Insurer Aetna has inked a deal to purchase its arch rival Coventry Health Care for$5.7bn in cash and stock,paving a way to emerge as a major player of government-financed health care segment. Upon completion of the acquisition of ...
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US-based Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, has selected Surgical Information Systems' (SIS) anesthesia information management system (AIMS) to improve operational efficiencies of its perioperative IT ...
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PSS World Medical (PSSI) has entered into an agreement to distribute Masimo's new Pronto-7 handheld device. Under the agreement, PSSI will provide access of Pronto-7 to its US customer base of physicians, skilled nursing and assisted ...
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Medline Industries has entered into a two-year agreement to distribute MemorialCare Health System's, a not-for-profit integrated delivery system, medical and surgical supplies. Under the agreement, which is expected to begin from 1 ...
CareFusion has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Brazilian respiratory technologies company, Intermed Equipamento Medico Hospitalar. Intermed is involved in manufacturing ventilators and respiratory care devices for ...
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Health care supply chain and contracting company Novation has awarded a contract to Cook Medical to provide its peripheral intervention and peripheral diagnostic devices. Under the contract, Novation's members including more than 65,000 ...
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TNI BioTech (TNIB) has entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOU) with GB Oncology and Imaging Group to equip and operate oncology and infectious diseases clinics in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Under the agreement, TNIB will deliver ...
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Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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The Empire Life Insurance Company has launched a new Extended Healthcare Policy Protection Plan (EP3) plan to safeguard its group benefit customers against high cost claims. Introduced as per requirements of the Canadian Drug Insurance ...
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US based health insurer UnitedHealth has entered into an agreement with Brazil's Amil Participações, pursuant to which 90% of the 359 million outstanding common shares of the latter is likely to be purchased for approximately ...
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US based health insurer UnitedHealth has reported an increase in its profits by 23% with net earnings of $1.56bn, or $1.50 a share for the third quarter that ended on 30 September 2012, up from $1.27bn, or $1.17 a share, a year earlier. ...
Critical Diagnostics has chosen quality distributors to expand the availability of its cardiac biomarker, Presage ST2 assay, in Europe. Quality distributors include Bestbion company, who is responsible for distributing the cardiac ...
Cuotaiji is a kind of ancient drama that only exists in Luoga stockaded village in Bandi Town of Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province." Cuotaiji" is the transliteration of the equivalent in Yi language of Bandi ...
SciBase has announced positive results of its non-invasive point-of-care Nevisense device from the pivotal SIMPS study. The patented Nevisense device, which includes an electrode on a hand-held probe, utilizes electrical impedance ...
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Kinetic Concepts, a provider of wound care services, has introduced V.A.C.Ulta negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system in Canada. The system combines either V.A.C. therapy or V.A.C. VeraFlo therapy, which is the combination of ...