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Catholic Charities USA and Local Catholic Charities Agencies Fully Deployed in Serving Southern Storm Areas and Victims
Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) provided additional updates today in its work to reach out to and provide life-sustaining services to the ever-growing numbers of individuals and families devastated by the Southern storms and tornadoes.The CCUSA team, under Kim Burgo, VP, Disaster Operations, is currently staged in Birmingham providing Regional support.Widespread storm damage has affected some ...
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HD Medical Wins Coveted Award from Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) Technology Investment Conference
HD Medical, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA today announces it has been awarded First Runner-up in the Silicon Valley Open Doors Technology Investment Pitch Competition. The company reviewed the impact of how its innovative new ECG-enabled intelligent stethoscope, HD Steth™, is saving lives through HD Medical’s Screening as a Service (SaaS) business model. “We awarded HD Medical ...
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Pearson awards international youth fellowships for social innovation
The Pearson Foundation today announced the first winners of the Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation, awarded to the most outstanding social entrepreneurship projects developed by graduates of TakingITGlobal's Sprout e-course. The announcement was made at the 2010 World Innovation Summit for Education held in Doha, Qatar. TakingItGlobal is an online community where students and teachers can ...
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Global Health Technology Platform - Proximie - Announces Partnership With Vodafone Business to Increase Access to Surgical Healthcare and Training
Proximie, the global health technology platform digitising operating rooms around the world, announces a partnership with Vodafone Business. As part of Proximie's mission to save lives by sharing the world's best clinical practices, the new partnership will build on the existing relationship between the two companies bringing its world-class connected surgical care software together with ...
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Coloplast and the World Diabetes Foundation prevent amputations in India
Coloplast"s donation programme Access to Healthcare just signed a contract with the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) about a new healthcare project in India. The project aims to improve the treatment of diabetic wounds. "Every single day, 110 Indians have a foot or part of their leg amputated due to diabetic foot ulcers, and an unknown number die before they are even diagnosed," says Per Ole ...
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GE Healthcare and Partners Launch Mission to Train 100,000 Current and Future Indian Healthcare Professionals
GE Healthcare today launched a mission to accelerate the building of a “Yogya Bharat” or “Skilled India” that will improve access to quality healthcare throughout the country. The company has partnered with leading healthcare and education experts to set up healthcare education & training institutes that will provide accredited skill building programs for 12th Standard ...
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Brain Sentinel, Inc. Announces the Purchase of IctalCare A/S Assets
Brain Sentinel, Inc., a Texas company, has purchased the assets of IctalCare A/S, a Danish company. These assets include intellectual property, and a non-prescription, wearable device designed to monitor for seizure activity. "We are excited to add to our product line a small, wearable surface electromyography (sEMG) monitor that consumers may order and use without a prescription," said Mike ...
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eCential Robotics launches its Institute dedicated to the personalized support of its platform users
Gières (Grenoble), France, May 26, 2021 - eCential Robotics, a French growth company that designs and produces the only system fully unifying 2D/3D robotic imaging and surgical navigation for bone surgery indications, today announced the launch of its training Institute. The eCential Robotics Institute provides healthcare professionals a customized training path to discover and ...
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EPA grant to children’s hospital to train healthcare workers about reducing asthma triggers (PA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mid-Atlantic region today awarded a $100,000 grant to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to train 70 health care professionals and 100 families how to manage asthma to reduce asthma attacks. “The mid-Atlantic region has a high asthma rate - - especially in urban areas,” said EPA mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. ...
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The GE Foundation Expands ImPACT Africa program to Address Critical Shortage of Health Workers in Kenya, Improve Access to Safe Surgery
The GE Foundation announced today a new Commitment to Action with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to expand the ImPACT (Improving Perioperative & Anesthetic Care Training) Africa program in Kenya. ImPACT Africa is a sustainable training program that aims to address maternal and infant mortality related to surgical intervention during childbirth through ongoing training of skilled ...
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Auris State of Business during COVID-19
COVID-19 has gripped this country and put unprecedented strain on our healthcare system. We are grateful for the incredible character and commitment displayed by the doctors, nurses, and staff on the front lines of this fight. Thank you health care workers who continue to put the health of others first and serve patients during this pandemic. During this unprecedented time, we want to assure you ...
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Successful SARS-CoV-2 trial with Ondine’s nasal photodisinfection
Clínica Universidad de Navarra has completed a randomised controlled study of Ondine Biomedical’s nasal photodisinfection technology in fully vaccinated COVID-19 patients with early symptoms of COVID-19. “Top-line results from this clinical trial suggest that nasal photodisinfection treatment rapidly and substantially suppresses SARS-CoV-2 viral replication and infectivity in ...
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Merck provides new funding to fight HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Merck today announced The Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional US$60 million to support Botswana's African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). Merck is known as MSD outside the US and Canada. A unique program developed with and led by the Government of Botswana, ACHAP is one of sub-Saharan Africa's oldest, most successful ...
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Anuncia Medical, Inc., receives FDA clearance for the ReFlow System Mini for the treatment of patients with hydrocephalus
Anuncia Medical, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the ReFlow® System Mini for the treatment of patients with hydrocephalus and other cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders that require shunting. Anuncia Medical announced FDA clearance of ReFlow® System Mini for the treatment of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) disorders. The FDA 510(k) clearance allows ...
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Brain Sentinel’s SPEAC® System Demonstrates Equivalence in Sensitivity to Detect Generalized Tonic Clonic Seizures to Video EEG
Brain Sentinel’s SPEAC® System demonstrated equivalence with the gold standard, video EEG, in detecting generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) using surface electromyography (sEMG). In a new study published on October 5, 2017, in the medical journal, Epilepsia, Brain Sentinel’s SPEAC® System which uses the surface electromyography (sEMG) biomarker demonstrated ...
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EMLab P&K and Philders Group International Inc. form strategic alliance for infectious disease control initiative
EMLab P&K and Philders Group International Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to create a risk reduction program for the healthcare industry. The Risk Assessment Program (RAP) will address infection control issues encountered in healthcare facilities during construction and will help individuals working in these facilities to reduce risks. The infection control training and education ...
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How ReFlow Helped Get Zachary’s Hydrocephalus Under Control and Travel Across the Globe
Even before Zachary was born nearly 11 years ago, his parents Sherry and Jason knew that he was going to be a special boy – and a wonderful sibling to a twin sister! Zachary was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, both of which were diagnosed while in utero. As with many children in the hydrocephalus community, most parents have never heard of the condition, nor understand how it ...
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Control Design Q&A: Workplace robotics enhance remote connectivity
Tell us about your company’s state-of-the-art robotics technology? RK: Ava Robotics brings a deep technical heritage, established at iRobot, to define and enable new opportunities for intelligent robots in the workplace. With this technology, its telepresence, UV disinfection and security robots work to improve productivity, safety and quality of life for workers and businesses across ...
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Brain Sentinel’s SPEAC® System Named `Best of What’s New` for 2017 by Popular Science Magazine
Popular Science magazine has named the SPEAC® System "Best of What’s New in 2017" in the Health category. The SPEAC® System is the first FDA-cleared, non-EEG, physiological, signal-based system for seizure monitoring. "We are excited and thrilled by this award from Popular Science," said Mike Girouard, President, CEO and co-founder of Brain Sentinel, Inc. Girouard ...
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7-year-old Boy Managing His Hydrocephalus with ReFlow Ventricular System “Gen 1” Featured on Charleston’s ABC News 4
After struggling to conceive a child for what felt like ages, Miranda of Moncks County, South Carolina finally fell pregnant - a miracle that quickly turned into horror when she delivered at 24 weeks in late 2015. At just 1 pound and 12 ounces, her son, Sutton, arrived with life-threatening health issues, including hydrocephalus - a neurological disorder caused by an abnormal buildup of ...
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