In a private-public partnership, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has launched Malcovery, an intelligence company specializing in cyber threat detection, to help businesses protect themselves from cyberattacks. Malcovery uses patented forensic technology to identify the source and nature of immediate cyberattacks and analyze millions of cyberthreat angles to combat future crises.
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) today announced a five-year agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Janssen) to collaborate on focused research projects in the infectious disease area, with the initial project targeting the influenza virus. Under the agreement Janssen will receive certain license rights to the results of the research. Janssen Pharmaceuticals will collaborate in the research on influenza through its Crucell Vaccine Institute.
Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that it has expanded its partnership with BMJ to be the exclusive aggregated information provider of the BMJ Clinical Evidence resource on its OvidSP platform. Ovid will offer BMJ Clinical Evidence to medical and academic institutions globally to support clinicians, researchers, educators and students make decisions on quality care and improve patient outcomes through effective evidence-based clinical practice.
Absorption Pharmaceuticals announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has indicated that it will grant a patent related to the use of its topical medication, Promescent, for premature ejaculation (PE). The patent protects novel lidocaine-only eutectic formulation which enables maximum absorption of the anesthetic through the skin's outer layer and provides men with improved ejaculatory control while maintaining great sensory feeling.
Immudex has entered into a strategic agreement with the US Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC) of the Cancer Research Institute, and the European Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), under which Immudex will provide MHC-peptide multimer and Elispot proficiency panel services worldwide.
University of Utah students have invented a portable cook pot that doubles as a thermoelectric generator, and are now marketing it nationally after having raised $126K on Kickstarter.
At a time when the national dialogue about higher education is centered on cost and value, Saint Mary’s College is proud to announce the Four-Year Graduation Promise. Starting in the fall with the incoming Class of 2017, students who follow the promise’s guidelines are guaranteed to graduate in four years or the College will pay for any additional courses a student needs to earn her degree. No other college or university in the area offers such a promise.
A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has created the first-ever fully interactive advanced organic chemistry textbook, called "The Portable Chemist’s Consultant: A Survival Guide for Discovery, Process, and Radiolabeling," for industrial chemists working toward new drugs and other goals, as well as organic chemistry students
Pharma officials from South Korea visit UMd School of Pharmacy, eye space in the BioPark, thanks to Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement reached a year ago.
Porter Adventist Hospital to host a community class discussing ministrokes, or transient ischemic attacks (TIA), and their connection to future stroke risk.
Practical Neurology Visual Review, a powerful educational tool for mastering the clinical practice of neurologic diagnosis, is now available in a fully revised and updated Second Edition.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office today awarded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital U.S. patent number 8,399,645 for St. Jude’s invention of compositions for genetically modifying human immune cells so they can destroy some of the most common forms of cancer in children and adults.
ConservoCare, LLC, a spinoff of research at Case Western Reserve University, has obtained license options through the university’s Technology Transfer Office to develop a medical device for bladder control.
Patent is for a method for obtaining and using umbilical cord blood cells to provide neural cells for transplantation aimed at repairing neurodegenerative diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
Health People: Community Preventive Health Institute was among six Bronx groups which today submitted an amicus brief supporting the move of online grocer Fresh Direct to a new Bronx facility.
A new, low-cost software tool has nursing homes and home health agencies — with or without an electronic health record —contributing patient assessment information to any health information exchange (HIE).
Mayo Clinic today reported a solid 2012 financial performance as it works to provide high-quality care at lower cost, strengthen its destination medical center practice and deliver expertise to patients and physicians in new ways.
In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessible.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has partnered with Safeway Inc. to help Safeway customers quit smoking, by connecting them with specially trained pharmacists to learn about smoking-cessation programs and other resources.
Launching today, Bettyvision, www.bettyvision.com, is a free online vision board community providing women of all ages the tools and resources needed to identify, explore and, most important, be supported in the pursuit their dreams.
iMPak Health, a subsidiary of Meridian Health, today announced a white labeling agreement with HealthSaaS for their Connected Outcomes Platform. This agreement will enhance iMPak’s device offerings by bringing patient data into the clinical workflow as an asset while reducing manual data entry and providing actionable information to healthcare providers.
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine is partnering with Infiniti Medical to offer advanced education courses in veterinary interventional radiology (IR) to help them improve the health care of companion animals.
Vanderbilt University announced today that it has signed a collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for severe obesity.
Matrix Medical Network, the nation’s leading provider of prospective health assessments for Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members, has launched a new interactive website—www.MatrixForMe.com—focused on MA healthcare information and health assessment scheduling services. The new site includes a short video describing the value of Matrix’s approach to conducting one-on-one in-home health assessments in the words of Matrix’s clinical team and MA plan members.
Pressure Point Inc., a global medical device company is proud to announce that Health Canada has granted the company an establishment license for its Pressure Right® low-risk, Class 1 (Rx) antiemetic medical device for anesthesia use in hospitals.
Aetna and Loyola University Health System announced Feb. 4 that Loyola will soon join Aetna’s network. As of March 1, Aetna’s members can receive services, at in-network rates, from Loyola’s facilities and physicians.
New company offers intellectual property and expertise to other health systems; backed by $40 million financing from Oak Investment Partners.
A new book presents the in-depth story about the men and women who created a new science, modern cell biology.
EarthViewer, a free, interactive app designed for the iPad, lets users explore the Earth’s history with the touch of a finger by scrolling through 4.5 billion years of geological evolution.
Poliomyelitis, in short polio, is a crippling, potentially fatal and highly contagious illness caused by poliovirus with no cure.
Boise State University has joined an elite group of research universities that have a launched a start-up company after licensing an online gaming platform developed by university faculty to a new venture, GoGo Labs, that will introduce the software product to the marketplace.
Published by the Soil Science Society of America and targeted to high school students, "Know Soil Know Life" challenges readers to see soil not as inert "dirt" but as living material that carries out critical functions for people and the environment.
Wolters Kluwer Health and Natural Standard, the authority on integrative medicine, are pleased to announce a partnership to expand access to Natural Standard Database through Ovid’s medical research platform. Produced by The Natural Standard Research Collaboration, this up-to-date repository contains thousands of evidence-based systematic reviews on dietary supplements and other complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practices including modalities, special diets, and exercises.
Today, AstraZeneca and Vanderbilt University announced they have signed a research collaboration agreement to identify candidate drugs aimed at treating psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with major brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.
The MySocius app uses naturalistic teaching methods to help children with autism communicate more effectively. One in 88 children is now on autism spectrum.
Budding singer, songwriter Amity is bringing her unique brand of smart, catchy and introspective music to the world. Her newest song, “Me and My Guitar,” has been released on iTunes; the official music video is available on YouTube by visiting www.AmityVideo.com.
Starting tomorrow, a group from Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), the technology transfer office at Columbia University, will host a booth at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada. The booth will include highlights from four of Columbia University’s startup portfolio companies, along with other innovative technologies available for licensing from CTV.
The Methodist Hospital in Houston and Dallas-based Remeditex Ventures LLC have entered into an exclusive agreement to develop an investigational drug for glioblastomas, the most malignant of all primary brain cancers. Current treatments only prolong survival for an average of five months.
Mayo Clinic now offers a free app called Mayo Clinic on Pregnancy for desktop/laptop and tablet users on the Windows 8 platform. The App is a trustworthy guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and baby’s first three months.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has created a new operating division to translate its academic and clinical research and discoveries into marketable products and services that will benefit patients.
Health care consumers considering a physician at University of Utah Health Care now have an additional tool— online access to the system’s patient satisfaction scores and comments. The rankings are based on more than 40,000 patient surveys and evaluate physicians on nine questions.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) today announced a partnership to develop therapeutics to treat an inherited form of muscular dystrophy. The goal of the new agreement is to develop a small-molecule-based medicine to potentially reverse facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD, by inhibiting the activity of a protein that is incorrectly expressed by the DUX4 gene in people with the disease. The protein activity is what damages muscle cells and leads to progressive muscle weakness and atrophy in FSHD patients.
Matthew McConaughey lost 38 pounds to portray an AIDS patient in the movie The Dallas Buyers Club. Dian and Tom Griesel, creators of the TurboCharged® fat loss program, advise dieters to choose a strategy that produces rapid loss of excess body fat while maintaining or even adding lean body mass.
In its December 2012 issue, the Outpatient Surgery Magazine’s product news section introduces Pressure Right®, the longer-acting perioperative, (Rx) antiemetic prophylaxis medical device to its readers. This device is a new breakthrough for reducing the high incidence of postdischarge nausea and vomiting (PDNV) of more than 35% at the end of the second postoperative day following discharge from ambulatory surgery for those patients receiving general anesthesia.
The University of Virginia is partnering with global packaging leader MeadWestvaco Corporation to support the development of a new material invented by physics professor Louis A. Bloomfield.
The Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio has applied for a patent for a genetically-engineered vaccine strategy to prevent HIV infection that targets the outer layers of body structures that are the first sites of contact with the virus.
University of Utah electrical engineering professor Florian Solzbacher is developing products from technologies that assist in finding new approaches for treating nervous system disorders such as blindness, deafness, Parkinson’s and epilepsy, while another set of clients is using them to control prosthetic limbs. Florian's startup companies Blackrock Microsystems and Blackrock NeuroMed moving into New $11 million facility in the University of Utah's Research Park.
Globus Online announces a new file sharing service that makes it easy for researchers to share their data with collaborators. New “Plus” plan enables researchers to securely share files without moving them to cloud storage.
This medical innovation, based on collaborative research by Drs. Marco Mercader, M.D., a cardiologist; Matthew Kay, D.Sc., a biomedical engineer; and Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D., a physiologist, at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), has immediate groundbreaking potential in the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), the most common irregular heartbeat affliction in the U.S.
A new effective perioperative, antiemetic medical device has been developed by Pressure Point Inc., a global medical device company and Laminin Medical Products, an FDA registered establishment. Both companies jointly announcing a long-term manufacturing agreement in which Laminin will produce Pressure Right®, a new FDA-cleared (Rx) disposable, antiemetic innovation device, which uses advanced acupressure technology to enhance the management of nausea/and or vomiting following surgery.
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