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Health Care REIT signs definitive agreement to acquire Genesis for $2.4 billion

Health Care REIT, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the real estate assets of privately-owned Genesis HealthCare, a leading provider of short-term post-acute, rehabilitation, assisted living and long-term care services, for a purchase price of $2.4 billion.

28 Feb 2011

EDMA supports the Rare Disease Day

On the occasion of the 2011 Rare Disease Day, EDMA, the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association, underlines the crucial role the In Vitro Diagnostic industry can play to diagnose rare diseases.

28 Feb 2011

UCH installs GE's CARESCAPE Monitor B850 to enhance clinical decision making in the NICU

GE Healthcare today announced that the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) has installed the new CARESCAPE™ Monitor B850, the company's latest advance in bedside patient monitoring, to help enhance clinical decision making in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Deployed in UCH's 50-bed NICU and Neonatal OR, the CARESCAPE Monitor B850 enables access to critical patient information from any bedside monitor anywhere in the unit.

28 Feb 2011

Capario releases Portal v3.7 of provider portal application

Capario, a leading provider of revenue cycle management solutions that connect healthcare payers and providers nationwide, announces the release of version 3.7 of its provider portal application, which features new services and system enhancements based on submitter feedback. The release also contains Capario's 5010 submitter testing tool.

28 Feb 2011

Deal to avert gov't shutdown appears within reach

A recent short-term spending plan that emerged from the House Appropriations Committee includes millions of dollars in cuts to federal health programs. Meanwhile, congressional efforts to reach agreement on a long-term spending plan may be getting more complicated.

28 Feb 2011

USPI fourth quarter consolidated net revenues increase 3.5% to $154.2 million

United Surgical Partners International, Inc. today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

28 Feb 2011

Aeterna Zentaris receives $2.5M net sales milestone payment from Cowen Royalty

Aeterna Zentaris Inc., a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrinology, today announced that it had received a net sales milestone of $2.5 million from Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, L.P..

28 Feb 2011

EPA approves BioNeutral's Ygiene 206 antimicrobial disinfectant

BioNeutral Group, Inc., a specialty life science technology-based company, today announced that it has received approval and registration from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to the Company's regulatory application for its Ygiene™ 206.

28 Feb 2011

First Edition: February 28, 2011

Today's headlines include news about the budge struggles the nation's governors continue to face -- with Medicaid spending a central issue.

28 Feb 2011

OTI receives additional order for 100,000 MediSmart healthcare biometric ID cards in Kenya

On Track Innovations Ltd., a global leader in contactless smart card solutions, has received an additional order for 100,000 MediSmartTM healthcare biometric ID cards for use by Kenyan-based Smart Applications International Ltd., a provider of technology driven secure healthcare solutions.

28 Feb 2011

Alexion joins EURORDIS, NORD and medical communities to observe Rare Disease Day 2011

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. joins the European Organization for Rare Diseases, the National Organization for Rare Disorders and families, governments, companies and medical communities around the world in observing the fourth annual Rare Disease Day today.

28 Feb 2011

CardioFocus completes $30.6M private financing

CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the Endoscopic Ablation System for the transcatheter treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, announced the completion of a $30.6M private financing.

28 Feb 2011

Ventas to acquire NHP shares for $7.4 billion

Ventas, Inc. and Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. today announced that the Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which Ventas will acquire all of the outstanding shares of NHP in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion, creating one of the largest publicly traded REITs and the leading healthcare REIT by equity value.

28 Feb 2011

U.S. District Court rules in favor of Hologic in breast brachytherapy patent infringement lawsuit

Hologic, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of Hologic, by reversing the previous decisions reached by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in favor of SenoRx, Inc.

From Hologic, Inc. 28 Feb 2011

Investing in adolescents can help reduce poverty, improve health, UNICEF report says

Additional investment in the world's 1.2 billion adolescents - 88 percent of whom live in the developing world - has the potential to help alleviate inequality and poverty, UNICEF said in its annual State of the World's Children report released on Friday, IRIN reports.

28 Feb 2011

FDA clears Ascom's ClinicalConneX | Cardiomax medical device

Ascom Inc., a leading supplier of mission critical on-site wireless communications, is pleased to announce ClinicalConneX as its new integration suite powered by Ascom's Unite Professional Messaging and Alarm Application.

28 Feb 2011

Survey: 65% of patients in hospitals experience pain prevalence

Nearly two-thirds of the hospital in-patients who took part in a survey had experienced pain in the last 24 hours and 42% of those rated their pain as more than seven out of ten, where ten was the worst pain imaginable, according to the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

28 Feb 2011

New national campaign to help reduce risk of pressure ulcers in hospital and post-acute care settings

ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, today announced the introduction of a new national campaign to help reduce the risk of pressure ulcers in hospital and post-acute care settings.

28 Feb 2011

Progressive groups offer support for maintaining Medicaid requirements

The nation's governors are will be in Washington this weekend for the National Governors Association winter meeting. Budget issues, especially related to Medicaid spending and other health costs, will be a hot topic.

28 Feb 2011

ABC program greatly reduces asthma-related ED visits in preschool children

Nearly one in eleven preschool children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with asthma and in some inner city neighborhoods, the figure is closer to one in seven. But, few asthma management programs are designed for parents of preschool children.

28 Feb 2011