A curette is a medical instrument which is designed to scrape a surface such as tissue, a tooth, or the inside of a body opening. Curettes are sold by many medical instrument suppliers, with several different sizes available for different types of tasks.he curette is also sometimes used in the medical procedure known as dilation and curettage, in which the cervix is dilated and the device is used to scrape out the contents of the uterus. This technique can be used to treat various gynecological conditions, and to terminate a pregnancy.
CVS completes its acquisition of more than 2,500 stores from Revco â the largest acquisition in the history of the U.S. retail pharmacy industry. The acquisition of Revco gives CVS key drugstore locations primarily in the Midwest and Southeast. Caremark merges the prescription benefit management business and the biotech business. 1998
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. 1  Sam Walton, with his brother Bud Walton, founded Wal-Mart, the chain of discount variety stores that in the 1990s became the world's largest retailer. Sam Walton went into the retail business in 1945, and by the time Wal-Mart first opened in 1962 he owned a chain of 15 variety stores in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.