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• Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup Wins Medical Design Excellence Award, Helps Autism Spectrum Kids and Dysphagia Sufferers Take Medications With No Problem

Raritan, NJ - Canon Communications recently announced the winners of their 13th annual Medical Design Excellence Award, recognizing companies and individuals around the world who have helped design, engineer, manufacture, and distribute groundbreaking medical devices and products. Among those honored was the Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup. The Oralflo cup has already helped thousands of people, particularly children and the elderly, ingest medicine in pill form without having to cut or crush their pills. It is currently in use by hospitals such as St. Jude Children's Hospital, UMass Memorial, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Vanderbilt University Hospital, to name a few. It is distributed by a number of pharmaceutical companies including but not limited to Johnson & Johnson.
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• Oralflo Cup Named Among "Best of 2008" by Contemporary Pediatrics

Raritan, NJ - The Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup is among a small number of health products named "Best New Products for Pediatrics 2008" by Contemporary Pediatrics magazine. In the article, Andrew J. Schuman, MD, of Dartmouth Medical School, calls the cup "brilliant in its simplicity." The Oralflo cup is a unique medical device that can make the difference in whether a child takes his or her medicines. While many have difficulty swallowing pills, approximately 40 percent of children with developmental delays or disabilities have this problem. Pill-swallowing difficulties are not confined to the young, however - 40 percent of adults reported problems swallowing medications in a recent Harris survey.
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• Oralflo Helps the Medicine Go Down

Raritan, NJ - For children who are required to take prescription medication, pill swallowing challenges and discomfort will soon be a thing of the past. Winner of the iParenting Media Award for one of the "best products of 2007," the Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup is specially designed to help people of all ages swallow pills without gagging, choking or having an otherwise difficult time. It has been especially well received by parents of children with autism, sensory integration disorder, ADD, cancer, muscular dystrophy and other illnesses and conditions.
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• Health Care Professionals Can Help Patients Stop Crushing Pills
Award-Winning Device Helps Patients Swallow Pills Easily

Raritan, NJ - Recent warnings from health care groups have revealed that crushing
pills to make them easier to swallow can cause serious side-effects.
“Pills often have special coatings that affect how they are released into the body and crushing them can mean this complex system is disturbed,” says Roger Heilos, president and founder of Oralflo Technologies. “Although rare, serious conditions have occurred when patients and health care providers crushed certain medications in order to administer.” .... click here for full Article

• iParenting Media Awards Announces Best Products of 2007

Evanston, IL - iParenting Media Awards announces the winners of our Best Products of 2007 Call for Entry, during which we evaluated items ranging from high-tech toys, safety gear and educational software to helpful books, audio CDs and Web sites. All of the items were thoroughly evaluated by experienced reviewers to determine which ones exceeded the standards to earn an award.

The evaluation process created by the iParenting Media Awards program is so thorough it has attained ISO 9001:2000 Certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO is the world's largest developer of standardization regulations, and ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally recognized standard of quality assurance. Only a fraction of the companies that attempt this certification achieve it .... click here for full Article

• Facing Autism

• Taking Medicine is Now Easier for Kids with Swallowing Difficulties
New Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup™ helps provide relief for kids who have swallowing difficulties
PR Web, Press Release Newswire, 8/11/2006

Raritan, NJ (PRWEB) - When children are sick, they often have to take medicine in order to get better. But when a child has difficulty swallowing a pill, the cure may be worse than the symptoms, leaving both the child and parents upset and frustrated. ... click here for full Press Release

• New Oralflo Pill Swallowing Cup Helps All Ages & Many Conditions
Medical Design Online, 6/8/2006

Raritan, NJ - Oralflo Technologies introduces the "Pill Swallowing Cup," a medical device designed to facilitate the ingestion of medications and vitamin supplements in individuals for whom pill-swallowing remains a challenge. Engineered by Roger Heilos, former medical products engineer for Johnson ... click here for full Press Release

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