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Report: Major gains in effort to enroll children in public health care programs

The report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services found that the number of children eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program fell. Meanwhile, HHS also awarded $40 million in grants for more outreach.

20 Aug 2011

U-M skilled physician named as Scleroderma Foundation's Doctor of the Year

The Scleroderma Foundation named Dinesh Khanna, M.D., M.Sc., its 2011 Doctor of the Year during this year's National Patient Education Conference held last month in San Francisco. The award recognizes a skilled physician or researcher for his or her involvement within the Foundation, and for helping provide guidance and support to the organization's patient population.

20 Aug 2011

Canuck Place receives TD donation to build new children's hospice in Abbotsford

Thanks to a generous donation from TD Bank Group, the construction of the second Canuck Place Children's Hospice in Abbotsford, B.C. will include the creation of a space to relax, connect and unwind for some of its most important people: volunteers.

20 Aug 2011

VOA News examines new drug compound that shows broad-based efficacy in lab tests

VOA News looks at a new drug compound developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that they say has so far "killed every virus it's been tested on in the laboratory." "The drug - known by the acronym DRACO - works by chemically targeting viral-infected cells and prompting them to self-destruct, eliminating the disease in the process," VOA writes.

20 Aug 2011

FDA accepts Alexza ADASUVE NDA, assigns PDUFA action date

Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the ADASUVE New Drug Application (NDA) as a complete, class 2 response to the FDA's action letter, with an indicated Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of February 4, 2012.

20 Aug 2011

HDS discusses market opportunity linked with carbon sequestration technologies

HDS International Corp., a provider of industrial ocean-based biomass production and other high-value eco-sustainability solutions, today discussed the market opportunity associated with its carbon sequestration technologies.

20 Aug 2011

EBD Group, MassBio announce plenary sessions program for BioPharm America 2011

EBD Group and MassBio today announced the plenary sessions program for BioPharm America 2011, being held at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, September 7-9.

20 Aug 2011

Statin therapy may not be appropriate for certain patients at risk for stroke

For many patients, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs can reduce the risk of strokes as well as heart attacks.

20 Aug 2011

FAO holds second emergency meeting on Famine; WHO warns of cholera spread; Turkish PM visits Mogadishu

For the second time in one month, representatives of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held an emergency meeting on Thursday in Rome "to take stock of the humanitarian disaster" in the Horn of Africa, the Guardian reports.

20 Aug 2011

Hookah use among California youths is rising rapidly: Study

Hookah use among California youth ages 18 to 24 is rising rapidly according to a study conducted by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

20 Aug 2011

Supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression

Working moms have lower rates of depression than their stay-at-home counterparts, but buying into the supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression, suggests new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

20 Aug 2011

Nigerian Governors launch polio vaccination campaign

"The 36-member Nigerian Governors' Forum has launched a new initiative to rid the country of polio," VOA News reports.

20 Aug 2011

Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's deadly medication

The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. For three and a half millennia, the vessel may have held a deadly secret. This is what the Head of the collection, Michael H-veler-M-ller and Dr. Helmut Wiedenfeld from the university's Pharmacology Institute just discovered.

20 Aug 2011

Scientists report molecular structural basis for sex organ, head deformities

Scientists this month reported the molecular structural basis for severe head deformities and ambiguous sex organs in babies born with Antley-Bixler syndrome accompanied by an enzyme deficiency.

20 Aug 2011

Babies of mothers with higher pre-pregnancy BMI are fatter, finds study

Babies of mothers with a higher pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) are fatter and have more fat in their liver, a study published in September's issue of the journal Pediatric Research has found.

20 Aug 2011

Viewpoints: Tea party & Medicare; Minn. health exchange politics; fixing drug shortages

Unlike the Florida district court that earlier found ObamaCare unconstitutional, the 11th Circuit did not invalidate the entire law. But it likewise reaffirmed the fundamental constitutional rule that our federal government is one of enumerated powers with judicially enforceable limits.

20 Aug 2011

Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City joins UAB Cancer Care Network

Residents of Bay County, Fla., and surrounding communities will have access to the advanced care of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Care Network now that Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City has joined as its first Florida affiliate.

20 Aug 2011

NIH-supported project expands genetic research into clinical setting

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have received a $762,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to tailor drug treatments to patients' genomic information.

20 Aug 2011

Researchers turn their attention to Chagas disease as developed countries see rise in infection rates

Chagas disease, a historically neglected tropical disease that the WHO estimates affects about 10 million people worldwide, is drawing increased attention as infection by the parasite spreads from Latin America to developed countries, such as Spain and the United States, Science reports.

20 Aug 2011

Wistar Institute, Graham Cancer Center enter research collaboration

Christiana Care Health System's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and The Wistar Institute, an international leader in biomedical research, have entered into an historic partnership to collaborate on translational cancer research with the aim of bringing the latest discoveries in cancer research to cancer patients in the community.

20 Aug 2011