed Under: Funding Roundup, News Well, Oncology Tagged With: Boston University, CerviLenz, defensedepartment, Zeltiq

CerviLenz taps its first CFO/COO

June 28, 2010 By MedCity News Leave a Comment

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By Mary Vanac

Medical device start-up CerviLenz Inc. appointed its first CFO/COO: Federica “Freddi” O’Brien, a certified public accountant who spent the last decade working with bioscience companies.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Gynecological, News Well Tagged With: CerviLenz

CerviLenz plus progesterone could halve preterm birth risk

June 1, 2010 By MedCity News Leave a Comment

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By Mary Vanac

CerviLenz is a simple, low-tech medical device that prompts a “why didn’t I think of that?” response from many obstetricians.

Yet the device that quickly, accurately and inexpensively measures a pregnant woman’s cervix could help answer the $26 billion-a-year problem of preterm birth in the United States.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Gynecological, News Well, Women's Health Tagged With: CerviLenz

CerviLenz aims to lower preterm birth rate

May 21, 2010 By MedCity News Leave a Comment

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By Mary Vanac

A disposable device made by Chagrin Falls, Ohio-based CerviLenz Inc. aims to take the guesswork out of determining the risk of premature birth.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Gynecological, News Well, Women's Health Tagged With: CerviLenz

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