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Medical device tax gets attention in budget fight

Opponents of the tax, which helps fund the health law, have proposed killing it to help defuse the current standoff, but there is not yet consensus on that effort.

11 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 10, 2013

Today's headlines include a new Associated Press poll that offers the public's early reviews of the first days of the health law's online insurance marketplaces.

10 Oct 2013

Allegro receives FDA IND approval to initiate Phase II clinical studies of ALG-1001 in AMD, VMT patients

Allegro Ophthalmics, LLC, a company dedicated to establishing Integrin Peptide Therapy as the next-generation pharmaceutical category for the treatment of vascular eye diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application to begin two Phase II clinical studies of ALG-1001.

10 Oct 2013

EcoHealth Alliance to study land use alteration in disease emergence, climate change in Asia

EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced the award of a three-year, $2 million award to address land use alteration as a significant driver of both disease emergence and climate change in Asia.

24 Sep 2013

UNLV leads regional 13-university partnership to put clinical health research into practice

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Nevada Senator Harry Reid announced a five-year, $20.3 million grant awarded to UNLV from the National Institutes of Health to lead a health research network of 13 universities across the Mountain West. The University of Nevada School of Medicine will partner on the grant.

19 Sep 2013

Simple skin test gains traction as suicide marker

A large study of psychiatric inpatients supports the notion that electrodermal hyporeactivity may be an accurate marker of suicide risk.

10 Sep 2013

ThromboGenics, Bicycle to develop and commercialize novel drugs for ophthalmic diseases

ThromboGenics NV, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative ophthalmic medicines, today announces that it has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Bicycle Therapeutics to develop and commercialize novel drugs inhibiting a specific target for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases, such as diabetic macular edema.

5 Sep 2013

GrowLife announces successful completion of 60 day marketing campaign using television ads

GrowLife, Inc. (OTCBB: PHOT), a provider of highly effective indoor growing technologies and unique lifestyle brands, is pleased to announce that the company has successfully completed a 60 day marketing campaign using strategically placed two minute television ads for its Phototron home growing unit.

31 Aug 2013

Insurance agents target navigators; GOP Rep. Mchenry grilled at town hall; questions remain for Capitol Hill staff

When states and the federal government launch the new insurance marketplaces, or &quotexchanges&quot, on October 1, one of their greatest challenges will be reaching the very people the marketplaces are meant to help. ... Enter the navigators.

12 Aug 2013

First Edition: August 9, 2013

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including Kathleen Sebelius' outreach to Texans and a look at Americans' comprehension of health insurance.

9 Aug 2013

Life Care’s thoughts on neck pain from cervical herniated disc

Thoughts on neck pain from a Cervical Herniated Disc from Life Care Solutions Group's Sacramento Injury Lawyer, Dr. Greg Vigna.

3 Aug 2013

Obama seeks to calm 'jittery Democrats' on health law rollout

Meanwhile, senior GOP leaders plan more votes to chip away at Obamacare, in part to dissuade their rank and file from demanding a government shutdown this fall unless the health law is defunded.

2 Aug 2013

Improving vaccination rates in boys plays a crucial role against HPV infection

Improving vaccination rates against the human papillomavirus (HPV) in boys is key to protecting both men and women, says new research from University of Toronto Professor Peter A. Newman from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

23 Jul 2013

How will health exchanges work? Business versions may offer clues

News outlets look at how the health law's new online insurance marketplaces might work and examine the experiences of employees participating in private corporate exchanges. Others examine what some critics view as opportunities for fraud and bad actors.

16 Jul 2013

Louisiana Blue Cross: Insurance costs will drop for many under health law; other states cope with law's impact

The Miami Herald: Educating Florida About Health Care Reform Starts With Conversation Enroll America, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit whose mission is to educate Americans about their healthcare options under the Affordable Care Act, kicked off its Florida campaign Wednesday in Miami with a training session for more than 25 newly hired organizers who will be reaching out to residents statewide.

12 Jul 2013

Glythera secures £700k to advance development of new generation of biological therapeutics

Glythera Ltd is delighted to announce that it has successfully achieved a number of technical and commercial milestones which has resulted in the release of a second tranche of funding totalling £700k from IP Group and its managed fund, the Finance for Business North East Technology Fund.

9 Jul 2013

Researchers study existence of cross-protection between multiple strains of infectious disease

Using a unique data set spanning 40 years of dengue fever incidence in Thailand, an international team led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time estimated from data that after an initial dengue infection, a person is protected from infection with other strains for between one and three years.

3 Jul 2013

Discovery of cells movement inside body may provide information to scientists about disease mechanism s

A new discovery about how cells move inside the body may provide scientists with crucial information about disease mechanisms such as the spread of cancer or the constriction of airways caused by asthma.

24 Jun 2013

New $11 million grant for lowering stroke risk among black and young populations

A new $11 million grant to Kaiser Permanente Northern California and UC San Francisco will support a multifaceted research program aimed at lowering stroke risk among black populations and younger stroke victims by targeting high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.

21 Jun 2013

Viewpoints: Will 'rate shock' grow?; Krugman says GOP spite is driving opposition to Medicaid expansion; Determining who owns genes

Any plausible health care reform, the various conservative alternatives to Obamacare included, would necessarily have losers as well as winners, and as far as potential losers go single young men with above-average incomes are not precisely the country's most disadvantaged demographic. If you think the current system is flawless, then I suppose any rate increase anywhere is a strike against health care reform.

10 Jun 2013