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Recipients of comprehensive primary care twice as likely to rate healthcare as high-quality

Chronically ill older adults who are closely supported by a nurse-physician primary care team are twice as likely to rate their health care as high-quality than those who receive usual care, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

20 Jan 2010

Depomed plans additional Serada Phase 3 trial for treatment of menopausal hot flashes

Depomed, Inc. announced today it has received guidance from the FDA in formal meeting minutes from a meeting held in December regarding SeradaTM, the company’s extended release gabapentin product candidate for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes. Based on guidance reflected in the meeting minutes, Depomed plans to conduct a single additional pivotal Phase 3 trial evaluating Serada for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes.

20 Jan 2010

Gene variant predisposes humans to develop acute myeloid leukemia, says study

A large international research group led by Dr. Tarik M-r-y, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montr-al (IRCM), has discovered that a variant of the gene "Growth Factor Independence 1" (GFI1) predisposes humans to develop acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a certain subtype of blood cancer.

20 Jan 2010

St. Louis Children's Hospital installs Siemens' SOMATOM Definition AS CT scanner

Recognized as one of the leading pediatric healthcare centers in the United States, St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis is further enhancing its nationally renowned pediatric care program with the installation of a SOMATOM® Definition AS computed tomography (CT) scanner from Siemens Healthcare. The SOMATOM Definition AS is the world's first adaptive scanner, which intelligently adapts, on the fly, to the patient, for aiding in dose protection, as well as adapting to new dimensions and space.

20 Jan 2010

Microbiologists explain why apples are beneficial for health

Why does an apple a day keep the doctor away? New research published in the open access journal BMC Microbiology contributes to our understanding of why eating apples is good for you.

20 Jan 2010

Fast Forward, JDRF announce collaborative partnership with Axxam SpA

Fast Forward, LLC, the commercial drug development arm of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the leader in research leading to a cure for type 1 diabetes in the world today announced a collaborative partnership with Axxam SpA -- a leading company in conducting early-stage discovery research programs for the life science industry -- to develop new treatments for two autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes (T1D).

20 Jan 2010

Statins may protect SCD children from pneumococcal infection

New research suggests a family of widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs might help protect individuals from serious illness following bacterial infection, including the pneumococcal infections that pose a deadly threat to those with sickle cell disease.

20 Jan 2010

Dynamic mapping may help in detecting links between diseases and environmental exposures

A team of researchers has developed a dynamic mapping tool to gain a more nuanced view of the links between diseases and environmental exposures. The application of the method is illustrated by a number of examples of associations between environmental exposures and Salmonella infections among people in the US age 65 and over in 2002.

20 Jan 2010

HPV testing could be used as standard method of cervical screening for women, say Italian scientists

Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing could be used as the standard method of cervical screening for women aged 35 years or older, as it seems to prevent more invasive cases of the disease than cytology screening alone, Italian scientists have said.

20 Jan 2010

Republican Brown wins Massachusetts Senate seat

The Boston Globe: "Republican Scott Brown tonight pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Massachusetts political history, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley to become the state's next United States senator and potentially derailing President Obama's hopes for a health care overhaul." The

20 Jan 2010

Bracco Diagnostics implements Datalliance VMI to reduce stockouts and maximize inventory investment

Kimberly Cox, Bracco Diagnostics Director of Supply Chain Operations, said, "Our goal with VMI is to expand the service we offer to our large healthcare customers. By assisting with the inventory replenishment process we will help our customers be more efficient by addressing mutual objectives such as reducing stockouts and maximizing inventory investment.

20 Jan 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals presents data on multiple therapeutic programs at RNAi Symposium

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced that it presented data from multiple pre-clinical and clinical programs at the “RNA Silencing: Mechanism, Biology, and Application” Keystone Symposium held January 14-19, 2010 in Keystone, Colorado. Alnylam and its collaborators presented data from Alnylam’s therapeutic programs including transthyretin (TTR)-mediated amyloidosis and Huntington’s disease, as well as new data on delivery approaches for the systemic delivery of RNAi therapeutics.

20 Jan 2010

iWorx launches a family of cardiovascular research products

iWorx, a developer of advanced physiology research and teaching tools, has launched a family of cardiovascular research products used to assess cardiac performance and hemodynamics, both in vivo and in vitro.

20 Jan 2010

JDRF and BD join to develop novel insulin delivery products for treatment of type 1 diabetes

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced today an innovative program aimed at improving the treatment of type 1 diabetes by developing novel insulin delivery products to enhance the use of insulin pumps.

From BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 20 Jan 2010

Hoyer: Senate health bill 'clearly better than nothing'

"House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said passing the Senate healthcare bill would be 'clearly better than nothing,'" The Hill reports. Though Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts could end Democrats "filibuster-proof majority" in the Senate, Hoyer said, "moving ahead on healthcare is essential" (Allen, 1/19).

20 Jan 2010

LaserBand chooses Premier Purchasing Partners as sole source provider for proprietary patient IDs

LaserBand LLC, a worldwide leader in patient identification wristbands, was awarded a contract with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P. to be the sole source provider for proprietary patient identification (ID) bands and related products.

20 Jan 2010

Studies explore consequences of sexual abuse

Half of sexual abuse survivors wait up to five years before disclosing they were victimized, according to a collaborative study from the Universit- de Montr-al, the Universit- du Qu-bec - Montr-al and the Universit- de Sherbrooke published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

20 Jan 2010

LEO Pharma launches psoriasis franchise in the U.S.

Denmark-based LEO Pharma, a global leader in dermatology and critical care, announced its official launch in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, LEO Pharma U.S. will be one of the largest individual operations in the pharmaceutical company’s network of worldwide affiliates and is expected to contribute significantly to the company revenues in 2010.

20 Jan 2010

Massachusetts' Senate election could shape health reform's endgame

"Democrat Martha Coakley's struggle to stave off a potentially devastating defeat in Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts marks a critical turning point in the year-long debate about health-care reform."

20 Jan 2010

Erectile dysfunction can be strongly related to the development of CVD

In the first study of its kind, New England Research Institutes, Inc. (NERI) in collaboration with the Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco tested whether erectile dysfunction (ED) can be used to reclassify patients according to their future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) beyond traditional risk factors (such as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc).

20 Jan 2010

Research News and Research

Recipients of comprehensive primary care twice as likely to rate healthcare as high-quality

Depomed plans additional Serada Phase 3 trial for treatment of menopausal hot flashes

Gene variant predisposes humans to develop acute myeloid leukemia, says study

St. Louis Children's Hospital installs Siemens' SOMATOM Definition AS CT scanner

Microbiologists explain why apples are beneficial for health

Fast Forward, JDRF announce collaborative partnership with Axxam SpA

Statins may protect SCD children from pneumococcal infection

Dynamic mapping may help in detecting links between diseases and environmental exposures

HPV testing could be used as standard method of cervical screening for women, say Italian scientists

Republican Brown wins Massachusetts Senate seat

Bracco Diagnostics implements Datalliance VMI to reduce stockouts and maximize inventory investment

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals presents data on multiple therapeutic programs at RNAi Symposium

iWorx launches a family of cardiovascular research products

JDRF and BD join to develop novel insulin delivery products for treatment of type 1 diabetes

Hoyer: Senate health bill 'clearly better than nothing'

LaserBand chooses Premier Purchasing Partners as sole source provider for proprietary patient IDs

Studies explore consequences of sexual abuse

LEO Pharma launches psoriasis franchise in the U.S.

Massachusetts' Senate election could shape health reform's endgame

Erectile dysfunction can be strongly related to the development of CVD

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