St Jude Medical has received CE mark approval for its Portico Transcatheter aortic heart valve which is designed to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at intermediate risk for undergoing open-heart surgery. The 23 mm ...
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Aflac has introduced a new individual vision insurance plan, Vision Now, to help support workers and employers to providing essential vision benefits without adding benefits costs. The new insurance plan will provide enhanced benefits for ...
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Samsung Galaxy S III’s display is thinner and has a greater range of colours than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed Tuesday. But IHS iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal noted that the differences ...
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Embattled satellite carrier LightSquared proposed on Friday that the government let it share spectrum with federal uses such as weather balloons so it can get enough spectrum to launch its proposed national LTE mobile network. ...
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The British Standards Institute (BSI) has awarded ISO 13485:2003 quality certification to Endomagnetics' quality management system. In addition, the company has met the scope necessary for an upgrade to Annex II of the Medical Device ...
African students who were given LearnKey's video-based training passed their Microsoft certification exam at a rate of 91 percent, compared with a 20 percent pass rate for students with no access to LearnKey training. ST. GEORGE, UT, ...
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Shares of technology companies finished up for the third quarter Friday, but face economic uncertainty for the rest of the year. The Nasdaq Computer Index closed Friday at 1,675.51 compared to 1,580.13 at the end of June. However, they ...
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GenMark Diagnostics has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its eSensor Respiratory Virus Panel, designed for use on its XT-8 system. The test is intended to simultaneously detect and differentiate 14 ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced it will sell ARM-based server processors in 2014, ending its exclusive commitment to the x86 architecture and adding a new dimension to its decades-old battle with Intel. AMD will license a 64-bit ...
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The Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) has granted good distribution practice (GDP) certification to Panalpina's facility in Brussels, Belgium. The new GDP certified facility includes a dedicated area for ...
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The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the ...
To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
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WASHINGTON, DC (BRAIN) — Yolanda Cade, the national PR and communications director for the American Automobile Association, will be the keynote speaker at next year's National Bike Summit. The League of American Bicyclists, the ...
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AMD has called a press conference in San Francisco on Monday where it’s likely to announce plans for a SeaMicro server based on an upcoming 64-bit processor design from ARM. AMD CEO Rory Read is expected at the event, and an ARM ...
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Henry Schein, a provider of dental care products and services, has entered into an agreement to distribute ReDent Nova's products. Henry Schein president and chief operating officer Jim Breslawksi said the company looks forward to ...
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