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Allscripts, Humana partner to deliver clinical-decision support technology for physicians

Humana Inc., in its continuing commitment to partnering with leading Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, has formed an alliance with Allscripts - a national leader in EHR technology - to provide eligible physician practices with incentives for implementing EHR technology that enables delivery of advanced clinical-decision support at the point of care.

17 Jun 2011

IITA launches initiative to prevent aflatoxin contamination in African crops

African agricultural research groups led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and partners have launched a project seeking to provide farmers with a natural, safe, and cost-effective solution to prevent contamination of maize and peanut by a deadly cancer-causing poison, aflatoxin, in a bid to improve the health and income of families in Nigeria and Kenya.

17 Jun 2011

Transgenomic introduces Nuclear Mitome Test for diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders

Transgenomic, Inc. today announced the launch of the Nuclear Mitome Test, a genetic test to aid physicians in the diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders.

17 Jun 2011

USPTO issues patent for Predictive Biosciences' multiple biomarker assay

Predictive Biosciences, a provider of novel molecular diagnostic tests, announced that on June 7, 2011 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent Number 7,955,822 for "Detection of Nucleic Acids and Proteins".

17 Jun 2011

Roundup: Few states raise taxes to ease budgets; Ala. Gov. signs abortion law; Texas House advances bill to turn Medicaid, Medicare into block grants

As 2011 began, the budget situation in state capitals looked more dire than just about anybody could remember. ... With Medicaid, the states had their hands tied. The new federal health care law prohibits states from cutting eligibility or making it harder for people to apply for coverage. So states had to find other ways to control costs. Idaho reduced the amount paid to hospitals and doctors to treat Medicaid patients, an idea that some 30 governors proposed this year.

17 Jun 2011

New Australian drug shows positive response in patients with multiple myeloma blood cancer

Australian monoclonal antibody company, Immune System Therapeutics Limited (IST), today announced it would double patient recruitment in its Phase II trial for a breakthrough antibody treatment for terminal blood cancer.

16 Jun 2011

Tunstall named HealthInvestors Telehealthcare provider of the year

Against stiff competition, Tunstall Healthcare, the world's leading provider of telehealthcare solutions has been named HealthInvestor's telehealth/telecare provider of the year at its 2011 London awards ceremony.

16 Jun 2011

Austria "FIT for Research"

Experience research with state-of-the-art media technology: at St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. On the evening of 23 September, the University will merge research, art and lifestyle under the motto "FIT for research". The unique combination is Austria's contribution to European Researchers' Night 2011.

16 Jun 2011

CEVEC and Catalent Pharma Solutions offer joint cell line development service

CEVEC Pharmaceuticals, the German developer of a novel, market leading human protein expression system derived from amniocytes, and Catalent Pharma Solutions, a leading global drug development and delivery solutions provider, announced today a joint commercial cell line development service for pharma and biotech customers worldwide. The offering combines the benefits of CEVEC’s human cell line, CAP-Technology, with Catalent’s unique GPEx® (Gene Product Expression) Technology to generate high expressing stable human cell lines in a much shorter timeframe than traditional methods.

16 Jun 2011

Adaptimmune melanoma trial opening

Adaptimmune announced today that it has opened a Phase I/II, two cohort, open label clinical trial in metastatic melanoma at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

16 Jun 2011

Benefitfocus unveils Medical Loss Ratio Rebate App for insurance companies

Benefitfocus today unveiled its Medical Loss Ratio Rebate App, which helps health insurance companies calculate premium contributions and manage rebates as they adjust to new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements.

16 Jun 2011

Ankota introduces TherapEZ web-based, mobile tablet-based solution for home health therapy agencies

Ankota, the developer of the first Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM) solutions, introduced today its TherapEZ software as a solution for streamlining many of the operational issues faced by home health therapy agencies as they seek to provide services for patients at home and to coordinate care with home health agencies.

16 Jun 2011

Healthcare organizations embrace need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation

Healthcare organizations are embracing the need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation, but they still require the tools and capabilities to make data available in real time and reduce the burden on scarce resources.

16 Jun 2011

European scientists develop efficient methods for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

PredictAD is an EU-funded research project that develops objective and efficient methods for enabling earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Diagnosis requires a holistic view of the patient combining information from several sources, such as, clinical tests, imaging and blood samples.

16 Jun 2011

Large trial of tenofovir gel for women set to begin in South Africa

A 24-month clinical trial looking at the effectiveness of tenofovir gel use among women to reduce the risk of HIV infection is set to begin in South Africa in late July or early August, the Mail & Guardian reports.

16 Jun 2011

Patient safety initiatives should focus on outpatient setting to avoid paid malpractice claims

In an examination of trends of malpractice claims, there has been a greater decline in the rate of paid claims for inpatient settings than outpatient settings, and in 2009, the number of malpractice claims for events resulting in paid malpractice claims in outpatient and inpatient settings were similar, according to a study in the June 15 issue of JAMA.

16 Jun 2011

Cancer Research UK to launch genetic testing programme

Cancer Research UK's chief executive Harpal Kumar today spoke of a 'golden era' for cancer research as the UK is poised to lead the world in individualising the practice of medicine by understanding which treatments are best suited to an individual patient's particular genetic type of cancer.

16 Jun 2011

University of Houston chemist develops two different materials against E. coli

A University of Houston (UH) chemist who is developing materials for detecting and repelling E. coli has published papers in two high-impact journals this month.

16 Jun 2011

Stem cell technology corrects genetic defect in rare blinding disorder

Researchers have used cutting-edge stem cell technology to correct a genetic defect present in a rare blinding disorder, another step on a promising path that may one day lead to therapies to reverse blindness caused by common retinal diseases such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa which affect millions of individuals.

16 Jun 2011

ISCO discovers novel technology to produce pure hepatocyte population

International Stem Cell Corporation announces the discovery of a novel, patent-pending technology to produce unlimited numbers of liver cells (hepatocytes) that are free of contamination with potentially dangerous undifferentiated cells.

16 Jun 2011

Technology News and Research

Allscripts, Humana partner to deliver clinical-decision support technology for physicians

IITA launches initiative to prevent aflatoxin contamination in African crops

Transgenomic introduces Nuclear Mitome Test for diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders

USPTO issues patent for Predictive Biosciences' multiple biomarker assay

Roundup: Few states raise taxes to ease budgets; Ala. Gov. signs abortion law; Texas House advances bill to turn Medicaid, Medicare into block grants

New Australian drug shows positive response in patients with multiple myeloma blood cancer

Tunstall named HealthInvestors Telehealthcare provider of the year

Austria "FIT for Research"

CEVEC and Catalent Pharma Solutions offer joint cell line development service

Adaptimmune melanoma trial opening

Benefitfocus unveils Medical Loss Ratio Rebate App for insurance companies

Ankota introduces TherapEZ web-based, mobile tablet-based solution for home health therapy agencies

Healthcare organizations embrace need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation

European scientists develop efficient methods for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

Large trial of tenofovir gel for women set to begin in South Africa

Patient safety initiatives should focus on outpatient setting to avoid paid malpractice claims

Cancer Research UK to launch genetic testing programme

University of Houston chemist develops two different materials against E. coli

Stem cell technology corrects genetic defect in rare blinding disorder

ISCO discovers novel technology to produce pure hepatocyte population

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