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16 May

Health and Well-Being for All: Working Across Sectors

Published 5/14/19 on UMB News May 14, 2019    |   By Laura Lee U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, carries a tube of naloxone spray with him everywhere he goes to emphasize one of his main public health priorities: addressing the opioid …

02 May

UMB-born medical device startup wins FDA clearance

Published 4/30/19 in the Baltimore Business Journal UMB-born startup CoapTech has developed a technology that allows for more efficient, less-invasive feeding tube placement for hospital patients. By Morgan Eichensehr  – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Apr 30, 2019, 8:50am EDT Updated a day ago Baltimore medical …

30 April

In a First, Unmanned Aerial System Delivers Organ for Transplant

Published 4/29/19 on UMCP’s Maryland Today Drones Could Make Transplants Faster, Safer, Cheaper, Doctors and Engineers Say A custom unmanned aerial system (UAS) built by University of Maryland engineers delivered a kidney that was successfully transplanted into a patient at the …

30 April

Historic Flight Delivers Organ For Transplantation

Published 4/26/19 on UMB News April 26, 2019    |   By Joanne Morrison In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) …