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Viewpoints: How media missed Ryan AARP story; Romney and women voters; The price of medical mistakes

The headlines this weekend were all about the boos Paul Ryan elicited on Friday when he addressed the AARP, the self-styled seniors' lobby. The herd of independent media minds missed the real story, which is that the Republican Vice Presidential nominee went into the heart of the entitlement culture, told some hard truths, and even won applause for doing so.

25 Sep 2012

Safety tips to help reduce fall clean-up injuries

Home chores never seem to get erased from the to-do-list and with several holidays around the corner this fall, many of those tasks move even higher on that list. As part of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' (AAOS) Prevent Injuries America! campaign, orthopaedic surgeons would rather prevent than treat fall clean-up injuries.

25 Sep 2012

New Jersey Hospital Association expands Career Center

The New Jersey Hospital Association has expanded its Career Center by giving its members access to the National Healthcare Career Network (NHCN), an integrated alliance of nearly 300 recruiting career centers of professional associations.

25 Sep 2012

New nanotechnology detects micrometastases in mouse models of breast cancer

Malignant cells that leave a primary tumor, travel the bloodstream and grow out of control in new locations cause the vast majority of cancer deaths. New nanotechnology developed at Case Western Reserve University detects these metastases in mouse models of breast cancer far earlier than current methods, a step toward earlier, life-saving diagnosis and treatment.

25 Sep 2012

Anti-androgen therapies may benefit bladder cancer patients

Bladder cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of the protein CD24 have worse prognoses than patients with lower CD24. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that CD24 expression may depend on androgens - and that anti-androgen therapies like those currently used to treat prostate cancer may benefit bladder cancer patients.

25 Sep 2012

Sudanese refugee camps see improvement in water, food provisions, but concerns remain over disease threats, overcrowding

"Aid agencies say water and food provision has improved in four camps housing more than 105,000 refugees from Sudan's Blue Nile State, but flooding, disease and an influx of additional refugees pose new threats," IRIN reports, noting, "Sudan's government forces and rebels have been fighting in Blue Nile State since September 2011, sending refugees south."

25 Sep 2012

Electromed fiscal 2012 net revenues increase to $19.5 million

Electromed, Inc., today announced financial results for the 2012 fourth quarter and fiscal year, ended June 30, 2012.

25 Sep 2012

Paced breathing may reduce hot flashes in women

Regular, daily practice of calm or paced breathing may ease hot flashes, shows a new study published online in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society.

25 Sep 2012

PAM50 potentially simplifies underlying breast tumor biology

On September 23, researchers published online in the journal Nature a study of the molecular biology of breast cancer, using the intrinsic subtypes as defined by the PAM50 gene signature as an organizing framework for analyzing genomic and proteomic aberrations. This landmark study both underscores the emergence of the intrinsic subtypes as a powerful taxonomy of breast cancer in research, and PAM50's role as the gold standard for categorizing breast cancer by subtype.

From NanoString Technologies 25 Sep 2012

Combination of healing touch and guided imagery reduces depression, cynicism among US Marines

Healing touch combined with guided imagery (HT+GI) provides significant clinical reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms for combat-exposed active duty military, according to a study released in the September issue of Military Medicine.

25 Sep 2012

Health Care REIT completes public offering of 29,900,000 shares of common stock

Health Care REIT, Inc. today announced it has successfully completed its public offering of 29,900,000 shares of common stock at a price of $56.00 per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $1.7 billion. Total shares sold includes 3,900,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters' exercise in full of their option to purchase additional shares.

25 Sep 2012

Lonafarnib proves effective for children with progeria

Results of the first-ever clinical drug trial for children with Progeria, a rare, fatal "rapid-aging" disease, demonstrate the efficacy of a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI), a drug originally developed to treat cancer. The clinical trial results, completed only six years after scientists identified the cause of Progeria, included significant improvements in weight gain, bone structure and, most importantly, the cardiovascular system, according to The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) and Boston Children's Hospital.

25 Sep 2012

Protect Your Manhood, ZERO collaborate to address prostate health

ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer is partnering with Protect Your Manhood, a New Hampshire seacoast based start-up founded by prostatitis survivor and marketing maven Chris Sargent, which offers a culturally relevant resource to promote prostate health.

25 Sep 2012

pSivida reports revenues of $699,000 for fourth quarter 2012

pSivida Corp., a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2012.

25 Sep 2012

Study tracks and compares brain growth in chimpanzee and human fetuses

Humans' superior brain size in comparison to their chimpanzee cousins traces all the way back to the womb. That's according to a study reported in the September 25 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that is the first to track and compare brain growth in chimpanzee and human fetuses.

25 Sep 2012