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Optimize Your Facebook Profile for Job Searching

LinkedIn isn’t the only social network for job searching. If you are like most people, you spend more time on Facebook than LinkedIn, so why not fix your Facebook profile to get it job-search ready? Use your “Intro” section wisely....

July 14, 2016

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The Three Day Interview

Companies pay our firm a lot of money to uncover, interview, and recruit the right talent for their companies. So, it would make sense that hiring for our company would reflect the perfect storm of employees where there is minimal...

July 13, 2016

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

FDA Approval for Polymer Molding in Medical Devices 101 

The recent FDA approval of Abbott’s Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) System is designed with a poly(L-lactide) polymer to fully dissolve in the patient’s body over about three years. Another FDA-approved offering in the coronary stent market is Boston Scientific’s...

July 13, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Mazor Robotics Set to Receive $20M Investment from Medtronic

Medtronic PLC is preparing to invest another $20 million in Israeli med-tech company Mazor Robotics, which is expected on Tuesday to announce a new robotically assisted spine-surgery system called Mazor X. Analysts say physician interest in robotically assisted surgical tools...

July 12, 2016

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Versa Capital Sets Their Eyes on SynCardia Systems, Creator of the Only FDA-approved Artificial Heart 

Artificial heart maker SynCardia Systems has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization with plans to sell all of its assets to a Philadelphia-based private-equity firm, according to reports in the Arizona Daily Star . Tucson-based SynCardia, maker of the world’s...

July 8, 2016

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

2.4 Million People Have a Congenital Heart Defects

An estimated 2.4 million people in the U.S. were living with congenital heart defects in 2010, a 40 percent increase from 2000, according to a recent analysis. Of those 2.4 million, 1.4 million were adults and 1 million were children....

July 8, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Have Researchers Figured Out What Causes Migraines?

A new study suggests that migraines are mostly caused by problems with the blood supply system, and the findings could help inform future research and treatments for the disorder. The research, published by the International Headache Genetics Consortium (IHGC), could...

July 8, 2016

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My really BAD “How to Get a Job” YouTube Videos from 2009 got 88,031 views. Last chance to learn (& laugh) before they are replaced by shiny new ones. 

Disclaimer: There are a ton of really cringe-worthy photos of me on this page. Oh, how far we have come since 2009 when the iPhone 3 was just being introduced and camcorders were the size of a loaf of bread. I have...

July 8, 2016

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Cardiovascular Systems to Pay $8 Million to Settle Physician Kickbacks

Cardiovascular Systems agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations that the company paid kickbacks to physicians to convince them to use its medical devices. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of North Carolina announced the settlement with...

July 6, 2016