As the healthcare industry spends millions of dollars developing vaccines, large-scale disinfectors and hand washing initiatives for care providers, a Cleveland-area nurse and her husband are proposing a much simpler contribution to the fight against hospital-acquired infections. Encourage patients to clean their hands more, too. Hand hygiene, after all, is widely regarded as the key […]
A portable, easy-to-use bedside device could make it easier for clinics in developing countries to test for HIV, hepatitis, syphilis and other infectious diseases. mBio Diagnostics Inc. just brought in $3.9 million to begin commercializing its first products overseas, according to co-founder and CEO Christopher Myatt. Those first products include a CD4 T-cell enumeration test, […]
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.
Surgical site infections are a nasty and persistent problem throughout the U.S. healthcare system, and affect as many as 5 percent of patients who undergo surgery. And with the rise of “superbugs,” or drug-resistant infections, the problem doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. The cost to the U.S. health system of each […]