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Trust in business, government shows marked resilience: 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer

In a year marred by corporate crises and financial turmoil for European governments, trust in business and government showed marked resilience, according to the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer. Trust in business saw a two-point global increase, surging in Brazil, rising in Germany, and holding steady in China and India. The United States was the outlier, as trust dropped across all institutions – business, government, NGOs, and media.

25 Jan 2011

BD and Rady Children's announce innovative environmentally-friendly solution to dispose sharps wastes

BD, a leading global medical technology company, and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego today announced that they have implemented an innovative pilot program at the Hospital that is designed to safely divert a significant percentage of BD sharps waste from landfills and utilize the recycled materials.

From BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 25 Jan 2011

Male celebrities admit to undergoing hair restoration surgery

An interesting statistic: more than half of hair loss sufferers would be more inclined to consider having a hair transplant if celebrities or public figures were more open about hair restoration surgery, and men are more likely to be influenced than women.

25 Jan 2011

m2m, HP collaborate to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Africa

Today at the Digital Life Design conference, HP and mothers2mothers (m2m), a South Africa-based nongovernmental organization, announced a new collaboration that will use the power of technology to help prevent the transmission of HIV from HIV-positive pregnant mothers in Africa to their children.

25 Jan 2011

PPACA positively affects PA profession in many ways

The American Academy of Physician Assistants supports the many provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that offer tremendous promise in improving health care for all Americans.

25 Jan 2011

Cellectis to launch gene specific TAL nucleases

Cellectis bioresearch, a specialist in genome customization and a subsidiary of Cellectis, has today announced that it will launch gene specific TAL nucleases on February 28, 2011.

25 Jan 2011

IHS wins Best in KLAS award for clinical implementation supportive work

Innovative Healthcare Solutions, a provider of healthcare information technology consulting services, announced today that it has received the Best in KLAS award for the professional services market segment, Clinical Implementation – Supportive, from KLAS Enterprises.

25 Jan 2011

World's largest sterile compounding center for oncology patients

Health Robotics today announced the official opening and live operation of the largest Sterile Compounding Center for Oncology patients in the world. Akdeniz University Hospital in Antalya (Turkey) compounds 90% of its 80.000 annual chemotherapy intravenous doses with 4 CytoCare robots and related Health Robotics' technology, or an average of 325 patient doses per 6-hour work cycle.

25 Jan 2011

St. Georg Hospital performs two live procedures using Endoscopic Ablation System

CardioFocus announced that two "live cases" using its Endoscopic Ablation System were recently conducted. The first live case was a satellite transmission performed at Centro Cardiologico Monzino in Milan, Italy; broadcast to the 16th Annual Boston Symposium on Atrial Fibrillation in Boston, MA.

25 Jan 2011

XIRING and SCM Microsystems enter strategic cooperation agreement

XIRING, a security solutions provider for electronic transactions, and SCM Microsystems, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. and a global leader in security and identity solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, announced today that they have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement that expands their existing successful partnership.

25 Jan 2011

Strong opposition to 'prescription-only' measures for OTC medicines with pseudoephedrine

More than 300 million Americans get the common cold, and up to 70 million get the flu annually. But for the 60 million people who also have asthma and allergies, a cold or flu can pose even greater risks. Together, these respiratory diseases take a devastating toll on public health, costing billions of dollars in direct medical expenses, reducing quality of life, lowering workplace and school performance, and can even be life-threatening to high-risk populations, such as asthma patients.

25 Jan 2011

SDI releases 2011 rating of top 100 integrated healthcare networks

SDI announced today the release of the SDI 2011 Top 100 IHNs, the 14th edition of its annual assessment of the 100 most integrated healthcare networks (IHNs). SDI's report, regarded as the nation's premier rating system, evaluates IHNs on their performance and degree of integration.

25 Jan 2011

East Liverpool City Hospital, Foundation Radiology Group enter imaging services agreement

Foundation Radiology Group, the premier provider of diagnostic imaging professional services for community hospitals, is pleased to announce its exclusive imaging services agreement with East Liverpool City Hospital located in East Liverpool, Ohio.

25 Jan 2011

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

A new company has been launched to commercialise an award-winning technology, developed at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, for tackling bacterial infection and contamination, including superbugs such as MRSA.

25 Jan 2011

UAE Oasis Hospital to implement Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions

Quantros, a leading provider of clinically-focused data management and decision support solutions for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Oasis Hospital, the first private hospital in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to receive Joint Commission International accreditation, to implement the Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions.

25 Jan 2011

New investigative tool may explore intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity

Nongjian Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have pioneered a new technique capable of peering into single cells and even intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity.

25 Jan 2011

RemitDATA launches TITAN to solve healthcare transparency problem

RemitDATA, an expert in reimbursement, productivity and utilization solutions in outpatient healthcare, today launched TITAN, a new, data-rich solution that provides a real-time, transparent view of essential business metrics.

25 Jan 2011

FDA grants pre-market clearance for SBi's rHead Extended Stem

Small Bone Innovations, an orthopedics company focused exclusively on serving patients and their physicians with technologies and treatments for joint repair and trauma reconstruction around the small bones & joints of the thumb, fingers, hand, wrist, elbow, toes and foot & ankle announced that it has received 510(k) pre-market clearance notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the radial Head Extended Stem to be used in the correction of complex elbow instabilities and/or elbow reconstruction.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 24 Jan 2011

Laparoscopic grasp instrument can reduce complications in keyhole surgery

The number of complications following keyhole surgery can be reduced by giving the surgeons a better feeling of how hard they are grasping the tissue with their operating instruments. This is made possible by designing the instrument in such a way that it sends tangible feedback signals to the handle held by the surgeon.

24 Jan 2011

FedEx launches Deep Frozen Shipping Solution for temperature-sensitive healthcare products

FedEx Corp. today announced the launch of FedEx Deep Frozen Shipping Solution, which offers an innovative end-to-end service for the shipping of temperature-sensitive healthcare products around the world.

24 Jan 2011

Technology News and Research

Trust in business, government shows marked resilience: 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer

BD and Rady Children's announce innovative environmentally-friendly solution to dispose sharps wastes

Male celebrities admit to undergoing hair restoration surgery

m2m, HP collaborate to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Africa

PPACA positively affects PA profession in many ways

Cellectis to launch gene specific TAL nucleases

IHS wins Best in KLAS award for clinical implementation supportive work

World's largest sterile compounding center for oncology patients

St. Georg Hospital performs two live procedures using Endoscopic Ablation System

XIRING and SCM Microsystems enter strategic cooperation agreement

Strong opposition to 'prescription-only' measures for OTC medicines with pseudoephedrine

SDI releases 2011 rating of top 100 integrated healthcare networks

East Liverpool City Hospital, Foundation Radiology Group enter imaging services agreement

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

UAE Oasis Hospital to implement Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions

New investigative tool may explore intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity

RemitDATA launches TITAN to solve healthcare transparency problem

FDA grants pre-market clearance for SBi's rHead Extended Stem

Laparoscopic grasp instrument can reduce complications in keyhole surgery

FedEx launches Deep Frozen Shipping Solution for temperature-sensitive healthcare products

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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