Health Beat contributor Tim Hawkins works as a media relations consultant for Spectrum Health. An award-winning writer and editor with more than a decade in the biomedical research and healthcare industries, he has also lived and traveled widely throughout North America, Southeast Asia and Latin America, working as a journalist, technical writer, grant writer, communications manager and teacher in international schools. In his spare time, he is a widely-published writer of fiction and poetry and the author of Wanderings at Deadline.
The Angel Ortho Basin is named after its inventor—a surgical technician trying to improve patient care.
Spectrum Health researchers combine imaging scans to produce first 3-D heart model of its kind.
Gifted and talented students practice innovation with the pros.
'He put them on and ran all over the place and just forgot he was wearing them.'
Longtime friends share gift of life from the same donor.
A partnership between Spectrum Health and an engineering student may have solved the problem of patients removing intubation tubes.
In the wake of Leonard Nimoy's death, scientists announce a significant finding in the battle against a major killer.
Antibiotics may impact the development of more disease types than previously believed.
Drink up! Scientists find coffee drinkers have lower risk for melanoma.
Bariatric surgery drastically cuts risk of developing type 2 diabetes, study finds.
Prosthetic device may have implications for a wide range of diseases including Parkinson’s.
