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Healthcare ahead with wireless technology
The healthcare industry finding itself in an unfamiliar position, increasingly using wireless technology to minimise the cost and disruption associated with the deployment of innovative ehealth and telecare services. A recent report from, Cambridge-based analysts, Wireless Healthcare, when healthcare...
News
Covidien Receives FDA Clearance to Market Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery
A leading global provider of healthcare products, announced that its Surgical Devices business unit has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market the Covidien SILS(TM) Procedure Kit, indicated for Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery and other advanced laparoscopic procedures. A leading...
Industry Reports
Coventry Health’s profit rises 3%
Coventry Health Care Inc. net income ticked nearly 3% higher in the first quarter, enabling the health insurer's shares to make gains. The Bethesda, Md.-based company reported a profit of $125 million, or 81 cents a share, up from...
Industry Reports
Wright Medical shares jumped by 27%
Shares of Wright Medical Group Inc jumped by as much as 27 percent on Friday, 25th April' 08 after the orthopedic device company posted better-than-expected quarterly results, prompting at least one broker upgrade. Leerink Swann raised its rating on...
Industry Reports
Fisher and Paykel healthcare shares fall
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare have fallen nearly four per cent after the company cut its full-year operating profit forecast by 16 per cent, citing the strong New Zealand dollar. The breathing device specialist, which earns roughly 60 per cent...
Research Insight
3D ultrasound could improve stroke diagnosis and care
Research says, 3D ultrasound can compensate for the thickness of the skull and image the brain’s arteries in real time. Research says, 3D ultrasound can compensate for the thickness of the skull and image the brain’s arteries in...
Research Insight
New research may lead to early detection of cancer
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Oregon Stem Cell Center and the OHSU Digestive Health Center are shining a new ray of hope on patients with pancreatic cancer. They developed new reagents, or antibodies, that can recognize this often...
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