China Medical Technologies Announces Change of Independent Auditors
BEIJING, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Medical Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CMED ), a leading China-based medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets advanced in-vitro diagnostic products, today announced the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoope...Fumbled handoffs can lead to medical errors
INDIANAPOLIS Poor communication of the outcomes of medical tests whose results are pending at the time of a patient's hospital discharge is common and can lead to serious medical errors in post-hospitalization medical treatment. A new study by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and th...Midwest Medical Aesthetics Helps Defy Nature and Wrinkles with Artefill
LEAWOOD, Kan., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Medical Aesthetics has selected Artefill, the first and only FDA-approved microsphere-enhanced collagen filler for the correction of smile lines, to help patients defy nature and wrinkles. Kathleen Stegman, RN, M.A. has been an avid Arte...Largest Survey of Its Kind Finds That People With Psoriasis Are at Risk for Other Medical Conditions
National Psoriasis Foundation data show more than half of those with psoriasis have other health issues PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emerging research reveals that people with psoriasis are at risk for developing other serious medical conditions in...OBP Medical Inc. to Raise the Bar in Patient Care and Satisfaction
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- OBP Medical Inc. introduces Under Johnnies(TM): a cost effective, patient friendly, line of disposable underwear for hospitals. Skimpy, revealing, uncovered : all words accurately describing the hospital gowns used by healthcare facilities acro...S.C. Medical Home Pilot for Diabetes Enrolls 1,110
COLUMBIA, S.C. and NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A patient centered medical home pilot project that could become a model for South Carolina has completed its first quarter with 1,110 patients enrolled. It is also attracting the attention of S.C. physicians no...Single Port Surgeries Now Performed at University Medical Center at Princeton
Advances Trend Toward Less-Invasive Approaches PRINCETON, N.J., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Advancing the trend toward ever less invasive surgery, University Medical Center at Princeton ( www.princetonhcs.org ) is now performing laparoscopic surgery by way of a single incision through the belly ...Inverness Medical Testpack+Plus Strep A with OBC (20 Tests)
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Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (July 27, 2009) According to a study in a special issue of Medical Decision Making , a large-scale, covert anthrax attack on a large city would overwhelm hospital resources even with an extremely effective public health response, primari...Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development
WASHINGTON, DCIn an effort to increase understanding of the medical device development process and help companies execute the bench-to-bedside process of product development more effectively, researchers at Stanford University have published the first comprehensive model representing the medical d...NYU Langone Medical Center awarded NIH grants totaling $1,560,000
New York, NY, June 24, 2009 Two NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have received $1,560,000 in grant support for their first year of studies focused on microbiome and psoriasis and on microbiome and esophageal cancer from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The studies being conducted a...American College of Medical Genetics affirms importance of newborn screening dried blood spots
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has issued a new Position Statement on the Importance of Residual Newborn Screening Dried Blood Spots. In May 2006, ACMG recommended that all newborns in the United States be uniformly screened for 29 conditions. Tremendous progress has been made in ...Genetic secrets of date palm unlocked by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
DOHA, QATAR (May 1, 2009) -- Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets. "We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technolog...Chemical found in medical devices impairs heart function
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found that a chemical commonly used in the production of such medical plastic devices as intravenous (IV) bags and catheters can impair heart function in rats. Appearing online this week in the American Journal of Physiology , th...Patent Attorney John Rizvi Speaks at FIME International Medical Expo
The FIME 2009 International Medical Expo is the largest and most comprehensive medical exposition of its kind. John Rizvi will deliver a presentation titled, "Preservation of Legal Rights in Medical Innovations" at the FIME 2009 International Medical Expo in Miami Beach. ...Millions Flowing into Medical Real Estate
As other commercial real estate sectors suffer, savvy investors like Prudential target healthcare Minneapolis (Vocus) – Even as other commercial real estate sectors struggle, investors continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into recession-resistant healt...PROTOMED SA Chooses HyperWorks to Simulate Implantable Medical Devices
TROY, Mich. and MARSEILLE, France, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, and PROTOMED SA announced today that PROTOMED SA has chosen Altair Engineer...Atherotech Taps Canyons Medical Center Director, Lipidologist as Chief Medical Officer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Cobble, M.D., director of Canyons Medical Center in Sandy, Utah, has been appointed as Chief Medical Officer of Atherotech, Inc. Cobble is a primary care physician, board-certified lipidologist and certified hypertension sp...RadMD First to Offer CME-Certified Education and Training For Medical Imaging in Clinical Trials
DOYLESTOWN, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- RadMD, Inc. ( www.rad-md.net ) has become the first company to offer a broad range of accredited CME courses in the area of medical imaging for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech clinical trials. The comprehensive education a...Zimmer Launches New Medical Education and BioSkills Training Program
WARSAW, Ind., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZMH ; SWX: ZMH) today announced the launch of the new Zimmer Institute. Over the past year, Zimmer has collaborated with teaching surgeons and subject matter experts to develop a unique model for su...