Teleflex Incorporated has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for SURPASS with Premier. Effective 一月 1, 2019, the new agreement offers Teleflex’s broad range of respiratory disposable products to Premier members. “This highly committed purchasing program provides SURPASS members an opportunity to consolidate their respiratory purchases with one sole-source supplier,” […]
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ResMed and Fisher & Paykel Settle Patent Dispute
ResMed and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare today announced an agreement to settle all outstanding patent infringement disputes between the companies in all venues around the world. The settlement involves no payment or admission of liability by either side. Under the agreement, all ongoing infringement proceedings against named products will be […]
Head Position During Sleep Has Potential Implications for Neurodegenerative Disease
Could sleeping on your back increase your brain’s risk of developing neurodegenerative disease? That possibility is revealed in a new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. “We compared the in-home sleep patterns of patients with memory impairment resulting from neurodegenerative diseases to a large group of elderly with normal […]
Sleep-Friendly Nightfood® Ice Cream Wins 2019 Product of the Year Award
Nightfood, Inc. announced that “sleep-friendly” Nightfood ice cream has been voted best new ice cream of 2019 in a survey of over 40,000 consumers. The annual Product of the Year survey, the world’s largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, is conducted by Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. In […]
Olympus Launches Spiration® Valve System for the Endobronchial Treatment of Severe Emphysema
Olympus announced the market availability of its FDA-approved Spiration Valve System (SVS) for the treatment of severe emphysema, a progressive form of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Prominent guidelines1,2, now recommend minimally invasive bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using endobronchial valves as an alternative treatment option for severe emphysema to more […]
Government Shutdowns Rattle Air Travel Safety
Following the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, and with the possibility of another shutdown looming, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is warning that such shutdowns exacerbate the safety risks posed by insufficient sleep and fatigue among air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers. “Even […]
Vapotherm® Releases Next Generation of Precision Flow Hi-VNI™ System
Vapotherm, Inc. announced the release of the next generation of its capital unit: the Precision Flow Hi-VNI system. For this generation of the Precision Flow® system, both the hardware and software have been updated to improve reliability, and to comply with the EMC 4th Edition requirements for medical devices, IEC 60601-1-2:2014. As […]
Itamar Medical, Study on Role of OSA in AFib Makes Top Cardio Journal’s 2018 Most Important Article List
Selection as one of the most prominent and important articles of 2018 reflects significant contribution to advancing cardiovascular health Itamar Medical Ltd. today announced that an article previously published in Circulation1 has been selected for inclusion in the journal’s 2018 Year in Review. This review, which appears in the 二月 2019 issue of Circulation: […]
The Compliance Team™ Celebrates 25 years of Accreditation Transformation
2019 marks 25 years since nurse entrepreneur Sandra C. Canally, RN formed The Compliance Team, Inc. (TCT), the nation’s only certified woman-owned healthcare accreditation organization (AO) to be authorized to accredit Medicare Part A and Part B providers. The Compliance Team is the first national AO to employ a paradigm-shifting […]
Study Seeks to Link Sleep with Emotional Regulation
A link between lack of sleep and poor emotional control among teenagers in South East Asia is being investigated by researchers in South Australia. The collaboration between Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and Duke-NUS in Singapore, seeks to further establish the association between sleep and poor behavioral and emotional outcomes. It […]













