Sentences with phrase «medical companies make»

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In the past few years companies like Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics, and Proteus Digital Health have set out to create better medical mousetraps through devices that make existing drugs more effective.

The company tells Beth that it uses a locally - sourced lubricant made of 100 % medical - grade silicone oil to coat its condoms, and claims that some suppliers use lubricants mixed with other additives, including industrial - grade silicone.

One key differentiator is that these companies are testing with the Food and Drug Administration and making products for medical marijuana and MassRoots is focused on recreational marijuana users.

Technology companies that make medical treatment more efficient for patients are another good bet.

Gleneagle Gold will make a second attempt at a reverse takeover with plans to buy a local unlisted medical cannabis company in a deal worth about $ 8 million.

The industry is made up of companies and organizations that are in the business of selling or supplying everything from shelter to medical relief after a natural or manmade disaster, from a tornado to an act of terrorism.

The company lobbies Washington on a wide range of issues including diabetes prevention, budget matters, chronic disease and making obesity an accepted medical disease that insurers will pay to prevent, Brooks said.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a 20 percent holder of DaVita, making it the medical services company's biggest shareholder.

Budnick is president of Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Connecticut, a 30 - person injection - molding firm that makes parts on contract for medical - equipment makers, automotive companies, and other manufacturers.

The company makes software to manage medical records but expanded into the business of building and managing health care clinics after rising health care costs prompted Cerner (CERN) to build its own in - house clinic in 2006.

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

This week, Uber temporarily lost its CEO, saw a board member leave after making a sexist comment, and was sued by a rape victim who alleges the company improperly gained access to her medical records.

His company, Specialty Medical Supplies, makes alcohol pads and diabetes equipment in the factory.

As for the companies that employ the most retired players, Stryker (syk), a medical technology company that makes items like replacement hips and knees, takes the top spot.

He reports that he's already working with about 70 dispensaries, which, by his estimation, makes him the largest medical marijuana consulting company around today.

The medical technology company makes products used in orthopedics, surgery, and neurotechnology.

But her underlying point isn't totally invalid — the furor over drug price hikes like Mylan's is forcing legislators and private companies alike to finally confront the issue head - on, and highlighting just how difficult the disparate and largely opaque American medical financing system makes it to address these problems in a serious way.

Both companies are seeking bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth $ 1 billion a year by 2018.

Davis said the company had to «make some changes» because of cuts in Medicare reimbursements for urine tests and other medical services.

The average per - employee cost growth is estimated to rise 6 percent, if companies make no changes to their medical plans, according to the survey.

It's widely diversified across almost every conceivable industry, is largely immune to the sorts of technological changes that could still wipe Google off the map due to fact profits come from selling stuff like ketchup, jewelry, insurance, furniture, railroad freight services, and more (though management is smart enough to realize this so the technology giant has been making investments in everything from medical to energy companies).

The Mettrum discovery was made recently, when a random screening of the company's products by Health Canada turned up the unauthorized use of pyrethrin, a pesticide derived from the chrysanthemum plant that is also not approved for medical cannabis.

This guidance covers when companies can use «real - world» data as evidence for FDA regulators who are making decisions regarding the company's medical devices.

More than a dozen buyout firms made initial bids for the Virtual Radiologic Corporation, a company that interprets medical images remotely.

In some of those most disturbing news in an already dark news cycle, the owner of a medical company reportedly told nurses from Hospice — an end - of - life care company — to speed up patients» deaths so the company could make more money.

Richard says, «One moment they're [employees] packing salt and the next moment they're packing medical kits or making high visibility vests and shirts for engineering, automotive and mining companies like BHP and Rio Tinto.»

Through their diverse capabilities, these companies can collectively provide everything from a single piece of equipment to fully integrated, tailor - made packaging line solutions for a wide range of industries, including: food and beverage, personal care, container manufacturing, pharmaceutical and medical devices, household products, paper products and textiles, industrial and automotive, and converting, printing and publishing.

That's what I'm saying too - I think that the real problems that have lead us so far away from breastfeeding are less to do with formula companies and more to do with the completely screwed up North American birth culture where under - informed medical staff are the ones at the steering wheel and we have succumbed to the over-sexualization of breasts and other non-female-friendly cultural ideas that have made breastfeeding «gross», «offensive» or «unnecessary».

It is best to get a referral from your medical doctor and to contact your insurance company to make sure that medical nutrition therapy procedure codes (CPT) 97802 & 97803, is a covered benefit.

I believe childbirth is currently a multi-billion dollar profit making empire largely driven by pharmaceutical corporations, artificial infant milk companies and medical imaging multinationals.

I would say that the Sigvaris brand is a very good sock and made by a medical grade company.

Companies that have generously matched gifts made by their employees to Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children include:

Ruike and her colleagues have filed a patent on their technique and are continuing to collaborate with the medical supply company, which is currently making plans to manufacture medicine patches made from kirigami films.

Does it make you angry that formula companies have paid to have the kind of access to you that no one but your chosen medical providers should have?

«No one is ever going to be able to put breast milk in a can,» said Dr. Russell Merritt, medical director and chief scientific officer for Abbot Nutrition, one of the companies that makes soy formulas.

Infant food companies influence government health policies and have made the medical profession their handmaiden.

Make it illegal for health insurance companies and businesses to offer family plan medical insurance but give seperate and unequal medical insurance to the spouse in the family plan by method of a spousal carve out.

«It's really not hard to make the case of why New York should legalize,» said Shanel Lindsay, president and founder of Ardent, a Boston - based biotech and medical cannabis device company.

«It shows the mayor made her personal wealth on the so - called restructuring of Intermagnetics,» he said, referring to a medical - device manufacturing company in Latham that Sheehan represented in positions of vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.

To make working with the company an attractive proposition, there was incentive offering medical coverage for retired employees till their death.

A statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online explained that «When her plight came to the notice of SPDC, the company promptly stepped in and ensured that she was air - lifted to South Africa for immediate medical attention and treatment.

«If someone wants to join the civil service or a company, such a person would normally be made to go for medical examination and disclose their health status to the government or the company.

Matteo Leonardi, who founded Sensimed, a medical diagnostics company, says: «Swiss - made is really well perceived — everywhere.

Health insurance company WellPoint hired it in September to help doctors make diagnoses and suggest treatments by quickly scanning clinical guidelines and medical records.

Unlike other medical treatments for which companies are driven to keep their products safe because of liability threats, their brief says «the Vaccine Program itself provides no incentive to vaccine manufacturers to make their vaccines safer.»

The private institution, which today we call INBio, began negotiations to sell the wealth of our country to companies which wanted to make money off of chemical compounds taken from our land, and then patent the procedure for medical or cosmetic production.»

This hydrogel patent, along with several other patent pending applications, are licensed by the startup company PepGel LLC, which was co-founded by Sun and Huang to make their technology available for research use and medical device applications.

Dr. Stephen Master, a pathologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, said much interest in the company stemmed from claims it made which were very broad.

Ruike and her colleagues have filed a patent on their technique and are continuing to collaborate with the medical supply company, which is currently making plans to manufacture medicine patches made from kirigami films.

ACS believes strongly that economic growth in the U.S. is based on three foundations: sustained support for scientific and medical research that leads to technological innovations, a strong science education enterprise that prepares a world - class workforce and a robust business climate that will make American companies competitive with our international competitors.