MemorialCare Long Beach Center Joins Global Fight Against Covid
As part of an ongoing global study, MemorialCare Long Beach Center has administered the antiviral drug Remdesivir to three patients as a possible treatment for Covid. This news comes closely after Gilead, a biotech company based out of the California Bay Area,...
FDA Allows Outsourcing for Drugs in Short Supply Due to Covid
The FDA announced on Thursday (4/16) it was temporarily allowing compounding for necessary hospital drugs due to the mass shortage from Covid. The majority of the 13 commonly used drugs listed in the policy are anesthetic or analgesic drugs, which helps support...
“Must Wear Masks”: Covid and the Spanish Flu
Before Covid, wearing a mask in a supermarket in the United States or in Britain might have earned uneasy glances from fellow shoppers. Are you sick, or is there something you’re trying to hide? Now, that is all changing. With the America’s CDC now recommending...
AAMI Drafts Emergency Respirator and Ventilator Medical Devices Guidance in Response to Shortage Due to COVID-19
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) released four guidelines yesterday (4/14) from their COVID-19 response team about medical device such as respirators and ventilators to help combat the viral outbreak. The team is made up of...
How Can We Deal With Stress?
This article is part 3 of a mini-series focusing on how the body can combat stressors. This final instalment dives into several techniques for reducing stress and how they can positively impact the body. In this mini-series we have gone over what stress does to the...
Face Masks, Social Distancing, and Sheltering in Place: The New Landscape of Global Health in the Fight Against Covid
As Covid continues to spread across the globe, affecting Italy, Spain, and the United States most severely, governmental agencies continue to fight the spread of misinformation surrounding the virus by issuing health safety recommendations. The importance of social...
The Mysterious Relationship Between Mental Health and Stress
This article is part 2 of a mini-series focusing on how the body reacts to stressors. This installment explores the importance of mental health awareness and how stress can deteriorate our mental health. Mental health awareness has become an incredibly important topic...
Medical Device Regulation: The Need for Global Harmonization
The medical device industry is one of the most complex and rapidly evolving sectors of the health sciences field. Dynamic innovation in medical devices has helped better healthcare both in terms of people’s quality of life and their longevity; however, while the value...
Women’s History Month: Recognizing Women Research Pioneers in the Health Sciences
Today in the world of medicine we are accustomed to hearing about breakthrough contributions in the health sciences from scientists and researchers of all genders, but for much of the past century this wasn’t the case. While many women have played an important role...
What Does Stress Do To Our Body?
This article is part 1 of a mini-series focusing on how the body reacts to stressors. This installment looks at the physiological reaction to stress and how this can impact a person’s overall health. Have you ever thought about what stress could do to your body? You...
Women’s History Month: The Importance of Inclusive Clinical Trials on Care and Society
With March being Women’s History Month, we remember that women have historically been marginalized in areas such as clinical trials, and how important it is to work towards women’s empowerment. Activists like Margaret Sanger, who popularized the term birth control,...
Women Lead The Way For CSOFT Health Sciences
In celebration of International Women’s Day, CSOFT Health Sciences is bringing together three women leaders who are committed to building a healthier world. By sharing their perspectives, they will impart wisdom and explain their passion for bringing treatments to patients around the world to improve their lives.
Happy International Women’s Day
CSOFT joins the Health Sciences industry in recognizing International Women's Day, Women’s History Month and the important contributions women make to society. The FDA recently released the 2019 Drug Trials Snapshots Report. This report summarizes the demographic...
Communicating Public Health to Multilingual Populations: The Example of Singapore
With the ongoing global COVID-19 outbreak, public health policy is being put to the test. To educate people and modulate their health, sanitary, and hygienic behavior, it’s crucial that policymakers communicate effectively. Public health guides inform and protect...
China Creating a Framework on Real-World Evidence
Purpose of Real-World Evidence/Real-World Data Real-World Evidence is critical for designing more effective treatments. For example, to test new treatments, pharmaceutical companies adopt a method called "Randomized Controlled Trial" (RCT). There are two design groups...
A Step Forward in Personalized Care: Translational Research and Precision Medicine
Our healthcare system, including translational research and precision medicine, has come a long way over the past decade. Targeted vaccine breakthroughs and ongoing improvements in cancer treatment have transformed our ability to survive and recover from health issues...
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Creating Life with ART
ART and Society For some, having children is an ultimate goal in their own life-progression. For those unable to become pregnant naturally, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) can bring hopeful parents the successful pregnancy they desire. ART takes many forms,...
Covid Spreading at an Alarming Rate
Where it is originated from? In December 2019, Covid appeared in a seafood market located in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. Researchers traced back to the first patient and he did not come into contact with the seafood market. Up until now, the...
A Look Back: New York’s Learning-by-Doing Response to a Pandemic
With thoughts of the latest pandemic on so many of our minds, it can be useful to look to history for context and reassurance as we try to understand our current predicament. Often, it is easy to become lost in a vague picture of the developing world as the sole...
Covid: Calling All Heroes
Language’s fix to a world problem In dedication to Dr. Li Wenliang As a sudden outbreak with untold global health implications, the 2019 Coronavirus exemplifies a crisis scenario where the quality and character of the immediate response has the power to shape future...