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Coronavirus pandemic: Updates from around the world

June 11, 2020 / By Steve George, Joshua Berlinger, Laura Smith-Spark, Peter Wilkinson, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes and Meg Wagner, CNN CDC team to visit Arkansas to assist with containment of Covid-19 in Latino community From CNN’s Janine Mack A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team is scheduled to arrive Friday in Northwest Arkansas, said Dr. Nate Smith …

Zimmer Biomet Announces Quarterly Dividend for Second Quarter of 2020

WARSAW, Ind., June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a quarterly cash dividend to stockholders for the second quarter of 2020. The cash dividend of $0.24 per share is payable on July 31, 2020 to stockholders of record as …

Amy Acton, Ohio’s embattled health director, resigns amid COVID-19 crisis

June 11, 2020 / By Meredith Deliso Ohio Health Director Dr. Amy Acton has resigned, effectively immediately, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday. The public health official became a lauded national figure during the coronavirus pandemic, but has also faced challenges to her authority. During his daily coronavirus briefing, DeWine said Acton told him this week it was “time for …

Coronavirus Live Updates: Markets Suffer Sharpest Drop in Months Amid Grim Forecasts and Rise in Cases

June 11, 2020 Arizona, one of the U.S. states that began reopening earliest, is emerging as a hot spot. Known cases in Africa doubled in the last 18 days. RIGHT NOW – The S&P 500 plunged nearly 6 percent, its sharpest decline in three months, as grim forecasts and new virus cases pierced Wall Street’s …

Polio vaccine could give temporary protection against COVID-19, scientists hope

June 11, 2020 / By Kaitlin Sullivan As the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, some scientists are proposing that existing vaccines could give the body’s immune system a much-needed temporary boost to stave off infection. It’s still unclear whether such an approach would work, and some experts are skeptical. Others — including researchers in Israel, the Netherlands and Australia — …

Covid-19 Patient Gets Double Lung Transplant, Offering Hope for Others

June 11, 2020 / By Denise Grady A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital reported on Thursday, the first known lung transplant in the United States for Covid-19. The 10-hour surgery was more difficult and took several hours …

First Augmented Reality Spine Surgery Using FDA-Cleared Augmedics xvision™ Spine System Completed in U.S.

CHICAGO, June 11, 2020 – Augmedics, a pioneer in augmented reality surgical image guidance, has announced its groundbreaking xvision Spine System has been successfully used for the first time in a spinal fusion surgery in the United States.  The system was used in a spinal surgery procedure by Johns Hopkins University surgeons. xvision, the first …

OrthoGrid Systems Completes First Successful Testing of AI-Powered Software for Orthopedic Trauma in Live Surgery

SALT LAKE CITY, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — OrthoGrid Systems, Inc., a global medtech company specializing in intraoperative surgical applications that aim to digitally transform orthopedic surgery, announces the first successful testing of its AI-powered software solution in live trauma surgery at University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas, NV. OrthoGrid set out to demonstrate that AI has an …

Potato, Potahto: Different Things Heighten Risk of Reoperation in Women and Men After TKA

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. There’s no way around it…there are definitely modifiable risk factors when it comes to reoperation following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). A new study in the June 1, 2020 edition of The Journal of Arthroplasty, “Gender Differences in Contribution of Smoking, Low Physical Activity, and High BMI to Increased Risk of …

J&J Healthy Workforce Program: Bringing Purpose and Productivity to Life

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Think of the last time you dragged yourself to the office after a rough night’s sleep. Wait … that was in a pre-COVID-19 world. Instead, you might be dragging yourself to your dining table to work. Now more than ever, it takes energy to work. It takes lots of energy …

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