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U.S. Army re-awards Patient Appointing Services bridge contracts to Health Net Federal Services

Health Net Federal Services, LLC, part of the Government Contracts segment of Health Net, Inc. today announced it was re-awarded three Patient Appointing Services bridge contracts, continuing its Patient Appointing Services work in Fort Irwin and Puget Sound through March 31, 2011, and in Great Lakes through January 31, 2011, by the United States Army's Center for Health Care Contracting, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Each contract includes an option to extend services for an additional six months.

6 Oct 2010

LDR expands lumbar VerteBRIDGE platform

LDR, a total spine solution company, announced today the expansion of its lumbar VerteBRIDGE product offering following 2 years of successful clinical use of the ROI-A® ALIF Cage. The new applications offer a complete range of alternatives to currently adopted lateral approaches. The new direct lateral and oblique lumbar systems have been used successfully in Europe in more than 100 cases.

6 Oct 2010

CASMED presents abstracts of FORE-SIGHT Absolute Oximeter technology at American Academy of Pediatrics

CAS Medical Systems, Inc. today announced that three scientific abstracts demonstrating the use of the Company's FORE-SIGHT Absolute Oximeter were presented at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics in San Francisco, CA, October 2-5, 2010.

6 Oct 2010

PDGF identified as key factor in proliferation and transformation of epicardial cells

In research that one day may lead to the discovery of how to regenerate tissue damaged by heart disease, investigators at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles have identified PDGF as a key factor in the proliferation and transformation of epicardial cells, one type of cell that surrounds heart muscle and contributes to vessels.

6 Oct 2010

Fisher Wallace Laboratories launches easy-to-use medical device for depression treatment

Fisher Wallace Laboratories today announced the launch of a bold YouTube video campaign that challenges the pharmaceutical drug industry and introduces the company's easy-to-use medical device prescribed for the self-treatment of depression: the Fisher Wallace Cranial Stimulator.

6 Oct 2010

ATR product improves clinical outcome in patients with soft tissue defects in foot

Reported cases, by Dr. Jan Lidström, which involve 20 patients with soft tissue defects in the foot with up to four years follow-up together with a biomechanical study, by Dr. Eric Giza, confirm the positive clinical outcome orthopedic foot surgeons have experienced with Artelon Tissue Reinforcement (ATR).

6 Oct 2010

iMDsoft to install MetaVision clinical information system across Queensland's network of public hospitals

iMDsoft® announced today that the Government of Queensland has signed an agreement to install MetaVision® in selected ICUs across the state's network of public hospitals. MetaVision will be installed in 14 hospitals and will be implemented in a diverse range of ICU settings including pediatric, neurology and cardiac units. The university-affiliated Gold Coast Hospital will be the first to implement MetaVision under this agreement.

6 Oct 2010

Hypertonic fluids do not improve outcomes or survival for severe traumatic brain injury: Study

Patients with a severe traumatic brain injury (and not in shock because of blood loss) who received out-of-hospital administration of hypertonic fluids (a solution with increased concentration of certain electrolytes and thought to help reduce intracranial pressure) as initial resuscitation did not experience better 6-month neurologic outcomes or survival compared to patients who received a normal saline solution, according to a study in the October 6 issue of JAMA.

6 Oct 2010

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health selected as field trial sites for DSM-5 criteria

Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has been selected as one of seven adult field trial sites in North America and the only site in Canada to test proposed diagnostic criteria for the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

6 Oct 2010

Podocytes key to development of kidney failure in diabetes

Diabetes is the leading reason for kidney failure in the world, resulting in patients requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. New research has found a cell in the kidney called the podocyte could be the key to understanding why this happens.

6 Oct 2010

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation hosts conference to discuss advancements in therapeutic medicine

The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation is hosting the 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound in Chantilly, Virginia from October 17-20. Leading researchers and clinicians from around the world will gather at the three-day scientific conference to present and discuss the latest advancements in one of the most revolutionary and promising areas of therapeutic medicine.

6 Oct 2010

Way of VAD implantation can impact stroke occurrence

A surgical team from the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, has presented findings from the first study to demonstrate that the way a ventricular assist device (VAD) is implanted can have an impact on whether or not a patient may have a stroke while the device is in use.

6 Oct 2010

Mt. Sinai surgeons pioneer scar-free gallbladder removal

A team of surgeons from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York who have pioneered scar-free gallbladder removal are offering the procedure to all suitable patients and extending this new type of surgical procedure to other operations in the abdomen. They reported on their updated findings today at the 2010 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

6 Oct 2010

UCLA-led consortium receives $9.9M to compare wireless and telephone management after hospitalizations

A UCLA-led consortium of five University of California medical schools, plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, has received $9.9 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to research the use of wireless and telephone care management to reduce hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.

6 Oct 2010

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of physician information technology, today announced that its new physician documentation software product, PatientKeeper NoteWriter™, has successfully been deployed for physician use at two premier community medical centers in the Midwest.

6 Oct 2010

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Health care delivered via telephone or Internet might not improve the quality of life for people with mild asthma, but it could keep those with severe asthma out of the hospital, a new evidence review finds.

6 Oct 2010

Progress in predicting epileptic seizures

A team of physicists, physicians and neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg did a step forward towards the ambitious goal of predicting epileptic seizures, as published in the latest issue of the journal "Epilepsia".

6 Oct 2010

Healthcare organizations urge Congress to raise awareness on sudden cardiac arrest

In a powerful demonstration of collective standing in the health care community, more than 40 organizations gathered on Capitol Hill to issue a call to action in reducing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) deaths.

6 Oct 2010

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center redesignated as Magnet hospital

The Magnet Recognition Program of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has redesignated Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as a Magnet hospital - one of only 372 hospitals worldwide to achieve this prestigious distinction for excellence in nursing services and patient care.

6 Oct 2010

Aeterna Zentaris' AEZS-130 demonstrates potential as oral diagnostic test for AGHD

Aeterna Zentaris Inc., today announced that an interim review of a Phase 3 trial of AEZS-130 (macimorelin, SolorelTM), demonstrates the compound may provide a simple, well-tolerated and safe oral diagnostic test for Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD). The data was presented earlier today by Beverly M.K. Biller, M.D. of the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, at the 5th International Congress of the Growth Hormone Research Society (GRS) and the Insulin-like Growth Factors (IGF) Society in New York City.

6 Oct 2010

Hospital News and Research

U.S. Army re-awards Patient Appointing Services bridge contracts to Health Net Federal Services

LDR expands lumbar VerteBRIDGE platform

CASMED presents abstracts of FORE-SIGHT Absolute Oximeter technology at American Academy of Pediatrics

PDGF identified as key factor in proliferation and transformation of epicardial cells

Fisher Wallace Laboratories launches easy-to-use medical device for depression treatment

ATR product improves clinical outcome in patients with soft tissue defects in foot

iMDsoft to install MetaVision clinical information system across Queensland's network of public hospitals

Hypertonic fluids do not improve outcomes or survival for severe traumatic brain injury: Study

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health selected as field trial sites for DSM-5 criteria

Podocytes key to development of kidney failure in diabetes

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation hosts conference to discuss advancements in therapeutic medicine

Way of VAD implantation can impact stroke occurrence

Mt. Sinai surgeons pioneer scar-free gallbladder removal

UCLA-led consortium receives $9.9M to compare wireless and telephone management after hospitalizations

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Progress in predicting epileptic seizures

Healthcare organizations urge Congress to raise awareness on sudden cardiac arrest

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center redesignated as Magnet hospital

Aeterna Zentaris' AEZS-130 demonstrates potential as oral diagnostic test for AGHD

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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