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Binge drinking can impair healing process following bone fracture

Physicians have long observed that binge drinking can significantly impair the healing process following a bone fracture.

7 Oct 2013

New study highlights that physicians prefer topical therapies for actinic keratosis

Over 90 per cent of physicians treating actinic keratosis (AK) prefer short duration treatment options with fast resolving local skin responses (LSRs), is the finding of a global study (‘Physician Perceptions and Experience of Current Treatment in Actinic Keratosis’) that is being presented today at the 22nd Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV).

5 Oct 2013

Research roundup: Health law's effects on consumer spending; Mass. experience finds increased use of laparoscopic surgery

The authors find that average out-of-pocket spending is expected to decrease for all groups considered in the analysis, although decreases in out-of-pocket spending will be largest for those who would otherwise be uninsured.

5 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: Marketplaces offer Americans the kind of shopping they like; enrollment isn't as robust as administration claims

Americans have grown accustomed to online comparison shopping, as the overwhelming number who clicked on health-exchange websites demonstrates.

5 Oct 2013

Geisinger receives $1.4M award to study patient-centered communication of genomic lab reports

Geisinger Health System's Genomic Medicine Institute has been approved to receive a $1.4 million research award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study how best to share genomic lab results with patients.

5 Oct 2013

Opinions on shutdown: Both sides have moved to indefensible positions; health law is not 'settled,' finding a 'non-disastrous' debt deal

Acrimony, insults, the government shut down. Time to talk to a wise man, someone from the days when government worked. I turned to the famous Mr. Baker - James A. Baker III. ... The Republicans made a mistake early on with a "maximalist" position on Obamacare - they could not realistically achieve their aim of defunding when the Democrats hold the White House and Senate. But the president's position is a "pretty damn maximalist position itself, and people will say that" (Peggy Noonan, 10/3).

5 Oct 2013

Boreal Genomics announces completion of $18 million Series C financing round

Boreal Genomics, a privately held provider of technology for non-invasive genomic profiling of tumors from blood plasma of cancer patients, announced today the completion of an $18 million Series C financing round.

5 Oct 2013

MIT investigators receive DARPA grant to develop new technologies for BioMOD program

Investigators from MIT's Biomanufacturing Research Program (BioMAN) have received a $10.4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new technologies for DARPA's Biologically-derived Medicines On Demand (BioMOD) program.

5 Oct 2013

GOP rank-and-file push to reopen federal gov't, eye medical device tax repeal instead

Some Republicans are moving away from efforts to repeal the entire health law and are turning their focus instead to repealing the health law's medical-device tax and reopening the federal government.

5 Oct 2013

FDA approves Clinolipid injectable emulsion for intravenous feeding in adult patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Clinolipid (lipid injectable emulsion, USP) for intravenous feeding (parenteral nutrition) in adult patients, providing a source of calories and essential fatty acids for adult patients who are unable to eat or drink. Clinolipid was granted a priority review to help alleviate a drug shortage.

5 Oct 2013

Prostate cancer screening may show little benefit for old aged men

Prostate cancer screening has little benefit for men aged 75 and older, yet over three years, the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $447 million annually on PSA-based screenings-one-third of which was for men in the over 75 age group, according to study by researchers at the Yale Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center.

5 Oct 2013

Researchers reveals mechanism of sodium-potassium pump in cell

It's not visible to the naked eye and you can't feel it, but up to 40 per cent of your body's energy goes into supplying the microscopic sodium-potassium pump with the energy it needs. The pump is constantly doing its job in every cell of all animals and humans. It works much like a small battery which, among other things, maintains the sodium balance which is crucial to keep muscles and nerves working.

5 Oct 2013

Study shows precision medicine provides better treatment options for mentally ill person

A multidisciplinary team led by a geneticist and psychiatrist from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's (CSHL) Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics today publish a paper providing a glimpse of both the tremendous power and the current limitations of what is sometimes called "precision medicine."

5 Oct 2013

Universal Gown And Glove Use By Health-Care Workers In ICU Reduces MRSA 40 Percent

Healthcare workers' use of disposable gowns and gloves upon entering all patient rooms on an intensive care unit (ICU), versus only in rooms on standard isolation protocol, helped reduce patient acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by approximately 40 percent, according to new research co-led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Health System Center for Healthcare Solutions.

5 Oct 2013

Congress, their staffs face scrutiny around exchange plan choice, federal gov't contribution

Some question if members of Congress and their staffs should continue getting a federal employer contribution toward the cost of buying insurance on the health law exchange.

5 Oct 2013

Longer looks: Chinese medicine; revolutionary doctors; frozen embryos

A few years ago, while visiting Beijing, I caught a cold. My wife, who is Chinese, and wanted me to feel better, took me to a local restaurant. After we sat down, she ordered a live turtle.

5 Oct 2013

Cancer survivors in rural areas more likely to forgo medical care because of financial concerns

Older cancer survivors living in rural areas were more likely to forgo medical and dental care because of financial concerns compared with older cancer survivors living in urban areas, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

5 Oct 2013

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Binge drinking can impair healing process following bone fracture

New study highlights that physicians prefer topical therapies for actinic keratosis

Research roundup: Health law's effects on consumer spending; Mass. experience finds increased use of laparoscopic surgery

Viewpoints: Marketplaces offer Americans the kind of shopping they like; enrollment isn't as robust as administration claims

Geisinger receives $1.4M award to study patient-centered communication of genomic lab reports

Opinions on shutdown: Both sides have moved to indefensible positions; health law is not 'settled,' finding a 'non-disastrous' debt deal

Boreal Genomics announces completion of $18 million Series C financing round

MIT investigators receive DARPA grant to develop new technologies for BioMOD program

GOP rank-and-file push to reopen federal gov't, eye medical device tax repeal instead

FDA approves Clinolipid injectable emulsion for intravenous feeding in adult patients

Prostate cancer screening may show little benefit for old aged men

Researchers reveals mechanism of sodium-potassium pump in cell

Study shows precision medicine provides better treatment options for mentally ill person

Universal Gown And Glove Use By Health-Care Workers In ICU Reduces MRSA 40 Percent

Congress, their staffs face scrutiny around exchange plan choice, federal gov't contribution

Longer looks: Chinese medicine; revolutionary doctors; frozen embryos

Cancer survivors in rural areas more likely to forgo medical care because of financial concerns

New biomarker for pancreatic cancer effectively targets potential therapy for small survival rate

Researchers discover way to use stem cells as drug delivery vehicles

States still wrestling with health exchange bugs, challenges

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