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State highlights: Ga. ponders higher health plan rates for employees

Home health care providers in Oregon and their allies say their industry is in a bind. The state's rural home health providers don't make as much as they should from serving Medicare patients, and the state's providers overall are slated for an even bigger hit next year, according to the industry's advocates and allies in Congress.

15 Jun 2013

Clark McCarthy Healthcare Partners II to build Fort Bliss Replacement Hospital in El Paso

Clark McCarthy Healthcare Partners II, a joint venture of Clark Construction Group and McCarthy Building Companies Inc., was recently awarded a $648 million contract by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District to build the Fort Bliss Replacement Hospital in El Paso.

15 Jun 2013

Anthem and SVHP to collaborate on new model of provider reimbursement

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc., announced today the collaboration on a new model of provider reimbursement. Under this new arrangement, SVHP will focus on the management of chronic disease and preventive health of their patients.

15 Jun 2013

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NHCMG partner under patient-centered care agreement

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and New Haven Community Medical Group announced today that the two organizations have partnered under a patient-centered care agreement that will create an accountable care model to help ensure Anthem members' access to quality health care that is focused on improved outcomes and lower costs.

15 Jun 2013

Overlake Medical Center offers bronchial thermoplasty for patients with severe asthma

Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue is now the only hospital in King County offering bronchial thermoplasty to patients suffering from severe asthma, giving them a non-medicated, proven way to control their asthma symptoms and resulting in 32 percent fewer severe asthma attacks.

15 Jun 2013

American Ambulance continues to grow and expand in New England region

American Ambulance Service-New England, the premier New England-based provider of emergent and non-emergent ambulance services at both the basic and advanced life support levels, today announced its continued growth and expansion in the New England region.

15 Jun 2013

AIFA approves pricing and reimbursement conditions for InterMune's Esbriet

InterMune, Inc. today announced that the Board of the Italian Drug Agency has approved the pricing and reimbursement conditions for Esbriet (pirfenidone), and that the agreement has been published in the Official Gazette, the official journal of the government of Italy.

15 Jun 2013

Birth injury attorney offers advice about obtaining medical records following the birth of a child

Parents may require help obtaining complete medical records and understanding what is in them after a child suffers birth-related complications and injury, says birth injury attorney Kenneth Suggs.

15 Jun 2013

Research roundup: Studying states' readiness for insurance exchanges

Unauthorized immigrants' options for health care generally consist of hospital emergency rooms and community health centers. Using nationally representative survey data from 2000 to 2009, researchers compared medical spending for unauthorized immigrants, legal residents, naturalized citizens, and natives of the United States and found that "unauthorized immigrants have lower health care spending overall but higher rates of receiving uncompensated care than legal immigrants and US natives."

15 Jun 2013

Elcelyx Therapeutics' posters related to NewMet to be presented at ADA's 73rd Scientific Sessions

Elcelyx Therapeutics today announced that the company and principal investigator Ralph A. DeFronzo, M.D. will present posters related to NewMet, a delayed-release formulation of generic metformin, at the 73rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Chicago, IL.

15 Jun 2013

Aarhus University study reveals that ordinary neutral running shoes function well for new runners

If you are healthy and plan to start running for the first time, it is perfectly all right to put on a pair of completely ordinary 'neutral' running shoes without any special support. Even though your feet overpronate when you run - i.e. roll inwards.

15 Jun 2013

Hospitalized patients do not receive blood thinners to prevent blood clots, researchers report

Researchers at Johns Hopkins report that hospitalized patients do not receive more than one in 10 doses of doctor-ordered blood thinners prescribed to prevent potentially lethal or disabling blood clots, a decision they say may be fueled by misguided concern by patients and their caregivers.

15 Jun 2013

Arizona legislature approves Medicaid expansion

After a months-long, high-stakes political battle, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a Medicaid expansion plan backed by Gov. Jan Brewer.

15 Jun 2013

Abnormal metabolic pathway drives cancer-cell growth in glioblastoma subtype

A study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) has identified an abnormal metabolic pathway that drives cancer-cell growth in a particular glioblastoma subtype. The finding might lead to new therapies for a subset of patients with glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of brain cancer.

14 Jun 2013

Ottawa researchers say advanced mathematical modeling can be used to fight against cancer

Here's a good reason to pay attention in math class. Nature Communications has published a paper from Ottawa researchers today, outlining how advanced mathematical modelling can be used in the fight against cancer.

14 Jun 2013

Research: Deep brain stimulation is associated with weight loss trend in morbidly obese patients

The first use of deep brain stimulation to the brain's so-called "feeding center" - the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) - was associated with a weight loss trend in morbidly obese patients whose stimulation was tuned to increase metabolism with novel guidance from metabolic chamber data, according to a pilot study presented at the International Neuromodulation Society's 11th World Congress by Dr. Michael Oh of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.

14 Jun 2013

Adults formerly treated for childhood cancer have chronic health problems

In an analysis that included more than 1,700 adult survivors of childhood cancer, researchers found a very high percentage of survivors with 1 or more chronic health conditions, with an estimated cumulative prevalence of any chronic health condition of 95 percent at age 45 years, according to a study in the June 12 issue of JAMA.

14 Jun 2013

Educating pediatricians on appropriate antibiotic usage can improve outcomes in children’s infections

As disease-causing microbes continue their worrisome trend of developing resistance to commonly used antibiotics, public health experts have called for more selective use of those medicines. A new study suggests that educating pediatricians in their offices, and auditing their prescription patterns, encourages them to choose more appropriate antibiotics for children with common respiratory infections.

14 Jun 2013

Researchers are one step closer to treating type 1 diabetes

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to trigger reproduction in the laboratory of clusters of human cells that make insulin, potentially removing a significant obstacle to transplanting the cells as a treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes.

14 Jun 2013

Study: Intervention improves adherence to prescribing guidelines for pediatric bacterial ARTIs

An intervention consisting of clinician education coupled with personalized audit and feedback about antibiotic prescribing improved adherence to prescribing guidelines for common pediatric bacterial acute respiratory tract infections, although the intervention did not affect antibiotic prescribing for viral infections, according to a study in the June 12 issue of JAMA.

14 Jun 2013

Hospital News and Research

State highlights: Ga. ponders higher health plan rates for employees

Clark McCarthy Healthcare Partners II to build Fort Bliss Replacement Hospital in El Paso

Anthem and SVHP to collaborate on new model of provider reimbursement

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NHCMG partner under patient-centered care agreement

Overlake Medical Center offers bronchial thermoplasty for patients with severe asthma

American Ambulance continues to grow and expand in New England region

AIFA approves pricing and reimbursement conditions for InterMune's Esbriet

Birth injury attorney offers advice about obtaining medical records following the birth of a child

Research roundup: Studying states' readiness for insurance exchanges

Elcelyx Therapeutics' posters related to NewMet to be presented at ADA's 73rd Scientific Sessions

Aarhus University study reveals that ordinary neutral running shoes function well for new runners

Hospitalized patients do not receive blood thinners to prevent blood clots, researchers report

Arizona legislature approves Medicaid expansion

Abnormal metabolic pathway drives cancer-cell growth in glioblastoma subtype

Ottawa researchers say advanced mathematical modeling can be used to fight against cancer

Research: Deep brain stimulation is associated with weight loss trend in morbidly obese patients

Adults formerly treated for childhood cancer have chronic health problems

Educating pediatricians on appropriate antibiotic usage can improve outcomes in children’s infections

Researchers are one step closer to treating type 1 diabetes

Study: Intervention improves adherence to prescribing guidelines for pediatric bacterial ARTIs

How microplastics and bacteria interact to drive antibiotic resistance

Single-cell proteomics: Revealing proteome diversity from cellular heterogeneity to non-canonical biology

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

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