CellAegis Devices has obtained Health Canada's investigational testing (ITA) approval to initiate a pilot clinical trial of its noninvasive autoRIC device for remote ischemic conditioning (RIC). The CE-marked device is placed around ...
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Cisco and Fusion-io have announced a partnership to incorporate Fusion-io’s flash technology into Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The deal will make Fusion-io an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner of the ...
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HP’s layoff count has increased again as the company said, in a U.S. Security and Exchange filing it will eliminate 29,000 positions, 2,000 more than the previous figure. In May, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 employees by 2014, ...
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The government must integrate the various strands of its IT strategy to realise cost savings, Amyas Morse, comptroller and auditor general at the National Audit Office (NAO), has warned. Speaking at Intellect’s World-Class Public ...
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Cook Medical has received the regulatory approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent, designed for treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in the superficial femoral artery. ...
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Prudential Insurance will be discontinuing the sale of new group long-term care insurance policies in a bid to focus on providing products required by state law for a period of time. The sales will be halted in all states except ...
Hewlett-Packard has launched a hosted offering called HP Service Anywhere, providing IT service management (ITSM) software over the Internet. “We believe that SaaS as a delivery model and as a business model makes sense for many of ...
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Cook Medical has presented three-year data from Zilver PTX trial, which demonstrated 70.7% primary patency in the superficial femoral artery at 36 months using Paclitaxel-eluting stents. The controlled, randomized trail compares to ...
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Wells Fargo Insurance has appointed Ken Fraser as the head of the Risk Management and International Insurance Practice and the Wells Fargo Global Broker Network. Ken Fraser will be based in Atlanta and report to Anne Doss,head of National ...
Microsoft has now updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago. More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late ...
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Chinese buying more luxury goods at home: survey Chinese shoppers are increasingly buying luxury goods in mainland China, turning away from high-end stores abroad and in Hong Kong, according to a poll by market research firm Ipsos, ...
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Apple has lost its court battle with Samsung in the UK over its tablet design. The High Court in London ruled that Samsung has not infringed Apple’s registered design for theiPad. Apple appealed the decision, originally made in ...
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Severe weather events in the central and southern US has caused increased insured losses of$1bn in April 2012,while economic losses is expected to be much higher,says Aon's'Global Catastrophe Recap'report. According to the study conducted ...
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has left users caught in the middle. According to The Next Web, Apple has blocked updates to the SkyDrive app ever since Microsoft ...
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W. L. Gore & Associates has won CE mark for the GORE hybrid vascular graft designed to expand treatment options for optimal outflow by maximizing the number of access sites available. The GORE hybrid vascular graft is indicated for ...