Technology Designed to Confirm Precise Brachytherapy Treatment ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading radiation oncologists are using the TargetScan TouchTM system to deliver radioactive seed therapy in the prostate. The innovative technology is based on a motionless probe which stabilizes the prostate during procedures. With the...
X-ray technology is the gold standard for measuring bone density, but cheaper ultrasound scans can provide useful density measurements, a new study in the July Radiology finds. Idris Guessous of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues in Switzerland tested ultrasound on one heel each of 6,174 women ages 70 to...
ATLANTA -- Matheson Gerds Advertising earned top awards at the 25th annual Healthcare Advertising Awards for its innovative Emory Healthcare advertising campaigns. Healthcare Advertising Awards is the oldest, largest and most prestigious advertising awards competition in the healthcare industry. More than 3,500 entries were submitted last year from every state...
Company Unveils First Commercially Available Clinical Software Imaging Tools that can - Assist with the Differential diagnosis of dementia in early stages Predict before surgery whether epilepsy patients will be seizure-free after surgery Identify heart failure patients who can benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy GE Healthcare,...
THE SMALL AND UNDISTINGUISHED GATEWAY Plaza--with its hair salon, costume jewelry shop, Big Time Wholesale Store, and local branch of DeKalb Technical College--is just miles away from the stately grey and beige stone buildings and grassy quadrangles of Emory University in Atlanta. Inside the DeKalb Tech building, almost 22...
Nate Kredich has joined the U.S. Green Building Council, stepping into the newly created role of vice president for residential market Development, overseeing USGBC's LEED for Homes program. Kredich spent the last five years with Creative Touch Interiors. Before joining CTI, Kredich was CEO of BlueBolt, a software company....
Model is Expected to Help Researchers Better Understand the Disease and Develop More Effective Therapies as Well as Lead the Way Toward Transgenic Nonhuman Primate Models of Other Genetic Diseases ATLANTA -- In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KELLY KLUMP IS A CURLY-HAIRED, COMPACT WOMAN WHO IS FASCINATED BY EATING disorders. Her own habits are healthy, but as a high school "peer counselor" she found herself besieged by girls struggling with the addictive starvation of anorexia nervosa and the compulsive binge-and-purge of bulimia. Now a...
Steven Sanderson, president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, has been presented the University of Central Arkansas' Distinguished Alumnus Award. Before his appointment in 2001, Sanderson was dean of the college of arts and sciences at Emory University in Atlanta. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from...
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has picked Emory University to house its documents and archival materials, most of them dating from 1968 to 1977 during the terms of SCLC presidents Ralph David Abernathy and Joseph Lowery. Most of the pre-1968 papers, dating back to the 1957 founding of the organization...
In January, Golden Helix launched a collaboration program, whose inaugural members include the University of California Los Angeles, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Montreal Heart Institute, Emory University, Case Western Reserve University and the University at Liibeck in Germany.
PHILADELPHIA -- Campus Apartments, Inc. (www.campusapts.com) has entered into a partnership with Emory University to develop a $27 million graduate student housing complex on University-owned land in Atlanta. The 398-bed, 201-unit building will provide Emory's graduate and professional students with a well-located, luxury product and will provide a much-needed venue...
To: SOCIETY EDITORS Contact: Elaine Justice of Emory University, +1-404-727-0643, elaine.justice@emory.edu; or Keisha Ray of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, +1-404-522-1420 ext. 23, keisharay_ray@yahoo.com Historical Records to Become Destination for Civil Rights Research ATLANTA, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emory University and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC announced today that...
Emory University to host intensive two-day, certificate- level course for design and marketing professionals ATLANTA -- A new and challenging program at Emory University provides advanced knowledge for corporate marketing executives and senior level design professionals to enhance the value of the brands they build together. The program...
ATLANTA -- EARNEST Partners, LLC is pleased to announce the promotion of Patmon Malcom to Director. Mr. Malcom is a member of the Product Management group at EARNEST Partners. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds an MBA from Emory University. ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library. The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple, in addition to By the Light of My Father's Smile and other works visits Emory in Atlanta, GA, every couple of years for readings and...
ABSTRACT This essay examines the seminal reference tool, African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), edited by James P. Danky. It provides background on the creation of this highly acclaimed volume and demonstrates its usefulness in building a research collection of rare periodical literature...
My good friend, Judge David Kennedy, is entirely too generous in his remarks, but David, I am deeply appreciative of those warm and sincere words. All of you here tonight should know, if you do not already, that there is no more outstanding or well-respected Bankruptcy Judge in the country...
ATLANTA -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library. The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," "By the Light of My Father's Smile" and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with faculty...
