Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Molly Berkowitz, R.N., Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator, recently received the "Outstanding Emergency Medical Services Educator Award" at the annual New Jersey statewide conference on Emergency ...
Sleeping during the day -- a necessity for jet-lagged travelers and those who work overnight shifts -- disrupts the rhythms of about one-third of your genes, a new study suggests. What's more, shifted sleep appears to disrupt gene ...
Could a doctor's white coat or necktie help spread germs among patients? The jury's still out on that question. But one of the world's leading infection control organizations is raising that possibility under just-released germ control ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, White Coat
The connection between smoking in films and its influence on adolescent behavior is well established by research and its impact was listed today in consumer materials accompanying the Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of ...
Tags: Movie Smoking, Smoking, Health, Medicine
Last week was an unusually quiet week in the land of IT-related snafus. Most of the snarls reported concerned existing tech issues that continue to fester without resolution. For example, late last week, Florida decided to pay unemployment ...
Tags: IT-related snafus, Plague Maryland, Governor Rick Scott, CAC
A large-scale human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention/education effort aimed at helping South African men take a proactive role in the prevention of that disease has proven successful, an important development considering that ...
A doctoral dissertation by a Professor at the Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Mártir" (UCV) finds that every cigarette a mother smokes a day during the third quarter of pregnancy reduces the baby's birth weight in 20 ...
Tags: Maternal Smoking, Cum Laude, Alzira-Valencia, pregnancy
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
H.I.G. Capital, LLC ("H.I.G."), a leading global private equity investment firm with more than $13 billion of equity capital under management, announced today that it has completed the sale of its portfolio company MagnaCare Holdings, Inc. ...
Tags: H.I.G., MagnaCare Holdings, EBITDA, successful investment
The use of glass as a building material has a positive effect on various processes such as learning, healing, performance and well-being of people - such a conclusion is based on a joint study of Guardian Industries, a leading manufacturer ...
Watercrest Senior Living Group of Vero Beach,FL,and Index International AB,headquartered in Stockholm,Sweden,announce the finalization of their$500 million partnership in the co-development of senior living communities in the United States. ...
Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced the release of a new reagent kit for the IsoFlux System designed to provide more options for circulating tumor cell (CTC) and other rare cell capture from biological samples. The IsoFlux Rare Cell ...
Some grain may have gone into storage last fall at higher than recommended moisture contents. Now is the time to check stored grain thoroughly and take steps to maintain the grain quality. “Search for small changes that are ...
Tags: Grain, Ken Hellevang, Aeration, storage problems
Vivaldi Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIVs) against seasonal and pandemic influenza, today announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development ...
BC Technical, a leading non-OEM medical imaging solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected by HealthTrust as a provider for refurbished medical imaging equipment for the 1,400 acute care facilities that are part of the ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Refurbished Medical Imaging Equipment