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Ripclear Launches New V2 Shields to Safeguard Frontline COVID-19 Personnel

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)

Ripclear, makers of the most advanced protective film for outdoor sports eyewear, announced the launch of its V2 Shield, designed to protect personnel battling the COVID-19 outbreak including EMS workers, nurses, police and other front-line staff. They expertly designed V2 Shield features with 91% optical transparency, so that personnel can safely and effectively do their work while staying protected via a certified medical face shield.

“We heard the needs of frontline responders and essential workers across the country, and are producing an optically clear, anti fog, foam padded face shield that protects against spray and droplet infection,” said Ryan Doherty, the co-founder and president of Ripclear. “We are taking orders of quantities anywhere from 100 units to over 1 million units directly on our site and hope to keep as many people protected from the spread of COVID-19 as humanly possible.”

Each shield measures 32 cm x 22 cm and is 0.3 mm in thickness. The face shields are conveniently stackable and travel easily. The V2 Shield has received medical device certification from the FDA, a certificate of compliance from the CE and a quality management system certificate from the ISO 9001.

Pricing for the V2 Shield runs from $3.50 per shield to $2.55 a shield, depending on the quantity ordered.

Features of the V2 Shield from Ripclear:

  •     FDA, CE and ISO 9001 certified

  •     Dual-sided anti-fog treatment

  •     91% optical transparency

  •     Foam padding

  •     Elastic band

For pricing and full product information, visit http://www.ripclear.com.

About Ripclear:

Ripclear was launched in 2013 when co-founder Ryan Doherty destroyed his third snow goggle lens of the season. He contacted his best friend and product designer, Zach Hines. They hit up Google and Amazon looking for anything that could prevent expensive goggles from getting scratched and discovered nothing like that existed, so Ripclear was born. After years of creating and testing films, they successfully developed a plastic that could fit on all surfaces while remaining optically clear. Ripclear soon rolled out protective films for snow goggles, sunglasses, action cameras, sports visors, motorcycle goggles, smartphone and tablet screen protectors and more.

The initial Ripclear optics shield was such a success that when the COVID-19 outbreak hit, Doherty and Hines saw the opportunity to fill a desperately needed niche. They made a pivot, designing the V2 shield to serve as a certified shield for frontline personnel battling COVID-19. For more info, visit http://www.ripclear.com.

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The University of South Carolina leverages StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform for the COVID-19 Student Idea Challenge

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StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform

“In the midst of the pandemic, when many institutions are canceling innovation programs, we were able to leverage StartupWind’s Virtual Innovation Platform to not only conduct the COVID-19 challenge but also to incubate, develop and mentor promising ideas without missing a beat.” — Dr. Dirk Brown


CUPERTINO, Calif. (PRWEB)

The McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) leveraged StartupWind as their Virtual Innovation Platform to launch a COVID-19 Ideas Challenge. The competition was meant to empower student entrepreneurs in developing innovative solutions to tackle challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. The promising ideas are being incubated using ideation, customer discovery, and business model canvas frameworks on the StartupWind platform, and given seed funding to continue to develop them.

The goal of the challenge is to facilitate mitigation of the pandemic’s effects through the innovation from the University of South Carolina students and seek out the ideas that address the most pressing technical, social, and financial issues caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Over 160 student innovators engaged in the challenge with 42 promising entries from UofSC Columbia, Aiken, Beaufort, Lancaster, and Sumter campuses. Student teams developed idea concepts, business model canvases, and project budgets using StartupWind platform. The student teams are also connected to industry advisors using StartupWind’s video-based mentoring solution. Volunteer judges, many of whom are UofSC alumni, scored the proposals and provided valuable feedback.

The innovative ideas span across several challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. The winning ideas cover a wide range of solutions such as 3D printed personal protective equipment, insulated food delivery locker with ultraviolet light for food safety, mobile app to connect consumers to local restaurants for affordable meals, blockchain-secured supply channel for hospitals to procure critical supplies quickly, FDA-approved decontaminating agents to safely disinfect food in few minutes, and touchless solutions to enter doors and fill gas into your cars.

The StartupWind virtual mentoring solution will be made available to top ideas as they are incubated further using StartupWind Virtual Incubator for UofSC.

The key capabilities of the StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform are:


  • Virtual Competitions: the ability to submit ideas, assign judges, scoring and shortlisting ideas, and identifying winners.

  • Virtual Accelerator & Incubator: the ability to help incubate promising ideas with online frameworks for ideation, customer discovery, business model canvas, and business planning.

  • Virtual Mentoring: the video-based mentoring capability to connect advisors and mentors to students and their promising ideas, to help them develop those into more viable solutions.

  • Online Courses: the wealth of video-based courses for every stage of the entrepreneur’s journey with contributions from Draper University, innovation professors at Northwestern Kellogg, and Silicon Valley executives.

While talking about StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform, Dr. Dirk Brown, Faculty Director, McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism, University of South Carolina said,

“In the midst of the pandemic, when many institutions are canceling innovation programs, we were able to leverage StartupWind’s Virtual Innovation Platform to not only conduct the COVID-19 challenge but also to incubate, develop and mentor promising ideas without missing a beat. We could not realistically replicate what we get from StartupWind, even through a combination of other online tools. The cost would be prohibitively high and the integrated synergies just wouldn’t be there. This is absolutely the best way we have found to optimize the success of our startups and our programs.”

Katherine Swartz Hilton, who runs the strategic initiatives at the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism, University of South Carolina said,

“Our UofSC students found the StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform very easy to use in outlining their ideas, creating their business model canvases, and submitting their entries for the COVID-19 challenge. The process of assigning judges, scoring and screening is very straightforward. More importantly, we are able to incubate promising ideas and connect them to industry advisors using StartupWind’s virtual mentoring tool. This will allow our students to make a stronger impact in solving COVID-19 challenges. The StartupWind support team has been very timely in providing assistance and they clearly care deeply about our initiatives.”

Naren Patil, the founder of StartupWind said,

“The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented, global challenge to university entrepreneurship initiatives. We geared up the virtual innovation capabilities of StartupWind platform to support the university entrepreneurship ecosystem during this difficult time.

We are working towards helping universities in transforming their business process to work efficiently in today’s new normal and discover ways to tackle the crisis, as a community. Working with the UofSC team and innovators has been a very rewarding experience for us.”

About StartupWind.Inc

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, StartupWind unveils a new way to connect, ideate, mentor, and scale startups. StartupWind has been delivering an impact to about 25,000 users affiliated to over 100 universities across 100 countries in the world. It is helping universities, states, and corporations to scale their innovation and entrepreneurship programs by delivering a digital Innovation Network and Virtual Innovation Platform that offers tools for ideation, customer discovery, business model canvas, business planning, competitions, mentoring, and learning management system.

Please visit http://www.startupwind.com for more information.

About the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise

The McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise promotes scholarly activity and educates students about the role of free enterprise and entrepreneurship in enhancing economic growth, and encourages students to contribute and participate through entrepreneurism in creating a better America. The Institute is funded through the generosity of The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation which also funds centers at multiple other universities across the nation supporting entrepreneurship and free enterprise education. Under the guiding vision of Robert and Janice McNair, the foundation is committed to developing a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders who have both the technical skills and the philosophical understanding of how free enterprise systems form the basis of economic opportunity and prosperity for individuals in our country.

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Calibrater Health Announces New Texting Features to Support Healthcare Providers During COVID-19

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Calibrater Health Announces New Texting Features to Support Healthcare Providers During COVID-19

Calibrater Health, the leading patient feedback platform for multi-unit businesses, announced today the addition of two new mass texting features to support healthcare personnel on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. These features allow hospitals and urgent care centers to communicate with providers, staff, and patients while reducing transmission.

Healthcare business managers can now use a two-way staff texting feature to make sure critical updates and reminders reach staff and providers. Staff can respond to these messages individually. Communications can be sent via text or as a memo in the Calibrater dashboard, where staff would normally visit to see action items from patient survey feedback.

Calibrater’s second new feature allows businesses to send mass texts and set up auto-reply messages to patients. Early use of this tool has proven highly effective for driving telehealth bookings. In the first week, Calibrater users sent more than 1 million text messages to patients alone, resulting in 4,500+ clicks to telehealth booking pages. The feature can also be used to update patients on the outbreak in their area.

“Two-way staff texting and mass texting to patients are the first features we’ve been working on to support our modern-day heroes working in healthcare,” said Calibrater Health CEO, Tim Dybvig. “It’s our mission to help medical professionals stay safe and healthy while they help those impacted by COVID-19.”

In light of the uncertainty faced by healthcare businesses during the pandemic, Calibrater Health has extended their initial 30-day free trial to 90 days. For customers with DocuTAP, DrChrono, athenahealth, and others, we can have you up and running within a week. For more details, visit https://www.calibrater.com/new-features-covid-connect/.

About Calibrater Health

Calibrater Health’s AI-powered suite of texting and survey tools helps distributed healthcare organizations accelerate business growth by improving customer service and team culture. We send customizable, text message-based surveys after every patient visit. Smart Surveys allow providers to easily segment and A/B test surveys. Machine learning mines this valuable feedback for actionable insights. Start using our platform today—never miss another chance to repair a patient relationship, improve your patient experience, and drive new patients through the door. Learn more at http://www.calibrater.com.

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Digital Defense, Inc. Offering $1 Million in Free Ransomware Vulnerability Assessments to Help Healthcare Organizations During Pandemic

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Larry Hurtado, CEO of Digital Defense, Inc.

The recent strain on healthcare organizations and added stress to these members of our communities whose primary focus is to help others makes them a prime target for cybercriminals and state-run attacks.


SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB)

Digital Defense, Inc. today announced a free, $1 million dollar offer to help healthcare organizations prevent ransomware attacks and maintain focus on important, life-saving endeavors. Cybercriminals are currently using a weapon known as ransomware to create panic in an industry already stressed by the global pandemic. Even more sinister with these crimes is that the thieves are financially benefiting from the chaos by ransoming payment in exchange for the release of keys necessary for IT teams to restore systems disabled by attacks. To help, Digital Defense is offering healthcare institutions free assessments to identify ransomware vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

Hospitals and healthcare entities are being attacked digitally during a time when their resources are stretched and attentions are diverted. Successful ransomware attacks can take confidential data and hold critical technology systems hostage, crippling vital healthcare operations. Digital Defense understands these threats as well as budget constraints hospitals and healthcare businesses currently face. The company is offering a complimentary external and internal ransomware vulnerability assessment to help rapidly identify and prioritize existing vulnerabilities. The goal is to pinpoint weaknesses that are susceptible to a ransomware attack, including CryptoLocker vulnerabilities, and pave the way for swift, proactive remediation.

“The recent strain on healthcare organizations and added stress to these members of our communities whose primary focus is to help others makes them a prime target for cybercriminals and state-run attacks,” said Larry Hurtado, CEO of Digital Defense, Inc. “We want to help. We not only have an ability to help organizations prevent ransomware outages and/or make devastating data hostage payments, but we also have a contactless solution delivery approach with our SaaS technology hosted in AWS. With this free offering, we want to do everything we can to reduce the risk that nurses and physicians cannot access the information they need to deliver effective care to patients while at the same time not put IT staff in harm’s way with our contactless solution turn-up capabilities. We are working closely with our partners to get this solution working for the healthcare community as fast as possible.”

Healthcare organizations not currently served by Digital Defense can sign-up to receive a free assessment over the next 60 days. Ransomware assessments will be offered on a first come, first served basis or until the $1 million offer is exhausted whichever comes first. For more details and to register, please visit the Digital Defense website.

About Digital Defense

Serving clients across numerous industries, Digital Defense’s innovative and leading-edge technology helps organizations safeguard sensitive data and ease the burdens associated with information security. Frontline.Cloud, the original Security SaaS platform, delivers unparalleled accuracy and efficiencies through multiple systems including Frontline Vulnerability Manager (Frontline VM™), Frontline Web Application Scanning (Frontline WAS™), Frontline Active Threat Sweep™ (Frontline ATS™) and Frontline Pen Test™, while Secured®, the company’s security awareness training, promotes employees’ security-minded behavior. The Digital Defense Frontline suite of solutions, underpinned by patented technology and complemented with superior service and support, are highly-regarded by industry experts, as illustrated by the company’s designation as a 2020 Hot 150 Cybersecurity Company, 2020 Tag Cyber Distinguished Vendor, 2019 U.S. Department of Labor Platinum Medallion Award, a five-star review in SC Magazine and CRN 5-Star Channel Program rating.

Contact Digital Defense at 888-273-1412; visit http://www.digitaldefense.com, our blog, LinkedIn or follow @Digital_Defense on Twitter.

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Introducing Home Health Companions University

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DALLAS (PRWEB)

CONTACT: Melinda Guravich

Phone: 214-335-9670

Email: marketing@homehealthcompanions.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    

Introducing Home Health Companions University

Dallas Home Health Company Introduces Online Training to Advance

Skills of Caregivers and Safety of Clients

Home Health Companions, a licensed home health provider, has launched Home Health Companions University through the Texas Association for Homecare & Hospice and the Center for Business and Workforce Education at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota.

This 51-hour training program provides Home Health Companions’ employees with paid continuing education focused on providing in-home care for clients. Course topics include dementia care basics, how to handle anxiety in older adults, assisting with activity and exercise, administering medications and advanced communications skills. Certificates are awarded upon course completion.

The idea for the University arose from a desire to protect clients and caregivers by proactively educating them around COVID-19 virus and other healthcare related issues. Home Health Companions University provides caregivers advanced skills training and access to information that will increase their expertise and understanding when working with elderly clients.

“This training program ensures we continue providing our clients and their families with the highest quality in-home health care and skilled nursing services available,” says Lisa Shardon, President of Home Health Companions. “All of our employees will be given the opportunity to participate in this paid training and enhance their health care knowledge.”

The company is especially excited to offer Caregivers’ Kitchen through the university: courses that include protecting elders from foodborne illnesses, nutrition and well-being, meal planning and grocery shopping, common food allergies in the elderly, and meal preparation for clients with diabetes and other chronic health conditions.

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ABOUT HOME HEALTH COMPANIONS

Home Health Companions is a licensed home health provider offering in-home caregiving, private duty nursing and geriatric care management for aging adults in 13 North Texas counties. Nationally recognized, Home Health Companions has received the Best of Home Care — Employer of Choice Award two years in a row, and consistently outperforms other home health care companies in the region for client satisfaction. The company was named to the 2019 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Founded in 2011, it has quickly become a trusted, local resource for high-quality in-home health care and skilled nursing. For more information, visit the website at http://www.homehealthcompanions.com or call 214-295-8213.

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LabRoots Announces Open Registration for 4th Annual Laboratory Automation & Informatics Virtual Event, Scheduled on May 20th

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YORBA LINDA, Calif. (PRWEB)

LabRoots, the leading scientific social networking website, offering premier, interactive virtual events and webinars, is pleased to bring together research scholars, innovators, top scientists, life science professionals, engineers and informatics specialists from around the world to attend its free, online Laboratory Automation & Informatics event scheduled on May 20, 2020, aimed to improve the science and practice of laboratory automation and technology.

Following on the success of 2019, the Laboratory Automation & Informatics 2020 conference will focus on practical strategies and technologies related to high throughput biology, microfluidics enabling automation, and method validation and LIMS. This year’s online forum will include a blend of leading academia and industry expert speakers promising an end to end program sharing expertise in every session leaving attendees with tools and insights to address the needs and challenges in the laboratory.

You won’t want to miss engaging in enlightening discussions centered around topics including, gene editing by a “click-of-a-button,” unique droplet microfluidic technology to automate the digital PCR workflow, the strategic and commercial key criteria for a Lab 4.0 solution and the benefit of an end to end workflow, current approaches to single-cell secretion analysis, single cell genomics tools for better understanding and treatment of human disease, the validation of LIMS as a part of the data integrity and which tools to use, zero-effort analytical method validation in a lab environment, and next-gen protein assays enabling precision medicine and data-driven biology, and much more, to further round out the agenda.

Kicking off the day, the following two stellar academic professionals will present keynote presentations on their novel research and findings:

Abraham (Abe) Lee, Professor, Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine; Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM), and serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Lab on a Chip journal, will speak to “Bridging Multiscale Physiological Systems via Microfluidics-from single cell to tissue-scale to organ-scale,” explaining the approaches for microfluidics to tap into the current cellular and immune-therapies, in the session of high throughput biology.

“Since microfluidics has proven to be a valuable tool to operate at the “live” single cell level, it is ideal to both scale-up towards organ-level functions and scale-down towards genomics and proteomics expressions for a complete picture of the physiological health status,” said Dr. Abraham “Abe” Lee, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine. “The future of microfluidic precision medicine will enable patients to have access to their own health information in real-time and provide personalized options to help them live lives to their fullest. During the LabRoots conference you will learn about the advances in research labs that are rapidly moving into the clinic, and even the home-based medical solutions as the shelter-in-place orders are inevitably accelerating these developments.”

Dr. Adam Abate, Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco will address “Quantitative biology with droplet microfluidics,” and describe the application of microfluidics to bottom-up cell community assembly and the familiarization with microfluidic methods for single-cell multi-omics analysis, in the session of microfluidics enabling automation.

Dr. Adam Abate, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco commented, “We believe high throughput single cell analysis will transform research and medicine and microfluidics and automation approaches will be critical to facilitating the process.”

“We are committed to providing our participants with an unmatched conference experience, and the shared knowledge presented by these renowned speakers further ignites LabRoots’ commitment to providing exceptional content offered year after year while exploring new innovations and discussing the future of the laboratory science and technology field,” said Tracy Salcido, Vice President of LabRoots.

Produced on LabRoots’ robust platform with the capability to connect across all desktop and mobile devices, the virtual environment is tightly focused with a lobby, auditorium, poster hall, exhibit hall (highlighting the latest array of products and technologies), and networking lounge allowing an interactive learning experience for all participants. LabRoots, an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E Program, offers attendees the opportunity to earn 1 Continuing Education Credit per presentation for a maximum of 30 credits.

For more information or to register for the event, click here. Use #LRlabauto to follow the conversation!

About LabRoots

LabRoots is the leading scientific social networking website, and primary source for scientific trending news and premier educational virtual events and webinars and more. Contributing to the advancement of science through content sharing capabilities, LabRoots is a powerful advocate in amplifying global networks and communities. Founded in 2008, LabRoots emphasizes digital innovation in scientific collaboration and learning. Offering more than articles and webcasts that go beyond the mundane and explore the latest discoveries in the world of science, LabRoots users can stay atop their field by gaining continuing education credits from a wide range of topics through their participation in the webinars and virtual events.

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Well-Being Index Aims to Deliver 100,000 Messages of Support to Healthcare Workers During COVID-19

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Thank you for all of your hard work. Keep your head up and know that we appreciate your efforts.

COVID-19 has placed additional stress onto an already fractured healthcare system and now more than ever our healthcare workers need our support and encouragement.


ROCHESTER, Minn. (PRWEB)

The Well-Being Index, an online self-assessment tool invented by Mayo Clinic, has announced the launch of a campaign to collect and deliver virtual messages of encouragement and gratitude to tens of thousands of healthcare providers around the world serving during the global pandemic.

The ‘Messages of Support’ campaign allows anyone to submit a personal message, or create a hand-made thank you card using a variety of downloadable templates and attach a photo holding the card along with a message of support.

The Well-Being Index is used by thousands of physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, residents, fellows, medical students, and other healthcare teams to assess their well-being every week. The messages of support will be displayed on the tool’s login screen for medical professionals to see every time they log in.

“Being a healthcare worker is stressful,” says Alan De Keyrel, Chief Happiness Officer of the Well-Being Index. “Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 400 physicians would commit suicide every year. COVID-19 has placed additional stress onto an already fractured healthcare system and now more than ever our healthcare workers need our support and encouragement.”

De Keyrel says the goal of the campaign is to collect and deliver 100,000 unique messages of support.

“With Messages of Support, we have made it extremely easy to show our 93,000+ healthcare workers in 78 different countries how much we love and support them. I hope you’ll join us and help us reach our goal,” says De Keyrel.

Those interested in submitting a message of support can go to mywellbeingindex.org/ShowSupport to participate.

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About the Well-Being Index

The Well-Being Index is an online self-assessment tool invented by Mayo Clinic that measures six dimensions of distress and well-being in just nine questions. The Well-Being Index equips organizations and individuals with the data and tools needed to maximize mental health and Go Beyond Burnout. Over 600 hospitals, institutions, academic medical centers, and associations use the Well-Being Index to accurately measure and improve well-being. Learn more about the Well-Being Index.

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New Moms Not Receiving Adequate Education and Resources to Prepare Them for the First Six Weeks Postpartum

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Aeroflow survey results highlight the challenges faced by new moms during the first six weeks postpartum.

“The weeks following birth are a very nerve-wracking and uncertain time for new moms, which is why they need to feel fully equipped with what to expect during their recovery and how to care for their baby,” said Dr. Jessica Madden, Medical Director of Aeroflow Breastpumps.


ASHEVILLE, N.C. (PRWEB)

Aeroflow Healthcare today announced the results of a proprietary survey designed to highlight the experiences and struggles faced by new moms during the first six weeks postpartum, also known as the first 42 days. The third party-administered survey polled 394 women living in the United States with children between the ages 0-1 and was completed over a span of three days in March 2020. To download the full survey results, please click here.

Notable survey results include:

  • Almost all new moms (90%) believe educating mothers about what to expect/resources available during the first six weeks postpartum can and should be improved

  • An overwhelming majority of new moms (76%) were not given information or guidance regarding any products/medical devices that may help with recovery

  • The top things new moms struggled with most in the first six weeks postpartum include breastfeeding (66%), followed by postpartum depression/anxiety (48%) and social support isolation (39%)

  • One-in-four new moms (25%) report not feeling like they had access to the necessary care to address any/all of the above issues

  • Nearly three-in-five new moms (59%) felt they needed assistance to breastfeed comfortably and successfully

  • The majority of new moms (66%) report the postpartum period was more difficult than they thought it would be, which not surprisingly resulted in more than half (56%) having family/friends stay with them to help out—especially for the 25% of new moms that had to go back to work within the first six weeks after giving birth

  • Half of moms (50%) report not feeling prepared in what to expect and how to care for their body the first six weeks postpartum

  • Nearly one-in-five (19%) new moms report not being provided guidance regarding symptoms that may indicate a health concern after delivery, and when to raise these concerns to a doctor

These survey results highlight the profound hardships new moms experience when navigating the first six weeks postpartum, with many not receiving the necessary education and resources to aid in recovery and caring for a newborn. With women’s bodies undergoing drastic changes throughout and after pregnancy, new moms are experiencing physical symptoms including breast engorgement and pain (70%), soreness/pain in the vaginal and rectal areas (64%) and abdominal/uterine cramping (63%) while trying to figure out how to breastfeed successfully and properly care for a newborn.

New moms need all the support and information possible from their doctors and midwives, as almost half (48%) reported primarily feeling stressed and overwhelmed during this time. For example, a new mom’s first postpartum check-up typically takes place following the first six weeks after giving birth, but nearly two-in-five (38%) saw a healthcare provider within the first two weeks. While some of these women certainly may have required medical advice/attention, this shows there is a lot of uncertainty around what to expect and how to care for themselves and their baby during this time. As a result, many new moms are leaning on friends and family (64%) as opposed to their OB or midwife (46%) to gather information on what to expect during the postpartum period.

“The weeks following birth are a very nerve-wracking and uncertain time for new moms, which is why they need to feel fully equipped with what to expect during their recovery and how to care for their baby,” said Dr. Jessica Madden, Medical Director of Aeroflow Breastpumps. “Before moms leave the hospital with their newborns, it’s imperative that they feel confident in knowing the symptoms they will experience as their body recovers, when severity of symptoms indicate a more serious issue and the resources available to them to help with the process—especially when it comes to medical devices that will aid in healing.”

“We hope this study raises awareness about the need to improve postpartum education through all stages of a pregnancy and shows new moms all over the country that they are not alone in the challenges they face. Women need all the support possible to help them through this six-week period, so it’s important that they are not in the dark about where to turn to alleviate pain and discomfort as their bodies recover,” said Jennifer Jordan, Director of Mom and Baby at Aeroflow Healthcare. “Aeroflow proudly supports all new moms throughout their motherhood journey and remains committed to providing them with the highest quality tools, resources and medical devices to make the transition as smooth as possible.”

About Aeroflow Healthcare

Aeroflow Healthcare was founded in Asheville, NC in 2001 as a home oxygen provider, and has since grown to become a nationwide provider of durable medical equipment. In 2017, Aeroflow was also awarded the HME Excellence Award for Best Home Medical Equipment Provider and has been recognized as a business offering top-notch benefits to employees with the Great Place to Work Award. Aeroflow is an accredited Medicare and Medicaid provider and accepts most commercial insurance. To learn more about Aeroflow Healthcare and getting medical equipment through insurance, visit http://www.aeroflowinc.com.

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Proactive Strategies to Avoid Supply Delays to be Presented by Catalent at Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Virtual Conference

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SOMERSET, N.J. (PRWEB)

Catalent, a global leader in clinical supply services, today announced that Stephanie Graham, Regional Manager, Clinical Supplies Management, will present at the upcoming conference, ‘Outsourcing in Clinical Trials 2020 – A Virtual Experience’, which takes place on May 27, 2020.

Ms. Graham’s presentation, at 11:30 a.m., titled “Proactive Strategies to Identify Clinical Supply Risks and Avoid Study Delays”, will discuss the types of sponsors and studies which may be at a greater risk of experiencing clinical supply challenges, and will illustrate how sponsors may be able to avoid costly study delays by identifying study characteristics that are most likely to indicate that potential issues lie ahead.

Ms. Graham has more than 13 years of experience in clinical supplies management, packaging and distribution, in addition to 13 years spent working in international shipping. Prior to joining Catalent in 2015, she held roles at Fisher Clinical Services, Shire Pharmaceuticals and Takeda.

For further information, please visit: https://www.clinical.catalent.com/events/outsourcing-in-clinical-trials-2020-a-virtual-experience

About Catalent Clinical Supply Services

Catalent is a global leader in clinical supply services, with comprehensive and flexible solutions for small molecules, biologics, and cell and gene therapies and integrated solutions to accelerate speed to clinic. Catalent offers a full range services including clinical supply management, comprehensive packaging solutions, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage and global distribution and specialized supply chain services including direct-to-patient and demand-led supply. With nine GMP clinical packaging facilities and over 50 strategically located depots on six continents combined with more than 25 years’ experience across thousands of studies in more than 80 countries, Catalent has the comprehensive services, global scale and expertise necessary to reliably supply clinical trials of all sizes and complexity anywhere in the world.

About Catalent

Catalent is the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, and consumer health products. With over 85 years serving the industry, Catalent has proven expertise in bringing more customer products to market faster, enhancing product performance and ensuring reliable global clinical and commercial product supply. Catalent employs over 13,500 people, including approximately 2,400 scientists and technicians, at more than 40 facilities, and in fiscal year 2019 generated over $2.5 billion in annual revenue. Catalent is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. For more information, visit http://www.catalent.com

More products. Better treatments. Reliably supplied.™

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R&D Quality as the Foundation for Product Quality, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

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Xtalks Life Science Webinars

Even early-stage R&D benefits from a quality mindset and the speaker will discuss ways that the R&D Quality Group supports the programs.


TORONTO (PRWEB)

This webinar will focus on current practices in use at Cytovance Biologics as part of product lifecycle management. At times, projects are received with differing amounts of background information and this webinar will discuss control of quality during the various stages of R&D while still maintaining the flexibility necessary for research. There must be dynamic balancing of expectations for quality with the needs of the scientists to understand and characterize the material being produced particularly in R&D.

Even early-stage R&D benefits from a quality mindset and the speaker will discuss ways that the R&D Quality Group supports the programs. Flexibility is key at this stage and R&D quality activities evolve to focus on the needs of the scientists to collect valid data. As the processes and procedures become better established, the amount and types of documentation increase.

R&D Quality activities in the latter phases of research and development are controlled to allow the ultimate assembly of a documentation package to support the clients’ submissions to regulatory bodies. Documentation at this point includes both written procedures used by R&D to produce the material and method transfer reports that support the eventual authoring of scaled up current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) batch records.

The FDA expects that the drug substance used for toxicology and other testing will be representative of the material eventually produced in cGMP Manufacturing. R&D Quality is part of the team reviewing documentation of production and testing. In many cases, clients request GLP testing of the Tox material. Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) testing is a formal prospective test plan administered by R&D Quality and performed by R&D scientists.

Join Gregory Svanas, Director of Research and Development Quality, Cytovance Biologics in a live webinar on Monday, June 1, 2020 at 12pm EDT (5pm BST/UK).

For more information or to register for this event, visit R&D Quality as the Foundation for Product Quality.

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