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Albany Medical Center in downtown Albany, NY encompasses the 651-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, as well as the 550-student Albany Medical College. It is a Level-I Trauma center, and the only academic health sciences center in Northeastern New York State. In 2013, Albany Medical Center underwent a $330 million expansion of the Medical Center Hospital. Not only does the expansion allow for ...
Medical Center Improves Reliability with Natural Gas-Fired Cogeneration Plant. Faced with the need to replace 50-year-old natural gas steam boilers with costly new ones, a major university medical center instead invested in a cogeneration facility that generates nearly all its electricity and creates low-cost steam as a ...
Morristown Medical Center is located at 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960. It is a 700+ bed regional trauma center and has been the top ranked hospital in New Jersey for the past four years. The initial goal of switching to CHP was to have reliable electricity for the hospital at all times. This developed into a state-of-the-art cogeneration plant and now provides the hospital with ...
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, formerly known as University of Princeton Medical Center at Plainsboro, is one of the most advanced healthcare institutions in the nation. Established in 1919, the hospital moved from Princeton, NJ to a new $522 million, 636,000-square foot facility in Plainsboro, NJ in 2012. The new facility houses 231 single-bed rooms, an attached medical office building, ...
Penn State Hershey Medical Center was established in 1963 on a 550-acre campus and has 548 licensed beds. Penn State Hershey Medical Center is known as the premier provider of medical care in the central Pennsylvania area, recognized as the number four hospital in the state and home to PA’s only medical facility accredited as both an adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center. Demonstrating ...
Improper medical supply storage increases the risk of contamination and pathogen growth. Should healthcare professionals and facilities handle or store tools and materials improperly, medical institutions must resterilize equipment or throw out supplies, increasing operational inefficiency and waste. When the integrity of medical supplies is negatively impacted somewhere along the supply chain, ...
Hoskinson’s method of disposing of the most hazardous waste has been used in the medical disposal industry for ...
Background CellRight Technologies® has developed ACTIGEN™ Verified Inductive Bone Matrix, a dehydrated, verified inductive matrix that may be hydrated with saline, blood, Bone Marrow Aspirate (BMA), Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), or other cellular components in accordance with a physician’s well-informed medical judgment. The clinician may add allograft or autograft to ...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the success of mRNA vaccines has greatly propelled the development of mRNA therapeutics. mRNA is a negatively charged nucleic acid that serves as a template for protein synthesis in ribosomes. Despite its utility, the instability of mRNA necessitates appropriate carriers for in vivo delivery. Currently, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most mature approach for ...
The following article is a repost of an interview that originally appeared in OR Today “Spotlight On: John W. Cromwell, MD” with Caresyntax customer, John Cromwell, MD, FACS, associate chief medical officer and director of surgical quality and safety at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. ...
In recent years, there has been a growing trend of using video technology in surgical procedures to enhance precision, communication, and training. While the benefits of video in surgery are many, there are also concerns regarding the legal risks that may arise from its use. Medical professionals fear that video footage of a surgery could potentially be used against them in legal proceedings, ...
Central Maine Medical Center is a 250-bed hospital in Lewiston, Maine with a busy electrophysiology (EP) lab. The hospital is a Premier member, a part of the Yankee Alliance purchasing network and has been using reprocessed EP devices for several years. While success with single-use device reprocessing has been limited in the past, today, Central Maine is on track to save hundreds of thousands of ...
Next-generation sequencing (NGS), which makes millions to billions of sequence reads at a fast rate, has greatly sped up genomics research. At the moment, Illumina, Ion Torrent/Life Technologies, 454/Roche, Pacific Bioscience, Nanopore, and GenapSys are all NGS platforms that can be used. They can produce reads of 100–10,000 bp in length, enabling sufficient coverage of the genome at a ...
The Perinatology Research Branch (PRB) is the only Clinical Branch in the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to focus its research on human pregnancy and unborn children. It is currently housed at the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan through a service contract. The Branch has thrived in this environment, earning a national and international ...
This case provides an example of how Adaptiiv’s software can be used to generate a customized uniform thickness bolus for an irregular surface region. 3D printed bolus enhances clinical precision, improves operational efficiency, and provides greater access to personalized ...
December 2022 edition Given the regular posts of peer-reviewed scientific publications on the Medis QFR®, it is clear that this angio-based solution for coronary physiology is extensively used in clinical research and practice. We would like to share these publications with you so that you remain up to date about the research that is ongoing worldwide with this innovative solution, ...
Very rarely does a high school student who aspires to study medicine get a first-hand opportunity to be a medical trailblazer. But 15-year-old Luna Martini stepped comfortably into that role when she became the first patient in Connecticut to receive a BEAR® Implant to treat her torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). A freshman at Farmington High School, Luna aspires to be a doctor herself ...
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice (AAMC) recently created Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts. While this health equity solutions guide was created for doctors, hospitals, and other leaders in the healthcare space, its content has many important implications for employers as ...
Treatment for shoulder pain Gabi Zeilig, MD, Dept of Neurological Rehabilitation The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. Purpose of the study: to test the efficacy of the TerraQuant medical device on shoulder pain resulting from inflammation (OA, Tendonitis, Bursitis). Background: TerraQuant is a unique device which combines low level pulse laser therapy (LLLT), pulsating ...