Founder Paige Brattin recognized the need to fill a spot in the market, improve an experience and give back in the process, leading her to develop See Worthy Patches to improve the lives of children with amblyopia.
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3 physicians file age discrimination suit against Hackensack Meridian
Doctors Usha Avva, Nina Gold and Kathleen Reichard were the oldest full-time pediatricians employed in Hackensack University Medical Center's emergency department when they were the terminated and escorted off property on Feb. 17, according to a complaint filed in Essex County Superior Court.
Read More »Virtua successfully implants new defibrillator in heart patient
The Lead Evaluation for Defibrillation and Reliability is being tested at 47 hospitals worldwide. It's meant to treat those with ventricular tachycardia, which causes irregular and potentially life-threatening heartbeats.
Read More »University Hospital first in NJ to require COVID boosters
So far, only those who have received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will have to get another inoculation, and those employees have until Dec. 24 to do so.
Read More »NJ offering Moderna, Pfizer, J&J COVID boosters
If you received either of the two-dose shots through April, or the single-dose version by August, and are a senior, adult under 65 years of age with high-risk medical conditions, or someone who works in front-line industries, you're eligible for the additional jab.
Read More »Children’s Specialized Hospital opens 66,000-SF outpatient wing
The new center is based out of the Kenneth Esdale Pavilion in Union and will handle outpatient services for both the system's Warren and Mountainside locations, according to an announcement by RWJBarnabas Health.
Read More »Certara recognized for COVID vaccine simulation model
The pharmaceutical biosimulation software company won an R&D 100 Award from R&D World magazine, a nearly 50-year-old worldwide competition that lists the top 100 “pioneers and their revolutionary ideas in science and technology” in the past year.
Read More »CitiusTech appoints new CEO as co-founder steps aside
Before joining the Princeton-based company as president in May 2021, Bhaskar Samibavisan served as president, Patient Services and chief strategy officer at life sciences platform company EVERSANA.
Read More »Turning out
Over the course of a typical weekend, tens of thousands of guests descend upon Atlantic City, with its nine casino hotels and varied restaurant, retail and hospitality offerings. That’s a problem this year: Although the delta variant outbreaks of the late summer and early fall have begun to trail off, public health officials are nonetheless warning of COVID-19 spikes from holiday gatherings, and a “twindemic” of the flu season.
Read More »NJ reaches 6M people fully vaccinated against COVID-19
In an Oct. 22 tweet, Gov. Phil Murphy said the metric marked “an incredible milestone that puts us one step closer to ending this pandemic.”
Read More »OnoSec exec steps down
The news of Chief Scientific Officer Chris Twitty's exit came as part of a wider business update from the clinical-stage biotechnology company.
Read More »NJ health officials prep for COVID vaccine rollout to kids 5 – 11
Amid the Biden administration's plans to provide smaller doses of the Pfizer inoculation to the age group, New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said that the state's goal "is to make it as accessible and convenient as possible,” to get those shots into arms.
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