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BizVotes.com identifies Dr. Ryan Groelz as Best Chiropractor in Broomfield, Colorado

Dr. Ryan Groelz of Rock Creek Spine and Rehabilitation Center has been voted the 'Best Chiropractor in Broomfield, Colorado' by BizVotes.com. A popular consumer website, BizVotes.com helps communities identify the best local businesses through an online voting system. Rock Creek Spine and Rehabilitation Center is currently listed in the top choice for chiropractic care in Broomfield.

20 Nov 2010

MedSynergies receives gold-level award for website design

MedSynergies Inc., the leading provider of hospital-physician alignment solutions, received the gold-level award for achieving the best website design in the Corporate Business Improvement Site division of the 2010 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

20 Nov 2010

PROTOX closes first tranche of investment by Warburg Pincus

Protox Therapeutics Inc., a leader in the development of receptor targeted therapeutic fusion proteins, today announced it has closed the first tranche of the investment by Warburg Pincus. The investment was approved by 100% of the votes cast by shareholders at the recent special shareholders meeting.

20 Nov 2010

PIPC's white paper provides guidance in defining CER procedures

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care today released a white paper that defines a Procedural Framework for the Conduct of Comparative Effectiveness Research. The paper and its executive summary provide guidance for policy-makers, patient and providers for establishing CER procedures that foster openness, transparency and patient-centeredness.

20 Nov 2010

3Sbio converts US$2.58 million debenture into Isotechnika Pharma

3SBio Inc. ("3SBio") (Nasdaq: SSRX), a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products today announced that it has recently converted the remaining US$2.58 million of a US$4.5 million debenture convertible into Isotechnika Pharma Inc. ("Isotechnika") common shares issued on August 23, 2010.

19 Nov 2010

OXiGENE updates data on FALCON trial for non-small cell lung cancer

OXiGENE, Inc., a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer and eye diseases, announced today that it presented updated safety and clinical activity data from the FALCON trial, a randomized, controlled Phase 2 study of ZYBRESTAT(TM) (CA4P) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

19 Nov 2010

Americans' confidence in health care system lower than other industrialized counties, study finds

"Despite having the most expensive healthcare system in the industrialized world, Americans tend to have the least confidence that their system will provide them the most-effective care compared to residents of 10 other industrialized nations, a Commonwealth Fund survey has found. A survey of nearly 20,000 people in the U.S. and 10 other industrialized nations has found that U.S. consumers reported the highest level of confusing complexity of their health insurance plans, and the highest level of concern that they would not be able to afford their healthcare coverage" (Carlson, 11/18).

19 Nov 2010

Good Garage Scheme launches new initiative for garage owners

The UK-wide Good Garage Scheme has launched a new initiative to help garage owners better protect themselves against workshop accidents. The 3000-member organisation, backed by leading trade-only treatments company Forté, has launched a "health & safety support scheme" for member garages to help them fully understand the need to protect their business by putting proper health and safety policies in place.

18 Nov 2010

CMOS processing compatible laser and 10Gb/s silicon modulator

CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon photonics, said today project partners demonstrated a laser and a 10Gb/s silicon modulator using a process that is compatible with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing.

18 Nov 2010

MFA reports that senior and Medicaid markets drive health enrollment gains

The nation's leading health insurers saw an aggregate increase of 363,000 members for the first six months of 2010. Declining commercial enrollment was offset primarily by gains in products offered to seniors and growth in Medicaid business. Administrative Services Only (ASO) enrollment gained 1.4 million members from December 2009 to June 2010. All of the leading health plans saw year-over-year profitability improvement.

18 Nov 2010

CMS issues new rules to protect patients' right to choose visitors during hospital stay

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients' right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.

18 Nov 2010

March of Dimes reports decline in Colorado’s premature birth rate

Premature birth in Colorado has declined along with three key contributing factors, it was reported today by the March of Dimes in its annual assessment, the Premature Birth Report Card. However, despite these improvements (and for the third straight year), the state's overall grade is a "D."

18 Nov 2010

New findings suggest novel approach to targeted treatment of cancer

New research that provides potential for exciting new approaches to targeting diseases such as cancer has been announced by an international team of academics.

17 Nov 2010

HealthGrades evaluates nation's top-performing hospitals in organ transplantation

HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent ratings organization, today made available to organ transplant patients a list of those hospitals with the best track record for survival and chances of receiving a donor organ. HealthGrades annual evaluation of the nation's top-performing hospitals in organ transplantation includes clinical quality data, based on patient outcomes, for each of the 210 adult acute care hospitals that perform transplants.

17 Nov 2010

Canada recognizes Nov. 18 as Antibiotic Awareness Day

Antibiotic resistance is an issue health practitioners around the world face daily. Numerous health-related organizations have partnered to mark tomorrow as the first Canadian Antibiotic Awareness Day in an effort to promote prudent use of antibiotics and fight the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

17 Nov 2010

Enzon presents data on three investigational mRNA antagonists at EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium

Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today presented data from preclinical studies of three investigational messenger RNA (mRNA) antagonists. These antagonists are based on the locked nucleic acid (LNA) technology platform targets licensed from Santaris Pharma A/S.

17 Nov 2010

Chimerix’s lipid-conjugated drugs reduces nephrotoxicity: Study

Scientists from Chimerix, Inc. today presented in vitro data demonstrating that the company's lipid-conjugated drugs, CMX001 and CMX157, are not substrates for the human Organic Anion Transporters (hOATs) and thus have significantly reduced potential to cause nephrotoxicity via this mechanism.

17 Nov 2010

New safety reporting website for electronic health records launched

The Wall Street Journal: An alliance of executives from medical societies and professional liability carriers yesterday launched "EHRevent.org, a new safety reporting system for [electronic health records] EHRs. Doctors and other health-care workers can go online and report problems and mistakes they experience as they ramp up the use of digitized records.

17 Nov 2010

Gore REDUCE Clinical Study investigates PFO in stroke patients

W. L. Gore & Associates today joined the US principal investigators for the Gore REDUCE Clinical Study in reaffirming their commitment to the study of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) in stroke patients using the GORE HELEX Septal Occluder.

16 Nov 2010