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CHS commences cash tender offer and consent solicitation for 8⅞% Senior Notes due 2015

Community Health Systems, Inc. today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc., has commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of its approximately $934 million outstanding principal amount of 8⅞% Senior Notes due 2015.

4 Jul 2012

GRP78 plays an important role in breast cancers that respond to anti-estrogen therapy

Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered a single molecule they say is a major determinant of resistance to anti-estrogen therapy used to treat or prevent breast cancer in high-risk women.

3 Jul 2012

$Researchers report positive effects of ibuprofen on bone repair after fracture or surgery$

Researchers report positive effects of ibuprofen on bone repair after fracture or surgery

A study conducted at the University of Granada has demonstrated that ibuprofen -a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)- has beneficial effects on bone repair after a fracture or following bone surgery.

3 Jul 2012

PharMerica to purchase $25 million of common stock

PharMerica Corporation, a national provider of institutional pharmacy and hospital pharmacy management services, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an increase in its existing share purchase program that will allow the Company to purchase up to $25 million of its common stock in the open market through unsolicited or solicited privately negotiated transactions, or in such other appropriate manner, and will be funded from available cash.

3 Jul 2012

Critical Diagnostics showcases Presage ST2 Assay at AAHFN annual meeting

Critical Diagnostics, makers of the Presage ST2 Assay, participated in the annual meeting for the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses in Chicago, considered the premier meeting in heart failure nursing.

3 Jul 2012

GSA becomes home to Coordinating Center for National HCGNE

Effective July 1, The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has become home to the Coordinating Center for the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (HCGNE), also known as the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative.

3 Jul 2012

LTC acquires skilled nursing property in Brownwood, Texas

LTC Properties, Inc. announced today that it acquired a skilled nursing property with 90 licensed beds for $6.5 million. The property is located in Brownwood, Texas and was built in 2011.

3 Jul 2012

EvergreenHealth, King County EMS collaborate to prevent future falls among older adults

The risk of suffering a serious injury from a fall is an unfortunate reality for many elderly people in King County, with more than 14 percent of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responses for patients age 65 and older attributed to falls in the home. In order to prevent future falls, EvergreenHealth and King County EMS are collaborating to provide assistance to elderly community members.

3 Jul 2012

State roundup: Bumpy managed care transition in Calif.

A selection of health policy stories from California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Minnesota.

2 Jul 2012

Potential link between mutant huntingtin, cell loss and cell death in Huntington's disease

Using an in vitro cell model of Huntington's disease (HD), researchers at Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have discovered a novel mechanism and potential link between mutant huntingtin, cell loss and cell death or apoptosis in the brain, which is responsible for the devastating effects of this disease. Apoptosis has been proposed as one of the mechanisms leading to neuronal death in HD.

2 Jul 2012

Community Health Systems acquires Memorial Health Systems in York

Community Health Systems, Inc. announced today that subsidiaries of the Company have acquired substantially all of the assets of Memorial Health Systems in York, Pennsylvania.

2 Jul 2012

Pediatric pain still common in hospitals

Despite advances in the understanding and treatment of pediatric pain, many hospitalized children continue to experience serious pain, according to a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Pain Management Nursing.

2 Jul 2012

AACN selects six Indianapolis hospitals for rollout of Clinical Scene Investigator Academy

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has selected six Indianapolis hospitals as the initial participants to launch its hospital-based nurse leadership and innovation training program.

2 Jul 2012

Under-performance of small bowel biopsy a major reason behind underdiagnosis of celiac disease

Under-performance of small bowel biopsy during endoscopy may be a major reason that celiac disease remains underdiagnosed in the United States, according to a new study published online recently in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Investigators at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) found that the rate of small bowel biopsy is low in this country.

30 Jun 2012

Rapamycin enhances learning and memory in young mice

Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer's disease. Texas scientists seeking a way to prevent this decline reported exciting results this week with a drug that has Polynesian roots.

30 Jun 2012

Rate of small bowel biopsy is low in the U.S.

30 Jun 2012

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Pearl Scott lifts the baby from the crib and balances the child on her hip, just as someone did with her when she was a baby 20 years ago. Her mom went through addiction treatment here in the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest's residential center. Now Scott works for NARA, operated by and for Native Americans. She helps care for the 10 children, all 5 years old and younger, of parents in treatment.

30 Jun 2012

Novo Nordisk, BRI collaborate to speed-up translational research of autoimmune diseases

Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), a non-profit biomedical research institute in Seattle, Wash., and Novo Nordisk, a global health care company headquartered in Denmark, today announced a three-year collaborative agreement to potentially speed-up translational research of the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and lupus.

29 Jun 2012

Sinai Hospital begins to use Solitaire FR device for treatment of acute stroke

Sinai Hospital has begun use of a new device that provides timely live-saving treatment for acute stroke patients. The Solitaire FR revascularization device is designed to minimize damage caused by blockage of an artery to the brain by mechanically removing blood clots and restoring blood flow.

29 Jun 2012

Roundup: Sole abortion clinic in Miss. sues over new law, Kansas awards Medicaid managed care contracts

The lone abortion facility in Mississippi asked a federal court on Wednesday to block a new state law that will require doctors who perform the controversial procedure to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law, set to take effect on Sunday, threatens to make Mississippi the only U.S. state without an abortion clinic.

29 Jun 2012

Nursing News and Research

Latest Nursing News and Research

CHS commences cash tender offer and consent solicitation for 8⅞% Senior Notes due 2015

GRP78 plays an important role in breast cancers that respond to anti-estrogen therapy

Researchers report positive effects of ibuprofen on bone repair after fracture or surgery

PharMerica to purchase $25 million of common stock

Critical Diagnostics showcases Presage ST2 Assay at AAHFN annual meeting

GSA becomes home to Coordinating Center for National HCGNE

LTC acquires skilled nursing property in Brownwood, Texas

EvergreenHealth, King County EMS collaborate to prevent future falls among older adults

State roundup: Bumpy managed care transition in Calif.

Potential link between mutant huntingtin, cell loss and cell death in Huntington's disease

Community Health Systems acquires Memorial Health Systems in York

Pediatric pain still common in hospitals

AACN selects six Indianapolis hospitals for rollout of Clinical Scene Investigator Academy

Under-performance of small bowel biopsy a major reason behind underdiagnosis of celiac disease

Rapamycin enhances learning and memory in young mice

Rate of small bowel biopsy is low in the U.S.

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Novo Nordisk, BRI collaborate to speed-up translational research of autoimmune diseases

Sinai Hospital begins to use Solitaire FR device for treatment of acute stroke

Roundup: Sole abortion clinic in Miss. sues over new law, Kansas awards Medicaid managed care contracts

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