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Golden Rule Insurance offers summer travel tips

Summer is here and it's time to get away. But while you are making vacation plans, take a few minutes to think about what you might do if an unexpected medical emergency should occur, especially if you are traveling away from home.

28 Jun 2011

HHSC, Texas Health extend Kofax Capture solution

Kofax plc, the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has extended its Kofax Capture solution to process a higher number of documents annually.

28 Jun 2011

GlobalPost examines family planning and maternal health in Malawi

GlobalPost on Sunday published two articles examining family planning and maternal mortality in Malawi.

28 Jun 2011

Biolauncher, Isogenica and Cresset enter joint venture to develop drug discovery platform

Isogenica Ltd today announced a collaborative joint venture with Biolauncher Ltd and Cresset Biomolecular Discovery Ltd to develop an innovative end-to-end therapeutic discovery platform.

28 Jun 2011

Stretch U.S. foreign aid spending by encouraging competition

Given the competing factors of America's growing international interests and shrinking resources to engage on the global arena, the federal government must take a more critical look at how best to deliver accountable, transparent, and sustainable development aid to countries in need and ask itself how best to support our national security, economic, and humanitarian goals.

28 Jun 2011

Enrollment complete in BIOTRONIK 4EVER clinical trial for treatment of peripheral vascular disease

BIOTRONIK announced today that the full cohort of 120 patients has been successfully enrolled into the physician-initiated 4EVER clinical study. Follow up is scheduled at 1, 6 and 12 months, with immediate and 6 month results potentially available in January 2012.

28 Jun 2011

ACU agrees to partner with AlphaGalileo Foundation

The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and AlphaGalileo Foundation Ltd have agreed to collaborate to promote research being carried out around the world by ACU's 500 member universities.

28 Jun 2011

Number of adults with diabetes doubled over past three decades, study shows

The number of adults with type 2 diabetes has doubled worldwide over the last three decades, rising from 153 million in 1980 to 347 million, "a sign that the epidemic will impose an ever-greater cost burden on health systems," according to a study published on Saturday in the Lancet, the Wall Street Journal reports.

28 Jun 2011

CTI added to Russell's U.S. indexes

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has been added to the Russell 3000, Russell 2000 and Russell Global Indexes posted by Russell Investments on June 27, 2011.

28 Jun 2011

DSM introduces Kremer Method for rapid, cost effective production of biopharmaceuticals

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announced the introduction of the Kremer Method, an innovative proprietary technology developed by DSM scientists which improves downstream processing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for faster and more cost effective production of biopharmaceuticals

28 Jun 2011

FDA warns consumers not to eat alfalfa, spicy sprouts from plastic bags

The FDA is warning consumers not to eat alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts from plastic bags labeled "Evergreen Produce" or "Evergreen Produce Inc."

28 Jun 2011

Experts discuss therapeutic potential of adipose-derived stem cells at ICAS Conference

Esthetic therapies with stem cells from autologous fat are revolutionizing cosmetic surgery: Ever more women prefer breast augmentations with autologous stem cells over silicone implants. The world's leading experts recently met at the ICAS Conference in Istanbul to discuss the therapeutic potential of stem cells from fat tissue.

28 Jun 2011

One in twenty Australian workers use alcohol at work: Survey

A national survey has found that more than one in twenty Australian workers report using alcohol while at work or just before work, and more than one in fifty report taking drugs during or just before work. These findings, published online today in the journal Addiction, have implications for workplace safety.

28 Jun 2011

Mobile technology, global health and humanitarian relief

This ONE Blog post describes a $28 million public-private partnership between the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and the Vodafone Foundation, which has helped mobile technology "become inextricably connected to global health and humanitarian relief."

28 Jun 2011

Scientists discover origin of Barrett's esophagus

Dr Frank McKeon, Senior Group Leader of the Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore, and Principal Investigator Dr Wa Xian at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology, together with their counterparts from the Harvard Medical School, the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and the National University of Singapore, have made the striking finding that Barrett's esophagus work, published online in the journal Cell on 24 June 2011, is essential to developing therapeutics for esophageal cancer.

28 Jun 2011

Ticagrelor drug with low-dose aspirin effective against acute coronary syndrome

When taken with higher doses of aspirin, the experimental antiplatelet drug ticagrelor was associated with worse outcomes than the standard drug, clopidogrel, but the opposite was true with lower doses of aspirin.

28 Jun 2011

Coronary CT angiography may effectively screen for heart disease in African-Americans

Researchers may have discovered one reason that African Americans are at increased risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.

28 Jun 2011

Health care providers brace for new round of Medicaid cuts

But the one Medicaid cost that states have usually been able to cut without worrying too much about the federal government is reimbursement to the providers themselves. And that is what most of them are doing this year. At least 33 states have reduced provider fees for the fiscal year that starts July 1, according to a report by the National Association of Budget Officers.

28 Jun 2011

Scientists discover how bacteria invade heart tissue and cause endocarditis

Scientists have discovered the tool that bacteria normally found in our mouths use to invade heart tissue, causing a dangerous and sometimes lethal infection of the heart known as endocarditis.

28 Jun 2011

Tissue-engineered blood vessels from donor skin cells successfully implanted in patients

For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts for kidney dialysis, and potentially to improve treatment for children with heart defects and adults needing coronary or other bypass graft surgery.

28 Jun 2011