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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Mary Kekatos |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman |Liz Neporent
(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Lisa Newman, the chief of the section of breast surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, sat down with ABC News to discuss breast cancer prevention, early screenings and diagnosis discrepancies. A new American Cancer Society report, released in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, finds that breast cancer mortality rates overall have dropped by 44% since 1989, averting about 517,900 breast cancer deaths.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Mary Kekatos |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman |Liz Neporent
(DURHAM, N.C.) -- As hospitals and health care facilities work to get back up and running after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida's Big Bend, affecting several states, the medical supply chain could be at risk. Baxter International, a health care and medical technology company, announced this week that it must close its largest plant in North Carolina due to flooding and destruction caused by the hurricane.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman |Liz Neporent
Mammography is cited as one reason for the decline in deaths. ByDr. Ali Duffens, Sony Salzman, and Liz NeporentBreast cancer deaths have fallen by 44% compared to 35 years ago, saving nearly 520,000 lives, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society. The dramatic decrease is a major milestone in the fight against breast cancer, according to Dr. Lisa Newman, a co-author of the report, released on Tuesday, the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Alex Stone |Jennifer Watts |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman
(NEW YORK) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Humboldt County Superior Court, alleges Providence St. Joseph Hospital violated multiple California laws due to its refusal to provide urgent abortion care to people experiencing obstetric emergencies.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Alex Stone |Jennifer Watts |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman
(NEW YORK) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Humboldt County Superior Court, alleges Providence St. Joseph Hospital violated multiple California laws due to its refusal to provide urgent abortion care to people experiencing obstetric emergencies.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Mary Kekatos |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman |Liz Neporent
(NEW YORK) -- North Carolina became the latest state to have a public health emergency declared by U.S. health officials in response to Hurricane Helene. In a press release on Sunday evening, the Department of Health and Human Services said its Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) was moving equipment and personnel to North Carolina to help address the "potential health impacts" of Hurricane Helene. It comes after PHEs were previously declared for Florida and Georgia.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
thepulseofnh.com | Mary Kekatos |Ali Duffens |Sony Salzman |Liz Neporent
(NEW YORK) -- North Carolina became the latest state to have a public health emergency declared by U.S. health officials in response to Hurricane Helene. In a press release on Sunday evening, the Department of Health and Human Services said its Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) was moving equipment and personnel to North Carolina to help address the "potential health impacts" of Hurricane Helene. It comes after PHEs were previously declared for Florida and Georgia.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
targetedonc.com | Ali Duffens
Ali Duffens, MD, San Francisco Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, discusses the relative effectiveness of different detection modalities in identifying breast cancer recurrences. These findings come from a study that analyzed a cohort of 4431 women diagnosed with stages I to III invasive breast cancer from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Health System.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
targetedonc.com | Ali Duffens
Ali Duffens, MD, San Francisco Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, discusses a study in which investigators assessed the mode of detection for breast cancer recurrence within an integrated health system by assessing the utility and outcomes of current surveillance guidelines recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ali Duffens |Monique Tello |Peter Ubel |Matthew Lewis
Amidst significant rises in resident unionization, a policy shift is warranted to guarantee equitable compensation and overtime pay for resident physicians contending with demanding 80-hour workweeks. On October 13, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom made history by signing California Senate Bill No. 525 (SB 525) into law. This monumental legislation will increase the minimum wage for California health care employees to $25 per hour.
