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PositiveID Corporation Successfully Completes Development Of Its Continuous Glucose Sensor To Accurately Measure ...Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:55AMPositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or "Company") (Nasdaq:PSID), a developer of medical technologies for diabetes management, clinical diagnostics and bio-threat detection, announced today it has successfully created and laboratory-tested a stable and reproducible closed-cycle, continuous glucose sensing system that functions in the human blood fractions that are relevant to glucose analysis in ...

Supreme Court ruling could require more analysts to testify, putting strain on state science labMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:15PMA U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer in a New Mexico drunken-driving case is expected to put more pressure on state laboratories that test suspects' blood alcohol content and DNA, officials say.

New fluorescent protein allows scientists to see living organsMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:20PMThere are several techniques used by researchers and physicians to image the internal organs of people and animals, but each of these techniques have their shortcomings. X-rays and computed tomography (CT) scanning, for instance, involve exposing the subject to radiation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is safer, although subjects must sometimes ingest a contrasting agent in order to obtain ...

Tests for inherited colon cancer may be worth costMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:49PMNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening tumors from all colon cancer patients could be a cost-effective way of spotting families at high genetic risk of the disease, a study published Monday suggests.

Doctor in the House: Combating troublesome ticks in summerMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:10PMAlthough tick bites are now fairly common in Massachusetts, between 1987 and 1991, studies conducted in this part of New England found no ticks in the region. In 1992, a Mosquito Control Project worker first reported he found a deer tick on himself. Deer ticks began to appear in the Sudbury area sometime in 1995. In the year 1997, 41 deer ticks were found in mouse houses set in Framingham ...

Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform Powers EmblemHealth Mobile AppsMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:57AMNew York-based insurer EmblemHealth is using Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform to build apps that allow patients to locate flu shot providers and monitor chronic conditions.

Hopkins doctors focusing on link between pancreatic cysts, cancerMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:04AMPaula Rhines, a clinical consultant residing in Fort Lauderdale, is back to work after being treated for a pancreatic cyst at Hopkins. ( Carey Wagner, Sun Sentinel / July 7 , 2011 )

NSVascular signs exclusive license with UCLA for Thin-Film Nitinol technologyMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:14AMNeuroSigma, Inc., a Los Angeles-based medical device company, today announced the formation of a majority owned subsidiary, NSVascular, Inc. and the signing of an exclusive license with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) covering its medical applications of Thin-Film Nitinol (TFN) technology. Nitinol is a superelastic nickel and titanium alloy with unique properties that allow ...

Drinking Coffee to Stave Off Alzheimer's. Show Me the MoneyMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:17AMIs it really as simple at that? I got a tweet from a reader yesterday pointing me to an article in the LA Times. [More]