WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 8 -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Davie Medical Center's core laboratory has received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the world's largest organization of board-certified pathologists and a leading provider of laboratory accreditation programs. Hospital laboratories play an essential role in accurately diagnosing diseases and other medical conditions, and  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 7 (TNSjou) -- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist issued the following news release: The National Institute of Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a five-year grant expected to total $30 million to support research to test a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized for acute heart failure. Heart failure, a condition in which the heart is not pumping bloo  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 4 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release: Attorney General Josh Stein reached a $3,653,858 settlement with Radeas, LLC, a South Carolina clinical laboratory company headquartered in Wake Forest, North Carolina. The settlement resolves allegations that Radeas submitted false claims for some urine drug tests to the North Carolina Medicaid program. Funds from the settlement will go to reimburse the Medicaid program and to North  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (TNSper) -- Covington, a law firm, issued the following news release: Covington has promoted 15 lawyers to its partnership. "We continue to build an exceptional pipeline of superbly talented and diverse lawyers across our offices and practices, who are well-positioned to carry the firm forward," said Doug Gibson, Covington's chair. "As we continue to build our firm from within, we see the strength of the junior half of our partnership as a core competitive advantage, and th  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: The Institute for Translational Research at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is the recipient of a five-year grant of up to $148.78 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund one of the largest studies ever of Alzheimer's disease and is the biggest grant the University of North Texa  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 6 (TNSfund) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium, in collaboration with the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, has awarded LSU Health New Orleans $4.6 million over four years to develop education and training to improve burn injury care in military conflicts and civilian disasters before the patients reach a hospital. The Burn Prehospital Provider Program will meet the needs of m  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (TNSres) -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine issued the following news release on Oct. 5, 2022: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national nonprofit with more than 17,000 doctor members, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today, Oct. 5, 2022, over a Wake Forest University Schoo  more

COMMERCE, Texas, Oct. 4 (TNSper) -- Texas A&M University's Commerce Campus issued the following news release: Texas A&M University-Commerce Interim Director of Athletics Eric Coleman has announced the appointment of Keith McCluney as Deputy Director of Athletics on Monday morning. "Adding Keith to our administrative team during this transition up to Division I was a no-brainer, especially with his vast experience at the Division I level," said Coleman. "We're excited to see him grow our extern  more