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Centocor Ortho Biotech Products withdraws NDA for trabectedin for treatment of women with ROC

Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., today announced that it has voluntarily withdrawn the New Drug Application for trabectedin for the treatment of women with recurrent ovarian cancer. The withdrawal is based on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recommendation that an additional Phase 3 study be conducted to obtain approval.

30 Apr 2011

Fetal exposure to crude oil chemical may increase risk of heart disease

While it may be years before the health effects of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are known, a new study shows that fetal exposure to a chemical found in crude oil is associated with an increased risk of congenital heart disease.

30 Apr 2011

Babies born to obese mothers may face risk of iron deficiency

Babies born to obese mothers are at risk for iron deficiency, which could affect infant brain development, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 30, at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver.

30 Apr 2011

International Society of Nephrology honors BIDMC Co-director for immune tolerance research

Terry Strom, MD, Co-director of the Transplant Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a leader in the field of immune tolerance research, was awarded the 2011 Alfred Newton Richards Award from the International Society of Nephrology during a program held earlier this month as part of the World Congress of Nephrology 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.

30 Apr 2011

Also in global health news: Libya food shortage; PMTCT in Swaziland; TB detection in U.K.; food issues in Foreign Policy magazine

Libya will run out of food within two months unless efforts are stepped up to get shipments into the war-torn country, the World Food Program warned on Thursday, Deustche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports.

30 Apr 2011

Coventry first quarter revenues increase 6.6% to $3.0 billion

Coventry Health Care, Inc. today reported consolidated operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.

30 Apr 2011

UofL nursing professor receives Outstanding Faculty Practice award

Providing healthcare to the backside workers at Churchill Downs has been the passion of Whitney Nash, PhD, MSN, APRN-BC, assistant professor, University of Louisville School of Nursing, since 2005.

30 Apr 2011

Aetna becomes California's third insurer to scale back rate hikes

Meanwhile, a new insurance market trend is picking up steam as one of the nation's largest employer-benefits consulting firms announced that it will launch a private exchange for large companies.

30 Apr 2011

Amedisys elected to Health Information Trust Alliance Executive Council

Amedisys, one of the nation's leading home health care and hospice companies, announced today that it has been elected to the Health Information Trust Alliance Executive Council. Information Security Officer Sanjeev Sah will serve a two-year term on the council as the Amedisys representative.

30 Apr 2011

3D models prove useful in neurosurgical planning

3D models, produced by combining a patient's CT scans and 3D printing technology are proving useful in neurosurgical planning.

30 Apr 2011

FFR-guided intervention strategy can improve patient outcomes: Study

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced that an analysis of the benefits to using a Fractional Flow Reserve-guided intervention strategy found that the technology can improve patient outcomes while saving millions of Euros.

30 Apr 2011

Early interventions can help cease smoking

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death in the United States. Each year smoking causes an average of 438,000 deaths from cancer, heart disease, stroke, and lung disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.

30 Apr 2011

Winner of MDEA Lifetime Achievement Award announced

UBM Canon's Medical Design Excellence Awards has announced the winner of the Medical Design Excellence Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. This award honors an individual whose contributions during a long career have had a demonstrable impact on technological, business, and cultural advancements in medical devices.

30 Apr 2011

Researchers study about exercise habits among obese, overweight individuals

How much exercise are overweight and obese people getting? More than many might think, according to research findings by nurses from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.

30 Apr 2011

Texas nursing leader earns AACN recognition for her distinguished career

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will give the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career to Donna L. Bertram, RN, MBA, NEA-BC, FAAN. She will receive this Visionary Leadership Award for contributions to AACN's mission and vision at the 2011 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, Chicago, April 30-May 5.

30 Apr 2011

African-Americans more likely to use 'quitlines' than white smokers

African-Americans are consistently more likely than white smokers to use telephone help lines to quit smoking, and are more responsive to mass media messages promoting the "quitline," finds a long-term California study.

30 Apr 2011

American Legion supports proposed legislation that will help MST victims

The American Legion is supporting proposed legislation that, if enacted, would require records on military sexual trauma incidents to remain permanently filed by the Department of Defense.

30 Apr 2011

Penn Nursing, Surgeon General partner to promote breastfeeding awareness in the U.S.

While 75 percent of U.S. babies start out breastfeeding, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports only 13 percent are exclusively breastfed at the end of six months. Six months of exclusive breastfeeding is the American Academy of Pediatrics' minimum recommendation.

30 Apr 2011

Health practitioners need to assess health literacy to overcome barrier to quality care: MD Anderson nurse

Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among elderly patients, but increased use of simple and effective health literacy assessment tests by nurses and clinicians can help improve communication and health outcomes.

30 Apr 2011