[Quick Take] Interview with Dallas Dryden, Director of Sales at PDLabs
PDLabs offers Transdermal Verapamil (TV) 15% Gel, a painless, non-invasive treatment for fibrotic tissue disorders such as Peyronie’s disease. TV 15% has been used to […]
Month: June 2008
[Quick Take] Interview with Kirt Kirtland, President & CEO of Starion Instruments
Starion Instruments‘ uses focused thermal energy and pressure to simultaneously seal and divide tissue. By applying direct heat instead of electrical, radio frequency or ultrasonic […]
[Quick Take] Interview with William Oravan, Medical Director at Maple Leaf HIFU Co.
Maple Leaf HIFU Co. offers Ablatherm High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for localized prostate cancer. During the procedure, a probe is placed into the […]
Bariatric Surgery Now Safer, Patient Database Reveals
The Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, a patient database funded by a $700,000 annual grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, sheds new light on […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Dan Sade Hochstadter, CEO of Keren Medical
Keren Medical is developing anastomosis suturing technology for minimally invasive surgeries (an anastomosis is an operation to connect two body parts). The company’s flagship product […]
Luminex Announces Public Offering, Acquisition Seem Likely
Luminex, developer of xMAP, an open architecture multiplexing technology with applications throughout the life sciences industry, announced yesterday an underwritten public offering of 3,500,000 shares […]
[Quick Take] Interview with Edward Leary, President & CEO of ContraVac
In this quick interview from the AUA Meeting, Charlottesville, VA-based ContraVac, discusses SpermCheck Vasectomy. Using only a few drop of semen, the diagnostic can confirm […]
STAAR Surgical Goes Viral
As someone who is celebrating a second anniversary of perfect vision, I tend to be a strong proponent of the laser eye surgery. LASIK gets […]
Bitter Ally Buys Bankrupt Immunicon
Veridex, LLC, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will acquire Immunicon for $31 million in cash. Immunicon filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday; the announcement sent […]
Will NeuroMetrix Win Back the Hearts of Investors?
When I first learned of NeuroMetrix, it was love at first sight. The company’s NC-stat System made it possible for physicians to diagnose neuropathies at […]