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TeleHealth Services announces new partnership with TRHMC to improve patient experience

TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of healthcare grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions, today announced a new partnership with The Reading Hospital and Medical Center. The 671-bed hospital chose TeleHealth Services as their interactive patient education and entertainment partner as an extension of the hospital's Surgical Care Improvement Project.

14 Sep 2010

CSC launches new educational program to enhance lymphoma patient, physician communication

The Cancer Support Community (CSC), uniting The Wellness Community and Gilda's Club Worldwide, announced today the launch of Framing Life With Lymphoma, a new educational program designed to enhance lymphoma patient and physician communication.

14 Sep 2010

MedAssets announces agreement to purchase The Broadlane Group for $850M

MedAssets, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire The Broadlane Group. Based in Dallas, Texas, The Broadlane Group is a leading provider of supply chain management, strategic sourcing of supplies and services, capital equipment lifecycle management, medical device or PPI cost management, centralized procurement, clinical and lean process consulting, and clinical workforce optimization.

14 Sep 2010

RNAO endorses 'The Economic Case for Universal Pharmacare'

Registered nurses from across Ontario are throwing their support behind detailed economic analysis in a report that concludes a national pharmacare program would improve equitable access to essential medicines, improve health outcomes and save Canadians up to $10.7 billion.

14 Sep 2010

Kaiser Permanente caregivers pledge to vote for SEIU-UHW

The majority of Kaiser Permanente caregivers voting in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election that starts this week have pledged to vote for Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW), according to member-organizers across California who have collected pledge cards from their co-workers.

14 Sep 2010

Guidance allowing children with life-limiting illness to receive both hospice care and curative treatments praised

The families of dying children who are covered under Medicaid or the Medicaid expansion Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will no longer face the choice of stopping curative treatments in order for their terminally ill child to receive quality end-of-life care from hospice.

14 Sep 2010

Emergency physicians to present research studies at Research Forum 2010

The risks associated with boarding admitted patients in the emergency department – including patient mortality – as well as proposed solutions will be key themes of Scientific Assembly, the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians. In addition, emergency physicians will present more than 450 research studies during 2010 Research Forum, the premier, annual scientific research event focused on the latest advances in the practice of emergency medicine.

14 Sep 2010

Role of health centers in national health reform

A new issue brief from The Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, co-authored by Commission staff and researchers at the George Washington University's Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the role of health centers in national health reform and the issues that will affect health center expansion to meet the growing need for primary health care.

14 Sep 2010

U.S. adults support restrictions on e-cigarettes based on potential risks

According to the makers of electronic cigarettes, they are new devices that allow users to inhale nicotine but not the toxins of tobacco cigarettes. Advocates hail e-cigarettes as a possible quit-smoking aid.

14 Sep 2010

NICE clinical guideline for bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children

Every parent knows the story and every parent dreads it. You take a feverish child to the doctors, you know something isn't right; but you are just sent back home with advice about paracetamol. Hours later the child is admitted to hospital with meningitis.

14 Sep 2010

New York Hospital Queens opens new 190,000 square feet 'West Wing'

New York Hospital Queens invites the news media to tour its newly opened West Wing. The opening of the new building marks a major milestone for the hospital, for physicians and patients in Queens. The new seven-floor building, known as the "West Wing," has 190,000 square feet, and adds 80 certified patient beds, bringing the hospital's total to 519.

14 Sep 2010

Progenics Pharmaceuticals presents findings of humanized monoclonal antibodies against C. difficile bacterium

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today presented preclinical findings for its humanized monoclonal antibodies against the disease-causing toxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium difficile.

14 Sep 2010

NCCN Oncology Policy Summit focuses on off-label use of drugs and biologics

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) announced today that key policy organizations and thought leaders will convene to discuss the critically important subject of the use of drugs and biologics for indications that are supported by evidence and compendia, but that are beyond the indications listed in the FDA label. This invitation-only Policy Summit will be held on December 17, 2010 at the National Press Club in Washington DC.

14 Sep 2010

Notch1 protein impacts childhood leukemia progression: Study

A protein crucial for the immune response appears to be a key player in the progression of a devastating form of childhood leukemia called T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). Suppressing the activity of the protein kills the leukemic cells, the study shows, opening a potential avenue to new drugs that could prevent progression of the disease.

14 Sep 2010

BC-CfE study finds links between insite use, addiction treatment and stopping injection drug use

A study led by researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) at St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia has found that supervised injection facilities such as Vancouver's Insite connect clients with addiction treatment, which in turn resulted in greater likelihood of stopping injection drug use for at least six months.

14 Sep 2010

$Bisphosphonates drug may lead to atypical femur fractures in osteoporosis patients: Report$

Bisphosphonates drug may lead to atypical femur fractures in osteoporosis patients: Report

A widely prescribed class of drugs is highly effective in reducing common bone fractures in people with osteoporosis, but an expert panel announced today that these same drugs - when used long term - may be related to unusual but serious fractures of the thigh bone.

14 Sep 2010

ALIAS research project to initiate elderly care through robots

A partnership among 20 European states, the European Union and a number of private enterprises has launched a three-year, 3.87-million-euro project to make robots capable of serving as adaptable, interactive, and above all safe assistants for elderly people. The research project, known as ALIAS, places special emphasis on maintaining social networks, warding off feelings of loneliness and isolation, and increasing activities that may protect and enhance cognitive capabilities.

14 Sep 2010

Study shows Americans with muscular dystrophy live longer than African-Americans

A new study shows that white men and boys are living longer with muscular dystrophy due to technological advances in recent years, but that the lives of African-American men and boys with muscular dystrophy have not been extended at the same rate. The research will be published in the September 14, 2010, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

14 Sep 2010

Multi-center results confirm durability of USGI Medical's Expandable Tissue Anchors

USGI Medical, Inc., the Incisionless Surgery company, today announced that updated multi-center results confirm durability of the company's Expandable Tissue Anchors- up to a year or more in a variety of incisionless gastrointestinal (GI) procedures, including use of a ROSE procedure (Repair of Surgery, Endolumenal) to repair dilated tissue after gastric bypass.

14 Sep 2010

MSKCC to open new 7,745-square-foot outpatient chemotherapy center in Brooklyn

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) today celebrated a new outpatient chemotherapy center, which is scheduled to open later this month, pending approval from the State Department of Health. The 7,745-square-foot facility, called the Brooklyn Infusion Center, will provide leading-edge chemotherapy services to current MSKCC patients who live in or near Brooklyn — which amounts to more than 15 percent of MSKCC's patients currently being treated in Manhattan.

14 Sep 2010

Hospital News and Research

TeleHealth Services announces new partnership with TRHMC to improve patient experience

CSC launches new educational program to enhance lymphoma patient, physician communication

MedAssets announces agreement to purchase The Broadlane Group for $850M

RNAO endorses 'The Economic Case for Universal Pharmacare'

Kaiser Permanente caregivers pledge to vote for SEIU-UHW

Guidance allowing children with life-limiting illness to receive both hospice care and curative treatments praised

Emergency physicians to present research studies at Research Forum 2010

Role of health centers in national health reform

U.S. adults support restrictions on e-cigarettes based on potential risks

NICE clinical guideline for bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children

New York Hospital Queens opens new 190,000 square feet 'West Wing'

Progenics Pharmaceuticals presents findings of humanized monoclonal antibodies against C. difficile bacterium

NCCN Oncology Policy Summit focuses on off-label use of drugs and biologics

Notch1 protein impacts childhood leukemia progression: Study

BC-CfE study finds links between insite use, addiction treatment and stopping injection drug use

Bisphosphonates drug may lead to atypical femur fractures in osteoporosis patients: Report

ALIAS research project to initiate elderly care through robots

Study shows Americans with muscular dystrophy live longer than African-Americans

Multi-center results confirm durability of USGI Medical's Expandable Tissue Anchors

MSKCC to open new 7,745-square-foot outpatient chemotherapy center in Brooklyn

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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