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Health Robotics announces new Canadian marketing contracts for i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT

Health Robotics announced that its joint-venture Health Robotics Canada Inc. (HRCI), a leading Canadian Pharmaceutical Company, and a well-established Quebec-based Medical Device Technology company have all recently signed marketing agreements in order to expand into Canada the market presence of i.v.STATION and i.v.SOFT, revolutionary technologies that provide automated sterile compounding of intravenous medications and parenteral nutrition to hospitals.

19 Jun 2010

Lawyer chronicles history, evolution of advance directives

When first developed in the 1970s, advance directives focused on providing specific legal instructions, such as a patient's wishes to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment in cases of terminal illness or incapacity. The documents helped physicians avoid legal problems associated with fulfilling the patient's wishes.

19 Jun 2010

Group Net donates $1000 to Horizon Relief to help individuals affected by oil spill

Group Net LLC, a health care service company specializing in prescription medication and pharmacy technology solutions, donated $1000 to Horizon Relief, an organization that provides financial relief to those affected by the oil spill.

19 Jun 2010

Drug-resistant malaria spreading beyond Western Cambodia, U.S. malaria coordinator says

Resistance to artemisinin-based malaria medications seems to be spreading beyond western Cambodia, where it was first detected, U.S. global malaria coordinator Timothy Ziemer said during a visit to the region this week for a conference, Agence France-Presse reports.

19 Jun 2010

Big Brothers Big Sisters, AME Church partner to help children of single parents succeed

Two Philadelphia-based national organizations, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, are launching a landmark partnership aimed at helping children of single, low-income and incarcerated parents succeed. The Father's Day weekend announcement comes as Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies across the nation face waiting lists disproportionately represented by African American boys.

19 Jun 2010

Medicare payment cuts to doctors loom as Republicans reject slimmed-down 'extenders' package

Republicans were successful in blocking a "slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid late Thursday" as Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., voted with them, The Washington Post reports.

19 Jun 2010

ASTRO participates in FDA's meeting to discuss highest level of safety for radiation therapy patients

The American Society for Radiation Oncology continued to advance its Target Safely initiative by participating in the Food and Drug Administration's public meeting on Device Improvements to Reduce the Number of Under-Doses, Over-Doses, and Misaligned Exposures from Therapeutic Radiation on June 9 and 10.

19 Jun 2010

Health settlement for ground zero workers faces new hurdles

The Wall Street Journal: "After years of frustration, workers sickened in the recovery and cleanup efforts after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are on the verge of getting paid for their illnesses. Yet the proposed legal settlement of up to $712 million also would pay money to thousands of people who aren't sick at all. That's just one of the concerns that could scuttle the proposed deal, which requires approval of 95% of those suing for compensation."

19 Jun 2010

Montana Governor visits Cannabis Science's latest acquisition

Cannabis Science, Inc., a pioneering U.S. biotech company developing pharmaceutical cannabis products, is pleased to report that Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer visited its latest acquisition, Montana Pain Management in Missoula, yesterday. Governor Schweitzer observed, "You are doing it right."

19 Jun 2010

Research roundup: Medical homes working in poor areas, designing insurance exchanges, health law's effects

Moving Forward On Health Reform - This edition explores the issues relating to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, including the impact of the law on health insurance as well as state and federal governments, large employers and public opinion and opportunities for small physician practices to pool resources in order support medical homes, among others (June 2010).

19 Jun 2010

Brazil's deforestation linked to increased malaria incidence, study says

Deforestation in Brazil has been linked to an increase in malaria incidence there, according to findings published online Wednesday in the CDC journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Agence France-Presse reports.

19 Jun 2010

Senate reaches deal, passes short-term "doc fix"

The Senate passed a bill Friday to block the 21 percent cuts to Medicare physician pay for six months, after failing Thursday to pass a larger bill extending tax and jobless benefits that also included the Medicare provision, The Hill reports.

19 Jun 2010

Patients' relationship with primary care physician improves health care quality: Study

Patients who report having a regular doctor either at a community health center or at the physician's office report receiving better quality health care, and have a better health care experience, than patients who have a regular place of care, but lack an established physician relationship. The findings are part of a study published in the May Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and authored by Anne Beal, MD, MPH, head of the Aetna Foundation, and Susan Hernandez, MPA, formerly of The Commonwealth Fund.

19 Jun 2010

UNDP releases 8-pronged strategy to help developing countries meet MDGs

The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) on Thursday released a report (.pdf) outlining "an eight-pronged strategy it hopes can help poor nations advance sustainable development, considerably reduce poverty and essentially drive the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the next five years," BusinessDay reports (Nwachukwu, 6/18).

19 Jun 2010

Obama administration names eight 'GHI Plus' countries

"The Obama administration has selected eight countries to serve as learning labs for a new global health strategy aimed in part at reducing maternal and child deaths and combatting preventable diseases," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The move is among the first steps in the administration's" roll-out of the Global Health Initiative and "comes amid mounting concerns about how much support President Barack Obama will win from Congress for a proposed 9% increase in global health spending for fiscal 2011," the newspaper reports.

19 Jun 2010

HBSS reaches $103M settlement with Astra Zeneca

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro (HBSS) today announced it has reached a proposed $103 million settlement with Astra Zeneca (AZ) on behalf of consumers and third party purchasers. The class-action lawsuit claimed Astra Zeneca inflated the Average Wholesale Price (AWP), which is used as a benchmark for almost all prescription drug sales in the United States.

19 Jun 2010

TMLTExposed.org files suit against Texas Medical Liability Trust

On June 18, 2010, the Registrant of the website www.TMLTExposed.org filed suit against Texas Medical Liability Trust in the 68th Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas requesting a declaratory judgment that the contents of the website are protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 8 of the Texas Constitution.

19 Jun 2010

N.Y. tries to get more patients in clinical drug trials; Atlanta hospitals create partnerships

In New York, state medical centers and drug makers have begun an effort to address a problem associated with clinical drug trials: "getting patients to sign up. More than 3,000 clinical trials are actively recruiting in New York state, and an additional 8,000 trials involving New York are already running or were recently completed, according to the government clinical trials registry. Patient recruitment is one of the top reasons that clinical trials are delayed or fail, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.

19 Jun 2010

Recent releases in Global Health

The U.N.'s plan to improve maternal health is lacking "the one element that will make it work. Human rights," according to blog post on Huffington Post. "Medical causes of maternal death - hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertension, unsafe abortion, HIV and AIDS - are inextricably linked to human rights. Each one of these instances can be prevented or treated by simply respecting women's human rights in health policies and delivery of services, and addressing systemic gender inequality."

19 Jun 2010

LUHS opens clinic to treat debilitating effects of CPP in women

Loyola University Health System has opened a clinic to treat the debilitating effects of chronic pelvic pain in women. The clinic is located at the Loyola Outpatient Center at 2160 S. First Ave., in Maywood.

19 Jun 2010

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Health Robotics announces new Canadian marketing contracts for i.v.STATION, i.v.SOFT

Lawyer chronicles history, evolution of advance directives

Group Net donates $1000 to Horizon Relief to help individuals affected by oil spill

Drug-resistant malaria spreading beyond Western Cambodia, U.S. malaria coordinator says

Big Brothers Big Sisters, AME Church partner to help children of single parents succeed

Medicare payment cuts to doctors loom as Republicans reject slimmed-down 'extenders' package

ASTRO participates in FDA's meeting to discuss highest level of safety for radiation therapy patients

Health settlement for ground zero workers faces new hurdles

Montana Governor visits Cannabis Science's latest acquisition

Research roundup: Medical homes working in poor areas, designing insurance exchanges, health law's effects

Brazil's deforestation linked to increased malaria incidence, study says

Senate reaches deal, passes short-term "doc fix"

Patients' relationship with primary care physician improves health care quality: Study

UNDP releases 8-pronged strategy to help developing countries meet MDGs

Obama administration names eight 'GHI Plus' countries

HBSS reaches $103M settlement with Astra Zeneca

TMLTExposed.org files suit against Texas Medical Liability Trust

N.Y. tries to get more patients in clinical drug trials; Atlanta hospitals create partnerships

Recent releases in Global Health

LUHS opens clinic to treat debilitating effects of CPP in women

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