Edwards Lifesciences

Healing Doors of the Heart

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_heart_valves_(450128462).jpg

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.

Johnson and Johnson

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stent

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.

Internship vs CO-OP

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After researching into a lot of biotechnology companies, I have seen that some of the them offer internships to students while other offer COOPs.  After noting this, I thought to myself, why not do a post explaining the difference between the two.

Boston Scientific

Wireless in Biotechnology

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcutaneous_Implantable_Defibrillator_(S-ICD)

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

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XswzbsrF6iE

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.

Internships at Thoratec Corporation/ St. Jude Medical

Thoratec Coorportation- Fighting Heart Failure

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device#/media/File:Blausen_0621_LVAD.png

There are many medical devices out in the world that promise somewhat normal life for those who have heart failure.  But by far the coolest device is Thoratec Corporation's Heart Mate II device because patients that have the device have no heart beat.  No heart beat you say! How can this be?