Chairman and CEO Omar Ishrak will present on Medtronic at 3:20 p.m. PDT during the 35th annual Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. A live audio webcast runs through the Investors link on the company's home page.
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Leading Dermatology Contract Research Organization bioskin® Joins Medrio's Partner Program
The dermatology contract research organization bioskin joined Medrio's partner program and will use its eClinical software for data collection. CEO Walter Wigger-Alberti says building studies in-house skips the wait on external programmers and gets clients a database faster.
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RemZzzs Debuts Long-awaited Product for Customers With Nasal Pillows Style PAP Masks at Sleep 2014 Conference in Minneapolis
Naturs Design debuted a RemZzzs liner for nasal pillow style PAP masks at the APSS Sleep 2014 conference in Minneapolis. The company says skin irritation where the pillows enter the nostrils is a major reason users abandon therapy.
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Therapy Management Corporation Introduces New Wellness Services Initiative
Therapy Management Corporation is sending videos made by its clinical experts to senior living communities, letting onsite fitness staff run wellness classes while working hands-on with participants on technique and balance. Planned additions include Zumba, X-fit for seniors and golf fitness.
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Registration Now Open for RFID Journal LIVE! Brasil
Registration opened for RFID Journal LIVE! Brasil, a Sept. 24-25, 2014 conference and exhibition in Sao Paulo sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Brasil. End users will present case studies in Portuguese and English, with exhibitors showing RFID technology.
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New Guide Helps Transform Coding and Billing Departments to Ensure Accurate and Complete Medical Coding
Harry & Maia Productions released an educational kit with a DVD, discussion guide and summary card teaching medical coders and billers how to win physician buy-in, as the industry faces an ICD-10 compliance date of Oct. 1, 2015 and roughly 68,000 codes instead of 13,000.
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Hacker Group HealthHG Units Adds Two New Agency of Record Brands to the Fold
Hacker Group's HealthHG unit became agency of record for Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan serving more than 40,000 beneficiaries in Missouri and Illinois, and will handle direct marketing for One Medical Group.
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Minerals Technologies Inc. Signs Agreement to Build a Satellite PCC Plant for Coated Packaging Paper in China with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group Co. Ltd.
Minerals Technologies signed an agreement with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group for a satellite plant producing 50,000 metric tons a year of coating-grade PCC in Zhejiang Province, its first dedicated to coated packaging. The plant should be running in the fourth quarter of 2015.
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Supreme Pharmaceuticals (CSE:SL) Attending the GreenRush Financial Conference in Toronto, Ontario on June 26, 2014 - Video News Alert on InvestmentPitch.com
Supreme Pharmaceuticals invites investors to its booth at the GreenRush Financial Conference on June 26 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The company has closed on a 342,000-square-foot greenhouse in Southern Ontario and exercised an option on a South Okanagan facility.
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Health Communication Science Digest -- May 2014
CDC's May 2014 Health Communication Science Digest is online, collecting papers on health message design, health literacy, information use and satisfaction, evaluation research, crisis and risk communication, and audience tailoring. Past issues sit in a searchable archive.
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Survey Says: Men Slightly More Confident about Retirement than Women
In a OneAmerica survey of 7,545 retirement plan participants, only 38 percent felt confident about maintaining their lifestyle in retirement: 43 percent of men against 32 percent of women. Those lacking confidence cited too little saved, economic uncertainty and healthcare costs.
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Oligarchy Response Team Needed, Koch Attack in Wisconsin
A Center for Media and Democracy fundraising letter reports that Koch-linked operatives spent close to $1 million on ads backing Scott Walker as the race tightened, and that CMD first revealed Judge Randa, who tried to halt the John Doe probe, attended Koch-funded judicial junkets.
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Vocera Chief Medical Officer, M. Bridget Duffy, MD, Promotes Humanizing Healthcare at First H2T Conference
Chief medical officer M. Bridget Duffy will keynote the first Humanizing Healthcare Technologies conference, June 9-10 in Asheville, North Carolina, hosted by Mission Health with Vocera and Rock Health. Her talk covers technology that restores human connection in patient care.
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Soliris (eculizumab) Concentrated Solution for IV Infusion by Alexion: Recall - Visible Particulates
Alexion is voluntarily recalling lot 10007A of Soliris 300mg/30mL infusion solution plus eight lots filled using the same process component, after visible particulates raised concerns about immune reactions and blood clots. Holders should stop use and return the vials.
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Award-Winning Assisted Living Community in Lombard Is Expanding
Lexington Square of Lombard is adding 18 assisted living rooms in June, plus a town center activity area, dining room, bistro and spa. Executive Sherry Kizer says assisted living communities differ widely in licensing and services, and urges families to ask questions before choosing.
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Soliris® (eculizumab) Concentrated Solution Recalled
Alexion is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Soliris 300 mg/30 mL concentrated solution to the hospital and user level after visible particulate matter turned up in a single lot. The company says its global supply chain keeps reaching commercial and clinical patients without interruption.
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Ameritox Partners With MVP Health Care in New York and Vermont
Ameritox will provide urine drug monitoring to MVP Health Care members in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire as a covered benefit in all MVP plans, including Medicare and Medicaid. The companies cite CDC figures of one U.S. death every 19 minutes from prescription drug abuse.
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NatureSweet to showcase why small is big at United Fresh
NatureSweet will hand out samples at booth #1261 in the Fresh Marketplace pavilion during United Fresh, June 10-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago, showing its full small-tomato lineup: bite-sized Cherriots, salad-sized Cherubs and golden Sunbursts.
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