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Decision Resources: Neuropathic pain drug market to be $9.7B in 2018

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the neuropathic pain drug market -- driven by the launches of several novel therapies -- will increase from $6 billion in 2008 to $9.7 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.

16 Nov 2009

New technique to cool the brains of cardiac arrest patients

The first randomized intra-arrest cooling study performed using a novel intra-nasal cooling method showed much faster and earlier cooling in treated patients and significantly higher neurologically intact survival - to - discharge rate in many patients. The Pre-Resuscitation Intra-Nasal Cooling Effectiveness (PRINCE) study involved 200 patients and was conducted by 15 Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Sweden.

16 Nov 2009

Lipid that accumulates in brain cells drives cell death, says research

The lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators.

13 Nov 2009

Results from an analysis emphasizes the financial burden of SMI on the criminal justice and HHS systems

Results from a large, retrospective analysis of inmates with a serious mental illness (SMI) underscores the financial burden of mental illness on the criminal justice and health and human services (HHS) systems, and may provide useful information to policy makers.

12 Nov 2009

Fort Hood shootings: Oral and maxillofacial surgeons among first responders

Before news of the November 5, Fort Hood shootings reached the public, oral and maxillofacial surgeons Major Mark E. Ranschaert, DMD and Major Joseph Dylan Bowles, DDS were in Fort Hood's Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center emergency room working to save the lives of the shooter's victims.

11 Nov 2009

Disparities in emergency room waiting times for chest pain patients

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health researchers will present Nov. 10 on a range of topics at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, including a study that examined compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their arrival to the Emergency Department (ED).

10 Nov 2009

Costly ER bills raise questions, concerns

McClatchy/The Sacramento Bee reports on a the experience of Scott Hawkins, a 23-year old student who received five minutes of ER care at the UC Davis Medical Center before being pronounced dead. McClatchy reports: "Few question the extent to which doctors tried to save the student's life on Oct. 21, but the amount billed for his emergency care has provoked outrage - a further example, critics said, of what is wrong in a health care system that is roundly maligned for its escalating costs."

9 Nov 2009

Health policy research roundup

Health Affairs: Enrollment Is Driving Medicaid Costs—But Two Targets Can Yield Savings - "Although Medicaid spending has grown faster than the rate of increase in national health spending, much of this is explained by increased enrollment," write the authors of this paper, who present data showing that "[p]er enrollee, Medicaid spending actually compares favorably to increases in medical care prices and gross domestic product."

7 Nov 2009

Third-quarter financial results for the year 2009 announced by Biovail

Biovail Corporation today announced financial results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009. To the extent that this news release contains forward-looking statements, investors are cautioned that these statements are based on the Company’s current views, and actual outcomes are not certain.

5 Nov 2009

Cipher Pharmaceuticals announces financial results for the third quarter of 2009

Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced its financial and operational results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

4 Nov 2009

Cipher Pharmaceuticals to defend alleged patent infringement of CIP-TRAMADOL ER

Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that Purdue Pharma Products L.P. and Napp Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. have filed a complaint against Cipher in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, for alleged infringement of two U.S. patents. The action relates to Cipher's New Drug Application ("NDA") filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for CIP TRAMADOL ER, the Company's extended-release tramadol product.

3 Nov 2009

A return to the doctor's house call may aid health care reform

Dr. Peter Boling provides house calls for some of Richmond's oldest and sickest patients as a geriatrician and head of general medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The Associated Press/Richmond Times Dispatch reports that "he is on a mission: To convince Congress that the old-fashioned house call could be a fresh answer to the modern-day health care reform dilemma.

2 Nov 2009

Most children visit hospitals with mild flu-like symptoms and fever

The CHU Sainte-Justine and The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre are currently seeing a significant increase in patients in their Emergency Departments. Children are arriving with mild flu-like symptoms and fever.

30 Oct 2009

Challenges elderly patients face in hospital to home transition

A project in two regions of the province that captured the experiences and challenges of elderly patients moving from hospital to home or long-term care has already precipitated changes to improve those transitions.

29 Oct 2009

PAIR Technologies to commercialize planar array infrared spectrograph

PAIR Technologies, a start-up company established by University of Delaware researchers and a former DuPont scientist, is preparing to commercialize a high-precision detector -- a planar array infrared spectrograph -- that can identify biological and chemical agents in solids, liquids, and gases, in quantities as small as an atom, and in less than a second.

29 Oct 2009

GE’s AgileTrac Asset Manager and Enterprise Capacity Management Solution adopted by Virtua Healthcare

Virtua and GE Healthcare announced today that they are collaborating to implement new solutions to help increase efficiencies, lower healthcare costs and improve patient care throughout the health system. Virtua is adopting GE’s AgileTracTM Asset Manager and Enterprise Capacity Management Solution, an automated workflow solution that allows healthcare staff to better track a patient’s inpatient experience, as well as manage the hospital’s assets, ultimately reducing costs and increasing patient satisfaction.

27 Oct 2009

OrSense launches a non-invasive Hb measurement system for anemia screening

OrSense Ltd., developer of monitors for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, announced today at the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Meeting & TXPO, at New Orleans, the presentation of NBM-200, a non-invasive hemoglobin (Hb) measurement system for anemia screening in blood donation centers.

27 Oct 2009

PillCam ESO accurately identifies patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Given Imaging Ltd. today announced a new study showing that PillCam® ESO accurately identifies and allows the physician to classify high-risk emergency room patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB), leading to rapid therapeutic intervention.

27 Oct 2009

German based LIFEBRIDGE AG receives FDA clearance for mobile LIFEBRIDGE

German based LIFEBRIDGE AG has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a compact, lightweight, mobile heart-lung machine, a first for any manufacturer worldwide.

26 Oct 2009

Recent health policy studies and analyses

The Urban Institute: Age Rating Under Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Household Financial Burdens - The authors of this study brief compare the "financial implications of the premium rating policy," as outlined in the House Tri-Committee proposal (H.R. 3200), across households of different ages, incomes, and sizes.

23 Oct 2009