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Catamaran receives Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation from URAC for BriovaRx

Catamaran Corp., a leading provider of pharmacy benefit management services and technology today announced that its specialty brand, BriovaRx, has been awarded Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation from URAC, a Washington, D.C.-based accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the healthcare industry.

4 Apr 2013

Vermont's health care can serve as roadmap for other states

Vermont's aggressive health care reform initiatives can serve as a roadmap for other states, according to a Master of Public Health candidate at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

4 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 4, 2013

Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "It's not just sore throats and flu shots anymore. Walgreens today became the first retail store chain to expand its health care services to include diagnosing and treating patients for chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes and high cholesterol. The move is the retail industry's boldest push yet into an area long controlled by physicians, and comes amid continuing concerns about health care costs and a potential shortage of primary care doctors" (Appleby, 4/4).

4 Apr 2013

Brendan Brazier introduces new sport nutrition edition to Thrive Forward online program

Brendan Brazier, performance nutrition expert and author of Thrive book series, announced today the launch of a free, new sport nutrition edition to the Thrive Forward online educational program.

4 Apr 2013

Anthem Life Insurance supports Warfighter Sports program for fourth consecutive year

For the fourth year in a row, Anthem Life Insurance Company supports Disabled Sports USA's Warfighter Sports program to help severely injured service men and women rebuild their lives through sports with a ski event in the Tahoe ski area in Olympic Valley, California, from April 4 through April 6.

4 Apr 2013

Integrated advanced cardiovascular imaging modalities can change cardiac care

Focusing on problem solving clinical approach, places the emphasis firmly on identifying the best test to answer each specific question in the most efficient way.

4 Apr 2013

ACE Group introduces new insurance for life science companies in Continental Europe

ACE Group today announced the launch of a new insurance proposition covering global life science risks for companies in Continental Europe as part of its strategy to further build its casualty offering for businesses in the region.

4 Apr 2013

To meet TB treatment goals, latent TB cases must be diagnosed

"If everyone in the world were tested for latent infection with tuberculosis (a status that predisposes people to develop active disease) today, at least one billion people would be positive," Ray Chambers, U.N. special envoy for health financing, writes in the Huffington Post's "The Big Push" blog.

4 Apr 2013

PharmaSeek implements Allegro CTMS to manage multiple clinical trials

Forte Research Systems, Inc., developer of specialized clinical research management software, announced that PharmaSeek, an Investigative Site Network, has implemented its Allegro Clinical Trial Management System to support their rapidly growing operations and help manage multiple trials running simultaneously.

4 Apr 2013

GWCI receives support from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to care for D.C.-area breast cancer survivors

The GW Cancer Institute is in its second year of funding from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help increase the quality of survivorship care for D.C.-area breast cancer survivors.

4 Apr 2013

New report describes facts, trends on global health funding

Writing in Humanosphere, development blogger Tom Murphy describes a report from Population Services International and Devex that shows "some of the facts and trends on global health giving in a special edition of Impact Magazine."

4 Apr 2013

New study examines consumer-directed health plans

Consumer-directed health plans offer low premiums but high deductibles on the premise that patients who are faced with deductibles of $1,000 or more for individual coverage (or twice that for family coverage) will shop around for the best price for the health care.

4 Apr 2013

Information technology can improve TB screening, treatment programs

In a Center for Health Market Innovations blog post, Arjun Vasan of the Results for Development Institute uses preliminary research and analysis data collected by CHMI and the University of Toronto to examine "innovative ways to improve privately delivered TB care."

4 Apr 2013

More must be done to find balance between drug innovation, affordable health care

"The decision by India's Supreme Court to overturn the patent on Novartis's cancer treatment Glivec is good news for more affordable health care and bad news for drug innovation," a Financial Times editorial states, adding, "It fails fundamentally to address either issue, both of which need wide-ranging reform.

4 Apr 2013

Ohio State University to host national summit to promote health and wellness of students

The Ohio State University is hosting the inaugural Building Healthy Academic Communities National Summit on April 22-23 in an effort to improve health and wellness outcomes among the 31.2 million students, faculty and staff in US higher education.

4 Apr 2013

GPEI announces 'endgame' plan to eradicate polio by 2018

"A new global plan aims to end most cases of polio by late next year, and essentially eradicate the paralyzing disease by 2018 -- if authorities can raise the $5.5 billion needed to do the work, health officials said Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (Neergaard, 4/2).

4 Apr 2013

FASEB Journal: PubMed Central directly competes with biomedical publishers

PubMed Central may draw readership away from biomedical journal sites, with this effect increasing over time. This finding-that PubMed Central directly competes with biomedical publishers-was published online in The FASEB Journal.

4 Apr 2013

Research finds multiple factors independently predict suicide-related behaviour in young population

New research out of St. Michael's Hospital has found that multiple factors independently predict what makes youth more likely to make repeat suicide-related behaviour.

4 Apr 2013

China reports 4 more cases of H7N9 bird flu virus; Officials investigating route of transmission

"On Tuesday, China reported four more cases of infection with the H7N9 influenza virus, a type of bird flu, in the eastern Jiangsu province," Time reports.

4 Apr 2013

Despite discovery of sight-saving drugs, AMD still causes severe vision loss in older Americans

Age-related macular degeneration continues to be the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States for people over age 65, according to a study recently published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

4 Apr 2013

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Catamaran receives Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation from URAC for BriovaRx

Vermont's health care can serve as roadmap for other states

First Edition: April 4, 2013

Brendan Brazier introduces new sport nutrition edition to Thrive Forward online program

Anthem Life Insurance supports Warfighter Sports program for fourth consecutive year

Integrated advanced cardiovascular imaging modalities can change cardiac care

ACE Group introduces new insurance for life science companies in Continental Europe

To meet TB treatment goals, latent TB cases must be diagnosed

PharmaSeek implements Allegro CTMS to manage multiple clinical trials

GWCI receives support from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to care for D.C.-area breast cancer survivors

New report describes facts, trends on global health funding

New study examines consumer-directed health plans

Information technology can improve TB screening, treatment programs

More must be done to find balance between drug innovation, affordable health care

Ohio State University to host national summit to promote health and wellness of students

GPEI announces 'endgame' plan to eradicate polio by 2018

FASEB Journal: PubMed Central directly competes with biomedical publishers

Research finds multiple factors independently predict suicide-related behaviour in young population

China reports 4 more cases of H7N9 bird flu virus; Officials investigating route of transmission

Despite discovery of sight-saving drugs, AMD still causes severe vision loss in older Americans

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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