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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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12-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Can the MIND Diet Lower the Risk of Memory Problems Later in Life?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

People whose diet more closely resembles the MIND diet may have a lower risk of cognitive impairment, according to a study published in the September 18, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Results were similar for Black and white participants.

Newswise: The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 2024-2025 Board of Directors Installed
Released: 18-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 2024-2025 Board of Directors Installed
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) has inducted their 2024-2025 ARN Board of Directors during the closing ceremony of ARN’s 50th Rehabilitation Nursing Conference.

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Released: 18-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
ASN Kidney Health Guidance on the Management of Obesity in Persons Living with Kidney Diseases
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

ASN Kidney Translation Series podcast episode, led by Matt Sparks, related to the ASN New Initiative Kidney Health Guidance on the Management of Obesity in Persons Living with Kidney Diseases.

Released: 18-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Rutgers Receives $3.2 Million from NIH to Study Micronanoplastics in the Digestive System
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers received a $3.2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of micronanoplastics on the digestive system.

Newswise: Horse-Caring Helps Veterans With PTSD
Released: 18-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Horse-Caring Helps Veterans With PTSD
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A study by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has shown that military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), who participated in a program caring for horses, experienced an improved mental outlook and easing of symptoms. Some of the most widely used psychotherapy interventions for PTSD ... have shown that about one-third of participants drop out prior to the completion of treatment.

18-Sep-2024 12:15 PM EDT
UC San Diego Health Maintains Top Quality Care Status by Vizient
UC San Diego Health

UC San Diego Health ranks among the top academic medical centers for quality in Vizient’s 2024 Bernard A. Birnbaum Quality Leadership Award.


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