MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 medtech stories for February 5, 2016
Say hello to MassDevice +3, a bite-sized view of the top three medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 3 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.   3. Dehaier restructures to focus on wearables China’s Dehaier Medical Systems said that it plans to ditch its unprofitable medical device businesses so it can focus on its wearable sleep respiratory business. Dehaier said it plans to form a new subsidiary called Connection Wearable Health T...
Source: Mass Device - February 5, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 3 Source Type: news

Secondary offering could drum up $1.1B for Zimmer Biomet shareholders
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) said today that an 11 million-share secondary offering by some of its shareholders could drum up nearly $1.1 billion. The Warsaw, Ind.-based orthopedics titan said affiliates of hedge fund Blackstone and investment bank Goldman Sachs are selling shares at $96.45 apiece. ZBH shares slid -1.6% to $95.99 apiece in pre-market trading today, after posting a $97.51 close yesterday. The offering is expected to close Feb. 10. Zimmer Biomet said it plans to buy $250 million worth its shares when the offering closes from underwriter Barclays Capital at the weighted average price Barclay’s pays to B...
Source: Mass Device - February 5, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Orthopedics Wall Street Beat Source Type: news

Nigeria: HIV-Mad Cow-Ebola-Lassa-Zika
[Daily Trust] When I was growing up in Sokoto in the early 1970s, a dishevelled local musician called Shu'aibu Tsamaye used to go from house to house, with a kalangu drum slung on his shoulder, playing his popular tunes. Shu'aibu's best known tunes were about drug addiction which in those days mostly involved kwaya [amphetamines], kapso [capsules], roka [rocket] and aisin [ICD]. He also had a popular song about the Udoji salary awards.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - February 1, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Hospice Is Allowing My Father-In-Law To Die With Dignity
Hospice. How do you envision it? It has become more common, it seems. Or maybe it only seems that way because we are becoming the caregivers for our elderly parents. My father-in-law is now in hospice care and, in a strange way, I feel better about his situation knowing that he'll be allowed to die with dignity. Let's face it, no matter how you cut it, when you go to a 'senior village' -- or in his case a 'senior high-rise' -- the chances are good you're never moving again. It starts out in your own place with total freedom to come and go. Keep up with your friends, invite them over, continue as you always had. But we all ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Deep Purple are 2016 Rock Hall of Fame Inductees
From Rock Hall in Cleveland, Ohio:If there were a “Mount Rushmore Of Hard Rock” it would only have three heads: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Deep Purple combined outstanding musicianship with dozens of FM radio smashes. Three separate incarnations of the band have made spectacular albums culminating with Deep Purple In Rock, which along with Led Zeppelin II and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid created the genre of hard rock music. Deep Purple have sold over 100 million albums and their flagship track “Smoke On The Water” eclipses “Satisfaction,” “Born To Run” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as t...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - December 17, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Deep Purple Source Type: news

MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 medtech stories for December 16, 2015
Say hello to MassDevice +3, a bite-sized view of the top three medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 3 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.   3. Ex-GC sues Bio-Rad, alleging retaliation for blowing the whistle The former general counsel for Bio-Rad accused the company and CEO Norman Schwartz of firing him in retaliation for blowing the whistle on alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in China. Sanford Wadler, who was ...
Source: Mass Device - December 16, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 3 Source Type: news

Ex-GC sues Bio-Rad, alleging retaliation for blowing the whistle
The former general counsel for Bio-Rad (NYSE:BIO) accused the company and CEO Norman Schwartz of firing him in retaliation for blowing the whistle on alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in China. Sanford Wadler, who was general counsel and executive vice president when Bio-Rad sacked him in June 2013, alleged that he was fired right before the company was slated to present findings from its investigation into bribery in Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. Bio-Rad later agreed to a $55 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Dept. and the Securities & Exchange Commission, which found that it paid $7.5 ...
Source: Mass Device - December 16, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Legal News Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Bio-Rad Source Type: news

Car-aoke: vocal performances indicate distraction effects of in-car music - Brodsky W, Ziv M.
Drivers engage in a host of driving-unrelated tasks while on the road. Most frequently, drivers listen to music and sing-along with the words in a karaoke fashion. At times drivers accompany songs by pounding-out drum-kicks, fingering guitar-licks, singing...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Announcing the Category Winners of Hysteria 2015
Ta da …. drum roll please … it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally announce the overall category winners of the Hysteria 2015 Writing Competition. Their wins are very well deserved and perfectly capture some simple insights into the lives of women today. Short Story category – Shauna MacKay with No Odysseus Flash Fiction category – Gayle Letherby with He Loves Me, Not Poetry category – Sue Spiers with The Weight of Glass Sue has already given us an interview and our two remaining winners will do so in the coming weeks. And I can now reveal properly the cover for Hysteria 4 – ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - December 1, 2015 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Hysteria hysteria 2015 Source Type: news

Sheps: N.C. does not face a statewide shortage of doctors
You’ve heard it before: The nation faces a physician shortage. It’s a drum groups like Association of American Medical Colleges have been banging for years. It doesn’t paint an accurate picture, and hampers any forward progress toward a solution for the real problem: A physician distribution problem, both in geography and in specialty. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research produces annual physician workforce data books which clearly show a maldistribution of physicians that negatively…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - November 27, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jason deBruyn Source Type: news

Thanksgiving Weekend Can Be Very Deadly
By now, you've probably had your fill of "Black Friday." The day retailers typically make it into the black has really become more of a figurative, rather than literal, day. Depending on the store or the online site, Black Friday is more a theme for the month of November, rather than a single 24-hour period. All the marketing hype does succeed in doing one thing though: obscuring the fact that Thanksgiving is the deadliest holiday of the year. You read that right. More people die in drunk driving accidents on Thanksgiving than they do on Memorial Day, Fourth of July or even New Year's Eve. In fact, Thanksgiving is actually...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Obstetric and psychosocial risk factors for Australian-born and non-Australian born women and associated pregnancy and birth outcomes: a population based cohort study - Dahlen HG, Barnett B, Kohlhoff J, Drum ME, Munoz AM, Thornton C.
BACKGROUND: One in four Australians is born overseas and 47 % are either born overseas or have a parent who was. Obstetric and psychosocial risk factors for these women may differ. METHOD: Data from one Sydney hospital (2012-2013) of all births re...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news

Massive mysterious spring die-off kills more than 50 percent of the global population of saiga in two weeks
Saiga suffered a massive die-off during the calving season. In the short period of only two weeks, more than half the world population was found dead, the bodies of adults and young calves scattered across the spring grassland in the thousands. A disease is suspected, perhaps coupled with external factors from vegetation or changes in weather; but despite an immediate response and intense study, the exact cause still remains a mystery.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 7, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

For former professional drummer Robin Russell, no gig tops Griffith Park
For 14 years now, sometimes three times a week, Robin Russell has gotten up around 3 a.m. and driven his maroon van from Pasadena to the same spot in Griffith Park, not far from the zoo. In the dark, he rakes out a small clearing under an oak tree, unpacks a six-piece drum kit and sets up, everything...
Source: L.A. Times - Health - November 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mary MacVean Source Type: news

Healing through music
The last time I had a mammogram, I got a big surprise — and it was a good one. A string quartet was playing just outside the doors of the breast imaging center, and my thoughts immediately shifted from “What are they going to find on the mammogram?” to “Is that Schubert, or Beethoven?” By the time my name was called, I had almost forgotten why I was there. The unexpected concert was the work of Holly Chartrand and Lorrie Kubicek, music therapists and co-coordinators of the Environmental Music Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. But bringing music to hospital corridors is just a sideline for music therapist...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beverly Merz Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Pain Management Surgery Source Type: news

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