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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital patients to receive proton therapy at the UF Proton Therapy Institute

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first clinical study to evaluate the use of proton therapy for rare brain cancers in children younger than 3 years old.

9 Nov 2009

Black Diamond Video’s Integrated Digital Surgical Suites to be installed at the Yale-New Haven Hospital

Black Diamond Video, Inc. announces that Yale-New Haven Hospital has selected BDV to install their state-of-the-art Integrated Digital Surgical Suites (IDSS) into their neurosurgical suite and gastrointestinal suites in the new Smilow Cancer Center.

9 Nov 2009

LifeNet Health launches the Vertigraft Cervical Bio-Implant with Preservon Technology

LifeNet Health, a leading allograft bio-implant company, announces the launch of Vertigraft Cervical Bio-Implant (VG2C) with Preservon® Technology

9 Nov 2009

TivaMed changes its name to Viveve

Women's sexual health company, TivaMed, today announced it has changed its name to Viveve as it prepares for a 2010 launch of its Viveve system to OB/GYNs in select U.S. markets.

9 Nov 2009

EMSC to acquire Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants and Pinnacle Consultants Mid Atlantic

Emergency Medical Services Corporation today announced that it has significantly expanded its anesthesiology services via definitive agreements to acquire Pinnacle Consultants Mid Atlantic and the management services company of Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants, P.A. (the “MSO”).

9 Nov 2009

Fire & Emergency Medical Services Division launched by KCE

Kaplan Continuing Education (KCE) has launched a Fire & Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division with the assistance of Florida Professional Firefighters Medical Director and former National Paramedic Institute president Dr. Steven Katz. Kaplan’s online continuing education courses offer EMT CEUs online for students recertifying their state certifications.

9 Nov 2009

Smoking has a direct negative impact on postoperative outcomes

With the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout Challenge just a week away, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is giving smokers yet another reason to quit. The scientific evidence is clear -- smoking has a direct negative impact on postoperative outcomes. Quitting smoking is one of the best things people can do to improve their chances of recovering from surgery without complications.

9 Nov 2009

Covisint and Carefx partner to market an integrated workflow solution for health information exchange

Addressing the burgeoning demand for health information exchange (HIE) to coordinate and better leverage patient information, two health IT industry leaders - Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation, and Carefx - have partnered to market an integrated workflow solution that ties together the full spectrum of care, from physician offices to labs and pharmacies, to multiple information systems within hospitals.

9 Nov 2009

Emisphere Technologies' key product developments and financial results for the third quarter of 2009

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. today announced financial and operational results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

9 Nov 2009

Thomson Reuters releases CareFocus 2.0 clinical surveillance solution

Thomson Reuters today announced the newest release of Clinical Xpert(TM) CareFocus, a leading clinical surveillance solution that enables hospitals to identify at-risk patients in real-time and respond immediately to improve clinical quality and reduce total cost of treatment.

9 Nov 2009

CIPA selects eClinicalWorks' unified EMR and PM software

eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced that Buffalo, New York’s Catholic Independent Practice Association (CIPA) has selected eClinicalWorks unified electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) software for the Catholic Health System’s network of ambulatory care offices and for select community physicians, purchasing 150 licenses. eClinicalWorks will also work with the IPA to connect into HEALTHeLINK, the local Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO).

9 Nov 2009

CRINONE vaginal progesterone gel as effective as IM progesterone for luteal phase support in IVF-ET

In their American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) conference wrap-up, Medscape highlighted the article published by them on October 27, 2009, which summarized the results from the largest prospective, randomized clinical study to compare vaginal progesterone to intramuscular progesterone injections (IM progesterone) for luteal support in infertility treatment.

9 Nov 2009

Public health experts urge Congress not to overlook the needs of Americans with "morbid obesity"

As the House of Representatives and the Senate debate companion bills to make health care more affordable and accessible, a coalition of obesity and public health experts today urged Congress not to overlook the needs of the more than 15 million Americans who suffer from severe obesity and are at the greatest risk for chronic disease and death.

9 Nov 2009

PAREXEL International forms an alliance with Mortara Instrument, enhances cardiac safety capabilities

PAREXEL International Corporation, a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced that it has enhanced its cardiac safety capabilities for early phase clinical development through an alliance with Mortara Instrument, Inc., which manufactures and distributes electrocardiogram (ECG) devices and related technology worldwide.

From Parexel 9 Nov 2009

Toshiba's Aquilion Premium multi-detector CT installed at PinnacleHealth

Leading hospitals require premium diagnostic imaging equipment to image patients faster, with the best possible diagnostic accuracy. PinnacleHealth, a leading health care system in Harrisburg, Pa., has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s Aquilion® Premium multi-detector CT at its Community Campus to enable them to meet these needs while improving patient care. The Aquilion Premium features 160 detector rows to image up to eight cm of anatomy in a single gantry rotation (as fast as 0.35 seconds).

9 Nov 2009

Chindex International reports fiscal 2010 second-quarter results

Chindex International, Inc., a leading independent American provider of Western healthcare products and services in the People's Republic of China, today announced results for the second quarter and first half of fiscal 2010, which ended September 30, 2009.

9 Nov 2009

Swedish study: Chances of having a baby increases over three cycles

Just one in three women gives birth after a single IVF attempt, but the cumulative chance of a live birth increases with each cycle - where women are offered three cycles nearly two thirds go on to have babies, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

9 Nov 2009

Women with asthma find it harder to sleep and feel more tired during the day than men

Women with asthma are more anxious, find it harder to sleep and are more tired during the day than their male counterparts, but nevertheless tend to be better at following their treatment, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in close collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

9 Nov 2009

U.S. hospitals' profit margin increases to 8% in the second quarter of 2009

The median profit margin of U.S. hospitals increased from near zero in the third quarter of 2008 to more than 8 percent in the second quarter of 2009, according to an analysis of hospital financial performance published today by Thomson Reuters.

9 Nov 2009

New, user-friendly web site unveiled by A-Life Medical

A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has unveiled its new Web site at www.alifemedical.com.

9 Nov 2009

Hospital News and Research

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital patients to receive proton therapy at the UF Proton Therapy Institute

Black Diamond Video’s Integrated Digital Surgical Suites to be installed at the Yale-New Haven Hospital

LifeNet Health launches the Vertigraft Cervical Bio-Implant with Preservon Technology

TivaMed changes its name to Viveve

EMSC to acquire Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants and Pinnacle Consultants Mid Atlantic

Fire & Emergency Medical Services Division launched by KCE

Smoking has a direct negative impact on postoperative outcomes

Covisint and Carefx partner to market an integrated workflow solution for health information exchange

Emisphere Technologies' key product developments and financial results for the third quarter of 2009

Thomson Reuters releases CareFocus 2.0 clinical surveillance solution

CIPA selects eClinicalWorks' unified EMR and PM software

CRINONE vaginal progesterone gel as effective as IM progesterone for luteal phase support in IVF-ET

Public health experts urge Congress not to overlook the needs of Americans with "morbid obesity"

PAREXEL International forms an alliance with Mortara Instrument, enhances cardiac safety capabilities

Toshiba's Aquilion Premium multi-detector CT installed at PinnacleHealth

Chindex International reports fiscal 2010 second-quarter results

Swedish study: Chances of having a baby increases over three cycles

Women with asthma find it harder to sleep and feel more tired during the day than men

U.S. hospitals' profit margin increases to 8% in the second quarter of 2009

New, user-friendly web site unveiled by A-Life Medical

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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