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Shock Doctor signs three-year endorsement contract with NFL

Minneapolis-based Shock Doctor – the authentic market leader and creators of innovative, unique performance-driven sports protection and the undisputed leader in mouthguard technology – announced today it has signed a three-year endorsement contract with NFL San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews.

24 Feb 2011

Polio: Myanmar plans vaccination campaign after confirming first new case in three years; India fights disease in rural areas

UNICEF said that Myanmar is planning a mass polio vaccination campaign of children under age five after the country confirmed its first case of the disease in three years, Agence France-Presse reports.

24 Feb 2011

Versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor

At today’s International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC2011), imec, Holst Centre and NXP present a versatile ultra-low power biomedical signal processor, CoolBioTM, meeting the requirements of future wearable biomedical sensor systems. The biomedical signal processor consumes only 13pJ/cycle when running a complex ECG (electrocardiogram) algorithm at 1MHz and 0.4V operating voltage. This C-programmable chip is voltage and performance scalable supporting a frequency range of 1MHz up to 100MHz with an operating voltage from 0.4 to 1.2V.

23 Feb 2011

Survey: 67% of pharma and biotech companies outsource more than half of all clinical trials

Driving clinical development and speeding time to market through effective relationship management will be two of the key themes discussed at Pharma IQ's 2nd Annual Global Clinical Outsourcing Forum this May.

23 Feb 2011

Haiti's cholera outbreak has plateaued, death rate remains high in rural regions, U.N. says

The U.N. on Friday said Haiti's cholera outbreak appears to be waning overall, but high death rates from the virus in rural regions of the country remain a concern, the Associated Press reports. According to figures released by the Haitian government, 231,070 cholera cases and 4,549 deaths from the disease have been reported since the outbreak first emerged in October.

23 Feb 2011

Medicaid central to White House-State budget tensions

As governors arrive in Washington, D.C., for the weekend meeting of the National Governors Association, the White House is bracing for more Medicaid budget crunching and coverage issues.

23 Feb 2011

House votes to defund Planned Parenthood

On the same day as the House vote, the White House narrowed a Bush administration rule that allows medical providers to refuse to perform abortions.

22 Feb 2011

CIBER completes key IT projects for leading healthcare organizations

CIBER, today announced it has recently completed key IT projects for leading healthcare organizations to develop and implement solutions that have helped the clients reduce costs, improve speed to market and engage consumers.

22 Feb 2011

Desperate governors, state Legislatures seek ways to cut Medicaid costs

News outlets across the country are reporting that states are planning to trim Medicaid rolls and benefits. Some are especially focusing on nursing home costs.

22 Feb 2011

Stretching before exercise does not prevent injuries: Study

A new study presented on 18th February at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Annual Meeting reported that that warm-up stretching had no effect on whether runners sustained an injury or not. It did not prevent injuries or result in more injuries.

21 Feb 2011

Motorola announces new advanced data capture solution for healthcare

Motorola Solutions, Inc. today announced its newest advanced data capture solution for healthcare - the DS4208-HC corded imager.

21 Feb 2011

Dell launches subscription-based cloud-enabled service solutions for hospitals, physician practices

Dell is delivering new cloud-based services to simplify secure information access and sharing for physicians and hospitals and improve healthcare efficiency from the point of care to the data center and business office. The service offerings are designed for hospitals and physician practices that want to focus less on managing information and more on using it to improve patient care and to maximize reimbursements.

21 Feb 2011

Sarasota Memorial selects Meru for pervasive wireless coverage to healthcare industry

Meru Networks, Inc., the leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today announced that Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, the second-largest acute care public medical center in Florida, selected Meru for pervasive wireless coverage throughout their 806-bed facility.

21 Feb 2011

'Experience station' program offers rheumatologists to gain insight into patients' everyday challenges

Pharmaceutical companies are focusing on more unique approaches in the development of educational and experiential solutions for their health care customers at medical conferences, according to Joe Scrocco, chief executive officer of OneWorld, Inc., a leading pharmaceutical consulting firm.

21 Feb 2011

Bangladesh cholera vaccine trial

Bangladesh will conduct the world’s largest clinical trial of an affordable cholera vaccine which could save tens of thousands of lives. The study began Thursday and involves nearly 250,000 people near the capital, Dhaka.

20 Feb 2011

Watson's performance on Jeopardy! inspires 700% spike in volunteers for World Community Grid

Watson wasn't the only computer system that won this week when it competed successfully against two human champions on the Jeopardy! game show.

19 Feb 2011

Author provides tips to combat symptoms of seasonal affective disorder

Winter's chill, dark days, devoid of sunshine can send the best of us spiraling into a bad case of the blues. But those dreary winter months - particularly, February - can debilitate people living with depression.

19 Feb 2011

$Grifols to start construction of new plant in Spain for plasma fractionation$

Grifols to start construction of new plant in Spain for plasma fractionation

Grifols, the Spanish group which specializes in the hospital-pharmaceutical sector and is one of the world's leading producers of plasma products, will shortly start construction of a new plant representing an investment of 20 million euros that will employ about 100 people, as soon as it obtains local permits and licenses.

19 Feb 2011

HHS approves Medicaid expansion for Minnesota

Gov. Mark Dayton's plan to expand the state's Medicaid rolls by 95,000 people has been approved by federal authorities, his office said Thursday. The move, which begins March 1, will provide health insurance to 12,000 low-income adults who previously were uninsured, and broader coverage at lower cost to another 83,000 who received care under two state-funded programs, MinnesotaCare and General Assistance Medical Care (2/17).

19 Feb 2011

Study: Stretching before running neither prevents nor causes injury

Stretching before a run neither prevents nor causes injury, according to a study presented today at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

18 Feb 2011