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Roundup: Minn. Democrats push pay hike for nursing home workers; Colo. official warns of possible exchange delays due to IT

A selection of health policy stories from Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Delaware, Georgia, Oregon, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Massachusetts and California.

11 Apr 2013

Johns Hopkins scientists create Web-based tool to help patients decide on kidney transplantation

Johns Hopkins scientists have created a free, Web-based tool to help patients decide whether it's best to accept an immediately available, but less-than-ideal deceased donor kidney for transplant, or wait for a healthier one in the future.

11 Apr 2013

Dermatologist shares manicure and pedicure tips for beautiful nails

Having beautiful nails is less a matter of luck and more a matter of caring for them correctly. Fortunately, there are simple steps people can take to properly care for their nails.

10 Apr 2013

GGA Software Services, Pfizer to present Indigo ELN at 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo

GGA Software Services LLC, a leading provider of outsourced scientific informatics and software services to the life sciences industry, announced today that GGA and Pfizer will present Indigo ELN, the industry's leading open-source chemistry electronic laboratory notebook, at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, April 10, at 12:00 PM.

From Pfizer, Inc. 10 Apr 2013

Rally for Medical Research supports continued funding for NIH, other R&D

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog describes the Rally for Medical Research that took place on Monday in Washington, D.C.

10 Apr 2013

New study suggests that Ranibizumab can be potential prophylaxis for PVR

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy, or the formation of scar tissue in the eye, is a serious, sight-threatening complication in people recovering from surgical repair of retinal detachment. PVR is difficult to predict, lacks effective treatment options, and substantially reduces an individual's quality of life.

10 Apr 2013

New ACMG statement on Noninvasive Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has just released an important new Policy Statement on "Noninvasive Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy."

9 Apr 2013

Business Network Services from Anglia Ruskin: an interview with Prof Young

The Anglia Ruskin Medtech Campus Business Network Services have been developed in partnership with Chelmsford City Council, Harlow District Council and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council as part of plans to form the largest MedTech cluster in the UK over three development sites in Essex.

8 Apr 2013

Research for diabetes more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures

Research for diabetes is far more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures, and tends to exclude children and older people who have much to gain from better disease management, according to a Duke Medicine study.

7 Apr 2013

Public health leaders file amicus brief in Supreme Court case challenging 'anti-prostitution pledge'

"The case of the 'anti-prostitution pledge' heading for the Supreme Court this month focuses on whether the requirement that groups funded by [PEPFAR] create policies 'explicitly' condemning prostitution is compatible with the First Amendment," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports.

6 Apr 2013

MyAllergyTest kit allows allergy sufferers to test themselves against 10 key allergens

According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, more than 60 million Americans suffer from allergies. However, most people don't get tested for allergies, so they often do not know for certain what causes their allergies.

6 Apr 2013

Roundtable Discussion offers novel strategies, solutions to control childhood obesity

The battle to control the childhood obesity epidemic is being fought on many levels. It could benefit from targeted programs and funding to support and integrate worksite and school-based health promotion initiatives.

5 Apr 2013

Editorial, opinion pieces address emergence of new bird flu strain in China

"Memories of China's repression of news during its tumultuous 2002-03 SARS outbreak could fuel panic and unrest at home and suspicion in the West," Hall, a novelist, writes.

5 Apr 2013

Despite discovery of sight-saving drugs, AMD still causes severe vision loss in older Americans

Age-related macular degeneration continues to be the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States for people over age 65, according to a study recently published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

4 Apr 2013

Health law's insurance subsidies hold possible tax risk

The Associated Press reports on how people who take advantage of federal subsidies to buy insurance could owe taxes if they don't accurately forecast their income.

4 Apr 2013

Epileptic seizures can propagate via anatomically connected networks in brain

The seizures that affect people with temporal-lobe epilepsy usually start in a region of the brain called the hippocampus.

4 Apr 2013

Handheld ultrasound devices: an interview with Warren Ortmann, Signostics

Ultrasound devices use sound waves to image the organs of the body safely, without the use of radiation. The sound waves are produced by applying a current to a piezoelectric crystal housed in a transducer. The crystal alters shape and creates a sound wave.

3 Apr 2013

Roundup: Feds cut N.Y. Medicaid payments $1.2B; 93,000 fewer kids enroll in CHIP in Pa.; W. Va. lawmakers promise miners benefits

Federal authorities have dramatically lowered the amount that New York state can claim from the federal government for certain medical services, costing the state an estimated $1.2 billion.

3 Apr 2013

Feds boost rather than cut payments to Medicare Advantage plans

The insurance industry won a major lobbying victory Monday after the Obama administration backtracked on an earlier plan to cut Medicare Advantage payments to insurers by 2.2 percent in 2014 and instead decided to give them a 3.3 percent increase.

3 Apr 2013

N30 Pharmaceuticals presents preclinical data of GSNORi at European Cystic Fibrosis Society meeting

N30 Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapies for cystic fibrosis, announced today the presentation of key preclinical data for its novel inhibitors of S-nitrosoglutathione reductase.

2 Apr 2013

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Roundup: Minn. Democrats push pay hike for nursing home workers; Colo. official warns of possible exchange delays due to IT

Johns Hopkins scientists create Web-based tool to help patients decide on kidney transplantation

Dermatologist shares manicure and pedicure tips for beautiful nails

GGA Software Services, Pfizer to present Indigo ELN at 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo

Rally for Medical Research supports continued funding for NIH, other R&D

New study suggests that Ranibizumab can be potential prophylaxis for PVR

New ACMG statement on Noninvasive Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy

Business Network Services from Anglia Ruskin: an interview with Prof Young

Research for diabetes more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures

Public health leaders file amicus brief in Supreme Court case challenging 'anti-prostitution pledge'

MyAllergyTest kit allows allergy sufferers to test themselves against 10 key allergens

Roundtable Discussion offers novel strategies, solutions to control childhood obesity

Editorial, opinion pieces address emergence of new bird flu strain in China

Despite discovery of sight-saving drugs, AMD still causes severe vision loss in older Americans

Health law's insurance subsidies hold possible tax risk

Epileptic seizures can propagate via anatomically connected networks in brain

Handheld ultrasound devices: an interview with Warren Ortmann, Signostics

Roundup: Feds cut N.Y. Medicaid payments $1.2B; 93,000 fewer kids enroll in CHIP in Pa.; W. Va. lawmakers promise miners benefits

Feds boost rather than cut payments to Medicare Advantage plans

N30 Pharmaceuticals presents preclinical data of GSNORi at European Cystic Fibrosis Society meeting

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