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Nation wide aged care deficits surface in report

According to an Access Economics study parts of the country have the worst projected shortfalls in aged care beds and community care packages. The study has predicted that a nationwide shortfall of 279,000 places needed to care for the elderly and infirm in 40 years’ time, with the lack concentrated on the most populous states of NSW and Victoria.

27 Feb 2011

Kidney transplant proposal - younger patients greater success

Soon kidney transplant recipients would be younger under a proposal being considered by the nation’s organ transplant network. This would replace the current ‘first-come-first-served’ system and is intended to provide better matches between the life expectancies of recipients and the functional life of donated kidneys.

27 Feb 2011

Avastin debate spills over until June FDA hearing

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have granted Roche a hearing in June to defend the cancer treatment Avastin. The hearing would examine the effectiveness of the drug in breast cancer.

27 Feb 2011

Well-being in adolescence linked to life satisfaction in adulthood

Being a 'happy' teenager is linked to increased well-being in adulthood, new research finds.

25 Feb 2011

NIH-funded study finds way to reduce transmission of malaria to humans

Spraying malaria-transmitting mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus can kill the malaria parasite without harming the mosquito, potentially reducing malaria transmission to humans, according to a new study published in the journal Science. Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, the study was led by Raymond J. St. Leger, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, College Park.

25 Feb 2011

Less-toxic combination of immune-based drug and chemotherapy drug produce long-term remissions in CLL

New research shows that a less-toxic combination of a targeted immune-based drug and a chemotherapy drug can produce long-term remissions in some chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients. And it does so without increasing the risk of later therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia, which can often occur with a three-drug combination used to treat these patients.

25 Feb 2011

LodgeNet Interactive annual 2010 revenue decreases to $452.2 million

LodgeNet Interactive Corporation today reported annual 2010 revenue of $452.2 million compared to $484.5 million in 2009. Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $(17.4) million or $(0.71) per share (basic and diluted) for 2010 compared to $(13.3) million or $(0.59) per share (basic and diluted) for 2009.

25 Feb 2011

Eigen ei-Nav|Artemis system for prostate biopsy installed at Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center

As a world leader in the advancement of the detection and treatment of prostate cancer, the Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center is the first medical facility in the Northeast to install ei-Nav|Artemis™, an innovative image guidance and navigation system for prostate biopsy that is manufactured by Eigen.

25 Feb 2011

Research Roundup: Health costs at life's end; Assessing hospital quality; Surgeons' burnout; Per capita Medicaid spending

Annals of Internal Medicine: Determinants Of Medical Expenditures In The Last 6 Months Of Life - Identifying factors about patients in the final six months of life that affect the level of care needed "may reveal opportunities for patient-centered interventions to predict and to reduce medical costs," write the authors, while noting that the study had "a large proportion of unexplained variation."

25 Feb 2011

Takeda receives Japanese approval for additional indications for NESINA

Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today confirmed that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited's applications for two additional indications for "NESINA®" (alogliptin), combination therapy with sulfonylurea and combination therapy with biguanide for type 2 diabetes, were approved by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

25 Feb 2011

State News: Ga. Senate oks insurance mandates bill; Va. Assembly says abortion clinics should be regulated as hospitals

State agencies, county prosecutors, insurance companies, and health care employers and associations are mandatory reporters — they're required to report potentially dangerous and unprofessional doctors to medical regulators, who can bar the doctors from practicing and keep patients out of harm's way. But the mandatory reporters sound few alarms, and when they do, regulators rarely take action, the Tribune found.

25 Feb 2011

Imagenetix third quarter net loss increases to $1,202,000

Imagenetix, Inc. announced today results for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2010. Net sales decreased 4% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 to $1,696,000 from $1,765,000 for the same period of last year. A loss of $1,202,000, $0.10 per share, was reported for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, compared to a net loss of $294,000, $.03 per share, for the same period of the prior fiscal year.

25 Feb 2011

Viewpoints: WSJ on Medicare Advantage, Texas Gov. Perry on 'Fed inroads,' Med students' health policy ignorance

The White House has apparently decided that it won't enforce the unpopular parts of its health-care plan until after the 2012 election. The latest evidence is its decision not to slash Medicare Advantage, the program that Democrats hate because it lets seniors choose private insurance options. ... Would this be the same Medicare Advantage that candidate Barack Obama vowed to eliminate, saying in 2007 that "We shouldn't be rewarding the insurance industry for deceiving and defrauding our seniors"? (2/25).

25 Feb 2011

Medtronic acquires chitosan-dextran gel technology for use in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

Medtronic, Inc. today announced that it has completed the purchase of rights to a chitosan-dextran gel technology from Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd. in Australia, Robinson Squidgel Ltd., and Otago Innovation Ltd. in New Zealand. Medtronic is acquiring this technology for potential use in developing future products for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).

25 Feb 2011

CIGNA's integrated disability and medical programs reduce workplace absence

Employees who have both disability and medical coverage from CIGNA, and who also suffer a short-term disabling illness or injury, return to work more often and spend less time away from work on leave than those without the integrated program. This is the conclusion of a new study by CIGNA comparing integrated and non-integrated disability and medical plans.

25 Feb 2011

Affordable Care Act provides states with flexibility and resources to improve health care benefits

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released a new report showing that the Affordable Care Act provides states with significant flexibility and resources to improve health care benefits and protect consumers. Already, the law has provided or offered $2.8 billion in funding to States. This is a fraction of the total funding available under the law to help States implement new consumer protections, expand health coverage, and improve health care quality.

25 Feb 2011

Neoprobe's Lymphoseek Phase 2 study data published in Annals of Surgical Oncology

Neoprobe Corporation (NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that results from a Phase II study of Lymphoseek® (Tilmanocept) have been published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology and demonstrate the tracing agent's ability to identify tumor-draining lymph nodes in breast cancer and melanoma patients.

25 Feb 2011

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education to hold 37th Annual Conference, March 17-20 in Cincinnati

The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) - the educational branch of The Gerontological Society of America - will hold its 37th Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference from March 17 to 20 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, OH.

25 Feb 2011

Hospitals and health system innovations designed to increase efficiency, improve outcomes

News outlets report on how certain health care models are performing in these difficult economic times.

25 Feb 2011

Preclinical data of Zalicus sodium channel compound published in journal PAIN

Zalicus Inc. today announced the publication of preclinical data in the journal PAIN. The paper describes the activity of Z212, a novel proprietary small organic compound that acts to modulate Nav1.7 and Nav1.8 sodium channels and to reduce neuropathic pain by targeting the hyper-excitability associated with chronic pain signaling pathways.

25 Feb 2011

Medical News

Nation wide aged care deficits surface in report

Kidney transplant proposal - younger patients greater success

Avastin debate spills over until June FDA hearing

Well-being in adolescence linked to life satisfaction in adulthood

NIH-funded study finds way to reduce transmission of malaria to humans

Less-toxic combination of immune-based drug and chemotherapy drug produce long-term remissions in CLL

LodgeNet Interactive annual 2010 revenue decreases to $452.2 million

Eigen ei-Nav|Artemis system for prostate biopsy installed at Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center

Research Roundup: Health costs at life's end; Assessing hospital quality; Surgeons' burnout; Per capita Medicaid spending

Takeda receives Japanese approval for additional indications for NESINA

State News: Ga. Senate oks insurance mandates bill; Va. Assembly says abortion clinics should be regulated as hospitals

Imagenetix third quarter net loss increases to $1,202,000

Viewpoints: WSJ on Medicare Advantage, Texas Gov. Perry on 'Fed inroads,' Med students' health policy ignorance

Medtronic acquires chitosan-dextran gel technology for use in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

CIGNA's integrated disability and medical programs reduce workplace absence

Affordable Care Act provides states with flexibility and resources to improve health care benefits

Neoprobe's Lymphoseek Phase 2 study data published in Annals of Surgical Oncology

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education to hold 37th Annual Conference, March 17-20 in Cincinnati

Hospitals and health system innovations designed to increase efficiency, improve outcomes

Preclinical data of Zalicus sodium channel compound published in journal PAIN

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