Although medical device companies have tried to help people with obstructive sleep apnea with various implements to keep their air passages open as they sleep, adherence has proven to be ...
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Tiger Woods and Hines Ward are just two of the athletes who have received platelet-rich plasma therapy – a procedure where doctors take a small sample of patient’s blood, separate ...
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Last year, the healthcare industry passed a milestone with the FDA’s clearance of the first ingestible biosensor. A group of researchers are developing an edible battery-powered biosensor platform themselves that ...
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April 9, 2013 11:14 pm by Chris Seper | 1 Comments
Data entry staff. Statisticians. Analysts. All are critical to building a healthcare data analytics team that can deliver clean data and then process it. But there’s another critical hire to ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Text message reminders don't increase flu vaccinations in pregnant women, according to a small pilot study."Text messaging may be effective in some contexts and not ...
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March 24, 2013 10:00 am by Toland, Bill | 0 Comments
Highmark Inc. is taking its new Community Blue health insurance product out east.Community Blue, which is available to group buyers, is a "tiered" product. That means certain hospitals and providers ...
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As companies try to solve the complex puzzle of getting patients to do a better job of taking their medication in the right amounts or alerting healthcare professionals when there’s ...
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December 17, 2012 10:09 am by Stephanie Baum | 0 Comments
A woman who has been a quadriplegic for nine years after developing a degenerative neurological disease was able to give herself a piece of chocolate using a robot arm controlled ...
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December 7, 2012 12:37 pm by Stephanie Baum | 0 Comments
A medical device company has raised $3 million in a series B financing round to expand the marketing of its compression therapy devices and compliance program for lymphatic condition lymphedema. ...
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December 7, 2012 10:24 am by TWEDT, STEVE | 0 Comments
With patient care becoming more complex -- and with added emphasis on coordinating care and measuring the quality of care -- health care professionals need to know how to use ...
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November 14, 2012 1:26 pm by Stephanie Baum | 0 Comments
Pittsburgh,based biotechnology startup Knopp Biosciences is working with Biogen to develop a treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease that protects stressed neurons and other cell types from dying. ...
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Frequently, the path to commercial approval for a biopharmaceutical startup’s drug isfilled with adversity. But the drug development industry is also filled with unexpected twists. Last month, Pittsburgh-based Complexa unexpectedly ...
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October 23, 2012 4:00 am by Nixon, Alex | 0 Comments
St. Vincent Health Center in Erie said Tuesday that it reached a clinical affiliation agreement with the Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute.The agreement gives heart patients at the Erie ...
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has embarked on a $100 million healthcare informatics initiative to deliver personalized care through its electronic medical records and big data. Among the goals of ...
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September 4, 2012 11:17 am by Stephanie Baum | 0 Comments
An electronic health record company that provides clinical information systems for wound care clinics, Net Health Systems, has acquired a specialist electronic medical record firm that gives the combined companies ...
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