New Delivery Robot Debuts in Hawaii at Straub Benioff Medical Center
Medical teams at Straub Benioff Medical Center recently gained an innovative teammate that truly delivers. Pharm2-D2 is Straub Benioff’s new service robot that safely and securely moves medication from the medical center’s pharmacy to nursing stations for patients in the hospital. Straub Benioff is the first medical center in Hawaii to utilize this autonomous robot, […]
To Get More New Antimicrobial Drugs, Fix the Broken Market, Experts Say
Fixing the broken market for innovative antimicrobial drugs should start with the hospitals, said Christine Ann Miller, MBA, at the Future of Health Summit sponsored by the Milken Institute on Tuesday. Because hospitals under the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system get paid a lump sum for treating a patient with a particular disease or condition, “hospitals […]
Air Force Mom Faces Advanced Breast Cancer
Defending their country using the most innovative tools and methods available is what the warriors in Melinda’s family have always done. In the 1980s, Melinda was working as an Air Force procurement officer in North Dakota when she met her husband who, like her father, flew B-52 bombers. Spending three years in Germany and relocating […]
Biofinder advances detection of extraterrestrial life
An innovative scientific instrument, the Compact Color Biofinder, developed by a team of University of Hawai’i at Manoa researchers, may change the game in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Most biological materials, for example, amino acids, fossils, sedimentary rocks, plants, microbes, proteins and lipids, have strong organic fluorescence signals that can be detected […]
New treatment to combat obesity and heart disease
An interdisciplinary research team at The University of Texas at San Antonio has successfully developed an innovative inhibitor that shows promise in fighting obesity and potentially preventing heart disease. Francis Yoshimoto, an assistant professor in the UTSA College of Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, is leading a team that developed an anti-obesity drug that blocks the […]