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Viewpoints: Dem lawmakers on fighting repeal; Debating Judge Vinson's impact; Medicaid cuts

Along with our Democratic colleagues in the Senate, we plan to review individual provisions in the law that may not work as intended. But we are not willing to allow a wholesale rollback of health care reform that could take away popular benefits from American families, jeopardize the health and well-being of millions and add more than a trillion dollars to the deficit.

4 Feb 2011

Kaiser Permanente receives $3 million CDC grant to continue SEARCH study for childhood diabetes

The Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation has been awarded more than $3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study for an additional five years to 2015.

4 Feb 2011

Data generated on Ion Torrent PGM sequencer to be presented at AGBT

Life Technologies Corporation, today announced that just six weeks following the launch of the Ion Torrent PGM sequencer, independent researchers will present data they generated with the system at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference.

4 Feb 2011

AHRQ finds 3.4 million emergency department visits for back problems in the U.S.

Roughly 3.4 million emergency department visits - an average of 9,400 a day - were specifically for back problems at U.S. hospitals in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

4 Feb 2011

WorkSafeBC fines VIHA for failure to protect healthcare staff

WorkSafeBC has issued nine separate orders at two Victoria-area mental health facilities criticizing the failure of Vancouver Island Health Authority to protect the safety of staff.

4 Feb 2011

CVT more common than previously thought, disproportionally affects pregnant women

A rare and often underreported form of stroke that involves veins instead of arteries is more common than previously thought, according to the American Heart Association's first scientific statement on diagnosing and managing cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT).

4 Feb 2011

Study finds increased prescription drug abuse among teens

Illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin have always been a parent's nightmare. But perfectly legal and easily accessible prescription medications are now the recreational drugs of choice for many teenagers, prompting physicians at Johns Hopkins Children's Center to urge pediatricians to screen specifically for their abuse during routine visits.

4 Feb 2011

After the ruling: States grapple with implementation decisions

Experts continue to analyze the potential meanings and impacts of a federal judge's ruling earlier this week that the health law is unconstitutional and states find themselves in the hotseat as they make plans to move forward or stall their implementation progress.

4 Feb 2011

Stem cells delivered intranasally improve motor function in Parkinson's disease

Stem cells, delivered intranasally, were found to substantially improve motor function in Parkinson's disease in a study co-authored by William H. Frey II, Ph.D, Director of the Alzheimer's Research Center, part of HealthPartners Research Foundation. Frey collaborated with Lusine Danielyan, MD, of University Hospital of Tubingen in Germany.

4 Feb 2011

Mountain bike-related injuries decrease to 56%: New study

A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found the number of mountain bike-related injuries decreased 56 percent over the 14-year study period - going from a high of more than 23,000 injuries in 1995 to just over 10,000 injuries in 2007.

4 Feb 2011

More careful regulation of FDA's Humanitarian Device Exemption in psychiatric patients needed

Warning that patients could be at risk, an interdisciplinary group of multinational investigators is calling on the U.S. Congress and federal regulators to tighten a law that permits use of brain devices to treat rare neuropsychiatric disorders without supporting clinical trials or stringent patient oversight.

4 Feb 2011

Cardiac team implants pulmonary valve in children without open-heart surgery

The pediatric cardiac team at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital is the first in the region and one of a handful in the nation to implant a pulmonary heart valve without open-heart surgery.

4 Feb 2011

Immune protein exacerbates skin cancer due to sun exposure: Study

An unexpected immune protein exacerbates cancer due to sun exposure, report researchers in the January 27th issue of Nature. The study suggests that drugs blocking the protein might halt tumor growth in skin cancer patients.

3 Feb 2011

Ceregene initiates enrollment and dosing in CERE-120 Phase 2b trial for Parkinson's disease

Ceregene, a biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it is progressing with enrollment and dosing in its CERE-120 Phase 2b multi-center, sham-surgery, double-blinded controlled trial in Parkinson's disease.

3 Feb 2011

Philanthropist awards Mayo Clinic $100 million to establish Proton Beam Therapy Program

Mayo Clinic today announced long-time patient and philanthropist Richard O. Jacobson has given a $100 million gift to help establish the multi-site Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program. This is the largest outright gift in the clinic's history, as well as the largest gift Mr. Jacobson has made to any single institution.

3 Feb 2011

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare announces acquisition of Columbia Long-Term Acute Care Hospital

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Columbia Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, a single-story, 31,000-square-foot, Class A single-tenant medical facility in Columbia, midway between Kansas City and St. Louis. The acquisition closed on Jan. 31.

3 Feb 2011

Chinese SFDA approves MIT's MED-JET needle-free injection system

Medical International Technology Inc. is pleased to announce its progress in China. Based on the results obtained in two separate pivotal clinical trials over the past six months, the Chinese SFDA authorities have approved and issued to our Joint Venture Corporation the official licence to sell MED-JET products.

3 Feb 2011

Hospital News and Research

Viewpoints: Dem lawmakers on fighting repeal; Debating Judge Vinson's impact; Medicaid cuts

Kaiser Permanente receives $3 million CDC grant to continue SEARCH study for childhood diabetes

Data generated on Ion Torrent PGM sequencer to be presented at AGBT

AHRQ finds 3.4 million emergency department visits for back problems in the U.S.

WorkSafeBC fines VIHA for failure to protect healthcare staff

CVT more common than previously thought, disproportionally affects pregnant women

Study finds increased prescription drug abuse among teens

After the ruling: States grapple with implementation decisions

Stem cells delivered intranasally improve motor function in Parkinson's disease

Mountain bike-related injuries decrease to 56%: New study

More careful regulation of FDA's Humanitarian Device Exemption in psychiatric patients needed

Cardiac team implants pulmonary valve in children without open-heart surgery

Immune protein exacerbates skin cancer due to sun exposure: Study

Ceregene initiates enrollment and dosing in CERE-120 Phase 2b trial for Parkinson's disease

Philanthropist awards Mayo Clinic $100 million to establish Proton Beam Therapy Program

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare announces acquisition of Columbia Long-Term Acute Care Hospital

Chinese SFDA approves MIT's MED-JET needle-free injection system

Miracle baby after radical new procedure for uterine fibroids

Innovative Heart Attack Rapid Response Team for snow shoveling heart attacks

Blood clotting protein could be used as 'biomarker' for mucopolysaccharide diseases

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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