by Amy McCullough Published: January 31,2012
Tags: blood clot, Carl Hagstrom, Dr. Alex Seifalian, Dr. Robert Lochhead, Hybrid Plastics, medical, Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane, polymer science, POSS, Sweden, synthetic scaffold, UMMC, University College of London Medical School, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Southern Mississippi
HATTIESBURG — Technology from a Mississippi company has been used in an international medical breakthrough: Hybrid Plastics’ unique technology called POSS (Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane) was recently used to enable the world’s first synthetic organ transplant.
In the surgery performed in June 2011 in Sweden, a terminally ill cancer patient received a new trachea, or windpipe, made [...] [...]
OXFORD — An Oxford man has been freed on bond after being arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
Agent-in-charge Keith Davis, agent-in-charge with the Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit, tells the Oxford Eagle 50-year-old Mukund K. Patel has been charged with eight counts.
Davis says the investigation is continuing. Patel has been free on $2,000 bond. [...] [...]
JACKSON — Jackson city and business leaders are spearheading an effort to transform a five-miles stretch of road from Interstate 55 to Interstate 220 into a medical research corridor.
The Clarion-Ledger reports the Mississippi Healthcare Corridor would include a previously announced research park the University of Mississippi Medical Center plans to build at the old Farmers [...] [...]
State exchange plans must be approved by Jan. 1, 2013
Source: amednews.com
WASHINGTON — California has become the first state to create a health insurance marketplace as envisioned under the national health reform law.
“Every state is going to have to have some sort of legislative action on this,” said Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, chair of the [...] [...]
ATLANTA – New research suggests that almost 17 percent of medical costs in the U.S. can be blamed on obesity.
It suggests that the nation’s weight problem may be having close to twice the impact as previously estimated. The new study pegs annual obesity-related costs around $168 billion.
The new research was done by John Cawley of [...] [...]
BILOXI- – Six major expansion projects costing $150 million are in progress at the Veterans Affairs hospital complex in Biloxi.
Officials expect much the work to be completed next year, according to The Sun Herald.
The Biloxi complex, built in the 1930s, has taken on more patients since the Gulfport Veterans Affairs hospital closed just after Hurricane [...] [...]
A Florida judge ruled Thursday that U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn health care reform, according to Reuters.
Mississippi has joined Florida and 18 other states participating in the suit.
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had said at a hearing last month that he would block efforts by the Justice Department to dismiss [...] [...]
JACKSON – A University of Mississippi Health Care surgical team placed the state’s first implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in Jackie Kirkman of Tupelo, improving her chances for an eventual heart transplant.
The LVAD, called a bridge to transplantation, is a mechanical blood pump that assumes some of the work for the heart. It’s reserved [...] [...]
JACKSON – Mississippi is expected to hire its first medical examiner in 15 years by Nov. 1, and Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson said he’s hopeful at least two other associate pathologists will soon be on board to help handle the state’s autopsy cases.
“We have one doctor who has an engagement letter to [...] [...]
New developments
With acceptance has come breakthroughs
Currently the medical director of the Plastic Surgery Center of Hattiesburg, Paul J. Talbot serves as chairman of the department of surgery at Wesley Medical Center. He also appears as a guest lecturer throughout south Mississippi and performs medical volunteer work in Hattiesburg. Talbot recently sat down with Mississippi Business [...] [...]
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