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Ryan, Obama deficit plans continue to generate OpEd heat on Medicare, Medicaid provisions

Mr. Ryan called the vote "our generation's defining moment," and indeed, nothing could more clearly define the choice that will face voters next year. His bill would end the guarantee provided by Medicare and Medicaid to the elderly and the poor, which has been provided by the federal government with society's clear assent since 1965.

19 Apr 2011

Axolotl, HealthInsight partner to create Nevada HIE suite

HealthInsight, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving Nevada's health care system, announced today that it has selected Axolotl Corp. to build the community-based Health Information Exchange infrastructure to help Nevada providers improve the timeliness, quality, and coordination of care for their patients.

19 Apr 2011

Circassia closes $98 million fundraising for lead allergy programmes

Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy, today announced that it has closed a GBP60 million fundraising. The funding round was led by Imperial Innovations, and included investments from other existing shareholders, including Invesco Perpetual.

19 Apr 2011

Commonly used strategy has no effect in reducing MRSA, VRE in hospital ICUs

A new research study of the effect of a commonly used strategy to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital intensive care units shows that the strategy had no significant effect. That's the surprising finding of a multisite study led by Mayo Clinic investigators.

19 Apr 2011

AADSM event to discuss latest advances in sleep-disordered breathing research

Nearly 800 dental sleep medicine professionals from around the world will gather at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, which will take place Saturday, June 11, 2011, at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minn.

19 Apr 2011

Overweight and obese parents more likely to view school-time activity as inadequate

Childhood obesity affects 1 of every 6 kids in the United States, in part due to a lack of physical activity. Schools can play a key part in offering elementary-age kids lots of chances to be active—on the playground during recess and when they're in gym.

19 Apr 2011

Novartis NVA23 Phase III trial in COPD achieves primary end point

Sosei Group Corporation announces that NVA237, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist being investigated as a once daily treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, achieved its primary end point in a Phase III study.

19 Apr 2011

CPF announces $100,000 grants for patient care projects

The Cautious Patient Foundation, the outreach and educational arm of PatientAlwaysFirst, a nonprofit organization committed to educating and empowering patients in the quest for quality health care, today announces a new grants program to support initiatives that successfully move patients towards greater engagement in their personal or family healthcare process.

19 Apr 2011

Young scoliosis patients do not need routine MRI scanning before spinal surgery

Most patients with scoliosis developing after age ten don't need routine magnetic resonance imaging scanning before spine-straightening surgery, suggests a study in the April 14 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

19 Apr 2011

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist takes new challenge to combat cancer

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan has taken on a new challenge: to give away 10,000 DVD copies of his new nationally acclaimed autobiographical film, Not As I Pictured to anyone affected by cancer.

19 Apr 2011

FAO, WFP launch international global food security platform to improve coordination

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program "have launched a new global food security platform" aimed at improving food security response coordination during natural disasters and other humanitarian situations, PTI/MSN India reports.

19 Apr 2011

Researchers detect 'dechlorane plus' in peregrine falcon eggs

Flame retardants are chemical compounds added to fabrics and plastics to keep them from burning easily, but these can be toxic.

19 Apr 2011

Vancouver's supervised injection site reduces overdose mortality rates to 35%

Illicit drug overdose deaths in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside dropped by 35 per cent after the establishment of Insite, North America's first supervised injection facility, according a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

19 Apr 2011

GOP presses to undo health law as Dems gear up advocacy strategy

News outlets report on Republican plans to stop the sweeping health overhaul — ranging from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's push for the Supreme Court to "fast track" its consideration of legal challenges to congressional plans for defunding the law — as well as how Democrats are ginning up their message machines to counter these attacks.

19 Apr 2011