Allison Bedell

Allison is a Chicago-based engineer and user-centered designer with experience innovating in medical devices, consumer health products, and healthcare IT solutions. She holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and MS in Engineering Design and Innovation, both from Northwestern University.

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February 22nd, 2016 OcuSciences, based in Ann Arbor, MI, has developed an instrument that will provide information to enable earlier diagnosis of eye conditions including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and macular degeneration. Currently, in the case of diabetic retinopathy, it is only after being diagnosed with diabetes that a patient will begin to have...
Cardiology

January 11th, 2016 The MobiusHD implant, developed by Vascular Dynamics, was awarded a CE mark last week to allow its introduction in Europe.  This device, which is implanted into the carotid sinus during a minimally-invasive procedure, is intended to help patients with drug-resistant hypertension by encouraging the body’s natural mechanisms to...
Medicine

December 17th, 2015 Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness for adults between the ages of 20 and 64 in the United States.  As a patient's diabetes progresses, the blood circulation worsens and the supply of oxygen to the retina is compromised.  The retina is especially oxygen-starved at night since the rods, which are used primarily...
Cardiac Surgery

November 18th, 2015 One method for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) is pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) ablation, where tissue around the connections between the left atrium and the pulmonary veins is ablated.  This tissue is commonly responsible for creating and propagating the irregular signals that disrupt normal heart rhythms in AF.  During...
Net News

October 20th, 2015 Early detection significantly improves the survival rates for cervical cancer patients. Cervical cancer used to be one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the US, but mortality rates have declined significantly in the last 40 years due in part to better compliance with regular cervical cancer screening. Regular pap smear testing...
Anesthesiology

October 1st, 2015 Lung failure is typically addressed through the use of mechanical ventilation, but potential complications include collapsed lungs, airway injury, and diaphragm atrophy. An alternative is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), where blood is circulated outside of the body, undergoes gas exchange in an ‘artificial lung’, and is...
News

September 14th, 2015 One deadly and defining characteristic of cancerous cells is that they divide in an unregulated manner, allowing the tumor to grow larger and become more disruptive to the body. Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida, led by Panos Anastasiadis and Antonis Kourtidis, have identified a critical difference between cancerous cells and...
Orthopedic Surgery

September 9th, 2015 Aperion Biologics has taken major steps towards making xenografts a competitive alternative for use in the nearly one million ACL reconstruction surgeries performed globally every year. A xenograft is tissue taken from one species and transplanted into another, however they are not commonly used since there is a high risk that the...
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