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Physiatrist-in-chief of Sinai Rehabilitation Center receives Lifetime Achievement Award from AAPM&R

Leon Reinstein, M.D., associate physiatrist-in-chief of Sinai Rehabilitation Center, has been given the Frank H. Krusen, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R).

9 Oct 2013

UCLA investigates high rates of schizophrenia in people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

UCLA has joined an international consortium to investigate the high rates of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders in those who are affected with Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a disorder caused by the deletion of a small piece of chromosome number 22.

9 Oct 2013

Healthcare providers report unaccompanied teens may not receive required vaccines

Healthcare providers report that older teens often go to the doctor without a parent or guardian, a new survey in the Journal of Adolescent Health reveals—and those teens may not get necessary vaccinations because there's no parent or guardian present to give consent.

9 Oct 2013

ECA Medical Instruments unveils new family of disposable Torque-Fast surgical instruments

ECA Medical Instruments, the leading designer and manufacturer of single-procedure torque-limiting and fixed-driver surgical instruments and kits for the medical industry and surgeons worldwide, unveiled its new family of disposable Torque-Fast instruments for safe and accurate securing of medical device implants.

9 Oct 2013

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will provide its innovative proton beam therapy system for cancer treatment to the Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization led by Chairman Motohisa Kojo in Osaka, Japan. The system will be installed at the Hakuhokai Group Osaka Proton Therapy Clinic scheduled to open in April 2016.

9 Oct 2013

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Saint Luke's Health System and doxo today announced Saint Luke's Health System has launched doxo across all ten of its hospitals to expand patients' electronic access to their billing information.

9 Oct 2013

Moximed initiates pivotal trial of KineSpring System implantation in knee osteoarthritis patients

Moximed, Inc. announced today that the KineSpring® System, an implantable medical spring for knee osteoarthritis that works by unloading the weight on the diseased joint, has been successfully implanted in the first patients enrolled in the UK arm of its multi-centre GOAL study.

9 Oct 2013

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation's leading providers of medical billing, practice management, and coding services for specialty physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers, is launching its QualityEdgeSM information capture service, which allows physicians and other providers to easily capture data that would otherwise require paper notes or the use of an EMR.

9 Oct 2013

Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder

Researchers say that there are clear clinical differences between depressed patients with bipolar II disorder and those with borderline personality disorder, which supports the two being treated as distinct conditions.

8 Oct 2013

MedShape closes $11 million in new financing

MedShape, Inc., the industry leader in shape memory orthopedic devices, today announced the closing of $11 million in new financing. The investment will help drive further development and commercialization of pipeline products, including the full market release of the Eclipse Soft Tissue Anchor, MedShape's newest shape memory fixation device for soft tissue repair.

8 Oct 2013

PSA mass ratio shows prognostic power in localized prostate cancer

Research shows that pathologic prostate-specific antigen mass ratio is a significant predictor for biochemical recurrence-free survival following radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer in patients with negative surgical resection margins.

8 Oct 2013

Hyperglycemia heightens pneumonia risk in pediatric burns patients

Research indicates that hyperglycemia puts pediatric burns patients at increased risk for pneumonia.

8 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 8, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest on how the health law's online insurance marketplaces are operating and what caused the initial systemic problems.

8 Oct 2013

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to hold research symposium on mental health

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of those with mental illness through the transformative power of neuroscience and psychiatric research, will hold its 25th Annual Mental Health Research Symposium on Friday, October 25th from 9:00 am to 4:30 p.m. at the Kaufman Music Center, located at 129 W. 67th St. in New York City.

8 Oct 2013

New stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device gets FDA clearance

Surgeons treating patients with degenerative disc disease may now use a new stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. Manufactured by Binder Biomedical Inc., the device presents a complete anterior lumbar fixation system with a simple, one-step locking mechanism.

8 Oct 2013

Diabetic retinopathy incidence in upward trend

Retinal damage is one of the most common complications of diabetes, affecting about 90 percent of type 1 diabetics and 75 percent of type 2 diabetics. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in adults of working age, and its incidence is showing an upward trend.

8 Oct 2013

CARUNDA24: A non-invasive continuous blood pressure measurement system

Freienbach, Switzerland: About 1 in 4 people in Switzerland suffer from high blood pressure; worldwide more than 1 billion people are affected increasing the risk of heart attack, cerebral haemorrhage or a stroke. Unfortunately, most affected people don't measure their blood pressure regularly as the measurement method is too complicated and uncomfortable to be part of a daily routine.

8 Oct 2013

Study: Women with eating disorders are less likely to have children

Women with eating disorders are less likely to have children than others in the same age group, indicates a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The likelihood for miscarriage was more than triple for binge-eating disorder (BED) sufferers and the likelihood of abortion more than double for bulimics than others in the same age group.

8 Oct 2013

Personalised therapy can reduce risk of cardiac disease among diabetes patients

600,000 to 800,000 Austrians suffer from diabetes mellitus. Thanks to the biomarker known as NT-proBNP (a hormone specific to the heart), the sub-group of people who are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease can be determined even though their hearts appear to be healthy.

8 Oct 2013

Blocking pathway might prevent esophageal cancer in patients with existing Barrett's esophagus

Got heartburn? More than 60 million adults in the U.S. have acid reflux, or heartburn, and approximately 10 percent are at risk for developing esophageal cancer, due in part to complications from Barrett's esophagus.

8 Oct 2013

Hospital News and Research

Physiatrist-in-chief of Sinai Rehabilitation Center receives Lifetime Achievement Award from AAPM&R

UCLA investigates high rates of schizophrenia in people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Healthcare providers report unaccompanied teens may not receive required vaccines

ECA Medical Instruments unveils new family of disposable Torque-Fast surgical instruments

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Moximed initiates pivotal trial of KineSpring System implantation in knee osteoarthritis patients

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder

MedShape closes $11 million in new financing

PSA mass ratio shows prognostic power in localized prostate cancer

Hyperglycemia heightens pneumonia risk in pediatric burns patients

First Edition: October 8, 2013

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to hold research symposium on mental health

New stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device gets FDA clearance

Diabetic retinopathy incidence in upward trend

CARUNDA24: A non-invasive continuous blood pressure measurement system

Study: Women with eating disorders are less likely to have children

Personalised therapy can reduce risk of cardiac disease among diabetes patients

Blocking pathway might prevent esophageal cancer in patients with existing Barrett's esophagus

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