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The health law and older Americans

A pair of stories examining the health law and Medicare's prescription drug "doughnut hole" as well as what might change for people who are near retirement age, but not yet eligible for Medicare.

8 Oct 2013

Researchers use ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover important biomarkers

ARRAYit Corporation reports today that researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Northeastern University have used the ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover biomarkers important in the treatment of prostate cancer.

8 Oct 2013

Health exchanges grapple with software, server issues

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration acknowledged Sunday that it needs to make design, as well as capacity, fixes to the website set up to help consumers shop for health coverage. Other news outlets examined the capacity challenges faced both by the federal and state exchanges and the adjustments made over the weekend.

8 Oct 2013

Consumers see big variations in costs and networks

A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that a buyer's home county may make a big difference in the insurance options they can choose from on the new online insurance marketplaces, while Politico reports that areas where co-op plans are offered are seeing lower prices.

8 Oct 2013

State Medicaid programs pose problems for federal insurance markeplace

Communications issues between the state agencies that administer the program and the federal exchange are interfering with the concept of one-stop shopping.

8 Oct 2013

Obama asks Americans to give exchanges and Obamacare time to work

President Barack Obama defended the problem-plagued rollout of the health law's insurance exchanges late last week. In an interview with The Associated Press, he asked Americans to not give up on changes the law is making and to give it time to work.

8 Oct 2013

Study: Seniors in long-term care facilities are at high risk of head injuries

A study by Simon Fraser University researchers has found seniors in long-term care facilities are at high risk of head injuries - nearly 40 per cent of those who fall experience head impact.

8 Oct 2013

Shutdown spurs relitigation of Obamacare

Editors at the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine urge the nation's physicians to make their views on the health law known to their congressional representatives, noting their own favorable stance, while a conservative Georgia district urges the House GOP to keep up its fight to defund the law.

8 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 7, 2013

Today's headlines include reports detailing the ins and outs of the federal government's online health insurance markeplace as well as the latest from Capitol Hill on the shutdown.

7 Oct 2013

Solar Senior Capital acquires Gemino Healthcare Finance

Gemino Healthcare Finance today announced it has been acquired by Solar Senior Capital Ltd. ("Solar Senior Capital"). Over the last seven years, Philadelphia-based Gemino has earned a strong reputation in the market as a provider of asset-based and term financing solutions for small to mid-size healthcare companies.

7 Oct 2013

Kiadis Pharma signs Services Agreement with GRCBDS for Phase II clinical study with ATIR

Kiadis Pharma B.V., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for blood cancers, announced today that a Services Agreement has been signed with the German Red Cross Blood Donor Service Baden-Wuerttemberg-Hessen (GRCBDS) whereby GRCBDS will provide pharmaceutical development and GMP manufacturing services for Kiadis Pharma's ongoing Phase II clinical study with ATIR™.

7 Oct 2013

Expert warns about serious consequences associated with tooth loss

Los Angeles dental implants expert, Dr. Bijan Afar, warns that there are serious consequences associated with tooth loss. Nearly 5 percent of American adults under 64 have lost all their teeth, and about a third of retired adults are missing at least one arch. Most adults over 35 have lost at least one tooth.

7 Oct 2013

Use of gloves, gowns by health care workers for ICU patient contact does not reduce MRSA infection

The wearing of gloves and gowns by health care workers for all intensive care unit (ICU) patient contact did not reduce the rate of acquisition of a combination of the bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), although there was a lower risk of MRSA acquisition alone, according to a study published online by JAMA.

7 Oct 2013

$Research on calcium supplements and vitamin D, risk of fractures and more to be released at ASBMR$

Research on calcium supplements and vitamin D, risk of fractures and more to be released at ASBMR

New research on calcium supplements and vitamin D, risk of fractures in older men, and the new culprit in bone fractures, weak muscles, and more will be released at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2013 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, the largest scientific meeting in the world on bone and mineral metabolism.

7 Oct 2013

State highlights: Wendy Davis announces Texas gubernatorial run; Calif. gov. signs pharmacist scope-of-practice bill

Wendy Davis, the Democratic state senator whose abortion filibuster catapulted her to national fame, announced Thursday that she will run for Texas governor, a race that looks to be a banner 2014 contest (Glueck, 10/4).

7 Oct 2013

Virtual simulation training system to help home health workers respond to risks

As the population ages, the need for professional caregivers to provide in-home services for ill and disabled patients is increasing. As a workplace, patient homes may present more challenges than other health care settings because they can harbor hazards such as tobacco smoke, cluttered hallways and rooms, inaccessible bathrooms, rodents, bugs and more.

7 Oct 2013

Boehner, Republicans standing ground: No end to shutdown until changes to Obamacare

News outlets covered the testy debates on the Sunday talk shows. House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday he sees no way out of the government shutdown unless President Barack Obama is willing to engage in negotiations with Republicans.

7 Oct 2013

Mobilized medical care is necessary to better serve Haitian population after earthquake

Three years after an earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and left an estimated 1.5 million people homeless in Haiti, a Henry Ford Hospital study found that more mobilized medical care is necessary to bridge cultural and health care barriers and better serve the Haitian population.

7 Oct 2013

Winners of VCCircle Healthcare Awards announced

The event recognised medical professionals who have not only scaled in terms of clinical and financial performance but also played a role in making a difference in patients' lives.

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