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Reducing test anxiety leads to potential prevention benefits

Showing students how to cope with test anxiety might also help them to handle their built-up angst and fretfulness about other issues.

9 May 2014

Smashburger partners with Udi's Gluten Free

Smashburger, the rapidly expanding better burger restaurant concept, today announced its new partnership with Udi's Gluten Free, rolling out a gluten-free bun offering at all U.S.

9 May 2014

Drugmakers realign to reduce costs

Meanwhile, their trade group warns that the patient cost-sharing requirements in some health law plans could restrict prescription drug access.

9 May 2014

Cegedim and StratX collaborate to provide innovative, Life Sciences-specific training to employees

Cegedim Relationship Management today announced that it has partnered with StratX to provide the most innovative, Life Sciences-specific training to its customer-facing employees.

9 May 2014

New Aspen Dental office to open in Murfreesboro, TN on June 5

A new Aspen Dental office is opening in Murfreesboro, TN on Thursday, June 5. Located at 2711 Medical Center Parkway, the conveniently located practice will provide dental services that range from dentures and preventive care to general dentistry and restoration.

9 May 2014

Axial Exchange launches new Spanish-language version of mobile application

Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile applications to deepen the patient's role in improving outcomes, launched a new Spanish-language version of its mobile application, making the company's innovative patient engagement tools available to a greater population.

9 May 2014

Abbott's vascular devices manufacturing facility receives Shingo Prize

Abbott has been awarded the Shingo Prize, an international award for operational excellence, by the Shingo Institute at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Abbott's vascular devices manufacturing facility in Clonmel, Ireland, received the award, recognizing the site's initiative to develop and maintain continuous improvement to achieve operational excellence.

9 May 2014

Senate confirmation hearings begin for Obama's pick to head HHS

Today the first of two scheduled hearings will take place for Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Though she is expected to be confirmed as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, she is also expected to face some tough questions about the health law.

9 May 2014

Medicare advantage enrollment grows despite health law cuts

Don't look now, but the private sector is quietly strengthening its grip on the Medicare program, at least if enrollment in the Medicare Advantage plans is a good proxy.

9 May 2014

HHS finds hospitals getting safer

The administration credited the improvements at least partially to the Affordable Care Act.

9 May 2014

St. Jude Medical presents new data on quadripolar technology at Heart Rhythm 2014

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, is the leader in quadripolar technology with the only cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) system approved in the U.S. New data presented at Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society's Annual Scientific Sessions, demonstrates increased survival, improved clinical outcomes and better cost utilization with St. Jude Medical's quadripolar technology.

9 May 2014

Freeman Health System wins 2014 Truven Health Advantage Award for Overall Performance

Mike Boswood, president and CEO of Truven Health Analytics presented the 2014 Truven Health Advantage Award for Overall Performance to Freeman Health System, a not-for-profit, three-hospital system in Joplin, Missouri.

8 May 2014

New Aspen Dental office to open in St. Augustine, FL

A new Aspen Dental office is opening in St. Augustine, FL on Thursday, June 5. Located at 1747 US Highway 1 South, the conveniently located practice will provide dental services that range from dentures and preventive care to general dentistry and restoration.

8 May 2014

Adults with learning disabilities hear better through new support service in Sheffield

MORE adults with learning disabilities and impaired hearing are using their hearing aids correctly thanks to a new technical support service provided by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

8 May 2014

Owaves launches world's first dedicated wellness planner on iTunes

Owaves, a cosmopolitan lifestyle medicine company based in San Diego, is launching the world's first dedicated wellness planner today on iTunes. The Owaves iPad App provides a remarkably simple, visual, fun and effective tool for positive lifestyle change and management.

8 May 2014

First Edition: May 8, 2014

Today's headlines include reports from a Capitol Hill hearing featuring health insurers' testimony about their experiences with new enrollment under the health law.

8 May 2014

Consumer Reports finds that only some hospitals help mothers avoid unnecessary C-sections

A Consumer Reports analysis of over 1,500 hospitals in 22 U.S. states suggests that some hospitals do a much better job than others at helping mothers avoid unnecessary C-sections.

8 May 2014

Expanding Medicaid access increases use of subspecialty surgical services in New York State

Researchers in the department of surgery at the University of Michigan have found that expanding access to Medicaid in New York State increased beneficiaries' use of subspecialty surgical services.

8 May 2014

Penn experts urge health care institutions to rely on existing staff to drive needed transformations

A group of health care and policy experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is urging health care institutions to look more to their own in-house personnel, including physicians and nurses, as a source of new ideas for improving how care is delivered.

8 May 2014

Surgeons perform robotic gall bladder surgery more safely

A green fluorescent dye is helping surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System perform robotic gall bladder surgery more safely.

8 May 2014