Agreement brings the only non-magnetic MRI IV pump currently available on the U.S. market to more than 1,400 new customers WINTER PARK, Fla., April 17, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HealthTrust), one of...
Devices, Group Purchasing
IRadimed, HealthTrust, MRidium, MRI Infusion Pump

VentriPoint also has passed its annual ISO 13485 Quality Audit SEATTLE, WASHINGTON--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) - Ventripoint Diagnostics (TSX VENTURE:VPT) (VPTDF) is announcing the granting of a CE Mark by the European Notified Body, Interte...
Devices, Cardiology, Regulatory
VentriPoint Diagnostics, VMS-2DE, cardiac ultrasound

Names Paul LaViolette as Executive Chairman and Renny Clark as Chief Financial Officer MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 16, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight® Endoscopic Ablation System for th...
Devices, Cardiology, Personnel
CardioFocus, HeartLight, Endoscopic Ablation System, atrial fibrillation

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 16, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Abbott (ABT) today announced the global launch of the ACCELERATOR®a3600, a next generation automation solution, to help laboratories address the need to process tests faste...
Diagnostics, Product Launch
Abbott, ACCELERATOR a3600, laboratory automation

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 16, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- A prostate cancer patient has become the first person in the world to be treated using the latest version of Varian's Vitesse™ real time planning solution for planning and perfor...
Devices, Oncology
Varian Medical Systems, Vitesse, brachytherapy, radiotherapy

SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 16, 2013 (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Osseon® Therapeutics, Inc. announced that Dr. G. Brooks Brennan, an Interventional Radiologist with Radisphere National Radiology Group, recently performed the first steerable...
Devices, Interventional, Orthopaedic, Neurosurgery
Osseon Therapeutics, Balloon Osseoplasty, vertebral compression fracture

SOLNA, Sweden--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Aerocrine AB (OMX Nordic Exchange: AERO) announces that Health Canada’s Therapeutic Products Directorate has authorized Aerocrine’s latest NIOX MINO® for use in identifying allergic airway inflamma...
Devices, Regulatory
Aerocrine, NIOX MINO, exhaled nitric oxide, nitric oxide, asthma

Clearance is Carticept’s Fifth to be Granted through the New Draft FDA Regulatory Guidance for 510(k) Infusion Pump Submissions ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Carticept Medical, Inc., a developer of innovative drug delivery sy...
Devices, Drug Delivery, FDA
Carticept Medical, Navigator DS, intra-articular injection

VANCOUVER, April 15, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Angiotech") announced today that on April 12, 2013 it completed its transaction, as previously announced on March 25, 2013, to sell certain o...
Devices, Interventional, Acquisitions
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Argon Medical Devices

SAN DIEGO, April 15, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Ambit Biosciences Corporation today announced that David R. Parkinson, M.D., has been appointed to the company's board of directors. Dr. Parkinson is a venture partner at New Enterpris...
Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel
Ambit Biosciences

QUÉBEC CITY, April 15, 2013 (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") announced today that David A. Dodd has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, succe...
Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel
AETERNA ZENTARIS

Firm, Fully Financed Offer, Made Under Rule 2.5 of the Irish Takeover Rules, Valued at up to US$12 per Elan Share, a 23 Percent Increase Over the Enterprise Value of Royalty Pharma's Initial Proposal Offer Represents a 39 Percent Premium Over of the Und...
Biopharmaceuticals, Mergers & Acquisitions
Royalty Pharma, Elan Corp

World's First Non-Invasive Diabetes Test Can Play a Critical Role in Global Diabetes Screening WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -Miraculins Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MOM), ("Miraculins" or the "Company"), a medical ...
Devices, Endocrinology, Acquisitions
Miraculins, VeraLight, SCOUT DS, diabetes screening

At rare, extremely high blood glucose levels (1024 mg/dL and above), the FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Meter may provide an inaccurate reading ABBOTT PARK, Ill., April 15, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Abbott (ABT) today announce...
Devices, Monitoring, Endocrinology, Product Recall
Abbott, FreeStyle InsuLinx, Blood Glucose

Mary Anne Heino Joins Company as New Chief Commercial Officer; Company Positioned to Optimize Growth NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a global leader in developing, manufacturing and distrib...
Biopharmaceuticals, Radiology, Personnel
Lantheus Medical Imaging, flurpiridaz F 18, imaging agent

LIMERICK, Pa.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--Teleflex Incorporated (TFX), a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, has announced that it has been awarded a new agreement for its line of regional anesthesia produ...
Devices, Group Purchasing
Teleflex, HealthTrust, Arrow FlexBlock, Peripheral Nerve Block Catheter

ZURICH-SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, April 15, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Covagen today announced the expansion of its senior management team with the appointment of Elias Papatheodorou as chief business officer. He brings 20 years of wor...
Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel
Covagen, COVA322, FynomAbs, Fynomer

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 12, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Veracyte, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company pioneering the emerging field of molecular cytology, today announced the appointment of Shelly D. Guyer as chief finan...
Diagnostics, Personnel
Veracyte, Afirma Thyroid FNA, thyroid cancer

New Implantable Pump Provides Important New Options for Physicians Treating Chronic Pain Patients MOUNT OLIVE, N.J., April 11, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Flowonix Medical Inc., a medical device company focused on providing advanc...
Devices, Drug Delivery, Product Launch
Flowonix Medical, Prometra, Intrathecal, Drug Infusion Pump

Varian will also showcase newly-created Japanese language versions of the company's radiotherapy treatment planning and oncology information software products YOKOHAMA, Japan, April 11, 2013 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Varian Medical S...
Devices, Oncology
Varian Medical Systems, TrueBeam, linear accelerator, radiotherapy, radiosurgery