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JNF Medical Advisory Member, Dr. Joshua Hirsch named Top Doc
Hub Health | May 1, 2015 5:47 p.m. This post is part of our Top Docs Q&A series where we ask a physician who was selected as one of our Top Docs questions about their field, life as a doctor, and practicing in the Greater Boston area.* Name: Joshua A. Hirsch Hospital Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Title: Director of Interventional Neuroradiology, […]
Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2015Read More -
Swedish Medical Center Testing New Brain Aneurysm Treatment Technology
JNF Medical Advisory Board Member, Dr. Donald Frei of Swedish Medical Center, is leading the study of an investigation device called WEB to treat brain aneurysms. Swedish is one of the 20 sites across the country doing trials on this new technology. The device is already approved in Europe, and doctors just put it into the […]
Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2015Read More -
GROUNDBREAKING STUDIES FIND THAT NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY REDUCES STROKE MORTALITY
WASHINGTON, DC – February 11, 2015 – Two new clinical trials on the treatment of stroke (ESCAPE and EXTEND IA) demonstrate that neurointerventional surgery significantly increases the number of patients who are able to live independently without major neurological disabilities. The ESCAPE study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, also shows that […]
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2015Read More -
Best Friends Together Again
Today, the world lost a wonderful man and heaven gained a true angel. Dave Bergman, former Chairman of the Board of The Joe Niekro Foundation and best friend of the late Joe Niekro, passed away this morning after a fearlessness battle with cancer. There aren’t words to describe what this man meant to the entire Niekro family […]
Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2015Read More -
JNF Awards $90,000 in Research Grants
The Joe Niekro Foundation has announced the 2014 Joe Niekro Research Grant recipients. A total of $90,000 has been awarded by the foundation, which is committed to supporting patients and families, research, treatment and awareness of brain aneurysms, AVMs and hemorrhagic strokes. “We are thrilled to award these recipients with this critical funding needed to […]
Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015Read More