Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Hatch Medical, L.L.C., a medical device incubator and technology brokerage firm, announced that it has recently entered into an agreement with Medical Miracles (Leeds, UK) to broker its patented and CE Marked chronic total occlusion (CTO) device, POLAR™.
POLAR™ (Path Of Least Arterial Resistance) is a mechanical device that generates reciprocal ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Fresenius Medical Care North America, operator of the nation's leading network of dialysis clinics, announced the opening of Fresenius Medical Care Kapahulu, a new advanced dialysis treatment center. The Medicare-certified facility is located at 750 Palani Avenue, ten minutes from Waikiki Beach. For more information on the clinic, which is ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products, announced initial clinical results of stand-alone ablation procedures and an overall expansion into the stand-alone market, using the ATS CryoMaze(TM) product line. This line of surgical products, indicated for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, is designed to ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
An article published on bmj.com claims that drug companies are still directly sponsoring the education of thousands of general practitioners. The Australian investigation is reported while the world is calling for an end to direct sponsorship by drug companies.
In Australia, it is common for drug company sponsors to recommend speakers ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
An article published on bmj.com claims that drug companies are still directly sponsoring the education of thousands of general practitioners. The Australian investigation is reported while the world is calling for an end to direct sponsorship by drug companies.
In Australia, it is common for drug company sponsors to recommend speakers ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 8-1 that FDA approval of certain medical devices protects manufacturers from product liability lawsuits filed in state courts, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, federal law "makes no provision for damage suits against device makers," and, as a result, "injured ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Recent arrests by Egyptian authorities of several people suspected to have HIV are undermining efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and violating human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint statement released on Friday, the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune reports (Kratovac, AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2/15).
HRW ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton on Friday refused to lift an injunction that is preventing a policy from going into effect that would require Washington state pharmacies to dispense emergency contraception, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Woodward, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/15).
A pharmacy owner and two pharmacists filed a lawsuit in July ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A recent article in the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs reports on the surprising reactions of some health-care personnel when they must treat or care for a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - which has been known for 25 years.
Examples include doctors who would not visit a ...
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