FDA okays new GE tomography system
GE Healthcare has received federal approval for yet another medical device technology, and this one promises better imaging for the estimated 20% of Americans that are considered obese....
GE Healthcare has received federal approval for yet another medical device technology, and this one promises better imaging for the estimated 20% of Americans that are considered obese....
A key lawmaker who often disagrees with Governor Jim Doyle on embryonic stem cell research said Wednesday that he saw nothing inappropriate about the governor's use of an executive order as an instrument to fund the recruiting of stem cell companies. Meanwhile, the executive order, signed...
Milwaukee, Wis. — Fiserv, which provides software and services to the financial and health-benefits industries, said its first-quarter revenues in 2006 were up 13 percent to $1.1 billion....
Wisconsin may have received only three of the 35 Midwestern venture capital deals reported during the first quarter of 2006, but one local observer isn't alarmed....
Madison, Wis. — One of the more hopeful promises of stem cells is the creation of new organs, grown to meet the medical demand that is not being met by organ donation. But experts are concerned that high hopes could lead to backlash: among patients...
Higher revenue from its clinical molecular diagnostic products could not prevent Third Wave Technologies, Inc. from reporting a loss for the quarter ending March 31, 2006....
Wauwatosa, Wis. - With the goal of capturing 10 percent of the stem cell technology market by 2015, Governor Jim Doyle signed an executive order directing the Department of Commerce to spend at least $5 million in economic development money to recruit new stem cell...
William Yasnoff, founder of the eHealthTrust initiative, further discusses his controversial approach to giving physicians an incentive to use electronic medical records and the barriers to changing the healthcare system....
Fitchburg - A scientist who was involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep said Thursday there often is a lack of perspective in media coverage of embryonic stem cell research, which could be raising the public’s expectations too high....
With BIO 2006 still fresh in our minds, Mike Rosen comments on how it was a big success in many ways, but the challenge now for Midwesterners is how to leverage this momentum from the event into creating a major Midwest life science cluster. One...