March 18, 2020 – by Howard J. Luks, MD “EVERYTHING WE DO BEFORE A PANDEMIC WILL SEEM ALARMIST. EVERYTHING WE DO AFTER WILL SEEM INADEQUATE” – Michael Leavitt Why are we writing this? The COVID-19 pandemic has reached a point where containment is no longer possible. The COVID-19 threat is real, and rapidly getting worse. …
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MARCH 17, 2020 – By NANCY CROTTI One thing is likely to hurt some medtech companies more than others during the coronavirus pandemic: an elective surgical procedure slowdown. This thought had begun to emerge last week among industry watchers, but a pair of tweets over the weekend gained thousands of “likes” and retweets. The American College of …
Mar 5, 2020 – By Carrigan Miller Businesses are starting to take action to contain the spread of COVID-19 on their own, whether or not they get direction or support from federal and state governments, said former Medtronic CEO Bill George Thursday morning in an interview on CNBC. “The only strategy we have right now is containment, and that means …
March 17, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn joined a special meeting of AdvaMed’s Board of Directors today to discuss how the medical technology industry and FDA can continue their work together to ensure patients and health care providers have the medical equipment they need to address the COVID-19 pandemic. “I …
Written by Angie Stewart | March 12, 2020 A Stryker employee “has reason to be tested for” COVID-19, the company confirmed March 11 to CBS affiliate WWMT. The employee who may have contracted COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, visited a Stryker location in Portage, Mich. A small group of people who were in contact with the person …
MARCH 17, 2020 – By SEAN WHOOLEY Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) issued an urgent field safety notice in Europe to warn on certain StageOne and StageOne Select bone cement spacer molds due to potentially insufficient cleaning and monitoring. According to the notice, certain devices may have undergone an insufficient cleaning process or were subject to potentially inadequate process monitoring for …
March 17, 2020 AMA: Medicare Policy Change on Telemedicine Enhances Nation’s Digital Health Care Capacity. Statement Attributed To Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A., President, American Medical Association. “Administrator Verma took strong steps today to enhance the nation’s digital health care capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic by lifting Medicare restrictions on the use of certain telemedicine …
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The American Red Cross now faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Healthy individuals are needed now to donate to help patients counting on lifesaving blood. Individuals can schedule an appointment to give blood with the American Red Cross by …
March 17, 2020 SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Molecular diagnostics company XCR Diagnostics has successfully completed the verification and validation of its XCR® COVID-19 assay and can now petition the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). The company’s faster COVID-19 test leverages its patented rapid chemistry format to enable laboratories to double or even triple …
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