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New Deloitte report: Consumers spend $363 billion on health care

As health care reform marks its one-year anniversary, a new Deloitte report reveals that consumers are spending $363 billion, or 14.7 percent more, on health care than traditionally reported in official government accounts.

23 Mar 2011

Researchers can grow and manipulate personalized gut microbes in laboratory

Each of us carries a unique collection of trillions of friendly microbes in our intestines that helps break down food our bodies otherwise couldn't digest.

22 Mar 2011

Researchers launch free online Atlas of TB vaccination policies around the world

Tuberculosis continues to pose a major global health threat. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacteria every second. Every year, more than 9 million people develop active TB and it claims about 2 million lives.

22 Mar 2011

NextGen partners with CalHIPSO to help primary care providers achieve Meaningful Use

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today a partnership with California Health Information Partnership and Services Organizations, the regional extension center for all of California except Los Angeles and Orange County, to help primary care providers across the state achieve Meaningful Use.

22 Mar 2011

Shire's Replagal and VPRIV data on Gaucher and Fabry patients presented at ACMG meeting

Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, presented new data for Replagal in patients with Fabry disease, and VPRIV in patients with type 1 Gaucher disease, at the 2011 American College of Medical Genetics' Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, held in Vancouver, BC, from March 16-20, 2011.

22 Mar 2011

UCSD selects Millennium Labs, Research Institute for NIAAA granted study

Millennium Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring, research and healthcare education, and the Millennium Research Institute, a national non-profit research center, announced today they have been selected by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to provide laboratory services, including research and analysis, for a new UC San Diego study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

22 Mar 2011

CSL Behring presents Hizentra study data against PI at AAAAI meeting

Data presented by CSL Behring today suggest that treatment with higher dose Hizentra correlates with reduced risk of infection and missed school or work among patients with primary immunodeficiencies.

22 Mar 2011

Oral desensitization with omalizumab may treat milk allergy in children

Some 3 million children in the United States have some form of food allergy, ranging in severity from mild to life-threatening. Milk allergy is the most common, affecting 2.5 percent of children under age 3.

22 Mar 2011

High sodium intake may increase risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney problem

Taking in too much sodium may turn out to be quite a salty situation. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010 high blood pressure cost the United States $76.6 billion in health care services, medications, and missed days of work.

22 Mar 2011

NYC expands YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program to help adults avoid disease consequences

The YMCA of Greater New York today announced the New York City expansion of the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program, a 16-session group behavior change class that helps people at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes prevent the disease through healthy eating, increased activity and other positive lifestyle changes.

22 Mar 2011

PSN system can reduce psychiatric medication errors

Coupling an electronic prescription drug ordering system with a computerized method for reporting adverse events can dramatically reduce the number of medication errors in a hospital's psychiatric unit, suggests new Johns Hopkins research.

22 Mar 2011

FDA accepts Arisaph's ARI-3037MO IND for phase I human clinical trial

Arisaph Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held drug discovery biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted the Company's recently submitted Investigational New Drug application to evaluate ARI-3037MO in a phase I human clinical trial in healthy volunteers.

22 Mar 2011

New research: Trauma patients treated on weekends have greater chance of survival

Patients who've been hurt in car or bike crashes, been shot or stabbed, or suffered other injuries are more likely to live if they arrive at the hospital on the weekend than during the week, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research published in the March 21 issue of Archives of Surgery.

22 Mar 2011

Researchers to develop house dust mite allergy vaccine that can cure asthma

Monash University researchers are working on a vaccine that could completely cure asthma brought on by house dust mite allergies.

22 Mar 2011

Information technology could reduce psychiatric drug errors

21 Mar 2011

Earthquake response could be improved through telemedicine

A new study published by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of California, Davis, foresees improvements in patient outcomes after a major earthquake through more effective use of information technology. A control tower-style telemedicine hub to manage electronic traffic between first responders and remote medical experts could boost the likelihood that critically injured victims will get timely care and survive, according to the team's computer simulation model.

21 Mar 2011

Second US trial in HIV/AIDS lymphoma patients using Benitec’s ddRNAi technology

Benitec Limited (ASX:BLT), a company involved in RNA-based gene silencing for human therapeutics, announced that the City of Hope research hospital in Duarte, California is planning to initiate a second small Phase I/II study using Benitec’s DNA-directed RNA interference (ddRNAi) technology in lymphoma patients carrying the HIV virus. The aim of the study is to optimize the treatment by modifying a range of clinical parameters.

21 Mar 2011

China PharmaHub, University of California enter license agreement for stem cell universal donor blood product

China PharmaHub Corp., a biopharmaceutical acquisition and development company, today announced that it has signed a exclusive worldwide license agreement with the University of California, for worldwide rights to develop, commercialize and market a universal donor blood product derived from embryonic stem cells developed by UCSD Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Dr. Ewa Carrier.

21 Mar 2011

ViroPharma launches online community for teens and adults with hereditary angioedema

ViroPharma Incorporated today announced the launch of "HAE and Me," an online community that unites teens and adults with hereditary angioedema (HAE) through shared experiences to help them better manage their disease.

21 Mar 2011

Study unravels molecular mechanism of biomolecule RNA that plays dynamic regulatory role in protein selection

If a big bunch of your brain cells suddenly went rogue and decided to become fat cells, it could cloud your decision-making capacity a bit. Fortunately, early in an organism's development, cells make firm and more-or-less permanent decisions about whether they will live their lives as, say, skin cells, brain cells or, well, fat cells.

21 Mar 2011

Medicine News and Research

New Deloitte report: Consumers spend $363 billion on health care

Researchers can grow and manipulate personalized gut microbes in laboratory

Researchers launch free online Atlas of TB vaccination policies around the world

NextGen partners with CalHIPSO to help primary care providers achieve Meaningful Use

Shire's Replagal and VPRIV data on Gaucher and Fabry patients presented at ACMG meeting

UCSD selects Millennium Labs, Research Institute for NIAAA granted study

CSL Behring presents Hizentra study data against PI at AAAAI meeting

Oral desensitization with omalizumab may treat milk allergy in children

High sodium intake may increase risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney problem

NYC expands YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program to help adults avoid disease consequences

PSN system can reduce psychiatric medication errors

FDA accepts Arisaph's ARI-3037MO IND for phase I human clinical trial

New research: Trauma patients treated on weekends have greater chance of survival

Researchers to develop house dust mite allergy vaccine that can cure asthma

Information technology could reduce psychiatric drug errors

Earthquake response could be improved through telemedicine

Second US trial in HIV/AIDS lymphoma patients using Benitec’s ddRNAi technology

China PharmaHub, University of California enter license agreement for stem cell universal donor blood product

ViroPharma launches online community for teens and adults with hereditary angioedema

Study unravels molecular mechanism of biomolecule RNA that plays dynamic regulatory role in protein selection

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