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The Dallas-based company wants to help local healthcare workers get more uses out of common surgical masks. [Photo: Courtesy Unique Software Development]
Dallas’ Unique Software Development is 3D Printing Respirators for the COVID-19 Shortage
by Alex Edwards | Mar 26, 2020
For healthcare workers locally and nationally, the software development company is producing as many as 400 respirators a day—pro bono—with its 20 in-house printers. And, the design can be sanitized, allowing a common surgical mask to be reused 6-10 times.
by Lauren Hawkins |
Mar 25, 2020
The Carrollton-based company plans to donate 10,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to Texas healthcare facilities, municipalities, and retail personnel in the next week.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 25, 2020
Demand was so high, Assist Health Group quickly ran out of the kits and had to put a waiting list in place.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 24, 2020
The research staff delivered 72,000 gloves and more to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas for distribution to hospital workers involved in patient care.
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Susan Hoff thinks about resources as brainpower. "Who in the community can we tap into?" she asks. "We're not going to solve the challenges we have today with the solutions we had yesterday." [Courtesy of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas]
United Way’s Susan Hoff: ‘We’re All in This Together.’ It’s Not a Catchphrase Right Now
by Quincy Preston | Mar 23, 2020
A new United Way Metropolitan Dallas Coronavirus Response and Recover Fund—seeded at $1.2M—came together in less than a week. We talk with UWMD's Susan Hoff about what it took, how the fund works, and what's next.
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 20, 2020
Hubert Zajicek wants to tap the strong innovation community in North Texas to share know-how, combat shortages, and come up with new solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2020
Check out our weekly roundup on research and development activities by North Texas organizations to stay up-to-date on the important work.
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by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2020
Texas Instruments Foundation, Bank of America, McKesson Foundation, Perot Foundation, Wells Fargo and Hoblitzelle Foundation are among corporate partners making an initial seed fund commitment.
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[Photo: Courtesy VOMO]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor: VOMO’s Volunteer Management Platform is Now Free Due to COVID‑19
by Lance Murray | Mar 20, 2020
Last year, McKinney-based VOMO and Sony Pictures launched the "Be a Neighbor" campaign to encourage Americans to live out Mister Rogers' legacy through volunteerism. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, VOMO has redirected—Be a Neighbor is now a free volunteer management platform for any organization around the world to help out.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 16, 2020
The Plano-based remote patient monitoring startup is now offering providers a no-cost solution for low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms simply by answering a series of questions.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 16, 2020
A professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center is collaborating with an international team to test whether stem cells can combat COVID-19 pneumonia.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Mar 13, 2020
Exact Diagnostics, which develops and manufactures products to ensure test result validity, will now help more laboratories keep pace with the increasing demand for COVID-19 testing.
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