Young was started out working as an accountant before he turned into a successful businessman who travelled the globe to build his company (Simpac) into a significant UK player in the sourcing and supply of bags – from paper potato ...
A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), a swine virus that can cause death in piglets, has been identified in two hog farms in North Carolina. The virus has been rapidly spreading across several states in the US since it was first ...
Tags: Swine Virus, Food
The AidPod for ColaLife has all the right components to become the packaging system that definitively demonstrates to the world that packaging can not only add value to consumers' lives, but it can actually save lives. Recently garnering ...
With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
Tags: Sensor Tag, Camera, Hand Washing
Basilea Pharmaceutica has obtained FDA orphan drug status to isavuconazole, an investigational intravenous and oral broad-spectrum antifungal, for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis. Isavuconazole is being investigated in phase 3 ...
Helio System (TF-FA), an investigational equipment developed for use with the Sapien XT Transcatheter Heart Valve, has been deployed successfully in four patients during a feasibility trial of its use in patients with high-risk aortic ...
Tags: Aortic Insufficiency, Medicine
Direct Flow Medical, a developer of novel transcatheter heart valve technologies, has met its primary endpoint in the Discover CE Mark Trial by achieving 99% freedom from all-cause mortality at 30 days. The trial had enrolled 100 patients ...
Tags: Aortic Valve, Medicine
Pacific Life Insurance has introduced a new variable annuity, Pacific Choice, aimed to grow retirement savings faster for investors through the power of tax deferral. The new variable annuity will provide the power of choice for investors ...
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Millennium HealthCare's medical device subsidiary has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Heart Smart for the VasoScan assessment device in the US. FDA-approved VasoScan is a non-invasive device that provides an accurate ...
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Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) announces its fourth consecutive pan-African Cape Town to Cairo road show; visiting 18 cities across 17 countries between 14th May and 23rd September 2013. The road show is instrumental in ...
Tags: Philips, LED lighting
Genworth Financial has reported net income of $103m, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared to $46m, or $0.09 per diluted share, during the first quarter last year. Net operating income was $151m, or $0.30 per diluted share, against $17m, ...
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BioFire Diagnostics has submitted 510(k) pre-market notification application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for its FilmArray blood culture identification (BCID) test. The application included positive ...
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Aastrom Biosciences has treated first patients in ixCELL-DCM Phase 2b trial of ixmyelocel-T in patients with advanced heart failure due to ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (ischemic DCM). The trial is designed to assess the safety and ...
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If your definition of a workout is balancing a box of doughnuts in one hand and and an extra large (excuse us, Venti) vanilla latte in the other before sitting in your office cubicle all day, it might be time to reevaluate your fitness ...
Tags: Exercise Gear, Office Furniture, Furniture