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Ranch and Coast Plastic Surgery: Reductive Augmentation Results in Rounder Appearance After Breast Reduction
July 19, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- According to plastic surgeon Paul Chasan, MD, FACS, founder of Ranch and Coast Plastic Surgery in Del Mar, California, reductive augmentation is the best choice for women who want a higher and more round breast after breast reduction surgery. Although breast reduction surgery plays an invaluable role in the correction of macromastia, a condition where the breasts become overly large, it almost always results in breasts lacking upper pole fullness. Upper pole fullness refers to roundness and fullness of the upper part of the breast. “Historically, most breast reduction procedures are prone to bottoming out and lack upper pole fullness,” said Dr. Chasan. “Over the last 14 years, I have developed a one-stage technique for breast reduction combined with breast augmentation called reductive augmentation to solve the problem.” He added that for women who......
PSMF Convenes the International Patient Safety Community for its 2017 Midyear Planning Meeting at Inova Center for Personalized Health
July 14, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) brought together over 100 medical care providers, hospital administrators, and patient safety experts and advocates to discuss ongoing challenges and refine patient safety solutions at its fifth annual Midyear Planning Meeting. The day-long, invitation-only “working meeting” was co-convened with Inova Heart & Vascular Institute at the Inova Center for Personalized Health in Falls Church, Virginia. Jade Perdue, Senior Policy Analyst at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, presented the meeting’s keynote, explaining the importance of Patient and Family Engagement and the role it plays throughout the Partnerships for Patients (PFP) campaign. To date, PFP has engaged thousands of hospitals in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Other speakers addressed the need for increased transparency, communication......
AHF Pays Tribute to a Courageous Advocate from South Africa - Prudence Mabele
July 13, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- “Today we have lost a giant, an HIV-struggle legend and a fierce advocate of women’s rights and access to HIV treatment,” says Larissa Klazinga, Regional Policy and Advocacy Manager: Southern Africa · AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), paying tribute to the sudden passing of Positive Women’s Network Director, Prudence Mabele on Monday, 10 July. “Prudence, a long-time friend and partner of AHF (in fact, as recently as mid-June she was marching with us at the SA AIDS conference in Durban), was a groundbreaker in South Africa when she became one of the first black women to publicly reveal her HIV-positive status in 1992,” Klazinga says. “Prudence was an important voice for all women, but especially women living with HIV,” adds Hilary Thulare, Country Programme Director, AHF South Africa. “Her passing is a terrible loss.”......
Final Phase III Study Results Confirm Benefit of Praxbind® as Reversal Agent for Pradaxa® Patients in Emergency Situations
July 11, 2017
- Complete data set from 503 patients show that Praxbind® (idarucizumab) led to immediate, complete and sustained reversal of the anticoagulant effect of Pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate) in emergency settings1
- Final results from RE-VERSE AD™ were presented as a late-breaker at the ISTH 2017 Congress1 and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine2
- Praxbind® is approved as a specific reversal agent for Pradaxa®3,4 in 61 countries and available in more than 8,200 sites
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Masimo Announces CE Marking of rainbow® Super Sensor
July 10, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the CE marking of the rainbow® Super DCI®-mini sensor, a reusable spot-check sensor that features Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry and rainbow SET™ technology with multiple physiologic measurements – including, for the first time, the ability to measure total hemoblogin (SpHb®), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), and arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) using the same noninvasive reusable sensor. In 2016, Masimo introduced the rainbow® DCI-mini sensor, enabling spot-check measurement of Next Generation SpHb and other parameters. Now, with the rainbow® Super DCI-mini sensor, an expanded set of parameters can be measured using a single sensor: SpO2, pulse rate (PR), perfusion index (Pi), pleth variability index (PVi®), SpHb, SpCO, and SpMet.......
ISTH 2017, Berlin: Octapharma presents exciting Nuwiq® data in previously untreated patients and demonstrates real-life value of personalised prophylaxis for Haemophilia A
July 10, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- Octapharma is playing a prominent role this week at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress in Berlin, Germany. As a platinum sponsor of the congress, Octapharma’s active involvement includes two sponsored scientific symposia, one of which is dedicated to exploring recent data and real-world experiences with Nuwiq®, the most recent addition to the company’s expanding haematology portfolio. The well-attended symposium,"...
A survey by dubizzle: 81.5 percent of second hand car buyers’ bad experiences stem from issues undisclosed by sellers
July 8, 2017
- dubizzle Motors partners with RoadSafetyUAE to drive awareness about secondhand car safety issues
- An online poll has revealed that 26.5 percent of respondents either did not request the vehicle history prior to purchase, or did not know what it was
- 78.1 percent of respondents would consider buying a secondhand car, however, 23.7 percent do not know what to look for to establish if it is in a good condition
Following a poll conducted on dubizzle,"...
Celgene Corporation Enters Into Global Strategic Immuno-Oncology Collaboration with BeiGene to Advance PD-1 Inhibitor Program for Solid Tumor Cancers
July 6, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) and BeiGene, Ltd. (NASDAQ:BGNE) entered into a strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize BeiGene’s investigational anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, BGB-A317, for patients with solid tumor cancers in the United States, Europe, Japan and rest of world outside Asia. BeiGene will retain exclusive rights for the development and commercialization of BGB-A317 for hematological malignancies globally"...
R&B Singer Goapele and Black & Sexy TV/BET Stars to Visit South Africa for “Town Hall” Discussions on Sexual Health & Other Social Issues!
July 5, 2017
(ME NewsWire)-- The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) – the largest HIV/AIDS organisation in the world – will be bringing a delegation of young American activists and celebrities to South Africa – Johannesburg and Durban – to engage and exchange information with the youth on matters of sexual health and related social issues. “We are bringing this delegation to South Africa for the purpose of exposing them to the work that AHF does outside of the United States. South Africa was chosen as a destination because of the extensive network of clinics that AHF provides services to,” says Samantha Granberry, the Vice President AHF World Wide, Marketing and Sales. “South Africa is also the first country outside of the United States that AHF started outreach programs in, over 16 years ago, which led to the establishment of the Ithembalabantu clinic in Umlazi......
Nearly 1,000 People Intoxicated by Drinking Water in Fallujah
July 4, 2017
Due to the chlorine explosion in one of the water refineries of Fallujah, Anbar province, nearly one thousand people have been poisoned, Iraqi media reported. The reports quoted Abdurrahamn Lawas, Anbar health director, as saying the explosion of chlorine occurred in Martyrs neighborhood of Fallujah (54km west of Baghdad). According to the reports, children and women are"...
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