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Canada funds 22 inventive ideas for improving health in low-resource countries

Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, today announced $2.4 million in seed funds shared between 22 projects from Canada and nine developing nations, to pursue inventive new ideas for improving health in low-resource countries.

8 Sep 2014

Researchers receive $23.8 million from CMS to improve HIV prevention and care

Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) were awarded a grant estimated to be funded at $23.8 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to study a new model that aims to improve HIV prevention and care while lowering healthcare costs.

8 Sep 2014

Triple-S Salud collaborates with Voxiva and TracFone Wireless to improve health, satisfaction

Triple-S Salud has partnered with TracFone Wireless, Inc. and Voxiva, Inc. to improve the health and satisfaction of their members by providing access to free cell phones and health messaging programs.

8 Sep 2014

Codman reaches exclusive distribution agreement with Pulsar Vascular to market PulseRider

Codman Neuro, part of DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson, today announced it has reached an exclusive distribution agreement with Pulsar Vascular to market and promote that company's PulseRider® in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

8 Sep 2014

BMC receives grant from Cardinal Health Foundation to help improve effectiveness of patient care

The Cardinal Health Foundation announced it has awarded Virginia R. Litle, MD, a Thoracic Surgeon at Boston Medical Center (BMC) grant funding from the E3 Grant Program to implement best practices and help improve the effectiveness, efficiency and excellence of patient care.

8 Sep 2014

Study urges women not to drink during full nine months of pregnancy

All things in moderation, the saying goes, but if you are a pregnant woman no amount of alcohol is known to be safe for the developing baby.

8 Sep 2014

Hospitals can improve flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using mandatory policy

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using a mandatory employee vaccination policy, according to a Henry Ford Health System study.

8 Sep 2014

Viewpoints: End-of-life discussions; seniors missing their vaccinations; health law's new political calculations

There is reason to hope that a degree of sanity may be returning to the touchy issue of advance planning for medical care at the end of life.

8 Sep 2014

Genetic mutation caused by ultraviolet light is likely driving force behind human skin cancers

A genetic mutation caused by ultraviolet light is likely the driving force behind millions of human skin cancers, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

8 Sep 2014

Many patients do not experience dignified death, say physicians in cancer centers

A new study that surveyed physicians and nurses in hospitals within cancer centers in Germany suggests that many patients there do not experience a dignified death.

8 Sep 2014

Diabetes epidemic may hamper global efforts to control TB, study reveals

The rapid increase in rates of type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic could hamper global efforts to control and eliminate TB, according to a new three-part Series about TB and diabetes, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

8 Sep 2014

New Series highlights that child deaths in England are still potentially preventable

Child deaths have fallen to very low rates in all industrialised countries, but many deaths in children and adolescents are still potentially preventable, and much more could be done to cut future deaths, according to a new three-part Series on child deaths in high-income countries, published in The Lancet.

8 Sep 2014

Research roundup: Doctors' training; expanding FEHBP; the ACA and part-time work

Growing concern about rising costs and potential harms of medical care has stimulated interest in assessing physicians' ability to minimize the provision of unnecessary care. Objective: To assess whether graduates of residency programs characterized by low-intensity practice patterns are more capable of managing patients' care conservatively ...

8 Sep 2014

Soligenix acquires novel orphan drug candidate for treatment of CTCL

Soligenix, Inc., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing products that address unmet medical needs in the areas of inflammation, oncology and biodefense, announced today the acquisition of a novel orphan drug candidate, known as SGX301 (synthetic hypericin).

8 Sep 2014

State highlights: Democrats consider letting states curb health costs; obesity in America

Borrowing a Republican idea, a group including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers is unveiling a novel proposal to let states take the lead in controlling health costs.

8 Sep 2014

Combination miRNA therapy offers promising therapeutic avenue for non-small-cell lung cancer

Micro RNAs (miRNA) have recently emerged as key therapeutic agents against cancers and are actively being evaluated in pre-clinical models of various cancers as well as in human clinical trials.

8 Sep 2014

Administration requests Ebola funds boost

News outlets reported on the newest development in government's commitment to help end the outbreak. The White House on Friday sent Congress a request for $30 million to pay for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's efforts to help contain the Ebola outbreak in western Africa.

8 Sep 2014

Study investigates stigma as a significant barrier to care for many individuals with mental illness

Over 60 million Americans are thought to experience mental illness in a given year, and the impacts of mental illness are undoubtedly felt by millions more in the form of family members, friends, and coworkers.

8 Sep 2014

D.C. appeals court to rehear Obamacare subsidy challenge

In what could be good news for the Obama administration, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has agreed to rehear a lawsuit that argued the federal government lacks the authority to provide insurance subsidies in states that do not run their own exchanges. The order to hear the case technically cancels the three-judge ruling from July that would have nullified subsidies given to residents in 36 states.

7 Sep 2014

Thousands of immigrants face deadline today on Obamacare coverage

Nearly a quarter of a million newly naturalized citizens or immigrants could lose subsidized coverage under the Affordable Care Act at month's end if the government doesn't receive paperwork verifying their immigration status.

6 Sep 2014

Health Care News and Research

Canada funds 22 inventive ideas for improving health in low-resource countries

Researchers receive $23.8 million from CMS to improve HIV prevention and care

Triple-S Salud collaborates with Voxiva and TracFone Wireless to improve health, satisfaction

Codman reaches exclusive distribution agreement with Pulsar Vascular to market PulseRider

BMC receives grant from Cardinal Health Foundation to help improve effectiveness of patient care

Study urges women not to drink during full nine months of pregnancy

Hospitals can improve flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using mandatory policy

Viewpoints: End-of-life discussions; seniors missing their vaccinations; health law's new political calculations

Genetic mutation caused by ultraviolet light is likely driving force behind human skin cancers

Many patients do not experience dignified death, say physicians in cancer centers

Diabetes epidemic may hamper global efforts to control TB, study reveals

New Series highlights that child deaths in England are still potentially preventable

Research roundup: Doctors' training; expanding FEHBP; the ACA and part-time work

Soligenix acquires novel orphan drug candidate for treatment of CTCL

State highlights: Democrats consider letting states curb health costs; obesity in America

Combination miRNA therapy offers promising therapeutic avenue for non-small-cell lung cancer

Administration requests Ebola funds boost

Study investigates stigma as a significant barrier to care for many individuals with mental illness

D.C. appeals court to rehear Obamacare subsidy challenge

Thousands of immigrants face deadline today on Obamacare coverage

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