Press Releases
22 December 2021
Keeping kids close to home, while providing innovative and life-saving care to the children in our region, is the mission of Lee Health's Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida. On Tuesday, December 21, Golisano Children’s Hospital announced a new pediatric neurosurgery program, a collaboration with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, designed to further fulfill that mission and expand healthcare services in Southwest Florida. The new pr
Read more...21 December 2021
DocGo, a leading provider of last-mile mobile health services and integrated medical mobility solutions (Nasdaq: DCGO), is expanding its turnkey solution to provide employers with essential tools and resources to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In response to the recent 6th Circuit Court Decision to uphold the ETS Mandate, DocGo continues to expand its offering in preparati
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Coherus BioSciences, Inc. announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved YUSIMRY™ , formerly CHS-1420, a Humira® (adalimumab) biosimilar product. YUSIMRY is indicated for plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis. “We are excited that Coherus has received FDA approval for YUSIMRY, our second approved
Read more...20 December 2021
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic products based on molecularly targeted radiation , today announces that the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved Telix’s lead prostate cancer imaging product, Illuccix®. Illuccix is a kit for the preparation of gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as PSMA-11) injection, a radioactive diagnostic agent indicated for positron
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In partnership with Gulf Drug, Versius has been acquired by hospitals across the UAE, where it is being used in a rapidly increasing number of surgeries in both public and private hospitals including at the Saudi German Hospital, Al Zahra Hospital, and American Hospital Dubai. The UAE, amongst other countries across the Middle East, has made considerable and rapid advances to adopt surgical robotics into clinical practice, and is seeing significant benefits by enabling more patients to receiv
Read more...17 December 2021
Boyd Corporation, a world-leading innovator of technologies in engineered materials and thermal management, announced the acquisition of MBK Tape Solutions. MBK specializes in the manufacturing and development of innovative and complex multi-layered adhesive products that bond, mount, monitor and protect for stick to skin applications in the highly regulated medical industry. The acquisition strengthens Boyd’s medical material science capability across advanced wound care, transdermal p
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. announced that it has formed a joint venture with Fairview Health Services, one of Minnesota’s leading health systems. Through this partnership, Fairview and Acadia plan to design and construct a new inpatient mental health and addiction facility in the Twin Cities’ East Metro. The joint venture will bring together the two organizations’ expertise and resources to address an identified need for behavioral health services in the region.
Read more...16 December 2021
MDoloris Medical Systems, leader in the field of objective analgesia/nociception monitoring during anesthesia and in intensive care, and Mindray, a global leader in developing and providing advanced medical devices and solutions, announce today the CE Mark and upcoming launch of the Mdoloris ANI-MR module. The ANI-MR module is a solution developed by MDoloris for Mindray for integration into the BeneVision N Series patient monitoring devices, making the ANI parameter available to al
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) today announced that it has funded investments in technology and practice support resources for Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Cloquet, Minnesota, allowing new training capabilities to optimize labor and delivery care for patients throughout the state.' The Operative Experience Labor and Delivery Suite, which was recently installed at CMH, provides a life-like simulation for all types of obstetric care, from routine proc
Read more...15 December 2021
Svelte Medical Systems received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to commercialize the SLENDER IDS® fixed-wire and DIRECT RX® rapid-exchange drug-eluting stent (DES) systems for the treatment of coronary artery disease in the U.S. SLENDER IDS® and DIRECT RX®, incorporating the same specialized stent, bioresorbable drug coating and balloon technologies, achieved 1.5% clinically-driven Target Lesion Revascularization (TLR) at 1 year in the OPTIMIZE Investigational
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