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Verathon Offers Free Infection Prevention Information Kit to Help Minimize Catheter-Associated UTIs

Verathon® is pleased to offer a free Infection Prevention Information Kit designed to help hospitals implement strategies to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs). As of October 1, 2008, Medicare no longer will reimburse for treatment of preventable nosocomial...

Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval of TAXUS® Express2™ Atom™ Stent System

Boston Scientific Corporation announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its TAXUS® Express2™ Atom™ Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System. The TAXUS Express Atom Stent is a highly deliverable drug-eluting stent (DES)...

Abbott Honored as One of the Working Mother 100 Best Companies for the Eighth Straight Year

Working Mother magazine announced that Abbott was one of the "Top 10" companies on the 2008 Working Mother 100 Best list, one of the most prestigious honors recognizing companies for innovation in providing a family-friendly workplace. This marks the...

Siemens wins one of the biggest orders for medical systems

The Catholic Medical Center in Seoul, Korea has ordered a total of seventy systems of medical equipment from Siemens Healthcare. Worth around 40 million USD (appr. €28 million), the order is one of the biggest of its kind in...

Bernhard Dräger Award for Treatment of Acute Respiratory Failure awarded to Dr Hermann Heinze

The European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) has awarded the first ‘Bernhard Dräger Award for Advanced Treatment of Acute Respiratory Failure’ to Dr Hermann Heinze, from the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Schleswig-Holstein University...

U.K’s National health service supply chain ranks Zoll R Series defibrillator at highest value

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, announced that its new R Series® Code-Ready™ clinical defibrillator has received the highest overall score of all devices evaluated by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service Supply...

Peak Surgical Preclinical Study of PEAK PlasmaBlade Needle showing positive results

PEAK Surgical, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a new tissue dissection system based on a proprietary technology, announced preclinical study results showing that its PEAK PlasmaBladeTM Needle cuts tissue with significantly reduced thermal tissue injury compared...

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