Economic Development

Huntsville was named one of the country's top 10 cities for raising families by Kiplinger's.

Read the full article to see why Huntsville made the list.

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By Patrick Crutcher  

This small-cap company may be poised to be a long-term leader in cancer diagnostics and molecular testing. They combine innovative diagnostic technologies with world-class pathology expertise to assess and characterize cancer. The rise of individualized medicine as the new direction in oncology has created the need for a centralized resource providing leading diagnostic technologies, such as flow cytometry and molecular testing.

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Diatherix Laboratories has added a gastrointestinal (GI) panel to its lineup of sensitive, response diagnostic tests. Diatherix GI panel can detect and differentiate nine types of GI infections and helps physicians to identify severe, life-threatening infections in patients.

The GI panel provides physicians with accurate test results in one day by which patients can be more effectively treated through targeted therapeutics which reduces overall medical costs and a patient's down time.

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Kettering Medical Center working with Alabama company to improve care, save money.

By Ben Sutherly
Staff Writer

KETTERING — Kettering Medical Center expects a partnership with an infectious disease diagnostic company to improve patient care and save the hospital money through more rapid diagnoses.

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Alabama’s small cities are poised for recovery

TUCKED between the Tombigbee river and a rural highway meandering north from Mobile sits a warren of huge buildings in Willy Wonka-colours: sea-foam blue and green, desert beige and mauve. Though they look like a modern-art installation, in fact they comprise a new steel mill being built by ThyssenKrupp, a German company. According to ThyssenKrupp the $3.7 billion mill represents the largest German investment in America ever. When it reaches full capacity in 2012, it will employ 2,700 workers and produce some 5.1m tons of carbon and stainless steel per year.

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Clarient Insight Dx Pulmotype is the first commercial test launched following the recent acquisition of HudsonAlpha resident associate Applied Genomics Inc.  AGI developed Pulmotype and recently validated the test with a clinical study cohort of more than 1,000 patients.  The peer-reviewed results were published in the August 2009 edition of Modern Pathology.  A link to that study can be accessed at www.clarientinc.com/pulmotype.

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The Huntsville Times R&D Report
By Diana LaChance

Award-winning kidney dialysis catheter is easier on patients.

When it comes to biomedical innovation, it can be hard to change the existing paradigm.  Doctors - and insurance companies - tend to stick with what they know, with what has been proven to work in the past.  So it takes a special product to get the medical establishment to sit up and take notice.  B. Prabhakar Pandian, a principal scientist and director of the Bioengineering Laboratory at CFD Research Corp. (CFDRC), believes that he and his fellow researchers have come up with just that in their patented hemodialysis catheter.  "Most of the catheters on the market have a major recirculation problem," says Pandian.  So CFDRC's researchers set out to create an improved catheter that would minimize this inherent problem.  Not only did they achieve their goal, but they also managed to solve a few other problems along the way.