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May 17

New Study Reports Key Findings for the ABThera™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy System

New Study Reports Key Findings for the ABThera™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy System

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. announced today that ABThera™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy System (ABThera™ OA NPT) was associated with significantly improved patient outcomes compared to traditional Barker’s vacuum-packing technique (BVPT) in trauma and surgical patients studied. Results of the observational study, “Prospective"......

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May 17

Quintiles Announces Completion of Initial Public Offering of 27,236,841 Shares of Common Stock

Quintiles Announces Completion of Initial Public Offering of 27,236,841 Shares of Common Stock

Quintiles today announced the completion of its initial public offering of 27,236,841 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $40.00 per share. Quintiles offered and sold 13,125,000 shares of common stock in the offering and selling shareholders offered and sold 14,111,841"...

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May 16

ASCO 2013: New Phase III data reveal targeted treatment with afatinib* or with nintedanib* improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced NSCLC

ASCO 2013: New Phase III data reveal targeted treatment with afatinib* or with nintedanib* improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced NSCLC

Growing body of clinical data supports superiority of the irreversible ErbB Family Blocker afatinib* over standard chemotherapy (with combination of cisplatin and gemcitabine or pemetrexed) for first-line treatment of patients with EGFR-mutation positive advanced NSCLC


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May 16

Merck Serono and Quintiles Announce Innovative Clinical Development Partnership

Merck Serono and Quintiles Announce Innovative Clinical Development Partnership

Merck Serono, a division of Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, and Quintiles, the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services, today announced a new, five-year clinical development agreement. This strategic collaboration is the first-of-its-kind between a biopharmaceutical company and a biopharmaceutical services...

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May 15

New evidence establishes EPA as highly predictive of skin graft failure and supports the utility of Systagenix WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status point of care test in this application

New evidence establishes EPA as highly predictive of skin graft failure and supports the utility of Systagenix WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status point of care test in this application

New evidence presented on Wednesday 15th May 2013 at the European Wound Management Association (EWMA)’s conference in Copenhagen, revealed that elevated protease activity"......

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May 13

Cleanup campaign launched along Lebanese coast

Operation Big Blue Association’s 17th annual coastal clean-up campaign kicked off Sunday with thousands of volunteers participating from across the country.


The campaign officially commenced in Beirut’s seaside neighborhood of Raouche, near Pigeon Rock, with Zaid Khiami, the director-general of the"......

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May 13

Lincor Solutions Launches World’s First Mobile Solution for Patient Engagement and Clinical Services

Lincor Solutions Launches World’s First Mobile Solution for Patient Engagement and Clinical Services

Lincor Solutions Launches World’s First Mobile Solution for Patient Engagement and Clinical Services


MEDIVista MOBILE delivers services to Apple iPad and Android devices

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May 09

Coca-Cola Announces Global Commitments to Help Fight Obesity

Coca-Cola Announces Global Commitments to Help Fight Obesity

The Coca-Cola Company today announces four global business commitments to further contribute to healthier, happier, and more active communities. These commitments, which apply to the more than 200 countries where we do business, are to:

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May 09

Quintiles Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

Quintiles Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

Quintiles today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 23,684,210 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $40.00 per share. The shares of Quintiles common stock are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the single-letter symbol "Q”"...

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May 05

Hospitality schools not up to desired standards

Lebanon’s reputation for the best hospitality and gastronomic talent in the Middle East is now threatened by outdated educational facilities and curriculums, said the founding father of the country’s hospitality schools and HORECA"...

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