medical officer Articles
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Bringing Medical Services to a Community - Gulf Breeze Medical Office Building, Pensacola, FL, USA - Case Study
Application The Gulf Breeze Medical Office Building project in Pensacola, Florida, was over budget, and like many projects, the stormwater management system was a large contributing factor. In addition, the Florida panhandle lacks a prominent supply of aggregate, making larger excavations that require a lot of stone very expensive. To reduce costs, the contractor began seeking alternatives ...
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OR Today Spotlight on John W. Cromwell MD
The following article is a repost of an interview that originally appeared in OR Today “Spotlight On: John W. Cromwell, MD” with Caresyntax customer, John Cromwell, MD, FACS, associate chief medical officer and director of surgical quality and safety at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. ...
By Caresyntax
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Navigating Cancer Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors
Navigating Cancer announced today that Alexandra Snyder, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Generate Biomedicines, has agreed to join its board of directors. Dr. Snyder is succeeding David M. Rubin, Ph.D. who served on Navigating Cancer’s Board from 2015 to the present. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Snyder to Navigating Cancer’s Board and especially value her point of view as a ...
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Dr Annalisa Jenkins in conversation with Adam M Hill. `Extra Time` podcast
Annalisa Jenkins' inspirational career spans over 25 years in the global biopharma industry – she started her career at St Barts, in London, where she trained as a cardiologist, before joining the British Royal Navy as a medical officer during the Gulf Conflict, achieving the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander during her time there. Annalisa spent almost two decades producing a pipeline ...
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Handheld brain scanner that looks for deadly brain bleeds and is used by the military could be used in the Australian National Rugby League
Infrascanner 2000 can spot deadly brain bleeds just moments after accident Gadget uses infrared lasers to measure changes in the volume of blood in skull Hopes it could safeguard contact sport athletes after spate of deaths in last year Australia's National Rugby League could soon use a handheld brain scanner used by the military to look for brain bleeds in players. The NRL's chief ...
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The Truth About Trying to Stop Panic Attacks with Candy
Among the mental health “hacks” that have gone viral online recently: dealing with anxiety attacks by sucking on sour candy or dunking your face in ice water. The idea is to distract yourself from panic symptoms by changing your focus. So, does it work? It might seem to help people with moderate panic attacks. “By definition, panic attacks are time-limited,” says ...
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Healthcare Organizations And HIPAA – The Cost Of Non-Compliance
When stories break in the media of medical files with patient information found in dumpsters, or laptops with unencrypted data left in cabs or stolen from offices, one element that is often overlooked is that the medical offices in question are usually in possession of full HIPAA Compliance certification. All the necessary ‘I’’s have been dotted and ‘t’’s ...
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Rational Vaccines Announces a Clinical Trial to Determine Baseline Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed With Recurrent Symptomatic Herpes Simplex Type 2 (HSV-2) Virus
Study to be conducted at two leading research institutions in the U.K. Results will inform protocol design of Phase 1/2 clinical trial of Company's lead HSV-2 therapeutic vaccine candidate WOBURN, Mass. and OXFORD, England, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rational Vaccines, a company focused on revolutionizing the treatment and prevention of herpes to eradicate the disease, today announced the ...
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Suture Practice Kits - What It Should Include
Suture practice kits should be identical to the ones you use on the job. The goal is to familiarize yourself with the tools you use in a hospital or medical office setting. Practicing suturing is the best way to perfect the procedure, but only if your kit has the right tools. Here's what your suture practice kit should include. Used when applying intermediated-weight sutures, a Hegar Needle ...
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Getting CPOE Adoption Right
Chris Snyder, a speaker at the marcus evans National Healthcare CMO/CMIO Summit 2013, on effective CPOE adoption. Interview with: Chris Snyder, Chief Medical Information Officer, Peninsula Regional Medical Center The adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) technologies has been slow in the US, although 2014 is the proposed start date for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use Requirements. ...
By Marcus Evans
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Genomadix’s Legionella Test used by CDC for Legionnaires’ Outbreak
The CDC chose Genomadix Bioscience, an Ottawa-based biotechnology company, to assist with a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Chesterfield, VA. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) identified an increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases in Chesterfield County and requested assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the investigation, the CDC Pneumonia ...
By Genomadix
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12 Functional Food & Beverage Trends
Research and market data illustrate a confluence of consumer desires for functional foods and beverages, fueled by science demonstrating benefits of health-promoting ingredients. Take drinks alone. Ohad Cohen, Chief Executive Officer, Gadot Biochemical Industries, points to data from Grand View Research: The global functional drinks market size was estimated to be worth $204.8 billion in 2022, ...
By Nuritas Ltd.
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Miamitech Startup Spotlight: Dalent Aims to Improve Sinus Surgery Experience, Outcome and Cost
Originally appearing on RefreshMiami.com If you’ve ever had an awful sinus infection, you know how painful, and quite frankly, how much of a drag it is. But most of us don’t have Chronic Sinusitis, which consists of a sinus infection lasting longer than 3 months (despite treatment), according to the Mayo Clinic. That being said, 11.6% of the American population does, says the ...
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Clinical and operational benefits of EchoGo® Heart Failure for HFpEF detection
Preliminary results of a large-scale study demonstrating the clinical benefits of EchoGo® Heart Failure were shared at the American College of Cardiology (ACC 2023) conference last month. Using only an apical four-chamber ultrasound view, this new AI-enabled platform can identify heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and has been shown to minimize the indeterminate ...
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Powering Up Peptide Discovery with AI
Nuritas has recently published the results of two clinical studies on their next-generation ingredient PeptiStong™. Identified within fava beans, with self-affirmed GRAS and Health Canada approval, Peptistrong™ contains cell-signalling peptides which, when compared against milk proteins, were found to improve the rate of muscle protein synthesis during recovery. In this New Protein ...
By Nuritas Ltd.
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Meet Nuritas, the bitoech using AI to identify the next generation of intelligent ingredients
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Dr. Andy Franklyn-Miller, Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Nuritas about intelligent ingredients, explaining peptides and proving an AI model in life science. There is a lack of innovation within ingredients in food, many have been discovered decades ago, mostly with cost, taste and texture in mind. However as ...
By Nuritas Ltd.
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RVx201 Herpes Vaccine
RVx201 Herpes Vaccine Description 2022 RVx201 is a first-in-human herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) live-attenuated therapeutic vaccine modified to be interferon sensitive that destroys the ability of the virus to inhibit immune responses. Produced by Rational Vaccines, Inc., the technology is based on the pioneering research of the late Dr. William Halford, who dedicated over 25 years to ...
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Unlocking nature’s secrets? How Nuritas harnesses AI to uncover hidden health-boosting ingredients
Biotech company Nuritas speeds up ingredient discovery in nutrition through AI, using techniques from the pharmaceutical industry where innovation and investment rates are much higher. Through its bioactive peptide finder, Magnifier NπΦ, the company can boast a clinical trial success rate of 80%. Development of an ingredient goes through three phases, from discovery to preclinical biology ...
By Nuritas Ltd.
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FluGen Initiates NIH-Funded Trial of M2SR Flu Vaccine; First Study in Adults Up to Age 85
Study will measure immune responses to matched and drifted virus strains in older adults, a population that is most vulnerable to mortality from flu – Topline data expected in 1H 2022 – MADISON, Wis., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — FluGen, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company transforming vaccine efficacy in infectious respiratory diseases, today announced the initiation of the ...
By FluGen, Inc.
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Temple research finds that tweaking CBD may help it curb pain and opioid use in mice
Doylestown-based Neuropathix is running safety tests required to start clinical trials in humans. The compound may help with neuropathy, a severe type of chronic pain associated with cancer treatment. The next generation of cannabis-inspired medicine might be grown in test tubes instead of greenhouses. Researchers at Temple University have partnered with Doylestown-based pharmaceutical company ...
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