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‘A death sentence’: Critically ill patients denied transplants amid coronavirus outbreak

March 18, 2020 / By Mike Hixenbaugh From the moment of his birth in 1987, Zach Branson has struggled with a rare disease that causes bile to back up in his body, slowly devastating his liver. Doctors operated when he was a newborn, but they told his parents that the surgery could only delay the disease’s …

Physician practices modify operations to cope with COVID-19

March 17, 2020 / Maria Castellucci and Harris Meyer Beginning Tuesday, staff at Indiana University Health Physicians are calling patients with scheduled appointments for routine care to come in at a later date, many being scheduled six weeks out. The decision is one of many IU Health Physicians has made over the last 10 days …

Precision Spine® Launches Nationally the SureLOK™ MIS 3L Percutaneous Screw System Offering Surgeons Outstanding Versatility and Flexibility

March 18, 2020 PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Precision Spine, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to Made-in-the-USA manufacturing, has nationally launched the SureLOK MIS 3L Percutaneous Screw System, which provides spine surgeons with outstanding versatility and flexibility in terms of procedural approaches and application of its various components. “The inherent versatility of the SureLOK MIS 3L System …

Amplitude Surgical: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Amplitude Surgical’s Activity

March 18, 2020 VALENCE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Amplitude Surgical (Paris:AMPLI) (ISIN: FR0012789667, Ticker: AMPLI, eligible for PEA-PME plans) (“Amplitude” or the “Group”), French leader on the global surgical technology market for lower-limb orthopedics, announces the decisions taken by the Group Senior Management following the COVID-19 pandemic and the decisions of European governments. In the last …

Doctors, hospitals, nurses seek $1 billion to combat COVID-19

March 17, 2020 / Kevin B. O’Reilly, News Editor, AMA What’s the news: Congress must ensure that its next COVID-19 economic stimulus package includes $1 billion to ensure that “hospitals, health systems, physicians and nurses are viable and directly supported for preparedness and response.” In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch …

During COVID-19, experts outline 5 key steps for finding extra hospital capacity

March 16, 2020 / Susan Dentzer, Dr. Peter Viccellio and Eugene Litvak Susan Dentzer is senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Washington, D.C.; Dr. Peter Viccellio is a professor of emergency medicine at Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine; and Eugene Litvak is CEO of the not-for-profit Institute for Healthcare Optimization and an …

Trump to boost medical supply production for COVID-19

March 18, 2020 / MICHAEL BRADY  The Trump administration on Wednesday said it would invoke the Defense Production Act to increase the domestic production of medical supplies necessary for fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The Defense Production Act gives the executive branch a wide range of powers to influence the nation’s industrial base for national defense, including the production …

Who gets a ventilator? Hospitals facing coronavirus surge are preparing for life-or-death decisions

March 18, 2020 / By Suzy Khimm Amid growing fears that the United States could face a shortage of ventilators for coronavirus patients, state officials and hospitals are quietly preparing to make excruciating decisions about how they would ration lifesaving care. The plans may not be necessary, as officials are scrambling to secure more ventilators, which can make the difference …

Surgeons Connecting on COVID-19 Via OrthoSpineNews

In an effort to create space for physicians and orthopedic industry professionals to connect during these times of relative isolation, OrthoSpine Partners is using its publication, OrthoSpineNews, to bring orthopedic surgeons together.  “We want to facilitate the sharing of information on how various orthopedic surgeons and manufacturers are handling the severe direct and indirect impacts …

What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.

March 16, 2020 / By Robert P. Baird On February 5th, sixteen days after a Seattle resident who had visited relatives in Wuhan, China, was diagnosed as having the first confirmed case of covid-19 in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, began sending diagnostic tests to a network of about a hundred state, …

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