BioSpace News Archive

Genetown

This Week’s MassINC/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Tracking Poll Finds Swift Changes in Public Behavior During Coronavirus Crisis

A tracking poll finds Massachusetts residents are rapidly changing social and shopping habits, amid increasing concern about the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

March 25, 2020
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SUSE Offers Free Operating System and Container Technologies to Medical Device Manufacturers Fighting COVID-19

SUSE®, the world’s largest independent open source software company, has made a commitment to help all organizations that are producing medical devices to fight COVID-19

March 25, 2020
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Policy

AANP Applauds Administration Call to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic by Expanding Access to NP-Provided Care

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners®, the largest association of nurse practitioners of all specialties, applauds the Administration’s actions to expand access to nurse practitioner care and other health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 25, 2020
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Policy

AAHRPP Accredits Three More Research Organizations, Including First in Australia and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs announced that it has awarded accreditation to its first organization in Australia, a second U.S. Department of Defense entity and one of the largest hospitals in Taiwan.

March 25, 2020
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Early-life hardship linked to decline in memory and thinking

Researchers have found that early-life adversity can have long-term effects on people’s memory and thinking in later life.

March 25, 2020
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Study Uncovers Increasing Global Rates of Liver Cancer

New research reveals rising rates of liver cancer around the world, despite advances aimed at preventing the disease. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS).

March 25, 2020
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Therapy Brands Sees Over 4,300 Percent Increase in Telehealth Use in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic

SaaS platform innovations and advances designed to aid therapists during outbreak

March 25, 2020
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MedinCell Receives $ 6.4 Million Grant From Unitaid to Fight Malaria

Malaria remains pandemic in 91 countries representing 50% of the world’s population. According to WHO estimates, 228 million people were infected worldwide in 2018, 93% of them in Africa, leading to 405,000 deaths. Children under 5 years are the most vulnerable., accounting for 67% of deaths from malaria.

March 25, 2020
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BioMidwest

Serta Simmons Bedding to Donate 10,000 Mattresses to New York Hospitals

Serta Simmons Bedding, the nation’s largest bedding manufacturer, will donate 10,000 mattresses to New York City hospitals and temporary medical facilities fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is calling on its peers to do the same.

March 25, 2020
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Business

ADS Biotec in Partnership With Kurabo (Japan) Launches SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Detection Kit for COVID-19

Two types of kits (IgM and IgG) offer easy to use test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, providing qualitative indication for COVID-19 within 15 minutes.

March 25, 2020
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