Dubai, UAE; January 26, 2014: As the Middle East region focuses on increased investments to build and improve the hospital infrastructure, address the rise of non-communicable disease and increase access to affordable and quality healthcare, GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) is providing insights on key critical departments and advanced hospital solutions through its specially designed pavilion at Arab Health 2014, the Middle East and Africa's premier healthcare exhibition and conference.
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CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK -- 22 January 2014 -- GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE), today announced that biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics, Inc. has selected GE Healthcare Life Sciences' FlexFactory™ biomanufacturing platform to perform a central role in its Advanced Development and Manufacturing (NANO-ADM) Center at Alachua, Florida, USA. Construction of the NANO-ADM Center, which began in October 2013, is expected to be complete in early 2015.
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January 8, 2014, Chalfont St Giles, UK -- GE Healthcare, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), announced today that it has acquired Finnamore, one of the leading dedicated health and social care consultancies in the UK. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition will see GE Healthcare's UK consultancy arm, formerly Performance Solutions UK, become GE Healthcare Finnamore, expanding its employee base to 70, many of whom are former clinicians, engineers and management consultants. The new firm will be led by John Deverill, formerly Managing Director of Finnamore.
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GE to expand in fast-growing Life Sciences sectors; extends bioprocessing manufacturing footprint in Asia, the Americas and Europe
GE to acquire cell culture media and sera, gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses
Supports the development of technologies for research and manufacture of innovative new medicines
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Inside Knowledge: Fast CT Scanner Does Not Skip a Heartbeat
The technology uses X-rays to peer inside the body and requires patients to be calm. But that’s not always possible. According to a study from the British Journal of Radiology, almost two-thirds of patients referred to cardiac CT had high heart rates, and some were turned away from being scanned.