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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Corona del Mar
Troy Bolus GPA: 4.5 School Activities/Clubs: track, Photography Club Community: peer tutor, Illumination Foundation Awards/Honors: Most Valuable Player varsity track 2012, Best Varsity Jumper 2010-11 Hobbies/Interests: guitar, golf, skiing,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Stanford University, Electronics, Engineering, Applied Physics
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Boston Scientific posts first-quarter loss
ReutersApril 25 (Reuters) - Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp on Thursday posted a first-quarter loss due to $578 million in restructuring, litigation and other charges. Excluding the one-time charges, it had a profit of 16 cents per share, up a penny...Tags: Boston Scientific Corporation, Manufacturing and Engineering
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UK review warns on cosmetic injections, urges tougher rules
Reuters* Dermal fillers "a crisis waiting to happen", review says * Call for products to be made prescription only * UK review prompted by PIP breast implant scandal LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Cosmetic treatment needs tougher regulation, particularly over...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Drugs and Medicines, Politics, Botox (drug), Allergan Inc.
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RPT-ANALYSIS-Ahead of reform, medical care slowdown hits US companies
Reuters(Repeats story to additional subscribers) By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - As the clock ticks down to the start of a U.S. healthcare overhaul, companies from device makers to hospital chains have been surprised to see Americans make even...Tags: Johnson & Johnson Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Industry, Morningstar Incorporated
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Thievery in the medical industry
Pushed off the front pages last week by the Boston Marathon bombing was a Chicago horror story with implications as far-reaching as any terrorist plot. FBI agents raided a small hospital on Chicago's West Side where, according to federal investigators,...
Tags: Medicare, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Hospitals and Clinics, Internists
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Guilford's Defibtech Honored As Top Exporter
The Hartford CourantA Guilford medical device company will be recognized as a national leader in exporting later this month by the federal Department of Commerce's promotional magazine. Defibtech, which makes automatic external defibrillators, will be the only Connecticut...Tags: Human Interest, Manufacturing and Engineering, Guilford (New Haven, Connecticut), Exports
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Finalists named in Maryland's startup contest
Maryland's competition for startup companies — with three grand prizes of $100,000 each — was narrowed to nine finalists Monday. The companies, based largely in Baltimore and Montgomery County, were part of an original field of nearly 260...Tags: Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Awards and Prizes, Cecil County
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Covidien Awarded $176.5 Million In Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Medical device maker Covidien, which has operations in New Haven and North Haven, won a patent infringement case in U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton's court in New Haven Thursday. Covidien sued Ethicon Endo-Surgery in 2004, after it introduced a...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Trials
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Obamacare deadlier than predicted
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speculates that the 2010 healthcare law may lead to higher costs for select services ("Some healthcare costs may rise when Obamacare implemented," News, March 26). Her realization follows a March...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Kathleen Sebelius, Manufacturing and Engineering, Health Insurance Cost, Politics
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE small in number but seen as deadly threat
A family of drug-resistant bacteria that experts say kills up to 50 percent of people infected is spreading in Chicago and elsewhere, prompting doctors and public health officials to step up efforts to protect patients. Infections caused by these...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing Homes, National Institutes of Health, Medical Specialization, Rush University Medical Center
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Rolling out the carpet for new businesses
For decades, the Lehigh Valley has been known to business leaders for three important qualities. Location, location and location. Nestled along Interstate 78 between Philadelphia and New York, the region has always been attractive to companies looking...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Consumer Goods Industries, Economy, Business and Finance, Chemical Industry, Cranberries
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National Weights and Measures Week set for Friday through March 7
American consumers have the luxury of buying with a degree of confidence that they are getting what they pay for and business owners assume they are competing on a level playing field, all due to the diligence of state and local weights and measures...Tags: Applied Physics, Manufacturing and Engineering
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