Medical blog

Monday, October 20, 2008
HARRY McGEE, MARTIN WALL and MICHAEL O'REGAN
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen's appeal for "time and space" to find a solution to the medical card controversy has helped to quell a growing rebellion among Fianna Fil backbenchers.
Mr Cowen yesterday said the budget proposal to end universal provision of medical cards to over-70s would not proceed in its current form, which he said did not have "wider public acceptance".
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Medical device maker China Medical Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it bought the right to sell a human papillomavirus detection system from Molecular Diagnostic Technologies Ltd. for $345 million.
The Beijing-based company said it will pay for the HPV-DNA Biosensor Chip and Surface Plasmon Resonance based Analysis System over the next year. It expects to close the deal in December 2008 or January 2009, with the final Read the rest of this entry »