The Kelso company produces and supplies medical instruments as well as parts for the military.

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As a POW, he found himself doing procedures in prison with no anesthesia, no sanitary rooms, and few medical instruments.

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In the near nanotech future, today's medical instruments will seem crude.

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Cut Medicare and lerss money will be spent on health care, less money on medical instruments, less money on drugs, on pills, on doctotrs visits.

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According to a December 6 report issued by the third party set up by the company to investigate Woodford's claims, the company had inflated fees for the 2008 purchase of Gyrus, a UK medical instruments firm.

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But far from the sleek European airports, the South Bronx clinic that receives federal funding and operates in one of the most impoverished U.S. areas uses the instruments to prevent medical record mishaps.

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Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning January 1st, sales of medical devices from implants to MRIs, research equipment and surgical instruments bear a 2.3 percent tax.

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