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Used Medical Equipment – Ipswich Council on Aging

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Ipswich Council on Aging
Ipswich Chronicle – T he following programs are organized by the Ipswich Council on Aging Senior Center, 25 Green St., 978-356-6650. SeniorCare Luncheon: A luncheon to celebrate Mother’s Day will be served Thursday, May 11, at noon. The cost is a $2 donation. Space is

PA asks world for $4.3m. for health care
Jerusalem Post – The Palestinian health minister on Saturday urged the Arab League and international community to provide $4.3 million for health care in the Palestinian territories to prevent “a humanitarian and health disaster.” Health Minister Bassem Naim also

Arab League denies it is unable to provide aid to Palestinians
Haaretz – CAIRO, Egypt – The Arab League denied on Saturday that it was unable to transfer aid to Palestinians, saying that the issue, including paying salaries to Palestinian Authority employees, was still under discussion. The statement followed an urgent

Senior notes
Ipswich Chronicle – Cribbage: Thursdays, 1 p.m. Dominoes: Thursdays, 10 a.m. Exercise class, low-impact: Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 9 to 10 a.m. in Senior Center cafeteria. For information, call Patricia Valcour, 978-356-6659. Cost $3. Grocery shopping trips: Shaw’s

Doctor’s Toy Store is hot spot for medical equipment in Hallandale
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel – Sometimes finding one slice of a niche market is the key to success. That is what Robert Raymond discovered when he started the Doctor’s Toy Store Inc., a used and new medical equipment business. Originally dubbed Medical Equipment Locators, Raymond

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Ultrasound – Womb with a view

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Womb with a view
Star-Banner – The Kunda family recently gathered for a photo session. There was dad, Tim, and big sister, Kaitlyn, siting in chairs in front of a 50-inch plasma television, while mom, Carrie, lay behind them on an examination table. “He s going to have my chin

Ashland child’s story featured on ‘Miracle Network’ broadcast
Mansfield News Journal – AKRON — After enduring major surgery just hours after her birth and spending more than two months at Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Kamryn Wokojance is thriving at home in Ashland. Kamryn’s story will be featured Sunday as one of eight

Grad parties lead to spike in retail sales
Times-Bulletin – You won t see a long line of caps and gowns. Pomp and Circumstance will probably not be playing on the sound system. And forget about long speeches in a hot gymnasium. For many parents of graduating seniors and even the seniors themselves

Goodbye glasses
San Bernardino County Sun – Dr. Jonathan Davidorf uses a special microscope called a slit-lamp to examine the health of a patient s eye. (Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer) The 45-year-old musician had already been thinking about getting LASIK to correct nearsightedness and

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Van Zant Has Surgery
WISH-TV – Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant had his appendix removed in emergency surgery Thursday night, the band’s manager said. Van Zant, 46, came out of surgery at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., around 10 p.m., said manager

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Mammography – Art to Present at Biomedex 2006 in Montr al (Canada)

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Art to Present at Biomedex 2006 in Montr al (Canada)
WebWire – Montreal, Canada, – ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (“ART”) (TSX: ARA), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, is pleased to announce its

Breast Calcifications
WOOD – Breast calcifications are deposits of calcium that can be seen on a mammogram of the breast. There are two types: macrocalcifications and microcalcifications. Macrocalcifications usually are degenerative changes in the breast resulting from old

Getting help is getting harder
Cincinnati Enquirer – How hard is it to find a good psychiatrist when you need one? Is it really a jungle out there? Several times a week I hear from frustrated people who are cold calling around town looking for any psychiatrist who will see them. Most already have been

Bikers Prep For Charity Ride
Baltimore Jewish Times – If you’re an early riser on Saturday, June 3, you’ll find a bikers’ paradise instead of a shoppers’ paradise at the Mall in Columbia. The mall is the largest of seven departure points around the state for Dick Gelfman’s sixth annual Ride Across

Cancers in Women
Nassau Guardian – Millions of women in this part of the world are living with a diagnosis of cancer, and many more, especially those with relatives who have cancer, are living in fear of this dread disease. All is not negative, for researchers are learning more about

Novation Awards Kodak Three-Year Laser Printer and Radiology Film
WebWire – ROCHESTER, NY, — Novation has signed an agreement that continues to make Eastman Kodak Company s radiographic films, laser media, laser imagers and services available to more than 2,500 VHA Inc. and University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) members

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Used Medical Equipment – Arab League denies it is unable to provide aid to Palestinians (Haaretz Daily)

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Arab League denies it is unable to provide aid to Palestinians (Haaretz Daily)
CAIRO, Egypt – The Arab League denied on Saturday that it was unable to transfer aid to Palestinians, saying that the issue, including paying salaries to Palestinian Authority employees, was still under discussion.
The prognosis is profitable – Sun-Sentinel.com

The prognosis is profitable
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - May 22, 2006
… as far away as England and Argentina. The market in used medical equipment is growing. One reason, Raymond said, is that doctors …

DR. HUGO A. BRENNER, M.D.
Commercial News – ATTICA, Ind. Dr. Hugo A. Brenner, M.D., 78, of Attica, died Thursday, May 4, 2006, at 2 a.m. in the St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital. Born June 13, 1927, to the late Luis Hermann Brenner and Ana Maria Guembes de Brenner in Lima, Peru, he grew up …
Palestinian aide appeals to Arab League (Boston Globe)
The Palestinian health minister on Saturday appealed to the Arab League and international community for $4.3 million to prevent “a humanitarian and health disaster.”
Palestinian aide appeals to Arab League – Tehran Times

Palestinian aide appeals to Arab League
Tehran Times, Iran - May 14, 2006
… The organization, which gives used medical equipment to hospitals in developing countries, made its pledge to the league in a fax provided to AP. …

Natick trash load is radioactive
MetroWest Daily News – N ATICK — A load of radiation-laden residential trash made a big stink last weekend after state health officials ordered it stored at the town’s West Street recycling center. “Normally, it’s just some medical waste that didn’t get flushed down the …

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Medical Imaging – Do you think it’s right to put Dave Hilton Jr back in a boxing ring?

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Do you think it’s right to put Dave Hilton Jr back in a boxing ring?
940 News – VSM withdraws equity offering, enters into talks with merchant bank at 8:05 on May 26, 2006, EST. VANCOUVER (CP) – Medical device maker VSM MedTech Inc. (TSX:VSM) is cutting its workforce by about a third, scrapping a proposed public equity offering

Doctor Throws Kids, Self off Balcony
WPVI – MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – May 28, 2006 – Qinuo Van Dyk heard one of her children screaming from an adjacent room at a landmark South Beach hotel, walked into the room and saw her husband jump off the 15th-floor balcony, police said. She looked over

Doctor throws his 2 kids, then himself off balcony in Miami Beach
Gainesville Sun – Qinuo Van Dyk heard one of her children screaming from an adjacent room at a landmark South Beach hotel, walked into the room and saw her husband jump off the 15th-floor balcony, police said. She looked over the railing and saw her husband and two

Man throws 2 kids, then himself off Miami Beach hotel balcony
WINK TV – MIAMI BEACH, Fla. A doctor killed his two young children by throwing them off the 15th floor of a landmark South Beach hotel and then jumped to his own death Saturday, police said. Dr. Edward Van Dyk, 43, tossed his two sons, ages 4 and 8, to their

GE to Webcast Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt’s May 24 Presentation at
dBusinessNews.com – Hartford — GE will webcast Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt’s presentation at the Electrical Products Group’s 2006 Annual Spring Conference on Wednesday, May 24 at 10:45 a.m. ET. The presentation will include an update on the company’s performance and

Mass spectrometry gets data update
Science Daily – WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) — Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology say they have completed a massive update to mass spectrometry databases. NIST scientists say they recently added 150 methods — or “recipes” — to a

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CT Scan – Return not in Cole’s cards (The News & Observer)

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Return not in Cole’s cards (The News & Observer)
CT scan shows vertebra isn’t healed, ending his season.
Build-Up to FIFA World Cup 2006: Hungary Lions – New Straits Times

Build-Up to FIFA World Cup 2006: Hungary Lions
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 12 hours ago
… had been due to fly out to Germany with Sven Goran Eriksson s squad next Monday before returning to Manchester 10 days later to have the CT scan which would …

Rooney’s next scan moved up a week to June 7
CBS Sportsline – MANCHESTER, England (AP) -England striker Wayne Rooney will have the next CT scan on his broken right foot on June 7, one week earlier than previously planned. Rooney was scheduled to have the scan on June 14, but England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson …
Rooney decision moved (WorldFootballers.com)
The final decision on a scan to decide wether Wayne Rooney will make the World Cup has been brought forward by a week to June 7. Manchester United have issued a statement that said: “Following a meeting today between England’s medical team and Manchester United’s medical team with both managers present it has been agreed to obtain a further precautionary CT scan on June 7 in order to help the
Mahajan undergoes CT scan – Economic Times

Mahajan undergoes CT scan
Economic Times, India - Apr 28, 2006
MUMBAI: Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan underwent a CT scan at the Hinduja Hospital on Friday to assess his injuries. Meanwhile …

Rooney’s next scan moved up a week to June 7
CBS Sportsline – MANCHESTER, England (AP) -England striker Wayne Rooney will have the next CT scan on his broken right foot on June 7, one week earlier than previously planned. Rooney was scheduled to have the scan on June 14, but England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson …

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