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IMS Health Announces 2009 Q4 and Full-Year Results
IMS Health announced fourth-quarter 2009 revenue of $599.2 million, up 3 percent year over year and down 3 percent constant dollar, compared with $580.9 million in the 2008 fourth quarter. Net income for the 2009 fourth quarter was $71.5...
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Skilled Healthcare Group Reports Full Year 2009 Results
Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. reported consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $759.8 million, an increase of 3.6 percent compared to 2008. Consolidated revenues were $189.0 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2009, compared...
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Siemens Healthcare and Vertec Scientific Forms A New Distribution Partnership
Siemens Healthcare and Vertec Scientific formed a distribution partnership, which will see Vertec exclusively market the X Class range of ultrasound systems in the markets of emergency medicine, GP practices, rheumatology, orthopaedics, acute medicine, chest medicine and anaesthetics. The...
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Siemens Healthcare Chooses Cordys to Manage Logistics
Cordys said it has been chosen by Siemens Healthcare for managing and continuously improving key logistics processes in 125 countries, including Germany, the USA and China. In a release, the company said that the Cordys solution at Siemens...
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Researchers find low prevalence of tamoxifen use for prevention of breast cancer among women
Researchers with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have found that the prevalence of tamoxifen use for the prevention of breast cancer among women without a personal history of breast cancer is very low. Tamoxifen can reduce the...
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Medtronic to Acquire Invatec and Affiliated Companies
Medtronic, Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Invatec, a developer of innovative medical technologies for the interventional treatment of cardiovascular disease, and two affiliated companies: Fogazzi, which provides polymer technology to Invatec; and Krauth Cardiovascular, which distributes Invatec...
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Siemens Healthcare wins biggest single order contract, in the Middle East
Siemens Healthcare will supply state-of-the-art diagnostics imaging equipment to all Ministry of Health hospitals (around 100) across Iraq. The recently signed contract has a value of around $70 million and is the biggest single order contract to be awarded...
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