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Friday face-off: With gov't shutdown looming, House to vote on stopgap funding measure that would defund health law

The GOP-controlled chamber is expected to approve the bill, which will then face stiff opposition in the Senate. The White House has also threatened a veto.

21 Sep 2013

Specialty asthma care no benefit to adherence in underserved children

Results of a study of underserved children with asthma in the USA suggest that they may be losing out on the benefits of specialty care.

20 Sep 2013

Adolescents with psychosis face long treatment delays

Adolescents have a duration of untreated psychosis that is approximately twice that seen in adults, UK study findings show.

20 Sep 2013

CHMP recommends approval of Xofigo for CRPC, symptomatic bone and visceral metastases

Bayer HealthCare announced today that the the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride) for approval with a proposed indication for the treatment of adults with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastases.

20 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: Rove warns GOP that defunding could be 'self-defeating;' Jonathan Cohn says latest Obamacare fight reveals Republicans' will to overlook gains from law

Today, independents look more like Republicans than Democrats, especially when it comes to health care. In a new Crossroads GPS health-care policy survey conducted in 10 states likely to have competitive Senate races and in House districts that lean Republican or are swing seats, 60 percent of independents oppose President Obama's Affordable Care Act. If this holds through 2014, then Republicans should receive another big boost in the midterms. There is, however, one issue on which independents disagree with Republicans: using the threat of a government shutdown to defund ObamaCare (Karl Rove, 9/18).

20 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 20, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest on the Capitol Hill hijinx surrounding efforts to defund the health law and avert a government shutdown.

20 Sep 2013

CME Medical to highlight effectiveness of nutrition pumps at two key healthcare nutrition events

CME Medical will be promoting its nutrition pumps – the BodyGuard 323 Ambulatory Infusion Pump and the BodyGuard 2CH Twin Channel Infusion Pump and a new range of rucksacks to carry them in, at two key healthcare nutrition events coming soon.

20 Sep 2013

Reprieve over? Health spending projected to climb 6% next year

The nation's health care spending is slated to rise about 6 percent next year, according to a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report. This follows five years of slower growth expected to end as the nation's economy recovers and the health law expands coverage. The spending increase is likely lower than it would have been, however, if the Supreme Court hadn't allowed states to choose whether to expand Medicaid, researchers wrote.

20 Sep 2013

Genetics in Medicine's October 2013 issue details solutions for integrating genomic data into EHR

Genetic tests can now tell us whether we are at increased risk of various cancers, heart or kidney disease, asthma and a number of other conditions.

20 Sep 2013

Employers trim health costs using Obamacare as cover

Many of these practices began well before the federal health law took effect. But several news outlets report that the law is giving businesses cover to shift additional costs onto employees and their families -- an effort that may reinforce the law's unpopularity.

20 Sep 2013

Human breast tumors transplant could be valuable tools in search for better treatments

Breast cancer that spreads to other organs is extremely difficult to treat. Doctors can buy patients time, but a cure remains elusive. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and could be valuable tools in the search for better treatments.

20 Sep 2013

Memorial Sloan-Kettering initiates to reduce cancer and cardiovascular health disparities in U.S. South Asian

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is leading an innovative initiative to reduce cancer and cardiovascular health disparities in South Asian immigrant communities in the United States.

20 Sep 2013

BHI raises awareness of link between cardiovascular and hearing health

Gen Xers and baby boomers should no longer ignore their hearing loss, says the Better Hearing Institute, which is raising awareness of the link between cardiovascular and hearing health in recognition of World Heart Day on September 29th.

20 Sep 2013

House to vote Friday on bill tying govt. funding to repeal effort

News outlets report that the decision by the House GOP leadership to link the two efforts increases the likelihood of a government shutdown.

20 Sep 2013

Obama focuses attention on fiscal risks involved in GOP health law defunding strategy

President Barack Obama issues tough talk about Capitol Hill during a speech to the Business Roundtable. Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase & Co. backs away from a research note in which it predicted a delay was imminent in the launch of key provisions of the health law.

20 Sep 2013

Experts discuss ways to improve preoperative surgical site cleaning to minimize risk of infection

Infection is the most common complication of surgery and occurs at a rate of 1-15%. A group of experts from the Surgical Infection Society recently convened to discuss how to optimize the preoperative surgical site cleaning done by the patient to minimize the risk of infection.

20 Sep 2013

An in-depth approach to examine placebo effect and its impact on doctor-patient relationship

The findings of a comprehensive review of the placebo phenomenon and its consequences for clinical medicine are contained in a new article, "Placebo and the New Physiology of the Doctor-Patient Relationship," (http://bit.ly/14QfSur) published in Physiological Reviews.

20 Sep 2013

As opening day approaches, health law advocates caution the public to be ready for some marketplace glitches

Stateline examines concerns about what could go wrong, and other news outlets look at enrollment, outreach and implementation efforts for the online marketplaces that will sell insurance policies.

20 Sep 2013

Administrative data can help gauge potential liability and risk during hospitalization

Several studies have shown that hospitalized patients still have unacceptably high rates of harm and injury due in part to limited access for quality staff to obtain primary care data from electronic medical records. As a result, hospital incident reports do not capture most harm that occurs in hospitals.

20 Sep 2013

IPF World Week underlines the need for integrated approach towards idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

This year's IPF World Week (September 21-29) sees healthcare professionals, patient advocacy groups, people living with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), who have an estimated median survival time of two to five years, and their families calling for an integrated approach to further strengthen the national and international network of people working to support patients with this fatal orphan lung disease.

20 Sep 2013

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Friday face-off: With gov't shutdown looming, House to vote on stopgap funding measure that would defund health law

Specialty asthma care no benefit to adherence in underserved children

Adolescents with psychosis face long treatment delays

CHMP recommends approval of Xofigo for CRPC, symptomatic bone and visceral metastases

Viewpoints: Rove warns GOP that defunding could be 'self-defeating;' Jonathan Cohn says latest Obamacare fight reveals Republicans' will to overlook gains from law

First Edition: September 20, 2013

CME Medical to highlight effectiveness of nutrition pumps at two key healthcare nutrition events

Reprieve over? Health spending projected to climb 6% next year

Genetics in Medicine's October 2013 issue details solutions for integrating genomic data into EHR

Employers trim health costs using Obamacare as cover

Human breast tumors transplant could be valuable tools in search for better treatments

Memorial Sloan-Kettering initiates to reduce cancer and cardiovascular health disparities in U.S. South Asian

BHI raises awareness of link between cardiovascular and hearing health

House to vote Friday on bill tying govt. funding to repeal effort

Obama focuses attention on fiscal risks involved in GOP health law defunding strategy

Experts discuss ways to improve preoperative surgical site cleaning to minimize risk of infection

An in-depth approach to examine placebo effect and its impact on doctor-patient relationship

As opening day approaches, health law advocates caution the public to be ready for some marketplace glitches

Administrative data can help gauge potential liability and risk during hospitalization

IPF World Week underlines the need for integrated approach towards idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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