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Federal exchange spent $647 per enrollee -- a relative bargain

Meanwhile, Oregon names an official to oversee its shift to the federal exchange, while other stories examine the slow start of California's small business exchange and the higher costs faced by some Arizona families forced to switch their children from the Children's Health Insurance Program to private insurance when that state ended the program.

9 May 2014

State highlights: Missouri Medicaid benefits; telepsychiatry in rural states; Conn. for-profit hospital bill

A selection of health policy stories from Missouri, North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan and Alaska.

9 May 2014

EXCEMED meeting draws experts to explore roles of genetics, environment in MS pathology

The diagnosis and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have dramatically improved over recent decades due to scientific advancements, yet MS persists as one of the most disabling neurological disorders, having a significant impact on young adults - the age group most affected by the disease.

9 May 2014

Viewpoints: Insurance and death rates; Massachusetts 'exit plan'; Obamacare premiums

Alert (or at least health-care-obsessed) readers have no doubt been following the coverage of a new study on mortality in Massachusetts in the years following Romneycare's coverage expansion.

9 May 2014

Women who received collaborative care for depression show favorable outcomes

Women who received collaborative care for depression at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic showed fewer symptoms after treatment than women receiving usual depression care in the same setting, recent University of Washington research found.

9 May 2014

Insurers to House panel: Payment rates above 80% for plans purchased on health exchanges

Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.

9 May 2014

Emergent BioSolutions reports total revenue of $53.9 million for Q1 2014

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. reported total revenue for Q1 2014 of $53.9 million as compared to $43.1 million in 2013. In addition, Q1 2014 net loss was $20.2 million, or $0.55 per share, as compared to a net loss of $8.1 million, or $0.22 per share, in 2013.

9 May 2014

Salix Pharmaceuticals' total net product revenue increases 90% to $384.4 million in Q1 2014

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. today announced financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014, and other business updates.

9 May 2014

Psychologists and physicians help address barriers to improved primary health care

Primary care teams that include both psychologists and physicians would help address known barriers to improved primary health care, including missed diagnoses, a lack of attention to behavioral factors and limited patient access to needed care, according to health care experts writing in a special issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association.

9 May 2014

American Legion calls on VA secretary to resign over health system

Accusations that records were kept secret or falsified and over preventable deaths and mismanagement are part of a larger problems within the Veterans Affairs health system, some say.

9 May 2014

Weisman Children's introduces telehealth robot to monitor patients

Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Hospital, a leading provider of pediatric rehabilitation services in the Delaware Valley, is adding a new member to its clinical staff -- "VEGO", the telehealth robot.

9 May 2014

Veracyte's revenue increases 71% to $7.5 million in Q1 2014

Veracyte, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014, and provided an update on recent business progress. For the first quarter of 2014, revenue was $7.5 million, an increase of 71%, compared to $4.4 million for the first quarter of 2013.

9 May 2014

Axial Exchange launches new Spanish-language version of mobile application

Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile applications to deepen the patient's role in improving outcomes, launched a new Spanish-language version of its mobile application, making the company's innovative patient engagement tools available to a greater population.

9 May 2014

Abbott's vascular devices manufacturing facility receives Shingo Prize

Abbott has been awarded the Shingo Prize, an international award for operational excellence, by the Shingo Institute at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Abbott's vascular devices manufacturing facility in Clonmel, Ireland, received the award, recognizing the site's initiative to develop and maintain continuous improvement to achieve operational excellence.

9 May 2014

Senate confirmation hearings begin for Obama's pick to head HHS

Today the first of two scheduled hearings will take place for Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Though she is expected to be confirmed as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, she is also expected to face some tough questions about the health law.

9 May 2014

New study associates sex difference in brain with MS

A newly identified difference between the brains of women and men with multiple sclerosis (MS) may help explain why so many more women than men get the disease, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report.

9 May 2014

Ranbaxy to implement Instem's Provantis preclinical software suite at Gurgaon R&D center in India

Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, is pleased to announce that Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy) has purchased the Provantis preclinical software suite to automate laboratory processes at their R&D Headquarters in Gurgaon, India.

9 May 2014

Mice study shows specific energy source responsible for performing complex cognitive functions

New research suggests that certain types of brain cells may be "picky eaters," seeming to prefer one specific energy source over others.

9 May 2014

Genzyme, Isis receive 2014 Partners in Progress Corporate Award for KYNAMRO injection

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, and Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced that they have received the 2014 Partners in Progress Corporate Award from NORD in recognition of KYNAMRO (mipomersen sodium) injection.

9 May 2014

Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine names COPAXONE therapy as 2014 "Brand of The Year"

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., today announced that COPAXONE (glatiramer acetate injection), the #1 global therapy for relapsing multiple sclerosis, has been named the 2014 "Brand of The Year" by Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine, a leading print and online publication for the biopharmaceutical industry.

9 May 2014

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Federal exchange spent $647 per enrollee -- a relative bargain

State highlights: Missouri Medicaid benefits; telepsychiatry in rural states; Conn. for-profit hospital bill

EXCEMED meeting draws experts to explore roles of genetics, environment in MS pathology

Viewpoints: Insurance and death rates; Massachusetts 'exit plan'; Obamacare premiums

Women who received collaborative care for depression show favorable outcomes

Insurers to House panel: Payment rates above 80% for plans purchased on health exchanges

Emergent BioSolutions reports total revenue of $53.9 million for Q1 2014

Salix Pharmaceuticals' total net product revenue increases 90% to $384.4 million in Q1 2014

Psychologists and physicians help address barriers to improved primary health care

American Legion calls on VA secretary to resign over health system

Weisman Children's introduces telehealth robot to monitor patients

Veracyte's revenue increases 71% to $7.5 million in Q1 2014

Axial Exchange launches new Spanish-language version of mobile application

Abbott's vascular devices manufacturing facility receives Shingo Prize

Senate confirmation hearings begin for Obama's pick to head HHS

New study associates sex difference in brain with MS

Ranbaxy to implement Instem's Provantis preclinical software suite at Gurgaon R&D center in India

Mice study shows specific energy source responsible for performing complex cognitive functions

Genzyme, Isis receive 2014 Partners in Progress Corporate Award for KYNAMRO injection

Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine names COPAXONE therapy as 2014 "Brand of The Year"

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Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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