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WSJ: A windfall for HCA investors

Meanwhile, a report by Health Care For America Now details profits for the nation's five largest insurers and draws a strong reaction from the industry.

5 Mar 2011

DaVita earns recognition in Fortune's Most Admired Companies list

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with end stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease, has been honored as one of the 2011 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and ranked second in the Health Care: Medical Facilities industry.

5 Mar 2011

Michael Smith, Merck Canada sponsors CDRD's new post-doctoral fellowship program

The Centre for Drug Research and Development today announced that they have created a new Post-Doctoral Fellowship position with joint sponsorship from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and Merck Canada.

5 Mar 2011

Prestige Assisted Living at Sierra Vista to host educational speaker series that explores memory care issues

How can caregivers recognize the difference between normal age-related memory lapses and memory loss related to dementia? Prestige Assisted Living at Sierra Vista will host an educational speaker series that offers insight into memory care issues, beginning in March.

5 Mar 2011

Sebelius, GOP face off at House hearing

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stuck to the usual talking points Wednesday as she appeared before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in defense of implementation of the health law and the president's budget request for her agency. She also told Republicans that that there is no system by which Medicaid block grants can be created.

5 Mar 2011

University of Delaware to host scholarly symposium in honor of Richard F. Heck

On Thursday, May 26, the University of Delaware will host the scholarly symposium "Frontiers in Catalysis" in honor of Richard F. Heck, Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

5 Mar 2011

Senate dems pitch long-term spending bill

"A long-term spending bill pitched by the Senate will not include language to strip federal funds from Planned Parenthood and implementation of the healthcare reform law, according to new highlights released by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday afternoon.

5 Mar 2011

Grifols receives FDA approval for Alphanate to treat vCJD

Grifols, a global healthcare company and biopharmaceutical manufacturer based in Barcelona, Spain today announced that it received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for revised labeling for Alphanate Antihemophilic Factor/von Willebrand Factor Complex indicating that certain manufacturing steps have been shown to reduce the infectivity of a experimental TSE agent that is a model for variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.

5 Mar 2011

Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease becomes official journal of COPD Foundation

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the first journal dedicated to publishing a range of research on the impact of COPD, has become the official journal of the COPD Foundation.

5 Mar 2011

WHO concerned about potential disease epidemics among Libyan refugees in Tunisia

Disease epidemics threaten tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the violence in Libya and crossed over into southern Tunisia, Eric Laroche, WHO assistant director-general for Health Action in Crises, said at a news briefing on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports.

5 Mar 2011

Recent releases in Global Health

The Importance Of Investing In Adolescent Girls: A Lancet editorial examines the challenges adolescent girls living in developing countries face and the work of the U.N. Adolescent Girls Task Force to help young women overcome these barriers.

5 Mar 2011

Scientific symposium to examine new approaches to schizophrenia drug development

Despite significant investment in research and development by pharmaceutical companies, the last decade has seen a marked decline in the number of drugs developed and approved for schizophrenia. A multi-day symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences on Wednesday, March 9 - Friday, March 11 will convene world-leading experts in clinical, translational, and basic neuroscience to address this problem by examining novel, state-of-the-art approaches to schizophrenia drug development.

5 Mar 2011

Summer Street Research announces recent closing of financing for IMUC

Summer Street Research Partners is pleased to announce the recent closing of a financing for ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a Los Angeles-based clinical-stage company that is developing immune-based therapies for the treatment of brain and other cancers.

5 Mar 2011

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

Ariadne, a leader in bioinformatics software and knowledge integration, announced that National Cancer Institute has renewed their license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system that includes the ResNet Mammalian database and Ariadne MedScan text processing technology for site-wide use.

5 Mar 2011

Judge stays ruling against health law, sets deadline for White House to appeal

A federal judge in Florida issued a stay regarding his own January ruling in which he overturned the health law. However, this breathing room is only temporary — he also put the health law on the fast track to the Supreme Court.

5 Mar 2011

Family left on sideline in health care crisis

Decision-making on behalf of patients in persistent vegetative states is always a delicate matter, especially if, like Ms. Nyirahabiyambere, they have not left a directive.

5 Mar 2011

Medical oncology included in Directive for the sake of better cancer care in Europe: ESMO

The European Society for Medical Oncology, the leading professional organization for medical oncology in Europe, proudly announced that medical oncology has been included among the medical specialties covered by Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications, as announced yesterday by the Commission.

5 Mar 2011

Gates Foundation makes $10M PRI in Liquidia to support development of vaccines, therapeutics

Liquidia Technologies today announced the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made a $10 million program-related investment in the company to support the development and commercialization of safer and more effective vaccines and therapeutics. This follows recent announcements of the first Liquidia clinical trial of its lead seasonal flu candidate (LIQ001) and a collaborative agreement with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative.

5 Mar 2011

New HQ of David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research officially dedicated

The new seven-story headquarters of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, where scientists and engineers are working together to pursue new ways to treat, detect and prevent cancer, will be officially dedicated today at 4 p.m.

5 Mar 2011

Researchers use qMRI to confirm effect of CS treatment in patients with OA

A group of Canadian researchers led by Prof. Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Head of the Osteoarthritis Research Unit at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, published a clinical trial in which they confirm, for the first time using quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the disease modifying effects of chondroitin sulphate, a symptomatic slow acting drug for osteoarthritis.

5 Mar 2011

Research News and Research

WSJ: A windfall for HCA investors

DaVita earns recognition in Fortune's Most Admired Companies list

Michael Smith, Merck Canada sponsors CDRD's new post-doctoral fellowship program

Prestige Assisted Living at Sierra Vista to host educational speaker series that explores memory care issues

Sebelius, GOP face off at House hearing

University of Delaware to host scholarly symposium in honor of Richard F. Heck

Senate dems pitch long-term spending bill

Grifols receives FDA approval for Alphanate to treat vCJD

Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease becomes official journal of COPD Foundation

WHO concerned about potential disease epidemics among Libyan refugees in Tunisia

Recent releases in Global Health

Scientific symposium to examine new approaches to schizophrenia drug development

Summer Street Research announces recent closing of financing for IMUC

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

Judge stays ruling against health law, sets deadline for White House to appeal

Family left on sideline in health care crisis

Medical oncology included in Directive for the sake of better cancer care in Europe: ESMO

Gates Foundation makes $10M PRI in Liquidia to support development of vaccines, therapeutics

New HQ of David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research officially dedicated

Researchers use qMRI to confirm effect of CS treatment in patients with OA

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