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LA community clinics facing budget squeeze; Milwaukee may target benefits of public employees; Seattle Times documents 236 deaths in adult homes

Los Angeles Times: "Stung by a budget stalemate that is costing Los Angeles County community clinics more than $330,000 a day in reimbursements, many clinic managers have been forced to take out loans and contemplate cuts to staff and services. Without the funds from Medi-Cal, the state insurance program for low-income patients, 41 clinics statewide have applied for loans from a fund created in response to the budget impasse.

13 Sep 2010

Health care expected to help fuel job growth yet new nurses having difficulties finding jobs

Orlando Sentinel: "Thousands more health-care workers, from doctors to nurses to physical therapists, will be needed in the coming decade in Florida and across the country to treat the increasing number of older Americans — particularly the enormous baby boom generation. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care is expected to generate 3.2 million new jobs through 2018, more than any other industry and mainly because of the increasing number of elderly.

13 Sep 2010

Discovery shows how cells decide what to recycle, unlocking debilitating disease's secret

Our bodies recycle proteins, the fundamental building blocks that enable cell growth and development. Proteins are made up of a chain of amino acids, and scientists have known since the 1980s that first one in the chain determines the lifetime of a protein. McGill researchers have finally discovered how the cell identifies this first amino acid - and caught it on camera.

13 Sep 2010

Hearing scheduled this week for closely watched health law challenge in Florida

Lawmakers and others are closely watching a lawsuit brought in Florida by a pair of conservative Washington, D.C., lawyers that challenges the health reform law as bearing a possibility of what the future will bring for the overhaul. The Wall Street Journal reports that the suit, "filed in Florida by David Rivkin and Lee Casey, is one of a handful of challenges lodged against the law in recent months.

13 Sep 2010

HealthWyse, Cardiocom partner to integrate patient information into clinical software

HealthWyse, a leading provider of home health and hospice software and services, announced today that it has partnered with Cardiocom, a leader in home telehealth solutions, to seamlessly integrate patient information into HealthWyse's clinical software.

13 Sep 2010

Lawmakers, Axelrod push and pull on what health reform means to campaigns

Politico: Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that he thinks voters will eventually warm to health care reform. He made his comments on NBC's "Meet the Press."

13 Sep 2010

As overhaul unfolds, interest in at least one change spreads across aisle

At least one aspect of the GOP's health overhaul repeal push has become bipartisan: Objections to a provision requiring businesses that file 1099 tax forms to provide line-item detail of any purchases of $600 or more in a given year, The New York Times reports. Democrats, including Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, are saying they, too, would like to change the provision.

13 Sep 2010

Target expands medical clinic business

"Target Corp. was one of the first retailers to experiment with putting a medical clinic in its stores. But while chains such as CVS and Walgreen's expanded rapidly into so-called retail medicine, Target is still tiptoeing into the field," The Star Tribune reports.

13 Sep 2010

Study finds antibiotic safe for treatment of stroke and good companion therapy for tPA

An antibiotic appears to be a safe treatment for stroke and a good companion therapy for tPA, the clot buster that is currently the only FDA-approved drug therapy, researchers report.

13 Sep 2010

Acsis recognized as 2010 'Top Preferred Solution Provider' by LogiPharma

Acsis, Inc., a leader in supply chain visibility and traceability for manufacturing and distribution, today announced that it has been recognized as a 2010 "Top Preferred Solution Provider" by LogiPharma. The company was selected based on a survey by World Business Research (WBR) to more than 2,000 pharmaceutical executives who identified Acsis, Inc. as one of the top solution providers focused on advancing supply chain efficiencies.

13 Sep 2010

Stem-cell research ban temporarily lifted in appeals court

On Friday, an appeals court temporarily stayed a judge's ban on the federal government's funding of embryonic stem-cell research, the The Associated Press/The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. "The National Institutes of Health said it was resuming its own research and would again evaluate applications from scientists who are seeking taxpayer money to do the work, a process that has been frozen since late last month."

13 Sep 2010

Today's Opinions: Prevention and small business; Views on medical inflation and health reform; Sebelius letter examined

In this anemic economy, small businesses need all the help they can get, and the Prevention and Public Health Fund provides the best medicine (Dr. Georges Benjamin and Larry Cohen, 9/13).

13 Sep 2010

Medical students facing a new reality

In a collection of interviews for Kaiser Health News, Allison Fero writes: "One of the groups most affected by the changes in the new health law are medical school students.

13 Sep 2010

DSP Clinical Research ranked #1674 on Inc. 5000 list

DSP Clinical Research achieved a ranking of No. 1674 on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list. DSP provides customized contract research services for small to mid-size pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies conducting Phase I to IV clinical studies.

13 Sep 2010

Provectus's PV-10 Phase 2 data to be presented at 7th International Melanoma Research Congress

Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company, announces that data from its Phase 2 PV-10 metastatic melanoma study will be presented at the 7th International Melanoma Research Congress in Sydney, Australia, on November 4, 2010 at 4:30 p.m., as part of the 4th Interdisciplinary Melanoma & Skin Cancer Centres Meeting,

13 Sep 2010

Counterfeit drugs become growing problem

"Last year, nearly 1,700 incidents of counterfeit drugs were reported worldwide, triple the number in 2004, says the Pharmaceutical Security Institute (PSI), a group funded by drugmakers," USA Today reports. "Estimates for the size of the counterfeit drug market range from $75 billion to $200 billion a year. The market is likely much bigger because many cases are hard to detect.

13 Sep 2010

Genomas awarded method patent for PhyzioGenomics Technology

Genomas®, a biomedical company advancing DNA-Guided Medicine, has been awarded US Patent 7,747,392, entitled Physiogenomic Method for Predicting Clinical Outcomes of Treatment in Patients by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

13 Sep 2010

KHN column - The Prevention and Public Health Fund: Good for our health, good for small business

In this Kaiser Health News column, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, and Larry Cohen, founder and executive director of Prevention Institute, offer their perspective on a legislative question: "As Congress returns to work this week, senators are scheduled to cast a critical vote on Tuesday as part of a broad measure designed to encourage economic growth for small businesses.

13 Sep 2010

North Mississippi IRB approves CEL-SCI's Multikine Phase III clinical trial for head and neck cancer

CEL-SCI Corporation announced today it has received approval from the North Mississippi Health Services Institutional Review Board ("IRB") to begin enrollment of subjects for a Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®, the Company's flagship immunotherapy developed as a first-line standard of care in treating head and neck cancer. An IRB is a group formally designated by an institution to review and monitor research involving human subjects and to ensure protection of their rights and welfare.

13 Sep 2010

Orion extends use of Medidata Rave enterprise-wide EDC and clinical data management system

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced that European pharmaceutical company Orion has extended its use of Medidata Rave® as its enterprise-wide electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) system, which Orion successfully brought in-house and deployed for all clinical trials for the past three and a half years.

13 Sep 2010

Research News and Research

LA community clinics facing budget squeeze; Milwaukee may target benefits of public employees; Seattle Times documents 236 deaths in adult homes

Health care expected to help fuel job growth yet new nurses having difficulties finding jobs

Discovery shows how cells decide what to recycle, unlocking debilitating disease's secret

Hearing scheduled this week for closely watched health law challenge in Florida

HealthWyse, Cardiocom partner to integrate patient information into clinical software

Lawmakers, Axelrod push and pull on what health reform means to campaigns

As overhaul unfolds, interest in at least one change spreads across aisle

Target expands medical clinic business

Study finds antibiotic safe for treatment of stroke and good companion therapy for tPA

Acsis recognized as 2010 'Top Preferred Solution Provider' by LogiPharma

Stem-cell research ban temporarily lifted in appeals court

Today's Opinions: Prevention and small business; Views on medical inflation and health reform; Sebelius letter examined

Medical students facing a new reality

DSP Clinical Research ranked #1674 on Inc. 5000 list

Provectus's PV-10 Phase 2 data to be presented at 7th International Melanoma Research Congress

Counterfeit drugs become growing problem

Genomas awarded method patent for PhyzioGenomics Technology

KHN column - The Prevention and Public Health Fund: Good for our health, good for small business

North Mississippi IRB approves CEL-SCI's Multikine Phase III clinical trial for head and neck cancer

Orion extends use of Medidata Rave enterprise-wide EDC and clinical data management system

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