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On Capitol Hill, shopping for health plans from the online insurance marketplaces appears to go smoothly

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report on how Capitol Hill lawmakers and their staffs are having a very different experience choosing coverage than most of their constituents.

21 Nov 2013

Administration tech official says about 40% of HealthCare.gov remains to be built

Henry Chao, who has overseen much of the work on healthcare.gov, said much of the "back office" work, including the system to send insurers their payments, has not been completed.

21 Nov 2013

New UI Health survey to identify unique healthcare needs of communities

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System will begin a survey this month to identify the unique healthcare needs of the communities it serves -- from Humbolt Park and West Town in the north, to West Lawn and Englewood in the southern corners.

21 Nov 2013

Viewpoints: GOP could fix broken health law; crisis tests whether government is capable of offering benefits through complex system; Rubio's cynical attack

Republicans are the only ones who can fix President Obama's broken promise now. The problem is simply stated. Millions will be losing their individual insurance policies that they were promised they could keep. ... What can be done is Congress creating a new option in the form of a national health insurance charter under which insurers could design new low-cost policies free of mandated benefits imposed by ObamaCare (Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 11/19).

21 Nov 2013

Study finds high rate of anisometropia in older adults

Follow-up in older adults shows a high rate of anisometropia, or differing levels of visual abnormalities between eyes, reports a study in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

21 Nov 2013

People who consume nuts daily are 20% less likely to die

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

21 Nov 2013

Early enrollees in state exchanges skew older

More older Americans than young adults have signed up for coverage through the state marketplaces created by the health law, according to early data from four states.

21 Nov 2013

Researchers associate some insomnia symptoms with higher mortality risk in men

Insomnia, the most common sleep disorder, affects up to one-third of the population in the United States. In new findings, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that some insomnia symptoms are associated with an increased risk of mortality in men.

20 Nov 2013

Using radiation models to improve cancer therapies: an interview with Adrian Treverton, COO of Xstrahl and Jean-Pierre Wery, President of Crown Bioscience

What we are trying to do is take a cancer model like the PDX model (patient-derived tumor xenograft), which is a human-derived cancer growing in an in vivo model and apply radiation to that model.

From Xstrahl 20 Nov 2013

First Edition: November 20, 2013

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that President Barack Obama places some of the blame for the health law's woes with Republicans, and details of comments by an Obama administration tech official that a large portion of the healthcare.gov 'back office' functions are yet to be built.

20 Nov 2013

DNA vaccine demonstrates potential to prevent and treat deadly MERS coronavirus

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that preclinical testing of a DNA synthetic vaccine for the virulent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) induced robust and durable immune responses, demonstrating the potential for a SynCon DNA vaccine to prevent and treat this deadly virus.

20 Nov 2013

Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteria anticipates and turns immune defenses against the host

Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital-acquired infections, including the antibiotic-resistant strain MRSA.

20 Nov 2013

Call to recognize lung diseases as leading causes of morbidity and mortality

Experts from the world's leading lung organisations have come together for the first time to call for a worldwide effort to improve healthcare policies, systems and care delivery to make a positive difference to the lung health of the world.

20 Nov 2013

NeutroPhase irrigation therapy and NPWT help treat severe flesh eating and wound infections

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing topical non-antibiotic antimicrobial products, today announced the publication of a scientific paper by Dr. John R. Crew of Seton Medical Center, Daly City, California, describing the first use of adjunctive NeutroPhase irrigation therapy in conjunction with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy to successfully manage the severely-infected wound in the arm of a patient with life-threatening 'flesh-eating' disease.

20 Nov 2013

Metal coil therapy may provide same benefits as major surgery for COPD

Brown was diagnosed with COPD and emphysema, the third leading cause of death in the United States, only behind heart disease and cancer. Right now, the only studied interventions that prolong life for patients with severe COPD are supplemental oxygen in people with low oxygen levels and lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) in appropriately selected individuals. Like most COPD patients, Brown was given medication but told there was no cure. He was 58 years old.

20 Nov 2013

Experts call for worldwide effort to make positive difference to the lung health

Experts from the world’s leading lung organisations have come together for the first time to call for a worldwide effort to improve healthcare policies, systems and care delivery to make a positive difference to the lung health of the world.

20 Nov 2013

Enhancing the NMDA glutamate receptor causes antidepressant-like effects

Thirteen years ago, an article in this journal first reported that the anesthetic medication, ketamine, showed evidence of producing rapid antidepressant effects in depressed patients who had not responded to prior treatments. Ketamine works by blocking one of the targets for the neurotransmitter glutamate in the brain, the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor.

20 Nov 2013

Linde Healthcare introduces intelligent digital oxygen cylinders with integrated pressure regulators

The new generation of oxygen cylinders, with an integrated pressure regulator that calculates and shows remaining time to the exact minute. LIV IQ is also equipped with various visible and audible alerts which enhance patient safety in mobile oxygen therapy. All together, these features free up time for healthcare professionals to concentrate on the patient and enable a cost-effective use of cylinder content.

20 Nov 2013

Nurse receives 2013 ARN Doctorate-Prepared Researcher Role Award at 39th Annual ARN Educational Conference

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) presented Kathleen Brewer-Smyth, PhD RN CRRN, with the 2013 ARN Doctorate-Prepared Researcher Role Award. Dr. Brewer-Smyth received her award at the 39th Annual ARN Educational Conference, held October 2-5 in Charlotte, NC.

20 Nov 2013

Study shows cognitively impaired older adults released from hospital less likely to be rehospitalized

Cognitively impaired older adults released from the hospital are less likely to be rehospitalized within 30 days if they go to a nursing home than if they return to their own home or the home of a family member, according to an Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute study.

20 Nov 2013

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

On Capitol Hill, shopping for health plans from the online insurance marketplaces appears to go smoothly

Administration tech official says about 40% of HealthCare.gov remains to be built

New UI Health survey to identify unique healthcare needs of communities

Viewpoints: GOP could fix broken health law; crisis tests whether government is capable of offering benefits through complex system; Rubio's cynical attack

Study finds high rate of anisometropia in older adults

People who consume nuts daily are 20% less likely to die

Early enrollees in state exchanges skew older

Researchers associate some insomnia symptoms with higher mortality risk in men

Using radiation models to improve cancer therapies: an interview with Adrian Treverton, COO of Xstrahl and Jean-Pierre Wery, President of Crown Bioscience

First Edition: November 20, 2013

DNA vaccine demonstrates potential to prevent and treat deadly MERS coronavirus

Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteria anticipates and turns immune defenses against the host

Call to recognize lung diseases as leading causes of morbidity and mortality

NeutroPhase irrigation therapy and NPWT help treat severe flesh eating and wound infections

Metal coil therapy may provide same benefits as major surgery for COPD

Experts call for worldwide effort to make positive difference to the lung health

Enhancing the NMDA glutamate receptor causes antidepressant-like effects

Linde Healthcare introduces intelligent digital oxygen cylinders with integrated pressure regulators

Nurse receives 2013 ARN Doctorate-Prepared Researcher Role Award at 39th Annual ARN Educational Conference

Study shows cognitively impaired older adults released from hospital less likely to be rehospitalized

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