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Released: 20-Sep-2024 7:05 PM EDT
Global Ultrasound Institute Launches GUSI Fellowships Platform: Elevating Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education
Global Ultrasound Institute

The Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI) is proud to announce the launch of the GUSI Fellowships Platform, an innovative online platform designed to empower learners around the world to achieve confidence and competency in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).

Newswise: ‘I Feel Like I’Ve Been Shot in the Head’: Mother, Daughter Survive Complex Brain Aneurysms
Released: 20-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
‘I Feel Like I’Ve Been Shot in the Head’: Mother, Daughter Survive Complex Brain Aneurysms
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A mother and daughter survive complex brain aneurysms, including the daughter's ruptured aneurysm, after receiving care from neurosurgeon Rafael De Oliveira Sillero, M.D., and his partners at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Newswise: ND Expert Sean Kassen: Statement on First FDA-Approved Treatment for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
Released: 20-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
ND Expert Sean Kassen: Statement on First FDA-Approved Treatment for Niemann-Pick Type C Disease
University of Notre Dame

Today, the FDA announced the first approved treatment for Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease: an oral medication named Miplyffa (arimoclomol). Sean Kassen, director of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund at the University of Notre Dame, said this represents the beginning of a new and hopeful era for NPC families.

Newswise: UCLA Researcher Awarded $4 Million to Advance Radiopharmaceutical Therapy for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer
Released: 20-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
UCLA Researcher Awarded $4 Million to Advance Radiopharmaceutical Therapy for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Dr. Jeremie Calais received two grants from Novartis totaling $4 million aimed at improving the effectiveness of the radiation-emitting targeted therapy 177-Lu-PSMA-617 for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), one of the most challenging forms of the disease.

Newswise: Getting to the Root of the Problem: $8M Funds Investigation into Oral Health Disparities
Released: 20-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Getting to the Root of the Problem: $8M Funds Investigation into Oral Health Disparities
University of Utah Health

An eight-year project aims to uncover the complex web of interacting factors that drive oral health inequity, which in turn affects many other serious health conditions.

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Released: 20-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Disparities Narrowing Among Patients Undergoing Blood Stem Cell Transplant, Roswell Park Study Reveals
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Open Disparities Narrowing Among Patients Undergoing Blood Stem Cell Transplant, Roswell Park Study Reveals configuration options Historically, some patients with blood cancers have been less likely than others to receive stem cell transplant, also known as bone marrow transplant.

Newswise: SLU Researchers Identify Sex-Based Differences in Immune Responses Against Tumors
Released: 20-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT
SLU Researchers Identify Sex-Based Differences in Immune Responses Against Tumors
Saint Louis University

Researchers at Saint Louis University School of Medicine investigated differences in T-cell responses between male and female patients with lung cancer that may help direct future treatments. T-cell responses are part of the adaptive immune system, which is part of the body's "smart system" that monitors for threats and fights them with customized defenses.

Newswise: Channeling Challenge Into Community: Hunter’s Story
Released: 20-Sep-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Channeling Challenge Into Community: Hunter’s Story
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Hunter doesn’t remember much from his time at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, but more than a decade later, one small moment has stuck with him in multiple ways.A blonde woman asks him: “She’d hold up an array of ChapSticks,” Hunter explains, “blueberry, strawberry, green apple, root beer float and chocolate.”

Newswise: American Dental Hygienists’ Association Teams Up with Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc for National Dental Hygiene Month 
Released: 20-Sep-2024 5:05 AM EDT
American Dental Hygienists’ Association Teams Up with Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc for National Dental Hygiene Month 
American Dental Hygienists' Association and Colgate® Oral Pharmaceuticals

The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA®) and Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a Colgate-Palmolive Company, are proud to partner together for a fourth year in a row in support of October’s National Dental Hygiene Month (NDHM).

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Released: 19-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
New Combination Treatment Brings Hope to Patients with Advanced Bladder Cancer
University of Chicago Medical Center

Findings from the international FORT-2 clinical trial showed that a combination treatment including immunotherapy is safe and tolerable in patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer. The results, which were recently published in JAMA Oncology, show potential to broaden the number of patients with bladder cancer who could benefit from immunotherapy, an approach that harnesses a patient's own immune system to fight cancer.

Newswise: The Ocean Corporation collaborates with UTHealth Houston on Space Medicine Fellowship program
Released: 19-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
The Ocean Corporation collaborates with UTHealth Houston on Space Medicine Fellowship program
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

UTHealth Houston and The Ocean Corporation are collaborating on UTHealth Houston’s Space Medicine Training Fellowship program, which now includes a two-week intensive training focused on hyperbaric technologies and analog environments akin to those astronauts experience during extravehicular activities (EVAs), or space walks.

Released: 19-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT
MSU Researchers Seek to Expand Access to Successful Postpartum Depression Prevention Program
Michigan State University

A Michigan State University-led research team now offers a program that can help prevent postpartum depression. And they want to make sure all pregnant people can benefit.

Newswise: A Common Culprit Drives Prostate Cancer Progression
Released: 19-Sep-2024 11:00 AM EDT
A Common Culprit Drives Prostate Cancer Progression
Johns Hopkins Medicine

By tracking the changes in prostate cancer cells over time, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have found that activation of the MYC gene — a well-known cancer-causing gene — sets off a cascade of events that leads to both initiation and progression of the disease.

Newswise: University Hospitals Recognized at White House for Patient Safety Leadership
Released: 19-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
University Hospitals Recognized at White House for Patient Safety Leadership
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Leaders from University Hospitals joined a select few of the nation’s leading healthcare systems at a White House forum on patient and workforce safety as part of World Patient Safety Day on September 17.

Newswise: $25m Gift to Benefit Patients at U-M's New Weiser Family Center for Breast Cancer, Spur Additional Giving
Released: 19-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
$25m Gift to Benefit Patients at U-M's New Weiser Family Center for Breast Cancer, Spur Additional Giving
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Michigan Medicine will launch a new era in comprehensive breast cancer care, thanks to a generous donation from the Weiser Charitable Foundation

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Newswise: The Medical Minute: Exercise Gain Without Pain. Well, Maybe Some Soreness.
Released: 18-Sep-2024 8:05 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: Exercise Gain Without Pain. Well, Maybe Some Soreness.
Penn State Health

Ow, ow, ow. A little soreness after a workout is normal. But how much is – ow – too much? A Penn State Health expert weighs in.


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