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#TeamTKC Captain Eli Manning Kicks Off Second Annual Virtual Race to Tackle Kids Cancer
Hackensack Meridian Health Foundations Recognized by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy as High Performers
Martínez Quintana has created stunning 3D digital models that visualize the surface of coral reefs in painstaking detail. The artful re-creations aren’t just beautiful: They’re also filled with data on the distribution of young corals, known as recruits, that scientists are analyzing.
Models that predict traffic volume for specific times and places inform everything from traffic-light patterns to apps that tell you how to get from Point A to Point B. Researchers have now demonstrated a method that makes these models more efficient.
Cardiologists from the Structural and Congenital Heart Center and Cardiac Surgeons at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine have reported what is believed to be the very first patient with heart failure and a blood clot to undergo a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement using CT (computed tomography) fusion imaging, a technique that employs two different imaging modalities.
A newly published analysis in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology of hospitalized patients with both a severe type of heart attack called STEMI (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) and coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infection compares clinical outcomes for these patients during the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Challenge seeks to reduce 30-day readmissions for: acute myocardial infarction (AMI); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); heart failure (HF); pneumonia; coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery; and elective primary total hip arthroplasty and/or total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA).
Companies incorporated in tax havens are often considered more opaque regarding their finances, which could make them risky investments. But a recent study finds that many of these companies are actually more transparent than their counterparts in countries that are not tax havens.
Hackensack Meridian Health is proud to announce that Project HEAL, a hospital-based violence intervention program based at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, received a $500,000 grant to expand services in the successful multi-disciplined program to address community, domestic, and gang-related violence.
“For now, big challenges remain, but change has already come and there is cause for optimism with a healthy dose of realism,” the authors write.
Urologic oncologists at Hackensack University Medical Center are among the first in New Jersey to offer "intravesical chemotherapy" for bladder cancers that have continued to grow despite initial treatment and have not yet invaded the bladder wall.
“For me to be a part of presenting this award every year, it’s a blessing. It’s a blessing to me,” Morgan said after he presented the award to Ogarek. “I know the recipients of this award are people helping others. They are in service to others. That is the way to heaven.”
Hackensack University Medical Center donates blue surgical wrap to North Bergen High School where students transform the medical grade material into magnificent fashion in honor of healthcare workers and Earth Day 2022!
JFK University Medical Center now offers CT scans of the head for critically ill patients directly in the patient’s room with NeuroLogica’s next generation multi-slice, small bore, mobile OmniTom® Elite, that delivers high-quality point-of-care CT imaging.
Black kidney transplant recipients have a faster clearance rate of the immunosuppressive drug tacrolimus than white recipients, according to a new study led by the University at Buffalo. The study, published earlier this year in Pharmacotherapy, is one of the first to examine how both race and sex influence tacrolimus pharmacokinetics.
Zakrzewski Lab aims to train immune system to make its own CAR T cells
Lead is an environmental neurotoxicant that causes neurocognitive deficits and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. It also disproportionately affects socially disadvantaged communities. The association between lead exposure and children’s IQ has been well studied, but few studies have examined the effects of blood lead on children’s physiological stress and behavior. Three University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) studies shed light on how lead can affect children and adolescents’ physiological stress and emotional/behavioral development.
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center started a new study investigating the impact of omega-3 supplements on post-COVID symptoms.
A new study finds companies that are more aggressive in their tax planning tend to do a worse job of managing their workforce. Specifically, these companies were more likely to be “underemployed,” meaning they hadn’t hired enough staff to operate efficiently.
Pediatric Specialists Now Seeing Patients
“At Hackensack Meridian Health, our focus is to provide the best healthcare experience possible and we see Old Bridge Medical Center is doing just that by officially opening their new Emergency Department to our community,” said Robert C. Garrett, chief executive officer, Hackensack Meridian Health. “This expansion will allow unprecedented access to a full continuum of care.”
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) advanced practice nurse Katherine E. DeMarco, DNP, MSHS, FNP-BC, APN, ACHPN, is an inaugural recipient of the 2022 Emerging Leaders Award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF).
“Our team of neurologists and specialized therapists identified the need to help people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease who are not acutely ill or severely disabled but who struggle greatly at home with the symptoms and life-style changes that Parkinson’s disease brings,” said Sara Cuccurullo, M.D., vice president and medical director, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. “In our new program, patients are admitted from their homes to participate in an individualized, multidisciplinary and targeted two-week inpatient rehabilitation program that helps them restore and maintain their function.”
A new study finds that efforts to empower employees need to be coupled with efforts that allow those employees to do their jobs well. If institutional obstacles make it difficult for workers to thrive, empowering them can lead to unethical behavior.
Sprinkled with hand-drawn diagrams by Kinney, “An Infinity of Worlds” introduces readers to the science of cosmic inflation and the evidence for it, as well as the theory’s shortcomings.
Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert C. Garrett Addresses the Importance of Health Care Equity at Inaugural POLITICO Health Summit in Washington, D.C.
New research offers insight into why Facebook’s targeted advertising can be more like a wild pitch. Researchers knew Facebook creates interest profiles based on each user’s activities, but the new study finds this process doesn’t account for the context of these activities.
To create a safer learning environment for Black students, schools should turn to culturally relevant and Afrocentric policies and practices that better incorporate their identity in the school culture, according to a new University at Buffalo-led study.
The Audrey Hepburn Children’s House - located on the campus of Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center - and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, have received a grant of $76,000 from the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
Kenneth Lieberman, M.D., chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and professor of Pediatrics at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Excellence in Care Award from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a research and advocacy organization. He is the first New Jersey pediatric nephrologist to receive the honor.
Research goals include increasing fundamental understanding of physical processes that could be used to evaluate chip performance and security, and creating new, ultra-sensitive testing strategies that build on this knowledge.
Of the more than 200,000 women in U.S. federal and state prisons and jails, it is estimated that up to 10% are pregnant and will give birth while incarcerated. Clinical practice guidelines to support breastfeeding and increase infants’ access to human milk are well established. However, little data assess the extent to which they are modifiable or applicable for incarcerated mothers.
The Frontline Health Workers Digital Theater Project uses the viewpoints of those working in the Penn Medicine health system (transport, nurses, doctors, etc.) as inspiration for virtual theatrical performances created by playwrights from Elevate Theatre Company, LLC in partnership with Penn Nursing.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) faculty J. Margo Brooks Carthon, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Adriana Perez, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, are guest editors of the April 2022 special edition of the journal Research in Nursing & Health. The Issue “Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health” is the first of its kind published by a nursing research journal.
A University at Buffalo communication researcher has developed a framework for measuring the slippery concept of social media public opinion.
First corpus callosotomy surgery performed at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center
“Our goal is to help both adults and children improve their quality of life after injury, illness or surgery,” said Anthony Cuzzola, vice president, Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services, Hackensack Meridian Health. “Our dedicated medical professionals will assess your condition and develop a personalized treatment program.”
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center recently welcomed Roshani Patel, M.D., FACS, as medical director for breast surgery, part of Hackensack Meridian Health Cancer Care.