LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS HELP TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HAITI FDG Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles Urban Business Journal, Underground Frames, and the Westfield Eye Center presents "A Shared Vision for Focused Care" a Haitian Art Exhibit and Reception benefiting Friends of the Children of Lascahobas, Haiti (FCLH) on August 2, 2003, at FDG Fine Art Gallery in Los Angeles. This benefit supports the humanitarian efforts of FCLH, a non-profit volunteer organization with a 26-year history of providing programs in health care, nutrition, and education to the community of Lascahobas, and isolated and imporverished mountain village. - 2003-07-09 Friend of PRWeb - 5

New batch syringe filler from Baxa Corporation takes a manual system and automates it, helping eliminate touch contamination. Approximately one million syringes are used for intermittent small-volume IV infusion each day in US healthcare - including hospital and homecare use. In addition, large volumes of syringes are used for chemotherapy and patient-controlled analgesia. The new Rapid-Fill(tm) ASF (automated syringe filling) system from Denver-based Baxa Corporation streamlines the pharmacy fluid-handling process through automation. - 2003-06-23 Friend of PRWeb - 20

Prosthetic Contact Lenses with Hand-painted Irises Help Treat Vision Problems Not everyone has normal eyes. Eye disfigurement from accidents, or anomalies due to congenital problems, can now be improved with hand-painted lens technology from Adventures In Color Technology, Ltd. Practitioners and their patients worldwide turn to this Golden, CO, company for assistance. The company's customized lenses are now being used to correct these problems: light sensitivity, double vision and low vision, albinism and aniridia (a condition in which a person has no iris color). - 2003-01-15 Friend of PRWeb - 20

BLUE SKY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES A NEW FAMILY OF FREE SPACE LASERS: THE CHROMALASE SERIES Company to Release Laser Product Lines for Industrial, Biotech, Life Science, and Semiconductor Metrology - 2003-08-25 Friend of PRWeb - 40

BLUE SKY RESEARCH RELEASES CHROMALASE 405 VIOLET LASER High Performance, Low Cost 405nm Laser Module for Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Biomedical - 2003-08-25 Friend of PRWeb - 40

BLUE SKY RESEARCH RELEASES CHROMALASE 635 LASER High Performance, Low Cost 635nm Laser for Red and HeNe Replacement Applications - 2003-08-25 Friend of PRWeb - 40

Belmont Instrument Delivers Life Saving Technology to U.S. Military Belmont Instrument Corporation today announced that it completed shipment of 64 FMS 2000 rapid fluid infusion systems, life-saving devices for massive hemorrhage, to the U.S. Army and Air Force during the first half of the year. The FMS is a rugged, portable instrument used in high blood loss trauma situations where inadequate fluid replacement can render a survivable injury fatal. The military chose the FMS for its rugged design, and unique safety features - 2003-08-23

OPIC APPROVES $10 MILLION LOAN TO NUMOTECH, INC. TO BUILD MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN RUSSIA The Overseas Private Investment Corporation approved a $10 million loan to Numotech, Inc. to build a medical device manufacturing facility in a history-making joint venture with former Russian nuclear scientists for medical advances. - 2003-08-24

Health Network Laboratories Deploys Rhodes Group’s Proprietary Front-end Client, Collection Facility, and Physician Office Group Order Entry Solution. Health Network Laboratories, a Pennsylvania-based regional integrated laboratory system, and Rhodes Group, Inc., a leading Connecticut-based laboratory management & IT consulting firm, announce the implementation of Fast OrdersTM, Rhodes Group’s revolutionary front-end order entry solution in Health Network Laboratories’ Patient Service Centers. - 2003-09-02

QRS Diagnostic Introduces its Re-designed OxiCard® Medical Device. Software-based Pulse Oximeter Shrinks from a PC Card to a Compact Flash (CF) Card. - 2003-09-03

BLUE SKY RESEARCH RELEASES 20MW CHROMALASE 488 BLUE LASER High Performance, Cost Effective Alternative to 488nm Argon Ion Lasers for Biomedical Instrumentation and Semiconductor Metrology - 2003-09-15 Friend of PRWeb - 40

BLUE SKY RESEARCH INTRODUCES FIBERTEC LINE OF FIBER-COUPLED LASER MODULES FiberTEC 635 red laser and FiberTEC 405 violet laser versions produced in volume; custom modules including wavelengths of 440nm, 473nm, 658nm, 690nm and 785nm available in sample quantities - 2003-09-15 Friend of PRWeb - 40

Ultimate Nurse Network Announces “Great American Nurse Chat” to Set Record of 10,000 Nurses Online at One Time. Enid, OK, September 27, 2003 – On October 22nd between the hours of noon and midnight the Ultimate Nurse Network of sites will host an online chat event to discuss the current issues facing the nursing industry. - 2003-09-29 Friend of PRWeb - 5

QRS Adds a Business Development Manager, Integrated Solutions Mark Austin to Build Partnerships and Integration Strategies with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Vendors for QRS Diagnostic, Developer of Computer Card Medical Devices - 2003-10-07

TakeAIM Launches Personal Online Presentation Center TakeAIM, a provider of cutting-edge online sales and marketing solutions, today launched TakeAIM-PRESENT, a full-function system that provides every user with a personal Online Presentation Center. - 2003-10-23 Friend of PRWeb - 8

BLUE SKY RESEARCH EXPANDS IN-HOUSE SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRY TO MANUFACTURE 635NM RED LASER DIODES Customer demand for high performance lasers drives vertical integration - 2003-11-03 Friend of PRWeb - 40

Educational Medical Workbooks for Children Now Available Nationwide SW Educational Publishing is proud to announce the development of a new line of activity books for children. Available at a very low cost, these entertaining and educational activities include a long list of titles, and is quickly becoming known as the “So, You Have…” phenomenon of 2003. - 2003-11-12 Friend of PRWeb - 15

Healthcare Workers At Risk: Researchers at Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute Demonstrate Biological Uptake of Chemotherapy Drugs. Traditional assumptions about safe drug handling are challenged by a study published in the current edition of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. This study confirms European findings that, despite existing protective measures, there persists widespread surface contamination with antineoplastic drugs in the workplace and employee exposure to carcinogenic or mutagenic particulates and vapors. Results show that closed system technology (CST) can reduce or eliminate human exposure to cancer chemotherapy drugs. - 2003-11-20 Friend of PRWeb - 20

Premier Awards Group Purchasing Agreement for Baxa Compounders Premier Inc. has awarded Baxa Corporation, a market-leading manufacturer of automated solution compounders for hospital pharmacies, a five-year group purchasing agreement to sell its state-of-the-art technology to member hospitals. - 2003-09-20 Friend of PRWeb - 20

Baxa Corporation Sponsors Symposium to Discuss Environmental Exposure and Biological Uptake of Antineoplastics at December ASHP in New Orleans Traditional assumptions about safe drug handling are challenged by a study published in the current edition of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP). This study confirms European findings that, despite existing protective measures, there persists widespread surface contamination with antineoplastic drugs in the workplace and employee exposure to carcinogenic or mutagenic particulates and vapors. Results show that closed system technology (CST) can reduce or eliminate human exposure to cancer chemotherapy drugs. Baxa Corporation is sponsoring a breakfast symposium in New Orleans on December 9th reviewing this new data. - 2003-11-28 Friend of PRWeb - 20

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