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CairnSurgical, Inc., an innovator striving to make breast cancer surgery more precise, announced today that the first patient has been treated in its U.S. pivotal trial of the Breast Cancer Locator (BCL) System at Massachusetts General Hospital. The BCL System is designed to eliminate guesswork in breast cancer surgery by providing a blueprint of the tumor and a surgical guide to achieve clear margins.
“We are committed to participating in clinical research with the potential to improve outcomes for our patients with breast cancer,” said Suzanne Coopey, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, who performed the first BCL case. “We are very interested in evaluating whether this new approach to guiding the surgeon to tumor margins can make breast cancer surgery more accurate and reduce the need for additional surgery for positive margins.”
Witnessing history, moving forward: âWe need to unite and take care of this countryâ
Just three guests will be joining the Rhode Island Congressional delegation at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Here is what theyâre hoping to see
By Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff,Updated January 19, 2021, 7:20 p.m.
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The scene outside the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.Andy Andujar
PROVIDENCE â Dr. Megan Ranney was working at the COVID-19 field hospital at the Dunkin Donuts Center when U.S. Representative James Langevin called and asked if sheâd like to be his only guest at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The study involved 14,505 patients who were tested for COVID-19 from March 19 to Aug. 20, 2020, a period that included the spring surge and a partial reopening of the economy during the summer. Seventy percent of those tested self-reported as being Hispanic/Latino and two-thirds were women.
Of the Hispanic/Latino patients, 25.5% were positive, the study found, compared to 15.7% of “Non-Hispanic (NH) Blacks.” Just over 14% of Non-Hispanic “others” were positive, with 6.6% of “NH Whites.”
“This is among the first studies to evaluate changes in rates of SARS-CoV-2 among Hispanic/Latinos over time and during phased reopening, and demonstrates persistently high positivity rates and incidence in this population,” the study authors wrote.
Brown Medicine expands into Class A space in Smithfield
BROWN MEDICINE will open a new facility in May using 5,200 square feet of leased space at 900 Douglas Pike in Smithfield. / COURTESY CBRE NEW ENGLAND SMITHFIELD – Brown Medicine, a nonprofit primary care and subspecialty medical group practice, will expand this spring into a newly renovated facility in the Smithfield Office Center. The practice, which has more than 200 physicians, will occupy 5,200 square feet of Class A leased space at 900 Douglas Pike. The buildout of the interior began…
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$2M NIH grant to fund research on relationship between sleep disruption and suicide risk
MICHAEL F. ARMEY, a research psychologist at Butler Hospital, and Melanie Bozzay, health science specialist at the Providence VA Medical Center, are leading a study that looks at the impact of sleep disruption on patients who are at a high risk of suicide. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Butler Hospital and the Providence VA Medical Center have received a $2.24 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the potential impact of sleep disruption on patients who are at a high risk of suicide. Led by Michael F. Armey, a research psychologist at Butler and associate…