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Allsup and PRIUM partner to address pharmacy regimens and costs for MSAs

PRIUM and Allsup Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance Services have joined forces to address pharmacy regimens and costs before submitting Medicare Set-Asides to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

7 Jan 2012

Questcor reports record vial shipments of Acthar in fourth quarter 2011

In preparation for meetings starting Monday, January 9 with investors and an investor presentation scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 12 at the J. P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced preliminary operating metrics for the fourth quarter 2011.

7 Jan 2012

Trail of research that led to discovery of aspirin's role in prevention of first heart attack

Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., DrPH, the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor as well as first recipient of an endowed chair in the new Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, has published a Citation Classic in the current issue of Clinical Chemistry. Hennekens was the founding principal investigator (PI) of the landmark Physician's Health Study and was the first to demonstrate that aspirin prevents a first heart attack.

7 Jan 2012

HHS' new rules on electronic payments could benefit doctors, hospitals

NPR reports on how efforts to set uniform standards for electronic claims for health care services could pay off.

7 Jan 2012

RetireSafe calls upon Express Scripts PBM to come to an agreement with Walgreens

RetireSafe, a 400,000-supporter strong grassroots organization that advocates and educates on behalf of America's seniors on issues regarding Social Security, Medicare, health and financial well-being, today urged Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI) to return to the negotiating table, and come to an agreement with Walgreens.

7 Jan 2012

New Zealand life science and health IT companies to showcase their products in San Francisco

New Zealand is well known for its wines and stunning scenery, but the country is also a great source of innovation in the life sciences. A delegation of New Zealand life sciences companies who have reached key stages in their development are joining the throngs of international therapeutics, medical device and health IT companies in San Francisco, January 9 - 12 to showcase their products and capabilities to potential corporate partners and investors.

7 Jan 2012

New U.S. patent covers key element of Xencor's Xtend half-life prolongation technology

Xencor, Inc., a company using its proprietary Protein Design Automation (PDA) platform technology to engineer next-generation antibodies, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Xencor a broad patent covering optimized monoclonal antibody variants and their application for extending in vivo half-life of antibodies.

7 Jan 2012

Leo Burnett Business named agency of record for Shriners Hospitals For Children

Today, Shriners Hospitals For Children announced Leo Burnett Business, the business-to-business agency of The Leo Burnett Group, as its agency of record for all brand positioning, creative strategy, media and public relations initiatives.

7 Jan 2012

Kenyan government adopts new HIV testing guidelines following WHO recall

"The Kenyan government has changed its HIV testing algorithm following the withdrawal of a widely used brand of HIV test [based] on warnings from" the WHO, PlusNews reports.

7 Jan 2012

Safe Kids Pennsylvania to exhibit injury prevention at 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show

Safe Kids Pennsylvania today announced that they will exhibit at the 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show to reach thousands of parents and caregivers with information about preventing childhood injuries.

7 Jan 2012

Consumer Electronic Show's Silvers Summit to take place on Jan. 10

The 2012 Consumer Electronic Show's Silvers Summit takes place on January 10, 2012. Nancy Shonka Padberg, CEO Navigate Boomer Media, will be on a billion dollar industry panel discussing digital media, health and wealth of baby boomer women.

7 Jan 2012

Moving FAO forward with sights on hunger eradication

Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, writes in a Huffington Post opinion piece, My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push towards achieving the first millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people living in hunger and extreme poverty by 2015, but also to look beyond it, to the final, total eradication of hunger from this planet.

7 Jan 2012

Proposal to tie likelihood of sleep apnea to body mass index

The first lawsuit against a trucking company acknowledging that sleep apnea played a role in a highway death reached a settlement last week. A Texas family was awarded over $3 million dollars after a driver rear-ended John Lindsay's vehicle on a Texas interstate in May of 2010. Evidence showed that the driver had refused to treat his previously diagnosed sleep apnea and the company did not ensure follow up care was provided.

7 Jan 2012

Austin Recovery, Emmy Award-winning 'Intervention' program team up to save an addict's life

Austin Recovery, the largest and most affordable not-for-profit drug and alcohol treatment center in Texas, has once again teamed up with the Emmy Award-winning "Intervention" program to save an addict's life.

7 Jan 2012

Winners of JHM competition to receive John G. Rangos Medal of Honor in Creative Thinking

Five Johns Hopkins students have been selected as finalists in a competition to find new ways to cure metastatic cancer. The five, whose ideas were chosen from among 44 presentations, will compete on January 13, 2012, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., for the top prize of $20,000 and a chance to pursue their research proposals.

7 Jan 2012

Cannabis Science extracts benefit squamous cell carcinoma cancer and skin cancer patients

We stumbled upon this news a couple weeks back regarding Cannabis Science, Inc. reported the continuing successful progress by two patients who have been topically self-administering Cannabis Science extracts for Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cancer and Skin Cancer.

7 Jan 2012

OCF to offer free oral cancer screenings in April 2012

Did you know that the fastest growing segment of the oral cancer community is young, healthy non-smokers? It's shocking but true. Exposure to the HPV-16 virus, the most common sexually transmitted infection, is now the leading cause of oral cancers in the U.S. There is little that can be done to stop this virus from spreading. Our only hope to save lives is through increased professional involvement and public awareness to generate early discovery of the disease process.

7 Jan 2012

Cardinal Health launches infusion room management tool for community rheumatologists

Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions today launched InfusaTrack, a Web-based infusion room management tool that makes it easier for community rheumatology practices to offer in-office infusion therapy services to patients.

7 Jan 2012

Magellan launches two fitness products

Magellan GPS announced today the launch of its first two products in its new fitness line: Switch and Switch Up. Designed to meet the needs of runners, cyclists, and multisport athletes, the new Switch Series is a powerful, adaptable, and customizable family of crossover GPS watches that will integrate seamlessly with third party sites.

7 Jan 2012

AccuGenomics to participate in OneMedForum at Sir Francis Drake hotel

AccuGenomics announced today that it will be attending the upcoming OneMedForum at the Sir Francis Drake hotel in San Francisco on January 9-12, coinciding with the JP Morgan Global Healthcare Conference.

7 Jan 2012

Medical News

Allsup and PRIUM partner to address pharmacy regimens and costs for MSAs

Questcor reports record vial shipments of Acthar in fourth quarter 2011

Trail of research that led to discovery of aspirin's role in prevention of first heart attack

HHS' new rules on electronic payments could benefit doctors, hospitals

RetireSafe calls upon Express Scripts PBM to come to an agreement with Walgreens

New Zealand life science and health IT companies to showcase their products in San Francisco

New U.S. patent covers key element of Xencor's Xtend half-life prolongation technology

Leo Burnett Business named agency of record for Shriners Hospitals For Children

Kenyan government adopts new HIV testing guidelines following WHO recall

Safe Kids Pennsylvania to exhibit injury prevention at 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show

Consumer Electronic Show's Silvers Summit to take place on Jan. 10

Moving FAO forward with sights on hunger eradication

Proposal to tie likelihood of sleep apnea to body mass index

Austin Recovery, Emmy Award-winning 'Intervention' program team up to save an addict's life

Winners of JHM competition to receive John G. Rangos Medal of Honor in Creative Thinking

Cannabis Science extracts benefit squamous cell carcinoma cancer and skin cancer patients

OCF to offer free oral cancer screenings in April 2012

Cardinal Health launches infusion room management tool for community rheumatologists

Magellan launches two fitness products

AccuGenomics to participate in OneMedForum at Sir Francis Drake hotel

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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