Please explore a collection of recent news items for 2007-2008.
August 2008
tahilla.typepad.com: MRSA Watch
Better Bandages Batter Bugs
HemCon's bandages, created from a natural substance in shrimp shells called chitosan, stop bleeding - including extensive arterial bleeding - within two to five minutes. The antibacterial barrier properties of the bandages help prevent infection transmission to other patients and health care providers and also make it easier for medical professionals to help prevent infections at incision site wounds.
July 2008
OR Today
HemCon Bandages and Dressings
Hemostatic HemCon bandges and ChitoFlex dressings offer medical professionals the tools to stop severe, arterial bleeding. These dressings provide life-saving hemostasis and an antibacterial barrier that is cost-effective, easy-to-apply and ready to use in perioperative situations.
Legionmagazine.com
Battle-tested Medicine
Dr. Allan Hawryluk was dreading the difficult hours ahead - his patient was on blood thinners, and bleeding uncontrollably following a tooth extraction. Then he tried a sample of the HemCon Dental Dressing. "The bleeding stopped completely and immediately," he said. " I just didn't believe it." The HemCon Dental Dressing is just one of hundreds of advances and innovations made or perfected for treatment of the wounded in battle that make their way into civillian health care.
May 2008
Portland Business Journal
Army enlists HemCon to develop plasma technology
HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc. has been chosen by the U.S. Army to develop, test and secure FDA approval for an unjectable plasma product for resucitating traumatically injured soldiers.
Portland Business Journal
HemCon completes acquisition of Alltracel Pharmaceuticals
The purchase occurred through Castlerise Investments Ltd., a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of HemCon. Alltracel will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of HemCon and maintain its headquarters in Dublin. Combined revenue is expected to exceed $100 million.
Portland Business Journal
CFO of the Year Awards, Medium Private Company
Winner Mike Williams is lauded for ability to build relationships. As the vice president of finance for HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc., Williams' job includes responsibility for accounting and financial services, information technologies, risk management and fixed assets.
Progressive Grocer
Ukrop's offers Mil-spec Bandages
Ukrop's Supermarkets, Inc. has taken consumer first aid to a new level with a new bandage offering made using blood-stopping technology found in bandages that the U.S. Army uses in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Managing Infection Control
Combat Zone Battle-tested bandage fights infection, costs
Your healthcare facility is undoubtedly taking extensive steps to prevent and manage hospital-acquired infections, but when it comes to bleeding wounds and surgical incisions, are you doing enough?
April 2008
Acuity Care Technology
Wound Management Aids Infection Control
Silver can kill more than just werewolves, and honey can help cure more than a sore throat. Shrimp help save soldiers. Cardinal Health distributes the HemCon Bandage, which reportedly instantly stops bleeding in trauma patients using a shrimp shell-based dressing that gels on contact with blood.
Healthcare magazine
Battle-tested dressing available to medical professionals in new smaller sizes
ChitoFlex, a hemorrhage control dressing, is now available to acute care professionals in two new, smaller sizes, 1" x 3" and 3" x 9" strips. HemCon's decision to expand the ChitoFlex product line is a direct result of feedback from medical professionals who desired additional product flexibility for varying wound sizes.
PR-inside.com
HemCon Awarded Medical Design Excellence Award by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD & DI) Magazine 4-7-08
Summary: HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc. receives the Medical Design Excellence Award for the revolutionary HemCon® Bandage in the category of Critical-care and emergency medicine products.
High-Tech Firms, Entrepreneurs Find Success
What do shrimp shells have to do with saving lives? A lot more than one might think, thanks to an innovative Portland company, HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc.
March 2008
The Daily Record, Wooster, Ohio
Blood-Clotting Bandage a Good Addition to First Aid Kit
A new high-performance bandage made from the same blood-stopping technology the U.S. Army uses to save lives on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq is now available to the public.
Portland Business Journal
Forty under 40 - Bright lights in our city
Summary: HemCon's very own bright light Nicole Elovitz is awarded with the 2008 Forty under 40 award by the PBJ for her professional accomplishments, community involvement and professional recognition.
Newsmax Magazine 26 Awesome Medical Breakthroughs
War's Wounded Help Create Innovations
Summary: A new type of bandage called HemCon uses the powdered shells of common shrimp to promote radically faster clotting.
Housingzone.com
From Combat to Construction
Summary: Blog from THE PRODUCT GUY It has saved lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's coming to a building site near you.
February 2008
Cath Lab Digest p.66
HemCon Medical Technologies' Battle-Tested Bandages Called to Action in Hospitals
Summary: HemCon® Bandage and ChitoFlex® Dressings Improve Wound Care Solutions for Patients (go to page 66)
February 2008
HemCon to buy Irish company for 40.8M
Summary: HemCon Medical Technologies Inc. has announced plans to acquire the publicly traded Irish firm Alltracel Pharmaceuticals.
November 2007
UK Mirror
Prawns Save Our Soldiers
Summary: UK Military Surgeon General, Lieutenant General Louis Lillywhite, says that the HemCon bandages have resulted in a survival rate that’s better than anybody has ever achieved.
October 2007
Blessings From Baghdad: There's Power in the Blood
Summary: Blog from a soldier in Iraq that used a HemCon Bandage to save a life.
October 2007
The Northwestern
Affinity first in valley to use high-tech bandage.
Summary: Story on how Affinity Health System adopted the revolutionary hemorrhage control dressing for all its hospitals.
September 2007
Technical Rescue 50
Hemorrhage Control
Summary: Review of several hemorrhage control products.
September 2007
INC 500: The Handbook of American Entrepreneur
Here’s The Thing
Summary: HemCon is ranked 219 in America’s fastest growing private companies for innovative dressings.
August 2007
Portland Business Journal
HemCon Eyes New Markets.
Summary: HemCon and Cardinal Health exclusive distribution relationship for push into civilian market.
August 2007
Popular Mechanics
Top 4 New Breakthrough Medical Devices
Summary: the Simplified Automated Ventilator (SAVe) is featured in the review of breakthrough medical devices.
July 2007
The Oregonian
HemCon makes deal with Cardinal Health.
Summary: Local Portland paper with details on the exclusive nationwide hospital coverage distribution agreement with Cardinal Health.
June 2007
Defence News
Shellfish dressings help save soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan.
Summary: A special bandage, partly made from crushed shellfish, is helping to save the lives of badly injured troops and civilians in the deserts of southern Afghanistan. The bandages are put directly into combat wounds and become sticky on contact with blood, helping clots develop and rapidly stopping even severe bleeding - a vital medical capability as rapid blood loss is one of the major causes of combat fatalities.
April 2007
Skin and Allergy News
Military Experts Say Newer Hemostatic Dressings Beat Gauze
Summary: Col. John Holcomb, MC, USA, of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., discussed his experience with the HemCon dressing. The HemCon bandage contains the hemostatic agent chitosan, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Holcomb noted that although chitosan is derived from purified shrimp shells, it is unlikely to cause an allergic reaction, even in people with seafood allergies.
April 2007
KATU
Tusko’s surgery goes well
Summary: Video featuring how HemCon supports Oregon Zoo operation during dental surgery for an elephant at the zoo.
March 2007
Reader’s Digest
Battlefield Advances: Remarkable Innovations in treating injured soldiers will ultimately benefit us all.
Summary: The innovated dressing called the HemCon bandage can staunch a heavily gushing would in 30 seconds and has been shown to stop or reduce 90 percent of combat cases.
February 2007
CNN
Made-for-the-military products put brakes on bleeding
Summary: Video highlighting how on-site treatment for severe bleeding has changed little since Roman times. Iraq, Afghanistan wars spurred urgency, helped HemCon grow and save hundreds of lives.
January 2007
CNN: 360 with Anderson Cooper
Company on the Rise
Summary: video featuring the growth of HemCon Medical Technologies and its innovative products.