The Morning Read provides a 24-hour wrap up of everything else healthcare’s innovators need to know about the business of medicine (and beyond). The author of The Read published it but all full-time MedCity News journalists contribute to its content. TOP STORIES The NIH said it expects to admit an American patient who has tested positive for […]
New York’s only Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer spoke out in an essay published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine to address the misconceptions behind the coverage of his ordeal. He stated that he was falsely accused of putting the public at risk and depicted as “a fraud, a hipster and a hero” […]
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.
The number of new Ebola cases each week has gone down from more than 1,000 in October to just 150, the White House said in a statement. Because of this remarkable improvement, President Obama is said to announce Wednesday that nearly all of the 1,300 troops deployed to aid in the effort will be coming […]
People make mistakes, sure, but for those handling things like live Ebola and anthrax samples, errors should ideally be kept to a minimum. The public was rightfully concerned recently when an Ebola sample mishap happened in a lab at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since last June, the agency has also released […]
A ton of progress is definitely being made to tackle Ebola at this point. We can’t slow down on precautions, but we can celebrate major improvement. In September there were 500 cases of Ebola detected in Liberia a week. That number has gone down to just eight last week. Numbers in Guinea and Sierra Leone […]
With the crisis in West Africa killing more than 8,000 people and some cases being brought to the U.S., everyone is talking about Ebola – but should we refer to it as an outbreak or an epidemic? And what’s a pandemic for that matter? There is a difference, and what it really comes down to […]
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.
The Ebola victim who is thought to have been patient zero in the current outbreak was a two-year-old boy named Emile Ouamouno from Guinea. Scientists now think he could have been infected while playing in a hollow tree where bats lived, according to BBC. The scientists visited Ouamouno’s village, Meliandou, and took samples in addition to […]
Pauline Cafferkey, a health worker who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone, has be transferred to a hospital in London. She was working with Save the Children. Cefferkey flew to Glasgow through Casablanca and London Heathrow and was later taken to the Royal Free Hospital. The risk of […]
Of course we all understand that mistakes happen, but it’s slightly more disconcerting when it not only involves the virus that has terrified many parts of the country, but that it happened at one of the most respected research centers in the world. Regardless, a sample of the live Ebola virus could have come in […]
Cambridge Consultants, a product design and development firm, just received a $1 million challenge grant from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to develop a low-cost, point-of-care device that tests patients for the Ebola virus. It’ll team up with the nonprofit Diagnostics for All to develop the Ebola-testing device in a matter of months to quickly deliver diagnostic […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
In this TED talk, Myriam Sidibe discusses the simple, cost-effective way to avoid the spread of viruses and disease: hand-washing. This easy task cuts down risk of pneumonia, diarrhea, cholera and worse. Sidibe, a public-health expert, takes the TED stage to make a case for public-private partnerships to promote clean hands, as well as local, sustainable entrepreneurship. […]
Every year, TIME magazine chooses who to acknowledge as the most influential or innovative person. This year, it’s more than one, and the honor is going to those who are not only putting their lives at risk to help battle the outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 people so far, they are also facing […]
British actor Idris Elba is playing the part of a motivating soccer coach in a new media campaign designed to not only continue spreading awareness, but it puts the outbreak in a context that West Africa and the rest of the world can really relate to. The campaign consists of print and billboard ads, radio […]
If Ebola in the U.S. did one thing, it made hospitals prepared for the worst, with Dallas Presbyterian having the misfortune of being a cautionary tale. According to the CDC, state health officials have identified and designated 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers, with more expected in the coming weeks. Hospitals with Ebola treatment centers […]
The Ebola panic has been pretty widespread, definitely prevalent in the U.S., despite the low number of cases, but a proper demonstration of paranoia comes straight from North Korea. Not only did the country recently shut down borders to everyone and force 21-day quarantine to any new arrivals, they now claim that the United States […]