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WEST CHESTER, PA — Chester County Hospital has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Gold Performance Achievement Award for 2022. Chester County Hospital is one of only 81 …
Chester County Hospital Among Nation’s Top Performing Hospitals for Treatment of Heart Attack Patients Read More
PAOLI, PA — Daylesford Crossing, a SageLife senior living community in Paoli, Pennsylvania, has launched a new program to care for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders.
New Program at Daylesford Crossing to Care for Individuals with Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, CDC released two new reports in MMWR that provide important insights on the health and well-being of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Reports on Health and Well-being of Children During COVID-19 Pandemic Read More
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — New research in the January 2022 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network examined the impact of septic shock on people with hematologic malignancies, finding 67.8% died in fewer …
New Research Raises Awareness of the Dangers of Septic Shock in Blood Cancer Patients Read More
CHEYNEY, PA — Navrogen, Inc., announced the recent publication of preclinical data regarding application of its proprietary Block–Removed Immunoglobulin Technology (BRITE) to enhance the efficacy of the CD20-targeting rituximab antibody …
Navrogen Announces Publication of Its Block-Removed Immunoglobulin Technology Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit stakeholder …
HHS Seeks Public Comments to Advance Equity and Reduce Disparities in Organ Transplantation Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved Cytalux (pafolacianine), an imaging drug intended to assist surgeons in identifying ovarian cancer lesions. The drug is designed …
FDA Approves New Imaging Drug to Help Identify Ovarian Cancer Lesions Read More
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Mid-Atlantic Concussion (MAC) Alliance announced this week that Phoenix Physical Therapy will be the first physical therapy group to offer the new patent-pending portable brain health screening …
Portable Concussion Diagnosis, Management and Treatment Is Now a Reality Thanks to Patent-Pending MAC-Cart Technology Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following quote is attributed to Timothy Stenzel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health in FDA’s Center for Devices and …
FDA Issues Final Orders Reclassifying Certain Hepatitis C Diagnostic Tests from Class III to Class II Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Laboratory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that recently discovered vials marked as “smallpox” contain vaccinia, the virus used in the smallpox …
CDC Testing Shows Commercial Lab Vials Contain No Trace of Virus Known to Cause Smallpox Read More