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Researchers make headway in fabricating blood vessels using 3D bioprinting technique

The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch.

31 May 2014

Positive activities administered online can lead to lasting reductions in bodily pain

Positive activities, such as increasing supportive emotions, can reduce body discomfort in adults with mild to moderate chronic pain, according to research reported in The Journal of Pain, the peer-reviewed publication of the American Pain Society, www.amercianpainsociety.org.

31 May 2014

Wait times of 115 days, hidden patient lists detailed in independent report on VA hospitals

The inspector general's preliminary findings reveal that 1,700 patients at the veterans center in Phoenix were not on the official waiting list and that the average wait for new patients who did get appointments was nearly four months.

30 May 2014

First Edition: May 30, 2014

Today's headlines include the latest reports about the problems with the VA health system. Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Rovner reports: "It's not just veterans who are having trouble with health care.

30 May 2014

Inovio Pharmaceuticals’ reverse stock split to become effective on June 5, 2014

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its previously announced 1-for-4 reverse stock split shall become effective at 5 P.M., Thursday, June 5, 2014, and trading of the Company's common stock on a post-reverse split basis shall commence on Friday, June 6, 2014.

30 May 2014

State highlights: Complaint says Fla. plans tried to keep out AIDS patients; Ill. restores some Medicaid services; Fla. Gov. to sue feds

Four Florida insurance companies offering Affordable Care Act policies are discriminating against people with HIV or AIDS, according to two health-rights organizations that plan to file a formal complaint with the federal government Thursday.

30 May 2014

Genzyme: FDA accepts resubmission of Lemtrada sBLA

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the company's resubmission of its supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) seeking approval of LemtradaTM (alemtuzumab) for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.

30 May 2014

Viewpoints: Michelle Obama and school lunches; more about the VA health system 'scandal'; context and caution on Medicare's physician data release

When we began our Let's Move! initiative four years ago, we set one simple but ambitious goal: to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthy.

30 May 2014

InSightec inaugurates first centers in Shanghai

InSightec Ltd, the leader in MR guided Focused Ultrasound therapy, announced that the first centers in China offering ExAblate, for non-invasive treatment of uterine fibroids, have opened in Shanghai.

30 May 2014

Novozymes Biopharma to assess novel subunit vaccine candidate using Veltis technology

Novozymes Biopharma has entered a new collaborative research agreement with one of the world’s top vaccine companies. The partnership will enable the company to evaluate Novozymes Biopharma's modified recombinant human albumin (rAlbumin) Veltis technology, to assess the dosing and performance of a novel subunit antigen vaccine candidate.

30 May 2014

New article explores why women still lag behind career advancement

Women have accounted for half the students in U.S. medical schools for nearly two decades, but as professors, deans, and department chairs in medical schools their numbers still lag far behind those of men.

30 May 2014

Online and mobile apps designed for health and well-being are often short-lived

According to a doctoral thesis by Research Scientist Kirsikka Kaipainen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, online and mobile applications for stress management and healthy eating reach a large number of users but their appeal tends to be short-lived.

30 May 2014

Health policy experts to convene at AcademyHealth's 2014 Annual Research Meeting

AcademyHealth's 2014 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) features more than 160 sessions, including invited and peer-reviewed presentations on key issues in health research and policy.

30 May 2014

Review on effects of pre-referral rectal artesunate for people with severe malaria

Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of pre-referral rectal artesunate for people with severe malaria, published in the Cochrane Library today.

30 May 2014

Longer looks: 'Abandoning' patients; commiting people with mental illness; treating PTSD

For years I had tried and failed to understand why so many of my physician colleagues persisted in ordering tests, procedures, and treatments that seemed to provide no benefit to patients and even risked harming them.

30 May 2014

Researchers identify new therapeutic target for treating most common form of eye cancer

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a therapeutic target for treating the most common form of eye cancer in adults. They have also, in experiments with mice, been able to slow eye tumor growth with an existing FDA-approved drug.

30 May 2014

Hospitals worry over billing, treatment as vets move to private facilities

The administration has announced that more veterans will be able to use private facilities since the VA system is overcrowded, but hospitals are concerned it could strain their systems.

30 May 2014

Reduced glomerular filtration rate is independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer

Researchers who investigated the level of kidney function and subsequent cancer risk in more than one million adults have found that reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) — a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) — is an independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer but not other cancer types.

30 May 2014

Tavenner, other CMS officials defend Medicare payment data release

Elsewhere, the Health and Human Services inspector general says Medicare overpaid $6.7 billion for office visits in 2010.

30 May 2014

Abortion restrictions spread through South

New state laws and regulations are forcing women in the South to travel hundreds of miles to find a clinic where they can get an abortion.

30 May 2014

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Researchers make headway in fabricating blood vessels using 3D bioprinting technique

Positive activities administered online can lead to lasting reductions in bodily pain

Wait times of 115 days, hidden patient lists detailed in independent report on VA hospitals

First Edition: May 30, 2014

Inovio Pharmaceuticals’ reverse stock split to become effective on June 5, 2014

State highlights: Complaint says Fla. plans tried to keep out AIDS patients; Ill. restores some Medicaid services; Fla. Gov. to sue feds

Genzyme: FDA accepts resubmission of Lemtrada sBLA

Viewpoints: Michelle Obama and school lunches; more about the VA health system 'scandal'; context and caution on Medicare's physician data release

InSightec inaugurates first centers in Shanghai

Novozymes Biopharma to assess novel subunit vaccine candidate using Veltis technology

New article explores why women still lag behind career advancement

Online and mobile apps designed for health and well-being are often short-lived

Health policy experts to convene at AcademyHealth's 2014 Annual Research Meeting

Review on effects of pre-referral rectal artesunate for people with severe malaria

Longer looks: 'Abandoning' patients; commiting people with mental illness; treating PTSD

Researchers identify new therapeutic target for treating most common form of eye cancer

Hospitals worry over billing, treatment as vets move to private facilities

Reduced glomerular filtration rate is independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer

Tavenner, other CMS officials defend Medicare payment data release

Abortion restrictions spread through South

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