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Effects of prosthetic limb prescription on 3-year mortality among Veterans with lower-limb amputation
Method: Retrospective observational study on 4,578 Veterans hospitalized for LLA and discharged 2003- 2004, looking at time to all-cause mortality from the amputation surgical date up to the 3 yr anniversary. Results: 1,300 (28.4%) persons received a prescription for a prosthetic limb within 1 yr after the surgical amputation. About 46% (n = 2,086) of all Veterans w LLA died within 3 yr of the ...
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ChildFund partners with physicians for peace in Haiti
One year after the 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, ChildFund International continues its work in Haiti with Physicians for Peace. ChildFund has awarded Physicians for Peace a $500,000 grant to support the organization's work in Haiti, providing custom-fitted prosthetics, medical equipment, a summer camp for children with disabilities or who have parents with disabilities and many additional ...
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Hunterdon Healthcare Patients Benefit From Veinviewer To Reduce Sticks And PICCs
Hunterdon Medical Center, a 178-bed non-profit community hospital, and Christie Medical Holdings, Inc., a global leader in portable vein finders, today announced that use of the Christie VeinViewer® Vision2 is helping to improve the level of care provided to their patients. “A key goal for implementation of VeinViewer systems was to decrease the number of central lines placed in favor ...
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Injectable Body Sensors Take Personal Chemistry to a Cell Phone Closer to Reality
Up until now, local inflammation and scar tissue from the so-called “foreign body response” has prevented the development of in-body sensors capable of continuous, long-term monitoring of body chemistry. But today scientists are presenting results showing tiny biosensors that become one with the body have overcome this barrier, and stream data to a mobile phone and to the cloud for ...
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Stacy Enxing Seng Joins the Vesper Medical Board of Directors
Wayne, PA, January 4, 2021 Vesper Medical, Inc., a developer of medical devices for deep venous disease, today announced that Stacy Enxing Seng has joined the board of directors effective immediately. An accomplished executive leader, Stacy has over 25 years in sales, marketing and operational leadership roles building innovative technology portfolios, demonstrated clinical outcomes, exceptional ...
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Biomedical Company Gedeon Richter Partners with Health Education Platform Skrinings to Deliver Global, No-Cost Contraceptive Education
Women’s health platform Skrinings.lv announced today that it has partnered with multinational pharmaceutical company Gedeon Richter to launch a completely private educational platform that empowers people to make informed decisions about contraception and other birth control options. In the first two months of operations, more than 1,700 women across Northern and Western Europe have taken ...
By Longenesis
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A Guide to Dental Oral Surgeries
Oral surgeons have the skillset and the technology to transform their patients’ mouths. From relatively simple tasks like removing impacted teeth to life-saving measures like removing oral cancer, these highly skilled professionals are trained to rescue their patients in their time of need. There’s more than one way to get your teeth worked on. Dental surgeries come in many ...
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