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Havel’s Inc. exhibited at the Cleveland Clinic’s 13th Annual Pain Management Symposium last month in Sarasota Florida. The many practitioners and healthcare professionals in attendance were looking for the latest developments in pain medicine. Havel’s Inc. did not disappoint, showing off our full EchoLine™ of Echogenic Needles.  Several attendees stopped by to request samples of [...]

Havel’s Inc. recently attended the Society for Pain Practice Management’s 24th annual SPPM Pain Management Course at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It was our first experience with an SPPM workshop, but it will not be our last. The Society for Pain Practice Management did a tremendous job organizing the workshop, and [...]

“Great Shape! Inc. is very grateful for the generous donation of surgical blades from Havel’s Inc. These blades were utilized by the 1000 Smiles dental project where volunteer dentists predominantly used them for surgery. They were helpful in thousands of extractions, fillings, cleanings, etc. As they say in Jamaica, Big Up to Havel’s Inc.! We [...]

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia’s November Fall Pain Meeting in Phoenix, AZ helped Havel’s cap off an incredible year with our patented Corner Cube Reflectors (CCR®) needles once again ending the year up 50% higher than the record breaking 2009. However, with the late meeting, and a busy December we are only now starting [...]

Havel’s Inc. exhibited at the ASRA Ultrasound Pain Workshop at the Cleveland Clinic on September 11, 2010. Several of the doctors in attendance were brand new to ultrasound and were intrigued by what Havel’s Inc. had to offer. We displayed all of the echogenic needles in our line including the EchoStim, EchoBlock, and EchoBlockMSK, along [...]

Havel’s Inc. recently exhibited at the Annual Spring ASRA Meeting, in Toronto, Canada.  Havel’s EchoStim® Insulated and EchoBlock® Non-Insulated needles  for ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks have been available in Canada since April of 2009 from Canadian Hospital Specialties (CHS).  The needles have been selling extremely well in Canada since the release and this was [...]

Physician Elizabeth Vliet, MD speaks out about rationing for women: I am shocked and appalled at the cataclysmic shift in the guidelines to later age and less frequent mammograms. This is diametrically opposite from the American Cancer Society guidelines, and from what most oncologists and practicing physicians think is needed. I think these new guidelines [...]

Major payers have issued coding instructions. From the AAFP article: CMS has created a unique health care common procedure coding system, or HCPCS, code — G9141 — specifically to cover administration of the H1N1 vaccine, although private insurers are not required to use the G code. Click here to read the entire article.

In July, the Journal of Rheumatology published the article “Does Sonographic Needle Guidance Affect the Clinical Outcome of Intraarticular Injections?” Dr. William L. Sibbett, Jr. contributed to the article. Dr. Sibbett is the inventor of the Avanca syringe. To view the abstract, click here. To view the full article, click here.