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Device and pharmaceutical company Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (Vancouver, British Columbia) has made good on what it promised early last year: to file for FDA clearance of its anti-infective 5-Fluorouracil-coated (5-FU) Central Venous Catheter (CVC) before year's end.
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Stem cells where to get them and how to grow them into the right cell type have gotten much of the attention in the quest for making organs for transplantation. But getting any sort of tissue is not in itself enough: to grow an organ, the right cell types need to grow into the proper shape.
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Israel has provided fertile soil for developing a broad range of medical technologies. The reasons are probably several-fold but two of them stand out: Israel is an inherently entrepreneurial culture, given the everyday risk-taking required to live there; and the country has a disproportionately high percentage of physicians, often with innovative ideas that can be turned into commercializable products.
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While the Jarvik 7 is generally considered to be the first artificial heart, it was not the first design for such a device.
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The time-to-triage in the two very busy EDs in the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta system has been cut in half in less than a year through a process improvement initiative that eliminated several steps in the initial assessment.
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New receiving processes, a new team structure, and zone divisions in the ED at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, NC, have enabled the hospital to cut triage time in half, according to Linda K. Dietterich, RN, MS, CEN, CAN, service line director for the ED.
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One year ago, the waiting room situation in the ED at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, NC, was "a sinking ship," according to John Reid, MD, chairman of emergency services.
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A new study published online by the journal Health Affairs had some sobering, though perhaps not surprising, news for ED managers. Between 1997 and 2004, waits increased 36% (from 22 to 30 minutes, on average) for the more than 90,000 ED patients whose records the researchers reviewed.
