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13 life-changing healthcare inventions that are celebrating milestone birthdays in 2018
Johnson & Johnson has been in the innovation business for more than 130 years. Check out these first-of-their-kind company products, which have revolutionized flu protection and even changed the way we wear contact lenses.
“What I Learned About Resiliency and Life From Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro”
A trek to the summit of Kili doesn’t just push your physical limits. Just ask Jack Groppel, who made the pilgrimage to the top with his son—and two artificial knees. He reflects on what everyone can take away from his experience as we get ready to ring in a new year.
3 entrepreneurs, 3 big ideas: minimally invasive surgeries of the future
Think big, design small. That’s the M.O. behind these innovations, which have the potential to improve the lives of millions of patients undergoing everything from spinal surgery to heart procedures.
Johnson & Johnson debuts its new Center for Device Innovation at Texas Medical Center
The state-of-the-art innovation hub is equipped with such cutting-edge amenities as 3-D printers and virtual operating rooms—and is helmed by a surgeon and medical device entrepreneur who has dozens of patents to his name.
The Johnson & Johnson Institute: 9 facts about a program that trains 125,000 healthcare providers each year
Specialty medical device training labs. An app that enables medical professionals to practice procedures via 3-D operating room simulations. Welcome to the cutting-edge Institute training program, which has 26 campuses around the world.
5 Things Your Contact Lenses Wish They Could Tell You
If your lenses could talk, they’d likely have a lot to say about how you’re treating them. (Hint: If you’re like most people, there’s probably some room for improvement.) For Contact Lens Health Week, we’re spotlighting top tips for giving your contacts a little TLC.
From injury to athlete: 3 inspiring stories of surgical recovery
Who says undergoing a surgical procedure has to be discouraging? These patients found the opposite to be true—their experiences only fired up their competitive spirits.
“I designed my knee replacement": Meet the Johnson & Johnson employee who benefited from his own innovation
For Dan Rumple, a product designer at DePuy Synthes, being active was a way of life—until knee pain made it impossible to even walk. Turns out, it was the very medical device that he’d been working on that would help get him back on his feet.
The OneTouch Reveal® Mobile App gets an upgrade
The app now has new and improved features designed to help make managing diabetes easier, including the ability to sync with the OneTouch Verio Flex® blood glucose monitoring system through built‐in Bluetooth® Smart Technology.
Meet the man who oversees the making of millions of contact lenses
Barry O’Sullivan heads up Johnson & Johnson’s Visioncare plant in Ireland, which manufactures a global supply of Acuvue® contact lenses—a product that first hit the market 30 years ago. Here’s what it’s like to oversee such a bustling business.