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Business & Technology Briefs (06/2007)

Brief summaries of recent product and company developments in the device industry, including Aspect Medical's brain monitoring technology, Warburg's bid for Bausch & Lomb, and Frazier Healthcare Venture's investment in publicly-traded Endocare.

Aspect Medical Systems Inc. is evaluating several new applications for its Bispectral Index (BIS) technology, an EEG-based brain monitoring technology that is currently used to measure the depth of anesthesia during surgery. In May and June, the company reported interim results from three ongoing clinical trials that are evaluating the BIS technology for use in monitoring treatment response to anti-depressant medications, and as a method of evaluating cognitive function in the elderly.

Interim results from the BRITE (Biomarkers for Rapid Identification of Treatment Effecitiveness) trial, which were presented in May at the...

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