Adventist Health Sonora Recognized with Performance Excellence Awards

July 27, 2018
The Pine Tree

This week the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) announced that Adventist Health Sonora is being recognized with Performance Excellence Awards for Best Performance in Preventing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers and Best Performance in Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections – MRSA Total Facility.

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How to recognize Type II diabetes

July 27, 2018
Jackson Sun

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more common than Type 1 diabetes (T1D) with about 90 to 95 percent of people with diabetes having T2D. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s report, 30.3 million Americans, or 9.4% of the U.S. population have diabetes. More alarming, an estimated 84 million more American adults have prediabetes, which if not treated, will advance to diabetes within five years.

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Bioengineer Has Designs on Creating Smart Adhesives for Human Tissue

July 27, 2018
The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Taylor Ware, assistant professor of bioengineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The highly selective grant supports early career researchers who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar and offers an opportunity for junior faculty to jump-start independent research.

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Spider silk could be used to create artificial skin to help heal wounds

July 27, 2018
WBRC

Unless your name is Peter Parker, you may not be aware of quite how versatile spider silk is as a material. In fact, aside from spinning webs, spider silk can also be used for a plethora of applications — from improving the quality of microphones in hearing aids to forming incredibly strong-yet-lightweight shields to forming microcapsules for delivering anti-cancer vaccines.

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Osiris Announces Enrollment of Patients in a Clinical Trial Evaluating GrafixPL PRIME™ in the Treatment of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers

July 27, 2018
Global Newswire

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Pink:OSIR), a regenerative medicine company focused on developing and marketing products for wound care, orthopedics, and sports medicine, announced the initiation of its “Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Open-Label Study with a Crossover Extension Option to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of GrafixPL PRIME™ in the Treatment of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers.”

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Halifax long-term care facility boasts one of the lowest bedsore rates in the country

July 27, 2018
CBC

Prevention is key when it comes to bedsores. That’s how one long-term care facility in Halifax said it reduced the bedsore prevalence rate from 12 per cent to 1.9 per cent in six years. The wound care team at Northwood changed its focus from treating pressure injuries, commonly known as bedsores, to preventing them with a risk-assessment tool, monitoring and the use of a range of prevention products.

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KCI Expands Offering of Next Generation Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Dressing

July 27, 2018
BioSpace

KCI, an Acelity Company, today announced the launch of the V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE™ Large Dressing designed for use with V.A.C. VERAFLO™ Therapy to cleanse larger wounds with thick, fibrous exudate and infectious material such as slough, and may be used on patients when surgical debridement must be delayed or is not possible or appropriate.

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Now that’s a bright idea! The beam of light that heals bed sores and ulcers

July 27, 2018
Daily Mail

Light therapy is increasingly being used to treat medical conditions such as skin complaints and pain, and now British doctors are harnessing it to treat chronic wounds such as ulcers and bed sores. Phototherapy, as it’s called, usually involves using a single wavelength of light that has been identified as having a particular property.

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TMC Wound Care Center recognized for continued quality

July 27, 2018
North Texas e-News

Texoma Medical Center physicians, leaders, patients and staff will gather at the TMC Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine on Monday, July 16 at 4:00 p.m. to celebrate the Center of Distinction Award that will be presented by representatives of Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.

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