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IBM collaborates with Zambian Ministry of Health to provide life saving drugs to citizens

IBM today announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 life saving drugs.

22 May 2014

Awards scheme launched to recognise innovation in healthcare throughout the East Midlands

An awards scheme has been launched to recognise and celebrate innovation in healthcare throughout the East Midlands. Sponsored by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, cash prizes are available across a range of categories.

22 May 2014

Viewpoints: Michelle Nunn's confusing stance on health law; seeking to assess Wis. wxperiment

In Georgia, where the Republican Senate primary takes place today, the early campaign season has been spent with the candidates vying to out-conservative each other.

22 May 2014

Physicians Realty Trust prices public offering of common stock at $12.50 per share

Physicians Realty Trust ("the Company"), a self-managed healthcare real estate company, announced today the pricing of its public offering of 11,000,000 common shares of beneficial interest at a price to the public of $12.50 per share, for a total of approximately $129.5 million of net proceeds after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.

21 May 2014

Viewpoints: Cutting costs for patients with chronic illness; Gov. Pence's change of Heart; fix the VA

Most health care plans ask that you spend some money out of your pocket whenever you use the health care system. This is known as cost-sharing .... Cost-sharing works for most people, because most people are healthy. Healthy people who use health care are often doing so inefficiently.

21 May 2014

States appear to be sticking to health exchange choices

Modern Healthcare reports that states -- whether they elected to run their own insurance marketplaces or use healthcare.gov -- appear to be staying the course in terms of the health law's exchanges.

21 May 2014

The future of high throughput screening: an interview with Mark Wigglesworth, Director High Throughput Screening, AstraZeneca

Quoting Mike Snowden (VP & Head of Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca), “it’s where biology meets chemistry”. It’s where for the first time a target protein can be probed for novel molecules that modulate its function, of course we want to do this to prove a hypothesis that these proteins are drug targets with the potential to deliver innovative medicines.

20 May 2014

First Edition: May 16, 2014

Today's headlines include reports about the Indiana governor's alternative plan to expand Medicaid. Kaiser Health News staff writer Sarah Varney, working in collaboration with PBS Newshour, reports: "Men and women involved in the criminal justice system are more likely to be sicker than the general population, with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, depression, mood disorders and alcohol and drug addiction.

16 May 2014

State highlights: 700 nurses needed for health care help in Calif. county; Missouri abortion wait period; nursing home funding in Maine

A selection of health policy stories from California, Missouri, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas and Georgia.

16 May 2014

Researchers examine relationships between alcohol and PTSD

Alcohol abuse occurs in 52% of men and 28% of women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Comorbid alcoholism and PTSD leads more frequently to low income, unemployment, and overall social dysfunction than either condition on its own, in part due to the clinical challenges their simultaneous treatment poses.

16 May 2014

Confirmation path appears smooth for Obama pick to take the helm at HHS

Sylvia Mathews Burwell received a friendly reception from both sides of the aisle during her second confirmation hearing, during which she pledged to try to recoup any taxpayer funds that may have been misused on flawed state websites and defended the "unilateral" changes the Aministration has made to the health law.

16 May 2014

Sorrento Therapeutics prices underwritten public offering of 4,765,000 shares of common stock

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. ("Sorrento" or the "Company"), a late-stage clinical oncology company developing new treatments for cancer and its associated pain, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 4,765,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $5.25 per share.

15 May 2014

Researchers use mobile phone data to help combat malaria more effectively

An international study led by the University of Southampton and the National Vector-borne Diseases Control Programme (NVDCP) in Namibia has used mobile phone data to help combat malaria more effectively.

15 May 2014

IRS finalizes rule on data about consumers who purchase exchange plans

The regulation focuses on state exchanges and requires that these marketplaces report information such as enrollees' names, addresses, birthdates and premium amounts. In addition, news outlets also examine what went wrong in states with problem-plagued websites and what is happening in locations where the marketplaces have proven popular.

14 May 2014

Boehner Spokesman's surprise: Leaving Capitol Hill for AHIP

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14 May 2014

Maccabi Health Care earns 2 healthcare IT awards for improving End User Experience of primary applications

Aternity Inc., the industry's leader in providing Workforce APM for any application running on physical, virtual, and mobile devices, announced that Maccabi Health Care Services has earned two healthcare IT awards for improving the End User Experience of its primary applications.

13 May 2014

Viewpoints: heath insurance and mortality; newly insured vs. previously insured on marketplaces

The connection between health insurance and mortality is really hard to pin down, even if insurance truly has strong protective effects. The uninsured in America are mainly non-elderly adults.

13 May 2014

Being forty never too late to start endurance training, says study

A study of healthy senior men has found that "relatively intensive" endurance exercise confers benefits on the heart irrespective of the age at which they began training.(1) The benefits were evident and comparable in those who had started training before the age of 30 or after the age of 40.

13 May 2014

Researcher receives $3.3 million grant from NIH to find way for curing HIV

A George Mason University researcher has won a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that may lead to a way for curing HIV in the next five years.

12 May 2014

Research roundup: Unearthing factors in hospital readmissions; dissecting the enrollment surge

Using inpatient data from an urban teaching hospital, we examined how elements of individual characteristics and neighborhood socioeconomic status influenced the likelihood of readmission ... Patients living in high-poverty neighborhoods were 24 percent more likely than others to be readmitted, after demographic characteristics and clinical conditions were adjusted for. Married patients were at significantly reduced risk of readmission, which suggests that they had more social support than unmarried patients. These and previous findings that document socioeconomic disparities in readmission raise the question of whether CMS's readmission measures and associated financial penalties should be adjusted for the effects of factors beyond hospital influence at the individual or neighborhood level, such as poverty and lack of social support (Hu, Gonsahn and Nerenz, May 2014).

12 May 2014

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IBM collaborates with Zambian Ministry of Health to provide life saving drugs to citizens

Awards scheme launched to recognise innovation in healthcare throughout the East Midlands

Viewpoints: Michelle Nunn's confusing stance on health law; seeking to assess Wis. wxperiment

Physicians Realty Trust prices public offering of common stock at $12.50 per share

Viewpoints: Cutting costs for patients with chronic illness; Gov. Pence's change of Heart; fix the VA

States appear to be sticking to health exchange choices

The future of high throughput screening: an interview with Mark Wigglesworth, Director High Throughput Screening, AstraZeneca

First Edition: May 16, 2014

State highlights: 700 nurses needed for health care help in Calif. county; Missouri abortion wait period; nursing home funding in Maine

Researchers examine relationships between alcohol and PTSD

Confirmation path appears smooth for Obama pick to take the helm at HHS

Sorrento Therapeutics prices underwritten public offering of 4,765,000 shares of common stock

Researchers use mobile phone data to help combat malaria more effectively

IRS finalizes rule on data about consumers who purchase exchange plans

Boehner Spokesman's surprise: Leaving Capitol Hill for AHIP

Maccabi Health Care earns 2 healthcare IT awards for improving End User Experience of primary applications

Viewpoints: heath insurance and mortality; newly insured vs. previously insured on marketplaces

Being forty never too late to start endurance training, says study

Researcher receives $3.3 million grant from NIH to find way for curing HIV

Research roundup: Unearthing factors in hospital readmissions; dissecting the enrollment surge

How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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