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Safe blood requires strict, and detailed, standards
Mon May 28 11:49:17 EDT 2012
In last week's column, several people living in Japan explained that whether they were able to donate blood was primarily determined by health or safety concerns rather than Japanese language ability, which we originally discussed in our April 3 column, "Less-than-fluent foreigners may have...
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Thieves nab discarded equipment used to test patient with mad-cow-like disease
Wed May 16 14:53:28 EDT 2012
Thieves who helped themselves to a medical scanner and some lab machines set for disposal behind Florida Hospital may have picked up a truckload of trouble.
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Equipment used to test for mad-cow-like disease stolen | Video
Wed May 16 15:08:21 EDT 2012
Medical equipment used to detect a brain disease similar to mad cow has been stolen from Florida Hospital's main campus, and the equipment may pose a public health risk.
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ProMetic Life Sciences Inc./P-Capt(R) Filter Safety Confirmed: PRISM Study Results Released
Thu May 03 11:14:42 EDT 2012
ProMetic Life Sciences Inc./P-Capt(R) Filter Safety Confirmed: PRISM Study Results Released
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GE Healthcare Secures Additional Supply of Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP)
Tue May 08 10:22:42 EDT 2012
GE Healthcare today announced that additional supply for Optison (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP) has been made ...
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Indonesia finds BSE case hard to stomach
Wed May 02 13:18:23 EDT 2012
Indonesia has suspended several types of beef imports from the United States after a confirmed case of mad cow disease was found in a dairy cow in the US State of California.
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Press Release
Tue May 08 11:08:55 EDT 2012
GE Healthcare today announced that additional supply for Optison™ (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP) has been made available from its contract manufacturer to meet the current market demand.
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Touch of Life Technologies' New Cystoscopy and Bladder Injection Simulator Offers Urologists Training on Use of BOTOX ...
Tue May 08 16:23:04 EDT 2012
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - May 8, 2012) - Touch of Life Technologies (ToLTech) has developed a virtual reality-based cystoscopy simulator to train and evaluate urologists on the procedure of injecting BOTOX ® (onabotulinumtoxinA) into the detrusor muscle of the bladder to treat leakage of urine...
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USDA: Mad cow offspring tests negative for BSE
Thu May 03 09:12:56 EDT 2012
Two dairy farms were also quarantined as standard procedure, USDA said
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