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Cambridge Health Alliance, a community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north communities, named Siva Vithiananthan as its new chief of surgery.
IN RECOGNITION OF the outstanding leadership and remarkable work of the late Dr Kenneth A. Forde and his wife of 60 years, Kareitha “Kay” Forde, the Trustees of Columbia University, USA, have established an endowed professorship in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. Dr Forde was one of Columbia University’s first African American surgeons and Trustees, a remarkable Columbian who was named the José M. Ferrer Professor …
For more than 17 years, James Lavers was assured by several doctors that the bloating and pain he experienced on and off from his early 20s was irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). His story is far from unique.
Gut complaints are extremely common, accounting for one in five GP consultations and millions of over-the counter sales of gastric relief products, for everything from acid reflux and bloating to diarrhoea. And IBS, thought to affect up to 14 million people in the UK, is a very common diagnosis.
Yet some experts believe that doctors are too ready to suggest this is the cause of patients symptoms. They argue that there are other conditions, some previously dismissed as hokum (see box below), that could lie at the root of the problem and, ironically, the very treatment patients are given to ease their gut symptoms could make these worse.
AiM Medical Robotics Appoints Jonathan Sackier to the Board of Directors
Company to present at the LSI Emerging Medtech Summit in Laguna Niguel between May 11-13th
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ AiM Medical Robotics, a leading developer of MRI-safe intraoperative robotics for neurosurgery, today announced that it is appointing Professor Jonathan Sackier, who helped develop and bring to market the AESOP surgical robot with Computer Motion, to its Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2021. Sackier also performed the first robotic procedures and published peer-reviewed articles on the topic in the 1990 s, and AESOP intellectual property was incorporated into Intuitive Surgical s (ISRG) DaVinci robot. Dr. Sackier will serve to advise the Company as they seek to rapidly develop and commercially deploy AiM s advanced intraoperative, precision robotics system.