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Aggressive Growth Plan Makes AFC the Nation's Second Largest Private Urgent Care Operator BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Family Care (AFC), one of the largest and most established operators of urgent care and accessible primary care facilities in the country, continues its aggressive growth plan with the acquisition of Doctors Express (DRX), the largest national urgent care franchise. The acquisition became effective on Monday, April 15, 2013. With the DRX...
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE MKT: CUR) announced that CEO and President, Richard Garr, will take part in a comprehensive Bio Maryland panel, introduced by Lt. Governor, Anthony Brown, on Maryland's leadership in traumatic brain injury prevention, diagnosis and treatment at the BIO International Convention in Chicago, Ill., on April 24. Mr. Garr's panel, from 2:30 - 3:30, will discuss "Treatment--What's Working and What is Under Development." He...
In collaboration with CoolHaus Food Truck and Majic 95.5. Lewisville, TX (PRWEB) April 17, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room invites the local community to their Austin Arboretum facility on April 20th to enjoy gourmet ice cream sandwiches from CoolHaus as well as win concert tickets to Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift from Majic 95.5. Attendees will also have the chance to take a quick tour of the facility and spend time with First Choice ER’s physicians, nurses, radiology techs and...
If you suffer a heart attack while walking down the street and are taken to the hospital quickly, your chances of survival are very good. But if you have a heart attack while already in the hospital for something else, you are 10 times more likely to die. That surprising finding comes from a study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers. Their study, which is the first to systematically examine outcomes among hospital inpatients who suffer a type of heart attack...
Second Annual Awards Program Recognizes 9-1-1 Call-Takers; Winner and Four Regional Honorees from Across the U.S. Praised for Their Excellence in Handling Emergencies FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The second full week in April is traditionally celebrated as National Public Safety Telecommunications Week. In honor of that, the Second Annual Smart Telecommunicator Awards kicked-off last month. All across the U.S., 9-1-1 call-takers and dispatchers...
The Whambulance and Local Businesses Gather for a Local Event Lewisville, TX (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 First Choice Emergency Room, the leading freestanding emergency room system in the United States, will host a street party at their Barker Cypress facility on Saturday, April 20th from 11am-2pm to celebrate the local community that the facility has served for the past two years. During the event, the Whambulance will be parked outside the facility and attendees are welcome to take...
Brigham and Women's Hospital Inspired by spiny-headed worms, scientists invent microneedle adhesive more than 3x stronger than surgical staples in skin graft fixation A parasitic worm may hold the answer to keeping skin grafts firmly in place over wounds, according to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). The study will be published in the April 16, 2013 issue of Nature Communications. The research team, led by Jeffrey Karp, PhD, BWH Division of...
Large numbers of ER visits go unreported in calculating hospital readmissions A study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Medicine has found that nearly one quarter of patients may return to the emergency department within 30 days of being discharged from a hospitalization. None of these emergency room visits that do not lead to subsequent admission are included in calculating hospital readmission rates,...
Additional centers will make CareSpot one of the largest area urgent care providers NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The previously announced joint venture between TriStar Health and CareSpot to develop urgent care centers in Middle Tennessee today announces the acquisition of NeighborMD. The acquisition of five NeighborMD locations, as well as the development of two new CareSpot centers to open on April 15, 2013, will make CareSpot one of the largest urgent care...
Provides Point-to-Point Cross-Border Medical Assistance Services for Hong Kong People Living in Guangdong HONG KONG, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CSOS (Shenzhen CSOS Assistance Co., Ltd, "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company officially launches the new Guangdong-Hong Kong "999" Emergency Assistance Membership Programme, which offers "One-Stop" solutions specifically developed for its members who are Hong Kong residents in Guangdong Province ("Guangdong"). Once the...
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly known as CPR, is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to preserve brain function and manually pump blood through to the body’s vital organs, until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous circulation. CPR is indicated in cardiac arrest patients, but may also be performed on patients with an unresponsive presentation or those experiencing agonal breaths or severe and prolonged arrhythmias such as bradycardia or tachycardia. The first...
William Fisher is American physician and a former NASA Astronaut. He was born William Frederick Fisher on April 1, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in North Syracuse, New York in 1964. He continued on to attend Standford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences in 1968. The following two years, Fisher worked on graduate studies in Microbiology and received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Florida in 1975....
The Annals of Emergency Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). It is a peer-reviewed medical journal founded in 1968 and published by Elsevier on behalf of the ACEP. The journal publishes original research, clinical reports, opinion, and educational information related to the practice, teaching, and research of emergency medicine. In addition to general emergency medicine topics, Annals of Emergency Medicine regularly publishes articles on...
