(0) Echosens, a high-technology company offering the FibroScan family of products, announces the appointment of Jo Massoels as chief marketing officer, bringing to Echosens significant expertise in the medical equipment sector that will be leveraged to expand the market development strategy for the FibroScan suite of products and services. In this position, which includes oversight of medical affairs and support for physicians in the assessment and management of patients with chronic liver disease, Massoels draws upon his experience as former vice president, Global Marketing Solutions, at Dentsply Sirona, a leading dental equipment and supplies manufacturing company.
Dominique Legros, Group CEO, Echosens, welcomes Massoels to the leadership team, saying, Jo has a successful track record for developing business opportunities and transforming digital operations, and he will play a key role in defining and implementing strategies that propel us toward new levels of global succes
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Covid review: not all our predictions were wrong
One year into the pandemic, we still have so many questions. Here in Geneva, we can put those questions to world leaders in public health.
This content was published on February 9, 2021 - 15:00
February 9, 2021 - 15:00
Imogen Foulkes
When can we get vaccinated? When can we meet friends again? When, oh when, will this virus give up?
It’s been interesting, reporting on Covid-19 over the last 12 months, to re-assess some of their answers one year on.
In this week’s episode of our podcast, Inside Geneva, I take a look back at interviews conducted almost exactly a year ago with the WHO’s Margaret Harris, and with Vinh Kim Nguyen, an emergency doctor with MSF who is also co-director of Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Health Centre.
Highlights
Kajal Aggarwal was diagnosed with Bronchial Asthma at the age of five.
Bronchial asthma is a respiratory disease that causes inflammation in the airways and leads to coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath.
Using an inhaler provides relief to patients.
However, there is a stigma attached to using inhalers.
New Delhi: In an Instagram post South actress Kajal Aggarwal opened up on her battle from Bronchial Asthma. She shared that she contracted the disease at the tender age of five. “Every travel, winter, or every time I was exposed to any sort of dust or smoke, something that’s prevalent in our country, my symptoms flared up. In order to deal with such things in the best possible way, I started using inhalers. And I noticed a change almost instantly,” she wrote.