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Climate-Controlled Field Hospitals

Climate-Controlled Field Hospitals: Protecting Patients in Extreme Environments

Climate-controlled field hospitals have emerged as critical innovations in humanitarian response, military operations, and disaster relief efforts. These sophisticated temporary facilities enable healthcare delivery in environments where temperatures soar above 120°F or plummet below freezing, where sandstorms rage, or where monsoon rains threaten to wash away conventional tents.

Workplace Safety in the Healthcare Industry

How Technology Enhances Workplace Safety in the Healthcare Industry

Medical professionals are five times more likely to experience violence than employees in other industries. The most common victims are nurses and physicians working in high-stress environments such as hospitals and emergency rooms. But the problem isn’t constrained to hospital settings. It happens in doctors’ offices, maternity units, and long-term care facilities.

Clinical Trials

New Studies Validate the Value of Brainomix AI Technology Across US Stroke Networks

The latest research, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, West Virginia University, and Boston Medical Center, highlighted some of the cutting-edge, AI-enabled technology that the Oxford-based company has developed within its pipeline for the Brainomix 360 Stroke platform, representing groundbreaking capabilities that will enable physicians to extract maximal value from universally available non-contrast CT scans across stroke networks.

Teva Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi Announce Accelerated Timeline for Anti-TL1A Phase 2b Program in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Patient enrollment in the RELIEVE UCCD (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease) Phase 2b trial has completed early due to significant acceleration in patient recruitment. As a result, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi now anticipate having topline results for both UC and CD in Q4 2024, and detailed results will be presented in a scientific forum in 2025. This adjustment replaces the previously planned interim analysis for the second half of 2024, which will not be conducted. Teva and Sanofi are collaborating to co-develop and co-commercialize duvakitug for moderate-to-severe UC and CD patients.

Biotechnology News

BD

BD Announces New Robotics Solution to Automate, Standardize Single-Cell Research

The automated solution from the BD and Hamilton collaboration standardizes traditionally manual processes and speeds the generation of material for genetic sequencing. The solution includes the newly released BD® OMICS-One XT WTA Assay and the Hamilton® Microlab™ NGS STAR automated liquid handling platform. Because the NGS STAR is already installed in many laboratories and facilities worldwide, more researchers, processing samples across an array of genomics applications, can easily integrate the new automation-ready BD® assay into existing workflows.

New Project Will Enable Rapid Detection of Staphylococcus Bacteria & Create a New Bio-based Disinfectant to Reduce Hospital-acquired Infections

Early detection of nosocomial infections and effective disinfection of hospitals and healthcare centres are key to reducing these figures, but the methods currently used have their limitations. Hence the creation of the NOSOSENS Project, which is working on a new bio-based disinfectant designed to eliminate the main pathogens on a new, flexible and portable biosensor platform. It uses printed electrochemical sensors for rapid, selective detection of Staphylococcus aureus, which is resistant to methicillin and responsible for 11% of nosocomial infections.

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Radiology’s Looming Labor Gap

Radiology’s Looming Labor Gap: How Emerging Technology Can Address this Labor Shortage and Better Serve Providers, Patients and Health Systems | By Evan Ruff, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, OXOS Medical

Within two years, the U.S. will have a shortage of 98,700 medical and lab technologists and more than 80% of health systems are currently reporting shortages in their radiology departments. More than half of the radiologists in the U.S. are 55 and older, and the flow of residents to fill the gap isn’t nearly big enough. The staffing shortage is even more acute among radiation technologists and in the U.K., 97% of radiology departments cannot meet diagnostic reporting requirements.

Shunt in the Heart

A Lifesaving Shunt in the Heart? | By Dr Sheldon Litwin

Dr. Litwin advises, “Approximately 60 study sites worldwide are participating in RESPONDER-HF, a randomized clinical trial of the Corvia Atrial Shunt.” What to know more about this life-saving device? Read what this expert has to say.

Executives on the Move

FDA Medical Device Updates

Comprehensive Insights into Medical Device & Biotechnology Company Mergers, Acquisitions & Funding

Nektar Therapeutics Announces $30 Million Private Placement Financing with TCGX

Howard Robin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nektar Therapeutics: “We are pleased to bring on TCGX as a new high-quality, long-term investor in Nektar as we advance rezpegaldesleukin through our Phase 2b studies in atopic dermatitis and alopecia areata. We are on track to report topline data from these studies in the first half of 2025, which will represent significant inflection points for Nektar. Today’s financing further bolsters our financial position and extends the company’s cash runway well into the third quarter of 2026.”

MMI Raises $110 Million in Series C Financing

MMI notes the funds will support commercialization of the Symani® Surgical System in high-growth markets and continued investment in studies that generate clinical evidence and enable indication expansion. Investments will also accelerate advanced technology capabilities and enable MMI to scale its operational capabilities globally.

Market Reports

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Non-Profit News

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Healthcare Careers

Nurses Corner

Why Continuing Nursing Education Matter

Why Continuing Nursing Education Matter

Continuing nursing education is a process for nurses who have already obtained a degree in nursing to keep up-to-date on their skills and knowledge. Nurses

4 Ways Nurses Can Ease Patient Anxiety

4 Ways Nurses Can Ease Patient Anxiety

It’s very common for people to experience severe anxiety whenever they are in a hospital, and rightfully so. If a person gets admitted to the

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