Contact Information: Contacts: Stephen Feldschuh COO 212-330-8515 Diane Meegan Investor Relations 212-330-8512
Daxor Announces Kaiser Permanente of Los Angeles, CA Purchases BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer
| Source: Daxor Corp.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 6, 2008) - Daxor Corporation (AMEX : DXR ), a medical
instrumentation and biotechnology company, today announced the purchase of
a Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100® by the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles
Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health plan in the United
States, serving 8.2 million members in 9 states and the District of
Columbia, with 32 medical centers and over 13,700 physicians. Kaiser's
first BVA-100 will be located at Kaiser's Los Angeles Medical Center.
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated health delivery system, which means that
Kaiser Permanente provides and coordinates the entire scope of care for its
members. As a nonprofit health plan, Kaiser Permanente is driven by the
needs of its members rather than the needs of shareholders. Kaiser
Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center is a 439-bed tertiary medical
center.
Daxor's Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100 will be located within the Los
Angeles Medical Center's Nuclear Medicine Department, and will be utilized
by cardiology and various critical care units to diagnose blood volume
derangements in various medical and critical care conditions.
Other leading medical institutions that have purchased the Blood Volume
Analyzer BVA-100 include Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, NYU Medical Center,
Methodist Hospital of San Antonio, and Queens Medical Center of Hawaii.
Daxor Corporation manufactures and markets the BVA-100, the only FDA
approved semi-automated Blood Volume Analyzer, which measures human blood
volume. The BVA-100 is used in conjunction with Volumex™, Daxor's single
use diagnostic kit.
For more information regarding Daxor Corporation's Blood Volume Analyzer
BVA-100, visit Daxor's website www.Daxor.com, or contact Stephen Feldschuh
(COO) at 212-330-8515, stephen@daxor.com or Diane Meegan (Investor
Relations) at 212-330-8512, dmeegan@daxor.com.