IOWA CITY - Just four years after University of Iowa Health Care opened its 14-story, $392.7 million Stead Family Children s Hospital - and after design changes and cost overruns pushed the project $122 million over budget - the hospital is asking to spend another $10 million to $15 million to replace two floors of windows.
Published: Mar 17, 2021
Increasing preference for non-invasive surgical procedures will remain a key factor driving product development and commercialization in the operating room equipment market for the foreseeable future.
Fact.MR, Dubai: Market research company Fact.MR’s ongoing operating room equipment market study has estimated strong growth in the coming decade, driven by increased emphasis being placed on sterile patient care environment. The covid-19 pandemic has generated significant growth opportunities in the industry owing to growing demand in severe cases through the crisis.
The global healthcare sector is witnessing a transition from invasive to minimally invasive, and noninvasive procedures. Minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery, image-guided procedures, and remote-surgery are expected to increasingly replace conventional surgical procedures.
Back in the early 2000s, in an unassuming lab at the heart of the University of Iowa Health Care campus, researchers Stanley Perlman and Paul McCray embarked on the low-profile work of making a genetically-modified mouse capable of contracting SARS - a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by a coronavirus spreading at the time.
As temperatures started dropping last fall, local health experts were extremely worried that the coming flu season might only compound the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeff Wood Jeff Wood has been named regional director of laboratories for the Saint Alphonsus Health System. He will be responsible for all aspects of laboratory operations across Idaho and Oregon and play a role in the health system’s COVID-19 testing strategy and operations implementation. He comes to Saint Alphonsus after working as area operations manager for the Idaho and Eastern Washington regions for Numotion in Meridian. He also has more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles for Interpath Laboratory in Pendleton, Oregon, leading more than 20 lab managers and 300 employees in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska. A graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in medical technology, Wood was raised in Oregon and moved to the Treasure Valley three years ago. Robert Saeid Farivar Also, Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar M.D., Ph.D., the first heart surgeon in the United States to perform a Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement procedure, has been named medical director