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Teleflex Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jim Lucas - Janney Montgomery Scott Jim Lucas - Janney Montgomery Scott Two questions, first wanted to talk a little bit about the new product pipeline. We saw a couple articles in the Journal this morning highlighting...
Tags: Call Transcript, Teleflex Inc., Earnings, Infection Prevention, Research & Development, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-10-27

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Cantel Medical Acquires Crosstex International; Extending its Infection Prevention and Control Strategy into the Dental Arena
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE: CMN), as part of its strategic plan to expand its infection prevention and control business, has acquired Crosstex International, Inc., a leading manufacturer and reseller of single-use infection control products used broadly in the healthcare arena, principally in the dental market. As...
Tags: Crosstex International Inc.
Research articles 2005-08-03
STERIS Depends on Toughbook Computers to Streamline Global Service in Medical and Research Environments; Infection Prevention Leader Points to Panasonic Technology, Solutions and Service as Key to Deployment
SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Panasonic Computer Solutions Company has deployed 1,000 PanasonicR ToughbookR CF-18 convertible tablet computers for STERIS, an industry leader in infection prevention, as a critical part of STERIS' company-wide initiative to streamline and automate service requests, which average 400,000 per year.
Tags: environment, leader, Panasonic, STERIS Corp., Streamline
Research articles 2005-10-18
Infection Prevention Measures to Drive Thermometer Sales in Europe.
LONDON, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasing public awareness about the need for enhanced infection control will spur the widespread use of non-contact thermometers, thereby supporting growth in the European temperature monitoring devices market. Targeting niche applications will also help reduce the effects...
Tags: Frost & Sullivan, infection, patient, revenue, sales
Research articles 2006-04-12
CDC Issues Updated Guidelines on Use of Antiretroviral Drugs to Prevent HIV Infection After Sexual, Drug Use, and Accidental Exposure
ATLANTA, Jan. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services HHS, today announced new federal guidelines for the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection aATLANTA, Jan. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Centers for Disease...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research articles 2005-01-20
HIV infection rate doubled in 10 years among US blacks
BOSTON, United States AFP — The HIV infection rate doubled among US blacks in 10 years while holding steady in the white population. Epidemiologists with the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention compared data from 1988 to 1994 with figures from 1999 to 2002 and found infection rates...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, infection, SECURITY
Research articles 2005-02-26
TheraDoc Launched Complete, Real-Time Solution for Infection Control, Prevention and Management at SHEA '06; TheraDoc Designed ICA Version 3.2 to Enhance Daily Workflow and Improve Efficiency
SALT LAKE CITY -- Responding to input from infection control practitioners ICPs at the front line of care, TheraDocR, Inc. (www.theradoc.com) has upgraded its Infection Control AssistantTM ICA. After using ICA version 3.2 since February, Rhode Island Hospital clinicians report that it significantly improves workflow efficiencies as well as enhances...
Tags: ICA Corp.
Research articles 2006-03-23
Applying Chlorhexidine Gluconate Prior to Surgery May Prevent Surgical Site Infection and MRSA
Agent Reduces Risk, Helps Meet 5 Million Lives Campaign Interventions CARY, Ill. -- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, surgical site infections SSIs are the leading hospital-acquired infection (38 percent) and the third most common hospital-acquired infection for surgery patients. Patients are increasingly carrying harmful...
Tags: Sage Products Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-01
Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds to Prevent HIV Infection
Relative to the magnitude of the epidemic, government funds available for HIV prevention are scarce. To optimize use of funds, the paper applies a mathematical model of the cost of HIV prevention interventions using national data on HIV risk-group size and HIV prevalence. This procedure suggested an allocation of funds...
Tags: Infection, Government, Intervention, Allocation, HIV Virus
White papers 2005-08-01
TippingPoint Customers Preemptively Protected from Zotob Worm and Variants; Intrusion Prevention System Blocks Zotob Worm at University of Washington Medical, Mercy Health Partners, and George Washington University School of Law
AUSTIN, Texas -- TippingPoint, a division of 3Com and the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced that its TippingPointTM Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS preemptively protected all of its customers against the Zotob worm and its variants. Protected customers include University of Washington Medical, Mercy Health Partners, and George Washington University...
Tags: 3Com Corp., George Washington University School, SECURITY, TippingPoint Technologies, University of Washington
Research articles 2005-08-31
Roundtable Summit to Formulate Recommendations for the Prevention of Line Sepsis
"A Leadership Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis" to Advocate Plan for Patients and the Healthcare Community WASHINGTON -- The summit "A Leadership Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis" will bring together leading medical experts, government agencies and constituency groups on October 2, 2008 in Washington, D.C....
Tags: Jefferson Medical
Research articles 2008-09-25
Healthcare Industry Leaders Call for Improved Prevention of Catheter Infections
Recommendations Highlight Prevention Strategies that Will Save Lives and Reduce Healthcare Costs WASHINGTON -- Today representatives from the roundtable summit, "A Leadership Strategy for the Prevention of Line Sepsis," released a policy statement outlining strategies for patients and healthcare professionals to reduce the incidence of line sepsis, a potentially...
Tags: Jefferson Medical
Research articles 2008-10-03
Sharps Safety and Needlestick Prevention guide available - Infection Control Update
The new Sharps Safety and Needlestick Prevention guide provides critical judgment on and objective ratings for needlestick-prevention devices and other sharps-safety technologies. Developed by Plymouth Meeting, PA-based ECRI's Health Devices Group, the guide features comparative evaluations, including brand-name ratings, for more than 65 currently available protective devices in 13 different...
Tags: ECRI
Research articles 2002-01-01
Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
This paper provides new recommendations for targeted tuberculin testing and treatment regimens for persons with latent tuberculosis infection LTBI and updates previously published guidelines. This paper is issued in recognition of the importance of these activities as an essential component of the TB Elimination Strategy promoted by the U.S. Public...
Tags: Infection, Security
White papers 2000-06-09
Milliken Introduces BioSmart Antimicrobial Protective Fabrics
LAS VEGAS -- Today at the 2007 CLEAN Show, Milliken[R] & Company, one of the world's largest privately-held textile and chemical manufacturers, announced BioSmart[TM], a new antimicrobial-charged fabric technology that harnesses the sanitizing power of EPA-registered chlorine bleach* to help reduce the spread of infection-causing bacteria and viruses, including emerging...
Tags: bacteria, chlorine, infection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2007-06-11
Male circumcision can cut HIV infection, studies show
SYDNEY AFP — Scientific studies have confirmed a long-standing belief that male circumcision can reduce HIV infection rates in men by 60 percent, an international AIDS conference will be told next week. David Cooper, the co-chairman of an International AIDS Society IAS conference to be held in Sydney from...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, conference, Cooper, Sydney
Research articles 2007-07-19
US AIDS infection rate higher than earlier estimates: reports
WASHINGTON AFP — Annual infections from the AIDS virus in the United States run 20-50 percent higher than official estimates, US media reported Saturday. The US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new data that pushes sharply upwards its annual estimates of new HIV infections to 55,000-60,000...
Tags: infection, SECURITY, Wall Street Journal
Research articles 2007-12-01
Weitz & Luxenberg Responds to Reports Linking AMO Solution to Potentially Blinding Eye Infection
NEW YORK -- A year after an international health concern besieged Bausch & Lomb, prompting its recall of ReNu with MoistureLoc, Advanced Medical Optics has pulled its Complete MoisturePlus Contact Lens Solution from shelves after federal health regulators linked it, preliminarily, with a serious eye infection. According to the...
Tags: Weitz & Luxenberg
Research articles 2007-05-30
Alcoa Foundation Funds Malaria Prevention Program in Guinea
PITTSBURGH -- Alcoa Foundation today announced it has invested $200,000 in a two-year program implemented by Population Services International PSI to fight malaria in Boke prefecture in Guinea. The Alcoa Foundation grant will be used to launch a campaign to train healthcare workers in malaria prevention and to distribute subsidized,...
Tags: Alcoa Inc., Malaria
Research articles 2004-07-16
Alnylam Initiates RNAi Therapeutic Program for Pandemic Influenza; Collaboration with Leading Flu Researchers at University of Georgia to Develop an RNAi-Based Prevention and Treatment for Newly Emerging, Highly Pathogenic Flu
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today a collaboration with researchers from the University of Georgia to discover and develop a Direct RNAiTM therapeutic for the treatment and prevention of respiratory infection from newly emerging, highly pathogenic strains of influenza flu virus. Alnylam...
Tags: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., Biotechnology, collaboration, flu, influenza, outbreak, RNA, SECURITY, University of Georgia, virus
Research articles 2005-05-25
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