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In a move that could help offset its $458 million 4Q07 Gudiant-related losses, Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) reported last month that it had signed a definitive agreement to sell its investments in a portfolio of companies, subject to certain closing and other conditions, to Saints Capital (San Francisco), a secondary direct-investment firm.
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Applera; Celera; Berkeley HeartLab; Abbott Laboratories; Applied Biosystems; Invitrogen; Escalon Medical; Drew Scientific; JAS Diagnostics; Kardia Health Systems; Freeland Systems; Pediatrix Medical Group
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It takes a team to change the high-risk lifestyle habits of a single individual according to a large-scale study conducted by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC; Sophia Antipolis, France) published in the June 14 issue of The Lancet.
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Medtronic (Minneapolis) in mid-June received FDA approval of its Attain StarFix OTW (over-the-wire) lead. The company said it's the first active fixation left-heart lead for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and that the lead has demonstrated a 0% chronic (meaning more than one day post-implant) dislodgement rate.
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SAN FRANCISCO Big medical companies usually have big footprints at medical conferences, and Medtronic stomped around with one of the very largest CD&D has ever seen at this year's scientific sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; Washington).
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Two Epidemiologic Intelligence Service officers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited the Endoscopy Clinic of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas to investigate cases of hepatitis C and noted lapses in injection safety. Practices differed among the nurse anesthetists. This is an excerpt of their report:
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At the Endoscopy Clinic of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, it was not uncommon for a nurse anesthetist to remove the needle from a syringe and reuse the syringe even on another patient, public health investigators report.
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Almost one-third of workers with arthritis and 7% of all workers face significant work-related limitations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Employers have discovered a way to lower their health plan costs: Have healthier employees. Increasingly, employers are creating strong incentives for healthy behavior or penalizing employees with risky behavior, such as smoking. But employees aren't thrilled about the new approach, according to a survey by Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm based in Lincolnshire, IL.
