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World Vision reports on healthcare resources

Global efforts to tackle millions of preventable child and maternal deaths will fail to extend gains unless world leaders act now to pour more healthcare resources directly into families and communities, according to a new World Vision report launched today.

17 Sep 2010

DaVita launches Kidney Awareness Run|Walks for chronic kidney disease

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), today announced its launch of the 5th annual DaVita Kidney Awareness Run|Walks, a 10 city series of 5K events raising funds and awareness of CKD across the nation.

17 Sep 2010

Prematics partners with NaviNet to deliver healthcare content and applications to mobile devices

Prematics, a leading provider of e-prescribing and care communication solutions, today announced a partnership with NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, to enable the delivery of healthcare content and applications to mobile devices.

17 Sep 2010

Inspire Pharmaceuticals to present denufosol tetrasodium therapy data at ERS Annual Congress

Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that data will be presented on denufosol tetrasodium, an investigational therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF), during oral and poster presentations at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress September 18 - 22, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.

17 Sep 2010

Virginia Health Information report lists pricing information for health care services

Virginians now have access to information on what health care procedures cost — before they receive medical care. Virginia Health Information has published a report showing the average amounts that health insurers in Virginia pay for 31 procedures including preventive, emergency, outpatient and hospital inpatient care.

17 Sep 2010

Proskauer's Health Care Department plans to expand WVUHS transactions

Proskauer's nationally recognized Health Care Department has played a key role in plans to expand the West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS), already the largest health care system in West Virginia.

17 Sep 2010

Revolutions Medical finalizes manufacturing agreement with Medical Investment Group

Revolutions Medical Corporation today announced that the Company has finalized a manufacturing agreement with Medical Investment Group ("MIG"). Pursuant to the Manufacturing Agreement, MIG has guaranteed the production and delivery of a minimum of five million 3cc safety syringes per month for a period of five years.

17 Sep 2010

Transition stops TT-223 gastrin analogue combination clinical study in type 2 diabetes

Transition Therapeutics Inc. announced today that a clinical study of gastrin analogue TT-223 in combination with a Lilly proprietary GLP-1 analogue in patients with type 2 diabetes did not meet its efficacy endpoints. Given these findings, there will be no further development of TT-223.

17 Sep 2010

Eddingpharm closes US$24 million Series B financing

Eddingpharm Inc., a leading specialty pharmaceutical marketing company focused on the China market, today announced the closing of a US$24 million Series B financing, co-led by OrbiMed Advisors Caduceus Asia Partners Fund and Domain Associates.

17 Sep 2010

Report finds increase in osteopathic physicians

As concerns mount over whether there will be enough physicians to meet the nation's growing demand for health care, the number of osteopathic physicians (DOs) is reaching new heights, according to a report released today from the American Osteopathic Association.

17 Sep 2010

Elan Board unanimously accepts US law firm's report on legal breaches

Elan Corporation, plc announced that at yesterday's meeting of the Elan Board of Directors, the Board unanimously accepted a report prepared by the United States law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP based upon a review it conducted. McKenna Long, serving as independent counsel to the Board, reviewed a number of matters brought to the Board's attention by certain Directors.

17 Sep 2010

Women's Health Research releases progress report

A major effort to conduct research on women's health began about 20 years ago, when it became clear that results from studies until then, which involved mostly male subjects, were often misinterpreted or misapplied in the cases of female patients. Women's Health Research: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls, new from the Institute of Medicine, offers a progress report on the state of women's health research.

17 Sep 2010

AACN endorses 'Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies'

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently endorsed the "Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies," developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , Washington, D.C., with The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University and National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists , Philadelphia.

17 Sep 2010

CID to provide update on Cre8 polymer-free DES program at TCT 2010

CID s.r.l., a European company leader in interventional medicine, will update interventional cardiologists on the status of their revolutionary drug eluting stent technology during The Drug Eluting Stent (DES) Summit at TCT 2010, Washington, DC on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. The lecture, entitled "Status of the CID Cre8 polymer-free DES program", will be delivered by Alexandre Abizaid, MD, PhD. Chief of Intervention at Instituto Dante Pazzanese, in Sao Paulo Brazil, and will be part of the session "The Next Generation DES, Polymer-Free".

17 Sep 2010

President Obama recognizes MISE as model science education initiative

Merck, a global healthcare leader, announced today that the Merck Institute for Science Education (MISE) is being recognized by President Obama as being a model science education initiative at an event being held today at the White House.

17 Sep 2010

Center for One Health Illinois to receive additional $500,000 grant from USDA

The Center for One Health Illinois, established at the University of Illinois last year with a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will receive another $500,000 in grants over several years from the USDA to pursue its mission of fostering collaborations and the free flow of information among those in the fields of medicine, public health, the environment and agriculture.

17 Sep 2010

Biotechnology Institute announces classroom program to improve U.S. life science education quality

Biotechnology industry leaders announced today a major new program to improve the quality of U.S. life science education. The Biotechnology Institute's new "Scientists in the Classroom" initiative is the life science industry's response to President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign to improve the performance of America's students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

17 Sep 2010

New iPhone application tracks drug safety updates

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application to encourage health-care professionals and patients to send and receive information about the use and side effects of prescription medications.

17 Sep 2010

U.S. special envoy to Pakistan highlights U.S. flood relief efforts

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan, sought to highlight Washington's aid efforts Wednesday during his first visit to the country since the severe floods hit, the Associated Press reports.

17 Sep 2010

Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers to strengthen alliance with GAVI

Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), a voluntary public health driven alliance of state owned and private vaccine manufacturers from developing countries, now intends to strengthen its collaboration with Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) to increase its bandwidth in immunization for the developing countries.

17 Sep 2010