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ACOs: Will feds be ready for the start date?

Health care stakeholders and lobbyists are increasingly convinced that CMS will not make the Jan. 1 deadline for launching the flagship accountable care organization program mandated by the Affordable Care Act as release of the final rule slips later into the fall.

29 Sep 2011

National Partnership for Women & Families, ACP commend Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

The American College of Physicians (ACP) and the National Partnership for Women & Families joined today to commend the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the announcement of the new Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative.

29 Sep 2011

HHS awards prevention funds with Community Transformation Grants

News outlets report on local winners, how they will use these new resources to promote healthy living and disease prevention and how the funding is sometimes at odds with their leaders' opposition to the health law.

29 Sep 2011

Study reports positive effect of RESPeRATE on CHF patients

InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, today announced that European Journal of Heart Failure, a peer reviewed medical journal of the European Society of Cardiology, published the results of a 72-patients, randomized, controlled study which demonstrated that device-guided respiratory modulation with RESPeRATE applied at the home setting can significantly relieve symptoms of heart failure in elderly patients.

29 Sep 2011

Hospitals fall short in efforts to curb readmissions

A Dartmouth Atlas report that studied Medicare beneficiaries concluded that hospital readmission rates are largely static. Facilities will face financial penalities next year if they do not improve their statistics.

29 Sep 2011

Researchers discover kibra protein controls sculpting of brain circuitry

Researchers working with adult mice have discovered that learning and memory were profoundly affected when they altered the amounts of a certain protein in specific parts of the mammals' brains.

29 Sep 2011

House GOP lawmakers launch new investigation into Planned Parenthood

House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., sent Planned Parenthood a six-page letter earlier this month requesting financial information and details on how the women's health organization keeps federal funds separate from abortion services.

29 Sep 2011

People with prehypertension have higher risk of experiencing future stroke

People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurology.

29 Sep 2011

NPR: What boomers think about health and retirement

Most baby boomers say they're planning on an active and healthy retirement, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. And, in a switch from earlier years, more than two-thirds recognize the threat of long-term care expenses to their financial futures.

29 Sep 2011

Researchers use patient's own stem cells to correct genetic alteration that causes SCD

Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans. The corrected stem cells were coaxed into immature red blood cells in a test tube that then turned on a normal version of the gene.

29 Sep 2011

Debt panel operates in secret, eyes 'dual eligibles' as possible source of savings

The 'super committee' is taking a look at proposals to reduce spending on this population, which qualifies for both Medicare and Medicaid and is made up of the sickest and poorest American citizens. In the background, the New York Times examines what congressional "short-term fixes" say about the legislative body.

29 Sep 2011

Cincinnati Children's to conduct first pediatric migraine medicine clinical trial

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has received a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first clinical trial to determine the medication of choice for preventing migraines in children and teens.

29 Sep 2011

Administration seeks quick Supreme Court health law ruling

This Justice Department step is being viewed as a signal that the Obama administration wants the high court to decide the question of the health law's constitutionality before the 2012 presidential election.

29 Sep 2011

NORC report shows clear trend toward greater tolerance of homosexuality

Although sharply divided, public attitudes toward gays and lesbians are rapidly changing to reflect greater acceptance, with younger generations leading the way, research by NORC at the University of Chicago shows.

29 Sep 2011

Study: Mammographic surveillance improves outcomes of breast cancer patients

New research published in Health Technology Assessment 2011; vol. 15:34 has found that surveillance using mammography increases the survival chances of breast cancer patients. The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme.

29 Sep 2011

Plans to cut municipal workers' health benefits reconsidered in L.A.; DeKalb County, Ga.

Los Angeles officials are being challenged on their authority to make changes and, in Georgia, officials have delayed their vote after concerns were raised about costs of the popular program.

29 Sep 2011

ICSU endorses plans for new global initiative on urban health

The General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) today endorsed plans for a new global initiative " Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: A Systems Analysis Approach".

29 Sep 2011

Simple low-cost method for isolation and collection of fragile prostate cancer cells

At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati researchers will present a simple, low-cost, method for separating and safely collecting concentrated volumes of fragile prostate cancer cells.

29 Sep 2011

Roundup: Calif. legislator's health bill comes under scrutiny; D.C. facing doctor shortage

A few hours earlier, using an obscure parliamentary procedure, the senator had carved the contents out of a bill about local gas taxes and "amended" it into a proposal to warn women about breast cancer risks. It was now speeding through the statehouse so fast, and with so little scrutiny, that Sen. Joe Simitian would later be on the defensive about one significant effect: a possible multimillion-dollar windfall for a medical business in his district.

29 Sep 2011

Latest research from world's leading allergists to be presented at ACAAI 2011 meeting

Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2011 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. 3-8, in Boston.

29 Sep 2011

Medical News

ACOs: Will feds be ready for the start date?

National Partnership for Women & Families, ACP commend Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

HHS awards prevention funds with Community Transformation Grants

Study reports positive effect of RESPeRATE on CHF patients

Hospitals fall short in efforts to curb readmissions

Researchers discover kibra protein controls sculpting of brain circuitry

House GOP lawmakers launch new investigation into Planned Parenthood

People with prehypertension have higher risk of experiencing future stroke

NPR: What boomers think about health and retirement

Researchers use patient's own stem cells to correct genetic alteration that causes SCD

Debt panel operates in secret, eyes 'dual eligibles' as possible source of savings

Cincinnati Children's to conduct first pediatric migraine medicine clinical trial

Administration seeks quick Supreme Court health law ruling

NORC report shows clear trend toward greater tolerance of homosexuality

Study: Mammographic surveillance improves outcomes of breast cancer patients

Plans to cut municipal workers' health benefits reconsidered in L.A.; DeKalb County, Ga.

ICSU endorses plans for new global initiative on urban health

Simple low-cost method for isolation and collection of fragile prostate cancer cells

Roundup: Calif. legislator's health bill comes under scrutiny; D.C. facing doctor shortage

Latest research from world's leading allergists to be presented at ACAAI 2011 meeting

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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