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Mr Wayne Spittle, General Manager for Philips Medical Systems Asia Pacific, says that Philips Electronics plans to foray into manufacturing medical equipment in India through a joint venture with a local company. No targets have been named yet, but when

U.S. District Judge David C. Norton will meet with lawyers to coordinate the exchange of information in the B&L litigation, which now involves 80 cases but could grow to many times that number. Plaintiffs’ attorneys have reported potential claims from

Sweden’s Getinge said on Friday it was buying Huntleigh Technology for 409 million pounds to add the British firm’s hospital beds business to its patient-lifting technology. Getinge President and Chief Executive Johan Malmquist said it would help create a “total

In a bold and sweeping move, all UIL high schools in Texas have been ruled to have at least one external defibrillator on campus as of Aug.1 2007, ruled by the UIL Legislative Council. The ruling also requires that a

Midmark is buying back physicians’ manual exam tables as health care providers upgrade to what is quickly becoming the new industry standard for efficient patient care: Barrier-Free™ exam tables. Many physicians are equipping their offices with at least one of

SciCan Medical ‘Trade In’ Promotion Statim, the world’s fastest autoclave from start to sterile™ Between June 1st and September 29th 2006, SciCan will offer a $2450 discount towards a new Statim 5000 with the trade in of a pre-owned autoclave

Safety Features One of the greatest advancements in electrosurgery over the past two decades has been the advent of tissue impedance monitoring. This technology offers a detailed analysis of how much resistance a current encounters as it passes between the

Electrosurgical units (ESUs) have greatly evolved in the 80 years since their introduction in the 1920s. The past two decades, however, have seen the greatest revolutions in electrosurgical technology with improvements in isolated units (in place of ground references), discrete

“Chances of survival from sudden cardiac arrest decreases 10 percent each minute after collapse,” said Mary Newman, executive director for the National Center for Early Defibrillation. “The key to survival is quick action on the part of those near the