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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that enrollment has begun and the first patients have been treated in the post-market surveillance study, CONNECT-AV.
CONNECT-AV is a prospective, single-arm, open-label study that will follow patients treated with the WavelinQ
TM EndoAVF System for 24 months.
WavelinQ EndoAVF System
The study s dual primary effectiveness endpoints are the percentage of subjects dialyzing using successful 2-needle cannulation for at least 75% of the dialysis sessions over a continuous 28-day period at 6 months, and the subjects maintaining primary patency at 6 months.
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When Leighann Bacher first started a Facebook group to help Pittsburghers find COVID-19 vaccine appointments, she and the other administrators were overwhelmed. Bacher was personally signing up a dozen or more strangers a night.
Now she’s searching for people to help. When she posts information about available appointments to the group’s more than 40,000 members, the once busy comment section is radio silent.
“It’s just like …crickets,” she said.
Bacher said the steep drop in demand hasn’t been improved by the state moving into phase 1B, which was estimated to add as many as 1 million more Pennsylvanians into the eligibility pool.
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Nobody could blame Dr. Amesh Adalja if he feels somewhat reluctant to check his email or go to the mailbox on certain days.
The Pittsburgh-based infectious disease expert, who is of Indian descent, has been on the receiving end of everything from overtly racist emails, including being called “dirt skin,” to receiving a package of rotten meat.
Adalja, a Butler native and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, has emerged as one of the most recognizable national experts on the pandemic. Since Americans first began hearing about coronavirus a year ago, Adalja has become a go-to guy for much of the national media, appearing regularly on CNN, MSNBC and Fox as well as showing up on CBS, NPR and in The New York Times among many other outlets, including the Tribune-Review.
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The Family Additions Maternity Center at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital made Newsweek’s list of Best Maternity Hospitals 2021.
Excela Health is one of 217 hospitals across 36 states on the annual list compiled by the news magazine in partnership with The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization that reports on the safety and quality performance of U.S. health care facilities.
To be considered for the list, hospitals must demonstrate adherence to various standards for excellence in maternity care, including low rates of C-section, episiotomy and early elective deliveries, along with following protocols to protect mothers and babies.
Hospital Capacity In Cranberry Area: Weekly Update - Cranberry, PA - Here's how many inpatient and ICU hospital beds are currently filled in Butler County and across PA.