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Houlihan Lokey Appoints Rafael Pereira as a Senior Advisor

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Friday, March 15, 2024
Banking, Fintech, Professional Services, Finance, Houlihan Lokey, KPMG, Growth, PIX, OPM, Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, Enova, Engineering, IBM, MBA, Senior advisor, BRQ, Creativity, Digital Solutions, ABCD

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI), the global investment bank, announced today that Rafael Pereira has been appointed as a Senior Advisor to assist the firm with its expansion in Brazil.

Key Points: 
  • Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI), the global investment bank, announced today that Rafael Pereira has been appointed as a Senior Advisor to assist the firm with its expansion in Brazil.
  • Mr. Pereira has more than two decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur and executive, building and growing technology-based businesses from spearheading startups to publicly listed companies.
  • “We are delighted with his arrival and the prospect of deepening our relationship with clients in the space.”
    “It is a great pleasure to join Houlihan Lokey and work together with its global Technology Group and its experienced local team to serve our Brazilian clients,” says Rafael Pereira.
  • Mr. Pereira earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a degree in Engineering from PUC Rio de Janeiro.

SciBase: Letter from the CEO

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Dermatology, Patient, Capital market, Melanoma, Electrode, Medicare, Macs, ABCD, Diagnosis, Growth, Renewable energy

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In my initial 100 days as CEO, I have been creating a roadmap for SciBase's rapid transition into a robust commercial company.

Key Points: 
  • STOCKHOLM, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In my initial 100 days as CEO, I have been creating a roadmap for SciBase's rapid transition into a robust commercial company.
  • This has already led to two Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), active across 13 states, adopting routine reimbursement for the use of Nevisense.
  • Dr. Darrell Rigel, whom I mentioned above, and Kathy Francisco, CEO of Pinnacle Health Group, will be featured as speakers at the event.
  • The economic climate is challenging, but we have an attractive product that meets a strong and clear need in a growing market.

AI May Aid in Diagnosing Adolescents with ADHD

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Health, RSNA, Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Brain, Research, DWI, Clutch (eggs), Data, Patient, Multimedia, ADHD, White matter, Neuroradiology, Artificial intelligence, FA, University, Newsroom, ABCD, Diagnosis, Deep learning, MRI, Biomarker, AI, Quality of life, Society, Radiology, Radiation, Education, Medical imaging, Dietary supplement

CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts in individuals with ADHD.

Key Points: 
  • CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts in individuals with ADHD.
  • In the U.S., an estimated 5.7 million children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD.
  • The research team selected a group of 1,704 individuals from the ABCD dataset, including adolescents with and without ADHD.
  • With the help of AI, the researchers discovered that in patients with ADHD, FA values were significantly elevated in nine white matter tracts.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and State Representative Justin J. Pearson of the “Tennessee Three” to keynote the Community Heroes Celebration on November 3

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Monday, October 16, 2023
MCAP, Scott Chandler (All My Children), Mystic Valley Parkway station, Community, The New York Times, Drinking water, Human, Harvard College, United States Senate Committee on Finance, DNA, Social justice, ABCD, Safety, State, Environment, NBC, O'Donnell dynasty, Supreme court, The Tennessee Three, Deadly force, Pearson, Health, The Washington Post, Emmy Awards, Violence, United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Housing, Stoke, Cryptocurrency, Los Angeles Times, Greater Boston

According to Scott-Chandler, advocating for and empowering underserved and under-represented communities is part of the organization’s DNA.

Key Points: 
  • According to Scott-Chandler, advocating for and empowering underserved and under-represented communities is part of the organization’s DNA.
  • “Since our inception during the tumultuous 1960’s, ABCD has blazed a trail in every aspect of anti-poverty and social justice work in Greater Boston,” she said.
  • Both Mr. Pearson and Mr. Jones were reinstated and went on to win the general election last summer.
  • Learn more about the 2023 Community Heroes Celebration here .

Cathay Financial Holdings Announces Its Digital Users Surpass 8.6 Million, Making Customers the Biggest Winners of Digital Transformation

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
Cloud, ABCD, Multimedia, Hospital, Cathay United Bank, Lead, AI, RAG, Insurance, FHC, Ecosystem, FHIR, Advanced Technology Development Center, Synthetic data, Cathay, Oracle, Digital data, DDT, Retrieval, ChatGPT, Federated learning, Conference, Linde Air Products Factory, Fintech, Medical device, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

TAIPEI, Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As technology reshapes financial institutions worldwide, companies with strong technological capabilities are positioned to take the lead. Underscoring this important role technology is playing, Cathay Financial Holdings (Cathay FHC) recently held its Annual Conference on Technology on September 20, centering on the theme of "Integrating Technology for an Inclusive New Intelligence." Attracting over 2,000 participants both online and offline, this year's Conference focused on the "ABCDEs" of major technologies and trends — AI, Blockchain, Cloud, Data, and Ecosystems.

Key Points: 
  • He also mentioned that digital transformation is an "endurance race with constantly changing goals and no finish line."
  • Having begun its major push for digital transformation eight years ago with the Digital Data and Technology Development Center (DDT), Cathay FHC has been empowering the digital, data, and technology sectors for some time.
  • As a result of these efforts, the total digital users across all businesses under the Cathay Group now exceed 8.6 million.
  • View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cathay-financial-holdings-annou...
    SOURCE Cathay Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.

Insulet to Present Extended Real-World Evidence and Best Practices for Optimizing Care with Omnipod® 5

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Monday, October 2, 2023
Biotechnology, Diabetes, Medical Devices, Health, Pharmaceutical, Tubeless tire, International, Abbott, Quality of life, Doctor of Philosophy, Trial of the century, International General Certificate of Secondary Education, DASH, EASD, ABCD, Corporation, Medical director, Patient, CEST, Defensive aids system, RWE, Clinical, Medical device, Birth control, FRACP, Sydney Hall

The Company will present extended real-world evidence (RWE) of improved outcomes and optimization of care using the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System, one full year after the commercial launch of Omnipod 5 in the United States.

Key Points: 
  • The Company will present extended real-world evidence (RWE) of improved outcomes and optimization of care using the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System, one full year after the commercial launch of Omnipod 5 in the United States.
  • There are four oral presentations at the EASD program, covering Omnipod 5 and the Omnipod DASH® Insulin Management System.
  • Dr. Lalantha Leelarathna, a diabetes specialist from the U.K., will Chair the session and present extended Omnipod 5 RWE and care strategies for optimizing glycemic outcomes, with Jade Byrne sharing her experience using the system.
  • Insulet will continue to provide updates on future European launches expected to occur in France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

Legal Professionals to Connect and Share e-Discovery Expertise at Relativity Fest 2023

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Learning, Music, Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.), Education, Workplace, Lawyer, Chicago Innovation Awards, Organization, Congress, The Economist, ABCD, National Association of Women Judges, Generative, Law, ESG, Government, AI, National Association, Woman, Mental health, Big Tech, Mobile phone, Nightclub, Medical device, Nursing, Saunders, Justice, Relativity

CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity, a global legal technology company, today announced its speaker lineup and key event information for Relativity Fest, an annual conference designed to educate and connect the e-discovery community, taking place Sept. 26-28 in Chicago. Thousands attend the conference which challenges attendees to rethink how they conduct e-discovery with engaging panel discussions, hands-on exercises, breakout sessions and insights from industry leaders.

Key Points: 
  • "It's been a watershed year for legal tech innovation and there are so many accomplishments from the entire Relativity community to celebrate at Relativity Fest," said Phil Saunders, CEO at Relativity.
  • Relativity Fest brings together the brightest minds in the industry and attracts expert speakers for three days of transformation, education and connection.
  • Relativity Fest comes on the heels of another significant conference for the legal industry, ILTACON , which took place August 20-24.
  • Relativity plans to continue to build on the momentum with additional product launch announcements at Relativity Fest.

Legal Professionals to Connect and Share e-Discovery Expertise at Relativity Fest 2023

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Learning, Music, Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.), Education, Workplace, Lawyer, Chicago Innovation Awards, Organization, Congress, The Economist, ABCD, National Association of Women Judges, Generative, Law, ESG, Government, AI, National Association, Woman, Mental health, Big Tech, Mobile phone, Nightclub, Medical device, Nursing, Saunders, Justice, Relativity

CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity, a global legal technology company, today announced its speaker lineup and key event information for Relativity Fest, an annual conference designed to educate and connect the e-discovery community, taking place Sept. 26-28 in Chicago. Thousands attend the conference which challenges attendees to rethink how they conduct e-discovery with engaging panel discussions, hands-on exercises, breakout sessions and insights from industry leaders.

Key Points: 
  • "It's been a watershed year for legal tech innovation and there are so many accomplishments from the entire Relativity community to celebrate at Relativity Fest," said Phil Saunders, CEO at Relativity.
  • Relativity Fest brings together the brightest minds in the industry and attracts expert speakers for three days of transformation, education and connection.
  • Relativity Fest comes on the heels of another significant conference for the legal industry, ILTACON , which took place August 20-24.
  • Relativity plans to continue to build on the momentum with additional product launch announcements at Relativity Fest.

Rare Launches SHINE Community Solar Initiative to Bring Green Jobs, Lower Energy Bills to Greater Boston’s Underserved Communities

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Alternative Energy, State, Local, Energy, Green Technology, Climate Change, Technology, Philanthropy, Environment, Public Policy, Government, Foundation, Other Technology, Science, Other Energy, Other Science, Research, Workforce, Poverty, Unemployment, Action for Boston Community Development, Partnership, Housing, EV, U.S. Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, DOE, Primary energy, Förster resonance energy transfer, Student, Recruit, ABCD, Climate change, Social change, Economic development, Norm (mathematics), Health, Solar energy, Community power, Transport, CEC, SHINE, Renewable energy, Greater Boston

The initiative will also advance the transition to clean energy needed to meet societal, federal, state, and municipal climate objectives.

Key Points: 
  • The initiative will also advance the transition to clean energy needed to meet societal, federal, state, and municipal climate objectives.
  • Increase community solar generation capacity within marginalized communities, providing locally produced resilient power while making community solar visible—a key behavioral strategy to encourage adoption.
  • The SHINE initiative puts an inclusive antipoverty strategy at the forefront of its mission, which supports economic equity at the individual level and benefits the community.
  • The initiative will create greater access to renewable energy in low-income communities and will support opportunities in the renewable energy workforce.”
    For more information about SHINE, please visit: https://rare.org/program/climate-culture/solar-helping-ignite-neighborho... .

Keeping up with advanced MRI: Kim Kardashian promotes whole-body scans. Could they be worth the hype?

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Low, Heart, Technology, UK Biobank, Field line, PATH, University, Anxiety, University of Melbourne, Survival, Cancer, Intelligence, Brain, Medicine, Research, Personality, Science, Radiology, MRI, ABCD, Magnetic resonance imaging, Population, Risk, Overdiagnosis, Water, Aneurysm, Anatomy, Abdomen, Conditional sentence, Ageing, Human, Health, Social media, Breast cancer, Disease, Adolescence, Medical imaging, Kardashian family

The worlds of pop culture and advanced imaging technology intersected recently when Kim Kardashian promoted a commercial whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service on social media as a tool to detect cancer and aneurysms.

Key Points: 
  • The worlds of pop culture and advanced imaging technology intersected recently when Kim Kardashian promoted a commercial whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service on social media as a tool to detect cancer and aneurysms.
  • The post attracted criticism from members of the medical community, who expressed concern about the lack of evidence for widespread use of this technology in people who are disease free.

Not new, but improved

    • MRI uses strong magnetic fields to coax a signal from water molecules.
    • Given our body is approximately 60% water by volume, MRI scans can be used to generate images over the length of our body.
    • In Australia, whole-body MRI was recently added to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for people with a high genetic risk of cancer.

The risk of overdiagnosis

    • The anxiety and potentially invasive investigations triggered by an MRI finding may have a negative effect on the person’s overall wellbeing.
    • The whole-body MRI offered by Prenuvo in the United States and promoted by Kardashian costs almost A$4,000.
    • Read more:
      Low- and middle-income countries struggle to provide health care to some, while others get too much medicine

How parts of the body talk to each other

    • Body systems that interact with the brain include the gut and heart.
    • The brain also partners with our musculoskeletal system and fat distribution in the body.
    • They further identified networks of advanced ageing patterns that spread from affected organs into other body systems.

Studying healthy people to track changes

    • A substantial number of people who will participate in these studies are healthy.
    • Over time, some of the study participants will develop health issues.
    • One of the key challenges in these large-scale imaging studies is how to identify relevant changes on MRI scans.
    • Read more:
      'Brain fingerprinting' of adolescents might be able to predict mental health problems down the line