Ahead of the Bell: Varian Medical Systems

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- Ahead of the Bell: Varian Medical Systems
- Transcend Medical Expands Leadership Team Appointing Chief Medical …
- Boston Scientific Names Leading Electrophysiologist to Its Medical …
- BestHealthcareRates.com States The GovernmentWill Become The New …
- Medical team to investigation certain abuse cases
- Many Californians with medical debt are insured
- A-Life Medical Inc. Chief Financial fficer Named CF of the Year …

Ahead of the Bell: Varian Medical Systems
Forbes
Baird & Co analyst upgraded shares of Varian Medical Systems Inc. Monday citing his outlook for the medical device maker’s sales. Johnson upgraded the stock to “utperform” from “Neutral” and boosted the price target to $49 from $41 citing a better outlook for demand in the European radiation therapy market. The company focuses on cancer therapy systems.

Transcend Medical Expands Leadership Team Appointing Chief Medical …
Reuters
anophthalmic device company dedicated to delivering breakthrough advances in thetreatment of glaucoma today announced that it has filled two key positionswith the addition of Sean Ianchulev MD as Chief Medical fficer and GingerClasby as Vice President of Clinical Affairs. Ianchulev joins the company from Genentech Inc where he was the groupmedical director for the ophthalmology division and the Lucentis franchise. Inhis role he headed clinical development and medical affairs activities andwas instrumental to the launch and success of Lucentis – a multi-billiondollar bio-therapeutic for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

Boston Scientific Names Leading Electrophysiologist to Its Medical …
Reuters
FACC will join the Companyas Senior Vice President and Associate Chief Medical fficer for its CardiacRhythm Management (CRM) group. Stein is currently the Associate Directorof Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center andAssociate Professor of Medicine at Cornell University. “We are excited that Dr. Stein is joining our team” said Fred ColenPresident Boston Scientific CRM. “His extensive clinical and researchexperience coupled with his broad knowledge of cardiac rhythm managementwill make him a strong contributor to the development of our medicaltechnology.

BestHealthcareRates.com States The GovernmentWill Become The New …
Reuters
The government has outlined a list of reasons that different states need healthcare reform as they have proposed it. These reasons vary from statistics on thenumber of residents in the state without health insurance to the percentage ofoverweight children and adults living there both being valid information forhealthcare. It also cites the fact that certain states lack sufficient choicewhen it comes to the choosing a medical insurance provider and their reformswill fix that. However critics say a government run plan sets itself up to become the newmonopoly in every state. Supposedly the plan is for the reforms to not damagethe health insurance market but to supplement it. Yet if the requirements touse the government plan are open enough and the plan is comprehensive enoughmany people would possibly leave their private health insurance behind forcheaper pastures elsewhere. In the states where there truly is a monopoly in the healthcare insuranceindustry competition will occur and these companies will lose a small portionof the stronghold which may not be a bad thing.
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Medical team to investigation certain abuse cases
Chicago Tribune
Human services director Charles Krogmeier said Monday a reviewof regulations regarding child abuse indicates differing medicalopinions may prevent the agency from taking action to protectchildren. He says because of that the agency needs a quick andauthoritative review of such cases. Krogmeier’s action comes in the wake of a case involving JonasNeiderbach and Jherica Richardson both 20 of Des Moines.

Many Californians with medical debt are insured
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>More than two-thirds of the 2. 2 million Californians who reported being in debt due to medical expenses actually had health insurance when they incurred their debt according to a study released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A-Life Medical Inc. Chief Financial fficer Named CF of the Year …
Reuters
0 billion to revenue. For more than 25 yearsConnolly demonstrated leadership across a variety of roles spanning thehealthcare sector including those in diagnostic imaging clinical laboratoryphysician practice management and hospital services. and director of internal audit atLaboratory Corp. Connolly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Texas TechUniversity. She resides in San Diego.

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