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DTW Podcast: Can Boston Scientific close the gap?

September 26, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Following the killing of George Floyd in June, medtech companies stood strongly against inequality and racism and promised to push for change. Boston Scientific’s executive committee, including CEO Michael Mahoney, issued one of the earliest statements to condemn “injustice and discrimination and to reaffirm our commitment to live by our values and cultivate a workplace […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Women's Health Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Brigham and Women's Hospital, DeviceTalks Weekly, Farapulse, Harvard Medical School, NanoVibronix Inc

Medtronic appoints new VP & CMO for coronary, renal denervation & structural heart

May 19, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced that it appointed Dr. Jeffrey Popma as its new VP and chief medical officer for coronary, renal denervation and structural heart business. Popma, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, is slated to provide medical leadership across those businesses, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Structural Heart Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Medtronic, Personnel Moves

Study: PPE shortages persist nationwide

May 15, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Shortages of personal protective equipment continue to plague hospitals and healthcare facilities across the United States, according to a study published this week in The Lancet. The study reports on data collected by GetUsPPE, a volunteer organization connecting healthcare providers with supplies of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and was authored by academics and volunteers […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Featured, Hospital Care, Research & Development Tagged With: Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Alphabet (Google), coronavirus, COVID-19, GetUsPPE, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pymetrics

Medicare’s bundled ortho payments yield modest savings

January 2, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Medicare’s randomized trial of a new bundled payment model for hip and knee replacement surgeries led to $812 in savings per procedure, a 3.1% reduction in costs when compared with traditional means of paying for care, according to new research. The study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School found that the […]

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, Medicare, News Well, Orthopedics Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, New England Journal of Medicine

How slugs, snails & worms inspired Gecko Biomedical’s biocompatible sealant

October 24, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

The story behind Gecko Biomedical’s biocompatible sealant starts in the summer of 2009, when Boston Children’s Hospital‘s chief of cardiac surgery reached out to Jeffrey Karp about a problem he was experiencing in the operating room. Dr. Pedro del Nido told Karp, a professor of medicine at Harvard and the director of the Laboratory for Accelerated Medical Innovation […]

Filed Under: Pediatrics, Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development, Surgical Tagged With: Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Gecko Biomedical, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Artificial intelligence could prevent breast cancer false positives: Here’s how

October 19, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

Artificial intelligence could improve detection and diagnosis of breast cancer and eliminate false positives, according to new research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). A team of researchers from MIT’s CSAIL, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed an AI system with machine learning that can […]

Filed Under: Oncology, Research & Development, Women's Health Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Breast Cancer, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MedTech

Smart bandage releases medication as needed

October 10, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

A team of researchers from the University of Nebraska, Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a smart bandage that can be loaded with antibiotics, painkillers or other drugs and triggered by a smartphone. The bandage, made of electrically conductive fibers individually coated in a drug-loaded hydrogel, could be used to deliver multiple drugs at a precise time and dose, […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Pharmaceutical, Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development, Wound Care Tagged With: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, universityofnebraska

X-Biotix to address antibiotic resistance with chemical scaffolds

May 30, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

X-Biotix Therapeutics launched today with technology from Harvard Medical School that the company said will aim to address the threat of antibiotic resistance. According to the multi-year collaboration and license agreement, the team plans to identify antibiotic scaffolds that target multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. X-Biotix spun out of the privately-held biotech X-Chem, which develops novel small molecule therapeutics […]

Filed Under: Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Harvard Medical School, xbiotixtherapeutics

Topical immunotherapy combo effective against early skin cancer

November 22, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have shown that a combination of 2 topical drugs can trigger an immune response against precancerous skin lesions. The study was published yesterday in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. The 2 drugs, calcipotriol and 5-fluorouracil, have been in use for years – topical 5-fluorouracil […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Harvard Medical School, Washington University

Study: Medication errors occur in 1 out of 2 surgeries

October 28, 2015 By Fink Densford

A new study from Harvard Medical School investigating the incidence of drug dosing errors and adverse events before, during and after surgeries found a 50% rate of errors in the OR. The study, which examined more than 275 operations at the Massachusetts General Hospital, also indicated that a 3rd of the errors discovered resulted in […]

Filed Under: Hospital Care, Surgical Tagged With: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

NEJM op-ed: Don’t repeal the medical device tax

April 25, 2013 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

NEJM op-ed: Don't repeal the medical device tax

A pair of Harvard Medical School physicians say the medical device tax should not be repealed, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday that it’s an important bulwark of the healthcare reform law.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Harvard Medical School, New England Journal of Medicine

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