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HHS relaxes some rules for doctors, hospitals to get aid for electronic health records

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "The federal government is making it easier for health care providers to get bonus money for using electronic health records starting next year, but the hospital industry said it still had concerns that too few facilities would qualify"

15 Jul 2010

Research: Early diagnosis, care management for people with dementia can lower outpatient costs by 30%

Early detection, diagnosis and care management for people newly diagnosed with cognitive impairment and dementia reduces outpatient costs by almost 30 percent, according to new research reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2010 in Honolulu.

15 Jul 2010

Florida Medicaid recipients make fewer trips to doctors; Calif. payments to health clinics in jeopardy; Texas addresses nursing shortage

Northeast Florida's Medicaid recipients are making fewer trips to the doctor for chronic illnesses since state officials outsourced the government-subsidized health insurance program to private managed care companies. But it remains unclear from the analysis performed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the state's Medicaid program, whether they're healthier for it. Medicaid reform was launched in 2006 in Duval and Broward counties to test whether HMOs could rein in the state's Medicaid spending.

15 Jul 2010

U-M Hospitals and Health Centers ranked 14th among America's best hospitals

The University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers have been ranked among the country's best hospitals, placing 14th overall for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report magazine. This year, U-M was ranked in every specialty and those rankings went up in 11 of the 16 specialties.

15 Jul 2010

Absorption Systems' GLP facility receives full accreditation from AAALAC

Absorption Systems, a leader in testing drugs for ADMET, announced today that its GLP facility in San Diego, Calif., for preclinical testing of drugs, biologics and medical devices received full accreditation from the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International.

15 Jul 2010

Doctors reluctant to report colleagues for being impaired, incompetent

The Associated Press: "Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle. A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted for retribution.

15 Jul 2010

Babies fed cow's milk in first 15 days of life are protected from dangerous allergies later on

Many doctors suggest that whole cow's milk be avoided in the early months of an infant's feeding. Lactation specialists go even further, counseling "mother's milk only" until baby starts eating solid food. But new research from Tel Aviv University says that mothers who feed their babies cow's milk in the first 15 days of life may be protecting their children from dangerous allergies later on.

15 Jul 2010

A new practice: The doctor will see you

Catherine Arnst, writing for Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Boston Globe, reports: "Dr. Dennis M. Dimitri, a family physician, runs a pretty unusual office. Few appointments are accepted in advance. Instead, patients call in the morning and are assigned a time slot later that day.

15 Jul 2010

Final rules for e-health rewards unveiled

The federal government has issued new regulations defining the "meaningful use" of electronic medical records, a requirement doctors must fulfill in order to gain funds from a $27-billion pot set aside in the 2009 stimulus law, The New York Times reports. "A doctor can receive up to $44,000 under Medicare and $63,750 under Medicaid, while a hospital can receive millions of dollars, depending on its size."

15 Jul 2010

Aestus, Eisai collaborate to research and develop novel therapeutics for psychiatric disorders

Aestus Therapeutics, Inc. announced today a collaboration agreement with Eisai Inc. on research and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The multi-year collaboration will entail pre-clinical validation of potential therapeutics leading to clinical proof-of-concept studies.

15 Jul 2010

Health insurers confront dual uncertainties of recession, overhaul

Health insurers' Wall Street prospects remain uncertain as details of the health overhaul have yet to be mapped out, according to a Dow Jones Newswires/The Wall Street Journal brief. "While the federal overhaul of the health-care system could add millions of new members to companies' rolls, it also places new taxes and restrictions on the industry.

15 Jul 2010

Amorfix grants Biogen Idec exclusive worldwide rights to lead ALS monoclonal antibodies

Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd. today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement granting Biogen Idec exclusive worldwide rights to Amorfix's lead amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) monoclonal antibodies. The antibodies have shown efficacy in animal models of ALS and Biogen Idec will now, at its expense, complete the development and prepare for clinical trials.

15 Jul 2010

Aboriginals smoke less cigarettes per day than others: Study

A new study showed that Aboriginal smokers residing in remote communities have a significantly lower consumption of cigarettes than the rest of the population. The study was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health on Wednesday.

14 Jul 2010

NIAID awards ATCC multimillion dollar MID-BRR contract

ATCC, the premier biological materials resource, services, and standards organization, has been awarded the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Biological Resource Repository ("MID-BRR") contract, ATCC announced today. The current value of the contract is $14,615,598 with the ultimate value of $115,733,409 over 7 years with an annual renewal.

14 Jul 2010

Samsung Medical Center, Pfizer form research partnership

Samsung Medical Center and the world's leading bio-pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced that they have formed a research partnership to jointly analyze tumors from Korean patients to generate gene expression profiles and that may ultimately direct therapies and enhance clinical outcomes in the patients with liver cancer.

14 Jul 2010

Trevena completes $35M Series B financing

Trevena, Inc., the leader in discovery and development of G-protein coupled receptor biased ligands, announced today that it has completed a $35 million Series B financing. Existing investors Polaris Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates led the round, with all other existing Trevena investors - Alta Partners, Healthcare Ventures and Yasuda Enterprise Development Company - also participating in the financing.

14 Jul 2010

Research provides better understanding of drugs used to treat, prevent cardiovascular disease

Using chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and professor of physiology and biophysics; Sayan Gupta, PhD, instructor at the Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics; and a research team from the University of Oxford, for the first time, were able to take a high resolution picture of the open state of a K+ channel, allowing them to comparatively analyze gating mechanisms important to heart function and nerve signaling - in addition these techniques have already permitted Case Western investigators to gain a deeper understanding of G-protein coupled receptors.

14 Jul 2010

Maven Semantic announces updates to database of Toxicology researchers

Maven Semantic announces updates to their Toxicology database.

14 Jul 2010

BioInvent reports net revenues of SEK 63.1M for January - June 2010 period

BioInvent reached an important milestone when the results of a phase II trial of TB-402 following orthopaedic surgery, were reported in May. The data showed that TB-402 is statistically better at preventing thrombosis than enoxaparin, the current standard treatment. Supported by these good results, BioInvent and the company's partner, ThromboGenics, will now prioritise securing a development partner for the programme to ensure that the necessary resources is in place to take the product candidate to the market.

14 Jul 2010

Maven Semantic releases updates to Biotechnology research database

Maven Semantic (http://www.mavensemantic.com) announces updates to their Biotechnology research database.

14 Jul 2010

Research News and Research

HHS relaxes some rules for doctors, hospitals to get aid for electronic health records

Research: Early diagnosis, care management for people with dementia can lower outpatient costs by 30%

Florida Medicaid recipients make fewer trips to doctors; Calif. payments to health clinics in jeopardy; Texas addresses nursing shortage

U-M Hospitals and Health Centers ranked 14th among America's best hospitals

Absorption Systems' GLP facility receives full accreditation from AAALAC

Doctors reluctant to report colleagues for being impaired, incompetent

Babies fed cow's milk in first 15 days of life are protected from dangerous allergies later on

A new practice: The doctor will see you

Final rules for e-health rewards unveiled

Aestus, Eisai collaborate to research and develop novel therapeutics for psychiatric disorders

Health insurers confront dual uncertainties of recession, overhaul

Amorfix grants Biogen Idec exclusive worldwide rights to lead ALS monoclonal antibodies

Aboriginals smoke less cigarettes per day than others: Study

NIAID awards ATCC multimillion dollar MID-BRR contract

Samsung Medical Center, Pfizer form research partnership

Trevena completes $35M Series B financing

Research provides better understanding of drugs used to treat, prevent cardiovascular disease

Maven Semantic announces updates to database of Toxicology researchers

BioInvent reports net revenues of SEK 63.1M for January - June 2010 period

Maven Semantic releases updates to Biotechnology research database

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