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Laboratory middleware solution to be exhibited by NoemaLife at this year’s AACC

NoemaLife, Europe’s leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, will exhibit the company’s HALIA middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs at this year’s AACC (American Association of Clinical Chemists) Annual Meeting (15-19 July 2012, Los Angeles, CA).

30 May 2012

Overdiagnosis: harming the healthy

Overdiagnosis poses a significant threat to human health by labelling healthy people as sick and wasting resources on unnecessary care, warns Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow at Bond University in Australia, in a feature published on bmj.com today.

30 May 2012

House GOP plans new votes repealing parts of health law ahead of Supreme Court ruling

The two bills would repeal a tax on medical devices and ease restrictions on health savings accounts, both parts of the Democrats' health care reform law.

30 May 2012

Patients with mental health issues overwhelm ERs

Patients suffering from schizophrenia, psychotic tendencies and suicidal behaviors are burdening hospital ERs, reports Modern Healthcare.

30 May 2012

State roundup: The effects of proposed Calif. budget cuts; Fewer free vaccinations in Texas

Low-income children in rural California communities are in jeopardy of losing their doctors and health care plans under Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal, state lawmakers, doctors and health advocates say. The governor is proposing to transfer nearly 900,000 children enrolled in Healthy Families, the state's Children's Health Insurance Program, to Medi-Cal – a program aimed at serving the state's poorest families, seniors and disabled residents.

30 May 2012

Endo, Watson reach agreement to resolve two LIDODERM patent infringement lawsuits

Endo announced today that it has reached an agreement with Watson Pharmaceuticals (Watson) resolving two patent infringement lawsuits related to LIDODERM.

30 May 2012

NanoBio-Europe conference to take place from June 18-20 in Varese

The 8th NanoBio-Europe conference will take place on 18 - 20 June 2012 in Varese (Lombardy, Northern Italy), showcasing the latest international developments in nanobiotechnology, and providing a platform to facilitate interdisciplinary communications, new collaborations for delegates from academic, industrial and clinical backgrounds.

30 May 2012

House plans vote on amended FDA user fee reauthorization bill, hears from docs on Medicare payment fix

The GOP-led House will vote on an amended version of the FDA reauthorization bill, and medical officials are urging action on Medicare payments.

30 May 2012

Health law opinions: 'Improvised explosive' device tax; Iowa legislators force role for brokers on insurance exchanges

"Taxmageddon" isn't only about the half-trillion-dollar blow to the economy that arrives in 2013 on the end of the Bush-Obama tax rates. Several of the Affordable Care Act's worst tax increases kick in too, such as the new excise tax on medical devices. The 2.3 percent levy applies to the sale of everything from cardiac defibrillators to artificial joints to MRI scanners. The device tax is supposed to raise $28.5 billion from 2013 to 2022, and it is especially harmful because it applies to gross sales, not profits.

30 May 2012

Safety of breast implants

Following the recent scandal, described in May 2012 by the BBC as the “PIP breast implant scandal”, (1) many women may have been put off having breast implants. But how safe exactly is breast enlargement? And how do the different methods compare?

29 May 2012

NTT DATA signs non-exclusive license to resell DATATRAK ONE in the Chinese market

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced NTT DATA signed a non-exclusive license to resell DATATRAK ONE in the Chinese market.

29 May 2012

Single test developed that detects all known strains of H5N1

The close collaboration between scientists from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) under the Agency for Science and Technology Research (A*STAR) and clinicians from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has enabled the successful development of the most comprehensive and rapid H5N1 bird flu test kit available to date.

29 May 2012

GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS system receives Infoway certification

GE Healthcare Canada, the first in its class to complete the Infoway certification process, continues to demonstrate leadership with the announcement of Infoway certification for a second diagnostic imaging product, the Centricity Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS).

29 May 2012

Aggressive efforts to lower blood pressure in people with diabetes are paying off

Aggressive efforts to lower blood pressure in people with diabetes are paying off - perhaps too well, according to a new study.

29 May 2012

New technique more sensitive in detecting bone loss than X-ray method

Are your bones getting stronger or weaker? Right now, it's hard to know. Scientists at Arizona State University and NASA are taking on this medical challenge by developing and applying a technique that originated in the Earth sciences. In a new study, this technique was more sensitive in detecting bone loss than the X-ray method used today, with less risk to patients. Eventually, it may find use in clinical settings, and could pave the way for additional innovative biosignatures to detect disease.

29 May 2012

Health Robotics announces HAT as new marketing and service channel in Saudi Arabia

Health Robotics today announced a new marketing and service channel for its world-leading i.v.STATION ONCO, i.v.SOFT, and i.v.STATION products with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-based market leader Hospital Automation Technology (HAT). Health Robotics continues to spearhead the global healthcare industry and persisting on its worldwide quest to provide safe and cost-effective Intravenous Admixture Compounding Automation all over the world.

28 May 2012

AHF's 'Condom-Nation' tour

“This tour is a national call to action to achieve these goals and we are delighted to be working with our three partner agencies in Chicago this weekend.”

28 May 2012

Just 20% of pensioners make financial provision for ill-health in retirement

Prudential has revealed new research which shows that despite the ongoing debate about the need to fund long-term care for the elderly, only one in five people planning to retire this year have made financial provision for ill-health in retirement.

28 May 2012

Preoperative opportunity to control blood glucoses

Patients with diabetes mellitus experience significantly higher rates of surgical and systemic complications, higher mortality and increased length of stay during hospitalization following 11 major elective procedures, according to research presented today at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 21st Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress in Philadelphia.

28 May 2012

Major new research facility opens at Imperial College London

A major new research facility at Imperial College London designed to expand and accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases was officially opened by George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, today.

28 May 2012

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Laboratory middleware solution to be exhibited by NoemaLife at this year’s AACC

Overdiagnosis: harming the healthy

House GOP plans new votes repealing parts of health law ahead of Supreme Court ruling

Patients with mental health issues overwhelm ERs

State roundup: The effects of proposed Calif. budget cuts; Fewer free vaccinations in Texas

Endo, Watson reach agreement to resolve two LIDODERM patent infringement lawsuits

NanoBio-Europe conference to take place from June 18-20 in Varese

House plans vote on amended FDA user fee reauthorization bill, hears from docs on Medicare payment fix

Health law opinions: 'Improvised explosive' device tax; Iowa legislators force role for brokers on insurance exchanges

Safety of breast implants

NTT DATA signs non-exclusive license to resell DATATRAK ONE in the Chinese market

Single test developed that detects all known strains of H5N1

GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS system receives Infoway certification

Aggressive efforts to lower blood pressure in people with diabetes are paying off

New technique more sensitive in detecting bone loss than X-ray method

Health Robotics announces HAT as new marketing and service channel in Saudi Arabia

AHF's 'Condom-Nation' tour

Just 20% of pensioners make financial provision for ill-health in retirement

Preoperative opportunity to control blood glucoses

Major new research facility opens at Imperial College London

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