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March 22, 2008
Irvine medical products company B. Braun recalls possibly tainted heparin
Oct. 27, 2010
Troubled pharmaceutical concern Ivax Corp. plans to sell its Irvine-based McGaw unit for $320 million in cash, well below the $440 million it paid for the company three years ago.
May 31, 1997
I-Flow Corp. said Monday that it has signed a letter of intent to have a Pennsylvania firm distribute its disposable infusion products in the United States.
March 10, 1998
Reaffirming Orange County’s global leadership in medical-device technology, a new report revealed that the county has 337 biomedical firms that employ more than 33,000 workers and pump billions of dollars into the local economy.
March 11, 2000
Rudy Wolf has been named a director of MotorVac Technologies Inc., Santa Ana-based manufacturer of products for servicing and repairing automotive fluid systems.
Nov. 19, 1999
Federal officials on Tuesday launched a crackdown against several companies that market an eye wash and a widely used skin cream without government approval, saying these prescription medications could pose risks.
Sept. 24, 2008
Scanning his newspaper one day in 1991, Norman Braun was amazed to read that Kent cigarettes--once touted as offering “the greatest health protection in cigarette history”--had contained a particularly virulent form of asbestos.
Nov. 5, 1995
California business agrees there’s a crisis in the state’s $10.4-billion workers’ compensation program.
Nov. 19, 1991
* Pacific Rim Holding Corp., a Woodland Hills insurer, named several executives to its Pacific Rim Assurance subsidiary that writes workers’ compensation policies in California, Arizona and Texas.
Sept. 12, 1995