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Simcere second-quarter total revenue increases 28.3% to RMB544.6 million

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, a leading pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of branded generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals in China, today reported unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

12 Aug 2010

Pathway's drug development milestone triggers $4.5M tranche of Series A private equity placement

Pathway Therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company founded in New Zealand, announced that it has met an important drug development milestone triggering a US$4.5 million fourth tranche of its Series A private equity placement. The financing was led by GBS Venture Partners, Australia and CM Capital Investments, Australia with co-investors the Breast Cancer Research Trust, the Trans-Tasman Commercialisation Fund, and the New Zealand Venture Investment Firm.

12 Aug 2010

Emergency Committee Members report on post-pandemic period of H1N1

The world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza pandemic alert. We are now moving into the post-pandemic period. The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course.These are the views of members of the Emergency Committee, which was convened earlier today by teleconference.The Committee based its assessment on the global situation, as well as reports from several countries that are now experiencing influenza. I fully agree with the Committee's advice.

12 Aug 2010

Some Mass. residents fight individual mandate for health insurance, N.J. delays implementation of law requiring outpatient mental-health treatment

A former hospital executive has accused Naples-based Health Management Associates of offering money, free rent and private jet trips to entice doctors to refer Medicare patients to the company's hospitals. ... In a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Aug. 2 by a federal judge, former hospital CEO J. Michael Mastej also accused his former employer of filing fraudulent claims on services HMA's facilities provided the ill-gotten Medicare patients.

12 Aug 2010

The Whole Child Pediatrics improves patient experience with Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants

Motion Computing, a leading provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, today announced that The Whole Child Pediatrics, P.S.C. is experiencing significant improvements with Motion® C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants. With the C5s and new Electronic Medical Record software, clinicians can seamlessly connect to information throughout the office while continuing to provide quality patient care.

12 Aug 2010

HealthWyse announces launch of new web-based program

HealthWyse, a leading provider of home health and hospice agency automation software, announced today that it has launched StartWyse, a web-based program for small Certified Home Healthcare and Hospice agencies. The StartWyse program offers customers an affordable opportunity to rapidly transition to a paperless environment using HealthWyse's clinical and financial software.

12 Aug 2010

Alliance Surgical Distributors aligns surgeons, promotes orthopedic implant negotiation to reduce healthcare cost

Alliance Surgical Distributors has seen a surge not only in interest to form surgeon owned distributorships but also in groups completing set-up. Current distributorships under Alliance include Inland Spine and Orthopedics, Mesa Surgical, Vista Orthopedics, Rocky Mountain Trauma, Alpine Surgical Technologies, Alpine Implant Alliance, JAB Spinal Systems, North Idaho Surgical Cooperative, Restorix Technologies, with many other groups under development.

12 Aug 2010

Bristol-Myers Squibb, ACTF announce enhanced agreement to support ADAPs

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the ADAP Crisis Task Force today announced an enhanced agreement to support the efforts of AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to provide antiretroviral medicines to people living with HIV and AIDS. Building on an agreement signed in March of 2010, today's announcement marks a multi-year enhancement to assist ADAPs in meeting the challenges of increasing patient case loads and strained government funding.

12 Aug 2010

25% of stroke patients stop taking prevention medication within 3 months

At least a quarter of patients who have suffered a stroke stop taking one or more of their prescribed stroke prevention medications within the first three months after being hospitalized - when the chance of having another stroke is highest - according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.

12 Aug 2010

HIV patients want docs to pay attention to other health conditions exacerbated by HIV

HIV/AIDS patients need their doctors to pay more attention to their other health conditions that can be exacerbated by HIV or its treatments, especially now that people are living longer with HIV. That is according to a international study of 2,000 patients that two Chicago-area health providers were instrumental in carrying out.

12 Aug 2010

Early administration of TXA reduces death from bleeding without increase in complications: Study

If recently injured patients with serious bleeding were to receive a cheap, widely available and easily administered drug to help their blood to clot, tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year, according to a paper published on-line today by The Lancet.

12 Aug 2010

Ultrafine particle exposure may contribute to coronary heart disease risk in firefighters: Research

Exposure to high levels of ultrafine particles—invisible particles that can reach the smallest air passages in the lungs—may be an important contributor to the risk of coronary heart disease in firefighters, reports a study in the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

12 Aug 2010

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare awards HMS two cost containment contracts

HMS today announced that it had been awarded two cost containment contracts by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, which administers Idaho's Medicaid program. Under the first contract, HMS will to identify third party coverage for casualty and liability claims paid by Idaho Medicaid, and pursue recoveries.

12 Aug 2010

Healthcare professionals need to develop empathic skills: Tischler's book on mental health

Doctors and other healthcare professionals should use the arts and humanities to develop their empathic skills and improve mental healthcare practice, according to a new book.Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts, edited by Dr Victoria Tischler in the Division of Psychiatry at The University of Nottingham, argues that visual art, poetry writing, novels and music can be used in the education of medical and nursing students and other mental health professionals to improve their understanding of the patient experience.

12 Aug 2010

US Court grants CardioNet's motion to dismiss securities class action litigation

CardioNet, Inc., a leading wireless medical technology company with a current focus on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, announced today that on August 10, 2010, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the Company's motion to dismiss the securities class action litigation filed in August 2009 against the Company and certain of its former officers.

12 Aug 2010

Research reveals link between perception of intentions and evaluation of behavior

People generally like to see generous people rewarded and selfish people punished. Now, new research reveals a critical link between how we perceive another's intentions and our evaluation of their behavior. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 12 issue of the journal Neuron, makes some intriguing observations about how a description of the impact of an individual's actions on a group can alter the neural representation of their observed behavior.

12 Aug 2010

NPL CaviMeter fine-tunes equipment to produce right quantity and distribution of cleaning action

Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems are widely used in healthcare applications during the sterilization of surgical instruments, and in many manufacturing and process industries. They work by passing a high frequency sound wave through a liquid detergent to create thousands of small bubbles. The sound waves then makes the bubbles implode with such force, that the impacts remove contaminant particles from submerged materials.The current NHS-recommended technique to measure the performance of ultrasonic cleaning systems uses aluminium foil, which is eroded and punctured by the imploding bubbles. This is an unreliable process to apply and can contaminate the vessel cleaning fluid, adding unnecessary costs.

12 Aug 2010

Boston Scientific announces resolution of corporate warning letter

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced that it has been notified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that all issues cited in the Company's corporate warning letter have been resolved.

12 Aug 2010

LCA launches “National Shine a Light on Lung Cancer Vigil” to raise awareness

Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) announced the launch of the National Shine a Light on Lung Cancer Vigil to honor loved ones, raise awareness and provide hope, compassion and support for all those touched by lung cancer.

12 Aug 2010

Numerate collaborates with Intellikine to identify drug-like inhibitors of PI3 kinase alpha

Numerate, Inc. and Intellikine, Inc. today announced the successful conclusion of their research collaboration to discover novel small molecule compounds targeting the PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway. The collaboration combined Intellikine's unique capabilities in x-ray crystal structure-guided medicinal chemistry and drug discovery with Numerate's powerful computational drug design platform to identify potent, selective and drug-like inhibitors of PI3 kinase alpha, an important target in cancer therapy.

12 Aug 2010

Medical News

Simcere second-quarter total revenue increases 28.3% to RMB544.6 million

Pathway's drug development milestone triggers $4.5M tranche of Series A private equity placement

Emergency Committee Members report on post-pandemic period of H1N1

Some Mass. residents fight individual mandate for health insurance, N.J. delays implementation of law requiring outpatient mental-health treatment

The Whole Child Pediatrics improves patient experience with Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants

HealthWyse announces launch of new web-based program

Alliance Surgical Distributors aligns surgeons, promotes orthopedic implant negotiation to reduce healthcare cost

Bristol-Myers Squibb, ACTF announce enhanced agreement to support ADAPs

25% of stroke patients stop taking prevention medication within 3 months

HIV patients want docs to pay attention to other health conditions exacerbated by HIV

Early administration of TXA reduces death from bleeding without increase in complications: Study

Ultrafine particle exposure may contribute to coronary heart disease risk in firefighters: Research

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare awards HMS two cost containment contracts

Healthcare professionals need to develop empathic skills: Tischler's book on mental health

US Court grants CardioNet's motion to dismiss securities class action litigation

Research reveals link between perception of intentions and evaluation of behavior

NPL CaviMeter fine-tunes equipment to produce right quantity and distribution of cleaning action

Boston Scientific announces resolution of corporate warning letter

LCA launches “National Shine a Light on Lung Cancer Vigil” to raise awareness

Numerate collaborates with Intellikine to identify drug-like inhibitors of PI3 kinase alpha

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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