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Medivo announces acquisition of PWN

Medivo, a provider of virtual healthcare services for individuals and organizations, announced today the acquisition of Physicians Wellness Network LLC, a leading provider of compliance services for online wellness screening tests.

7 Jun 2010

Arrhythmia Alliance launches 'Know Your Pulse' global awareness campaign on World Heart Rhythm Week

Arrhythmia Alliance, the Heart Rhythm Charity, announced today the results of a survey conducted in Europe that showed a large number of respondents ignore basic measures to check for potential cardiac arrhythmias, or heart rhythm disorders. To raise awareness of the importance of pulse checking and to inform people about how to take their pulse, the Arrhythmia Alliance will open 2010 World Heart Rhythm Week (7-13 June) with the launch of the global awareness campaign 'Know Your Pulse'.

7 Jun 2010

Immersion signs non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Simbionix USA

Immersion Corporation, the leading developer and licensor of haptics technology, and Simbionix USA Corporation, the world's leading provider of simulation and training products for medical professionals and the healthcare industry, today announced that the companies have entered into a new license agreement and have successfully settled litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

7 Jun 2010

Strained relationship with parents following stroke increases depression in daughters: Study

Adult daughters caring for a parent recovering from stroke are more prone to depression than sons, Marina Bastawrous today told the Canadian Stroke Congress, co-hosted by the Canadian Stroke Network, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Canadian Stroke Consortium.

7 Jun 2010

TransMedia to publicize Protectus Automatic, Self-Sheathing Safety Syringe

Protectus Medical Devices, Inc. has retained TransMedia Group to publicize the first automatic, self-sheathing syringe designed to eliminate accidental needle stick injuries that claim the lives of medical professionals and force the industry to spend billions of dollars testing and treating victims for blood borne diseases.

7 Jun 2010

Economic, clinical benefits of HyperQ stress test presented at International Congress on Electrocardiology

BSP Biological Signal Processing Ltd., develops and markets innovative systems for non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of Ischemic Heart Disease based on its proprietary HyperQ technology. BSP recently presented the results of a study on the economic and clinical benefits of the HyperQ stress test in the diagnosis and management of coronary heart disease at the International Congress on Electrocardiology on June 4th, 2010.

7 Jun 2010

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Telemedicine holds the key to the rehabilitation of people with stroke living in northern, rural, remote Canadian communities, rehabilitation researcher Esmé French told the Canadian Stroke Congress today.

7 Jun 2010

Kaiser Permanente earns perfect 100% rating on Healthcare Equality Index

Kaiser Permanente is the first health and hospital system to earn a perfect 100 percent rating on the Healthcare Equality Index. The HEI is an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.

7 Jun 2010

GE Healthcare highlights molecular imaging technologies to help clinicians improve patient experiences

Focusing on helping clinicians improve experiences for their patients, GE Healthcare is highlighting an innovative portfolio of molecular imaging technologies and agents at the 57th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 5-9, in Salt Lake City.

7 Jun 2010

Endocyte presents interim results from phase II trial of EC145 plus Doxil for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer

Endocyte Inc., a company developing targeted small-molecule drug conjugates, will present results of an interim analysis from a randomized phase II clinical trial in women with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer on Sunday (June 6) during the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.

7 Jun 2010

Researcher calls stroke specialists to further knowledge and understanding of stroke

To cope with the projected growth in the incidence of strokes in Canada, the public may need to take on roles traditionally performed by healthcare specialists, according to a leading Canadian stroke researcher.

7 Jun 2010

Grifols to acquire Talecris Biotherapeutics

Grifols a global healthcare company and leading producer of plasma protein therapies, and Talecris a U.S.-based biotherapeutics products company, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement through which Grifols will acquire Talecris for a combination of cash and newly-issued Grifols non-voting shares having an aggregate value today of approximately $3.4 billion (euro 2.8 billion), creating a global leader of life-saving and life enhancing plasma protein therapeutics.

7 Jun 2010

USA Health System to implement MEDSEEK's eHealth ecoSystem

MEDSEEK, the industry's only provider of the eHealth ecoSystemTM, today announced its engagement to develop and deploy the University of South Alabama Health System's new consumer website in a first step toward implementing the eHealth ecoSystem.

7 Jun 2010

Health overhaul supporters plan $25 million promotion campaign

The New York Times: "Close allies of the Obama administration, seeking to rally the public behind President Obama's landmark health care bill, are planning to spend $25 million over the next five years to promote the measure and beat back mischaracterizations of it that could harm Democratic candidates. Mr. Obama's former communications director, Anita Dunn, and longtime Democratic strategist Andrew Grossman, have teamed up to form two new tax-exempt groups.

7 Jun 2010

Congress returns to controversy over COBRA, doctors' Medicare pay

CongressDaily reports that when members of Congress return to Washington Monday "they face a raft of unfinished business on tax 'extender' legislation. … The Senate will look to take up a $114.5 billion package of unemployment benefits, tax breaks, physician payments and other provisions this week amid calls from the right to scale it back, from the left to expand it and from businesses to mitigate its tax increases.

7 Jun 2010

Expansion of e-mental health necessary for better care

Assistance for mental ailments especially in the youth via internet could be a very cost effective measure say researchers. The researchers have identified the gaps between the demand and supply of mental healthcare services in Australia.

6 Jun 2010

Media increases effectiveness of direct-to-patient marketing approaches

All too often, study sponsors provide research sites with an advertising budget to promote their clinical trial to patients, and yet the majority of research sites require support or guidance on where and when to invest these advertising dollars. This support comes from trained and experienced advertising professionals who are experts in knowing the best way to maximize advertising budgets, and optimize the return on advertising investment.

5 Jun 2010

Scientific, ethical issues involved in studies of drug safety after FDA approval to be evaluated

The director and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics have been appointed co-chairs of an Institute of Medicine committee that will evaluate the scientific and ethical issues involved in studies of drug safety after FDA approval.

5 Jun 2010

NHLBI stops trial evaluating new approach to reduce risk of recurrent stroke in children with sickle cell anemia

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has stopped a clinical trial evaluating a new approach to reduce the risk of recurrent stroke in children with sickle cell anemia and iron overload because of evidence that the new treatment was unlikely to prove better than the existing treatment.

5 Jun 2010

Patient Home Monitoring completes acquisition of Stancap Holdings I and PHM DME Healthcare

Patient Home Monitoring, formerly International Health Partners Inc., a company focused on in-home cardiology healthcare services, today announced completion of the acquisition announced in October 2009 of all of the issued and outstanding shares of both Stancap Holdings I Limited and PHM DME Healthcare Inc. PHM also announced that it has completed a private placement of common shares for gross proceeds of $4,523,140.

5 Jun 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Medivo announces acquisition of PWN

Arrhythmia Alliance launches 'Know Your Pulse' global awareness campaign on World Heart Rhythm Week

Immersion signs non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Simbionix USA

Strained relationship with parents following stroke increases depression in daughters: Study

TransMedia to publicize Protectus Automatic, Self-Sheathing Safety Syringe

Economic, clinical benefits of HyperQ stress test presented at International Congress on Electrocardiology

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Kaiser Permanente earns perfect 100% rating on Healthcare Equality Index

GE Healthcare highlights molecular imaging technologies to help clinicians improve patient experiences

Endocyte presents interim results from phase II trial of EC145 plus Doxil for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer

Researcher calls stroke specialists to further knowledge and understanding of stroke

Grifols to acquire Talecris Biotherapeutics

USA Health System to implement MEDSEEK's eHealth ecoSystem

Health overhaul supporters plan $25 million promotion campaign

Congress returns to controversy over COBRA, doctors' Medicare pay

Expansion of e-mental health necessary for better care

Media increases effectiveness of direct-to-patient marketing approaches

Scientific, ethical issues involved in studies of drug safety after FDA approval to be evaluated

NHLBI stops trial evaluating new approach to reduce risk of recurrent stroke in children with sickle cell anemia

Patient Home Monitoring completes acquisition of Stancap Holdings I and PHM DME Healthcare

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