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eProject, the leading provider of On-Demand collaborative Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), is rapidly gaining traction within the healthcare industry. The company has gained deployments with prominent healthcare providers, including Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, HCIV, Charleston Area Medical Center, Valley Baptist Health System, and
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Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health care organization, INTEGRIS Health, continues to prioritize patient safety by adopting the patented Safety-Sponge System for preventing retained sponges after surgery. INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center has entered into a three-year agreement with SurgiCount Medical, a subsidiary of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc., to implement the
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Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) is set to acquire ATI Technologies (NASDAQ:ATYT) in a deal worth $5.4 billion. This move is seen as a strategic step by AMD to strengthen its portfolio and compete more effectively with Intel, its chief rival. The acquisition has significant implications for the
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The July 24 edition of Schaeffer's Market Blog highlights notable market activity, including the acquisition of HCA Inc. by a group of investors for $33 billion, and the planned acquisition of ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for $5.4 billion. These developments are set to shape
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Seven Summits Research releases NewsBites on key stocks, offering investors essential information on recent or anticipated stock moves, resistance and support price levels, insider trades, upgrades, downgrades, and other important news. The reports aim to help investors stay ahead of the market by anticipating changes instead of just reacting to
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation, a Dallas-based hospital company, has agreed to pay the federal government more than $900 million to settle claims that it overbilled the Medicare program for treating the sickest patients at its facilities across the nation, including in the Philadelphia area. The company will also sell 11 of
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Panacea Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, has been awarded a $880,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a novel drug for treating ischemic stroke. The company has identified a
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The BITAC study, led by Dr. Alexander Bauer at the University Hospital of Heidelberg, aims to assess the incidence of slow ventricular tachycardias (VTs) in heart failure patients implanted with CRT-D devices. The study will enroll over 400 patients across Europe and will provide physicians with better insight into the
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Fluidware Technologies Inc., a startup born at the University of Tokyo, has collaborated with Hitachi Ltd. to create a cutting-edge, cost-effective biotechnology analysis system. This innovative technology employs a tiny silicon chip to match proteins linked to diseases with potential drug substances. The system is poised to revolutionize the development
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Pharsight Corporation, a leading provider of software and strategic services designed to optimize clinical drug development, has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). This collaboration directly supports the FDA's
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Dendrite International, a leading provider of pharmaceutical industry solutions, has launched j-ForceWIRELESS, a wireless operating environment designed to provide pharmaceutical sales forces in developing countries with a turnkey sales force effectiveness solution. The solution will be introduced in China, one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical markets in the world, in
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Transnational pharmaceutical enterprises have shown a significant shift in their investment strategies, prioritizing research and development (R&D) in China since the country's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2002. Currently, the world's top 20 transnational pharmaceutical enterprises have established joint venture plants
