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Budget woes lead states to seek ways to ease Medicaid's requirements

While The Hill reports that CMS administrator Donald Berwick says his agency is trying to help states find solutions, National Journal notes that mounting budgetary pressure has put the program in "dire fiscal straits."

29 Jan 2011

Apple Valley Medical Clinic inaugurates new Sleep Center to provide quality care

The Apple Valley Medical Clinic has opened a new Sleep Center, located at 15100 Galaxie Avenue in Apple Valley. The center, under the medical direction of Scott Benson, M.D., a family medicine physician with the Apple Valley Medical Clinic, offers preventive care, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

28 Jan 2011

Both absence of insulin and resistance to insulin are associated with defects in FAS

A key mechanism that appears to contribute to blood vessel damage in people with diabetes has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

28 Jan 2011

New Balance Foundation supports Children's Hospital Boston with $7 million gift for pediatric obesity program

Children's Hospital Boston announces a $7 million gift from the New Balance Foundation to establish the New Balance Foundation Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention, Clinical Research and Care (the Center).

28 Jan 2011

First Edition: January 28, 2011

Today's headlines include reports that President Obama is expected to really the health reform troops in a speech today.

28 Jan 2011

NIH awards CCTSI $2.2 million grant to advance personalized medicine

A federal grant totaling $2.2 million shows how the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Anschutz Medical Campus are using technology to advance the cutting-edge field of personalized medicine -- tailoring treatments to the individual based on their genetic make-up.

28 Jan 2011

Misaligned research, medical challenges and harsh economics thwart efforts against Alzheimer's disease

Misaligned research, medical challenges and harsh economics are thwarting efforts to slow the destructive course of Alzheimer's disease in the United States, according to a trio of nationally regarded Alzheimer's researchers writing a "Perspective" in Jan. 27 issue of the journal Neuron.

28 Jan 2011

PHM updates customer pipeline for investors and research analysts

Patient Home Monitoring, a company focused on in-home cardiology healthcare services, today announced an update to their customer pipeline. Ed Berenblum, CEO of PHM, will be conducting meetings in and around Toronto to provide an update to investors and research analysts.

28 Jan 2011

Prototype drug halts GVHD in mouse models of bone marrow transplantation

A prototype drug already shown to hold promise for treating autoimmune disorders like lupus, arthritis and psoriasis halts established graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in mouse models of bone marrow transplantation, research at the University of Michigan and the University of Florida shows.

28 Jan 2011

Study identifies gaps in primary health care for seniors with multiple chronic conditions

The number of health care services seniors use is determined more by the number of chronic conditions they have than by their age, according to a new study from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

28 Jan 2011

Patients and spouses experience distress related to diabetes

Older patients with diabetes who are not dealing well with the disease are likely to have symptoms of depression, and spouses of older patients also suffer distress related to diabetes and its management, according to research from Purdue University.

28 Jan 2011

New research: Retired NFL players more likely to misuse painkillers

Retired NFL players use painkillers at a much higher rate than the rest of us, according to new research conducted by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

28 Jan 2011

Single DNA variation linked to decreased risk of coronary disease in African-Americans

A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death in Americans of all races.

28 Jan 2011

Study aims to determine risk of dementia, cognitive decline in middle-aged people

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers are co-leading a national study to examine whether middle-aged people's physical health influences their risk of dementia later in life.

28 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the first use of the Blazer® Open-Irrigated Catheter in the U.S. as part of the BLOCk-CTI clinical trial. BLOCk-CTI is a prospective, randomized trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in patients with sustained or recurrent Type 1 atrial flutter.

28 Jan 2011

UMMS, Lundbeck enter research collaboration to develop targeted therapy for HD

The University of Massachusetts Medical School and Lundbeck today announced a research collaboration aimed at further development of a targeted therapy to slow or halt the progression of Huntington's disease.

28 Jan 2011

Positive results from RXi's sd-rxRNA technology for development of novel therapeutics

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a recognized leader in RNAi-based therapeutics, announced today that, as part of its collaboration with miRagen Therapeutics, positive data were generated demonstrating that RXi's sd-rxRNA technology can be used, in vitro, to specifically enhance the activity of a microRNA of high interest to miRagen.

28 Jan 2011

Receptos begins RPC1063 Phase 1 clinical study in patients with multiple sclerosis

Receptos, announced today that their highly selective sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 agonist, RPC1063, has been administered to the first subject in a single-ascending and multiple-ascending dose design Phase 1 clinical safety study.

28 Jan 2011

Cardiac stem cell therapy can rebuild damaged heart in children

Visionaries in the field of cardiac therapeutics have long looked to the future when a damaged heart could be rebuilt or repaired by using one's own heart cells. A study published in the February issue of Circulation, a scientific journal of the American Heart Association, shows that heart stem cells from children with congenital heart disease were able to rebuild the damaged heart in the laboratory.

27 Jan 2011

Study finds surgery greatly reduces daytime sleepiness in sleep apnea patients

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea who undergo surgery to improve their breathing get a better night's sleep and therefore are less drowsy during the day, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

27 Jan 2011

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

Budget woes lead states to seek ways to ease Medicaid's requirements

Apple Valley Medical Clinic inaugurates new Sleep Center to provide quality care

Both absence of insulin and resistance to insulin are associated with defects in FAS

New Balance Foundation supports Children's Hospital Boston with $7 million gift for pediatric obesity program

First Edition: January 28, 2011

NIH awards CCTSI $2.2 million grant to advance personalized medicine

Misaligned research, medical challenges and harsh economics thwart efforts against Alzheimer's disease

PHM updates customer pipeline for investors and research analysts

Prototype drug halts GVHD in mouse models of bone marrow transplantation

Study identifies gaps in primary health care for seniors with multiple chronic conditions

Patients and spouses experience distress related to diabetes

New research: Retired NFL players more likely to misuse painkillers

Single DNA variation linked to decreased risk of coronary disease in African-Americans

Study aims to determine risk of dementia, cognitive decline in middle-aged people

Boston Scientific reports first U.S. use of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter in BLOCk-CTI clinical trial

UMMS, Lundbeck enter research collaboration to develop targeted therapy for HD

Positive results from RXi's sd-rxRNA technology for development of novel therapeutics

Receptos begins RPC1063 Phase 1 clinical study in patients with multiple sclerosis

Cardiac stem cell therapy can rebuild damaged heart in children

Study finds surgery greatly reduces daytime sleepiness in sleep apnea patients

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