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Invida to continue commercialization of Actelion's Tracleer for PAH in crucial Asian markets

Invida Group, the leading provider of healthcare brands and services to the Asia Pacific region, today announced that its contract with Swiss biotechnology company, Actelion, has been extended through 2015 to continue commercialization of Tracleer® for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in crucial markets throughout Asia. Actelion signed with Invida initially in 2005, and has extended the contract to market the company’s lead product, Tracleer, in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Hong Kong

26 Mar 2010

Inverness Medical Deutschland to distribute MDI's Detect-Ready MRSA assay in key European markets

Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI), a company developing Detect-Ready™ assays designed to increase the speed and accuracy of infectious disease diagnosis, and Inverness Medical Deutschland GmbH today announced that they have entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for MDI's Detect-Ready MRSA assay in the key European markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

26 Mar 2010

Research Roundup: Middle class health cost burden, disparities and cancer, summary of new health law

The Growing Financial Burden Of Health Care: National And State Trends, 2001-2006 - This paper examines the ratio of total out-of-pocket spending for health care and insurance to total family income, using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys for 2001-2006.

26 Mar 2010

Californian healthcare advocates applaud healthcare victory and call for passage of SB 726

Leading Californian healthcare advocates and civil justice groups applaud passage of national health reform legislation and urge immediate passage of SB 726 -- a bill that would give California's rural hospitals and urban hospitals and clinics in medically underserved areas the ability to recruit and hire doctors to treat the uninsured and patients enrolled in government health insurance programs.

26 Mar 2010

Medtronic announces enrollment of first European patients in randomized controlled trial of ITB Therapy

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the enrollment of the first European patients in the largest randomized controlled trial to date to investigate the benefits of ITB Therapy(R) (Intrathecal Baclofen) in post-stroke patients affected by spasticity. The announcement comes as the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation is taking place in Vienna, Austria.

26 Mar 2010

Survival rate is improving in HER2 positive breast cancer patients

Trends indicate that survival is improving in patients with metastatic breast cancer, especially in those patients whose tumours are described as being HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor-2) positive, a surgical oncologist will say today (Friday 26 March) at the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference.

26 Mar 2010

Treatment with beta-blockers can help reduce spread of cancer in patients with breast tumours

Treatment with beta-blockers can help reduce the spread of cancer in patients with breast tumours, a researcher will tell the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona today (Friday).

26 Mar 2010

Alere WCH partners with Monica Healthcare

Alere Health, LLC, a leader in personal health support solutions, today announced a partnership between the Alere® Women's & Children's Health Division and UK-based Monica Healthcare Ltd, developers of a groundbreaking wireless, wearable fetal-maternal monitor.

26 Mar 2010

Substance abuse treatment services: Routine on-site infectious disease screening necessary

Fewer than half of all substance abuse treatment facilities surveyed nationwide reported that they conduct on-site infectious disease screening, according to a new study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

26 Mar 2010

Global home health management market expanding at CAGR of 10% through 2012

Remote health management is the fastest growing segment of a burgeoning home health management market. However, RHM’s full potential will materialize only if health insurers adopt reimbursement practices that encourage greater physician adoption, concludes Scientia Advisors, a global strategy consulting firm, in its review of the worldwide home health management market released today.

26 Mar 2010

Ease of information capture and recordkeeping will help enable smoother transition to EHR systems

The proven ability of the medical transcription sector to deliver innovative, physician-friendly, and cost-effective solutions to the challenges of electronic health record (EHR) adoption will be the message taken to Capitol Hill by members of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) for the organizations’ fifth-annual Advocacy Summit on March 24 in Washington, DC.

26 Mar 2010

AAPMedicine: Healthcare Reform legislation will benefit people with chronic and acute pain

In response to the healthcare reform legislation that was signed into law this week, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, in a statement released today, voiced its strong support of certain components of the reform legislation that will "improve the quality of life for people who suffer with chronic and acute pain."

26 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 26, 2010

Today's early morning highlights includes reports on congressional passage of the final piece of the health overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama's trip to Iowa to tout the law's benefits and some concerns raised by big business.

26 Mar 2010

Dell unveils Medical Archiving and PowerEdge C 6100 solutions to boost healthcare efficiency

Dell today unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.

26 Mar 2010

False perception of increased risk induces women with breast cancer have prophylactic mastectomies

Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer believe the risk of the disease occurring in their unaffected breast is as much as ten times higher than it actually is. As a result, they are choosing to have prophylactic mastectomies based on a false perception of increased risk, according to new research.

26 Mar 2010

Final healthcare votes: Congressman Chaka Fattah releases statement

"However you keep time – almost a century since healthcare legislation was first proposed, 17 years since contentious debate began in the Congress, 16 months since President Obama won landslide election on the mandate of healthcare reform, and a climactic week of late-night votes -- we can finally say: the time is NOW for the reality of reform to begin.

26 Mar 2010

New book on using informatics to reduce healthcare costs to be released

A topical new book about using informatics to reduce healthcare costs edited by Stephan Kudyba, an assistant professor in the NJIT School of Management, will be released early this May. Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity addresses the incorporation of information technologies and information management by healthcare providers to increase the efficiencies of their operations to help reduce costs.

26 Mar 2010

Bevacizumab/paclitaxel/carboplatin regimen attains gold-standard status for treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the bevacizumab (Genentech/Roche/Chugai's Avastin)/paclitaxel (Bristol-Myers Squibb's Taxol, generics)/carboplatin (Bristol-Myers Squibb's Paraplatin, generics) regimen will remain Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard for the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer through 2018.

26 Mar 2010

athenahealth, Sermo release results from Physician Sentiment Index

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Sermo, the world’s largest online community for physicians today, released results from a first-of-its-kind “Physician Sentiment Index SM”.

26 Mar 2010

Ingen Technologies set to expand into government and export markets

Ingen Technologies, Inc., the leading manufacturer of in-line oxygen flow meters for respiratory medical devices, which helps companies similar to McKesson Corporation and Amedisys Inc. achieve substantial cost-savings by reducing support costs for in-home oxygen patients, recently announced that the company is set to expand into government and export markets.

26 Mar 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Invida to continue commercialization of Actelion's Tracleer for PAH in crucial Asian markets

Inverness Medical Deutschland to distribute MDI's Detect-Ready MRSA assay in key European markets

Research Roundup: Middle class health cost burden, disparities and cancer, summary of new health law

Californian healthcare advocates applaud healthcare victory and call for passage of SB 726

Medtronic announces enrollment of first European patients in randomized controlled trial of ITB Therapy

Survival rate is improving in HER2 positive breast cancer patients

Treatment with beta-blockers can help reduce spread of cancer in patients with breast tumours

Alere WCH partners with Monica Healthcare

Substance abuse treatment services: Routine on-site infectious disease screening necessary

Global home health management market expanding at CAGR of 10% through 2012

Ease of information capture and recordkeeping will help enable smoother transition to EHR systems

AAPMedicine: Healthcare Reform legislation will benefit people with chronic and acute pain

First Edition: March 26, 2010

Dell unveils Medical Archiving and PowerEdge C 6100 solutions to boost healthcare efficiency

False perception of increased risk induces women with breast cancer have prophylactic mastectomies

Final healthcare votes: Congressman Chaka Fattah releases statement

New book on using informatics to reduce healthcare costs to be released

Bevacizumab/paclitaxel/carboplatin regimen attains gold-standard status for treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer

athenahealth, Sermo release results from Physician Sentiment Index

Ingen Technologies set to expand into government and export markets

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