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Valve Repair First in New England Done With Robotic Device

Alfred man chooses innovation after counseling from Patient Advocates in Gray. Gray, ME (PRWEB) July 28, 2009 -- A York County man recently became the first person in New England to undergo a robot-assisted repair of the valve that allows blood into the heart, with su...

Emerson Ecologics Names Michelle Hebert New England Regional Sales Representative

BEDFORD, N.H., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerson Ecologics, LLC today announced that Michelle Hebert has been named New England Sales Representative. Michelle will develop and implement new business opportunities while maintaining Emerson's many long-term business partnerships with practitione...

Hospice of Michigan President and CEO Available for Comment on New England Journal of Medicine Article on Profits in Hospice Industry and Proposed Changes From MedPAC

DETROIT, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hospice of Michigan, the state's largest hospice and one of the largest non-profit hospices in the nation, will have spokespersons available to comment on the New England Journal of Medicine's article on profits in the hospice industry published ...

Landmark Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine

New York Hospital Queens One of Clinical Sites, Research Director is Co-Author FLUSHING, N.Y., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's most respected medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, is publishing a landmark study this week that explores treatments for people with bo...

London, England Fire Department Places Major Order with Draeger

PITTSBURGH, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The London Fire Department has placed a major order with Draeger for both breathing apparatus and monitoring systems. Representing a significant level of investment, even for the UK's largest firefighting service, the order also reflects a major commitment on be...

IntelliSoft Group Contracts with New England Hospitals: Berkshire Health Systems and Porter Medical Center

Berkshire Health Systems and Porter Medical Center, two regional medical centers in New England, have purchased automated medical credentialing software from IntelliSoft Group. Nashua, NH (Vocus) April 9, 2009 -- ISG Group LLC, doing business as IntelliSoft Group, has a...

New England Journal of Medicine Opinion Column Suggests Ineffective Shortcuts to Solve Obesity Challenge

WASHINGTON, April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to an opinion column published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Susan Neely, president and CEO for the American Beverage Association ( ABA ), issued the following statement: "We agree that obesity is a serious and com...

Acclaimed New England Photographer Donald Verger Holds 'Faces of Innocence' Charity Event for the Innocence Project

'Faces' Verger's Fourth Exhibit to Benefit the IP - Over $2,200 In Donations Raised to Date PORTLAND, Maine, April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Donald Verger, award-winning photographer and philanthropist is taking his personal experience with eyewitness misidentification and using it to help raise awar...

Atkins Responds to Recent New England Journal of Medicine Weight-Loss Diets Study Results

Low-Carb Diets Included in Study Not Atkins Diet DENVER, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study titled "Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates" (Feb. 26, 2009), concluded that reduced-calorie diets ...

Taming Wide Variations in Spending Key to Health Reform - New England Journal of Medicine Commentary from Dartmouth Atlas Project

Dallas Medicare spending is growing twice as fast as San Diego. The system rewards physicians for providing care even when it is not needed. LEBANON, N.H., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The cost of providing health care to seniors is rising more than twice as fast in Dallas as in Sa...

American Lung Association of New England Launches Online Asthma Control Test

Results To Offer New Insights on How Well Asthma is Controlled in New England PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association of New England (ALANE) has partnered with QualityMetric Incorporated of Lincoln, Rhode Island to offer an online survey and corresponding repor...

PEGASYS(R) Proven Effective as Hepatitis C Treatment for Latino Patients, According to Article in The New England Journal of Medicine

- Largest Prospective Study Demonstrates Treatment Success, and Highlights Potential Factors that Affect Health Outcomes, in Latino Population Suffering from Chronic Hepatitis C - NUTLEY, N.J., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Results from the LATINO study, the largest study conducted to-date in Lat...

New Experts Help New England Peptide Combat Global Acetonitrile Shortage; Company Integrating Cost-Effective Chemical Solvent Alternatives

New England Peptide, a Massachusetts-based designer and producer of custom peptides and polyclonal antibodies for drug and vaccine discovery organizations worldwide, is providing customers with alternative chemical solutions in the face of the global shortage of acetonitrile. Heading New England...

Facing Deadly Ice Storms, Home Medical Equipment Providers in New England Mobilize to Protect Oxygen Patients

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Home oxygen providers in New England prepared for the deadly ice storm that struck last week and have responded with extra visits and contacts with patients receiving home oxygen therapy. An oxygen patient who uses an oxygen system that runs on e...

Melanoma Foundation of New England Wins Gold Triangle Award From the American Academy of Dermatology

"No-Tanning Pledge" Program for the Prom a Winner, Features Kelli Pedroia CONCORD, Mass., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Dermatology has announced that the Melanoma Foundation of New England is a 2009 recipient of its prestigious Gold Triangle Award given for "s...

LSUHSC's England leads development of new testing guidelines for common nerve disorder

John D. England, MD, Professor and Chairman of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of two studies recommending new testing guidelines for neuropathy a common degenerative nerve disorder that to this time had few evidence-based sta...

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Care New England Reach Multiyear Agreement

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) and Care New England (CNE) today announced that they have reached a new five-year agreement, which ensures that CNE will remain in the BCBSRI network until 2013. The agreement applies to all CNE hospital...

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Care New England Reach Agreement to Extend Network Participation

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) and Care New England (CNE) today announced that an agreement has been reached to extend CNE participation in the BCBSRI network until March 31, 2009. This means that BCBSRI members will continue to have...

AUDIO from Medialink and Genzyme: Study in New England Journal of Medicine Shows Investigational Compound Reduced Relapses and Disability in Patients With MS

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase II clinical trial data appearing in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that an investigational compound reduced the effect of multiple sclerosis in comparison to a comparator product, and allowed patients to regain some lost funct...

Herley New England Receives Additional $1.3 Million Contract Award from Lockheed Martin for the Multi-Mission Helicopter

LANCASTER, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Herley Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRLY ) announced today that its Herley New England division in Woburn, Massachusetts, has a contract totaling approximately $1.3 million from Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, NY, for the manufacture...

HUB International New England Reminds Massachusetts Boaters that Safety is Paramount This Summer

- Following Some Simple Tips From a Leading Area Insurance Brokerage Can Help Prevent Fatalities, Injuries and Damage - WILMINGTON, Mass., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Each weekend, upwards of 130,000 Bay Staters take their boats out on the water. While most consider boating a source of...

MultiVu Video Feed: Study in the New England Journal of Medicine Shows High Blood Pressure Drug Tekturna(R) Reduces Key Marker of Kidney Disease

Diabetes and high blood pressure are the leading causes of kidney disease, which affects approximately 26 million people in the United States. For patients with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, reducing proteinuria is associated with slowing the progression of kidney disease, which can...

Veterinary medicine contributes $3.3 billion to New England economy

NORTH GRAFTON, MASS., June 3, 2008 Veterinary medicine contributes $3.3 billion to the economies of New Englandand the region faces a shortage of as many as 658 veterinarians by 2014, according to a study released today by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. The s...

Reproductive Science Center of New England Receives Ambulatory Health Care Accreditation

LEXINGTON, Mass., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reproductive Science Center of New England has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association), according to Dr. Samuel Pang, medical director. Status as an accredited org...

MedQuist Technology Solutions to Power Documentation Workflow at New England Facility

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedQuist Inc. (Pink Sheets: MEDQ.PK) announces that Anna Jaques Hospital, a 123-bed acute care community hospital in Newburyport, Mass., has selected MedQuist Technology Solutions to deliver a complete clinical documentation solution ...

New England Technology Foundation Announces 'Connecting for Children's Charities 2008' Event

Networking Event Raises Funds for Children's Charities; Highlights include Awards, Food and Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament BOSTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New England Technology Foundation (NE Technology Foundation) ( http://www.netechfoundation.org ) today announced ...

New England Area Fertility Experts Issue Call for Ethnic Egg Donors

LEXINGTON, Mass., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Swelling numbers of infertile couples are turning toward egg donation as a means to become pregnant and are in turn creating an acute shortage of ethnic minority donors, say physicians at the Reproductive Science Center (RSC) of New England. As a re...

Newest Hospital in New England Signs Agreement With Global Med Technologies(R), Inc.

Unique Facility is First New Maine Hospital in 25 Years DENVER, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GLOB), an international e-Health, medical information technology company, announced today that its Wyndgate Technologies(R) division h...

Dr. Robert Leonard First in New England to Offer Genetic Test for Male Pattern Baldness

CRANSTON, R.I., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Robert Leonard, Founder and Chief Surgeon of Leonard Hair Transplant Associates with offices in MA, RI and NH, announced today the availability of a new genetic test for male pattern baldness. Dr. Leonard is the only hair surgeon in New England to of...

Kelli Pedroia, Wife of Red Sox Dustin Pedroia, Joins Melanoma Foundation of New England to Warn About Tanning for the Prom

CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kelli Pedroia, wife of Red Sox star Dustin Pedroia, recently joined the Melanoma Foundation of New England as prom spokesperson. She will be speaking out about the dangers of tanning. She should know. She tanned a lot as a teenager, and a year...

Leading IVF Practice to Open 11th New England Location

Reproductive Science Center to Open Melrose, Massachusetts Location in February LEXINGTON, Mass., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Reproductive Science Center of New England announces the opening of a new office in Melrose, Mass. to serve the needs of patients who live i...

Boston Scientific Comments on New England Journal of Medicine Article

NATICK, Mass., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX ) today issued the following statement from Donald S. Baim, M.D., Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, on an article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled "A Comparison of Bare-Metal and Drug-Eluting Stents for Off...

Jobson Medical Information LLC Acquires CenterWatch and New England IRB From Thomson Healthcare

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobson Medical Information LLC ("JMI"), a leading healthcare information and marketing services provider, announced that they had acquired the assets of CenterWatch and The New England Institutional Review Board ("NEIRB") from Thomson Healthcare Inc., a subsidi...

U.S. Preventive Medicine to Expand into England with iHealth UK Ltd.

DALLAS and LONDON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), a company that is building the first network focused on prevention in the United States and internationally ( http://www.USPreventiveMedicine.com ), announced today it has signed a letter of intent with iHealth UK Ltd. to ...

New England Journal of Medicine Selects ScholarOne's Manuscript Central for Online Peer Review

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC ; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that the Massachusetts Medical Society's New ...

The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes EURIDIS/ADONIS Study Results Showing Dronedarone Maintained Sinus Rhythm in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter With no Observed Pro-Arrhythmia

PARIS, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi-aventis announced the publication of two international trials -- EURIDIS and ADONIS -- which demonstrated that dronedarone (MULTAQ(TM)), a new anti-arrhythmic agent in late stage development, is significantly more effective than placebo in mainta...

Smart Balance to Bring Milk with More Taste and Less Fat to New York City and Albany Metro Areas and New England

Excellent Source of Omega-3s EPA/DHA and 170% Daily Requirement of Vitamin E PARAMUS, N.J., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smart Balance, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMBL ) today announced that it will launch Smart Balance(TM) Milk in supermarkets in the New York City and Albany metro areas and New Eng...

Cynosure President and CEO Michael Davin Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) 2008 Award Winner in New England

WESTFORD, Mass., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cynosure, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYNO ), a leading developer and manufacturer of a broad array of light-based aesthetic treatment systems, today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Davin received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur...

Children's Hospital Boston Ranked Number One in New England

Named number one in the nation in cardiology and GI by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Children's Hospitals" for 2008 BOSTON, May 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital Boston has again been listed as one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country, according to U.S.N...

£20M health research collaboration announced for the southwest England

The Southwest Peninsula Clinical Research Collaboration, a partnership between Peninsula Medical School, NHS South West and the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, has been awarded a 20 million grant to conduct research and improve care in major conditions including heart disease, diabetes, menta...