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Vangard announces partnership with Vista LifeSciences to voice-enable medical record products

Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. (Vangard), the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) which adds high productivity voice-direct capabilities to existing mobile applications, announced a partnership with Vista LifeSciences to voice-enable Vista LifeSciences' medical assessment and clinical encounter/medical record products.

29 Jan 2010

Ecstasy-related death rates in young users is a major public health issue

A paper by a University of Hertfordshire academic due to be published tomorrow (29 January 2010), reports that excess ecstasy-related death rates in young users is a cause for concern.

29 Jan 2010

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

Efforts to vaccinate "infants against rotavirus could save the lives of millions of children in developing nations who would otherwise die from the diarrhea-causing disease, two new studies show," HealthDay/BusinsessWeek reports.

28 Jan 2010

Life Technologies collaborates with Ignite Institute to create genomic sequencing center

Life Technologies Corporation and the Ignite Institute for Individualized Health announced today a collaboration to create a ground-breaking genomic sequencing center at Ignite’s new facility in Northern Virginia.

28 Jan 2010

Jeffrey Modell Foundation urges government to implement SCID screening for all newborns

Vicki and Fred Modell, co-founders of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation, today called upon governors, state public health officials, and legislators, in all states, to implement screening of newborns with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID).

28 Jan 2010

Federal panel awards almost $500 million to La. to replace New Orleans Charity Hospital

Ending one of the longest-running disputes left by Hurricane Katrina, a federal arbitration panel ruled Wednesday that Louisiana would receive $474.8 million — nearly all it had requested — to pay for the replacement of Charity Hospital in New Orleans, which has been closed since the storm.

28 Jan 2010

Alcohol increases risk of violence in couples, says study

Alcohol increases the risk of violence in couples — especially violence both to and by the female partner. A new study of couples found that experienced intimate partner violence found 30.2 percent reported alcohol use before or during the event.

28 Jan 2010

NIDA supports Omeros' Addiction program

Omeros Corporation today announced that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is providing support for the Company's Addiction program. NIDA will fund substantially all of the costs of a Phase 2 clinical study to be conducted by New York State Psychiatric Institute researchers.

28 Jan 2010

Most Britons not aware of the dangers of alcohol misuse

A government-funded advertising campaign launching today, backed by Cancer Research UK and other major health charities, aims to raise awareness of the unseen health damage caused by regular alcohol misuse.

28 Jan 2010

Baxter International reports net income of $572M for the fourth-quarter of 2009

Baxter International Inc. today reported strong performance for the fourth quarter of 2009, and provided its financial outlook for the first quarter and full-year 2010.

From Baxter International Inc. 28 Jan 2010

AHF to conduct HIV testing events in Texas

AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six-month, 48-state national cross-country HIV testing tour, will ride into San Antonio, Texas, for two days of testing events at two Walgreens location.

28 Jan 2010

Studies in Mexico and Africa demonstrate the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccine

For the first time ever, studies in Mexico and Africa, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate a reduction in diarrheal disease deaths following rotavirus vaccine introduction in Mexico and vaccine efficacy among impoverished populations in Malawi and South Africa.

28 Jan 2010

DNA variations in genes increase risk of developing PI-IBS

Studies of the victims of the Walkerton, Ont. tainted drinking water tragedy have led researchers to discover DNA variations in genes that increase the risk of developing post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS). The sheer scale of infection and the recording of the health of Walkerton's citizens gave a team of researchers a unique opportunity to study the origin of this disorder.

28 Jan 2010

Study highlights benefits of reducing dietary salt

"This study provides excellent ammunition both to convince patients about the benefits of reducing their individual salt intakes and also to persuade the EU of the urgent need to introduce legislation to restrict the salt content of processed foods," said ESC spokesman Professor Frank Ruschitzka, a cardiologist and hypertension specialist from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

28 Jan 2010

CIHR invests in health research to develop solutions for gender-based violence

Three new regional research centres that will study violence and ways to prevent it will receive almost $6 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

28 Jan 2010

Scientific and regulatory experts to discuss global and domestic public health issues

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) will convene a meeting of its member organizations on April 21󈞄 in Washington, D.C. Member delegates and experts from around the world will gather to discuss pressing global and domestic public health issues.

28 Jan 2010

Public Health News and Research

Vangard announces partnership with Vista LifeSciences to voice-enable medical record products

Ecstasy-related death rates in young users is a major public health issue

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children in developing countries, studies find

Life Technologies collaborates with Ignite Institute to create genomic sequencing center

Jeffrey Modell Foundation urges government to implement SCID screening for all newborns

Federal panel awards almost $500 million to La. to replace New Orleans Charity Hospital

Alcohol increases risk of violence in couples, says study

NIDA supports Omeros' Addiction program

Most Britons not aware of the dangers of alcohol misuse

Baxter International reports net income of $572M for the fourth-quarter of 2009

AHF to conduct HIV testing events in Texas

Studies in Mexico and Africa demonstrate the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccine

DNA variations in genes increase risk of developing PI-IBS

Study highlights benefits of reducing dietary salt

CIHR invests in health research to develop solutions for gender-based violence

Scientific and regulatory experts to discuss global and domestic public health issues

Real-time data provide baseline information on sodium contents of processed foods

Blocking CRF may prevent excessive alcohol consumption

Posible new method to assess loss of consciousness

Special issue explores how evolution can help doctors understand and treat diseases

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