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Sep 2017CHRISTUS Health and HealthTrust Announce Partnership to Foster a Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
HealthTrustSM a leading healthcare performance improvement company and CHRISTUS Health an international faithbased notforprofit health system announced today the signing of an agreement naming HealthTrust as the total spend management partner and exclusive national group purchasing organization GPO for the Catholic health ministry The agreement is effective November CHRISTUS Healths Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Randolph Safady calls…
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Sep 2017South Africa’s Areta Health Selects Medsphere Healthcare IT Solutions
Medsphere Systems Corporation the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology IT solutions and services today announced that the company has reached an agreement with South Africas Areta Health for comprehensive support of the organizations hospital network The contract covers Areta Healths Specialist Day Hospital SDH system spread throughout South Africa The hospitals in turn anchor an integrated…
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Sep 2017Cerveau Technologies, Inc. Announces Collaboration with Banner Health
Cerveau Technologies Inc today announced a research collaboration with Banner Health to support various research projects studying the stages of Alzheimers disease and other neurodegenerative diseases These research projects will utilize an investigational imaging agent MK to be used in positron emission tomography PET scans for assessing the status and progression of neurofibrillary tangles NFTs in the brain NFTs made…
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Sep 2017Medical Tourism in Sri Lanka to Boom with the Offer of Low-cost Services and Government Support
Business Wire IndiaSri Lankas ambition to compete with market giants like India Malaysia and Thailand in the South Asian medical tourism industry has invigorated the countrys healthcare vertical Most foreign patients to Sri Lanka hail from neighbouring countries such as Maldives and…
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Sep 2017FDA clears first duodenoscope with disposable distal cap
The US Food and Drug Administration today cleared the first duodenoscope with a disposable distal cap a new feature that will improve access for cleaning and reprocessing The Pentax EDiT model duodenoscope is intended to provide visualization and access to the upper…
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Sep 2017ProQR to Present at Two Investor Conferences in September
LEIDEN the Netherlands Sept GLOBE NEWSWIRE ProQR Therapeutics NV NasdaqPRQR today announced that the Company will present at two investor conferences during the month of September Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference On Tuesday September at am ET Daniel de Boer Chief Executive…
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Patterns of Immune Infiltration in Breast Cancer and Their Clinical Implications: A Gene-Expression-Based Retrospective Study
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Missed Pulmonary Tb Screening Opportunities At Primary Healthcare Facilities: An Exit Case Study
Abstract Background A key driver of TB transmission is the significant number of missed TB cases who are undiagnosed In WHO estimated million missing cases of TB Though South African national guidelines recommend universal TB screening of all individuals presenting to health facilities TB suspects continue to be missed We assessed the magnitude of missed pulmonary TB cases…
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Powdered medical gloves can cause allergic reactions severe airway inflammation wound inflammation adhesions and postsurgical scar tissue formation These concerns provide the stimulus for the…
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Eat or Be Eaten
The article asks whether Asian health providers should look at mergers and acquisitions in order to stay competitive and avoid being eaten by larger players…
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Radical surgery is the cornerstone in the treatment of gastric cancer but results in high locoregional recurrence rates…
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Patient-Physician Communication by Using Mobile Technology in Developing Countries
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Managing Diabetes Better
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Diagnostics for the Developing World
In view of limited funding for healthcare there is a great need and potential for simple high quality and affordable diagnostic products in the developing…
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It needs to be ensured that each and every patient receives evidencebased care unless contraindicated as part of…