*****This thread is setup mainly to gain information
relating to Mediwatch in a quick and easy way and IS IN NO WAY A
RECOMMENDATION TO BUY!********


Mediwatch-A Synopsis:
Mediwatch was established in 1996 and has developed a range of specialist
medical equipment for the diagnosis of urological disorders.The group joined the
AIM in 2000 through a reverse into Prostcare plc,which at the time was valued at
8m.While the vast majority of sales were generated in the UK,there was a
substantial indirect export business involving a number of agents,supplying into
Europe,North America,Australasia and Asia,notably Japan.
Group revenues are set to increase rapidly following the acquisition of the former
Medtronic Urodynamis Division,which has introduced a fundamental presence in
North America.The deal was in 2006 with the sales division building from 2007.
With the inclusion of the Medtronic systems now owned by Mediwatch they now
can offer a 'One Stop Shop' for the diagnosis of various urology disorders with the
benefit of Mediwatch systems having the ability to electronically send data from the
various tests to a central data base!Oh and plus the added bonus of PSAwatch and
now PCA3plus!

More than 30 million PSA tests are performed annually in the USA alone!

CHARTS

FUTURE EVENTS AND LATEST
NEWS

Just for the record and to even things up,this is Treblewide's view (near end
of 2008):

"in short 3p by chrimbo and a real chance if they do not get rid of management they
will go into receivership.....when they bough the MDT business I said at the time it
must have been a bag of shite as they only paid buttons for it.......looks like that was
fairly correct......i feel sorry for shareholders"

Treblewide has been filtered from my eyes for his abuse,lies and general behavior but
it's a free country (I think) so do as you see fit.


It started with:

Treblewide - 05 Jun 2007 15:49 - 33 of 1747
still short

Treblewide - 18 Jun 2007 00:24 - 69 of 1747
interesting stuff from that article...very few men die from prosate cancer and it is not an agressive disease....treatment can be worse than the disease.......kind of suggests their whole business model is based on sand to me.......but hey who wants a balanced view.

Treblewide - 18 Jun 2007 00:31 - 76 of 1754
exercise and sex may cause a raised PSA...so you guys may have stumbled on a test for fit shaggers :-)

I am gonna name Me-Di-Watch

Gonna-go-bust-soon-iwatch

Treblewide - 18 Jun 2007 10:59 - 85 of 1754
minder...i do not make light of prosate cancer....show me one post where I do...i make fun out of this company yes but not the disease so wind yer neck in pal.

show me any trace of a profit and i will maybe change my mind

Treblewide - 18 Jun 2007 15:54 - 97 of 1754
minder made a small loss yes which I have more than made up for shorting it........and i guess your average holding is 3p.....aye right.

Aalso I closed out my short at 8p for a loss of the spread if memory serves me correctly.

currently short from 13.25....i thank you and goodnight

Treblewide - 23 Jul 2007 12:36 - 154 of 1747
more of the same......thank god i still do not own shares in this lot...will they ever
make a penny profit....looks doubtful......cannot even manage a small supply chain.


ect ect ect

with the last few posts:

Treblewide - 30 Mar 2009 09:16 - 1704 of 1754
you are a lunatic mick.....words fail me.

and ps i only post under treblewide on any financial web site....i know you cannot say the same......you have been calling this as a buy and nothing but a buy for about 7 years...it says it all really about your stock picking ability

i notice the downtrend ins now establishing itself....re-visit of the lows again by the looks of things

Treblewide - 30 Mar 2009 22:41 - 1712 of 1754
mick no i dont know what each product does...i dont think that is important...the numbers tell everything and even though you must spend hours on web sites searching for stuff that is not even related to MDW you fail to grasp the basics...they consistently lost money and now seem to be making some...my call to 3p was correct and i think if they had not got their shit together they could have gone under

i was not interested in them as a long play while they were loosing money depsite whatever rubbish you posted regarding piss sticks or whatever you bang on about.

and yes it was poor trading..having an avergae of 12 and averaging down to 6-7p while they were at 3p....is terrible trading...that cannot even be debated...the very fact you know so much about the products means you have fallen in love with this company......which is very dangerous when investing....

the numbers are the important things...i was right on 3p, the company is posting slightly better figures but we are in a bear market which has not bottomed yet so the price will fall further

you are a 1 trick pony that posts irrelevant links...dont bother to respond i can be bothered getting into a debate with you.....away and cut and paste some more flags

toodlepip

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I have been chased from here and now ADVFN,has the boy got a problem?

treblewide - 3 Aug'09 - 14:46 - 22345 of 22412


post 22342 is classic.....so mick advfn is not a good source when the consensus is sell?

begs the question why you spend so much time polluting it with your bull tripe?

question....so MDW share price has gone up, it has gone down etc etc...during all of that time has mick ever been able to find any subjectivity in his posting ie has he ever critisised anything?

i really think he may be getting paid by MDW...the whole thing is very bizzare.

mick i notice you referred to your threads as "promotion of Mediwatch"

can you confirm if you are getting financially rewarded by the company for this?

treblewide - 3 Aug'09 - 23:55 - 22371 of 22412


664k overdrawn....takes a long time to pay back at 39k profit every 6 months.

drawn down overdraft has increased by 170k and they paid 33k to service that overdraft and made 39k profit...as i keep saying my local fish and chip shop make more money than this lot.

margins have been squeezed...psa watch now off the agenda in terms of updates....not 1 single reason to buy and yet you lot think this share price will go up??.....am mystified why it would increase? genuinely why is this comapny under valued?? i cannot see it and dont bang on about fairfax saying they are going to make x amount...they have never been near to getting it right

if i were a holder i would be selling now at 6p if i could and buying back in the 2-3p range which the chart is saying is now a certainty....i expecta full year loss

i told you all to sell at 14p and at 11p (it is all there in black and white) and that it was going to 3 pence..i got abuse mick called me an idiot and suggested it was going to 50p......still a sell and my short (which was posted in real time over the road) is nicely in profit.

toodle pip...will log back in when it gets to 3p....



treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 00:19 - 22373 of 22412


664k overdrawn....takes a long time to pay back at 39k profit every 6 months.

drawn down overdraft has increased by 170k and they paid 33k to service that overdraft and made 39k profit...as i keep saying my local fish and chip shop make more money than this lot.

margins have been squeezed...psa watch now off the agenda in terms of updates....not 1 single reason to buy and yet you lot think this share price will go up??.....am mystified why it would increase? genuinely why is this comapny under valued?? i cannot see it and dont bang on about fairfax saying they are going to make x amount...they have never been near to getting it right

if i were a holder i would be selling now at 6p if i could and buying back in the 2-3p range which the chart is saying is now a certainty....i expecta full year loss

i told you all to sell at 14p and at 11p (it is all there in black and white) and that it was going to 3 pence..i got abuse mick called me an idiot and suggested it was going to 50p......still a sell and my short (which was posted in real time over the road) is nicely in profit.

toodle pip...will log back in when it gets to 3p....

treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 10:49 - 22379 of 22412


still time to get out at 6p.....dont understand why you would not sell at 6p when they are obviously going to half in value...if you are a long term mdw bull you can buy twice as many shares at 3p and maybe possibly one day see a profit on your holding?



treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 12:44 - 22381 of 22412


last chance to sell at 6p for your shares folks


treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 14:48 - 22387 of 22412


so question...is psawatch is so great...why has there been no huge surge in revenue figures from UK and Europe on the back of it being sold?

the whole reason a lot of you hold this is psawatch...it has not made them any money in Europe which could be argued when taken as a whole is not much smaller than the USA.....this company is not going to change overnight with US approval...at bets it would be a selling opportunity for long term holders

i really think a lot of you have to ignore some of the nonsense ramping going on here...the company is draining cash and there margins are reducing (despite this wonder PSA machine they have for sale)

i really think the future looks bleak for mediwatch...if someone can put in concise terminology why MDW is a buy i am all ears....dont point me at fairfax report...they are a bunch of clowns as well...that interim report is shocking and i mean really poor.

costs out of control...margins squeezed, cash running out...no real revenue growth, does this sound like a growth company to you?

sell at 6p


treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 15:50 - 22391 of 22412


god i have heard it all now...mick can you counter my points about declining margins and cash issues without nonsense posts about peopel having insider information...what a crock and what a clown.

so just so i have this straight in my head...when you put in effort to ramp these shares it is all great and you expect cuddles? (and if anyone disagrees you throw your toys out the pram liek an old woman)

when i put up a few posts to explain why i am short it is an organised attempt to get the share price down because i have insider inforamtion from the US?

were you the Iraqi information minister in a previous role? lol


treblewide - 5 Aug'09 - 19:24 - 22409 of 22412


lol.....shares getting sold today at 5.75.....next stop 3p...

treblewide - 4 Aug'09 - 12:44 - 22381 of 22408 edit


last chance to sell at 6p for your shares folks




treblewide - 5 Aug'09 - 19:29 - 22410 of 22412


i wonder what thier overdraft is limited to....1M?

if so they have 12 months of life left at current perfomance...how many of you hlders have considered the chances of them going bust?....i would not rule it out...would love to know how much further the banks will let them go into debt before they pull the plug

treblewide - 5 Aug'09 - 19:37 - 22411 of 22412


seriously if i were a holder i would look at the interims and ask how much longer can they go on burning cash.......and with all the averaging down the bulls have done over the years i bet some are more exposed than they should be....good luck...think you might need it




ANYWAY

http://mediwatch.blogspot.com/

Interesting two page article from Wales,again! I like this bit:

"I am certain screening will be offered soon, so why hide behind the rest of the UK decision-makers? Lets blaze the trail on something that will save lives and money in Wales."

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2009/03/09/keith-cass-prostate-cancer-and-me-91466-23095496/

Hmmmm,lost my translator so will have to check later but not sure why Infomed are saying that PSAwatch and other MDW equipment are 'new' as they have been showing them for 6 months or more!

http://infomed.com.ru/uro_all/quicktest.html#BioScan

Some information on the current state of prostate cancer within Africa:

CANCER SCOURGE IN AFRICA IS REAL

Social hygiene standards everywhere on the African continent are either poor, very poor or non-existent. Environmental and ecological degradation have assumed an alarming rate with pollution of all types (air, water, soil) going on neither unchecked nor regulated by the appropriate authorities. Smoking and second hand smoking which every day harm the lungs of both the elderly and young are happening as if they are of little or no consequence. Processed foods, (usually processed without adequate quality control mechanism) including alcohol and beverages have replaced the type of food which the African male was used to.


The world is changing fast and as we embark on gigantic industrialization campaigns, African governments should not lose sight of the attendant health consequences. Appropriate regulatory bodies must step up awareness campaigns on the consequences of industrialization, urbanization and westernization. Multi-nationals operating in Africa should chip in their widow's might towards the health education and awareness of the African populace.


This is where the recent efforts by the Lagos State government to set up prostate cancer screening and testing centers all over the state should be commended. The federal government of Nigeria and other governments in Africa should emulate the Lagos State's example. Fortunately, prostate cancer is curable if diagnosed early. Male children from the ages of 18 should be taught in school of the signs and signals to look out for around the area of their vital organs, in this deadly battle to fight the scourge called prostate cancer. Cancer is the costly price that comes with industrialization and modernization of all genres. The African male is paying for it disproportionately.

http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/offoaro/042908.html


750 men benefit from free prostate cancer screening in Lagos
Written by Chioma Obinna & Doyin Adekunle
Tuesday, 04 November 2008

On the premise that an estimated 14 million Nigerian men afflicted with prostate cancer, the most common cause of cancer death in Nigerian men aged 50 and above, the Lagos State Government last week kicked off the 2nd phase of the free prostate cancer awareness and screening programme.
The programme which began November 3 - 7, 2008 is targeting no fewer than 750 men aged 50 and above and will take place in Ikeja, Amuwo-Odofin and Ikorodu Local Government Areas of the State.

State Ccommissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris in a statement noted that the two most common tests for prostate cancer including Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) measurement would be combined and offered free of charge during the exercise.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20907


HEALTH

In the health sector, our central policy thrust revolves around expanding and improving our capacity to provide curative health care at the secondary and tertiary levels while also emphasizing preventive care through the provision of primary health care especially for women and children. Apart from sustaining the provision of free health care for children under five, the aged above 60 and free ante-natal care for women, we have further expanded services of free screening and treatment for a number of silent killer diseases such as Tuberculosis, Diabetes, High blood pressure Prostate cancer and Breast cancer.

Lagos State-2009 Budget


Ghana spearheads research on prostate cancer

A new technology being developed in Ghana could help Prostate cancer patients in Africa.

11 March 2008

http://africasciencenews.org/asns/index.php/News/Latest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208&Itemid=1

Interesting report:

"According to this new report, approximately a third of African American men can expect a lifetime diagnosis of prostate cancer, which is not an encouraging figure, and only adds to the pressure on researchers to find better ways to discriminate between those men who really do need treatment and those who can be managed effectively with active surveillance."

Cancer Facts & Figures For African Americans 2009-2010

Delaying bladder cancer surgery increases mortality
Mon Mar 9, 2009 2:50pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with stage II bladder cancer, the risk of death from cancer and other causes increases if surgery is not performed within 12 weeks of diagnosis, U.S. researchers report.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5285YS20090309?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

After being called a 'ramper' over on the 'dark side' I would just like to point out that I am a long term holder that probably appears to be short term by my feverish postings but that's just because I enjoy the research and at the same time want to gain as much information on my investment.

Therefore please do not buy any shares in MDW based on my postings here as they are mainly for my own use.If anyone reads this thread and it helps in either the buying or selling of shares in MDW then I'll take that as a positive too.

We haven't had a 'News from Around the World' for a while.So,here goes:

News from Around the World

State Health Registry provides latest on cancer in Iowa
Grandad's prostate cancer plight
Australians refused insurance because of poor genes
Keith Cass: Prostate cancer and me

Will add to as the evening progresses :-)

I think this article needs a post of it's own:

Are Prostate Cancer Tests Worth the Trauma?

Common Prostate Cancer Test Means Unneeded Treatment, Study Says; Some Docs Disagree

By AUDREY GRAYSON and DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit
March 10, 2009

"New research is adding fuel to a fiery debate over who should be be screened for prostate cancer.

While proponents of the standard blood test used to detect signs of prostate cancer -- called the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA test -- maintain that it has saved thousands of lives, researchers in the Netherlands suggest that many men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer may have been better off never knowing they had the disease.

In a study of American men that lasted from 1985 and 2000, the researchers found that between 23 percent and 42 percent of prostate cancers identified by PSA testing are so slow-growing that they probably would never have posed a health threat.

In other words, most of these men would have lived a full life and died from another cause entirely, never knowing they had these slow-growing cancers. Instead, the authors maintain, the men were subjected to unnecessary treatment as well as the psychological trauma that goes along with a cancer diagnosis."


"Dr. Michael Barry, medical director of the Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes in an accompanying editorial that he believes the researchers' estimates are probably low.

"The increased risk of getting a diagnosis of prostate cancer due to screening is much higher than for other cancers we screen for, such as cervical, colorectal, or breast cancer," Barry explained.

He argued that the benefits of screening, which he said have not been proved, need to be weighed against the emotional trauma of a low-risk cancer diagnosis and possibly unnecessary treatment.

On the other side of the debate are doctors like William Catalona. As director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, he has seen his fair share of prostate cancer. And while he acknowledged that a certain level of overdiagnosis occurs when it comes to prostate cancer testing, he said the benefits of the test far outweigh the risks of not having it done."


"I think that if [the authors] spent as much time trying to cure prostate cancer patients as I do, they might think again about discouraging efforts at early prostate cancer detection," Catalona said. "There is little doubt that PSA testing saves lives." Go on Lad!.........that was just my comment.

"The age-specific prostate cancer-specific death rate in the United States has decreased by 37.5 percent in the PSA screening era, and even the naysayers estimate that 45 percent to 70 percent of this decrease is probably due to PSA testing," he said.

Dr. Robert Reiter, professor of urology and director of the Prostate Cancer Program for the UCLA Health System, argued that the harms of diagnosing some patients who may not need treatment is far outweighed by the benefit of catching some deadly cancers early.

"The reality is that the goal of early diagnosis will become increasingly relevant for all cancers, in as much as the only way to reduce death from cancer is to diagnose them even earlier," Reiter said. "There is not nearly as much overdiagnosis as these individuals think."


Even Barry admitted that on an individual level, it is impossible to identify which men may have been overdiagnosed and require no treatment for the disease. Given this fact, many believe that recommending that men skip their PSA screenings would be a premature step.

Are Prostate Cancer Tests Worth the Trauma?

mick you are one of the biggets rampers on the internet...but yes this thread did definitely make me sell my MDW shares and as for this thread is for your own benefit...that is nonsense too...if it was for your own benefit why would you have it on a public facing web site.

yer full of pish

As far as the UK is concerned obviously a National Screening Program with the initial testing with a DRE and the PSA test via PSAwatch would be ideal.

I don't think we will see a NSP in the UK due to the fact that the PSA test is not a direct test for prostate cancer.

What I hope we will continue to see is a big drive in gaining public awareness and I have to admit the Prostate Cancer Charity do a splendiferous job at this even though they are blinkered into finding the perfect test and hate to mention the 'PSA test' by name!

so just had a look at the other side for the first time in ages...so you went in the huff because some people suggested the share price might go down and said you sare only going to post on MAM becuase of that....nah you are not a ramper...you are just doing this "to keep records"

lol...what a plonker

He's back-lol and your still filtered :-)

and your still ramping like a proper desperado.....night night...lover

This interview fits in with post 1581 and just a shame they never mentioned the actual Vietnamese people also effected but that's the USA for yer!

Click the control panel play button to play as the one at top never worked for me:


Dr. Lars Ellison is with Pen Bay Medical in Rockport. His recent research is being published by Cancer Journal and details a newly found link between prostate cancer and agent orange exposure among Vietnam Vets.

For more information on Pen Bay Medical please visit:PEN BAY MEDICAL CENTER

For more information on Cancer Journal please visit: CANCER JOURNAL

agent orange exposure among Vietnam Vets.-think from yesterday?

why are you telling people how to follow links if this thread is merely for your own infomration....... u r full of rubbish.

i suppose after 5 years of holding a loss and being consistenntly wrong on this you will try anything

Supposed new data on prostate cancer over-diagnosis
Posted on March 10, 2009 by E. Michael D. ("Mike") Scott

"Many readers will have seen or heard a news item this evening about the dangers of over-diagnosis of prostate cancer. If you didnt, heres a link to the ABC News story.

This report is based on a study to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study data, however, are not yet available on line. We will update this story when the data are available. The story claimed that as many as 42 percent of men with prostate cancer may be being over-diagnosed.

The position of The New Prostate Cancer InfoLink is a simple one. The problem is not over-diagnosis, it is over-treatment."

"Media generalizations using words like over-diagnosis may be dangerous to your health!"

http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2009/03/10/supposed-new-data-on-prostate-cancer-over-diagnosis/

Article on over-diagnosis may help to JUSTIFY screening
Posted on March 11, 2009 by E. Michael D. ("Mike") Scott

"Science Daily has now provided more detailed information (and a more accurate perspective) on the study by Draisma et al., entitled, Lead time and overdiagnosis in prostate-specific antigen screening: importance of methods and context. As of 9:10 am EST this morning, the actual content of this article is still not available on line."



"In our opinion, what the Draisma article has actually done, when carefully considered, is to add to the justification for screening because:

. It eliminates the argument that average lead time could be as much as 12 years and therefore

. Clarifies the risk for a man with risk factors for or a diagnosis of prostate cancer

We maintain our position that over-treatment is still a problem, as indicated in our previous report. Active surveillance is an excellent option for many men and particularly older men because the lead time in this study is an average lead time, and there is undoubtedly significant personal variation which could well be as little as a few months or more than 12 years. (We assume that this range data is available in the actual paper.)"

http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2009/03/11/article-on-over-diagnosis-may-help-to-justify-screening/

I see treblewide is back whining again (like a silly child), keep up the research banjomick, it's all interesting to holders and people who are concerned about the future re. Prostate Cancer.

oh oh...back up has arrived.

Morning Minder,

Advising wait-and-see approach on low-grade prostate cancer

By Stephanie Desmon
The Baltimore Sun
Posted March 10, 2009

"Dr. Ian Thompson, chairman of urology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, agrees. "Men look at prostate cancer and they think cancer 'the Big C.' And they think, like pancreatic cancer and lung cancer, 'I must treat it,' " Thompson said. "But it's a different disease ... than many other cancers."

In the past two decades, the number of American men diagnosed with prostate cancer has skyrocketed there were an estimated 186,000 new cases last year as a blood test that looks for a protein called prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has become more routine."

"Thanks to PSA, many of the cancers being found are much smaller and less dangerous than those that had been discovered through physical exams. So the question has become: What should be done about them?

"That really is the big conundrum in prostate cancer, whom to treat," said Dr. Howard Parnes, chief of the prostate and urological research group at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. "Many more men die with prostate cancer than from prostate cancer."

In determining whether a patient is a candidate for active surveillance, Carter looks at PSA levels, whether a tumor is palpable during a physical exam and a score based on the microscopic appearance of cancer cells in prostate tissue, which gives an idea of a cancer's aggressiveness.

Carter cautions that he is "incredibly conservative" about whom he chooses for surveillance. He rarely includes men in their 50s because if he and his staff are wrong, the chances of harm are greater. Older men are more likely to have other diseases that are likely to claim them before the cancer does."

http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090310/HEALTH/703109996?Advising-wait-and-see-approach-on-low-grade-prostate-cancer