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Eric Rasmussen, author of the very popular Ebola discussion on our Medical Devices Group, is, foremost, a humanitarian.

His “The Future of Global Health” (see http://medgroup.biz/future-global-health for the video recap and transcript) gave a sobering look at the state of global health in the most underserved regions of the world.

You really have to watch his talk (some of the images will take your breath away) for the full impact but he shared these thoughts:

• 95% of the estimated 2 billion population increase by 2050 will be in the cities of the developing world.

• As many people as the United States lost in the Vietnam war died in Russia’s 2010 heat wave. (55,000 people)

• 20 million, almost the population of California, Pakistan residents were displaced from their homes in the 2010 floods.

• Eric photographed the Bangladeshi woman who is the only community health worker for five villages. She’s on a bicycle and she’s got a 2G phone.

• On any given day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, one-third of the population is sick.

• When you don’t have a functioning state, public health is one of the first things to go. That includes down to the clinic level in the villages that don’t get resupplied, and none of them have power because fuel doesn’t move.

Then he talked about places like Tajikistan with “compound crises.” These include natural and industrial disasters, climate change, conflict, trafficking, religious extremism, economic recession, poverty, brain drain, and emerging infections.

This is a video everyone needs to see. Please share it with your teams and colleagues. There is no registration required to view it.

That link again: http://medgroup.biz/future-global-health

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BONUS VIDEO

A second 10x video: “Developing Growth Markets in the Developing World,” a presentation by Terry Mandel, CEO of BioMedLink, and Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, CEO of Levita Magnetics.

She began with a story of a small company entrepreneur who said, “Well, we’re just a small company. We can’t afford to give our products away.”

Terry dispels the misconception and shares stories of entrepreneurs who help the neediest and make a profit doing so.

It’s also available at http://medgroup.biz/future-global-health

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MANUFACTURING SUMMIT

Manufacturing and engineering executives, consider the Medical Device R&D & Manufacturing Summit, on December 8-9 in Miami, FL at the Trump Doral.

Get more information at http://medgroup.biz/mfg-summit

Key topics include:
– Interpreting FDA Regulations
– Impact of the Medical Device Tax
– Inter-Departmental Cohesion
– Supply Chain Management
– The Growing Talent and Development Gap
– CAPA System
– Lean New Product Development

You’ll meet:
– Liz Hammack, VP Manufacturing & Operations, Medtronic
– Mike Hess, VP R&D, Medtronic
– Thom Novelli, VP Government Relations, Cardinal Health
– Michael Stammherr, VP Procurement, B.Braun
– Sean McNally, VP Global Sourcing, Cardinal Health
– Jeff Garner, VP Manufacturing, Bio-Rad Lab
– Dharmesh Dubey, Category Director R&D, Johnson & Johnson

And between presentations and networking, senior executives and solution providers will participate in pre-scheduled mutually selected one-on-one business meetings.

For information on speaking or attending as delegate or solution provider, see http://medgroup.biz/mfg-summit or reach Kevin Dickey at k.dickey@marcusevansch.com

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Make it a great week.

Joe Hage
Medical Devices Group Leader

P.S. Meet great speakers like Eric at our 2015 event: http://medgroup.biz/10x-speakers

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Burrell (Bo) Clawson
I research patents & design products to get a patented competitive position: Over 30 patents.
I think education can help fix “reasons” for failure.

Other commercial & government forces exist however. I recognize the power from the psychology behind modern marketing techniques, which generate sales of products people arguably don’t need. Coca Cola has recognized how to promote and institutionalize a product with arguably no need to be consumed. Habits established early in life are hard to break.

So, in the end people are just going to “keep their expensive habits” plus they will “pay to have the adverse results of habits counteracted?” This sounds like a waste of capital.

Paul M. Stein
Chief Scientist, Inventor, and Entrepreneur – Dedicated to the Treatment of Critical Unmet Medical Needs
There are many reasons, and it would take days to discuss each. Truthfully, there are “reasons” for all of the major health issues the World faces. We cannot, however, stand by and let people suffer because we have issues with the reasons why they got there in the first place. Certainly, absolutely, we need to understand the causes and fix them, but medicine is a multi-pronged attack on problems that are happening. Should we understand and care what is going on in other disciplines other than our own regarding ways to solve those health problems once and for all? Yes! But, some fixes can happen much, much faster than others. If we have the capabilities of doing something right now, we must move on them, because, who the hell knows when those other disciplines will have any influence on mitigating the core reasons for any health problem.

Burrell (Bo) Clawson
I research patents & design products to get a patented competitive position: Over 30 patents.
So, for the first time ever, the world has too much food; at least in a majority of places.

It looks like early & ongoing education in what it takes to succeed in life is the core issue. These used to be the tenets we received from our parents.

So how did guidance from parents get deprecated? Is it by government program promises of care and schooling with the aim of buying votes? Is it from sophisticated marketing campaigns even in underdeveloped countries? Is it overburdened taxes limiting family incomes worldwide? What are the core reasons?

Paul M. Stein
Chief Scientist, Inventor, and Entrepreneur – Dedicated to the Treatment of Critical Unmet Medical Needs
Bo, agreed, and that is where this discussion on the future of global health was pointing. The thing is, however, as the third world shrinks, and the second expands, and as the second’s rolls into the first, obesity quickly follows. Mexico’s obesity rate surpasses the U.S.’s. India and Pakistan are becoming more and more obese. In fact, they are hosting a couple of region (Asia)-wide physician conferences on it this and next year. China’s obese population, especially in children, is going up and up, and the lifespan of this generation is expected to be lower than their parents’. As I alluded to above, the numbers…the numbers…

Burrell (Bo) Clawson
I research patents & design products to get a patented competitive position: Over 30 patents.
Paul, medical technology is going to do wonders in the developed world, in my opinion and we’ve just started the next generation of devices involving home use. In the US, we have tools like text messaging to notify and motivate people to change, amongst the many forms of methods and we think that is “normal.”

In the 3rd world, the average person doesn’t seem to have enough funds to reliably be able to keep soap and other cleansers & sterilizers available for routine use.

Cleanliness is probably one of the greatest advances of the modern world, known now for 150 years and available at modest cost, yet it still is not available in an affordable universal way around the world.

Citizens’ health has to rise from the “ground up” using first principles.

Paul M. Stein
Chief Scientist, Inventor, and Entrepreneur – Dedicated to the Treatment of Critical Unmet Medical Needs
Bo, agreed. Regarding obesity, yes, it is a preventable situation for the vast majority. Forty years ago, less than 10% of the U.S. population was viewed as just overweight. Now, fully 30+% are obese, and it’s as bad or worse in many other countries. What happened? The thing is, in that time, with the worldwide spread of the Western diet and advertising/culture/government/etc. plus human genetic make-up plus the fact that food technology beat the potential evolution of the gastrointestinal system by a country mile plus the inability of most to learn about proper nutrition or food preparation plus a certain amount of laziness, lack of exercise, and just sitting around on the computer, watching television, etc., we’re in the state of obesity we’re in. And, discipline or whatever is not, overnight, going to reverse the situation, and it certainly is not going to quickly allow people to lose all of those pounds they gained to get back to a healthier state any time soon. Human nature is human nature…and the World is still fat, with everything else associated with that.

Medical device technology can and will take a role in remedying this situation, just like it has with other chronic diseases in the cardiovascular, neurological, ophthalmologic, and orthopedic spaces. I invite you and anyone else interested in this possibility to join a new LinkedIn group, OBESITY MEDICAL DEVICES. With a potential $139+B market, larger than the markets for all those four other spaces combined, there is a lot of money to be made by any and all, and millions will be helped in the process.

Burrell (Bo) Clawson
I research patents & design products to get a patented competitive position: Over 30 patents.
Paul, to reconfirm the overview I hear over and over: 75% of healthcare dollars spent in the US are spent on less than 10 chronic illnesses, many of which have roots in self-inflicted or self-excaberated problems. CDC puts out numbers on this.

Paul M. Stein
Chief Scientist, Inventor, and Entrepreneur – Dedicated to the Treatment of Critical Unmet Medical Needs
While everything covered is of tremendous importance, the issue of the global epidemic of obesity was not even mentioned. When the rate of obesity, along with the comorbidities it carries, reach 15-30+% in most countries on the entire planet, it alone dwarfs many of the items in the interview put together.

Anastasia Karanastasi
Orama s.a.
Thanks for the interesting issues you send. Right now in my country because of the situations are very difficult to get this information.
I enjoy everything that you notify

Simon Sikorski
Digital Marketing Director for Competitive Business. Skyrocketing Sales via Digital Lead Gen, SEO, PPC & SoMe Strategy
Good read!

Joe Hage
🔥 Find me at MedicalDevicesGroup.net 🔥
Stephen, I’d very much like that to happen and stand ready to support the group in any reasonable way toward these objectives.

If anyone wishes to reach me personally, my email is JHage@MedicalDevicesGroup.net.

Stephen Barry
Director, Radiation Oncology Innovations
Great videos; both inspire calls to action. With 250K members, perhaps substantial actions will be taken.

Sarah Griffin
Principal, Medtechnique Consulting – Experts in Medical Device Reimbursement
Joe, thanks for bringing this to the group. It is always humbling for those of us fortunate enough to live in wealthy safe countries to have this perspective and be shaken from our complacency

Banu Prakash
Senior Consultant Neurosurgery & Spine surgery
Ashtanga Yoga.
In Sanskrit “Ashta + anga” is Ashtanga. “Ashta” means Eight and “Anga” is limbs so it means Eight Limb path, ashtanga yoga is based on Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. The asanas, Pranayamas or the dharana which we have studied earlier or the yam and niyam are based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Hence, we will acquaint ourselves with the fundamentals as stated by Patanjali first.
History of Ashtanga YogaYoga has its roots about 5000 years BC as described in Vedic Philosophy and Tantras. Patanjali , great sage composed this path into a Darshan(Philosophy) in his Book Patanjal Yoga Sutra. In which he has formulated Yoga as a Eight Limbs or Eight Fold path.
Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
1.Yama (Principles or moral code)
Ahimsa – A principle of non-violence
Satya – A principle of Truthfulness
Asteya – A principle of non stealing
Brahmacharya – Continence / Celibacy
Aparigah – A principle of non-hoarding or non possessiveness
2.Niyama (Personal Disciplines) Shoucha – PuritySantosh – ContentmentTapa – EnduranceSwadhyaya – Self studyEshwar Pranidhan – Dedication
3.Asana – (Yoga Postures / positions) A stable and comfortable posture which helps attain mental equilibrium.
4.Pranayama – (Yoga Breathing) Extension and control of breath.
5.Pratyahara – (Withdrawal of Senses) A mental preparation to increase the power of mind.
6.Dharana – (Concentration on Object) Concentration of mind on one object and its field.
7.Dhyan – (Meditation) With drawing mind from all external objects and Focusing it on one point and meditating on it.
8.Samadhi – (Salvation) State of Super bliss, joy and merging individual consciousness in to universal consciousness. Union between Jivatman and Paramatman. Union of Shiva and Shakti in Sahasrar Chakra (the top of the head). Realizing the Bramhan (pure consciousness) or Realization of God is the ultimate achievement of Human Birth. ತನ್ನಂತೆ ಪರರ ಬಗೆದೊಡೆ – ಕೈಲಾಸ ಬಿನ್ನಾಣವಕ್ಕು ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ
Do to others as you would have others do to you…………this sums all the scriptures and laws for ethical living.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever – Mahatma Gandhi
ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನೆoಬವನು ಗರ್ವದಿಂದಾದನೆ? ಸರ್ವರೋಳಗೊಂದು ನುಡಿಗಲಿತು ವಿದ್ಯಯಾ ಪರ್ವತವೆ ಆದ ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ
“Everybody has something unique & best, i am only trying to learn the best from as many and that’s what makes me different from the rest..!!”

Banu Prakash
Senior Consultant Neurosurgery & Spine surgery
to cure with devices see the vedio
to prevent just be wise…….
Prevention is better than cure.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.-Hippocrates 470-377BC
Stop smoking & alcohol, sugar, maida, fried food
ಧೂಮಪಾನ ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಮೈದ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕರೆದ ತಿಂಡಿ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿ
Take plenty water, tender coconut, RAW vegetables, fruits, buttermilk, sprouts, overnight soaked nuts-organic, fasting
ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು- ನೀರು, ಎಳೆನೀರು, ಹಸಿ ತರಕಾರಿ, ಹಣ್ಣು, ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ, ಹಸಿ ಮೊಳಕೆ ಕಾಳು, ರಾತ್ರಿ ನೆನೆಸಿದ ಕಡ್ಲೆಕಾಯಿ/ಬಾದಾಮಿ-ಸಾವಯವ ಕೃಷಿ ಉತ್ಪನ್ನಗಳು.ಉಪವಾಸ.
Sweating physical work, sunbathing, pranayama, ashtanga yoga, meditation, forgiveness.
ಬೆವರಿಳಿಯುವಂತೆ ಕೆಲಸ, ಚರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿಸಿಲು, ಪ್ರಾಣಾಯಾಮ, ಆಷ್ಟಾಅಂಗ ಯೋಗ, ಧ್ಯಾನ, ಕ್ಷಮೆ
banuprakashas.blogspot.in

Carlos Richer
Diaper Industry Consulting, Nonwoven and Consumer Products. Largest Diaper Network, Top 1% Most Viewed, 11K+ Followers
Thanks Joe, it is an excellent presentation.

Elizabeth Brooks
Executive Vice President, Global Commercialization Services at TTi Health Research & Economics
Thanks, Joe, for bringing our attention to this important topic. I concur that Eric’s presentation and Terry’s and Alberto’s presentation are “don’t miss” opportunities to learn about the state of global health and how we all can contribute to solving global health problems while still building profitable and sustainable businesses.