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Kylin receives $250,000 IRS award to advance pRNAi nanoparticle cancer treatment research

Officials of Kylin Therapeutics Inc. announces that they received a therapeutic discovery project grant from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that will advance the company's pRNAi nanoparticle cancer treatment research.

11 Nov 2010

Experts call for global agriculture reform to ensure food security as two rice conferences open

Experts attending the International Rice Congress in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday called for imminent action to change inefficient farming methods and expand the global rice supply in order to prevent rising poverty and hunger, Agence France-Presse reports.

11 Nov 2010

Health insurance open season questions? Here are some answers

With open season in full gear for many workers, Kaiser Health News columnist Michelle Andrews, who writes weekly on health insurance issues, answered questions submitted online by readers of The Washington Post Tuesday.

11 Nov 2010

Supported by emerging markets, General Electric healthcare raises growth projection to 10% per year

General Electric's healthcare division raised its projection for profit growth to 10 percent a year as emerging markets such as China spend more on medical equipment. GE Healthcare President John Dineen said his operation is positioned to benefit from big trends driving global health-care markets, including efforts aimed at lowering costs and improving quality.

11 Nov 2010

Health law or no, most businesses likely to keep offering insurance

Kaiser Health News' Amita Parashar reports: "One of the most fundamental ideas in the new health law is that employers should offer health insurance to their workers, or else they would have to pay a penalty, beginning in 2014.

11 Nov 2010

Sen. Mcconnell to file amicus brief in support of health law challenge

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to file an amicus brief supporting a federal lawsuit challenging the health care overhaul championed by President Barack Obama, and he invited Republican Senators on Tuesday to join him.

11 Nov 2010

BCBS of Michigan alleged to have crushed pilot physical therapy program it saw as competition

USA Today: "As health care costs soared nationally, a small Michigan firm gave Ford Motor Co. a proposal to cut its physical therapy costs. The automaker signed up for an in-state pilot program, which was so successful Ford expanded it last year to cover about 390,000 employees, retirees and their families nationwide." But court "records allege Blue Cross used its position as the state's dominant insurer to try to crush TheraMatrix as it worked to also sign up Chrysler and General Motors.

11 Nov 2010

Study: Big employers unlikely to drop insurance under health law

News outlets report on the employer health insurance market.

11 Nov 2010

Guardian examines former Pres. Bush's reflection on PEPFAR in new memoir

The Guardian examines the reflections of former President George W. Bush on the $15bn President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) which distributed antiretroviral drugs to keep people with HIV alive, as the president describes in his recently released memoir, Decision Points.

11 Nov 2010

Pres. Obama discusses U.S.-Indonesia partnership that includes improving health, science

During a stop in Indonesia on Tuesday as part of his 10-day Asia-Pacific tour, President Barack Obama together with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a U.S.-Indonesia partnership that will encompass a variety of key issues such as science, technology, health and trade.

11 Nov 2010

GOP lawmakers push health law investigation, Democrats consider revisions and legacy

GOP lawmakers are considering using their new posts in powerful House committees to go after President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and they're focusing on questions uppermost in the minds of consumers.

10 Nov 2010

Computer helps doctors make cost-saving decisions

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement will make a system that helps doctors make more informed decisions available Minnesota doctors next year. The system has apparently eliminated about $28 million a year in unnecessary tests in a trial program in which it was made available to about 2,000 Minnesota doctors.

10 Nov 2010

5 questions: Should a hospital develop an ACO?

Becker's Hospital Review reports on how to determine whether a hospital should develop or join an accountable care organization.

10 Nov 2010

Researchers find text messages to HIV patients improve adherence, health outcomes in Kenya trial

Using mobile-phone text messages to remind HIV patients to take their dose of life-saving medications can give a major boost to drug adherence, according to an innovative trial in Kenya unveiled on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reports.

10 Nov 2010

Antigen Express awarded Therapeutic Discovery Project grants for cancer vaccine development

Generex Biotechnology Corporationannounced today that its wholly-owned immunotherapeutics subsidiary, Antigen Express, Inc. has been awarded two Therapeutic Discovery Project grants, totaling $488,958.50, by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

10 Nov 2010

Ky. Health Plan audit; employee costs in Massachusetts; state reform implementation politics

An organization that manages taxpayer-funded health services for Kentucky's poor and disabled spent freely on luxury hotels, meals, salaries, lobbying and consulting, a state auditor found in a 200-plus-page report which calls for stricter accountability for Passport Health Plan, a Medicaid managed-care provider that serves 164,000 people in Louisville and more than a dozen nearby counties.

10 Nov 2010

CDC report: 50 million Americans uninsured

KBOI (Boise, Idaho)/ABC News Radio: "According to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 49.9 million people ages 18 to 64," or about 26.2 percent of the adult population, "had no medical coverage for at least part of the past 12 months. … Moreover, when children 17 and under are factored in, the number of Americans uninsured for at least part of a year span numbered 59.1 million."

10 Nov 2010

Mont. Medicaid managed care plan chills health industry

A plan to privatize some Medicaid services trumpeted by Montana's Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer has received a chilly reception from the health industry, leaving no clear resolution to the state's Medicaid funding problems, The Billings (Mont.) Gazette reports.

10 Nov 2010

Opinions: G20 development approach; defense of DDT for malaria control; U.S. foreign aid; human trafficking

Leaders have been debating how to 'rebalance' the global economy and reform financial institutions - all challenging subjects. But I also am reminding my colleagues that all these goals, however crucial, are insufficient, Lee Myung-bak, the president of the Republic of Korea, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

10 Nov 2010

Zalicus third quarter total revenue decreases to $1.2 million

"We made solid product development progress this quarter," commented Mark H.N. Corrigan, MD, President and CEO of Zalicus. "We finalized our development plans for Synavive, and also related to Synavive, we were awarded a Therapeutic Discovery Project grant to help fund Synavive development going forward.

10 Nov 2010

Health Care News and Research

Kylin receives $250,000 IRS award to advance pRNAi nanoparticle cancer treatment research

Experts call for global agriculture reform to ensure food security as two rice conferences open

Health insurance open season questions? Here are some answers

Supported by emerging markets, General Electric healthcare raises growth projection to 10% per year

Health law or no, most businesses likely to keep offering insurance

Sen. Mcconnell to file amicus brief in support of health law challenge

BCBS of Michigan alleged to have crushed pilot physical therapy program it saw as competition

Study: Big employers unlikely to drop insurance under health law

Guardian examines former Pres. Bush's reflection on PEPFAR in new memoir

Pres. Obama discusses U.S.-Indonesia partnership that includes improving health, science

GOP lawmakers push health law investigation, Democrats consider revisions and legacy

Computer helps doctors make cost-saving decisions

5 questions: Should a hospital develop an ACO?

Researchers find text messages to HIV patients improve adherence, health outcomes in Kenya trial

Antigen Express awarded Therapeutic Discovery Project grants for cancer vaccine development

Ky. Health Plan audit; employee costs in Massachusetts; state reform implementation politics

CDC report: 50 million Americans uninsured

Mont. Medicaid managed care plan chills health industry

Opinions: G20 development approach; defense of DDT for malaria control; U.S. foreign aid; human trafficking

Zalicus third quarter total revenue decreases to $1.2 million

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