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Articles in Feb, 2005 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• Respiratory carestation
• Handheld pulse oximeter
• Exam gloves
• How to report problems with device manufacturers to the FDA
• Superbug closes down Vancouver hospital
• Thermal flusher disinfector
• Hospitals scan for new ways to broaden instrument management horizons
  by Julie E. Williamson
• Preassembled Povidone iodine Spray
• Locker Specifier
• Sharpness testing
  by Alex Vrancich
• IHI launches national campaign to save 100,000 lives in hospitals
• Antimicrobial-impregnated barrier products: added measure or unnecessary expense?
  by Susan Cantrell
• Uniforms
• Therapy bands
• Walking boot
• Monitoring the steam sterilization process is not simple
  by Gale Havrilla
• Surface wipe packaging
• Passive latch
• Increase your span of effectiveness: develop a clinical business plan through your PET
  by Tony A. Hall
• Self-stick, dry erase notes
• AHRMM reprocessing advisory
• New form of breast cancer drug approved
• Surgical gloves
• B Braun Medical
• McKesson agrees to settle consolidated class action suit for $960 million
• Up close with Amerinet's Bud Bowen
• More than one Bowie Dick test daily? Is automated washing mandatory?
  by Ray Taurasi
• GPO accountability
  by Scott Gammons
• Wireless systems: holy grail or trendy rabbit trail?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Tip protectors
• 7 reasons why most so-called 'value analysis programs' fail to produce double-digit savings results annually
  by Robert T. Yokl
• HIMSS named to 2005 Associations Advance America Honor Roll
• Blood bank analyzer
• MedPAC backs extending specialty hospital moratorium, cutting hospital payments
• 'Stomach pacemaker' shows promising weight loss results
• Instrument stringer
• IAHCSMM to tap new educational approaches at Annual Meeting
• Hospital saves $2.4 million with physician—engaged supply chain management
  by Michael Palmer
• Medication management
• Anesthesia carts
• Traction boot
• Rapid readout technology
  by Gale Havrilla
• Flu-vaccine trial gets FDA clearance
• Reflecting inward, outward to identify best practices
  by Eileen McGinnity
• Take two and call me in the morning
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Navigating through the RFP/PO process: is automation the only answer?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Catheter site dressings and infection control
  by Cynthia T. Crosby
• Oxygen regulator
• Medical equipment catalog
• Arguments for aloe
  by Tripp Amdur
• Neoforma considering sale or merger
• Alliance Medical receives 510K clearance for diamond drill burs
• IBSA signs printing services agreement with Novation
• Looking forward: arthroscopy gains leg up in OR
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Agility updates equipment management system for RFID
• Bar code software
• Endoscope case
• Toshiba executive provides imaging outlook
  by Raju Adhikari
• Worth repeating
• Fast stats
• BD announces full release of medication maximizing syringe
• Genetic test can predict breast cancer relapse
• Medical light
• Bath tissue dispensing
• How to avoid the 10 deadly sins of materials management
  by Joe Colonna