Medifocus, a developer of adaptive phased array technology, has purchased all the assets of Boston Scientific's Prolieve device business for $5m. The assets include all Prolieve inventory, the Rocky Mountain Mobile Services mobile ...
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SAP has turned heads in recent years with a number of high-profile acquisitions, scooping up SuccessFactors, Sybase and Ariba for more than US$13 billion collectively. But company executives also maintain they intend to increase revenues ...
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Novation, a health care supply contracting company, has awarded a multi-source hematology contract to Sysmex America. Under the five-year contract, Novation members including 65,000 members of VHA, UHC, two national health care alliances, ...
Tags: multi-source hematology, Sysmex's hematology solutions, Sysmex XE-Series
The Fall/Winter 2013/2014 Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA Textile) took place October 22-24, 2012 at the California Market Center (CMC) with a solid flow of traffic that included an array of prominent designers, manufacturers, ...
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The Israel's Ministry of Health (MOH) has granted approval to Medgenics to initiate two Phase I/II clinical trials of a subcutaneous autologous tissue implant, INFRADURE, in patients with hepatitis C. The objective of the trials is to ...
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Evonik Industries marked the roof-topping phase of construction for its hydrogen peroxide plant in Jilin, China, with a ceremony on October 19, 2012. Situated in the northeast of the country, the plant is due to go online in late 2013 with ...
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The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business process as a service (BPaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) dominating the market, but ...
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Novation has awarded Medline with a new national medical-surgical products distribution agreement. Under the five-year agreement, Medline through its 34 distribution centers will distribute its national branded products and broad array of ...
The acquisition of Premier Foods’ East Anglian canning business has helped to boost the sales figures growth of food and drink manufacturer Princes by 28%, according to figures filed at Companies House last week (December 12). ...
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Hansen Medical is showcasing its Magellan robotic system at the Vascular InterVentional Advances (VIVA) conference held at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, US. By utilizing flexible robotic technology, the Magellan robotic system allows ...
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Motorola Mobility and Microsoft have agreed to suspend their patent claims against each other in three U.S. cases until a November trial on Microsoft claims that Motorola has not lived up to promises to license some video and Wi-Fi patents ...
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Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria (ANVISA), a Brazilian National Surveillance Agency, has granted a certificate of good practices to STD Med for manufacturing Class III medical devices. The certificate was granted based on an ...
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BR Holdings, a Korean distributor of Mazor Robotics, has received the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) approval to commercialize Mazor's Renaissance system. Renaissance system is a surgical guidance system that utilizes ...
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The ongoing national level 'Silk Fab' expo in the north Indian city of Chandigarh is offering visitors an opportunity to have a look at and choose from a wide range of silk and silk products not just from the region, but from across the ...
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Microsoft has taken its server OS a giant step forward with yesterday’s release of Windows Server 2012, making this version the first that can be controlled remotely so it is more suitable for data centres. “Microsoft has ...
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