Hospira is recalling one lot of 0.5% Marcaine (bupivacaine HCl injection) 30 mL preservative-free vials after a customer reported particulate embedded in the glass and visible in the solution. No adverse events have been reported; Hospira blames a supplier's glass defect.
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Peter Raven Receives U.S. National Arboretum's Medal of Excellence
The US National Arboretum gave its Medal of Excellence to botanist Peter H. Raven, president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, for a career spent using public gardens and ornamental horticulture to draw people into plant conservation and biodiversity.
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Medtronic Launches $17-Million Program to Improve Heart Disease, Diabetes Care for Underserved Populations
Medtronic Philanthropy launched HealthRise, a five-year, $17 million program funding community projects in Brazil, India, South Africa and the United States to widen access to care for heart disease, diabetes and other chronic non-communicable diseases.
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Oswego Hospital Combines Plexus Information Systems' Anesthesia Information and Drug Management System with Codonics Safe Label System
Oswego Hospital, a 164-bed community hospital in New York, began implementing Plexus Information Systems' anesthesia and medication management system with Codonics' Safe Label System, so one scan of a vial confirms the drug, prints a label and records the dispense.
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Safe Label System Honored as Winner in the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Awards
Codonics' Safe Label System won a 2014 Medical Design Excellence Award. The FDA-approved Class 2 device uses barcodes and a drug database to identify medications during preparation and print full-color labels, aiming to cut preventable medication errors.
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Flexi Floss Ltd. Introduces Innovative Solution for Attending to Most Important (and Avoided) Dental Hygiene Practice: Gummy Floss™
Flexi Floss of Haifa introduced Gummy Floss, a flexible medical-grade silicone rubber floss with thumb grips, pitched at families and children including those with mixed baby and adult teeth. Testers and a dentist called it easier to use; it is taking Indiegogo pre-orders.
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Bronx Nursing Home, Gold Crest Care Center, Prepares for Summer Activities
Gold Crest Care Center, a Bronx nursing home, is lining up summer recreation for residents: patio barbecues, trips to local attractions, arts and crafts, cultural events, live entertainment and holiday parties. Director Mark Salamon says the goal is keeping residents engaged.
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FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) releases two draft guidelines and comments are wanted
FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion released two draft guidances for comment: one on correcting independent third-party misinformation about prescription drugs and devices online, the other on presenting risk and benefit information where characters are limited.
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Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS Team With Health Departments and Local AIDS Service Organizations to Offer HIV Testing in Support of National HIV Testing Day
Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS are offering free HIV tests June 26-28 at selected stores in more than 140 cities. Nearly 200 state and local health departments and AIDS service organizations will run the events and give results on site within minutes.
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Experience Innovation Network to Co-host Physician Engagement Webinar with Summa Health System
Vocera's Experience Innovation Network and Summa Health System will co-host a free webinar on June 19 about getting physicians to lead patient experience work. Troy Bishop will present a case study on improved HCAHPS and CG-CAHPS scores, joined by Summa's Carmen Natale.
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Medford, Long Island Nursing Home Medford Multicare Center for Living Supports Aphasia Awareness Month in June 2014
Medford Multicare Center for Living is supporting Aphasia Awareness Month in June. The release describes aphasia as a language disorder usually triggered by a stroke, ranging from forgetting occasional words to losing the ability to speak, read and write, and says it most often affects older people.
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Crawford & Company Receives 2014 Reactions Best Latin America Loss Adjustment Firm Award
Crawford & Company took the Best Latin America Loss Adjustment Firm prize at the second annual Reactions Latin America Awards in Miami on May 29. Latin America chief executive Eduardo Kimsi accepted it and said it reflects the firm's progress in claims management across the region.
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UC Charting Solutions' EHR Software, ProMentum, Attains 2014 ONC-ACB Certification
UC Charting Solutions says its ProMentum 3.2 EHR passed Drummond Group ONC-ACB testing for the 2014 edition, which the company says makes it capable of supporting Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures providers need to qualify for federal funding.
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Medtronic to Acquire Covidien for $42.9 billion in Cash and Stock
Medtronic agreed to buy Covidien in cash and stock valued at $93.22 per Covidien share, about $42.9 billion. Both boards approved unanimously. The companies say the combination would employ 87,000 people in more than 150 countries with combined revenue of $27 billion.
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Sanofi and Medtronic to Form Strategic Alliance in Diabetes to Improve Patient Experience and Outcomes
Sanofi and Medtronic signed a memorandum of understanding for a global diabetes alliance, focused first on drug-device combinations and care management services meant to improve adherence and simplify insulin treatment.
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Study may advance understanding of how brain cell tubes are modified under normal and disease conditions.
NIH scientists watched the protein tubulin acetyltransferase tag the inside of microtubules, the hollow cylinders that serve as brain cells' skeletons and internal highways. The work, published in Cell, offers clues to why that tagging matters for brain health.
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Public Meeting to Address Agenda Items for Upcoming 37th Codex Alimentarius Commission
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will hold a public meeting on June 18 in Washington to present information and take comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions for the 37th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Geneva. A call-in line is available.
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FDA approves Lymphoseek to help determine the extent of head and neck cancer in the body
FDA cleared a new use for Lymphoseek (technetium 99m tilmanocept) to guide sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The approval may let patients whose sentinel nodes are cancer-free have more limited lymph node surgery.
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