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Siemens Healthcare Acquisitions to Add to Earnings Next Year
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, still expects its large acquisitions in healthcare to add to earnings in the next fiscal year. “This target stands firmly,” Siemens spokesman Wolfram…
Medical Monitoring Networks Get Personal
When computers, servers and digital storage devices began to find their way en masse into businesses and homes in the late 1970s and early 80s, industrious users figured out these systems could…
GE Healthcare-UPitt Pathology Venture Omnyx Wins First US Patent for Rapid-Focus Microscope
Omnyx, a company formed last year by GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to improve the speed and efficiency of the diagnosis and interpretation of lab results, has been…
PerkinElmer Purchases GE Healthcare Catalog Radiochemicals
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and their environment, today announced that it has purchased the assets of GE Healthcare`s 3H and 14C Catalog…
H1N1 panel passes executive plan to combat the virus
Abu Dhabi, 18th Sept. 2009 — The National Supervisory Committee for Combating Swine Flu gave its green light yesterday at a meeting chaired by Health Minister H.E. Dr. Hanif Hassan to an…
VT biomedical engineering team to study knee ligament sprains
(PhysOrg.com) — A team of Virginia Tech engineering researchers has won a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to study knee ligament sprains at the micro-mechanical level. Principal investigator Raffaella De Vita, an…
Dean Kamen to Receive Prestigious BioMed SA Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences
Known for the Segway, Kamen also invented the first wearable insulin pump and AutoSyringe,portable dialysis machine and low-cost water filter for underdeveloped countries SAN ANTONIO–(Business Wire)– Internationally renowned inventor, entrepreneur and thought…
New rules may help doctors avoid excess CT scans
Too many young children are getting CT scans after a minor bump on the head, and a new set of guidelines may help doctors sort out which children need them and which…
34percent Saudi adults ‘have breathing problems’
A recent consumer research conducted by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), in Saudi Arabia reveals that 34 per cent adults in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia experienced breathing problems during sleep. GSK revealed the findings…