In 2013, Zoe Harting became the first baby in the world to receive an experimental drug that her doctors hoped would save the lives of thousands of infants like her. Zoe has spinal muscular atrophy type 1, a degenerative neuromuscular disease that kills most patients by their second birthday. Before she began receiving the drug, 7-month-old Zoe was quite weak. She ...
The University of Pittsburgh, speaking on behalf of Starzl's family, said the renowned doctor died Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh. Starzl performed the world's first liver transplant in 1963 and the world's first successful liver transplant in 1967, and pioneered kidney transplantation from cadavers. He later perfected the process by using identical twins and, eve...
Bedfont® Scientific Ltd. shortlisted as a finalist for Small Business of the Year award in the Maidstone Business Awards Second-generation family business, Bedfont®, has made it through to the final round of the Maidstone Business Awards 2017 Formed as a partnership between Equilibrium PR and Best Business Events, the Maidstone Business Awards is debuting this year, gi...
Hyperbaric expert Dr Robert Pender talks in this short video about the usage of hyperbaric chamber for autism, stroke, brain damage and cancer patients.
Over the last 15 years, Jon Mulholland has transformed the Cell Sciences Imaging Facility into a world-class center by working tirelessly to keep Stanford at the leading edge of the revolution in technological advances in light and electron microscopy. That was one of many accolades bestowed by faculty members on Mulholland, winner of the 2016 Marsh O’Neill Award for ...
On Thursday 30th March 2017, the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce hosted its prestigious awards evening at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, where Bedfont®, a small family business of less than 40 people, picked up the sought after Exporter of the year 2017 award. Established in 1976, Bedfont® is a second generation family company that specialises in the design and manu...
By measuring the impact of simulated sleep apnea on human beings, researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus found that just 6 hours of the fluctuating oxygen levels associated with sleep apnea can begin to deteriorate the circulatory system and impair the body’s ability to regulate blood pressure. “While it is well established that sleep apne...
Local exporter, Bedfont® Scientific, donates £500 to BBC Children in Need to support disadvantaged children throughout the UK Bedfont® Scientific is proud to announce that it is donating £500 to BBC Children in Need after filming its very own #MannequinChallenge to support the appeal. The money raised will go on to help transform the lives of disadvantaged children a...
The consolidation of a global network of Hyperbaric Medicine in Spain is a fact. More and more hospitals and clinics have it in order to give a complementary therapy , non-invasive and without side effects to their patients in order to improve their quality of life. “Thanks to the hyperbaric medicine we can now stimulate tissue regeneration and wound repair, thus reducin...
Bedfont Scientific Ltd, based in Harrietsham, gathered together its customers, distributors and partners in celebration of 40 years trading, where Trevor Smith announced that Bedfont was becoming a 2nd generation family company by appointing his son, Jason Smith, as the new Managing Director, with Trevor moving on to the position of Chairman. Trevor Smith joined Bedfo...
Meeting with Prof. Nick Ezeh and Engr. Nurudeen Inwanfero was constructive. The Nigerian side was delighted with Medin’s culture, its production facilities, intellectual developments and achievements in the field of Medin’s medical equipment and furniture. Both sides positively evaluated the results of the meeting. Showroom of Medin’s products was planned to be opened ...
Susan brings more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare, most recently as a senior vice president for JLL and a senior associate with NBBJ. Before transitioning into the world of consulting, she worked for New York-Presbyterian Hospital where she served as administrative director of its Oncology Service Line before becoming director of program planning for the hospital...
To the casual observer, Alexander Bracebridge is just another curious, fun-loving 22-month-old. He enjoys running, throwing balls, taking swimming lessons and playing with TV remotes. When he wants to go outside, he lets his parents know by bringing his shoes to them. First-time parents Russ and Robyn Bracebridge don’t take these seemingly ordinary moments for granted...
Doctors commonly treat hyperparathyroidism using a class of prescription drugs called bisphosphonates, including alendronate (marketed under the brand name Fosamax) and ibandronate (Boniva), which are supposed to strengthen bones. Now, a study led by scientists at UCLA found that those drugs actually increase the risk of fracture, meaning that taking them is worse tha...
After spending a month treating Ebola victims in the severely stricken West African country of Liberia, emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, returned to California with perhaps one misgiving: It was having to say goodbye to his patients. “So much of the time was spent just helping out the nurses and providing emotional support and the connection to the patient. Being ...
Information technology long has been touted as a facilitator of outcomes improvement in healthcare. How that proposition might play out in the next decade is likely to be strenuously tested when it comes to helping patients/healthcare consumers manage their diabetes and prediabetes, as two recent articles in the American Journal of Managed Care online indicate. As Mar...
Late last year, Verb Surgical, a joint venture between Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) and Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon division was formed with the intent to change the paradigm of robotic surgery established by pioneers like Intuitive Surgical. The entrance of Google (now Alphabet) into any industry is noteworthy, and since March 2015, when the initial announc...
By tapping into the “power of diversity,” says Geoffrey Rubin, MD, the George B. Geller Distinguished Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering at Duke University and moderator of a session entitled “Developing an Effective Lung Cancer Screening Team” at the upcoming annual meeting of the American College of Radiology in Washington, D.C., in May. Rubin spoke with Hea...
Prior to joining Press Ganey, Dr. James Merlino—also a practicing surgeon—was the Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Health System. In this leadership podcast, Dr. Merlino draws on his practical and diverse knowledge and experience and speaks with us about contemporary issues for hospitals and the nation’s health care delivery system. Among today’s topics,...
We often think that bringing these parallel streams closer together is particularly critical as we transition from volume to value, but Nick opined that we need this confluence regardless of payment model. His focus is on bridging the gap between parallel silos of health information across multiple EHRs at Geisinger (Epic installs as well as other products) while at the ...
In this leadership podcast, Dr. Merlino draws on his practical and diverse knowledge and experience and speaks with us about contemporary issues for hospitals and the nation’s health care delivery system. Among today’s topics, Stewart Gandolf and Dr. Merlino discuss patient safety as a strategic priority, transparency in healthcare, healthcare reform and patient exper...
The data were presented by Thomas G Brott, on behalf of the CREST Investigators, at the International Stroke Conference (17–19 February, Los Angeles, USA). “In CREST (Carotid revascularization endarterectomy versus stenting trial), we found no significant difference between the stenting group and the endarterectomy group with respect to the primary composite endpoin...
Tasked with expanding the reach of the firm’s healthcare practice nationally and supporting the entire healthcare studio, Posada has an extensive background in healthcare with experience in medical facility planning, ranging from community hospitals to tertiary care facilities and academic medical centers for private sector and government healthcare clients. Having wo...
I hope to interview him again in the coming months. Baker has tremendous, relevant experience in healthcare. He was CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Secretary of Health and Human Services before that. Healthcare is a huge issue for Massachusetts, so it’s great to have someone at the helm with that background. Excerpts from the interview are below. The full tr...
David E. Williams: This is David Williams from The Health Business Group. I’m speaking today with Frank Williams. He is Chief Executive Officer at Evolent Health. Frank, we were at the Connected Health Conference last month and while there you said that there was a need to help organizations transform clinically, but also make it work for them financially. Can you say...
The emergency department sees all-comers: whoever walks in the door. Working at this nexus comes with major responsibilities from educating patients about healthcare basics to making important decisions affecting life, death and yes, hospital resources. Making healthcare a better business for everyone is something that I’ve injected into my training all while honing my b...
Here Stephens discusses healthcare analytics and how it’s important to providers and patients; the ever-increasing importance of harvesting useable and life-changing information from unstructured big data; analytics in population health; the importance of ACOs and the future of Healthline. Tell me about your background and your role at Healthline. I grew up in a sma...
Here, Navani speaks about his path to eClinicalWorks, he offers his expert insight on EHRs and their benefits to healthcare, and he speak of likely trends that will continue to change the healthcare landscape. Tell me your story. About how you got here, how you developed your technology and the reasoning for a private company set up? We wanted to use technology as ...
“Everything we do here is a team effort and we have the finest team anywhere, Melonakos says. Probably most significantly, we have transformed ourselves from a company primarily known in the Americas for finishers and polishers to a significant full-line player, including direct and indirect restoratives and now dental cameras.” Melonakos will continue to act as Exec...
A distinguished scientist, academic, researcher and mentor, Dr. Hart currently serves as professor of periodontics and director of Craniofacial Population Sciences Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. He also currently serves as the chair of the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs. He earned a B.A. in biology from the University of Virgin...
Trombley succeeds former President Gordon Hagler who announced his retirement in July 2014 following almost a decade of service with DentalEZ. Following Hagler’s retirement, Vickie Waitsman stepped in as Interim President for approximately nine months. Waitsman has been Vice President, General Counsel of DentalEZ for over 20 years and will remain an active officer of ...
When Emily Ballenger of San Jose delivered her twins, Julia Burch and Carrie Belle, last August at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, she also was credited with helping train a medical student in the art of patient-centered care and relationship building. Early in her pregnancy, Ballenger was partnered with a medical student as part of an elective course at ...
The session will focus on building and deploying approaches in gene therapy, stem cells, and regenerative medicine to cure many childhood diseases. Roncarolo joined the School of Medicine last June, after stepping down as scientific director of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy. She was recruited to lead efforts in fast-tracking stem cell and gene the...
Pediatric surgeon Dennis Lund, MD, will join Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford on March 16 as the organization’s new chief medical officer. He will also serve as associate dean for maternal and child health at the School of Medicine. “I am delighted that Denny will be joining us,” said Christopher Dawes, president and CEO of...
Mary Hawn, MD, a general surgeon with a special interest in quality and clinical effectiveness, has been appointed chair of the Department of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She will start July 1. Hawn is now director of the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and vice chair for quality and clinical effectiveness at the University of Alabam...
Author and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, described how witnessing the untimely and inevitable passing of patients, friends and his father revealed to him the shortcomings of the American medical system’s and society’s approach to dying. “I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them,” he said, addressing an overflow crowd March ...
