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10 Companies That Are Helping Us Live Longer Lives
Do you want to live longer? You should eat healthier, hit the gym, drink less, quit smoking, and reduce stress in your life. But even that may not be enough. You might need help from your families and friends. In addition, these 10 companies are helping you live longer lives.
Syncardia Systems
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Tucson, Arizona
- Founded in 2001
- What they do:
- Makes temporary total artificial heart
- Uses as a "bridge" device before transplant
- World's first and only FDA approved
- How are they helping us live longer
- More than 400,000 people a year die of heart disease
- More than 3,000 waiting for heart transplants
- Artificial hearts are potentially life saving option for patients who must wait as long as a year to get transplant
- 79% of patients successfully lived on artificial heart until receiving human heart transplant
Walgreens
- Industry: drug retailing
- Headquarters: Deerfield, Illinois
- Founded in 1901
- What they do:
- Optimal Wellness program
- Designed to help customers track and monitor chronic conditions such as diabetes
- Reviews customer's medications and administer blood pressure and blood-glucose tests
- Added fresh food to shelves and designated iPad-equipped health guide to serve as health help desk
- How are they helping us live longer:
- 46 million uninsured and need health-care system
- Walgreens retail clinics provide accessible and inexpensive health care
Intuitive Surgical
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
- Founded in 1995
- What they do:
- Manufactures robotic surgical systems
- da Vinci Surgical System
- Allows laparoscopic surgery to be performed remotely using robotic manipulators
- First robotic surgical system cleared by the FDA
- Installed over 2,462 systems worldwide
- How are they helping us live longer:
- da Vinci surgical procedure offers
- Less pain, less blood loss, and less need for blood transfusions
- Shorter hospital stay, quicker recovery and faster return to normal daily activities
Second Sight
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Sylmar, California
- Founded in 1998
- What they do:
- Develops implantable visual prosthetics for blind individuals
- Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System
- Provide electrical stimulation of the retina to elicit visual perception in blind subjects
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Provides sight to patients blinded from outer retinal degenerations, such as retinitis pigmentosa
Envoy Medical
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Founded in 1995
- What they do:
- Designs, develops, and markets implantable devices for treatment of sensory disorders
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Their products Improve quality of life for over 21.5 million adults in US suffering from sensorineural hearing loss
General Electric
- Industry: conglomerate
- Headquarters: Fairfield, Connecticut
- Founded in 1892
- What they do:
- Provides medical technologies and services for patient care
- Healthymagination program
- Vscan ultrasound device
- Centricity Electronic Medical Record system
- Treatment option digital database
- Home monitoring technologies
- $250 million cancer research investment
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Healthymagination focuses on early diagnosis, drug discovery, and prevention
Ossur
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Reykjavik, Iceland
- Founded in 1971
- What they do:
- Builds "smart" prosthetic legs
- Personalized and motorized
- Uses sophisticated motion sensors to measure knee position and force applied to it
- Reduces stress on rest of body
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Prosthetic legs allow patients to
- Expend less energy walking
- Improve confidence
- Restore independence and ability
Genentech
- Industry: biotechnology
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California
- Founded in 1976
- What they do:
- Uses human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize biotherapeutics that address significant unmet medical needs
- Develops targeted, genetics-based cancer therapies
- Zelboraf
- Got FDA approval
- First drug to target and shut down a gene mutation associated with about half of melanoma cases
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Their products and services help to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, enhancing people's health and quality of life
Harvard Bioscience
- Industry: medical appliances and equipment
- Headquarters: Holliston, Massachusetts
- Founded in 1901
- What they do:
- Develops and manufactures life sciences tools, including bioreactors
- Created and successfully implanted lab-grown windpipe in 36-year old with tracheal cancer
- Made of patient's stem cells combined with nano-particles of same plastic used in water bottles
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Reduces risk that body will reject transplanted tissue by using lab-grown organs from patient's stem cells
Revolution Foods
- Industry: food service
- Headquarters: Oakland, California
- Founded in 2006
- What they do:
- Serves more than 600 lunchrooms and over 120,000 meals each day to students across the country
- Delivers tasty and healthy meals and nutrition education to schools
- How are they helping us live longer:
- Combats childhood obesity by providing nutritional education program to schools
- CDC ranked obesity as #1 health risk in US
