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OKLAHOMA CITY - 180 Medical is launching the Ron Howell Caregiver Scholarship in honor of President Ron Howell, who will retire this year. It is open to college students who are unpaid caregivers to a family member or loved one and plan to attend a two-year, four-year or graduate school program in the fall. “We're thrilled to be able to implement a scholarship program that can offer a helping hand to caregivers, who often work so hard and give so much to their loved ones while also working...

BUFORD, Ga. - Having already built one successful business, the team behind UroStat Healthcare hopes to repeat their winning formula for a second time.Craig Stevens, UroStat's CEO, and Bert Burns, part owner, previously worked together at UroMed, which Burns founded in 1996 and sold to AssuraMed in early 2014. At the time of its sale, UroMed served 7,000 patients in 48 states.UroStat, which marked its first year in business in July, offers catheters, ostomy and incontinence supplies, and accepts...

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. - PECO Medical is exiting the urology market, according to a letter to its customers.“After an extensive review of the market and our prospects for future success, we made the difficult decision to exist the urology business effective June 1, 2019,” wrote Greg Bosco, president of Genairex and Peco Medical, in the letter. “We plan to continue to ship urological products and support our customers through the end of May.”Genairex, better known as Securi-T,...

Technology may not be the first word that springs to mind in reference to the incontinence, skin and wound care market, but perhaps its time that it took front and center. Innovations in connected care and therapeutic materials are becoming prominent in the category and offer viable applications for HME providers.One option for the incontinence segment just launched in September: the DFree portable bladder monitor from San Diego-based Triple W. The wearable product detects bladder volume levels and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Manufacturers and distributors are grappling with updates to California's Proposition 65 that went into effect Aug. 30.Prop 65 requires businesses to warn individuals in California about products containing 900-plus listed chemicals “known to the state to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.” What's new: standardized warning labels. Manufacturers must include them on these products, distributors must incorporate them into their websites and...

MINNEAPOLIS - ActivStyle, which has made a name for itself in the incontinence supplies market, wants to boost its profile in the catheter market.In June, the company launched Catheter Express, a new brand to help focus its existing catheter business. ActivStyle entered the catheter space in 2010 when it acquired Advocate Medical.“We felt really formalizing and doing more of the personal service we do so well on the incontinence side was a benefit in our catheter business,” said CEO Gayle...

Waterloo, Iowa-based VGM Group has released its second playbook: “Industry Insights: How to Capitalize on Opportunities in Post-Acute Health.” The playbooks serve as a resource for HME providers adjusting to an ever-changing business climate, VGM says. This latest playbook covers a number of areas, including people, processes and business diversification…Newport Beach, Calif.-based Cure Medical has announced that its full line of ready-to-use, 16-inch hydrophilic catheters are now approved...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Cure Medical has expanded into Canada with its Ultra Ready-to-Use Catheters. “We continuously receive requests from Canadian sales partners and end users who are looking for a quality-made, affordable intermittent catheter that is not made with known carcinogens like DEHP or BPA,” said John Anderson, CEO, in a press release. The Cure Ultra line includes straight and coude options for men and a ready-to-use straight catheter for women.

READING, United Kingdom - ConvaTec, a global medical products company, has agreed to pay nearly $121 million for Woodbury Holdings, a distributor of incontinence and catheter supplies.The Floral Park, N.Y.-based Woodbury offers a portfolio of more than 500 incontinence and 650 catheter products, and a wide array of nutritional, enteral feeding and vascular compression products through subsidiaries Woodbury Health Products and Wilmington Medical Supply."ConvaTec and Woodbury share a common commitment...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Cure Medical has launched a new website, curemedical.com, to highlight its expanded portfolio of intermittent and enclosed system catheters. The site will also feature customized content for customers, medical professionals and HME providers. Visitors to the site will find product videos, downloadable product flyers and a catalog, a support program for catheter users, lifestyle advice and medical research updates. “Everything we do at Cure Medical is centered on providing...