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AHRQ and American College Of Cardiology team up to study risks and benefits of ICDs

A $3.5 million research project that will study the long-term benefits and risks of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in patients at risk of death from ventricular fibrillation will be supported by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the American College of Cardiology, the two groups announced today.

29 Jan 2010

Submissions invited for 2010 SOGC/CFWH Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women's Health Reporting

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), in collaboration with the Canadian Foundation for Women's Health (CFWH), is calling for submissions for the 2010 SOGC/CFWH Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women's Health Reporting.

29 Jan 2010

Nontoxic drug halts and reverses rheumatoid arthritis

A researcher from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. He developed an imitation of a suicide molecule that floats undetected into overactive immune cells responsible for the disease.

29 Jan 2010

Groups - including Catholic Bishops - press Democrats to finish health reform

CQ Politics: "Proponents of a comprehensive health care overhaul are pressing congressional Democrats to finish the measure ... Leaders of several interest groups said at a news conference Wednesday that the House should clear the Senate-passed health care bill for President Obama's signature" (1/27).

29 Jan 2010

Tufts CSDD announces the launch of new website

The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, the world's leading, independent authority on the nature and pace of pharmaceutical and biotech drug development, today announced the launch of its new website that makes it easier for industry professionals and others to research critical drug development issues.

29 Jan 2010

Labeling update for Tibotec Therapeutics' PREZISTA tablets approved

Tibotec Therapeutics announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a labeling update for PREZISTA® (darunavir) tablets to include 96-week data from the ARTEMIS and TITAN studies.

29 Jan 2010

Pelosi discusses plan to move ahead with reform

The Boston Globe: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "told reporters this morning that the House is working on two tracks to pursue health reform. She said she hopes to announce soon a series of smaller health care bills, such as removing the antitrust exemption for insurance companies, that could pass relatively quickly." Pelosi described the current thinking as being that both chambers "would pass a series of agreed-upon changes to the Senate bill under reconciliation, and then the House would pass the Senate bill itself."

29 Jan 2010

VisEn Medical acquires Bayer Schering Pharma AG's fluorescence agent intellectual property portfolios

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today that it has acquired the fluorescence imaging agent intellectual property portfolios and related technology platforms from Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany.

29 Jan 2010

Researchers reveal major shifts in structure of scientific research

How has the structure of scientific research changed over the past decade? A team of researchers from Ume- University, Sweden, and the University of Washington, USA, aims to answer this question and others in a study published on January 27th in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

29 Jan 2010

One in five nursing homes receive poor quality ratings, analysis finds

USA Today: "One in five of the nation's 15,700 nursing homes have consistently received poor ratings for overall quality, a USA Today analysis of new government data finds. More than a quarter-million patients live in homes given another set of low scores within the past year, according to data released today by Medicare, which first released the star ratings of the nation's nursing homes in late 2008.

29 Jan 2010

State budget news from Kansas, Massachusetts and Idaho

Kansas Health Institute reports that the recession is crippling Kansas' safety-net system. "The Kansas unemployment insurance system is virtually broke at a time when Department of Labor officials say they need about $15 million a week to pay benefits to out-of-work Kansans.

29 Jan 2010

Study shows doctors cut back their workload for fear of malpractice lawsuits

A new study shows that the number of hours physicians spend on the job each week is influenced by the fear of malpractice lawsuits.

29 Jan 2010

Obama appeals for health reform despite recent setbacks

The New York Times reports that "after spending 2009 emphasizing that a health care overhaul was his top domestic priority, Mr. Obama gave it much less prominence in his [State of the Union] address. He did not mention it until more than half an hour in — a sign of how imperiled the bill has become."

29 Jan 2010

iPierian receives UK patent for induced pluripotent stem cell technology

iPierian, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on changing the paradigm of drug discovery and development through the application of cellular reprogramming, today announced that the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom has issued a Notification of Grant to iPierian for UK patent No. GB2450603, its first patent related to induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.

29 Jan 2010

Findings demonstrate direct correlation between improved air quality and pediatric ear infections

A new study by researchers at UCLA and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests that improvements in air quality over the past decade have resulted in fewer cases of ear infections in children.

28 Jan 2010

People with early-stage lung cancer may double their chances of surviving by giving up smoking

People with early-stage lung cancer may double their chances of surviving for longer than five years by giving up smoking, UK scientists have found.

28 Jan 2010

Increased cost sharing may hurt seniors' health care

Cost sharing and increased co-pays, even if it's just a few dollars, can lead seniors to put off visits to the doctor and result in increased hospital admissions and longer hospital stays, according to a new study.

28 Jan 2010

Conatus Pharmaceuticals initiates combination trial of CTS-1027 with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for HCV

Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial evaluating CTS-1027 in combination with pegylated interferon (Pegasys®) and ribavirin (Copegus®) in refractory HCV patients. Antiviral activity, safety and tolerability of the triple combination will be assessed after up to 48 weeks of therapy.

28 Jan 2010

Mcdonnell says Democratic agenda, including health care effort, is too expensive

In his response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said the nation cannot afford the Democratic agenda, including health care, The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal reports.

28 Jan 2010

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

Efforts to vaccinate "infants against rotavirus could save the lives of millions of children in developing nations who would otherwise die from the diarrhea-causing disease, two new studies show," HealthDay/BusinsessWeek reports.

28 Jan 2010

Research News and Research

AHRQ and American College Of Cardiology team up to study risks and benefits of ICDs

Submissions invited for 2010 SOGC/CFWH Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women's Health Reporting

Nontoxic drug halts and reverses rheumatoid arthritis

Groups - including Catholic Bishops - press Democrats to finish health reform

Tufts CSDD announces the launch of new website

Labeling update for Tibotec Therapeutics' PREZISTA tablets approved

Pelosi discusses plan to move ahead with reform

VisEn Medical acquires Bayer Schering Pharma AG's fluorescence agent intellectual property portfolios

Researchers reveal major shifts in structure of scientific research

One in five nursing homes receive poor quality ratings, analysis finds

State budget news from Kansas, Massachusetts and Idaho

Study shows doctors cut back their workload for fear of malpractice lawsuits

Obama appeals for health reform despite recent setbacks

iPierian receives UK patent for induced pluripotent stem cell technology

Findings demonstrate direct correlation between improved air quality and pediatric ear infections

People with early-stage lung cancer may double their chances of surviving by giving up smoking

Increased cost sharing may hurt seniors' health care

Conatus Pharmaceuticals initiates combination trial of CTS-1027 with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for HCV

Mcdonnell says Democratic agenda, including health care effort, is too expensive

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

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