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mHealth Summit to host Global mHealth Forum

The mHealth Summit announced today that it will host the Global mHealth Forum, a two-day co-located event, to focus on mobile and connected health in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

10 Jun 2014

Treato releases third version of flagship patient intelligence platform

Treato, the world's most comprehensive source of real-time patient voice insights, today announced the release of version 3 of its flagship patient intelligence platform.

10 Jun 2014

Wolters Kluwer announces feature-rich online platform for LWW Health Library

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for healthcare and medical education, today announced a new, feature-rich online platform developed for the LWW Health Library, a portal to a diverse collection of Lippincott basic and clinical science content used by medical and pharmacy schools.

10 Jun 2014

iGetBetter selects Validic platform to access data from broad range of biometric devices

iGetBetter, Inc., a supplier of post-acute care transition solutions, and Validic, the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for accessing digital health data, announced today that iGetBetter has selected the Validic platform to access data from a broad range of available biometric devices as part of its care transition solution focused on reducing readmissions.

10 Jun 2014

PaxVax partners with UC to develop combination vaccine to prevent genital HSV infections

PaxVax Inc., a specialty vaccine company with a commercial focus on travel and biodefense and a social mission to ensure global access to its vaccines, today announced that it has entered into a research and development collaboration with the University of California, San Diego to develop a combination vaccine to prevent genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections.

10 Jun 2014

AB SCIEX launches MasterView Food Testing Workflow for QTRAP mass spectrometry systems

AB SCIEX, a global leader in analytical technologies, today announced the launch of the MasterView™ Food Testing Workflow for QTRAP® mass spectrometry systems at the 5th Annual FERA/JIFSAN Symposium on Emerging Issues in Food, in York, UK.

10 Jun 2014

Alnylam announces new pre-clinical results with DC for ALN-CC5 to treat complement-mediated diseases

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today new pre-clinical results with its Development Candidate (DC) for ALN-CC5, a subcutaneously administered investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting complement component C5 in development for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases.

10 Jun 2014

Liquid Grids launches new Software as a Service platform for healthcare industry

Liquid Grids®, a precision marketing platform for the healthcare industry, announces the launch of its new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform specifically designed for the healthcare industry.

10 Jun 2014

Celsion signs definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire EGEN

Celsion Corporation (Celsion) (NASDAQ: CLSN), an oncology drug development company, and EGEN, Inc. (EGEN), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of nucleic acid-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other difficult to treat diseases, today announced the signing of a definitive asset purchase agreement in which Celsion will acquire substantially all of the assets of EGEN, including its Phase Ib DNA-based immunotherapy product candidate EGEN-001 and its therapeutic platform technologies, TheraPlas™ for delivery of DNA and mRNA, TheraSilence™ for delivery of RNA, and RAST™ for Cell Enabled Expression and Secretion of RNA.

10 Jun 2014

Viewpoints: 'Triage' at the VA; GOP can't 'fix' health law; mental health problems in LA jail

Washington's attention span on the Veterans Affairs scandal seems to be expiring. Though 42 of the VA's 152 major campuses (27%) are still under investigation for falsifying wait-time records, the Senate is converging on a bipartisan deal that claims to solve the problem.

10 Jun 2014

Pulsar Vascular announces FDA approval of PulseRider IDE for intracranial bifurcation aneurysms

Pulsar Vascular, the innovator and developer of the PulseRider, a minimally invasive, aneurysm neck reconstruction device, announced today the United States Food and Drug Administration's approval of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for the PulseRider.

10 Jun 2014

Synthetic, Enterome partner to study effects of beta-lactam antibiotics on gastrointestinal microflora

Synthetic Biologics, Inc., a developer of novel anti-infective biologic and drug candidates targeting specific pathogens that cause serious infections and diseases, and Enterome Bioscience SA, a pioneer in the development of innovative disease management solutions based on a deep understanding of the gut microbiome, today announced that they have entered into an agreement to conduct metagenomic research on the effects of beta-lactam antibiotics on the gastrointestinal microflora (microbiome) of human patients.

10 Jun 2014

New innovative body suit improves horse riders’ balance, symmetry, poor posture

HORSE riders' balance, symmetry and poor posture could be improved thanks to an innovative body suit that works with motion sensors, commonly used by movie makers and the video games industry.

10 Jun 2014

Findings add surprising new dimension to understanding of antibody repertoires

As elite soldiers of the body's immune response, B cells serve as a vast standing army ready to recognize and destroy invading antigens, including infections and cancer cells. To do so, each new B cell comes equipped with its own highly specialized weapon, a unique antibody protein that selectively binds to specific parts of the antigen.

10 Jun 2014

State highlights: Improving chronic care in Las Vegas; standoff over Medicaid in N.C.

Now, Las Vegas is emerging as a test of how much a community can improve chronically poor health by expanding insurance coverage and using models of medical care pioneered in healthier places. "We are a prime example of what people see as problematic about the American healthcare system," said Larry Matheis, the former longtime head of the Nevada State Medical Assn. "That makes a lot of the ideas in health reform very attractive. … The challenge is going to be figuring out how to make it all work" (Levey, 6/7).

10 Jun 2014

Text4baby benefits pregnant women

The leading mobile health service in the nation, Text4baby, was found to significantly benefit pregnant women, according to a new study led by Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University and the Madigan Army Medical Center.

10 Jun 2014

CSMG and CSHA groups awarded highest designation for quality care

For the fifth year in a row, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group and Cedars-Sinai Health Associates have been awarded the highest possible designation for quality care by a leading national organization representing managed care physician groups. CAPG, formerly known as the California Association of Physician Groups, rated both Cedars-Sinai groups as excelling in all six of the criteria used in the 2014 Standards of Excellence survey.

10 Jun 2014

New technology improves quality of life for kids with severe developmental disabilities

A group of Kansas State University engineers and students is developing technology to improve the health and quality of life for children with severe developmental disabilities.

10 Jun 2014

Penn researchers awarded $10 million grant to study adverse health effects, remediation of asbestos

Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences over the next four years to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to mesothelioma, the bioremediation of this hazardous material, and mechanisms that lead to asbestos-related diseases.

10 Jun 2014

Contacta to manufacture HLD large area hearing loop product platform in the USA

Contacta Inc. has today announced the HLD large area hearing loop product platform will be manufactured in the USA.

9 Jun 2014

Technology News and Research

mHealth Summit to host Global mHealth Forum

Treato releases third version of flagship patient intelligence platform

Wolters Kluwer announces feature-rich online platform for LWW Health Library

iGetBetter selects Validic platform to access data from broad range of biometric devices

PaxVax partners with UC to develop combination vaccine to prevent genital HSV infections

AB SCIEX launches MasterView Food Testing Workflow for QTRAP mass spectrometry systems

Alnylam announces new pre-clinical results with DC for ALN-CC5 to treat complement-mediated diseases

Liquid Grids launches new Software as a Service platform for healthcare industry

Celsion signs definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire EGEN

Viewpoints: 'Triage' at the VA; GOP can't 'fix' health law; mental health problems in LA jail

Pulsar Vascular announces FDA approval of PulseRider IDE for intracranial bifurcation aneurysms

Synthetic, Enterome partner to study effects of beta-lactam antibiotics on gastrointestinal microflora

New innovative body suit improves horse riders’ balance, symmetry, poor posture

Findings add surprising new dimension to understanding of antibody repertoires

State highlights: Improving chronic care in Las Vegas; standoff over Medicaid in N.C.

Text4baby benefits pregnant women

CSMG and CSHA groups awarded highest designation for quality care

New technology improves quality of life for kids with severe developmental disabilities

Penn researchers awarded $10 million grant to study adverse health effects, remediation of asbestos

Contacta to manufacture HLD large area hearing loop product platform in the USA

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