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Delay of employer mandate: 'Astonishing decision;' 'No bearing' on much of health law; Implementation turning into 'fiasco for the ages'

Commentators both for and against the health overhaul offered assessments of the administration's move, and the politics that surround it.

9 Jul 2013

Conservative group plans $1 million ad campaign to oppose health law

The effort will counter advocates' campaigns to get people to sign up for online insurance marketplaces. In other health law news, a Clinton administration veteran is joining the Obama health team.

9 Jul 2013

Glythera secures £700k to advance development of new generation of biological therapeutics

Glythera Ltd is delighted to announce that it has successfully achieved a number of technical and commercial milestones which has resulted in the release of a second tranche of funding totalling £700k from IP Group and its managed fund, the Finance for Business North East Technology Fund.

9 Jul 2013

UIC to manage largest-ever prospective health study of Hispanic/Latino population

The University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Minority Health Research will manage a National Institutes of Health project to follow up, over the next six years, all Chicago participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos—the largest-ever prospective health study of this population.

9 Jul 2013

NeuRA study: Orbitofrontal cortex plays key role in linking emotion, memories in FTD patients

A study by researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is the first to demonstrate that patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) lose the emotional content/colour of their memories. These findings explain why FTD patients may not vividly remember an emotionally charged event like a wedding or funeral.

9 Jul 2013

Action Medical Research funds three new Research Training Fellowships

Action Medical Research, the UK-wide charity funding vital research to help sick and disabled babies and children, has today announced it is funding three new Research Training Fellowships worth more than £470,000.

9 Jul 2013

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus currently unlikely to cause a pandemic, finds study

New estimates of the transmissibility of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in humans suggest that it does not yet have pandemic potential, according to research published in The Lancet.

9 Jul 2013

Research suggests that publication of death rates unlikely to detect poorly performing surgeons

New research published in The Lancet suggests that the publication of death rates for individual surgeons in England, launched for the first of a new group of 10 specialties last week, is unlikely to correctly identify poorly performing surgeons in some specialties, because low numbers of key operations lead to unreliable results.

9 Jul 2013

Stem cells in the aesthetic industry: an interview with Dr. Norma Kassardjian

Stem Cells are special “master” cells in your body. Stem cells are the building blocks that can replicate into other kinds of cells like blood cells, heart, muscle, blood vessels and cartilage.

9 Jul 2013

State highlights: Ore. nonprofit hospitals see increased revenue, but lower charity care; Calif. shift means lost autism treatment

A new state report shows the average Oregon hospital more than doubled its margin, or profit, between 2009 and 2011, even as its provision of charity care went down. The findings trace the hospital sector rebound from recessionary lows in 2008, and how expanded Medicaid enrollment in Oregon has helped boost hospitals' bottom line even as many continue to expand to some assessors' dismay (Budnick, 7/5).

9 Jul 2013

HHS awards contract to British company to run Obamacare exchanges; challenges for health law implementation persist

The New York Times: British Company Is Awarded Contract To Administer Health Rollout Racing to meet an October deadline, Obama administration officials said Thursday that they had awarded a contract worth as much as $1.2 billion to a British company to help them sift applications for health insurance and tax credits under the new health care law.

9 Jul 2013

COHRED Colloquium 2013 report: Investment in global health research must grow

COHRED holds semi-annual Colloquia to bring together a range of stakeholders - from researchers and policymakers to industry representatives and NGOS - to have a free and frank discussion about salient global health issues.

9 Jul 2013

Key metabolites in blood could provide clues to long-term overall health and ageing

Scientists have found that key metabolites in blood - chemical 'fingerprints' left behind as a result of early molecular changes before birth or in infancy - could provide clues to a person's long-term overall health and rate of ageing in later life.

9 Jul 2013

Cancer immunotherapies promise to be a new tool in fight against cancer

Drugs that direct a cancer patient's immune system to eradicate her or his disease, known as cancer immunotherapies, promise to be a new tool in the fight against cancer. Since the Koch Institute's inception, exploring the close relationship between the immune system and cancer has been one of the Institute's priority research areas.

9 Jul 2013

Providers search for new tests, smartphone apps to diagnose and treat mental illness

Health care providers are trying to find tests and create new smartphone and tablet apps to better diagnose and treat mental illness.

9 Jul 2013

For a year, consumers will be on the honor system for health law subsidies

With the delay in the employer mandate, the administration announced Friday that it would scale back verification rules on enrollees' income and health status.

9 Jul 2013

PHT announces availability of LogPad App System for clinical trial patients

PHT Corporation announced the general availability of the LogPad App™ System that collects compliant patient data using Apple and Android smartphones. The LogPad App gives sponsors and CROs the flexibility to deploy Phase II, III, and IV clinical studies plus post market and observational research to massive patient populations.

9 Jul 2013

Physicians have new resource for managing disease in patients with early-stage breast cancer

Physicians have a new resource for managing disease in patients with early-stage breast cancer. Patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ -- cancer that has not left the breast ducts -- now have the benefit of a multi-gene analysis that considers gene patterns to individualize therapy and determine the chance for recurrence, potentially sparing the patient additional therapy.

9 Jul 2013

Anti-abortion bills in Wisconsin, Texas, North Carolina show GOP muscle

Anti-abortion activists in Republican-dominated states have succeeded in pushing various bills that limit the procedure.

9 Jul 2013

Disrupted micronuclei might play more active role in carcinogenesis, new study finds

Scientists studying cancer development have known about micronuclei for some time. These erratic, small extra nuclei, which contain fragments or whole chromosomes that were not incorporated into daughter cells after cell division, are associated with specific forms of cancer and are predictive of poorer prognosis.

9 Jul 2013

Research News and Research

Delay of employer mandate: 'Astonishing decision;' 'No bearing' on much of health law; Implementation turning into 'fiasco for the ages'

Conservative group plans $1 million ad campaign to oppose health law

Glythera secures £700k to advance development of new generation of biological therapeutics

UIC to manage largest-ever prospective health study of Hispanic/Latino population

NeuRA study: Orbitofrontal cortex plays key role in linking emotion, memories in FTD patients

Action Medical Research funds three new Research Training Fellowships

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus currently unlikely to cause a pandemic, finds study

Research suggests that publication of death rates unlikely to detect poorly performing surgeons

Stem cells in the aesthetic industry: an interview with Dr. Norma Kassardjian

State highlights: Ore. nonprofit hospitals see increased revenue, but lower charity care; Calif. shift means lost autism treatment

HHS awards contract to British company to run Obamacare exchanges; challenges for health law implementation persist

COHRED Colloquium 2013 report: Investment in global health research must grow

Key metabolites in blood could provide clues to long-term overall health and ageing

Cancer immunotherapies promise to be a new tool in fight against cancer

Providers search for new tests, smartphone apps to diagnose and treat mental illness

For a year, consumers will be on the honor system for health law subsidies

PHT announces availability of LogPad App System for clinical trial patients

Physicians have new resource for managing disease in patients with early-stage breast cancer

Anti-abortion bills in Wisconsin, Texas, North Carolina show GOP muscle

Disrupted micronuclei might play more active role in carcinogenesis, new study finds

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