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Precision Spine® Launches Nationally the Reform® MC (Midline Cortical) Posterior Lumbar Fusion System Designed to Reduce Muscle Disruption

April 20, 2020  PARSIPPANY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Precision Spine, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to Made-in-the-USA manufacturing, has nationally launched the Reform® MC (Midline Cortical) System, which utilizes a minimally disruptive approach designed to reduce muscle retraction laterally past the facet joint, and requires a smaller incision while maintaining direct visualization and access to the disc space. The …

Are More Stimulus Payments On The Way? 4 Things To Know About New Stimulus Proposal

April 20, 2020 / Kelly Anne Smith, Forbes Staff Could more stimulus payments be on the way? That’s what some lawmakers are aiming for. Representatives Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Tim Ryan (D-OH) have introduced a proposal to provide additional monetary relief to Americans.  The legislation, titled the Emergency Money for the People Act, expands who is eligible for …

New York coronavirus deaths hit lowest number in weeks, but it’s ‘still horrifically high,’ Cuomo says

April 20, 2020 / By Greg Norman | Fox News New York state reported 478 new coronavirus deaths Monday in what is its lowest daily number since the beginning of April, but the number is “still horrifically high,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. The announcement comes as New York has seen a decrease in hospitalizations for a seventh consecutive day. The state’s overall coronavirus death toll is now at 14,347 – and hit …

Conformis Receives $4.7 Million under the Paycheck Protection Program

BILLERICA, Mass., April 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Conformis, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFMS) today announced that on April 17, 2020 the Company entered into a $4,719,800 promissory note with East West Bank (NASDAQ:EWBC) under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) to mitigate the negative financial and operational impacts of the coronavirus …

Begging for Thermometers, Body Bags, and Gowns: U.S. Health Care Workers Are Dangerously Ill-Equipped to Fight COVID-19

April 20, 2020 / BY ZOË SCHLANGER  As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the U.S., health care facilities nationwide are contending with an increasing crush of patients, and growing more and more desperate for the tools they need to protect themselves from catching and spreading the virus that causes it. A portrait …

Tracking The Pandemic: How Quickly Is The Coronavirus Spreading State By State?

April 19, 2020 / ELENA RENKEN, DANIEL WOOD Since the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the United States on Jan. 21, over a half-million people in the U.S. have confirmed cases of COVID-19. On April 12, the U.S. became the nation with the most deaths globally, but there are early signs that the U.S. …

Ex-FDA chief says U.S. not likely to have broad-based coronavirus testing until September

April 20, 2020 / By Rebecca Shabad WASHINGTON — Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Monday that the U.S. most likely won’t have broad-based coronavirus testing in place until September. “We’re not going to be there. We’re not going to be there in May, we’re not going to be there in June, hopefully we’ll be there by September,” …

Partners HealthCare launches COVID-19 biobank with samples from Biogen employees

April 19, 2020 / Modern Healthcare Partners HealthCare has formed a consortium to build a COVID-19 biobank with blood samples from employees of biotech company Biogen and their families. The biobank will collect de-identified blood samples and medical data from volunteering Biogen employees who contracted and have recovered from COVID-19, as well as their family members and close …

CMS details how hospitals can reopen as COVID-19 surge passes

April 19, 2020 / ERICA TEICHERT The CMS on Sunday released guidelines for hospitals to restart elective surgeries while maintaining their ability to treat COVID-19 patients. As state governments begin to look past the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, several have released phased plans for reopening businesses and workplaces and lifting stay-at-home orders. Hospitals will have to …

‘Medication I can’t live without’: Lupus patients struggle to get hydroxychloroquine, in demand for COVID-19

April 18, 2020 / Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY When Aimee Blou heard the lupus drug she has relied on for more than a decade promoted as a coronavirus antidote, she visited her pharmacist. The 40-year-old woman from Stockton, California, was told the decades-old antimalarial drug commonly prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis was in short supply. She …

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