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Promises, predictions: In upcoming enrollment season, healthcare.gov will be faster, easier

According to Obama administration officials, the updated website includes a shorter insurance application form and is not expected to crash. Unlike last year, the site has been undergoing testing for more than five weeks.

10 Oct 2014

Gold Crest Care Center joins the cause to raise awareness for breast cancer

Gold Crest Care Center, one of the leading nursing homes in NYC, has joined the cause to raise awareness for breast cancer education, prevention and treatment. The Bronx, N.Y. facility is dedicated to providing top-notch care for all patients while providing educational services to clients and their families.

9 Oct 2014

Viewpoints: Walmart's cuts in insurance grow from health law; online marketplace still lacks transparency

Wal-Mart gave lawmakers a concise lesson in economics Tuesday when it disclosed that it would no longer offer health insurance to yet more of its part-time employees. ... I'll just argue that what we're seeing is the entirely predictable result of the employer mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- a mandate, by the way, that Wal-Mart lobbied for. The company was offering health benefits for most employees at the time, and may simply have been trying to force its competitors to do the same (Jon Healey, 10/7).

9 Oct 2014

Low sexual desire among women can be treatable

Low sexual desire is common among both pre- and post-menopausal women. It can cause personal distress, harm relationships, and have a negative impact on body image and self confidence. Yet few women seek medical care for this condition, and the reasons are explored in a timely article in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

8 Oct 2014

Wolters Kluwer Health wins 12 prizes at 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information solutions for the healthcare provider and education markets, today announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins textbooks and digital guides were honored with 12 prizes at the 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards.

8 Oct 2014

New partners join Grand Challenges Canada to help protect early brain development

Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, today welcomed three new partners to the Saving Brains Grand Challenge: Aga Khan Foundation Canada, Norlien Foundation and World Vision Canada. These organizations strengthen the existing partnership with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation.

8 Oct 2014

State highlights: States and drug prices; Ariz. limiting Sovaldi for patients; L.A. boosts uninsured care by $61 million

Because of its high cost, some state Medicaid programs and prison systems are refusing to provide Sovaldi to any but the sickest patients. Most recently, Oregon last month threatened to limit access to the drug unless it can get Sovaldi at a deeply discounted price. But Sovaldi is only the beginning. Expensive new treatments for certain cancers, rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions also have rattled Medicaid officials, patients and health care providers. What can states do to hold down drug costs? Drug pricing is a complicated and opaque process.

8 Oct 2014

Nursing home rating system gets a makeover

The Obama administration announced Monday that it will revise substantially the five-star rating program for nursing homes.

8 Oct 2014

As next enrollment period approaches, states wrestle with exchange issues from last year

In Washington state, officials are still trying to resolve billing and computer issues related to 1,300 accounts. In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick says the problem-plagued website is now fixed and ready to go when enrollment opens Nov. 15, but at an additional cost of $26 million. And in Minnesota, a new plan enters the MNSure marketplace.

8 Oct 2014

BenefitMall bags bronze Stevie Award for website HealthcareExchange.com

BenefitMall, the leading provider of employee benefit, human resources (HR), and payroll products and services, today announced it won the bronze Stevie Award in the 2014 American Business Awards for its website HealthcareExchange.com.

7 Oct 2014

MyCartis announces launch of digital multiplex biomarker analysis platform

MyCartis today announced the launch of Evalution, a multiplex biomarker analysis platform for the life sciences research market.

7 Oct 2014

Viewpoints: Health costs and income inequality; vital matters when approaching life's end

Government data show that health costs are the biggest driver of income inequality in America today. Most employers pay workers a combination of wages and benefits, the most important of which is health coverage. Economic theory says that when employers' costs for benefits like health coverage rise, they will hold back on salary increases to keep total compensation costs in check. That's exactly what seems to have happened: Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that from June 2004 to June 2014 compensation increased by 28 percent while employer health-insurance costs rose by 51 percent. Consequently, average wages grew by just 24 percent (Mark J. Warshawsky and Andrew G. Biggs, 10/6).

7 Oct 2014

SynGen announces securement of additional financing from San Francisco-based life sciences venture capital firm

SynGen, Inc., a company that focuses on the development and commercialization of instrument systems that harvest stem and progenitor cells from umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, peripheral blood, and cell culture, announced today that it has secured additional financing from Bay City Capital, LLC, a San Francisco-based life sciences venture capital firm.

6 Oct 2014

Suicide prevention: an interview with Dr Shekhar Saxena, World Health Organization

Suicide is a serious public health problem. More than 800,000 people die from suicide every year – that’s one person every 40 seconds.

5 Oct 2014

Bankers Healthcare Group going pink for national breast cancer awareness month

Bankers Healthcare Group, Inc., a leading provider of innovative financing solutions for healthcare professionals, is going pink this October for national breast cancer awareness month.

5 Oct 2014

Financial ties between doctors and health firms explored

Federal data shows that doctors and other health care professionals made more than $212 million in speaking and consulting for drug and device makers in the five months at the end of last year, reports The New York Times.

3 Oct 2014

Viewpoints: Another troubled website rollout; insurers fight consumer measures in Calif.

If the federal government's new Open Payments website were a consumer product, it would be returned to the manufacturer for a full refund. Open Payments is the government's site for publishing payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals by drug and medical device manufacturers. It includes 4.4 million payments, worth $3.5 billion, to more than half a million doctors and almost 1,360 teaching hospitals (Charles Ornstein, 10/1).

3 Oct 2014

Researchers create speech-to-text software for Google Glass to help hard-of-hearing users

A team of Georgia Institute of Technology researchers has created speech-to-text software for Google Glass that helps hard-of-hearing users with everyday conversations. A hard-of-hearing person wears Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone.

3 Oct 2014

COMPAC-50 enables simultaneous electrophoresis of up to 50 COMET Assay slides

Developed in collaboration with the Oxidative Stress Group at the University of Leicester (Leicester, UK), the unique design of the COMPAC-50 enables simultaneous electrophoresis of up to 50 COMET Assay slides saving considerable lab space and reducing slide handling time by up to two-thirds when compared to previous standard methods. This would equate to a significant time-saving of up to 90% when handling 50 COMET Assay slides.

From Cleaver Scientific Ltd 3 Oct 2014

Women survivors of sexual abuse may suffer emotional distress during pelvic examination

Women who have a history of violent sexual abuse may suffer emotional distress during a routine pelvic examination. Healthcare providers would benefit from greater awareness of symptoms predictive of examination-related distress in this patient population, according to a study published in Violence and Gender, a new peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

3 Oct 2014

Website News and Research

Promises, predictions: In upcoming enrollment season, healthcare.gov will be faster, easier

Gold Crest Care Center joins the cause to raise awareness for breast cancer

Viewpoints: Walmart's cuts in insurance grow from health law; online marketplace still lacks transparency

Low sexual desire among women can be treatable

Wolters Kluwer Health wins 12 prizes at 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards

New partners join Grand Challenges Canada to help protect early brain development

State highlights: States and drug prices; Ariz. limiting Sovaldi for patients; L.A. boosts uninsured care by $61 million

Nursing home rating system gets a makeover

As next enrollment period approaches, states wrestle with exchange issues from last year

BenefitMall bags bronze Stevie Award for website HealthcareExchange.com

MyCartis announces launch of digital multiplex biomarker analysis platform

Viewpoints: Health costs and income inequality; vital matters when approaching life's end

SynGen announces securement of additional financing from San Francisco-based life sciences venture capital firm

Suicide prevention: an interview with Dr Shekhar Saxena, World Health Organization

Bankers Healthcare Group going pink for national breast cancer awareness month

Financial ties between doctors and health firms explored

Viewpoints: Another troubled website rollout; insurers fight consumer measures in Calif.

Researchers create speech-to-text software for Google Glass to help hard-of-hearing users

COMPAC-50 enables simultaneous electrophoresis of up to 50 COMET Assay slides

Women survivors of sexual abuse may suffer emotional distress during pelvic examination

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