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- Sound Shore Health System and Montefiore Health System have signed an Asset Purchase Agreement for Montefiore to acquire the assets of Sound Shore Health System. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sound Shore Health System ("SSHS") announced today it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Montefiore Health System ("Montefiore") for Montefiore to acquire its assets (and assume certain liabilities). The transaction, which is expected to close by the...

Management Walked Out of Talks on Tuesday, Refusing to Address Nurses' Staffing Concerns Threatens to Impose Four-Day Lockout After the Strike, Subjecting Patients to Substandard Care by Replacement Nurses Drawn from All Over the Country WORCESTER, Mass., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to deteriorating patient care conditions, the 1,100 registered nurses who work at the University Hospital campus of UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) in Worcester plan to...

BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dune Medical Devices announced today that the MarginProbe System will be used at the Breast Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital, in Munich, Germany. The Breast Center treats over 400 primary breast cancer cases annually at its two sites Maistrasse-Innenstadt and Grosshadern. "We are excited to get started with the MarginProbe System. With currently available techniques, positive margins are a...

PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several individuals and organizations were honored today at the 94(th) Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. NJHA Healthcare Leader AwardsThe 2013 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Chester B. Kaletkowski of Mullica Hill, president and CEO of South Jersey Healthcare in Vineland. Kaletkowski was honored for his more than 30 years of service, leadership and...

BRONX, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Why does cancer arise in certain parts of the body and not others? How exactly does it spread? These are critical questions that cannot be answered clearly despite decades of cancer research. Answers to complex but central questions about cancer have long stymied efforts to "win the war" on the disease. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120531/DC16559LOGO) Two research teams at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of...

SINGAPORE, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VolitionRX Limited (OTC:VNRX.OB), a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn ("Bonn University"), Germany. Under the agreement, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Stefan Holdenrieder of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology at University Hospital Bonn will undertake multiple...

$163 million project will add 120 beds and 8 ORs for adult care by renovating former Mott Hospital complex and making changes in University Hospital ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To meet a surging demand for its high-quality advanced care, the University of Michigan Health System will expand its hospital capacity for adults and create Michigan's first hospital for diseases of the nervous system including the brain and spine. At yesterday's meeting of...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation of UMDNJ, an affiliate of New Jersey Health Foundation, has received a tuberculosis (TB) biomarkers grant through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health program, an initiative which seeks to overcome persistent bottlenecks in creating new tools that can radically improve health in the developing world. With the grant, Dr. David Alland, professor of medicine, chief...

BRONX, N.Y., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (http://www.einstein.yu.edu/) of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center (http://www.montefiore.org/), the University Hospital for Einstein, have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's tumor will be life threatening. The biomarker is considered particularly promising because it can detect the level of risk immediately following...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation of UMDNJ, an affiliate of New Jersey Health Foundation, has received a $300,000 grant from the Rosanne H. Silbermann Foundation for the Child Health Program (CHP) at the UMDNJ-School of Nursing's Francois Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center. The grant will be used to develop a child welfare curriculum at the UMDNJ-School of Nursing to meet the health care and mental health needs of children in New Jersey's foster...