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Wired: This startup wants to stop deaths from cardiac arrest?
In April 2013, final-year Danish medical student Habib Frost was called out to an emergency: a four-month old girl had just suffered cardiac arrest. Frost’s team tried defibrillation, but to no avail. Immediately after, the team was called out again: another case of cardiac arrest, this time a woman in her 30s. Once again, Frost was powerless to save her life. “I felt ...
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Black History Month - African American and the Arts
Unmasking Racial Disparities in Medical Illustrations Better Patient Outcomes Through Better Representation Medical illustrations play a crucial role in educating healthcare professionals and the public about the intricacies of the human body and various medical conditions. However, an issue that often goes unnoticed is the pervasive racial disparity in these illustrations. The lack of diversity ...
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Research Continues to Support the Benefits of Osso VR for Surgical Training
Osso VR, now the largest and fastest-growing virtual reality (VR) company in healthcare, today announced the results of a new study published in the Journal of Surgical Education demonstrating the effectiveness of VR training for medical residents learning complex orthopedic surgical procedures. The study, led by orthopedic surgeons at Community Memorial Health System in California, divided a ...
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The Hospice Charity Partnership | Customer Story
Birmingham St Mary’s and John Taylor Hospices together form The Hospice Charity Partnership, providing expert palliative and end of life care for people and their families living with life-limiting illnesses. The Hospice Charity Partnerships vision is a future where everyone with a life limiting illness will live and die with dignity and in comfort, and aim to enable more people from ...
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Dr. John Peabody Delivers 2021 Rocky Vista University (RVU) Commencement Speech
Rocky Vista University (RVU) celebrated the graduation of 154 medical students from its College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) and 37 graduate students from its Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences (MSBS) program on the Colorado campus. RVU hosted the small-scale commencement ceremony for students and their guests in the University’s auditoriums with masks and distanced ...
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Vave Health Named 2021 Notable Commercial Equipment Award Winner
Vave is an innovative handheld ultrasound device, portable in nature with the ability to wirelessly connect with any smartphone or tablet. As a healthcare product, the portability of Vave allows clinicians and medical students the flexibility to provide enhanced care beyond a person’s physical location or environmental barriers. Designed in collaboration with San Francisco studio Box ...
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Vave Health Wins Global Product Design Award by D&AD
Vave is an innovative handheld ultrasound device, portable in nature with the ability to wirelessly connect with any smartphone or tablet. As a healthcare product, the portability of Vave allows clinicians and medical students the flexibility to provide enhanced care beyond a person’s physical location or environmental barriers. Designed in collaboration with San Francisco studio Box ...
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EchoNous Launches Online Portal to Streamline Ultrasound Education
Today, EchoNous announced the launch of Kosmos Universal Platform (UP), a specialized software platform that helps educators streamline and automate the process of teaching POCUS, specifically ultrasound scanning—an emerging and critical skill for modern-day medicine. Kosmos UP assists educator faculty to help their students master using ultrasound relying on modern-day algorithms and ...
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Ultrasound Technology Answers COVID-Era Medical Training Challenges
The disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on medical services has been a central concern across our industry. The global health strategy, backed by guidance from the National Institutes of Health and World Health Organization, has so far focused on flattening the epidemiological curve. By doing so, we’ll prevent healthcare services, resources, and medical staff from being overwhelmed. ...
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Vave Health Wins Good Design Awards 2021
Project Description Vave is an innovative handheld ultrasound device with the ability to wirelessly connect with any smartphone or tablet. As a healthcare product, the portability of Vave allows clinicians and medical students the flexibility to provide enhanced care beyond a person’s physical location or environmental barriers. Designed in collaboration with San ...
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Leo Lens Pharma Expands Its Scientific Advisory Board
SAN DIEGO, CA, USA (Business Wire August 5th, 2020) – Today, Leo Lens Pharma, an emerging San Diego-based pharmaceutical company focused on helping protect sight, announces the expansion of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) that now comprises seven world-class eye care professionals, including three ophthalmologists and four optometrists. Leo Lens expanded its SAB with four eye care ...
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EPA Honors Dr. Jeanne Conry as Children’s Environmental Health Champion 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld today recognized Jeanne Conry, M.D., Ph.D., of Roseville, Calif. at an environmental award ceremony held at the University of California, San Francisco Parnassus Campus. The Pacific Southwest Region’s 2012 Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award was presented to Dr. Conry, elected as ...
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Five NIH leaders elected to the institute of medicine
The National Academy of Sciences today announced that five leaders at the National Institutes of Health have been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Election to the IOM is one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health. The NIH officials elected are: Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., ...
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A-B Tech launches on-site health care clinic for employees
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, in conjunction with Eblen Charities and Three Streams Family Health Centers, opened a primary care clinic for college employees Sept. 8 on its Asheville campus. The clinic provides basic health care services for all A-B Tech employees for $25 for a 15-minute visit, regardless of insurance coverage. Mid-level providers will staff the clinic for two ...
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