NASA Awards Contract for Cold Stowage II
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide a suite of freezers to maintain a controlled temperature environment for science samples aboard the International Space Station, as well as to and from low-Earth orbit.
Cold Stowage II is a single award, cost-no-fee contract with cost-no-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders. The new contract s base period begins Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, and runs through Sept. 30, 2022, followed by two additional one-year options and one additional 14-month option that may be exercised at NASA s discretion. The maximum potential value of the contract, including all options and incentives, is $48.3 million.
The orthopaedic urgent care clinic should help reduce crowding in the emergency department and speed up visits to the hospital.
The orthopaedic urgent care clinic should help reduce crowding in the emergency department and speed up visits to the hospital.A new urgent care orthopaedic clinic could help those with orthopaedic injuries reduce a lengthy trip to the emergency department and get quicker, more focused care. The clinic, run by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will give patients an option when dealing with injuries to the hands, wrist, shoulder and other joints.
“Following initial examination by emergency physicians, those patients with orthopaedic issues that can be best treated in an orthopaedic urgent care setting will be routed out of the emergency department and into the clinic, which is staffed with advanced practice orthopaedic professionals with physician consultation,” said Andrea Boohaker, MSN, CRNP-BC,
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Allison Lindsay didn’t dream of being a contact tracer. She came to the State University of New York at New Paltz as an athletic trainer in 2017. But when the college reopened in the midst of the pandemic, she suddenly had a new job.
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A new study shows that implementing PrEP distribution within a community-based syringe services program gets the medication into the hands of women who inject drugs a population disproportionately impacted by HIV.
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