Author: Dorron Blumberg

Flow Visualization to Qualitatively Test Facemasks and Social Distancing      

  

June 30, 2020 – Currently, there are no specific guidelines on the most effective materials and designs for facemasks to minimize the spread of droplets from coughs or sneezes to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. While there have been prior studies on how medical-grade masks perform, data on cloth-based coverings used by the vast majority of the general public are sparse. 
 

 

June 30, 2020 – Boca Raton Regional Hospital has received a significant commitment from Mason Slaine, in the amount of $1.5 million, towards Keeping the Promise…The Campaign for Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Mason joins other notable philanthropists throughout our community who have generously contributed seven and eight-figure gifts to the capital campaign that now boasts $163 million raised thus far. In recognition of Mason’s generosity, the new Patient Admissions Area in the new patient tower will be named in his honor.
 

 

June 29, 2020 – Scientists from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a method allowing for the long-term culture of “pancreatic slices” to study the regeneration of the human pancreas in real time. The results, published today in the journal of Nature Communications, demonstrate for the first time that extended cultures of near-intact human pancreatic tissue retain the ability of the live organ to replenish insulin-producing beta cells. The use of this system as a model to study pancreatic regeneration could have important therapeutic implications for the treatment of diabetes.