July 24, 2011, 5:59 am
DRAPER, UT–(Marketwire – Jul 6, 2011) – Megadyne Medical Products, a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of electrosurgical products, announced today that it has been awarded a five-year contract from Novation, the healthcare industry’s leading supply contracting company. Novation provides savings to members and affiliates of VHA Inc., UHC, and Provista.
The Multi-Source agreement on Electrosurgical Generators, Smoke Evacuation Systems, Electrosurgical Pencils and Accessories, as well as a Sole-Source award to Megadyne for their Reusable Grounding Pads, is effective July 1, 2011.
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July 23, 2011, 1:24 am
The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) will maintain its status with the largest national dental hygiene meeting with more than 1,700 dental hygienists, and more than 2,000 total participants set to attend the Center for Lifelong Learning at the 88th Annual Session (CLL/AS). The meeting takes place June 15-21, at the Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Marriott Hotel. News Highlights Meeting Format Now in the fourth year of the combined meeting format for the Center for Lifelong Learning and Annual Session, CLL at the 88th Annual Session features a variety of continuing education career tracks on the front end and the ADHA business meetings on the back end. Read more…
July 22, 2011, 6:05 pm
Early childhood tooth decay is one of the most common infectious diseases found in indigenous children in the United States and Canada, resulting in additional adverse health effects. In a new policy statement, “Early Childhood Caries in Indigenous Communities,” in the June 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online Monday, May 30), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) provide recommendations for the prevention of dental disease in young children and pregnant women, through collaboration with primary health care providers, policy makers, and public health practitioners in indigenous communities. Read more…
July 22, 2011, 5:35 am
Author Affiliations
University of Milan, Italy. 1st Unit of Vascular Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese (MI), Italy
We report a case of delayed endovascular correction of graft collapse occurred after emergent Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) for traumatic aortic isthmus rupture.
In 7th post-operative day after emergent TEVAR for traumatic aortic isthmus rupture (Gore TAG 28-150), a partial collapse of the endoprosthesis at the descending tract occurred, with no signs of visceral ischemia.
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July 21, 2011, 11:29 pm
You might think that in an increasingly germ-o-phobic nation, people would take extra care to eliminate oral disease-causing germs from their mouths, but you’d be wrong. While nearly 80 percent of Americans feel concerned about germs on their hands, only 66 percent worry about germs in their mouths, according to the new “Healthy Mouths” report from the makers of LISTERINE® Antiseptic and REACH® brand. What’s more, while nearly all Americans surveyed (95 percent) agreed that they need to do more than just brush to keep their mouths healthy, only one in three floss or rinse with mouthwash in the morning, and less than half see a dentist twice a year for preventative visits. T Read more…