MD Anderson at Cooper surgical oncologists appointed to editorial board of prestigious medical journal
Dr. Francis Spitz, vice chief of the Department of Surgery at Cooper University Health Care, and deputy director of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, and Dr. Young Hong, surgical oncologist at MD Anderson...
Murphy to include $10M in budget to create 1st statewide law enforcement-mental health collaborationÂ
Gov. Phil Murphy plans to allocate $10 million in funding in the 2024 budget to expand the ARRIVE Together program to the entire state — creating the first statewide law enforcement and mental health...
DOH official leaving for Colo. cannabis company
The New Jersey Department of Health’s principal deputy commissioner, Jackie Cornell, is leaving her post to join Colorado-based 1906, a cannabis edibles company.
Cornell will be chief of policy and health innovations, and will remain...
Paranicas: Study shows middlemen (not pharma companies) are cause of surging prescription prices
A recent study that just over half of the money spent on prescription drugs goes to pharmacy benefit managers, hospitals, health insurers, the government and others is not sitting well with Dean Paranicas.
Paranicas, the...
CVS Health completes 1st round of vaccinations at skilled nursing facilities in N.J.
CVS Health has completed the first round of COVID-19 vaccine doses at the nearly 8,000 skilled nursing facilities it was scheduled to visit across the country — including all 277 on its list in...
Layman’s terms: Natural language generation is using AI technology to explain complex data in...
Big Data has a problem of equally large proportions: It's flying over heads.
But an AI-driven technology (with an acronym that might sound no less complicated) is actually bringing data insights back down to earth....
Graft-free repair for ACL tears of the knee
You don’t need to be a professional athlete to suffer an anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, tear. Luckily, you also don’t need to be a professional athlete to access a state-of-the-art surgical approach to...
Integra wraps up $300M+ deal for ACell
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp., the Princeton-based medical technology company, has completed its previously announced, $300 million-plus acquisition of ACell Inc., it announced Wednesday.
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Integra paying $300M-plus for ACell and its proprietary...
In breast cancer fight, more brands and treatments lower costs
For Dr. Deborah Toppmeyer, chief medical officer of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the biggest statistic involving breast cancer in the state may be the most troubling to acknowledge.
In the past few...
Businesswoman Cori Wilf to join board of Saint Barnabas
Cori Wilf, a noted businesswoman and philanthropist, has been elected to the board of trustees at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, the organization announced Thursday.
Bruce Schonbraun, the chair of the board, said it...
