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Medical researchers race to find ways to use gene sequencing to fight cancer

Technology is quickly revamping medical care. The New York Times looks at the possible use of gene sequencing, while other news outlets examine apps and online tools that are helping Alzheimer's and autism caregivers.

23 Apr 2013

OSF HealthCare becomes newest member of Mayo Clinic Care Network

Mayo Clinic today announced that OSF HealthCare passed Mayo's rigorous review process to become the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

23 Apr 2013

For states, rejecting the health law's Medicaid expansion comes with consequences

The Associated Press reports on the wrinkles that state leaders will face as a result of opting against the sweeping expansion.

23 Apr 2013

FDA: Balanced Solutions voluntarily recalls sterile non-expireddrug products

Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy, a division of Axium Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc., of Lake Mary, Fla., is voluntarily recalling all lots of its sterile non-expireddrug products due to a lack of sterility assurance and concerns with product quality controls.

23 Apr 2013

Ahead of big reforms, health care marketplace feels slowdown

Reuters reports a softening in demand for hospital chains and device makers, among others. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials warn of insurance scams that play on confusion over the health care overhaul.

23 Apr 2013

Pergamum reaches LPLV in Phase I/II trial of LL-37 for treatment of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers

Pergamum AB announced today that the company has reached last-patient-last-visit in a randomized Phase I/II trial of LL-37 for the treatment of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers. Karolinska Development AB is the majority owner of Pergamum.

23 Apr 2013

American College of Surgeons grants Outstanding Achievement Award to 79 accredited cancer programs

The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has granted its 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award to a select group of 79 accredited cancer programs throughout the United States.

22 Apr 2013

New licensing agreement to promote discovery in health IT and improve economic Growth

The Regenstrief Institute Inc., an international leader in electronic medical records and health information exchange research, development and operations, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of an academic medical informatics research setting to a commercial enterprise in the history of Indiana's health information technology sector and the national evolution of health information exchange.

22 Apr 2013

Janssen Diabetes Forum: A medical education initiative for management of type 2 diabetes

Launched today in Beerse, the Janssen Diabetes Forum (www.janssendiabetesforum.com) is a novel medical education initiative, which has been developed to contribute to the understanding of the latest developments in the management of type 2 diabetes.

22 Apr 2013

Investigator honored for advancing osteoporosis research and advocacy worldwide

Professor Socrates Papapoulos, a long standing member of the IOF Board and leading researcher at the Leiden University Medical Center, has been named the recipient of the prestigious Pierre Delmas Award.

22 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 22, 2013

Today's headlines include reports ranging from how state leaders are dealing with the consequences of rejecting the health law's Medicaid expansion to how pending immigration reform proposals could ease the nation's physician shortage.

22 Apr 2013

Time dwindling to meet IDSA goal of 10 new antibiotics by 2020

Despite the desperate need for new antibiotics to combat increasingly deadly resistant bacteria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved only one new systemic antibiotic since the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) launched its 10 x '20 Initiative in 2010 - and that drug was approved two and a half years ago.

22 Apr 2013

Sanovas introduces new surgical imaging technology, MicroCam

Sanovas Inc., a life science technology company developing and commercializing the next-generation of micro-invasive diagnostics, devices and drug delivery technologies, announced today the launch of MicroCam™, its OEM "Plug & Play" micro imaging platform for endoscopic device applications.

22 Apr 2013

Young asthmatic patients have lowest levels of health insurance coverage

It is widely accepted that medical insurance helps older adults with chronic health problems to receive better care. But what about young adults between the ages of 18 and 25, a demographic that also tends to have the lowest levels of health insurance coverage?

22 Apr 2013

TEDMED conference speaker highlights key actions to stop pandemics

Some 2,000 health professionals and thought leaders from all sectors of society are attending TEDMED at the Kennedy Center [in Washington, D.C.,] this week for a series of talks [focusing on medical technology and health care], which are also being televised in more than 80 countries.

22 Apr 2013

Report urges targeted investment for childhood micronutrient supplementation

Noting "[t]his week leaders from around the world convened in Ireland for the Dublin Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice," Kanika Bahl, a managing director at Results for Development Institute (R4D), writes in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog,

22 Apr 2013