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The Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) recently asked Congress to eliminate allegedly anticompetitive practices in the hospital supply industry. Mark Leahey, MDMA executive director, urged the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee to protect patients from exclusionary practices…
Using prescription medicines to treat untreated and undertreated high blood pressure could prevent thousands of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in every U.S. state, according to a recently released study. “Reducing the Human Impact of High Blood Pressure,” examined the annual numbers…
Laser surgeons from around the world will gather April 5–9 for the 26th annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery in Boston. Laser 2006 will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Hynes Convention Center. The event will offer a diverse line up of…
Millstone Medical Outsourcing Inc. recently signed agreements with several medical device companies to provide post-manufacturing solutions to overcome start-up challenges. The company has contracted with Blackstone Medical Inc., Decision Biomarkers Inc., Ingen Orthopedics and Spine Wave…
Topas Advanced Polymers, a producer of polymers for the medical-device and packaging manufacturers industries, recently received the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership. The award is given each year to a company that has demonstrated excellence in technology…
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has released a draft standard of its 2007 accreditation requirements for public comment. The draft includes increased requirements for managed care organizations and preferred-provider organizations seeking accreditation. They’ll be required…
Five pharmaceutical facilities from all over the world were recently named finalists for the second-annual Facility of the Year competition. AstraZeneca, Baxter BioPharma Solutions, Daiichi Asubio Pharma Co., Janssen Pharmaceutica and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals are the finalists in the…
PharmaManufacturing.com was recently named a finalist for the Best B2B Web Site award in American Business Media’s 52nd annual Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards program. PharmaManufacturing.com is affiliated with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine, a publication of Putman…
Heightened awareness among electrosurgical-device companies and health care consumers about the potential spread of communicable diseases during surgery has increased market demand for disposable surgical devices. While this is good news for large-scale manufacturers, high expec-tations…
Cognex Corp. will host a series of complimentary machine vision seminars for pharmaceutical professionals involved with packaging operations. The half-day seminars, titled “Applying Machine Vision to Pharmaceutical Packaging” will be held in March and April in Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey…
Digirad Corp., a provider of cardiovascular imaging services and solid-state nuclear medicine imaging products, recently achieved registration to ISO 13485:2003. The standard specifies a quality management system for medical device manufacturers and complies with the Canadian Medical…
HealthGate Data Corp. has released a new version of its popular Quality Architect software, a product that features innovative tools for continuous improvement in health care environments. The new release includes an expanded library of evidence-based clinical content, including order…
CeTaQ Americas recently started offering machine-capability analysis testing for lasers used in medical and biomedical device manufacturing. The test methodology measures the width of laser cuts as well as beam size and consistency, comparing the actual result with the programmed patter and…
The Center for Professional Innovation and Education will host two upcoming conferences on effective document management for the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. The conferences will be held Jan. 31–Feb. 1 in Malvern, Pennsylvania; and May 11–12 in Ireland. They’ll…
A pharmaceutical researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received an award from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Brian F. McBride, a research fellow in Vanderbilt’s Division of Clinical Pharmacology, was recognized for a research paper that showed that a…
Six leading technology companies recently agreed to participate in a new program that will help create SAFE-BioPharma–enabled business applications, infrastructure, services and identity credentials for the pharmaceutical and health care industries. SAFE-BioPharma has developed and licensed a…
Molecular Devices Corp. has released SoftMax Pro 5 GxP, data-acquisition and -analysis software that includes CFR Part 11 compliance features for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The software was developed specifically for customers who are required to comply with multiple…
Endocare Inc. has agreed to sell its wholly owned stock in Timm Medical Technologies Inc. to Plethora Solutions Holdings PLC. Plethora Solutions Holdings, a U.K.-based specialty pharmaceutical company that develops products for the treatment of urological diseases, will pay $8.1 million in…
DataLabs recently released DataLabs Clinical, an electronic clinical-data–management platform that allows biopharmaceutical and research organizations to streamline their data-management processes and reduce the time and cost of clinical trials. The software unifies the functionality of paper-based…
The 2005 National Health Quality Report suggests that a push for health care quality improvement by U.S. quality improvement organizations (QIO) has been successful. The report found significant improvements in the delivery of diabetes, heart disease, respiratory, maternal and child health and…
George Rathbun, director of architecture in Pfizer’s Global Research and Development Informatics group, was recently named chief technology officer of SAFE-BioPharma Association. SAFE-BioPharma is the pharmaceutical-industry–sponsored organization that’s developing and managing a secure digital-…
Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics recently became the first integrated health system in Asia to earn accreditation from the Joint Commission International. The hospital is a joint venture between Chindex International, a U.S.-owned health care company that operates Chinese hospitals, and…
Precision Wire Components LLC, a medical-component manufacturer, recently received registration to ISO 13485:2003. PWC manufactures guide wires for major medical-device makers, and has been registered to quality standards in the ISO 9000 series since 1997, one year after the company was founded.…
Delphi Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Delphi Corp., recently signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with WearAir Oxygen Inc., a Canadian medical-device company. Delphi anticipates using WearAir’s technology for its OEM customers and distributors for portable oxygen concentrators in the…
Shared Services Healthcare Inc. recently recognized Standard Register with its Top Medical Surgical Vendor for 2005 award. Shared Services Healthcare, an affiliate of MedAssets, is a group-purchasing organization composed of health care institutions in the southeast United States. The recognition…
