Medical Staff Articles
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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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MedTech Round Table: The ROI of Surgical Digital Transformation
Caresyntax hosted a roundtable discussion on how digital transformation—specifically the collection of data in the surgical suite—can drive both quality and return on investment (ROI). The participants included a panel of esteemed healthcare professionals in surgery, nursing, investing, sales, healthcare technology, and academics. The following is a summary of the new pathways and ...
By Caresyntax
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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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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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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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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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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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Building Foundations Beyond COVID
Environmental Steri-Clean (ESC), a Certified SteraMist provider and TSN member receives ongoing contract Environmental Steri-Clean (ESC), a TOMI Service Network (TSN) provider since 2015, has been using SteraMist disinfection products to bolster their mold remediation service and assist with their thriving fire/water mitigation services. During the ...
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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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Medical technology made in Germany – close to the user
Proximity is extremely important in the medical device business. On the one hand with a view to reliable, fast and lean logistics thanks to short distances. On the other hand, in relation to the knowledge of normative conditions, regulations, quality requirements, social developments - and last but not least the needs of the users. And it is precisely this proximity that makes UTK Solution GmbH ...
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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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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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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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Dubai on the Brain: NeuroVigil’s Philip Low Assembles Dream Team to Launch Modern Neurotechnology Industry; Expands Conglomerate in Montreal, Canada
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates & PALO ALTO, Calif. & MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neurotechnology Powerhouse NeuroVigil (ranked “Top 10 most innovative companies in health care” by Washington Post and Fast Company) announced at the New Technology & Mental Health Conference keynote during Dubai’s World Expo that it has recruited senior captains of industry, government and ...
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The Burden of Hospital Acquired Infections on Health Systems
What is a Hospital Acquired Infection? A Hospital-Acquired Infection (HAI) (also know as a Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) or nosocomial infection) is defined by WHO as ‘an infection acquired in hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection1‘. This includes infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge, and also occupational ...
By TriMedika
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Intellijoint KNEE: How It Began to Where It is Now
Intellijoint Surgical is proud to announce a new, optional feature to the Intellijoint KNEE system. It helps provide quantitative measurements of femoral and tibial rotational alignment. Originally released back in 2020, Intellijoint KNEE is the second application following the company’s flagship product, Intellijoint HIP. The Intellijoint team has continued to innovate and expand ...
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Providing training and on-site support for Ugandan hospital staff helps staff make better use of DrillCover tools
Surgeons, nurses, and other medical staff at a hospital in Uganda are now able to take advantage of Arbutus Medical battery-powered tools as well as local technical support to treat thousands of orthopedic patients in need. For several years, Arbutus Medical has worked with international aid organizations to bring DrillCover surgical tools to hospitals in low-resource countries to help them ...
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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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What is Teflon Tube Its Applications & How Its Made?
Teflon Tube or PTFE Tubing is a semi-transparent, chemically inert, and non-toxic material . One of its unique features is temperature resistance. And, it has a surface that facilitates the flow of fluids. It can be used in service which requires high temperatures of over 200 degree Celsius. Thus, making it a material of choice in elevated temperature applications. It also has a breakdown voltage ...
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PainShield by NanoVibronix is a type of ultrasound therapy for pain that delivers fast pain relief for nerve and soft tissue damage.
Medical research indicates that nearly 93% of children in America suffer at least one middle ear infection, which is severe enough to see a doctor. Most will suffer repeat occurrences, up to a dozen or more in childhood. These painful episodes are difficult for children, parents, and caregivers. Accurate diagnosis of middle ear infections (Otitis Media) in infants and young children may be ...
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