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The coronavirus test that wasn’t: How federal health officials misled state scientists and derailed the best chance at containment

March 27, 2020 / Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein, USA TODAY The coronavirus epidemic this week reached Beadle County, South Dakota. A single case tied to travel has exploded into 14 infections and counting, with no way to know how many were exposed while supply shortages forced the entire state to briefly suspend testing. Confirmed …

Coronavirus live updates: New York City mayor projects over half of city will be infected

March 27, 2020 / By Morgan Winsor and Emily Shapiro A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 25,000 people around the world. Globally there are more than 553,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. …

Union finds 39 million coronavirus masks in 5 days

March 27, 2020 / By Shawn M. Carter, FOXBusiness Almost 40 million medical masks are waiting for U.S. hospitals in desperate need. That’s thanks to the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), which said it located 39 million N95 masks, available for purchase, in the last five days and is now connecting health providers with the respective suppliers. The …

China cashes in off coronavirus, selling Spain $467 million in supplies, some of them substandard

March 27, 2020 / By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News As the novel coronavirus sweeps across the world, some countries are finding themselves in a difficult situation. Low on supplies or money, traditional American allies like Spain, Italy, France and Japan have had to turn to China for help. “China creates the poison and sells the solution to it,” foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang told …

Orthofix Completes Acquisition of FITBONE Limb Lengthening System

March 26, 2020 LEWISVILLE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Orthofix Medical Inc. (NASDAQ:OFIX), a global medical device company focused on musculoskeletal healing products, today announced it has completed the acquisition of assets associated with the FITBONE® intramedullary lengthening system for limb lengthening of the femur and tibia bones. The transaction also includes other potential applications of the technology which are …

Bone Therapeutics appoints Stefanos Theoharis as Chief Business Officer

Gosselies, Belgium, 26 March 2020, 7am CET – BONE THERAPEUTICS (Euronext Brussels and Paris: BOTHE), the bone cell therapy company addressing high unmet medical needs in orthopaedics and bone diseases, today announces that it is further strengthening its management team with the appointment of Stefanos Theoharis, PhD, as Chief Business Officer (CBO). Stefanos will be responsible for …

New KinematX Total Wrist Arthroplasty from Extremity Medical

March 26, 2020 PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Extremity Medical, a global medical device company with expertise in innovative implants for upper and lower extremities, announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the first total wrist replacement implant designed to emulate natural wrist range of motion in patients with wrist arthritis and other degenerative wrist conditions. The …

Nextremity Solutions, Inc. Acquires Lakeland Technology, Inc.

WARSAW, IND. (PRWEB) MARCH 26, 2020 Nextremity Solutions, Inc., a strategic commercialization organization with a focus in the extremity market, located in “The Orthopedic Capital of the World,” Warsaw, Ind., today announced it has completed its acquisition of Lakeland Technology, Inc. “Our team couldn’t be more excited about this acquisition. The combination of our manufacturing skills …

Boston-area hospitals see more than 100 workers test positive for coronavirus

March 26, 2020 / By Louis Casiano | Fox News More than 100 employees at Boston-area hospitals have tested positive for the coronavirus, Fox News has learned. The employees who tested positive work at three hospitals. Brigham and Women’s Hospital had 45 staff members test positive for COVID-19; Massachusetts General Hospital had 41, and 15 workers at the Boston Medical Center …

UnitedHealth Group To Roll Out Coronavirus Test To 46,000 Doctors

March 26, 2020 / Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor UnitedHealth Group will roll out a patient-administered test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 to 46,000 of its OptumCare physicians. The nation’s largest health insurer, which owns the giant Optum health services company, has under its umbrella 46,000 OptumCare physicians who can provide a patient-administered test process UnitedHealth executives say is as …

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