MUNSTER – Cardiologists at Community Hospital have announced they are among the first in Northwest Indiana to begin implanting MRI compatible pacemakers in patients. The Medtronic Revo MRI Surescan device is safe for use around or in magnetic resonance imaging equipment. “It has been estimated that up to 50 percent of patients with […]
LAPORTE – Indiana University Health LaPorte Hospital has opened a new Arrhythmia Center offering heart patients local access to high-quality tests and procedures for irregular heartbeats. The Arrhythmia Center provides 24-hour advanced cardiac care. The lab was modeled after facilities at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “The
SCHERERVILLE – Mixdesign has named Sarah Kiger as its director of operations and new business. She will be responsible for management of daily operations and development of new accounts. “As Mixdesign continues to grow throughout Northwest Indiana, Sarah’s ability to serve current clients and provide development insights to new ones is a benefit
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University is part of a new consortium set up to improve the competitiveness and innovation capacity of small- and medium-sized businesses. The National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium was announced March 2 in Washington, D.C. The project is being led by The Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan group of
HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet and the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation will be featured at the Chancellor’s Breakfast from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 6. The meeting will be held in the Student Union & Library, Alumni Hall on the third floor. The meeting was originally scheduled for Feb.
Valparaiso University’s MBA program is one of the best in the country, and has been cited by Princeton Review seven years running. But there was one problem-making it easy for full-time working professionals, who comprise two-thirds of the program’s enrollment, to get their degree. Many of them traveled and entertained for work, and then there
VALPARAISO – Porter is the only hospital in Northwest Indiana offering a new treatment option for patients with inoperable liver cancer, the Selective Internal Radiation Therapy procedure. “SIRT is suitable for patients who have liver tumors where the liver is the only site or the major site of disease,” said Dr. Amjad Alkadri,
CROWN POINT – Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point has announced it will begin construction on a $6 million Radiology Oncology Department that will include a Trilogy Linear Accelerator from Varian Medical Systems of California. Construction is expected to be completed by November. “The Trilogy radiation therapy machine will offer fast, more precise,
WEST LAFAYETTE – A Purdue University researcher has proposed development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing and preventing systemic failures in complex systems that play a role in calamities from power blackouts to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the subprime mortgage crisis. “The striking similarities in such catastrophes necessitate a broader
SOUTH BEND – Its small size belies its importance to economic development in South Bend. An analytical laboratory only 847 square feet in size is now open in Notre Dame’s Innovation Park. The lab can be leased by the hour or by the day by businesses. And along with the lab, tenants have
