A team at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles is asking patients to help them solve a long-standing problem: embarrassing hospital gowns. Anyone who has been a hospital patient knows the uneasy, drafty feeling the unisex garment that “ties” loosely in the back. The “johnny gown” endures largely because it fulfills the hospital need […]
LED lighting isn’t just for illuminating rooms and roads. Someday it could be used to sterilize surgical tools or purify water. At the right wavelength, ultraviolet light kills microorganisms on surfaces and in water. But the effort to develop new UV disinfection devices that utilize LEDs has been hampered by the semiconductors used to make […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Healthcare reform discussion about healthcare costs often turns to private insurance plans. But state health plans have a stake in the matter too, and in some ways they’re more vulnerable. State workers are less likely than their public sector counterparts to be uninsured. States also typically pay a higher share of the insurance premium compared […]
A new regenerative medicine partnership between North Carolina State University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center aims to find ways to regenerate damaged organs first in pets and eventually in people. The goal will be to translate laboratory research into new medical therapies. NCSU’s Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, or CCMTR, will work […]
North Carolina State University has received a $25 million federal grant to research noroviruses and food safety across the food supply chain. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will be used to design effective control measures and reduce the number of food-borne illnesses caused by viruses. NCSU is the lead institution in the research project, […]
North Carolina State University is providing up to $300,000 in seed money to four emerging technologies from the university that are now steering toward commercialization. Two of the projects receiving up to $75,000 each from the university’s Innovation Fund have healthcare applications. One focuses on a new vaccine to prevent Salmonella and the other is […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.