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Premier Inc., an alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 67,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care, and Xoft, Inc., the leading provider of FDA-cleared Electronic Brachytherapy Systems, announced the execution of a group purchasing contract. Xoft was awarded an exclusive three-year contract for brachytherapy systems with Premier Purchasing [...]

SAN DIEGO, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced that results from its COR-I trial of Contrave were published online today in the journal Lancet. COR-I was the largest of the four, 56-week, Phase 3 trials supporting the New Drug Application for Contrave, currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug [...]

ValueConnect, to be Demonstrated at AHRMM10, Uses Premier Data and Resources to Align Supply Chain, Finance and Clinical Teams, Engage Hospitals around Effectively Evaluating Product and Treatment Options CHARLOTTE, N.C.(BUSINESS WIRE) [...]

July 28Sequenom officials Tuesday defended the San Diego biotechnology company’s prenatal genetic test for Down syndrome, saying it doesn’t need more intense oversight despite a warning letter from regulators."We believe that the test meets the definition of (a laboratory-developed test)," officials said in a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Lab-developed tests traditionally haven’t [...]

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 28 The University of California at San Diego issued the following news release:Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego and GlySens Incorporated have developed an implantable glucose sensor and wireless telemetry system that continuously monitors tissue glucose and transmits the information to an external receiver. The paper, published in [...]

CHATSWORTH, Calif., July 27, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) IRIS International, Inc. (Nasdaq:IRIS), a leading manufacturer of automated in-vitro diagnostics systems and consumables for use in hospitals and commercial laboratories worldwide, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AlliedPath, Inc., a private, early stage high complexity, CLIA-certified laboratory focused on oncology and [...]

To help reduce costs without negative effects on quality, hospitals and health systems in California are joining a labor-related management collaborative managed by the Premier healthcare alliance (see also Premier Inc.).Hospitals stand to lose almost $200 billion in reimbursement during the next decade as a part of healthcare reform, and additional reimbursement dollars will be [...]

Premier’s Supply Chain Advisor Now Allows Hospitals to More Easily Identify Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Contracts to Help Improve Environmental Health, Reduce Costs CHARLOTTE, N.C.(BUSINESS WIRE) To help its member [...]

SAN DIEGO, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Gen-Probe Incorporated (Nasdaq: GPRO) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing Prodesse's ProFAST?+ assay, making it the only FDA-cleared molecular diagnostic test to simultaneously detect and differentiate three common influenza A virus subtypes seasonal A/H1, seasonal A/H3, and 2009 H1N1."FDA clearance [...]

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 26 The University of California at San Diego issued the following news release:Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a kind of sugar molecule common to chimpanzees, gorillas and other mammals but not found in humans provokes a strong immune response in some [...]