Medical Equipment & Supplies

How to Take a Gorilla's Blood Pressure: Very Carefully

By Rachael Rettner, Staff Writer For the first time, researchers have obtained blood pressure readings from a gorilla while it was awake. Here, The Georgia Tech team that developed the Gorilla Tough Cuff and a Zoo Atlanta...

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GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to...

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Veterinarians get crucial livestock medicine

Iraqi veterinarians inspect recently-acquired medical supplies at the Kirkuk Agricultural Department, Nov. 17. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, distributed the medical supplies, including antibiotics and...

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Devastation

By Catherine Shanahan, Eoin English and Sean O’Riordan Saturday, November 21, 2009 INSURANCE companies deluged with flood claims that could cost tens of millions of euro are bracing themselves for more as forecasters predict...

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First reconstitution of an epidermis from human embryonic stem cells

Stem cell research is making great strides. This is yet again illustrated by a study carried out by the I-STEM Institute (France), published in the Lancet on 21 November 2009. The I-STEM team, directed by Marc Peschanski has...

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Managers Ordered to Keep Hospitals Clean

Pretoria — Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at hospital managers for failing to keep their hospitals clean. "How do you find it so easy to work in a dirty hospital, no human being will last in such a hospital,...

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UK Hospital Trials Wireless 'plaster' for monitoring patient health

A wireless digital 'plaster' that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in a new clinical trial run by Imperial...

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Pilgrims urged to carry health kits as precaution against swine flu

RIYADH: Local Haj pilgrims are being urged to take special health kits with them in light of the swine flu threat. Over 800,000 local pilgrims from all over the Kingdom will leave for Makkah from Monday to perform their...

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Review of point-of-care diagnostic segment

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b6b2b6/monitoring_health) has announced the addition of Decision Resources, Inc.'s new report "Monitoring Health Through Novel Technologies: Where Are We with...

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Stocking Up on Meds Saves Money (CME/CE, with video)

Buying prescription drugs in bulk reduces costs for both patients and their insurers, researchers say. Patients saved about 30% by stocking up on their chronic medications in three-month supplies, rather than buying a month's...

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