CipherLab , a leading innovator in Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) for the retail, warehouse, healthcare, government and distribution markets, today launched the CipherLab 1660 Pocket-size Scanner, a BT wireless-enabled device designed to increase employee productivity and data capture accuracy in the field.

MUMBAI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Shares in hospital chain Fortis Healthcare Ltd opened 1.9 percent up on the NSE after the company on Monday said its board will meet on Dec. 24 to consider a rights issue.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's Parkway Health Group has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi's healthcare and investment firm United Eastern Medical Services, to manage its new US$200 million hospital.

APS Healthcare has laid off a number of employees at its two Jefferson City offices. But the company did not say Friday how many people had been let go or, in fact, confirm any layoffs, even though a spokeswoman for the Maryland-based company promised to return a phone call asking about the layoffs.

RAS AL KHAIMAH - Elderly Emiratis in Ras Al Khaimah now have access to healthcare services from their homes.

Citing the recession, Piedmont Healthcare is suspending its $194 million plan to build a new hospital in Newnan.

Last Friday (19 Dec), the Government announced that it has decided to defer the Sime Darby's proposed takeover of the National Heart Institute (IJN).

The 70-bed facility, which would cost an estimated $5 million to $10 million, would be built next to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and treat the most seriously ill youths in custody. In a move to improve mental healthcare in the troubled juvenile justice system, Los Angeles County probation officials are asking that a 70-bed hospital in Sylmar be built to house and treat the most ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- Last Friday, the Government announced that it has decided to defer the Sime Darby’s proposed takeover of the National Heart Institute (IJN). When announcing the Cabinet’s decision, Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak said, the decision on the proposed takeover was put off pending a detailed study by the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - ExHealth Initiates Agreement Between Day Care Surgical Hospitals of Sharjah and Paris, Setting New Trends in Globalization of Healthcare and Medical Tourism Sharjah Corniche Hospital, an approaching high-tech healthcare institute and The International Institute of Ambulatory Surgery (IIAmbS), a trend-setter of general and laparoscopic ...

This story was reported by Globe Spotlight Team members Scott Allen, Marcella Bombardieri, Michael Rezendes, and editor Thomas Farragher, as well as Liz Kowalczyk and Jeffrey Krasner of the Globe staff. It was written by Farragher and Kowalczyk. Second in a series of occasional articles

Nonprofits Jan L. Rodusky was named director of grants at the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. In the past, Rodusky was responsible for establishing and growing a grantmaking program for Palm Healthcare Foundation.

Sharjah Corniche Hospital, an approaching high-tech healthcare institute and The International Institute of Ambulatory Surgery (IIAmbS), a trend-setter of general and laparoscopic surgery, based in Paris, announced the signing of Memorandum of Understanding recently to form a new entity of encouraging French medical care and services in UAE.

In a bid to create a war chest for expansion opportunities, hospital chain Fortis Healthcare is in advanced stages of finalising the pricing and other technicalities for a Rs 1,800 crore to Rs 2,000 crore rights and warrant issue.

African Medical Investments , the Aim-listed group headed by former England cricketer, Phil Edmonds, has completed its first deal in the sector in Africa, with the purchase of VIP Healthcare Solutions for up to £5m in shares.

St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, the operator of hospice, home care, community outreach and other healthcare services, said it has a new contract with its 60 nurses.

By JON COHEN and JENNIFER AGIESTA WASHINGTON — Most Americans are optimistic about the policies that Barack Obama will pursue when he becomes the country’s 44th president next month, according to a new Washington Post -ABC News poll, and there is a widespread desire that he quickly expand his focus beyond the economy. Majorities want Obama to help make major changes to the healthcare system, ...

Celtic Pharma, John Mayo’s healthcare-focused private equity firm, has raised $100m (£67m) for a new fund that will invest in drug and diagnostic development companies.

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Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital and the Tenet Healthcare Foundation granted the American Heart Association-Houston Division a $5,000 donation for sponsorship of the American Heart Association’s Northwest Harris County 2008 Heart Walk last month.

LITTLE ROCK — Veterans registered for care at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System can receive their flu shot at a drive-through flu shot clinic from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. each Saturday during November.

SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Singapore healthcare firm Parkway Holdings signed an agreement with United Eastern Medical Services on Monday to manage a new $200 million hospital in Abu Dhabi.

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Hong Kong Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q4 2008" report to their offering.

CAMDEN — Connie B. Conley, 61 of State Route 13, passed away Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008 at the Oneida Healthcare Center. She was born March 7, 1947 in Camden, N.Y. a daughter of Albert and Esther Clark Snyder and was a 1965 graduate of Camden High School.

Employees at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers created beautiful symbols of the season by participating in a tree decorating contest that spread holiday cheer throughout the 900-employee organization.

A new procedure to combat prostate cancer is being performed at St. James Healthcare in Butte.

 By LAUREN REINLIE  Imagine that you’ve got a big budget to film a documentary epic about contemporary Texas. The script contains inspirational stuff worthy of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum but also delves into Texas’ No. 50 ranking in state spending on infrastructure, parks, healthcare and education. Interviewing people to put a human face on the Lone Star’s dark side, the job ...

Avigen, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, has sold the rights to its early stage blood coagulation compound, AV513, to Baxter Healthcare Corporation, a global leader in haemophilia therapy, for $7 million.

I WRITE to express my dissatisfaction with how our future healthcare professionals such as medical doctors, dentists and pharmacists are being turned out.

Two of four Columbia nursing homes scored at the bottom of the barrel in a nationwide survey of 16,000 similar facilities, but one of the facility’s administrators and a state healthcare group rejected the study’s findings.