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Abatement Technologies Sees Strong Demand as Hospitals Prepare for Stage 6 Flu Pandemic

Abatement Technologies®, Inc. sees strong demand for their HEPA-CARE® Air Filtration Systems and Germicidal UV Modules from healthcare facilities as they activate their emergency pandemic preparedness plans. Suwanee, Georgia (PRWEB) July 9, 2009 -- Abatement Tec...

Expanding into New Markets with Customer-Focused Solutions, Orion Health Sees Strong Growth

Nearly 200,000 physicians in more than 500 hospitals are using Orion Health Concerto™ portal to access critical health data stored in electronic health records (EHRs). The company has just reported over 50% growth in net profit before tax for the 2009 financial year. ...

BCBSNC Sees Improved Health Quality, Lower Costs Through Financial Rewards to Physicians

• $4.2 million in rewards paid to doctors during Bridges to Excellence quality program • Study finds lower health care spending per patient among recognized physicians • Patients incur fewer costly imaging tests, ER visits Chapel Hill, NC (Vocus) June 23,...

Frost & Sullivan Sees Opportunities in Chinese Vaccine Industry

SHANGHAI, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- With the outbreak of H1N1 influenza in several countries, people are highly aware of the importance of vaccine, which can effectively prevent the disease from spreading. The discussion for a vaccine to curb the H1N1 influenza has become a hot topic around the worl...

Scots Men Get the Issue of Moobs Off Their Chests in Time for Summer - Male Surgery in Scotland Sees 80 Per Cent Growth

Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group has revealed that despite the drooping economy Scots men are opting to perk themselves up this summer by booking in for moob removal surgery and finally getting their insecurities off their chests. GLASGOW, Scotland, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Transform Cosmetic ...

Study sees transient heart dysfunction in some long-distance runners

ATS 2009, SAN DIEGOA new study using advanced cardiac imaging technology indicates that cardiac abnormalities experienced by some marathon runners following competition are temporary, and do not result in damage to the heart muscle. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba...

Safety Product Company Sees Increased Inquiries Resulting from H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

Kidz-Med Thermofocus 5-in-1 Non-Contact Thermometer Available, Safety Prevention WESTON, Fla., May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Health Organization heightened awareness in regards to the swine flu by raising the pandemic flu alert to the second highest level below a global outbreak...

Saebo United Kingdom Posts Record 2008; Sees Continued Growth in UK for 2009

National Health Service hospitals' usage by stroke rehab patients dictates increase in staff and Saebo-trained therapists CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Saebo, Inc. announced in its first quarter that its subsidiary, Saebo UK, Ltd., had another record year in 2008 and has added sta...

2008 Sees Significant Rise in Prescription Abandonment and Uptake of Generics

New Data Show U.S. Rx Abandonment Rate Up 34 Percent Since 2006; Generics Led Brands By a Billion Prescriptions in 2008 BRIDGEWATER, N.J., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and instituti...

Pennsylvania Sees Increase in Tuberculosis, Emphasizing Need for Awareness

March 24 Is World Tuberculosis Day HARRISBURG, Pa., March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State Health Secretary Everette James today stressed the need to increase public awareness of tuberculosis, or TB, and the importance of efforts to control, and eventually eliminate, the infectious diseas...

Aflac Incorporated Announces Fourth Quarter Results, Sees 2008 RBC Ratio Above 450%, Affirms 2009 Operating EPS Target

COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aflac Incorporated today reported its fourth quarter results. Total revenues benefited from the strengthening of the yen to the dollar in the fourth quarter, rising 6.0% to $4.3 billion, compared with $4.0 billion in the fourth quarter of ...

Fujifilm Sees Significant Growth of Managed Services Business

CHICAGO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting, Fujifilm Medical Systems USA announced that it has expanded its Synapse Managed Services capabilities to now include RIS hosting and tele-RIS capabilities.(1) The company has also established...

Here's What It Takes ... to Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: New Self-Help Book Sees Life as Pieces of a Puzzle, Offers Advice on Making Those Pieces Fit

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "When trying to understand life, it helps to look at it like a puzzle with several big pieces that make a whole," writes Dr. Linda A. Smith in her new self-help book, Here's What It Takes ... to Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise (published by AuthorHouse - htt...

Despite Credit Crunch, Medisave Sees Strong Sales Increase in 2008

International medical equipment supplier notes while sales soar, more customers are trying to economize by choosing cheaper shipping methods Stratford, Connecticut (PRWEB) November 4, 2008 - Medisave ( www.medisave.net ), a leading global medical equipment merchant wi...

RTI Biologics Sees Expanded Surgeon User Base of Fresh OC Allografts

RTI Biologics, Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq:RTIX), the Florida-based processor of orthopedic, dental, hernia and other biologic implants, today announced the company is seeing expansion of its user base of RTI’s fresh-stored osteochondral (OC) allografts since its first implant in May. To date, more ...

Latest LOGICARE(R) EDIS User Sees 'Tremendous Results'

EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Wert County Hospital, Van Wert, Ohio, has become the latest facility to go live with LOGICARE(R) Corp.'s newest Emergency Department application, OnRecord(TM) EDIS. Van Wert County Hospital joins Conway Regional Medical Center, Conway, Arkansas, a...

China-Biotics, Inc. Sees No Impact on Its Business From Dairy Products Safety Concerns

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China-Biotics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CHBT) ("China-Biotics," "the Company"), a leading Chinese firm specializing in the manufacture, research, development, marketing and distribution of probiotics products, today provided an update...

Chinese Work Sees Through Invisibility Quest

Researchers explain how theoretical 'anti-cloak' could bring objects out of hiding FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Just in case someone develops a cloak of invisibility, a team of Chinese scientists say they know how to uncloak the objects it hides. According to a paper publishe...

New Intensive Care Unit at Gilbert Hospital Sees First Patient

GILBERT, Ariz., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gilbert Hospital has completed construction and received licensing from the Arizona Department of Health Services to open its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and officially opened August 13th, 2008. The first patient was admitted to the ICU on the f...

Study sees need for standardized evaluation of antibody response to HIV-1

U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) researcher Victoria R. Polonis, Ph.D., and colleagues released findings on a study of cross-clade neutralization patterns among HIV-1 strains from six major clades in the 5 Jun 2008 issue of Virology . Broadly neutralizing antibodies are likely to pl...

Providence Service Corporation Sees Budget Clarity Improving Toward Year End With Budget Issues Impacting Second Quarter and Balance of 2008

Three Material Procurement Awards Could Improve Outlook Second Quarter Results to be Reported Wednesday, August 6th After Market Close TUCSON, Ariz., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Providence Service Corporation (Nasdaq: PRSC ) today announced ...

Commentary in The Lancet on the Declaration of Istanbul Sees Organ Transplantation Worldwide Threatened by Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism and Commercialism

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The July 5 issue of the leading medical journal, The Lancet, highlights the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, an important affirmation of ethical principles and practices adopted on May 2, 2008, at an Internationa...

Photo: VitaminLife.com Sees Internet Sales Up 40% in Major Metro Markets as Gas Crisis Looms; Shopping Behaviors Change as People Conserve Gas

Company sees retail habit change as barometer - gas prices go up, major market trend to stay home, shop online REDMOND, Wash., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- VitaminLife, a leading vitamin and natural products Internet retailer offering over 30,000 supplements at savings up to 50% toda...

LMS Medical Sees Fiscal 2008 Revenue Jump 72% Over F07 - Q4/F08 Revenue Hits New Record

MONTREAL, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - LMS Medical Systems (TSX: LMZ,) a healthcare technology company and developer of the CALM(R) patient safety software system for obstetrics, today reported preliminary results for Fiscal 2008 (March 31), which saw a substantial rise in revenues over the...

Beaumont Sees Results in Nation's 1st Urinary Nerve Rewiring Surgeries for Spina Bifida Patients

ROYAL OAK, Mich., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seven children from across the United States are gaining bladder control through a revolutionary, first-in-the-nation nerve rerouting surgery for patients with spina bifida. The surgeries were conducted in 2007 at Beaumont Hospital in Royal...

Joint Center Sees Social Determinants of Health as Key to Reducing Disparities at Annual Fund-raising Gala

WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is highlighting the need to target social determinants of health in order to reduce disparities and achieve greater health equity. "Health and longevity are inextricably linked to socioeconomic ...

Miami Hospital Market Sees Shift in Ownership of Two Area Facilities

For-Profit HCA and Tenet Healthcare Each Sell Financially Challenged Facilities to Local Market Players, According to New Report from HealthLeaders-InterStudy NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of healthcare ...

Chemmart(R) Sees Instant Results From Launch of New Rewards Program

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- One of Australia's largest pharmacy groups, Chemmart, has introduced a new loyalty card designed to ward off the competitive threat posed by discount chains. The system was launched in early December and in the first month of operation, participatin...

Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results

(Chicago, IL, October 22, 2007) Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. A new study presented at CHEST 2007, the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of...

Delhi Sees the Sun but Turns Cloudy Again

Heat and discomfort made a short comeback Tuesday morning as the sun shone bright over Delhi after a four-day wet spell. But with cool breeze and thick clouds making an appearance by noon, it looked like rain again. The temperature recorded at 10.30 a.m. was a cool 33 degrees Celsius accom...

Innovative Education Scheme Sees Fewer Rugby Players Suffering Spinal Injuries

A scheme educating coaches and referees in the dangers of the rugby scrum could be a key reason for a reduction in the number of spinal injuries suffered by rugby players, says a researcher writing in this weeks BMJ. Spinal cord injuries, although rare, are a major cause of permanently di...

Govt Sees Off Casino Challenge

The trade body representing the vast majority of Britain's casinos on Monday lost its High Court challenge over government plans to shake-up the country's gambling industry. The British Casino Association (BCA) failed to persuade the London-based court that Labour's policy to create 17 new casinos...

Kerala Sees Medical Tourism Soaring

With Kerala expecting at least 100,000 medical tourists in the next three years, the therapeutic tourism industry is in the pink of its health//. Foreigners are arriving in Kerala's top hospitals for plastic and cosmetic surgery, facial surgery, dental treatments, cosmetology, hip and knee repl...

Jamaica Sees 1000 New Cases of HIV Annually

A recent report by the Ministry in Jamaica has revealed that over 1,000 per-sons develop AIDS annually in Jamaica, in a paper that has now come before the House of// Representatives. Although several people infected with the HIV virus live healthy lives for several years without developing the ...

How Mother Sees Her Child, Chubby or Obese!

The Australian government has recently started, ads campaigning the need for Children to eat healthy and stay fit, instead off being a couch potato all day long//, but the mothers of many over weight children fail to recognize that their children are so. In a medical survey conducted by the governm...

Swaziland And Lesotho Sees Sharp Increase In AIDS/HIV Population

An UN official has said that the AIDS/HIV population has been consistently increasing in Swaziland with nearly 43 percent of its population being infected, including more than half of all pregnant women aged 25-29. // Swaziland and Lesotho, with a prevalence rate of 25 percent, are the Afric...

Delhi Sees Sharp Decline In Chicken Prices

The ripple effect caused by the bird flu threat has resulted in poultry products dipping to an unbelievable 60 percent down in the Indian capital. One can see that in Gazipur wholesale market chickens being sold for just Rs. 12 per kg. // Only those chickens that were certified by the veterin...

US Regulator Sees No Link Between Tamiflu And Japan Deaths

There is no evidence of a link between Tamiflu and the sudden deaths of 12 children in Japan who took the drug, The US Food and Drug Administration has concluded. Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant which markets the // drug standing in the front line of defense against a bird flu pandemic, ag...

Walk for Parkinson's Disease Scheduled for Saturday September 19, 2009

... a number of years ago. ''His symptoms are controlled for the most part,'' Jones shares, ''however, they become more progressive day by day.'' Jones sees firsthand the way the disease impacts her father's life. "The 2008 APDA Walking to Ease the Burden event was truly an example of teamwork and...

Men Around the World Seek Cosmetic Surgery

...tia, enlargement of the male breast tissue, is becoming a serious concern to a growing number of men worldwide. Bryan Mayou of London's Cadogan Clinic sees "an increasing number of men coming into (his) clinic with body-image problems and low self-esteem because of this particular condition." Gynae...