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Newswise:Video Embedded heart-on-a-chip-for-safer-cancer-treatment
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Released: 1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
‘Heart-on-a-Chip’ For Safer Cancer Treatment
Cedars-Sinai

Chemotherapy can be toxic to heart cells. To help protect the hearts of cancer patients, Cedars-Sinai investigators have created a three-dimensional “heart-on-a-chip” to evaluate drug safety.

Newswise: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Creates Dedicated Small Baby Unit to Care for its Tiniest, Most Fragile Babies
Released: 31-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Creates Dedicated Small Baby Unit to Care for its Tiniest, Most Fragile Babies
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has launched a dedicated Small Baby Unit to provide the highest level of specialized care to critically ill premature babies.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health Win Grant to Train Health Professionals and Improve Care
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health received a $4,237,500 grant over five years to train future scientists and health professionals to deliver higher quality, safer and more efficient patient care through a new innovative data-driven initiative.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Our winter of discontent: Get the latest news on the flu in the Influenza channel
Newswise

The latest research and expertise on the flue can be found in the Influenza channel on Newswise.

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Released: 29-Jan-2024 11:30 AM EST
Mount Sinai Leaders Showcase Innovations and Solutions in Health Delivery and Care Quality at Arab Health 2024
Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System leaders will attend and present at Arab Health 2024, the Middle East’s largest healthcare exhibition and congress, on January 29 – February 1

Released: 29-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health’s Palisades Medical Center Receives The Joint Commission’s Health Care Equity Certification
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, is proud to announce that Palisades Medical Center is the third hospital in the network to receive the Health Care Equity Certification from The Joint Commission.

24-Jan-2024 8:00 AM EST
Almost 50% of Patients Under 60 Years Choose TAVR Over Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement with Worse Outcomes
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

In a study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2024 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, researchers examined outcomes for patients undergoing SAVR and those undergoing TAVR from 2013 to 2021 in the state of California.

Newswise: Huntsman Cancer Institute Receives $20 Million Land Donation from Flagship Companies and Woodbury Corporation, the Developers of Utah City
Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Huntsman Cancer Institute Receives $20 Million Land Donation from Flagship Companies and Woodbury Corporation, the Developers of Utah City
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah

Huntsman Cancer Institute's groundbreaking $20 million land donation from a developer for a new campus in Utah County promises expanded world-class care, breathtaking views, and reduced travel burden for patients.

Released: 25-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
#ASC2024: Ethnicity as survival predictor for gastric cancer, early liver retransplantation, risk factors for chemical restraint use among adult trauma patients and more
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Surgeons and scientists at UCLA Health will present data on the latest basic science, translational and health services research that has the potential to improve patient care at the 19th annual Academic Surgical (ASC) Congress in Washington, D.C., Feb. 6 to 8.

Newswise:Video Embedded vascular-verification-program-verifies-first-three-outpatient-centers
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Released: 25-Jan-2024 11:00 AM EST
Vascular Verification Program Verifies First Three Outpatient Centers
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

The American College of Surgeons (ACS), with the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), has verified the first three outpatient centers as part of the recently launched Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP).

24-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
A Study of How Americans Die May Improve Their End of Life
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Nearly all older U.S. citizens follow one of nine trajectories in their last three years, Rutgers Health researchers say.

Newswise: FAU Nursing Continuing Professional Development Receives ANCC Accreditation
Released: 24-Jan-2024 8:30 AM EST
FAU Nursing Continuing Professional Development Receives ANCC Accreditation
Florida Atlantic University

FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing has achieved accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 4:00 PM EST
U.S. House of Representatives Recognizes the Contributions of CRNAs
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

In honor of National CRNA Week (Jan. 21-27, 2024), U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Dave Joyce (R-OH) again introduced a bipartisan House Resolution on the House floor, "Recognizing the roles and the contributions of America's Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists" (CRNAs) and their critical role in providing quality healthcare to the public and our nation’s armed forces, for more than 150 years.

Newswise: Virtual Nursing Offers Untapped Potential to Address Challenges Facing Healthcare
Released: 23-Jan-2024 6:00 AM EST
Virtual Nursing Offers Untapped Potential to Address Challenges Facing Healthcare
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

Virtual nursing presents opportunities for novel solutions to the overwhelming demands and serious issues facing healthcare.

Released: 22-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Scientists Identify Mutations That Cause Inherited Kidney Disease
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, have discovered a new genetic cause of inherited kidney disease.

Released: 22-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Ochsner Health Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity by Newsweek for the Second Consecutive Year
Ochsner Health

The Newsweek survey of over 220,000+ individuals included representation at more than 1.5 million companies in America.

Released: 22-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Welcomes Vince Loffredo, Ed.D., as Chief Learning Officer
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

In a strategic move, ASA has hired Vince Loffredo, Ed.D., as its new Chief Learning Officer, where he will oversee the Education, Meetings, and Publications departments, as well as serve as a vital member of ASA’s CEO team.



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