Edwards Lifesciences

Healing Doors of the Heart

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Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of deaths around the world.  Many people believe that the disease is when a person gets a heart attack.  What the people don’t realize is that cardiovascular disease can effect a person in several different ways; heart attack being only one on them.

Abbott Laboratories

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Many people think that pharmaceuitical and medical device companies only make drugs or medical devices, but that is not true.  There are in fact many companies that produce medicines and medical devices for everyday use. For example, Abbott Laboratories produces

Johnson and Johnson

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Have you ever wandered if Johnson & Johnson made any products besides baby shampoo and skin care products?  You may not know this but Johnson & Johnson is also a leading manufacture of medical devices.

Boston Scientific

Wireless in Biotechnology

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Technology has advanced remarkably fast over the past few decades specially in the medical field. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to see in person the a defibrillator developed by Boston Scientific that makes use of such advances in technology to help pace the heart.

Internship at Medronic

World's Largest Standalone Medical Device Company

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Medtronic is the largest medical device company in the world. The company has its US headquarters in Minnesota with several locations in California.  If you want to work on cutting edge research and want to be a force of change in the treatment of disease, then I highly recommend you to consider a career at Medtronic.  Medtronic offers internships and full time positions and if you would like to apply for an internship click here.  If you would like to learn about the technologies that Medtronic is currently producing, please continue reading.

Fuel the World

Biotechs Helping to Conserve Fuel World Wide

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In the previous post, I suggested a pathway in biotechnology that makes use of genetics to detect and cure diseases.  What if you are not the type of person who likes genetcs?  What if you are a type of person that like industry?  Well there is a pathway in biotechnology for you.

Heal the World

Biotechs Eliminating Diseases World Wide.

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Many people are interested in biotechnology but sometimes they don't know which pathway to follow.  They have a general idea of what biotechnology is but still get confused on which direction to go.  If you are one of these individuals, then let me ask you this, do you want to heal the world?