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International Myeloma Foundation and the Black Swan Research Initiative Showcase Six Oral & Poster Abstracts by the iStopMM Project at the 2023 ASH Annual Meeting

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Friday, January 12, 2024
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( Abstract #3397: Risk Factors of Smoldering Multiple Myeloma: Results from the Screened iStopMM Study )

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  • ( Abstract #3397: Risk Factors of Smoldering Multiple Myeloma: Results from the Screened iStopMM Study )
    A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link.
  • In a recent Ask Dr. Durie video , IMF Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Brian G.M.
  • Durie discusses the iStopMM Project’s purpose in doing the large-scale screening study and the advantages that come with early screening.
  • You may also access the complete list of 2023 ASH Abstract Achievement Awardees on the ASH website.

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety publishes special issue on healthcare equity

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Thursday, January 4, 2024
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OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois, Jan. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS) today published a special 50th anniversary issue on healthcare equity.

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  • OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois, Jan. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS) today published a special 50th anniversary issue on healthcare equity.
  • The issue includes several original articles, review articles and other reports to help healthcare organizations take a systems-based approach to achieve equity.
  • Deliveries associated with a reported incident were described by race/ethnicity, age group, method of delivery and other process variables.
  • The odds of having a reported incident for NHB patients were attenuated when controlling for cesarean section.

Comagine Health Awarded Multiple New Maternal Health Contracts

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Comagine Health, a leading national, nonprofit health care consulting firm, received multiple new maternal health contracts. The new work focuses on creating innovative approaches to address maternal health needs in Nevada and Oregon. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded both contracts to Comagine Health as a part of its investment to address the maternal health crisis. The new contracts add to Comagine Health's growing portfolio of federal contracts.

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  • SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Comagine Health, a leading national, nonprofit health care consulting firm, received multiple new maternal health contracts.
  • The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded both contracts to Comagine Health as a part of its investment to address the maternal health crisis.
  • State Maternal Health Innovation Program: This program will reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) by addressing maternal health disparities related to substance use disorder through the development of quality services, a skilled workforce, enhanced data quality and capacity, and innovative programming.
  • "The goal of this work aligns extraordinarily well with Comagine Health's mission of taking on tough problems in health care in order to improve population health."

Study Reveals the Need to Expand Maternal Mortality Categorization Beyond Pregnancy-Related Deaths

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice announced today its participation in a new study that revealed pregnancy-associated deaths as an urgent public health concern deserving greater scrutiny by maternal mortality review committees and the clinical and public health community at large. Research has found severe maternal morbidity (SMM), opioid use disorder, and prior hospital contacts were contributors to pregnancy-associated, but not pregnancy-related deaths in Massachusetts from 2002 to 2019. It also identified four times as many pregnancy-associated deaths than pregnancy-related ones and a high rate of hospital contacts (hospital admission, observational stays, and ER visits) for those who ultimately died during pregnancy through one year postpartum.

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  • New Research Shows Prior Hospitalization, Severe Maternal Morbidity, and Opioid Use Disorder Were Key Contributors to Pregnancy-Associated Deaths in Massachusetts from 2002 to 2019.
  • BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice announced today its participation in a new study that revealed pregnancy-associated deaths as an urgent public health concern deserving greater scrutiny by maternal mortality review committees and the clinical and public health community at large.
  • Research has found severe maternal morbidity (SMM), opioid use disorder, and prior hospital contacts were contributors to pregnancy-associated, but not pregnancy-related deaths in Massachusetts from 2002 to 2019.
  • There is a clear need to expand the focus of maternal mortality to the much larger group of pregnancy-associated deaths to understand the risk factors and events that lead to many of these preventable deaths."

WESTEC 2023 Exhibitor Preview: Innovative Global Suppliers, Distributors and Equipment Builders to Demonstrate Latest Technologies and Solutions for West Coast Manufacturers

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Monday, October 23, 2023
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The WESTEC 2023 exhibitor lineup includes some of the most innovative names in manufacturing and draws hundreds of global suppliers, distributors and equipment builders.

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  • The WESTEC 2023 exhibitor lineup includes some of the most innovative names in manufacturing and draws hundreds of global suppliers, distributors and equipment builders.
  • FUJI Machine America Corp (Booth #2145) provides sales and support for robot integrated machine tools to customers in need of reliable equipment solutions.
  • Selway Machine Tool Co (Booth #1411) tailors solutions for manufacturers’ distinctive CNC production processes, whether it’s intricate prototypes or high-volume automated production.
  • To support the region’s industrial progress in aerospace and defense, WESTEC 2023 is co-located with the AeroDef Manufacturing conference .

Feinstein Institutes secures $4M from NIH to study Black maternal health interventions

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health were awarded $4 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), part of the National Institutes of Health, to study effective maternal health interventions.

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  • Researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health were awarded $4 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), part of the National Institutes of Health, to study effective maternal health interventions.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231005320763/en/
    Feinstein Institutes’ Dr. Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick is co-principal investigator on the new research to study maternal health outcomes interventions.
  • Explore the role of physical activity from study enrollment to 1-year postpartum and subsequent association with maternal health outcomes.
  • In 2022, the health system formed its Center for Maternal Health , led by Dawnette Lewis, MD, MPH .

CMTC Releases Season 10 of Modern Manufacturing Podcast “Shifting Gears”

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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California Manufacturing Technology Consulting® (CMTC) announced today the release of Shifting Gears Season Ten .

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  • California Manufacturing Technology Consulting® (CMTC) announced today the release of Shifting Gears Season Ten .
  • CMTC originally launched the Shifting Gears podcast in early 2021 to help small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) keep up with emerging technologies, regulations, and industry news.
  • Last season, Shifting Gears explored supply chain diversification , enterprise resource planning (ERP) , and the key drivers of job quality .
  • Shifting Gears host, CMTC Director of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Gregg Profozich, is joined by three CMTC Cyber Physical Security Services Consultants to explore these pertinent industry topics.

Rubicon Pioneers the Zero-Waste Future of the Grocery Sector

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Monday, September 18, 2023
Environment, Technology, Finance, Other Technology, Professional Services, Sustainability, Software, Green Technology, Data Management, Partnership, RBT, Waste management, Recycling, Supermarket, Organization, SMM, NYSE, Risk management, Rubicon

Accomplishing zero waste is a challenging task for organizations of all kinds due to the complexity and specificity of their operations.

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  • Accomplishing zero waste is a challenging task for organizations of all kinds due to the complexity and specificity of their operations.
  • This complexity is particularly pronounced in the grocery category due to the range of materials in scope and their use within store processes.
  • This represented a diversion rate of more than 80%, up from 62% at the inception of the partnership in 2016.
  • Through continuing to partner with Rubicon, the supermarket chain has committed to reach a 95% diversion rate by 2025.

First Real-World Observational Study of the JADA® System, a Medical Device to Control Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH), Published in ACOG’s Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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Organon (NYSE: OGN), a global healthcare company focused on improving women’s health, today announced that Obstetrics & Gynecology (“The Green Journal”), the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), published the results of the RUBY study ( NCT04995887 ) which reached its primary effectiveness outcome of successfully treating abnormal postpartum uterine bleeding and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) with the JADA® System.1 JADA is an intrauterine vacuum-induced hemorrhage control device intended to provide control and treatment of abnormal postpartum uterine bleeding or hemorrhage when conservative management is warranted.1

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  • Organon (NYSE: OGN), a global healthcare company focused on improving women’s health, today announced that Obstetrics & Gynecology (“The Green Journal”), the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), published the results of the RUBY study ( NCT04995887 ) which reached its primary effectiveness outcome of successfully treating abnormal postpartum uterine bleeding and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) with the JADA® System.1 JADA is an intrauterine vacuum-induced hemorrhage control device intended to provide control and treatment of abnormal postpartum uterine bleeding or hemorrhage when conservative management is warranted.1
    This press release features multimedia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230913796173/en/
    “PPH is a potentially life-threatening obstetric emergency that can occur after childbirth and requires timely medical intervention.1,6 Appropriate management of abnormal postpartum uterine bleeding is critical to minimize the potential clinical consequences of PPH7 and its associated severe maternal morbidities, such as the need for blood transfusions, ICU admission or hysterectomy,”1,8,9 said lead author Dena Goffman, M.D., a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist, and professor and vice chair for quality and patient safety in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.
  • “The new study, which included a larger population than the pivotal trial, showed how the device is being used outside of a controlled clinical trial environment.
  • Secondary outcome measures, including time to bleeding control, in-dwelling time, total blood loss and red blood cell transfusions, were also presented.

SOUTHTEC 2023 Programming Features Tooling U-SME Workforce Day, CESMII SMART Manufacturing Experience and Manufacturing USA’s Modern Makers

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Friday, September 8, 2023
Automotive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Automotive, Software, Hardware, Electronic Design Automation, Data Management, Technology, Other Manufacturing, Textiles, Steel, General Automotive, Packaging, Engineering, Training, Chemicals, Plastics, Education, Workforce, Association for Manufacturing Technology, CESMII, Yamaha MT series, Original equipment manufacturer, SME, Smart, Multimedia, Primary energy, Manufacturing USA, International Manufacturing Technology Show, Stellantis, AMT, MSC, Center for Automotive Research, Tooling U-SME, TPV Technology, USCAR, SMM, SMART, General Motors, United States Council for Automotive Research, Online shopping, Television

SME’s public-private partnerships culminate at SOUTHTEC this year to make the greatest possible impact on accelerating widespread adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies.

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  • SME’s public-private partnerships culminate at SOUTHTEC this year to make the greatest possible impact on accelerating widespread adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies.
  • All three days of programming will take place in the SMART Manufacturing Experience Pavilion’s SMART Manufacturing Theater, provided by SME and CESMII.
  • On Wednesday, Oct. 25, CESMII – The SMART Manufacturing Institute will offer attendees the SMART Manufacturing Experience, with sessions focused on technological improvements for more productive, sustainable and resilient processes.
  • The event will also welcome the members of CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute for their 2023 Annual Member Meeting.