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Elementary School Children Get Hands-On Lesson in Bone Health from Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Alan Nasar of Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute in Freehold, NJ
Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Dr. Alan Nasar of Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute (AOSMI), Freehold and Monroe Township, NJ, visited 4th grade students at a school in Ocean, New Jersey, to talk about bones, musculoskeletal health, how bones are repaired, and how to protect their bones. Dr. Nasar is fellowship-trained in joint replacement, and also specializes in avascular necrosis, knee and hip arthroscopy, and fracture and trauma care. - March 18, 2010 - Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, PC
Ontario Systems Announces Strategic Alliance with State Collection Service, Inc.
State Collection Service to utilize Ontario’s Artiva Healthcare platform to continue growth of Extended Business Office line and Revenue Cycle Outsourcing - March 18, 2010 - Ontario
New Integrated Therapies to be Discussed at Holistic Conference
Kenneth Blum is just one of over 40 professionals who will speak at the Holistic Treatment Conference, hosted by Foundations Recovery Network, at the Palms Casino Resort this April. Blum will present details of his research linking the “alcoholic gene” to music therapy. - March 18, 2010 - Foundations Recovery Network
Dr. Jesse DiRando Shares Success of PhysicianFirst Program
Jesse DiRando, MD, FACEP, Director for EMP's PhysicianFirst Program, recently announced the results from the first year of utilizing the program. - March 18, 2010 - Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP)
South Nassau Surgeon First on LI to Use Latest Advancement in Spine Surgery
Michael Shapiro, MD, is the first surgeon on Long Island to use an injectable bone augmentation material for vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty, two minimally-invasive surgical procedures that repair a vertebral compression fracture (VCF). - March 17, 2010 - Mount Sinai South Nassau
Visiting Physicians Association® Adds Lisa Benton, M.D., M.P.H., to Office in Columbus, Ohio
Benton hired as the newest physician in VPA office that covers covers the Columbus metro area and surrounding suburbs, including Franklin, Delaware, Morrow, Union, Madison, Ross, Pickaway, Fairfield, Licking, Richland, Crawford and Knox Counties. - March 17, 2010 - Visiting Physicians Association
Orange County-Based VQ OrthoCare Recognized for Innovation in Healthcare as an ABBY Award Semi-Finalist
VQ OrthoCare’s OActive Knee Brace and BioniCare System Compete for the Crown of Most Innovative Approach to Improving the Healthcare Industry. - March 17, 2010 - VQ OrthoCare
Launch of F1000 Otolaryngology
Faculty of 1000, the award-winning literature awareness service for the life sciences, has launched the much anticipated Otolaryngology Faculty. The world's top head and neck surgery experts will highlight and evaluate the most important research articles in their field. This new faculty,... - March 17, 2010 - Faculty of 1000
The Medical Tourism Association Along with KHIDI Announce VIP Buyers Incentive Program
The Medical Tourism Association (MTA) along with the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) is excited to announce their VIP Buyers Incentive Program for the 1st Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism Conference Korea. The VIP Buyers incentive program allows for benefits such as travel... - March 17, 2010 - Medical Tourism Association™
New ADHD Memoir Debunks Long Standing and Entrenched Educational Policies While Exploring Pertinent Issues Such as Adderall Abuse, Learning Style, and Stigmatization
"mADD man," is the beautifully written and magnificently dark memoir by author, Brian J. Robinson. It digs deeply and often brutally into ADHD, Adderall abuse, Hollywood, philosophy, rebellion, Judaism, Tulane, New Orleans, and the unique perspective of someone With ADHD. This is not a clinical perspective. - March 16, 2010 - mADD man
Health Care Reform Gets a Boost, Boasts Medical Firm: Paine & Williams Medical Associates
Health care reform is on life support; Dr. Thomas Paine of Paine & Williams Medical Associates injects new energy into the debate with a web site and proposed grass-roots strategy. - March 16, 2010 - Paine & Williams Medical Associates
Law Firm Supports National Health Care Decisions Day - April 16, 2010
Sabrina Winters, Attorney at Law, PLLC along with other national, state and community organizations, is leading a massive effort to highlight the importance of advance healthcare decision-making — an effort that has culminated in the formal designation of April 16th as National Healthcare... - March 16, 2010 - Sabrina Winters, Attorney at Law, PLLC
Green Armor Solutions Secures Mobile Access for Dozens of Hospitals: Access to Medical Records Secured by Leading Authentication Technology
Access to Medical Records from Mobile Devices Secured by Leading Authentication Technology. - March 16, 2010 - Green Armor Solutions
MUMC Designated Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has granted the breast imaging services at MUMC in Savannah full accreditation in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound, and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. - March 15, 2010 - Memorial Health
Comprehensive Genetic Screen No Better Than Knowing Ones Family History for Predicting Cardiovascular Risk
For predicting cardiovascular disease, genetic screening offers very little added benefit beyond traditional factors such as age, blood pressure, smoking status and cholesterol. - March 14, 2010 - Brigham and Women’s Hospital
EmpowerSystems Announces Major Expansion of Reporting Capabilities with empowerBusinessIntelligence
EmpowerSystems now offers its Business Intelligence services, which focus on expansion of their Reporting & Data Mining functionality. Clinical, executive, and IT leadership will have enhanced control of report building and data queries to meet their operational improvement objectives. - March 14, 2010 - Empower Systems
American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine Joins Alliance for CME
The American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine has joined the Alliance for CME, a membership organization for ACCME-accredited providers of continuing medical education. - March 14, 2010 - American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine
Riverwoods Urgent Care Uses Smartphone Technology to Connect Patients with Medical Assistance
Local stand-alone urgent care uses iTriage to reach Mobile Smartphone users. - March 14, 2010 - iTriage, LLC
New Therapy for Prevention of Local Lung Tumor Recurrence
Researchers use a low-dose chemotherapeutic polymer film to deliver drugs directly to lung tissue following surgical resection of a tumor. - March 14, 2010 - Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Logicden Launches Drug Medical Information (DMI) Software, Along with Search Request Manager (SRM) and Drug Literature Knowledgebase (DLK) for Pharmaceuticals
Logicden proudly announces the launch of a software-suite for managing published literature in the life sciences at the 21st DIA Annual Workshop at the Medical Communications conference, sponsored by the Drug Information Association. This premier event which attracts writers and information... - March 13, 2010 - Soft Pro Internationa Inc., dba Logicden
Dr. Jim Augustine Elected to Chair Position with The Joint Commission
EMP congratulates James J. Augustine, MD, FACEP, who was elected for a two year term as Chair of the Hospital Professional and Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) for The Joint Commission. Dr. Augustine is a nationally recognized speaker and educator in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department... - March 13, 2010 - Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP)
Nurse Next Door's Dreams Program Sends Caregiver on Trip to Prince Edward Island
Nurse Next Door's brand new Dreams Program focuses on helping it's more than 1,000 employees across Canada achieve their personal dreams. - March 13, 2010 - Nurse Next Door Home Care Services
Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference Korea 2010 Announces Expert Speakers
The Medical Tourism Association and KHIDI have announced expert speakers for the Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference Korea 2010. - March 13, 2010 - Medical Tourism Association™
3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress Los Angeles Follows Up to Great Reviews
With over 2 years of success, the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism Conference that will take place in Los Angeles, September 22-24th, 2010 with up to 2,000 expected attendees. This year’s agenda has specifically... - March 13, 2010 - Medical Tourism Association™
Memory Loss Improvement Study with Prevagen Announced for Brain Awareness Week
Memory Loss (http://prevagen.com/MemoryLoss.html) Improvement Study QB-0011 - Prevagen Memory Study is being announced by Quincy Bioscience for Brain Awareness Week starting March 15th. Participants in the new study are ages 40-95 experiencing some memory loss. - March 13, 2010 - Prevagen
Kessler Joins Visiting Physicians Association's® Kentucky Office
Kessler hired as the newest physician in VPA office that covers northern Kentucky, including Boone, Pendleton, Kenton, Campbell, Bracken, Grant and Gallatin Counties. - March 13, 2010 - Visiting Physicians Association
HCG Sets Up Exclusive Centre for Women’s Health in Bangalore
HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG), South Asia’s largest cancer care network, today announced the setting up of HCG Centre for Women’s Health, India’s first exclusive centre for Women Health by women, for women, dedicated to the treatment of various cancer and cancer related diseases. - March 13, 2010 - HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd.
IOS Health Systems Announces the Medios Referral Rewards Program
IOS Health Systems (IOS) a national provider of web-based electronic health systems announces the Medios Referral Rewards Program. The incentive program offers a $500 cash reward to anyone who refers a medical practice to contract with Medios EHR. - March 13, 2010 - IOS Health Systems
Retail Clinics and the In-Store Healthcare Market 2009: Bright Spot in the Current Economy Reports Now Available on ReportsandReports
The appearance of in-store health clinics is a significant trend for pharmaceutical and POC diagnostic market watchers, as well as for those in retail. When last Kalorama published the first syndicated market research study on the emerging trend of in-store clinics in 2007, retail clinics were a novel trend. - March 13, 2010 - marketsandmarkets
Physicians and Dentists Streamline Search and Appointment Management for Patients
HealthLeap Bridges the Gap Between Practitioners and Patients by Offering Access to Real-time, Online Appointment Scheduling - March 12, 2010 - HealthLeap
Women & Infants Participating in National Study on Caring for Late Preterm Infants
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island is one of 15 sites selected from a field of 145 applicants across the US and Canada to participate in a research study looking to see if providing some additional, specialized nursing and parental care may help late preterm infants fare better as they go home and grow. - March 12, 2010 - Women & Infants Hospital
Brief: Researchers Identify a Means of Improving the Cryopreservation of Biological Materials
In the cryopreservation of biological materials, size, temperature and composition of a water droplet determine whether the droplet is vitrified or crystallized. - March 12, 2010 - Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Freeland Systems Forecloses on Certain Kardia Health Systems Assets
Freeland Systems bought back various assets previously sold to Kardia Health Systems - March 11, 2010 - Freeland Systems
Epione Laser Breast Lift Poised to Lead Breast Enhancement Trends
Revolutionary Non-surgical Laser Breast Enhancement Procedure Offers Safe, Long-Lasting Alternative to Surgery. - March 11, 2010 - Epione Medical Corp
Coosa Valley Medical Center Implements EmpowerED
EmpowerSystems is pleased to welcome Coosa Valley Medical Center of Sylacauga, Alabama to the Empower family. This marks the momentous transition to a paperless environment for the CVMC team. - March 11, 2010 - Empower Systems
MTA Announces First Certified Medical Tourism Facilitators
The Medical Tourism Association announces the first medical tourism facilitators/medical travel facilitators to be certified by the Medical Tourism Association’s, Medical Tourism Facilitator Certification /Medical Travel Facilitator Certification. The first medical tourism facilitators to be... - March 11, 2010 - Medical Tourism Association™
Kipling's Invites You to Get to Know Norval D. Meredith
Kipling’s Who’s Who is proud to recognize Norval D. Meredith, Pharmacist of Ballinger, Texas. As Pharmacist in charge, he receives prescriptions and is responsible for the delivery of medications to patients. Norval is also a capable hospital consultant pharmacist. However, Norval is... - March 11, 2010 - Kipling's Who's Who
Connex International Announces Fall 2010 Healthcare Sector Meetings
Connex Healthcare has announced dates for its Fall Healthcare Sector Meetings, which will be held in Chicago, September 19th - 21st. The Connex formula involves a highly interactive two-day series of meetings that bring together approximately 60 C-Level hospital executives to examine solutions to... - March 11, 2010 - Connex International
EmpowerSystems Announces Capability to Exchange Clinical Documents
EmpowerSystems Announces Capability to Exchange Clinical Documents. This Key Component for Providers to Meet ARRA HITECH Goals will quickly become an industry standard. - March 11, 2010 - Empower Systems
Johnson Memorial Hospital to Honor EmpowerSystems
Johnson Memorial Hospital of Stafford Springs, Connecticut intends to Honor EmpowerSystems and its empowerED EDIS for contributions to qualify of healthcare and its positive impact on the community. - March 11, 2010 - Empower Systems
Polaris Health Directions and Magellan Health Services to Present on Polaris-Youth at CANS Conference
Dr. Linda Toche-Manley, vice president of Polaris Health Directions, and Barbara Dunn, manager of innovation and outcomes with Magellan, will present the results of a five-year quality improvement project that examined the outcomes of various service mixes for youth enrolled in behavioral health rehabilitative services. - March 11, 2010 - Polaris Health Directions
March 16 - GlassesFair.com to Hold Drawing for Free Complete Pair of Prescription Eyeglasses
Entries made online will be drawn by Angela Brock, Branch Manager at FirstMerit Bank - March 10, 2010 - GlassesFair.com
Sports and Psychology: Frozen Ropes Adopts PsychTests' ACE (Athletic Competition Evaluation) to Improve Young Athletes' Mental Performance
PsychTests AIM Inc. and Frozen Ropes offer athletes the tools to become psychologically and athletically strong performers. Frozen Ropes, renowned for their baseball and softball training centers and player development, and PsychTests AIM Inc., the online testing guru, announced today that they are teaming up to help develop young, aspiring athletes take their mental skills to another level. For more information, go to: http://www.frozenropes.com/home/programs/showtime-training/ace.aspx. - March 10, 2010 - PsychTests AIM Inc.
Epione Offers the Latest Beauty Injection Innovation
Epione introduces the latest advance in dermal filler injections. Treatment Will Be Less Painful With Dermal Fillers; Juvéderm®, Radiesse® and Restylane® Pre-filled Syringes Mixed With Lidocaine. - March 10, 2010 - Epione Medical Corp
Right at Home Grand Opening Fort Worth, TX
It will take a collaboration of private and public organizations to serve the rapidly growing senior population. In an effort to provide worry free and affordable elder care options for the senior and disabled adult population in Fort Worth, Quentas Jones began a franchise relationship with Right... - March 10, 2010 - Right at Home of Northwest Fort Worth
Unimed-Midwest Introduces the Flipchart Organizer for Easy Reference of Critical Information
The Flipchart is an easy-to-create, easy-to-use organizer of important reference information. Ideal for emergency preparedness, policies and procedures, and quick reference guides, the Flipchart is a useful tool for medical, dental and business offices, as well as in the home. - March 10, 2010 - Unimed-Midwest, Inc.
Visiting Physicians Association® Adds Judith H. Weiss, M.D., to East Cleveland Office
Weiss hired as the newest physician in VPA office that covers the greater Cleveland area, including Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, Northern Summit and Northern Portage Counties. - March 10, 2010 - Visiting Physicians Association
Quantros CEO Dr. Sanjaya Kumar to Speak at Iowa Patient Safety Conference
Patient Safety Expert Sanjaya Kumar to Address Evolution of Safety in the Healthcare Industry. - March 10, 2010 - Quantros Inc.
Women & Infants Hosts Professional Conference on Single-Family Room Model for Newborn Intensive Care
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island is hosting a professional conference entitled “Millennium Neonatology: Building for the Future” on Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 7:30 am to 5 pm at the Women & Infants’ Education Center, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI. In... - March 10, 2010 - Women & Infants Hospital
Charter to Bring Awareness to Childhood Obesity
Charter Media East Division and local businesses want to create awareness to the epidemic of childhood obesity. - March 10, 2010 - Charter Media