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11 000 ‘medics’ face fees axe - South Africa
11 057 health practitioners have not paid their license fees for the year and will be “struck off”. [Read more →]

American Journal of Cardiology - Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes After Placement of Multiple Overlapping Drug-Eluting Stents in Diffuse Coronary Lesions In this recently published clinical trial by Cheol Whan Lee, [Read more →]

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Abbott Begins Early International Launch of XIENCE™ Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System

“XIENCE V showed statistically significant superiority to the TAXUS® paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system”.
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Blood Glucose Monitoring Market Gets a Bit Crowded -MDL Newsletter.

Not crowded enough perhaps. With diabetes growing at an alarming rate the best the industry could come up with in this day an age is invasive instruments [Read more →]

AIST Develops ‘Intelligent’ Electronic Wheelchair With Next-generation Graphic Sensing System - from Medicalnewstoday

This wheelchair sensing system was shown at the International Homecare and Rehabilitation Exhibition in Japan which is a must attend for companies seeking one of the few remaining highly profitable world markets.

Clients from the UK should no longer call me saying they want to restructure their organization with some young energetic new blood. They would be breaking this new law. Suits me - forces the client to really think through what they really need.

British government defends new anti-ageist law - Yahoo! News