PHOENIX, AZ — (Marketwire) — 02/16/09 — Suntron Corporation, a leading provider of
integrated electronic manufacturing solutions (EMS) and Commercial Off The
Shelf Technology (COTS) design solutions with six (6) North American
Facilities, announced today that the Company’s Gulf Coast Operation located
in Sugar Land, Texas is registered with the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to build medical devices compliant to 21 CFR Part 820 Quality System
Regulation Read the rest of this entry »

By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
to compare the cost and quality of care at different hospitals, part of an ambitious state plan to help control health care costs by giving consumers more information.
site gives consumers access to previously confidential information about how much insurers pay individual hospitals for surgical procedures such as knee and hip replacements, and for treating illnesses such as pneumonia. It also allows comparisons of Read the rest of this entry »

BOSTON – More affluent areas of Massachusetts tend to have higher quality nursing homes, according to an Associated Press review of federal data.
The AP review of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data found the quality of nursing homes varies widely by region, but better care is often found in areas with higher income levels.
The agency studied factors such as staffing levels and annual health inspections before ranking nearly 16,000 Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Haemonetics Corp (HAE.N:
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) has
failed to correct a variety of manufacturing issues, including
taking proper steps to ensure the quality of its blood
collection products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
warned in a letter released on Tuesday.
The company, which makes devices and other products to
collect and process blood, must have an outside expert
consultant audit its manufacturing and quality systems, Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The smarter the man, the higher the quality of his sperm, new research published in the journal Intelligence shows.
But women having difficulty conceiving shouldn’t question their partner’s intelligence and men who aren’t quite geniuses should not worry about their ability to father children, lead researcher Rosalind Arden of Kings College London told Reuters Health. “This is scientifically interesting, but unimportant Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian women experience a significant decline in health and quality of life between the ages of 40 and 50, compared to men during the same period of life, suggests a Statistics Canada study.
The study, released Wednesday, suggests women in their 40s experience more health problems — for example, illness linked to emotional stress — that lead to a poorer quality of life than their male counterparts during that particular decade, says one of the Read the rest of this entry »

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading
diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 37.2
million people with information and resources to help them make better
informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range
of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and
related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral
health, group life and Read the rest of this entry »

By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
to compare the cost and quality of care at different hospitals, part of an ambitious state plan to help control health care costs by giving consumers more information.
site gives consumers access to previously confidential information about how much insurers pay individual hospitals for surgical procedures such as knee and hip replacements, and for treating illnesses such as pneumonia. It also allows comparisons of Read the rest of this entry »

Williamsburg, VA, February 22, 2009 –(
)– Cerulean Associates announces the publication of two new resource kits for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firms dealing with FDA regulatory compliance. Both publications combine recorded executive teleseminars with resource kits of checklists, templates, example FDA warning letters, and other reference material designed to ease implementation of various recommendations and expert advice.
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, the city’s public health plan for poor and moderate-income people living in San Francisco, said Wednesday that it ranked first on a list of Medicaid health plans nationally on providing immunizations to children.
Officials said 90.7 percent of its pediatric enrollees are fully immunized, topping second-ranked
of Hawaii by 0.2 percentage points.
The San Francisco organization now has 56,059 enrollees. It also manages the nationally known Read the rest of this entry »