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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

ASAP Quotes launches life insurance leads for agents

ASAP Quotes was founded with more than 20 years experience as agents, brokers, medical billing, and insurance specialists with one goal in mind: to help generate a premier source of health insurance leads for other agents within the industry.

7 Jan 2012

Study shows high consistency of malignancy-risk gene signature on both breast cancer and NSCLC

A malignancy-risk gene signature developed for breast cancer has been found to have predictive and prognostic value for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer. The advancement was made by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., who published their study results in a recent issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

7 Jan 2012

AVMA warns against further restrictions on cephalosporin usage in food animals that are not backed by science

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) announced today that the FDA's order prohibiting certain uses of cephalosporins in food animals appears consistent with the current AVMA position on the limited prohibition on extra-label drug use, but warned against further restrictions not backed by science.

7 Jan 2012

MINDBODY offers cloud-based business management software to over 15,000 clients

MINDBODY clients saw an average increase of 22% in holiday gift giving for health and wellness services this year over the 2010 season, with over 2,300 gift cards purchased as last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve.

7 Jan 2012

Silence completes siRNA research work with AstraZeneca, MedImmune

Silence Therapeutics plc, a leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics company, announces the successful completion of its research work under the Research Collaboration and Delivery Collaboration with its partner AstraZeneca and its biologics arm, MedImmune.

7 Jan 2012

Justice Department, lawmakers file SCOTUS health suit briefs

The Obama administration on Friday told the Supreme Court that the requirement to buy insurance in its health reform law is well within Congress's constitutional boundaries - and insisted that legally, the law doesn't break any new ground. The 130-page brief is the first the Justice Department has filed since the court agreed to review the law.

7 Jan 2012

Hospital employees report few medical errors, finds HHS study

A new study released today by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that hospital employees are only reporting fourteen percent of all medical errors and usually don't change their practices to prevent future harm to patients.

7 Jan 2012

Pro Football Hall of Fame, U.S. Army partner and launch Award for Excellence program

The U.S. Army and the Pro Football Hall of Fame today announced their partnership and launch of the U.S. Army – Pro Football Hall of Fame – Award for Excellence Program.

7 Jan 2012

Medical News

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

ASAP Quotes launches life insurance leads for agents

Study shows high consistency of malignancy-risk gene signature on both breast cancer and NSCLC

AVMA warns against further restrictions on cephalosporin usage in food animals that are not backed by science

MINDBODY offers cloud-based business management software to over 15,000 clients

Silence completes siRNA research work with AstraZeneca, MedImmune

Justice Department, lawmakers file SCOTUS health suit briefs

Hospital employees report few medical errors, finds HHS study

Pro Football Hall of Fame, U.S. Army partner and launch Award for Excellence program

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