Carestream, working with its parent company, Onex Corporation (TSX: ONEX), has entered into an agreement to sell its dental digital business to funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), a leading global private investment firm, and CareCapital Advisors Limited (CareCapital), a specialist investment platform...
From Bloomberg Markets by Kiel Porter , Ed Hammond , and Scott Deveau April 5, 2017, 12:55 PM EDT Buyout firm set to pay about $1 billion for Onex-owned unit U.S. company provides imaging software to dental professionals Clayton Dubilier & Rice is in talks to buy Carestream Health Inc.’s...
Written by Andrew Good NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – When sitting in the dentist’s chair, few patients think of NASA. But the space agency is there nonetheless, in the sensor that enables high-resolution, digital X-ray imagery that helps the dentist spot problems. The sensor had its start...
The Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey announced Monday they have reached a settlement with smart TV manufacturer Vizio for collecting data on 11 million customers without the users’ knowledge or consent, according to an FTC press release. Vizio has agreed to...
From the dedicated people at Fendrihan, here is some interesting information about a product we take for granted: toothpaste. Please visit their blog, linked here and below. It may not be international toothbrush day quite yet (that’s June 26th, in case you didn’t celebrate last year), but as...
Today, Wordfence is publishing an emergency bulletin to their customers and to the larger web community. A few hours ago a zero day vulnerability emerged in the Tor browser bundle and the Firefox web browser. We therefore suggest that you temporarily discontinue use of the Firefox...
September 29, 2016: Mangano FG, Veronesi G, Hauschild U, Mijiritsky E, Mangano published an article in PLOS ONE (The world’s first multidisciplinary Open Access journal, PLOS ONE accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty.). It compares “Trueness and Precision of Four Intraoral Scanners in Oral Implantology:...
DARCY WHEELER wpengine “Security is not about perfectly secure systems. Such a thing might well be impractical, or impossible to find and/or maintain. What security is though is risk reduction, not risk elimination. It’s about employing all the appropriate controls available to you, within reason, that allow...
By Robin Dishon, Senior Writer, ESET What is a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack? Here’s how it works, and what you can do to keep your devices from being hijacked by a botnet. Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the...
By Darryl Hol, CBC News Posted: Oct 19, 2016 4:33 PM ET Researchers have found that people who suffer from migraines have more of the bacteria that breaks down nitrates found in certain foods. People who suffer from migraines have long complained that certain foods trigger the severe...
ICW Elite 5220 Easy-to-Cable-Manage Monitor Mount This video is a detailed demonstration of how ICW’s re-designed Elite 5220 monitor mounting arm is assembled. It also provides a good overview of the quality of the build and explains the product better than a photo or line drawing....
‘A professional anesthesiologist has only one responsibility … you look after that patient’ Alexandra Zabjek, with CBC News Edmonton posted an article on October 24, 2016, reporting on the tragic case of a little girl who suffered brain injury during a dental procedure in Edmonton, and...
In Shelburne, the Wansbrough family is trying to set things right, but finding there’s no easy way. All wish to honour Brigadier General, and local dentist, Elgin McKinnon Wansbrough, but they can’t agree on a solution. Brigadier General Elgin McKinnon Wansbrough served in both World Wars...
The Mossack Fonseca data breach, more commonly known as the Panama Papers breach, is one the largest and most damaging data breaches in history. It is still the largest data breach which resulted in data delivered to journalists to date. The "Panama Papers" involve 11.5...
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel By Caroline Humer and Jim Finkle | NEW YORK/BOSTON Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital operators,...
