(Winston-Salem, N.C.) Carolina Liquid Chemistries (http://www.carolinachemistries.com), the provider of the BioLis 24i chemistry system, one of the fastest growing physician office chemistry analyzers on the market offering more than 80 different tests and 16 drugs of abuse tests, has added buprenorphine to its expansive menu. Physicians are now able to perform testing on patients quickly and economically in order to monitor the potential for abuse of the schedule III opiod. Buprenorphine is intended for the treatment of pain under the trade name Buprenex® and for the treatment of narcotic addiction under the trade names Suboxone® and Subutex®. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) Harmony Animal Hospital, a full-service veterinary hospital servicing Apex and surrounding areas, is now offering state-of-the-art laser therapy to treat pain and inflammation in dogs and cats. The addition of one of the first multiwave locked system (MLS) laser therapy units in the Triangle comes as the veterinary care facility celebrates its first year providing quality animal care to pet owners throughout Southwest Wake County. (more…)

(Nesher, Israel) NanoVibronix, a medical device company which develops innovative therapeutic ultrasound applications, announced that following its initial success with the first generation PainShield device for pain therapy, especially for the severe pain associated with Trigeminal Neuralgia, NanoVibronix presents its second generation PainShield with additional features for the therapy of chronic pain and wounds. PainShield is a small, portable device that produces low frequency, low intensity ultrasonic waves for healing of soft tissue such as tendon, chronic wounds and neuropathic pain. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced results from the company’s TRYTON Side Branch Stent™ System presented during a Tryton-sponsored symposium in conjunction with the EuroPCR 2010 conference in Paris. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced the launch of the TRYTON Side Branch Stent™ System in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The stent is used to treat bifurcation lesions, the largest unmet need confronting interventional cardiology. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) North Carolina’s leader in home medical equipment advocacy and education, NCAMES, has released an official statement in support of the Medicare Fraud Enforcement and Prevention Act of 2010. The new legislation, H.R. 5044, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and several other lawmakers to stop criminal activity in the Medicare system before it starts. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced completion of enrollment in E-Tryton 150 and E-Tryton Benelux, two European registry studies of the company’s TRYTON Side Branch Stent™ System for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions in the side branch at the site of a bifurcation. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Home medical equipment service providers from seventeen North Carolina-based companies travelled to Washington, D.C. recently to urge members of Congress to support new legislation that will strengthen homecare availability for millions of older Americans and people with disabilities who require home-based medical equipment and services. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Humacyte, Inc. and Xcellerex, Inc. have entered into an initial strategic collaboration for Xcellerex to develop a novel manufacturing process that will enable the production of Humacyte’s lead regenerative medicine product using Xcellerex’s XDR single use bioreactor system in its FlexFactory®. Humacyte’s product is a large diameter vascular graft that is based on its innovative and proprietary platform technology for engineering human, extracellular matrix-based tissues that have properties that are similar to native tissues. Humacyte’s vascular grafts represent a breakthrough that will first be used for arterio-venous access in patients on hemodialysis and eventually would be used as a replacement of diseased or damaged blood vessels. Xcellerex will provide development expertise and product manufacturing in exchange for manufacturing development fees from Humacyte. Humacyte will utilize the initial grafts produced under this collaboration for preclinical development, and the parties may continue their collaboration for the development of large scale manufacturing of vascular grafts for transplantation for clinical and commercial use. The FlexFactory will enable Humacyte to later scale up its production to meet late stage clinical and worldwide commercial market demands. The technology for cultivation of vascular grafts was developed by Humacyte using small-scale bioreactors that produced one graft at a time. The grafts have successfully completed animal tests, enabling Humacyte to begin scale up for manufacturing of grafts for human clinical trials and eventually commercial production. The collaboration is partially funded by a Small Business Innovation Research grant awarded to the companies by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) Excel Physical Therapy in Apex has launched a new, informative website detailing the six-year-old clinic’s personalized approach to hands-on care for adults, teens, kids and seniors rehabbing injuries or recovering from surgery. The website, www.xlpt.net, provides insight for patients and referring physicians into Excel’s consultative care model incorporating manual therapeutic techniques at their fully equipped PT clinic and customized patient home exercise programs. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) North Carolina home medical equipment service providers have donated truckloads of durable medical equipment to the people of Haiti in the five weeks since that country’s devastating earthquake, according to the North Carolina Association for Medical Equipment Services (NCAMES). (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) LipoScience, Inc., a leading developer of medical diagnostics using proprietary applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, announced today that Richard O. Brajer, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, will be presenting at the 2010 UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference on Monday, February 8, at 1:30 p.m., EST, at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. (more…)