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Revolutionary New Sleep Medicine Course Allows Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to Treat Sleep Medicine Patients
The Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine announced today its new sleep medicine course designed specifically for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. This course is the first of its kind and will provide Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants with the knowledge they need to recognize and diagnose sleep disorders. The class runs from October 24-25, 2009 and will offer continuing education credits.
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Vivacare Patient Education Service Enhancements Save Medical Practices Time and Money and Improve Patient Satisfaction
Recent enhancements to Vivacare's Web-based patient education service used by medical practices to deliver health information to patients leads to reduced costs, improved practice workflow and increased patient satisfaction.
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TrainingPeaks Selected As "Official Training Software" Of Bike MS® And Joe Friel Selected As The "Official Coach"
Participants of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's 100 Bike MS® fundraising events can now map, plan and train for their rides with Joe Friel and TrainingPeaks.com.
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The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Releases Early Detection Video to Educate First Responders to Symptoms of Brain Aneurysms
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation has developed an educational video entitled Early Detection of Brain Aneurysms: Life vs. Death. Designed to educate primary care physicians, emergency room physicians and first responders on the early detection of brain aneurysms, this 20 minute video focuses on recognizing the symptoms related to a brain aneurysm and performing appropriate diagnostic brain imaging to determine if an aneurysm is present.
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Leading Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Company Releases the First Revision of its Popular Reference Guide
ORIMtec, a Rancho Cordova, CA monitoring company has released the first revision of its Neurotechnologist Reference Guide. ORIMtec, the leading provider of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in Northern California, has added 20 new illustrations of evoked potential stimulating points and 40 illustrations of muscle groups for EMG and motor evoked potential monitoring to the popular reference guide.
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International Collaboration led by Dr. Pablo V. Gejman,Researcher At NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Research Institute, Finds Genetic Association of Schizophrenia to Chromosome 6p Variant
The July 1, 2009 advance online edition of the journal Nature includes three companion papers describing the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is an elusive and severe psychiatric disorder that affects up to 70 million people worldwide. The causes of schizophrenia remain largely unknown and there is no cure, though for some individuals the current treatments work well. There are multiple factors that increase the risk for schizophrenia, of which genetic factors are the most prominent, though not precisely identified yet. This highlights the need for a better understanding of the pathways leading to schizophrenia to enable development of better treatments.
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Ziosoft Receives CE Marking Approval for Ziostation 3D Thin-Client Advanced Visualization System
Approval will allow Ziosoft to market its software solutions throughout Europe
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Stroke Intervention Symposium Discusses Latest Therapies from Expert Vascular Neurosurgeons
Dr. Jonathan Brisman, one of an elite group of 80 American dual-trained endovascular and microvascular neurosurgeons, led a recent symposium on Stroke Intervention in Melville, Long Island. Some of the latest techniques and treatment options were discussed.
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Camp Promise Rallies To Provide Massachusetts Children With Alternative To MDA Canceled Summer Camp
Camp Promise to Provide Second Chance at Summer Recreation for Children with Muscular Dystrophy
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Veterans Affairs Researchers Study Benefits of Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation
Researchers at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine are conducting research using a novel ankle robot ("Anklebot"), invented by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, with stroke patients at the Baltimore VA Medical Center (http://www.maryland.va.gov/). The design, mechanical characterization and preliminary clinical application of this ankle robot are presented in the June issue of IEEE Transactions on Robotics: Special Issue on Rehabilitation Robotics, the premiere and most-cited journal in robotics research.
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