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The Wellness Network announces acquisition of LOGICARE

The Wellness Network, parent company of The Patient Channel, The Newborn Channel, and HealthStyle Press, today announced that it has acquired LOGICARE Corporation, a leading hospital patient education software company.

24 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 24, 2013

Today's headlines include reports that the Obama administration plans to tweak the tax-penalty deadline for signing up for health insurance as well as previews of what might happen when the contractors who built the health law's online insurance marketplace testify today on Capitol Hill.

24 Oct 2013

Amedica signs distribution agreement with K2M

Amedica Corporation, a biomaterial company, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with K2M that will provide surgeons and hospitals in Europe with access to Amedica's Silicon Nitride interbody spinal fusion devices.

24 Oct 2013

HM Hospitales expects to treat first patients with Elekta's Versa HD system in 2015

HM Hospitales, a private hospital group in Spain, anticipates treating its first patients with Elekta's Versa HD™ system in 2015. Versa HD, to be sited in the group's sixth hospital, is an advanced radiation treatment system designed to enhance the management of cancer care and treat a broad spectrum of tumors throughout the body.

From Elekta 24 Oct 2013

Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School to host 4th annual Wireless Health conference

Wireless Health 2013, presented by the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance, invites the most advanced research from health, biomedical, engineering and computer science disciplines to encourage the development of widely usable mobile health solutions.

24 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

Clearly, the government picked the wrong people to manage this project and it was a terrible decision to fragment it among so many contractors. Anyone who's ever been involved in creating a new computer application knows that you don't just assemble the thing and then see if it works. You're supposed to test the components, obsessively, along the way (Andrew Rosenthal, 10/22).

24 Oct 2013

MedRisk acquires Medical Diagnostic Associates Management

MedRisk, Inc., the nation's leading provider of physical medicine management to the workers' compensation industry, has acquired Medical Diagnostic Associates Management, Inc. based in Calabasas, Calif., and its access to a national diagnostic imaging network.

24 Oct 2013

Rakuten Kirei ºC Navi receives Good Design Award from Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Rakuten, Inc. and Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) announced today that their jointly developed service for women, "Rakuten Kirei ºC Navi," which provides advice and information on a variety of aspects of beauty based on basal body temperature, received a Good Design Award 2013 from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP).

24 Oct 2013

Health exchange status update: Two key fixes will take longer than expected

Making the necessary repairs will likely take more talent and more time the online exchange is offline. Meanwhile, a survey conducted by CBS found that very few Americans think the federal online insurance marketplace's launch has gone well.

24 Oct 2013

Scientists find disparities in regulation of transposons between humans and non-human primate cells

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells, a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

24 Oct 2013

McKesson agrees to acquire majority stake in Celesio

McKesson Corporation, a leading North American healthcare services and information technology company, and Celesio AG, a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, announced today that McKesson has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Celesio for €23 per share and to launch parallel voluntary public tender offers for the remaining publicly-traded shares and outstanding convertible bonds of Celesio.

24 Oct 2013

BUSM researchers capture images of channels that direct proteins to right place in cell membranes

Similar to passengers on an urban transit system, every protein made in the cell has a specific destination and function. Channels in cell membranes help direct these proteins to their appropriate target. Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine and their colleagues have now captured images of these channels as they open to allow proteins to pass through a membrane, while the proteins are being made.

24 Oct 2013

The White House names Zients to be Heatlhcare.gov fixer

Jeffrey D. Zients, who previously served as the Office of Management and Budget chief performance officer, is already a tested Administration troubleshooter.

24 Oct 2013

Sen. Rubio readies bill to delay insurance mandate penalty

Sen. Marco Rubio is proposing a bill that would delay imposing penalties on people who don't have health insurance until six months after the Government Accountability Office has certified the federal website is functional. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, is calling on President Obama to extended open enrollment beyond March 31, 2014 and to waive penalties for those who are unable to sign up because of technical problems.

24 Oct 2013

Nanometric scale diamond particles offer new way to detect cancer far earlier

Real-time monitoring of cancer cell processes could soon be possible thanks to nanometric scale diamonds used as biosensors.

24 Oct 2013

Diffregen awarded SBIR Phase 1 grant to advance Angiocidin towards human clinical trials

Diffregen LLC, a Temple University startup company, has been awarded a small business innovation research Phase 1 grant by the National Cancer Institute to advance Angiocidin, a university-created therapeutic to treat acute myeloid leukemia, to the doorstep of human clinical trials.

24 Oct 2013

Biocompatible compounds can be used to develop customized implant designs with 3-D printing

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers.

24 Oct 2013

Technology News and Research

The Wellness Network announces acquisition of LOGICARE

First Edition: October 24, 2013

Amedica signs distribution agreement with K2M

HM Hospitales expects to treat first patients with Elekta's Versa HD system in 2015

Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School to host 4th annual Wireless Health conference

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

MedRisk acquires Medical Diagnostic Associates Management

Rakuten Kirei ºC Navi receives Good Design Award from Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Health exchange status update: Two key fixes will take longer than expected

Scientists find disparities in regulation of transposons between humans and non-human primate cells

McKesson agrees to acquire majority stake in Celesio

BUSM researchers capture images of channels that direct proteins to right place in cell membranes

The White House names Zients to be Heatlhcare.gov fixer

Sen. Rubio readies bill to delay insurance mandate penalty

Nanometric scale diamond particles offer new way to detect cancer far earlier

Diffregen awarded SBIR Phase 1 grant to advance Angiocidin towards human clinical trials

Biocompatible compounds can be used to develop customized implant designs with 3-D printing

Scientists to converge at nation's first conference on computational psychiatry

New imaging tool could someday be used for routine breast cancer screenings

First Edition: October 23, 2013

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

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