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4th annual 'Rockers4knockers' fundraising event to be held in Mt. Pleasant on October 5, 2014

For the fourth consecutive year, 'Rockers4Knockers' will be rocking Shem Creek in Mt. Pleasant on October 5. Chris Lane, an amazing country singer, will be the headliner of the 20 bands scheduled to perform at this year's event, dubbed as "The Breast event in Charleston."

23 Sep 2014

4D Vision Gym’s workshop to demonstrate how vision therapy can treat concussions

Since approximately seventy percent of the neural connections in the brain are involved with vision and visual processing, how likely is it that a concussion will cause visual disturbances? Can potential problems be avoided or treated with vision therapy?

23 Sep 2014

Rutgers awarded $2 million NIH grant to prepare students for academic research careers

Rutgers is one of seven institutions in the country selected by the National Institutes of Health to receive this year's BEST Award - a $2 million grant designed to expose many of the university's most promising biomedical sciences graduate trainees to career opportunities that go beyond the academic path that they have traditionally taken.

23 Sep 2014

MT Services reports Actos drug cases, updates settlement news

MT Services LLC, a Lawsuit Settlement News Reporting Company which operates lawsuitsettlementnews.com, announced today a primary focus on assisting plaintiffs of the after effects of the pharmaceutical drug Actos.

23 Sep 2014

2014 Medical Tourism Index lists world's top destinations

Healthcare seekers contemplating an affordable treatment overseas and looking for just the right destination should know that Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore and Costa Rica have been ranked as the most attractive destinations for medical tourism in 2014, the International Healthcare Research Center announced today.

23 Sep 2014

University of Louisville School of Medicine completes renovation of instructional building

Ushering in a new era in medical education, officials with the University of Louisville School of Medicine formally celebrated the completion of a $9 million renovation of the school's 40-year-old instructional building.

23 Sep 2014

New study reveals differences in payment and income between physicians

A surprising new study pulls back the curtain on one of the most contentious issues in health care: differences in payment and income between physicians who perform operations, procedures or tests, and those who don’t.

23 Sep 2014

Poll survey shows majority of uninsured Americans unaware of individual mandate and state exchanges

While the percentage of Americans without health insurance has fallen from 22 to 15 percent over the past 11 months, a new Harris Poll survey conducted on behalf of the national non-profit Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS) found that nearly half (46 percent) of those who remain uninsured have still not heard of the individual mandate, and 43 percent have not heard of the Exchanges where they may be eligible to purchase health insurance.

23 Sep 2014

Trauma center in Pennsylvania granted Level IV Trauma Center Accreditation status

Level IV Trauma Center Accreditation status has been granted to an additional hospital in Pennsylvania for the period from November 1, 2014 through October 31, 2015.

23 Sep 2014

Cedars-Sinai scientists test ELAD bioartificial liver support system for patients with acute liver failure

Cedars-Sinai physicians and scientists are testing a novel, human cell based, bioartificial liver support system for patients with acute liver failure, often a fatal diagnosis.

23 Sep 2014

Poll: Canadians support initiatives to save lives of children, mothers in developing countries

As Prime Minister Harper and other world leaders gather this week at the United Nations General Assembly, a new poll shows Canadians care deeply about Canada's efforts to save the lives children and mothers in developing countries who are dying of preventable causes.

23 Sep 2014

New approach to diagnose tuberculosis

Researchers working in the UK and The Gambia, have developed a new approach to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) that relies on direct sequencing of DNA extracted from sputum (a technique called metagenomics) to detect and characterize the bacteria that cause TB without the need for time-consuming culture of bacteria in the laboratory.

23 Sep 2014

Enable Injections named winner of 'Buzz of BIO Investor Forum' contest

Enable Injections, developer of a novel wearable 'bolus injector' that may soon make it easy and nearly painless for patients to self-inject large-dose biologic drugs in the comfort of their homes, has been named winner of the 'Buzz of BIO Investor Forum' contest recognizing highly innovative companies in the biotech sector.

23 Sep 2014

ANSYS, Modelon partner to revolutionize product development

ANSYS and Modelon have entered an agreement to revolutionize product development – reducing late-stage integration failures, decreasing product development costs and speeding time to market.

23 Sep 2014

Study: Ebola outbreak could infect more people unless rigorous control measures are implemented

Unless Ebola control measures in West Africa are enhanced quickly, experts from the World Health Organization and Imperial College, London, predict numbers will continue to climb exponentially, and more than 20,000 people will have been infected by early November, according to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine released six months after WHO was first notified of the outbreak in West Africa.

23 Sep 2014

Mallinckrodt launches OptiSync system to help healthcare professionals manage radiology data

Mallinckrodt today announced the U.S. launch of the OptiSync data management system as a new technology in its Global Medical Imaging segment.

23 Sep 2014

GenoSpace awarded NIH grant to enable enhanced data access, cohort construction for biorepositories

GenoSpace, a precision medicine software company that has developed a comprehensive suite of tools to enable the broad use of genomic data in research and clinical care, today announced that it has been awarded Phase I of a Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Institutes of Health to enable enhanced data access and cohort construction for biorepositories.

23 Sep 2014

Misonix provides ultrasonic BoneScalpel to support Uganda Spine Surgery Mission

Misonix, Inc., an international surgical device company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative therapeutic ultrasonic products for spine surgery, skull based surgery, neurosurgery, wound debridement, cosmetic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and other surgical applications, announces that it has once again supported the Uganda Spine Surgery Mission organized by leading spine surgeon Dr. Isador Lieberman, from the Texas Back Institute in Plano, TX, by providing an ultrasonic BoneScalpel for use in a number of advanced spinal surgeries.

23 Sep 2014

UTHealth study examines effects of smoking policy change at homeless shelter

Instituting a partial smoking ban at a homeless shelter can lead to a reduction in expired carbon monoxide levels, an indicator of exposure to cigarette smoke, and may have positive effects on shelter residents' health, according to new research. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston released the study results last week in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

23 Sep 2014

Researchers say that environment plays much stronger role than genetics in eosinophilic esophagitis

Researchers have found that environment has a much stronger role than genetics in eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a severe, often painful food allergy that renders children unable to eat a wide variety of foods.

23 Sep 2014

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4th annual 'Rockers4knockers' fundraising event to be held in Mt. Pleasant on October 5, 2014

4D Vision Gym’s workshop to demonstrate how vision therapy can treat concussions

Rutgers awarded $2 million NIH grant to prepare students for academic research careers

MT Services reports Actos drug cases, updates settlement news

2014 Medical Tourism Index lists world's top destinations

University of Louisville School of Medicine completes renovation of instructional building

New study reveals differences in payment and income between physicians

Poll survey shows majority of uninsured Americans unaware of individual mandate and state exchanges

Trauma center in Pennsylvania granted Level IV Trauma Center Accreditation status

Cedars-Sinai scientists test ELAD bioartificial liver support system for patients with acute liver failure

Poll: Canadians support initiatives to save lives of children, mothers in developing countries

New approach to diagnose tuberculosis

Enable Injections named winner of 'Buzz of BIO Investor Forum' contest

ANSYS, Modelon partner to revolutionize product development

Study: Ebola outbreak could infect more people unless rigorous control measures are implemented

Mallinckrodt launches OptiSync system to help healthcare professionals manage radiology data

GenoSpace awarded NIH grant to enable enhanced data access, cohort construction for biorepositories

Misonix provides ultrasonic BoneScalpel to support Uganda Spine Surgery Mission

UTHealth study examines effects of smoking policy change at homeless shelter

Researchers say that environment plays much stronger role than genetics in eosinophilic esophagitis

Lab Matters host Harriet Gould on building a more connected lab community

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

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