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Major new guideline on treatment of high blood pressure

The way blood pressure is diagnosed and treated is set to be revolutionised following new guidelines for the medical profession issued by NICE and developed in conjunction with the British Hypertension Society (BHS).

24 Aug 2011

First Edition: August 24, 2011

In today's headlines, Medicare tries bundled payments and HHS signals that it may give states a second chance to avoid a federally-run health insurance exchange.

24 Aug 2011

United Therapeutics completes treprostinil diethanolamine Phase 3 trial in PAH

United Therapeutics Corporation announced today the completion of its FREEDOM-C(2) Phase 3 trial of treprostinil diethanolamine, an investigational sustained release oral formulation of treprostinil, a stable synthetic form of prostacyclin, in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

24 Aug 2011

Crimson announces publication of Japan Medical Device Digest

Crimson Life Sciences, a division of TransPerfect and the world's only ISO 13485 and ISO 14971-certified translation provider, today announced the publication of their Japan Medical Device Digest, a free monthly report that provides English translations of Japanese-language news items.

23 Aug 2011

Modern Healthcare names Encore as one of 2011 top Best Places to Work in Healthcare

Modern Healthcare Magazine today named Houston-based Encore Health Resources, a leading provider of advanced information-technology services for the global healthcare industry, as one of its 2011 top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The selection marks the second consecutive year that Encore has earned the coveted award.

23 Aug 2011

HHS approves new round of waivers

The Obama administration granted another 106 waivers last month from part of the health care reform law - the first round of three-year waivers the Health and Human Services Department has approved. The new approvals bring the total number of waivers to 1,472, according to HHS. Those figures cover waivers granted through the end of July.

22 Aug 2011

“Maggie Goes on a Diet” raises storm of protests among experts

A picture book for children in which a pudgy 14-year-old girl gets thin enough eventually to become her school's soccer star has come under attack. The book – “Maggie Goes on a Diet” won't be released until October, but Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com are among booksellers taking advance orders for the 44-page hardcover.

22 Aug 2011

States grow anxious for federal exchange guidance

State policymakers are growing increasingly anxious in the face of administration signals that key guidance on federal exchanges may not be coming until late 2011 or early 2012 — if they're coming at all. The administration appears to have decided that it does not need to issue a rule outlining the operation of a federal fallback exchange, according to sources familiar with the administration's thinking.

20 Aug 2011

Longer looks: Doctors advocating less care; addiction as a 'disease'

These physicians are not anti-medicine. They are not trying to save money on their copayments or deductibles. And they are not trying to rein in the nation's soaring health-care costs, which at $2.7 trillion account for fully one sixth of every dollar spent in the U.S. They are applying to their personal lives a message they have become increasingly vocal about in their roles as biomedical researchers and doctors: more health care often means worse health.

19 Aug 2011

VA launches Paralympic Program website to support recovery of disabled Veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched its Paralympic Program website as part of VA's ongoing commitment to support the rehabilitation and recovery of disabled Veterans through participation in adaptive sports.

19 Aug 2011

Tobacco giants sue FDA over ‘shock tactic’ cigarette pack images

The FDA ruled that by Oct. 22, 2012, every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States will carry one of nine graphic, full color, graphic warnings reminding people of just how horrible smoking is for their health. The image might be a pair of healthy lungs next to a pair of blackened and diseased lungs or a man smoking out of a hole in his throat or a mouth with sores on the lips and teeth all yellowed and decayed.

18 Aug 2011

Teens involved in research studies prefer telephones over social media

If you think teenagers prefer social media over the telephone, you may want to think again, at least when it comes to teens involved in research studies.

12 Aug 2011

Echo net loss for first half 2011 increases to $6.5 million

Echo Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring (tCGM) system and its Prelude SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery, today announced results for the period ended June 30, 2011.

12 Aug 2011

Second annual CNS Summit to shape the future of drug development

Segal Institute for Clinical Research, a consortium of CNS and women's health research sites, is preparing to again be actively involved in CNS Summit this coming fall.

12 Aug 2011

DYCAST software predicts spread of mosquito-borne West Nile virus in California counties

A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6 percent of human cases of the disease would arise and defined high-risk areas where the risk of infection turned out to be 39 times higher than in low-risk areas, according to newly published research.

12 Aug 2011