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Blame for Healthcare.gov's problems placed on key design element

As outside experts offered opinions about the reasons for the glitches in the federal health insurance exchange, administration officials asked consumers for patience while the system undergoes repairs. Meanwhile, House and Senate Republicans launched investigations into the difficulties.

12 Oct 2013

AHF, FLEX Spas team up to help bolster safety standards, protect public health of patrons

In a groundbreaking new partnership, national bathhouse chain FLEX Spas has teamed up with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the largest AIDS organization in the United States, to help bolster its safety standards and protect the public health of its patrons.

12 Oct 2013

GE Healthcare to introduce new technologies at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2013

GE Healthcare will introduce several new technologies that demonstrate its ongoing commitment to improving the quality of patient care at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2013, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, taking place October 12-16 in San Francisco.

12 Oct 2013

Continental Anesthesia expands delivery of quality anesthesia care in Presence Health System

Continental Anesthesia announced it has signed a new contract to be the exclusive provider of anesthesia services at five hospitals within the Presence Health System. This agreement continues Continental's best-practice services at Presence Resurrection Medical Center, Presence Saint Francis Hospital, and Presence Holy Family Medical Center, and adds new service at Presence Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center and Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center.

12 Oct 2013

Unlike the federal exchange, state online insurance marketplaces have had more luck addressing issues

News outlets report on how the exchanges are working and how consumers are responding in Pennsylvania, Florida, Mississippi, Hawaii, Minnesota and California.

12 Oct 2013

Deficiency of antioxidant response protein prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

University of Utah researchers have found that deficiency of an antioxidant response protein called nuclear erythroid-2 like factor-2 (Nrf2) delays or prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a type of a heart failure in which the heart muscle grows abnormally thick.

12 Oct 2013

Research roundup: Medicare Part D in 2014; barriers to mental health care; scattered patterns of ACOs

Medicare Part D continues to be a marketplace with an array of competing plans offered at a wide range of premiums and benefit designs. In 2014, Medicare beneficiaries will have a choice of 35 stand-alone PDPs, on average, up by four from 2013. ... Beneficiaries receiving Low-Income Subsidies will have access to a modestly higher number of plans for no monthly premium in 2014 compared to 2013 ... Notable trends for 2014 include a growing share of PDPs using preferred pharmacy networks and adopting more formulary cost-sharing tiers.

12 Oct 2013

UTHealth professor receives Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement from IDSA

Cesar Arias, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, was bestowed the Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

12 Oct 2013

Public largely blames GOP for shutdown while health law grows more popular, poll shows

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds sharp drop in support for a Republic position on government shutdown and health law. Meanwhile, The New York Times explores how some of the most vocal elements of the conservative wing of the GOP are splintering over the House strategy to tie defunding of the health law to the federal budget.

12 Oct 2013

No deal yet, but GOP offer on debt limit raises hopes

Speaker John Boehner's offer represented give on the part of Republicans, who had been insisting on cuts to the federal health care law as the price for reopening government and extending the debt limit. While Boehner proposed moving only to raise the debt limit, discussions broadened to include efforts to reopen the government in exchange for entitlement cuts. In the past, President Barack Obama has refused to consider those unless Republicans agree to raise revenues.

12 Oct 2013

Sanofi's Nasacort Allergy 24HR nasal spray receives FDA approval for over-the-counter use

Sanofi announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Nasacort Allergy 24HR nasal spray as an over-the-counter treatment for seasonal and year-round nasal allergies in adults and children 2 years of age and older.

12 Oct 2013

Auxilium Licenses Stendra From Vivus For Up To $300M

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11 Oct 2013

Novartis Inks Agreement For Immunogen's "TAP" ADC Technology

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11 Oct 2013

Auxilium Licenses Stendra From Vivus For Up To $300M

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11 Oct 2013

Novartis Inks Agreement For Immunogen's "TAP" ADC Technology

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11 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 11, 2013

Today's headlines include news about what experts are diagnosing as the trouble spots in the federal online health insurance exchange and how to fix them.

11 Oct 2013

ImmunoGen signs new license agreement with Novartis

ImmunoGen, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops novel anticancer therapeutics using its antibody-drug conjugate technology, today announced that Novartis has licensed the exclusive right to use the Company's ADC technology to develop anticancer therapeutics to an undisclosed target.

11 Oct 2013

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Blame for Healthcare.gov's problems placed on key design element

AHF, FLEX Spas team up to help bolster safety standards, protect public health of patrons

GE Healthcare to introduce new technologies at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2013

Continental Anesthesia expands delivery of quality anesthesia care in Presence Health System

Unlike the federal exchange, state online insurance marketplaces have had more luck addressing issues

Deficiency of antioxidant response protein prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Research roundup: Medicare Part D in 2014; barriers to mental health care; scattered patterns of ACOs

UTHealth professor receives Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement from IDSA

Public largely blames GOP for shutdown while health law grows more popular, poll shows

No deal yet, but GOP offer on debt limit raises hopes

Sanofi's Nasacort Allergy 24HR nasal spray receives FDA approval for over-the-counter use

Auxilium Licenses Stendra From Vivus For Up To $300M

Novartis Inks Agreement For Immunogen's "TAP" ADC Technology

Auxilium Licenses Stendra From Vivus For Up To $300M

Novartis Inks Agreement For Immunogen's "TAP" ADC Technology

First Edition: October 11, 2013

ImmunoGen signs new license agreement with Novartis

Be Medicinewise Week 2013 to focus on Australia's ageing population

Vitamin D supplements ineffective in preventing osteoporosis, finds study

New clinical trial shows increased asthma control with FeNO-guided anti-inflammatory treatment

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