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BrightSky, Sanare form relationship with American Diabetes Association

Sanare, LLC, a leading provider of care management solutions for people with diabetes, and its new consumer brand, BrightSky, have become National Strategic Partners of the American Diabetes Association.

22 Apr 2011

Physiotherapy Associates inaugurates new clinic in Franklin, TN

Physiotherapy Associates, the nation's foremost provider of outpatient rehabilitation services, recently opened a new physical therapy clinic at the Prairie Life Fitness Center in Franklin, TN. The clinic offers a comprehensive range of physical therapy services, including: outpatient physical therapy, sports rehabilitation, running gait analysis, and performance training.

22 Apr 2011

UHT net income is $4.1 million for quarter ended March 31, 2011

Universal Health Realty Income Trust announced today that for the quarter ended March 31, 2011, net income was $4.1 million, or $.33 per diluted share, as compared to $4.5 million, or $.37 per diluted share, during the same quarter in the prior year.

22 Apr 2011

DEKRA, Health Canada clear ORTHOCON's new Absorbable Bone Hemostat Matrix

ORTHOCON, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic device company, today announced that DEKRA and Health Canada have cleared its HEMASORB Absorbable Bone Hemostat Matrix for clinical use and sale in Europe and Canada.

22 Apr 2011

NAA launches new program to fight wandering incidents among children with autism

In an ongoing effort to combat the rise in wandering-related tragedies and deaths within the Autism Spectrum Disorder community, the National Autism Association announced today its launch of the "Big Red Safety Box Program" made possible by a generous grant from the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation.

22 Apr 2011

Marinus initiates ganaxolone Phase 2 trial in posttraumatic stress disorder

Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leader in the development of neurosteroids for central nervous system disorders, today announced commencement of a proof-of-concept clinical trial of its lead candidate ganaxolone for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.

22 Apr 2011

Opinions: Fight against malaria; small, medium businesses in developing countries; BP oil spill health implications

Despite progress over the past decade in the global fight against malaria, significant challenges remain, Awa Marie Coll-Seck, executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and former health minister of Senegal, writes in a Modern Ghana opinion piece ahead of World Malaria Day.

22 Apr 2011

Misonix enters new three year distribution agreement with Instrumentacion

Misonix, Inc., a medical device company that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative, therapeutic, ultrasonic products worldwide for wound debridement, spinal surgery, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, laparoscopic surgery, and other surgical and medical applications, has entered into a new, three year, exclusive distribution agreement with Instrumentacion, S.A. based in Bogota, Colombia.

22 Apr 2011

Endologix total revenue increases 28% to $18.5 million for first quarter 2011

Endologix, Inc., developer and marketer of innovative treatments for aortic disorders, today announced financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2011.

22 Apr 2011

Convergence initiates CNV2197944 Phase I study in chronic pain

Convergence Pharmaceuticals Limited, the company focused on the development of novel and high value analgesic medicines, today announced that the first-time-in-man Phase I study of the novel, first in class calcium channel blocker CNV2197944, for the treatment of chronic pain has been initiated and dosing has begun.

22 Apr 2011

UCLA creates 'Circle of Caring' for nurses to fight professional burnout

Nurses constantly care for others yet rarely nurture themselves. To fight professional burnout, Katherine Brown-Saltzman, R.N., created the Circle of Caring, a unique weekend retreat for nurses and other health care professionals.

22 Apr 2011

CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line aims to educate women about meningitis

The California Teratogen Information Service Pregnancy Health Information Line, a state-wide non-profit organization based at the University of California, San Diego with affiliates across North America, will join in the effort to raise awareness of meningitis prevention by helping to launch a new study that will assess safety of the meningitis vaccine in pregnancy.

22 Apr 2011

Sonomax net revenue decreases to $642,766 for year ended December 31, 2010

Sonomax Technologies Inc. today disclosed its results for the year ended December 31, 2010.

22 Apr 2011

JASN publishes positive results from pirfenidone study in diabetic nephropathy

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and the Mayo Clinic have published promising results of a clinical study using an experimental anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory drug called pirfenidone to treat patients with diabetic nephropathy. Their study will be published in the April 21 issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

22 Apr 2011

Elderly individuals with CKD more likely to suffer from heart disease

Chronic kidney disease is common and linked with heart disease in the very elderly, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology.

22 Apr 2011

March of Dimes honors Whitehead Institute Director for Developmental Biology work

Whitehead Institute Director David Page has been named a recipient of the 2011 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. The prize honors Page's groundbreaking body of research on the human Y chromosome.

22 Apr 2011

UC Berkeley researchers form new Synthetic Biology Institute

An alliance of top researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has formed the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute, advancing efforts to engineer cells and biological systems in ways that promise to transform technology in health and medicine, energy, the environment, new materials, and a host of other critical arenas.

22 Apr 2011

Severely obese adolescents no more likely to be depressed

According to a new study, severely obese adolescents are no more likely to be depressed than normal weight peers. The study, which has been released online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, did find that white adolescents may be somewhat more vulnerable to psychological effects of obesity.

22 Apr 2011

GM-SCF therapy can reduce flu symptoms and prevent death

New research on mice has shown that pulmonary administration of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor significantly reduces flu symptoms and prevents death after a lethal dose influenza virus.

22 Apr 2011

EPO doping drug can reduce cerebral malaria related deaths

Almost 3.3 billion people, half of the world's population, risk being infected with malaria. Despite having effective means against malaria, the WHO reports 250 million cases of malaria each year and more than 700,000 related deaths. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have now discovered that EPO, the doping drug known from professional cycling, can significantly reduce cerebral malaria related deaths.

22 Apr 2011