Micromolded bioabsorbable fixation suture pictured atop a dime
Medical molders are seeing demand and supply chain trends shift again following the COVID-19 pandemic s impact on the health care industry and consumers behavior over the last year.
After Vermont-based GW Plastics Inc. s medical device production volume was negatively impacted due to elective surgeries being deferred last year, President and CEO Brenan Riehl told
Plastics News, hospitals learned how to treat patients safely during the pandemic.
Now, the company has started to see its surgical medical device business rebound. We think there s going to be a tremendous amount of pent-up demand for elective patient surgical care in the second half of 2021, Riehl said.
My eyes have been opened to the very real threat of avalanches, even in New England
I thought my biggest safety concern while skiing was other skiers hitting me or tree wells. Now Iâve reassessed, and begun to do some homework. I look at untouched snow differently.
By Matt Pepin Globe Staff,Updated March 3, 2021, 12:31 p.m.
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Cindy Berlack standing on a veranda at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., in 2015. Cindy Berlack is the mother of US Ski Team member Ronnie Berlack, a 20-year-old who was killed in an avalanche while training. Cindy Berlack organized a daylong avalanche awareness workshop at the hotel.Cheryl Senter for The Boston Globe/file