After more than a decade of suffering from epileptic seizures – sometimes more than 100 a day – a woman finds improved quality of life thanks to neurosurgeon Lawrence Daniels, M.D. and the team at the Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists today announced the 31 U.S. National Finalists who will compete for the world’s largest unrestricted prizes for early career scientists. Each year, three Blavatnik National Laureates in the categories of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering are awarded $250,000 each.
The hand-held device RETeval may prove to be a more accessible way to diagnose schizophrenia, predict relapse and symptom severity, and assess treatment effectiveness.
Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel is pleased to announce the re-opening of its Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following a small fire that occurred in a break room at the end of February. While no patients or team members were harmed, water from the sprinkler system that extinguished the fire caused damage to certain areas of the hospital, including the ICU.
New research indicates a way to more accurately measure the electrical properties of plasma when it meets a solid surface.
Following successful Phase 1 clinical trials, the Toca regimen – a new immunotherapy for patients with recurrent brain cancer – has advanced to a Phase 3 study, which is currently underway. The trial is being conducted at 68 sites across the United States, Canada, Israel and South Korea, including at Overlook Medical Center’s Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center, one of three clinical trial sites in New Jersey. In this surgical study, patients are randomized to either standard of care treatment or the Toca regimen. Enrollment is expected to complete in this trial by the end of 2018.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced the Best Podium and Poster Research Presentation awardees for its ISPOR 2018 conference held in Baltimore, MD, USA on May 19-23, 2018.
Generations of Rutgers students and alumni have sung lovingly about the “Banks of the Old Raritan,” but the 90-mile-long waterway is awash in microplastic pollutants, a problem that plagues many freshwaters in New Jersey. In a recent study, researchers from Rutgers University–New Brunswick and other institutions found high levels of tiny pieces of plastic – often fragments from bigger items – in the Raritan and Passaic rivers. They later identified more than 300 organic chemical compounds that appeared to be associated with microplastic particles in the two rivers.
Health care providers, community members, and researchers from across New Jersey came together at the ‘Conference for Change’ event, hosted by the New Jersey Primary Care Association and sponsored by ScreenNJ to address the need to improve screening rates for colorectal and lung cancers.
Longer days means more exposure to the sun and harmful UV rays. A Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey expert shares some tips on how to keep your skin safe this season and all year long.
Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J., has again been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) as a result of an extensive review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Ultrasound imaging, also known as sonography, uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of internal body parts to help providers diagnose illness, injury or other medical problems. CT scanning – sometimes called CAT scanning – is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and tailor treatments for various medical conditions.
Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in nuclear medicine as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material, ingested by the patient, to diagnose and treat a variety of diseases, including many types of cancers, heart disease and other abnormalities within the body.
Dr. Bahar Firoz of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School offers preventive tips to protect skin from overexposure to the sun.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Decision Making?”, at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held its third plenary session, “Examining the Role of Patient Preferences to Inform Regulatory Decisions,” this morning at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “When Research Questions Collide: How Much Is the United States Actually Spending on Drugs?”, at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “How Can We Address the Current Challenges in Value Assessment?”, at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “‘Making Medicines Affordable: A National Imperative’—Reflections on the National Academies Report” [IP11], ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, recognized honorees of the ISPOR Awards Program at its ISPOR 2018 conference in Baltimore, MD, USA this week.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held its second plenary session, “Digital Health—Help or Hype?,” at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), held a session, “The ISPOR HEOR Competencies Framework™: Guiding Professional Development for the field of HEOR,” at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “Defining Patient-Centeredness and Engagement in Health Economics and Outcomes Research: Proposed Definition and Stakeholder Response,” at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a panel session, “Should We Move Beyond Conventional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis? If So, How?,” at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a special session entitled, “Reinventing the Future of Knowledge Generation in Healthcare,” at its ISPOR 2018 conference in Baltimore, MD, USA with Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session for its Women in Health Economics and Outcomes Research initiative at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA with special guest speaker, Laurie Cooke, CEO of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, held a session, “What Is Patient Experience Data? The Regulatory Perspective,” at ISPOR 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA. This session was led by speakers from a variety of divisions at the US Food and Drug Administration.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, opened its ISPOR 2018 conference in Baltimore, MD, USA this morning with the first plenary session, “Inflection Point for Real-World Evidence? The Transformational Role of Digital Health.”
An analysis of lymph node dissection in non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma indicates the procedure is often performed for stage 1 disease and shows no overall survival benefit. Investigators from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey presented the work at the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them. The watery creation could lead to soft robots that mimic sea animals like the octopus, which can walk underwater and bump into things without damaging them. It may also lead to artificial heart, stomach and other muscles, along with devices for diagnosing diseases, detecting and delivering drugs and performing underwater inspections.
From peer and patient education to addressing treatment side effects, nurses at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researched a number of topics with an aim of enhancing the patient experience. Their findings are being presented at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Annual Congress.
Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, has been named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), effective July 1.
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced today the publication of a series of articles offering important insight regarding the challenges in rare disease diagnosis, drug approval, and patient access.
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR, announced today the publication of new research suggesting that subsidized or part-payment from the Hong Kong government should be considered to help foster mothers’ willingness to pay for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for their daughters.
Findings suggest that children do not retain safety skills when encountering a firearm in a real-world scenario
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the launch of its new Center for Health Technology Assessment website. The new website provides a comprehensive repository of resources and tools to support health technology assessment
A team of PPPL scientists has won a DOE Office of Science award to develop new X-ray diagnostics for WEST — the Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak — in Cadarache, France.
For the eighth year in a row, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center has been named to Becker's Healthcare list of "100 great hospitals in America."
Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce that Laurie G. Jacobs, M.D., AGSF, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, where she also serves as a professor of medicine, was recently named president of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS).
As part of an ongoing effort to offer patients the latest medical imaging technology available, the Department of Radiology at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center recently acquired the Biograph Horizon PET/CT from Siemens Healthcare.
Eric Zwerling has led America’s last noise control center at Rutgers University–New Brunswick for 28 years, and fighting noise pollution remains an uphill battle.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, released the final program and speakers for its upcoming conference, ISPOR 2018. The conference is scheduled for May 19-23, 2018 in Baltimore, MD, USA.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research , has won 2 Platinum Hermes Creative Awards for their “The New ISPOR” brand refresh video and 2018 Top 10 Health Economics and Outcomes Research Trends Report.
ISPOR, the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced the new chairs of its regional Patient Representatives Roundtables and leadership of the recently established ISPOR Patient Council.
Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center is thrilled to announce the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, providing its surgeons with unparalleled precision, dexterity and control that allows for a minimally invasive surgical approach for many complex surgical procedures. Already home to the da Vinci Si™, the addition of the da Vinci Xi Surgical System adds to the already robust robotic surgery program at Riverview Medical Center, where surgeons perform a multitude of minimally invasive surgeries for complex diseases and conditions in gynecology, urology, thoracic, cardiac, and general surgery.
The development of targeted tools for therapy is a major focus in oncology. A new study by investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at University Hospital, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and other collaborators describes what they call a “major advance” to a screening technique they pioneered that searches for molecular signatures intrinsic to normal or diseased tissues.
In an amazing achievement akin to adding solar panels to your body, a Northeast sea slug sucks raw materials from algae to provide its lifetime supply of solar-powered energy, according to a study by Rutgers University–New Brunswick and other scientists.
The #MeToo movement has shed light on our culture's history of sexual violence and harassment. But what is being done to help women heal? New research from Rutgers' Tracey Shors found that women who are sexually assaulted and suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can learn to decrease negative thoughts and enhance self-worth by a combination of meditation and aerobic exercise.
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR—the professional society for health economics and outcomes research—announced today the publication of a series of award-winning papers offering transformative strategies to assess the value of healthcare interventions in the United States.
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