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Essex Bio-Technology Ltd. (“Essex” or the “Group”, Stock Code: 1061.HK) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Essex Medipharma (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd. (“Essex Medipharma”), has entered into an Agency Agreement (“Agency Agreement”) with Gunze Medical Devices (Shenzhen) Ltd. (“Gunze Shenzhen”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gunze Limited (“Gunze”) in Japan, for PELNAC Absorbable Dressing (“PELNAC”), for a product manufactured by Gunze. Pursuant to the Agency Agreement, Essex Medipharma will be the exclusive agent of PELNAC in Mainland China for a period of 5 years, starting from 2023 to 2027. PELNAC, the world’s leading artificial dermis product, consists of a collagen ... Read more

 For the second consecutive year, Husson University’s SOARing Eagles Healthcare clinic at 79 Marshall Road in Bangor is offering free physical therapy checkups to members of the public. The checkups are available on April 10 and April 11, 2023 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Anyone interested in receiving one of these complimentary overall health screenings provided by Husson physical therapy (PT) students can contact Dr. Kimberly Steinbarger, PT, MHS, DHSc, an assistant professor at Husson’s School of Physical Therapy at 207-941-7181 or steinbargerk@husson.edu to make an appointment. The checkups are open to the public and there is no charge ... Read more

 On April 3, 2023, Ria Jairam, N2RJ, joined the board of directors of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC). Jairam has been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1997, after first having been licensed in her native Trinidad and Tobago. She has served on the boards of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and the ARRL Foundation. She is actively involved in amateur radio outreach and education through speaking at clubs and conventions, social media, her weekly radio show on WRMI shortwave radio and her YouTube channel. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from NYU Tandon School ... Read more

 Saelig Company, Inc. has announced Pulsiv OSMIUM – a novel patented power electronics technology for efficiently converting AC to DC that involves charging/discharging a small storage capacitor without the need for a PFC inductor. The OSMIUM microcontroller family and supporting components can be combined with commodity flyback DC-DC converters to displace higher-cost LLC solutions, achieving an unrivalled efficiency profile. For instance, a universal input, single switch 150W flyback power supply using the Pulsiv OSMIUM design delivers 97.5% average (99.5% peak) front-end efficiency while maintaining 90% at just 2W. Pulsiv OSMIUM microcontrollers do not directly determine output power and so they ... Read more

Lending a rescue paw ********************      The Fire Services Department is putting its first batch of self-bred working dogs to good use. They are being deployed to find hikers lost on hillsides and persons trapped in structural collapse accidents or landslides.      News.gov.hk spoke to Fire Services Department Search and Rescue Dog Team Dog Handler Chan Chu-hong to learn more about the canines’ new training methods for mountain rescues and how their experience at Türkiye’s earthquake zone has enhanced their training.      The story is available at www.news.gov.hk/eng/feature today (April 10) in text and video format.