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Obama, Romney exchange barbs on Medicare, abortion

The former Massachusetts governor, responding to charges of a GOP "war on women," says his state health overhaul provided health care for "all women and men." The president, meanwhile, fights back against charges that he is taking money out of Medicare by asserting he wants to strengthen and preverve the program. Both campaigns also debut new ads on Medicare.

27 Aug 2012

Loyola University Medical Center named among Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems

Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) has been named one of the nation's Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems, according to results of the 2012 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study.

27 Aug 2012

AIDS Healthcare Foundation acquires MOMS Pharmacy

On August 20, 2012, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced that it acquired MOMS Pharmacy, a specialty pharmacy focused exclusively on providing medications and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS.

27 Aug 2012

Essential Learning announces new partnership with Hazelden

Essential Learning, the leading provider of e-learning solutions to the behavioral health and human service industries, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Hazelden, a nonprofit organization for addiction treatment and publisher of treatment, behavioral health and youth violence educational resources.

27 Aug 2012

New non-invasive brain scan can benefit patients with epileptic seizures

A team of University of Minnesota biomedical engineers and researchers from Mayo Clinic published a groundbreaking study today that outlines how a new type of non-invasive brain scan taken immediately after a seizure gives additional insight into possible causes and treatments for epilepsy patients.

27 Aug 2012

MedQIA develops new software that forms the basis of Imaging Biomarker Information System

MedQIA has developed a software toolkit of image analysis routines that forms the basis of an Imaging Biomarker Information System (IBIS).

27 Aug 2012

Pennsylvania State Nurses Association chooses Bluedrop's cloud-based learning platform

Bluedrop Performance Learning Inc. is pleased to announce a partnership with Pennsylvania State Nurses Association (PSNA), the voice for Registered Nurses in Pennsylvania.

27 Aug 2012

New molecular mechanism plays a crucial role in inhibiting TGF-beta signaling

Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massagu-, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, have identified a new molecular mechanism that plays a crucial role in the control of the activation of certain genes associated with cancer.

27 Aug 2012

Medicare, health policies stay in spotlight at top of the ticket

The Washington Post compares how Medicare fares under the health law versus under the Ryan plan, while NBC questions whether the GOP effort to hammer President Obama for reducing Medicare spending to pay for the health overhaul will work -- especially since GOP budget proposals make the same cuts.

27 Aug 2012

Latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development now available in IEEE Xplore

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, announced that the latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development, a special issue on Technologies for Healthcare Transformation, is now exclusively available in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

27 Aug 2012

Despite controversy, WHO not likely to change its stance on misoprostol use

Highlighting a recent report by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine about the use of the drug misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and the WHO's inclusion of the drug on its Essential Medicine List, Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley writes in this post in her "Global Health Blog," "Seldom has there been a drug that has excited as much controversy as misoprostol."

27 Aug 2012

Diet and exercise help protect astronauts' bones in space

Eating the right diet and exercising hard in space helps protect International Space Station astronauts' bones, a finding that may help solve one of the key problems facing future explorers heading beyond low Earth orbit.

27 Aug 2012

WFP podcast examines implications of rising food prices on global hunger

In this episode of the World Food Programme's (WFP) Food Factor Podcast, WFP Deputy Director of Food Security Analysis Arif Husain examines "what the third food-price shock in five years means for the fight against hunger."

27 Aug 2012

Detect-to-Protect project to measure performance of new sensors for biological agents

The idea that disease and infection might be used as weapons is truly dreadful, but there is plenty of evidence showing that biological weapons have been around since ancient times. Bioterrorism, as it is dubbed, is nothing new, and although medicines have made the world a safer place against a myriad of old scourges both natural and manmade, it still remains all too easy today to uncork a nasty cloud of germs.

27 Aug 2012

HHS softens stage 2 meaningful use standards for electronic health records

In other health information technology news, the American Hospital Association has suggested modifications to Federal Communication Commission's Rural Health Care Pilot Program.

27 Aug 2012

Patients tend to have worse outcomes when GBM appears in more than one location

When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease starts as a single tumor, even though patients in both groups undergo virtually identical treatments, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Research Institute.

27 Aug 2012

Calif. insurer agrees to pay record settlement over excess Medicaid payments

A health plan in California has agreed to pay a record $320 million settlement over allegations it was overpaid by the state's Medicaid program. Also in the news, a California hospital chain will pay $16.5 million to settle with the California Medicaid program and Medicare after a patient "kickback" investigation.

27 Aug 2012

Researchers discover new genetic disease related to vitamin B12 deficiency

Vitamin B12 is essential to human health. However, some people have inherited conditions that leave them unable to process vitamin B12. As a result they are prone to serious health problems, including developmental delay, psychosis, stroke and dementia. An international research team recently discovered a new genetic disease related to vitamin B12 deficiency by identifying a gene that is vital to the transport of vitamin into the cells of the body.

27 Aug 2012

PEI adjuvant improves effect of vaccines against flu, HIV and herpes

Oxford University scientists have discovered a compound that greatly boosts the effect of vaccines against viruses like flu, HIV and herpes in mice.

26 Aug 2012

Fertile women with obesity more likely to develop atrial fibrillation

Obesity triggers atrial fibrillation in fertile women, according to research presented today at the ESC Congress 2012 by Dr Deniz Karasoy from Denmark.

26 Aug 2012