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Welcome to Hallmark Health's Media Coverage section. This section is designed to assist patients and journalists seeking information about our current news and to introduce our healthcare experts. We are also available to assist you by providing information about Hallmark Health and its members, including Lawrence Memorial of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospitals.
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, Communications Specialist for public and media relations, at 781-979-3243. We also maintain a 24-hour media on-call system. If you are on deadline after normal business hours, call the Hallmark Health operator at 781-979-3000 and ask them to page the marketing/communications team member on-call.
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Federal agency's breast cancer report causes uproar |
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:29 |
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Medford Transcript
By Nell Escobar Coakley
Nov. 24, 2009
National statistics currently state that one out of 10 women will develop breast cancer within her lifetime. A new federal study pushing back current standards for mammogram screenings from 40 to 50 could push that number up.
A report issued last week by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommends that women wait to have a breast cancer screening until age 50 and then follow up every two years. Monthly self-exams are also discouraged.
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BREAST CANCER AWARENESS: Love, lost and found |
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:19 |
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Winchester Star
By Brad Petrishen
Oct. 15, 2009
Winchester resident Patricia Loric has a broad, cheerful smile that accompanies almost everything she does.
So when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 — a disease that claimed her husband’s life 10 years before — she decided to keep on smiling.
“All I could think of was that my husband was looking for me,” she said with a laugh, three weeks after undergoing successful breast reconstruction surgery.
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Medford nursing program serving as model in Egypt |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:15 |
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Medford Transcript
By Nell Escobar Coakley
Sept. 24, 2009
The face of nursing is about to change in Egypt — and it’s all thanks to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital/Regis College Nursing Program.
The school was picked from hundreds of nursing programs throughout the country by the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in Egypt to partner over the next five years to establish the Gouna Nursing Institute, a two-year nursing program in Egypt that will replicate the Medford-based school’s curriculum.
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Postop problem solved? |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 09:43 |
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Advance for Nurses
By Michael Gibbons
Sept. 23, 2009
What's the most common fear of patients about to be wheeled into the operating room? Is it fear of having a limb amputated by mistake, or having a sponge sewn inside them? One might think so, given the media's focus on medical errors today. Actually, the most common worry is a much less publicized one: fear of getting sick to one's stomach and vomiting.
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) "is one of the primary fears of patients undergoing procedures using inhaled anesthesia," said Kathleen DeLeskey, DNP, RN, assistant professor of nursing at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital/Regis College Nursing Program, Medford, Mass.
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Hallmark marks third successful supper evening in Medford |
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Friday, 31 July 2009 09:45 |
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Medford Transcript
July 23, 2009
How about burgers, fries and a side of fun? That's what was on the menu for seniors who attended dinner at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford last Tuesday.
About 70 local seniors signed up for the evening, held at the LMH cafeteria July 14, for the Senior Supper Series, a program aimed at offering health and wellness information as well as providing a meal in a relaxed setting as a way to socialize and share health-related questions.
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