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System to curb Medicare fraudulent payments saves $115 million

A highly touted new technology system designed to stop fraudulent Medicare payments before they are paid has saved about $115 million and spurred more than 500 investigations since it was launched in the summer of 2011, according to a report released Friday.

17 Dec 2012

Democrats wary of Medicare benefits cuts being discussed in fiscal talks

Talk of hiking costs for wealthier beneficiaries and increasing the program's eligibility age appear to make some Democrats nervous, and may be causing difficulties in the Democratic caucus.

17 Dec 2012

New report provides snapshot of Canada's cancer system

A comprehensive report released today by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer provides a snapshot of how Canada's cancer system is performing in key areas from prevention through to patient experience and outcomes.

17 Dec 2012

Alexian Brothers Health System implements online service to reduce wait times in ERs

Hospitals across the country are investigating ways to improve their patients' experience through decreasing waiting times in emergency rooms and in immediate care settings.

17 Dec 2012

SeeChange Health Insurance to expand product offerings with Liazon

SeeChange Health Insurance, the leader in value-based benefit design solutions for small and midsized employers and the fastest-growing health plan in California and Colorado, is partnering with Liazon Corporation to expand its product offerings.

17 Dec 2012

Survey shows health care costs projected to increase at slower pace

Projected cost increases for all types of medical plans are anticipated to be down by between 0.2 and 0.6 percent through the first half of 2013, according to a survey by Buck Consultants, A Xerox Company.

17 Dec 2012

New research reveals music's health benefits

Music has been incorporated into medical practice since before the ancient Greeks. However, though practitioners have been convinced of music's health benefits for thousands of years, there had been little peer-reviewed research to back them up. But recent studies are providing an empirical backbone for the anecdotal evidence.

17 Dec 2012

First Edition: December 17, 2012

Today's headlines include weekend updates regarding the fiscal cliff negotiations as well as news regarding states' decisions on health exchanges.

17 Dec 2012

Regenstrief investigator recognized as American College of Medical Informatics fellow

Regenstrief Institute investigator Shaun Grannis M.D., M.S., associate professor of family medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He joins a select elected group of individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics.

17 Dec 2012

Educational intervention increases calcium intake and retards bone loss in postmenopausal women

Today at the International Osteoporosis Foundation's Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting, researchers from the National Institute of Nutrition in Hanoi presented a new research study that showed the benefits of educational intervention in increasing calcium intake and retarding bone loss in postmenopausal women.

17 Dec 2012

Three critical illness factors independently associated with increased risk of dementia

Older people often worry about dementia and while some risks are known, for example alcoholism or stroke, the effects of illness are less clear. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care looks at illness requiring hospitalization and treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) and finds that infection or severe sepsis, neurological dysfunction, such as delirium, or acute dialysis are all independently associated with an increased risk of a subsequent diagnosis of dementia.

17 Dec 2012

ASME 2nd Global Congress on Nano-engineering for Medicine and Biology to be held in Boston

The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 2013 2nd Global Congress on Nano-engineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2013) will be held Feb. 4-6, 2013, at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Mass.

17 Dec 2012

IRB Barcelona, BBVA Foundation organize international conference on biostatistics

Statistics have entered the life sciences and they are here to stay. This science emerged in the XVIII century by the hand of the mathematicians Thomas Bayes and Pierre Simon Laplace and was used by Gregor Mendel to demonstrate his theory on genetic inheritance. Since the 90s with the appearance of large genomic studies, statistics has become a fundamental tool for the analysis and interpretation of biomedical data.

16 Dec 2012

American Thoracic Society, IASLC and ERS propose new sub-classification of lung adenocarcinomas

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), have proposed a new sub-classification of lung adenocarcinomas.

16 Dec 2012

Five young investigators receive prestigious grants at IOF’s 3rd Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting

Five young investigators from the Asia-Pacific region have been awarded prestigious grants on the closing day the IOF Regionals - 3rd Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting, a major medical conference organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) in Kuala Lumpur.

16 Dec 2012

Appeals court: Calif. can cut Medicaid reimbursement rates

A federal appeals court panel ruled Thursday that Medi-Cal payments to providers may be reduced by 10 percent -- a move that HHS had previously approved.

15 Dec 2012

Aspen Dental announces opening of new dental office in Waltham, MA

Aspen Dental is proud to announce that a new Aspen Dental office is opening in Waltham, MA on Thursday, Dec. 20. Located at 1030 Main St, Unit J, the practice will provide dental services that range from dentures and preventive care to general dentistry and restoration.

15 Dec 2012

Conference addresses issues of innovation for neglected diseases

Medecins Sans Frontieres, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine this week are hosting a conference in New York, titled "Lives in the Balance: Delivering Medical Innovations for Neglected Patients and Populations," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

15 Dec 2012

Raising the Medicare eligibility age is difficult issue for Democrats

Though one leading Senate Democrat has signalled that the idea of raising Medicare's eligibility is off the negotiating table, it's not clear where this bargaining chit stands.

15 Dec 2012

U.S. government working to uphold, advance LGBT rights

In this White House blog post, Samantha Power, special assistant to the President and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the National Security Council, highlights progress made across the U.S. government in implementing "the first-ever Presidential Memorandum to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons."

15 Dec 2012

Healthcare News

System to curb Medicare fraudulent payments saves $115 million

Democrats wary of Medicare benefits cuts being discussed in fiscal talks

New report provides snapshot of Canada's cancer system

Alexian Brothers Health System implements online service to reduce wait times in ERs

SeeChange Health Insurance to expand product offerings with Liazon

Survey shows health care costs projected to increase at slower pace

New research reveals music's health benefits

First Edition: December 17, 2012

Regenstrief investigator recognized as American College of Medical Informatics fellow

Educational intervention increases calcium intake and retards bone loss in postmenopausal women

Three critical illness factors independently associated with increased risk of dementia

ASME 2nd Global Congress on Nano-engineering for Medicine and Biology to be held in Boston

IRB Barcelona, BBVA Foundation organize international conference on biostatistics

American Thoracic Society, IASLC and ERS propose new sub-classification of lung adenocarcinomas

Five young investigators receive prestigious grants at IOF’s 3rd Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting

Appeals court: Calif. can cut Medicaid reimbursement rates

Aspen Dental announces opening of new dental office in Waltham, MA

Conference addresses issues of innovation for neglected diseases

Raising the Medicare eligibility age is difficult issue for Democrats

U.S. government working to uphold, advance LGBT rights

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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