Health

HE A LTH • Summer 2020 7 Seven Hills Foundation is H RING Seven Hills supports individuals with disabilities, brain injuries, mental illness, and more throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We are seeking qualified candidates for the following: Seven Hills Foundation offers highly competitive salaries and generous benefits. Apply online at sevenhills.org/careers. Call or text 508.579.8235 for more information. 81 Hope Avenue, Worcester, MA 01603 • 508.755.2340 • sevenhills.org n Support Advocates/Direct Support Professionals, including a new program opening in Fitchburg! n Pediatric CNAs n Homemakers n Residential RNs and LPNs n Per Diem/Relief Holden Hearing Aid Center, Inc. 695 Main Street, Holden MA 01520 Phone: (508) 829-5566 www.HoldenHearingAid.com Let our Center help you HEAR better! Matthew Moreno, Au.D. Doctor of Audiology Swim Plugs We offer comprehensive hearing care services including complete hearing evaluations, hearing loss rehabilitation, education and counseling. Amplified Phones Hearing Aids Batteries & Accessories Assisted Listening Devices Hearing Evaluations Wax Removal Hearing Protection Musician's Ear Plugs documented incidents by nurses of a lack of staff and resources risking patients' health and safety, many of them who have coronavirus. The hospital, the union said, eliminated agreed-upon additional staffing the association says are necessary for caring for coronavirus patients during the pandemic, and has made significant cuts in nurses aids and other staff who help treat patients. Saint Vincent declined to comment. UMMS gets $3.2M for cancer cells study A UMass Medical School researcher has been awarded $3.2 million to advance her lab's study of cells that helps understand cancer development. Dr. Jennifer Benanti, an associate professor of molecular, cell and cancer biology, was awarded funding from the federal National Institutes of Health's Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, the Worcester medical school reported. The funding is expected to total $3.2 million over five years, the school said. Benanti's research attempts to understand how cells control division, which can help know more about cancer cells. All cancer cells proliferate too much, but still too little is known about them, Benanti said. A goal of her study, she said, will be to determine how cells divide using budding yeast, because the genes and pathways controlling cell division in yeast regulating division of cells. Milford Regional returns urgent care to normal Milford Regional Medical Center began reverting back to normal operations in June some of its outpatient centers changed around during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Milford Regional's urgent care clinic at 100 Commerce Drive in Northbridge has recovered back to seeing all patients for health issues not related to coronavirus. A respiratory clinic opened next door at 200 Commerce Way to help provide care to potential virus patients has now closed, with patients experiencing symptoms being directed to the hospital's urgent care clinic at 1 Lumber St. in Hopkinton. The 100 Commerce Drive site had been temporarily closed. Other Milford Regional urgent care centers have resumed normal operations at 1280 West Central St. (Route 140) in Franklin and 127-129 S. Main St. in Milford. Limited services have resumed at Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine sites at the Franklin, Northbridge and Milford. ReWalk expands with Florida, Israel deals Marlborough medical device manu- facturer ReWalk Robotics has entered into two agreements to distribute product lines to the U.S. market from two companies in Florida and Israel. The company is known for its wear- able exoskeletonss, intended for people with mobility issues. The two products it will be distributing will make use of its relationships and sales network. ReWalk will be the exclusive dis- tributor of the MediTouch Tutor movement biofeedback systems used by physical and occupational thera- pists to evaluate functional tasks dur- ing rehabilitation of neurologic disor- ders. The system made by the Isreali company MediTouch consists of sen- sors attached to textiles worn on the patient's hand, arm or leg to detect motion and a web-based program which uses game play to provide instruction and motivation to the patient user. The other product is Myolyn MyoCycle Functional Electrical Stimulation products facilitating thera- peutic exercise for persons with muscle weakness or paralysis caused by disor- ders like spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and stroke, according to the ReWalk release. Myolyn is a medical device manufacturer based in Florida. Hologic launches, will distribute new COVID test Marlborough-based Hologic Inc. announced in May it has developed a new coronavirus test it plans to dis- tribute hospital, public health and ref- erence laboratories, which the medical device firm expects to dramatically increase testing for the virus. It will specifically distribute the tests for research use only, to facilities certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments to perform high com- plexity tests. The new Aptima molec- ular assay will detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus and will run on the company's Panther system. The company plans to provide cus- tomers with about 3 million research tests and begin producing at least 1 million tests per week. ReWalk Robotics' wearable exoskeleton H

• Cover