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Proa Medical Covered in the Los Angeles Business Journal
Howard Fine of the LABJ writes about Proa Medical as an incubator-accelerator that nurses medical inventions and offers a shot in the arm to those looking to improve medical devices. “Proa’s big advantage is that we have all the areas of expertise needed to bring product to market in our group," said Dr. Carrie Nichols. The article reports that several major women’s health ...
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KBR Wins UK Government Work in Iraq and Afghanistan
KBR (NYSE:KBR) today announced that it has been selected by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services across Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq, and Kabul and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. This builds on KBR’s existing relationship with FCO delivering services in challenging ...
By KBR, Inc
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The Hospice Charity Partnership | Customer Story
Birmingham St Mary’s and John Taylor Hospices together form The Hospice Charity Partnership, providing expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. The Hospice Charity Partnerships vision is a future where everyone with a life limiting illness will live and die with dignity and in comfort, and aim to enable more people from ...
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back to overview Help for clinics, nursing services and medical practices
sfm medical devices in Wächtersbach wants to support the supply of protective masks (MNS masks and FFP2) sfm medical devices, a medium-sized med-tech company based in Wächtersbach, sees itself as responsible for providing support in the currently tense procurement situation for protective masks. At the end of March, a concept was developed in collaboration with the company's Medical ...
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Haymarket Medical Network Joins Ad Council Private Marketplace
Haymarket Medical Network, a part of business media company Haymarket Media, Inc., is proud to join the Ad Council’s first ever Private Marketplace (PMP) along with other partners Cadreon, The Trade Desk and Acxiom. The PMP gives publishers and media companies the opportunity to donate digital media inventory in order to deliver the Ad Council’s most important COVID-19 digital public ...
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Enovate Medical Introduces Encore RX2 to Reduce Nursing Fatigue and Mitigate Medication Security Risks
To achieve a 40 percent weight reduction over traditional medication carts, Enovate built the RX2 on Encore’s lightweight, durable aluminum platform which includes Enovate’s advanced EcoFlex power management system. With nursing fatigue and burnout challenging hospitals across the nation, Enovate Medical, a leading provider of EHR workstations and asset management software for ...
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Cytotoxic Drugs: Safe Handling in the Workplace
Cytotoxic drugs (sometimes known as antineoplastics) Describe a group of medicines that contain chemicals which are toxic to cells, preventing their replication or growth, and so are primarily used to treat cancer. Once inside the body, their action is not generally tightly targeted, and they can produce side effects both to the patients and others who become exposed. What are the Risks? ...
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Illinois Makes Hospital Acquired Infection Data Available
Earlier this month, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced updates to the state’s Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Healthcare Website. The new updates include information about hospital acquired infection prevention and control staffing. According to Dr. Arnold, IDPH Director, “It is vital that consumers have a solid understanding about the quality of ...
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Caresyntax & Intel Collaborate to Address Surgical Staffing Shortage
Combining capabilities to develop breakthrough technologies for transforming surgery. Hospitals and Surgery Centers face many challenges in surgery as they work to recover from COVID. Directors of Perioperative Services, Surgeons, OR Staff and OR managers are facing high levels of stress with maintaining quality patient care, increasing surgical case volume from backlogs, while at the same time ...
By Caresyntax
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WSI Donates Hand Sanitizer
To help First Responders, Medical Transports, and Nursing homes in the Greater Cincinnati area with their urgent need for Hand Sanitizer, WSI recently donated cases of 16 oz bottles. An active member of the Greater Cincinnati Safety Council, a division of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, WSI was able to reach many local organizations quickly and supply them at no charge. For one full week, ...
By WSI Water
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Online Sales of Prescription Drugs via Donation
Many public services, e.g. the public school system, make up resource deficits by soliciting or accepting private charitable donations. This strategy does not work for prescription drug donations as they require a medical order for sale to a private customer; a prospective donor can’t simply walk into Walgreens and buy epinephrine, heparin, insulin, Zofran, Dilaudid or ketamine. Emergency ...
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The Zendal brand is created to integrate all the companies of the Spanish biotechnology group made up of CZ Veterinaria and Biofabri
The biotechnology companies specialized in human and animal healthcare and prevention CZ Veterinaria, Biofabri, Bialactis, Probisearch, Vetia and Petia have a new umbrella brand. CZ Veterinaria, their parent company and leader in the provision of veterinary vaccines against bluetongue disease in Europe, became CZ Vaccines on the 25th anniversary of its creation. Grupo Zendal is named after ...
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Shonan Kamakura Advanced Medical Center Begins Treatment with Hitachi`s First Dedicated Compact Proton Therapy System
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, ”Hitachi”) today announced that “Shonan Kamakura Advanced Medical Center” at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital of Tokushukai Medical Group, where Hitachi's compact proton therapy system (hereafter, “the system”) has been installed, has commenced treatment with the system on 31 January 2022. This is the first order for Hitachi’s ...
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Nymbl Science Fall Prevention Program Addresses Multi-Billion-Dollar Problem in U.S.
Every year in the U.S., falls among older adults cost up to $67.7 billion. That CDC projection refers to the total cost of hospitalizations, surgery, doctor visits, long-term management of lingering injury (either in rehabilitation or in skilled nursing), prescriptions, insurance processing and medical equipment necessitated by reduced mobility and impaired daily functioning. With baby boomers ...
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Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare and the Role of Hand Hygiene Monitoring
Patient satisfaction is critical to the success of hospitals and other healthcare settings. Providers that consistently fail to meet patients’ satisfaction risk damaging their reputation in the community, and patient satisfaction tied to valid health and safety concerns — such as staff not following hand hygiene best practices — can lead to costly healthcare-associated ...
By BioVigil
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Deep Lens and Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York Collaborate to Improve Clinical Trial Matching for Oncology Patients
“Clinical research has been a number one priority for our practice since our doors opened almost 40 years ago. We’ve worked hard to build and expand our clinical trial program so that all of our patients have every possible option to receive access to the newest therapies in development,” said Steven Duffy, MD at HOA CNY. “We’re delighted to partner with Deep Lens ...
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EPA to increase restrictions on flea and tick products
Due to a significant increase in adverse incidents, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of actions to increase the safety of spot-on pesticide products for flea and tick control for cats and dogs. Immediately, EPA will begin reviewing labels to determine which ones need stronger and clearer labeling statements. Next, EPA will develop more stringent testing and evaluation ...
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Deborah Heart and Lung Center Introduces the Ivenix Infusion System to the Hospital
Deborah Heart and Lung Center announces its successful hospital-wide go live with Ivenix, a modern smart infusion pump system. “Though everyone is familiar with IV pump delivery systems used to administer medications during a patient’s hospital stay, improvements in technology have allowed us to do it in a controlled and measured way,” said Rita Zenna, RN, Deborah’s Vice ...
By Ivenix, Inc.
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