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The Baxter Althane disaster in autumn 2001 was a series of 56 sudden deaths of kidney failure patients in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Colombia and the USA (mainly Nebraska and Texas). All had received hospital treatment with Althane hemodialysis equipment, a product range manufactured by Baxter International, USA. [54] [55]
Gambro is a global medical technology company that manufactures products for dialysis treatment. The company is involved in developing, manufacturing and supplying products and therapies for kidney and liver dialysis, myeloma kidney therapy [clarify], and other extracorporeal therapies for chronic and acute patients.
Hillrom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter and was formally part of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., which was formerly a part of Hillenbrand Industries until that company split its medical equipment division from their casket business in 2008. [3]
Baxter sold its BioPharma Solutions business in October for $4.25 billion to investment firms. The new company, Simtra, wants to expand.
It started to acquire Baxter Healthcare Corporation's US generic injectables business, Multi-Source Injectables or MSI, and completed the transaction in May 2011. [7] In October 2011, Hikma Pharmaceuticals entered the Moroccan market through the acquisition of Promopharm, the ninth largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in Morocco. [8]
Welch Allyn was founded in 1915 in Auburn, New York by Dr. Francis Welch and inventor William Noah Allyn. The two formed a partnership and developed the first hand-held, direct-illuminating ophthalmoscope and convinced Allyn, a medical instruments salesman, to form a partnership. [3]
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"The company had 2011 sales of $13.9 billion, across two businesses: BioScience and Medical Products (in October 2010, the company combined its Medication Delivery and Renal business into a single global business unit, Medical Products). Baxter’s BioScience business produces recombinant and blood plasma proteins to treat hemophilia and other ...