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HHS Sec. Sebelius: 'I don't know' how many have enrolled in health law's exchanges

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on The Daily Show Monday that she doesn't know how many people have enrolled in health insurance exchanges, but that "hundreds of thousands" of accounts have been created and that officials will give monthly reports on enrollment.

9 Oct 2013

Healthcare providers report unaccompanied teens may not receive required vaccines

Healthcare providers report that older teens often go to the doctor without a parent or guardian, a new survey in the Journal of Adolescent Health reveals—and those teens may not get necessary vaccinations because there's no parent or guardian present to give consent.

9 Oct 2013

Janssen buys all rights from GSK to develop, commercialize hepatitis C compound

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the acquisition of the investigational compound GSK2336805, an NS5a replication complex inhibitor in Phase 2 development for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, from an affiliate of GlaxoSmithKline plc.

9 Oct 2013

California's exchange undergoes a weekend tune-up; Maryland officials say site is improving, but challenges remain

In addition, news outlets offer progress reports on state-based health exchanges in Minnesota, Washington and Michigan as well as how the federal exchange is working for other states that opted not to run their own online insurance marketplace.

9 Oct 2013

Researchers to develop effective mucosal vaccines based on cell-targeted nanoparticles

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation will give a little over SEK 16 million to the development of new, highly-efficient mucosal vaccines. The vaccines will be drinkable or given as a nasal spray. Professor Nils Lycke at MIVAC at the Sahlgrenska Academy will in cooperation with researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University, combine technologies to develop the next generation of effective mucosal vaccines based on immunomodulation and cell-targeted nanoparticles.

9 Oct 2013

FAIR Health uses dental claims data from FH NPIC in recent report published by U.S. GAO

FAIR Health, the leading independent data company that serves the healthcare system through data tools and education, is pleased to announce the use of its dental claims data in the recent report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

9 Oct 2013

Evaluate launches strategic sales analytics solution that provides global view of life sciences product sales

Evaluate Ltd. today announced the launch of a strategic sales analytics solution that provides commercial teams and the investment community with a comprehensive view of life sciences product sales by country.

9 Oct 2013

Software crash in first days viewed as root cause of exchange delays

The New York Times reports that a major software component crashed under the pressure posed by millions of visitors last week to the federal online insurance marketplace. Still, other technical issues beyond traffic also are at work, and some insurers say they are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange.

9 Oct 2013

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will provide its innovative proton beam therapy system for cancer treatment to the Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization led by Chairman Motohisa Kojo in Osaka, Japan. The system will be installed at the Hakuhokai Group Osaka Proton Therapy Clinic scheduled to open in April 2016.

9 Oct 2013

Bayer HealthCare receives FDA approval for Adempas tablets

Bayer HealthCare announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved Adempas (riociguat) tablets for: (i) the treatment of adults with persistent/recurrent chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (WHO Group 4) after surgical treatment or inoperable CTEPH to improve exercise capacity and WHO functional class; and (ii) the treatment of adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group 1) to improve exercise capacity, improve WHO functional class and delay clinical worsening.

9 Oct 2013

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Saint Luke's Health System and doxo today announced Saint Luke's Health System has launched doxo across all ten of its hospitals to expand patients' electronic access to their billing information.

9 Oct 2013

Francisco Partners invests in NexTech

Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, today announced a strategic investment in NexTech, a leading provider of fully integrated electronic medical records, practice management, and marketing software solutions for specialty physician practices. Closing is subject to customary conditions, including Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance.

9 Oct 2013

Despite sales efforts, polls show continued Obamacare doubts

Even as states like California push the health law exchanges, bolstered by a growing list of celebrity pitchmen, surveys of some groups -- among them, physician practices and likely Virginia voters -- show continued doubts about the marketplaces.

9 Oct 2013

Quintiles and MDA partner to develop U.S. Neuromuscular Disease Registry

Quintiles and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) today announced a new partnership to develop and implement the U.S. Neuromuscular Disease Registry, a patient registry that will play an important role in determining effective treatments for people with muscular dystrophy and related muscle diseases.

9 Oct 2013

Moximed initiates pivotal trial of KineSpring System implantation in knee osteoarthritis patients

Moximed, Inc. announced today that the KineSpring® System, an implantable medical spring for knee osteoarthritis that works by unloading the weight on the diseased joint, has been successfully implanted in the first patients enrolled in the UK arm of its multi-centre GOAL study.

9 Oct 2013

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation's leading providers of medical billing, practice management, and coding services for specialty physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers, is launching its QualityEdgeSM information capture service, which allows physicians and other providers to easily capture data that would otherwise require paper notes or the use of an EMR.

9 Oct 2013

Acorda Therapeutics initiates second clinical trial of Glial Growth Factor 2 in heart failure patients

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the second clinical trial of Glial Growth Factor 2 (GGF2). This Phase 1b single-infusion trial in people with heart failure will assess tolerability of three dose levels of GGF2, and also includes several explorative measures of efficacy.

9 Oct 2013

MRFBC launches clinical trial to assess impact of bevacizumab and vemurafenib in melanoma patients

The Melanoma Research Foundation Breakthrough Consortium has launched a new clinical trial to assess the impact of concomitant administration of bevacizumab (Avastin) with vemurafenib (Zelboraf) in patients with BRAFV600 mutation positive metastatic melanoma.

8 Oct 2013

Horizon Medicare beneficiaries to receive pharmacy services through Prime Therapeutics

Beginning January 1, 2014, Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. Medicare beneficiaries will receive pharmacy services through Prime Therapeutics LLC. Prime began providing pharmacy benefit management services to the plan's commercial members July 1, 2013.

8 Oct 2013

Retirement a sticking point for antihypertensive adherence

Patients’ adherence to their antihypertensive medication may decline when they retire from work, a study shows.

8 Oct 2013

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

HHS Sec. Sebelius: 'I don't know' how many have enrolled in health law's exchanges

Healthcare providers report unaccompanied teens may not receive required vaccines

Janssen buys all rights from GSK to develop, commercialize hepatitis C compound

California's exchange undergoes a weekend tune-up; Maryland officials say site is improving, but challenges remain

Researchers to develop effective mucosal vaccines based on cell-targeted nanoparticles

FAIR Health uses dental claims data from FH NPIC in recent report published by U.S. GAO

Evaluate launches strategic sales analytics solution that provides global view of life sciences product sales

Software crash in first days viewed as root cause of exchange delays

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

Bayer HealthCare receives FDA approval for Adempas tablets

Saint Luke's Health System launches doxo to enhance quality of services

Francisco Partners invests in NexTech

Despite sales efforts, polls show continued Obamacare doubts

Quintiles and MDA partner to develop U.S. Neuromuscular Disease Registry

Moximed initiates pivotal trial of KineSpring System implantation in knee osteoarthritis patients

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

Acorda Therapeutics initiates second clinical trial of Glial Growth Factor 2 in heart failure patients

MRFBC launches clinical trial to assess impact of bevacizumab and vemurafenib in melanoma patients

Horizon Medicare beneficiaries to receive pharmacy services through Prime Therapeutics

Retirement a sticking point for antihypertensive adherence

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