Global healthcare company Abbott has permitted a new share repurchase program, valued at $3bn. The company gave nod for the repurchase from its common stock, which is believed to replace the company's previous $5bn program declared in ...
Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk has announced plans to launch its obesity treatment drug, liraglutide, in the US by the end of 2014. Novo chief scientific officer Mads Thomsen was quoted by health24.com as saying that liraglutide ...
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Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is all set to close the tablet-packaging plant at its Boronia site in Melbourne's east, Australia, leading to a loss of 120 jobs. According to GSK, continuing challenges in the operating ...
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Merck, a global healthcare company, has announced the opening of its new $120m pharma packaging facility in the Hangzhou Economic and Technology Area (HEDA) in China. According to Merck, the new 75,000m2 facility will pack the company's ...
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US-based healthcare company electroCore has raised $40m from Merck's Global Healthcare Innovation Fund. Other participants in the round of financing are private equity groups including Easton Capital and Core Ventures. The company will ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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US based global healthcare company Welch Allyn has entered into a collaboration agreement to distribute EarlySense's continuous, contact-free patient monitoring solution to hospitals across the US. The solution, EarlySense System, is ...
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BioPhotas has gained the US marketing rights for its light therapy device,designed to treat acne,muscle and joint pain,muscle and joint stiffness,muscle spasm,arthritis and compromised local blood circulation,following the US Food and Drug ...
Global healthcare products provider Covidien has singed an agreement to acquire CV Ingenuity for undisclosed sum. The transaction is also expected to increase Covidien's research and development expenditures to fund the clinical ...
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Global healthcare firm Abbott's everolimus eluting coronary stent system has been accorded with CE Mark in Europe. The XIENCE Xpedition everolimus eluting coronary stent system, which is used to treat coronary artery disease, provides ...
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Welch Allyn has commenced a global restructuring program to reshape its business and realign resources over the next three years to meet the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing global healthcare environment. The global ...
The US Department of Defense Military Health System has chosen Masimo's Rad-57 handheld pulse co-oximeter. Masimo said Rad-57 pulse co-oximeter will be available to all designated medical treatment facilities and operational field units ...
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Australia's private health insurance provider Medibank has partnered with Allianz Worldwide Care to offer fully compliant healthcare plans to its group clients who have expatriate members based in Australia. Allianz Worldwide Care ...
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Laboratorios Casen Fleet, a Spainish niche pharmaceutical company, has deployed Cegedim Relationship Management's Mobile Intelligence solution for iPad as its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform in Spain and Portugal. The ...
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CBaySystems, an M*Modal company, has unified the company's medical transcription, advanced Speech Understanding and Natural Language Understanding technologies, development, coding, HIM professional services and healthcare analytics under ...
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