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Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health collaborate to create Innovation Alliance

Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health have agreed to create an Innovation Alliance to benefit patients through collaborative innovation projects, research, clinical investigation, and commercialization application.

11 Jan 2011

Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim enter global agreement to develop and commercialize diabetes compounds

Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced a global agreement to jointly develop and commercialize a portfolio of diabetes compounds currently in mid- and late-stage development.

11 Jan 2011

Qui Tam case against NeoGenomics dismissed with prejudice

NeoGenomics, Inc. announced today that it has been notified that the Qui Tam complaint filed against it and several other healthcare companies in 2009 has been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice by the relator in the case. As a result, no further action will be taken against NeoGenomics in this matter.

11 Jan 2011

Tri-Valley Medical Group physicians discuss issues impacting roll-out of health care reform

Local physicians from Tri-Valley Medical Group recently spent a week in Washington D.C. to discuss the fundamental issues impacting the roll-out of health care reform - and came away with a new appreciation of its challenges.

11 Jan 2011

Medical aid workers should take pre-travel precautions to prevent disease transmission

Guidance about pre-travel precautions and preventive measures are highlighted in the December 1, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, written by clinicians and researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and their partners from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Naval Medical Research Center and others.

11 Jan 2011

Current and anticipated regulatory landscape for manufacturers of home healthcare equipment

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in safety testing and certification, announced today the release of a white paper that addresses the current and anticipated regulatory landscape for manufacturers of home healthcare equipment. The white paper, "Home Healthcare Equipment: An Overview," examines the new IEC 60601-1-11 standard, and highlights the unique challenges for manufacturers with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recently announced Medical Device Home Initiative.

11 Jan 2011

African-American men's delay in getting preventive medical care more attributable to medical mistrust than masculinity

Whether they see themselves as tough or just self-reliant, men are less likely than women to seek routine, preventive medical care, like blood pressure and cholesterol screenings.

11 Jan 2011

Aid groups, U.N., U.S. discuss response to Haiti's earthquake as year anniversary approaches

On Friday, the Office of the U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti said that 63.6 percent of the aid international donors "pledged to Haiti in 2010 after a devastating earthquake nearly one year ago" has been disbursed, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports (1/7).

11 Jan 2011

AlertNet features 20 low-cost ideas that could improve health, reduce poverty

AlertNet posed health, technology, water and other experts questions, such as, "[w]hat cheap, low-tech innovations could be used to improve the lives of the poor? Which potentially life-saving ideas have been knocking around for years but still aren't widely practised?"

11 Jan 2011

Baylor Hamilton offers Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system treatment for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Physicians at Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital are the first in North Texas to offer the Arctic Front® Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system, the first and only cryoballoon in the United States indicated to treat drug refractory recurrent symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), a serious heart rhythm disorder that affects millions of Americans.

11 Jan 2011

CQ looks at plans for House Foreign Affairs Committee to evaluate U.N. programs

CQ Today examines how Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, "has vowed to use her new [position] to take on the U.N. and some of its more controversial practices." Ros-Lehtinen scheduled a public briefing titled "The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action" for Jan. 12, during which the "committee will hear from a host of groups long critical of the U.N., including the Heritage Foundation and U.N. Watch," according to the news service.

11 Jan 2011

Group of health research funders calls for increased sharing of public health data

Public health research data "must be made more widely available in the scientific community if researchers are to unlock its full potential and make progress in public health, the world's top health funding agencies said Monday," Reuters reports. "In a joint statement, 17 major health research funders from around the world pledged to work together to support 'timely and responsible' sharing of data gathered during studies on health," the news service notes (Kelland, 1/10).

11 Jan 2011

Access Intelligence announces acquisition of OR Manager

Access Intelligence LLC and its Dorland Health division announced today the acquisition of OR Manager, the premier media brand and annual educational conference and trade show for operating room executives, managers and hospital directors. This acquisition represents Access Intelligence's growing role in the healthcare management industry within four niche markets: medical coding, case management, patient advocacy and operating room management.

10 Jan 2011

Roundup: Okla.'s health reform lawsuit; Medicaid issues draw attention in Texas, N.Y., N.J.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's alliance with the state's health-care union and hospital lobby is drawing fire from some patient advocates, who question the governor's decision to give the powerful industry figures a front-and-center role in the process of overhauling Medicaid (Gershman, 1/8).

10 Jan 2011

Obama administration sides with drug companies in pricing lawsuit; Supreme Court agrees to hear case regarding use of prescription drug data

At issue are charges to public hospitals and clinics that treat a large number of poor patients and a Vermont law that restricts prescription drug data.

10 Jan 2011

Political dynamics, stakeholder positions clarify in the next chapter of the health debate

Just as the repeal positions of some big insurers are becoming more clear, more details on the Democrats' strategy to defend the law are emerging.

10 Jan 2011

How the overhaul's small business tax credit is working

Kansas Health Institute News explores how tax credits — one existing at the state level and the new one put in place by the health law — may be encouraging small business owners to provide health coverage to their employees.

10 Jan 2011

CMS issues rule to reward hospitals for high-quality care

This proposed rule, which is required by the health law, outlines how Medicare will reward hospitals for delivering high-quality care.

10 Jan 2011

House postpones repeal vote, tones down rhetoric

House Republicans have called off [this] week's legislative action, including a planned Wednesday vote on a GOP bill to repeal President Obama's health care law, because of today's shooting attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others in Tucson. Giffords supported the law (Davis and House, 1/8).

10 Jan 2011

OpEds: Health reform repeal; CBO's numbers; Reviving public option?

[A]s a political matter, an outright repeal isn't really a winner. Most Americans dislike the law, but few are gunning to do away with it altogether. They don't like its mandates and costs, but they'd prefer to see a scaled down law that still provides more access to health care. Republicans run the risk of overreaching on this, as Democrats did in pushing a vast expansion of government into the health care field.

10 Jan 2011

Health Care News and Research

Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health collaborate to create Innovation Alliance

Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim enter global agreement to develop and commercialize diabetes compounds

Qui Tam case against NeoGenomics dismissed with prejudice

Tri-Valley Medical Group physicians discuss issues impacting roll-out of health care reform

Medical aid workers should take pre-travel precautions to prevent disease transmission

Current and anticipated regulatory landscape for manufacturers of home healthcare equipment

African-American men's delay in getting preventive medical care more attributable to medical mistrust than masculinity

Aid groups, U.N., U.S. discuss response to Haiti's earthquake as year anniversary approaches

AlertNet features 20 low-cost ideas that could improve health, reduce poverty

Baylor Hamilton offers Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system treatment for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

CQ looks at plans for House Foreign Affairs Committee to evaluate U.N. programs

Group of health research funders calls for increased sharing of public health data

Access Intelligence announces acquisition of OR Manager

Roundup: Okla.'s health reform lawsuit; Medicaid issues draw attention in Texas, N.Y., N.J.

Obama administration sides with drug companies in pricing lawsuit; Supreme Court agrees to hear case regarding use of prescription drug data

Political dynamics, stakeholder positions clarify in the next chapter of the health debate

How the overhaul's small business tax credit is working

CMS issues rule to reward hospitals for high-quality care

House postpones repeal vote, tones down rhetoric

OpEds: Health reform repeal; CBO's numbers; Reviving public option?

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