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Daily Report Global Health Conversations: Global health funding and the FY11, FY12 budgets

As Congress considers both the FY11 and FY12 budgets, the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report's Jaclyn Schiff spoke to Adam Wexler, a senior policy analyst for global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, about the potential implications for global health funding.

18 Feb 2011

CCS Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines help Canadian physicians recognize and treat heart conditions

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines 2010 help Canadian physicians better recognize and treat a common heart condition that affects about 250,000 Canadians.

18 Feb 2011

Scottsdale Healthcare implants MRI-safe pacemaker

Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center is the first hospital in the southwestern United States to implant an MRI-safe pacemaker, a major technological breakthrough for patients who need MRI diagnostic scans, which can damage older style pacemakers or cause serious health complications.

18 Feb 2011

Rinsing technique with betadine may reduce infection rate following total knee, hip arthroplasty

A rinsing technique with betadine that costs just a little over one dollar per patient may significantly reduce the infection rate following total knee and hip joint replacement surgery according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center.

18 Feb 2011

Certain uses of terbutaline could lead to maternal heart problems and death, FDA warns

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that terbutaline administered by injection or through an infusion pump should not be used in pregnant women for prevention or prolonged (beyond 48-72 hours) treatment of preterm labor due to the potential for serious maternal heart problems and death. In addition, oral terbutaline tablets should not be used for prevention or treatment of preterm labor.

18 Feb 2011

Longer looks: KHN's best health policy picks from thought-provoking publications

A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions.

18 Feb 2011

RyMed's InVision-Plus IV Connector decreases catheter-related bloodstream infections by 92.6%

Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA exhibited a poster at the recent 11th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research in Los Angeles, in which their clinical study showed RyMed Technologies' zero displacement InVision-Plus® IV Connector significantly decreased the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CR-BSIs) by 92.6% on average when compared to a simple split septum with negative displacement IV connector (Becton-Dickinson Q-Syte®) and a reversed split-septum device with negative displacement IV connector (ICU Medical Clave®).

18 Feb 2011

Cell Therapeutics enters securities purchase agreement with single life sciences institutional investor

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement to sell, subject to certain closing conditions, securities in a registered offering to a single life sciences institutional investor. The Company may use a portion of the net proceeds to fund possible investments in, or acquisitions of, complementary businesses, technologies or products.

18 Feb 2011

Positive interim data from cabozantinib Phase 2 metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer trial

Exelixis, Inc. today reported updated interim data from the cohort of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treated with cabozantinib (XL184) in an ongoing phase 2 adaptive randomized discontinuation trial.

18 Feb 2011

BDSI announces over 50% enrolled in BEMA Buprenorphine Phase 3 study in chronic pain

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. announced today that enrollment of its Phase 3 trial assessing the efficacy and safety of BEMA Buprenorphine for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain is on schedule, with over half of the needed subjects enrolled.

18 Feb 2011

Arizona plan to cut adults from Medicaid highlights possible 'escape hatch' for states

The Arizona move to shed these impoverished adults from the insurance plan for low-income people will now proceed despite a provision in the new health law prohibiting states from tightening their eligibility standards.

18 Feb 2011

U.S. officials should improve access to suicide prevention program across military services

U.S. military officials should improve efforts to identify those at-risk and improve both the quality and access to behavioral health treatment in response to a sharp rise in suicide among members of nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

18 Feb 2011

New approaches for controlling sleeping sickness caused by trypanosomes

The research could eventually lead to new approaches for controlling sleeping sickness in humans and wasting diseases in livestock which are caused by trypanosomes carried by the bloodsucking tsetse fly.

18 Feb 2011

NHI fourth quarter normalized FFO improves to $0.72 per basic and diluted common share

National Health Investors, Inc. announced today its normalized Funds From Operations ("FFO") and net income for the three months and year ended December 31, 2010.

18 Feb 2011

Report finds neglected diseases research funding up in 2009, funding for related non-profits down

"A rise in global funding for research into neglected diseases needs to be matched by a continued focus on delivering practical new ways to curb sickness in the developing world," according to the third annual report by the Global Funding of Innovation for Neglected Diseases released on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

18 Feb 2011

Scientists discover axons can send signals to cell body

Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body, and axons carry signals away.

18 Feb 2011

Urocidin Phase III non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer trial interim results to be presented at EAU, AUA conferences

Endo Pharmaceuticals and Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. today announced plans for peer-reviewed presentation of interim efficacy and safety results from the first Phase III trial of the intravesical formulation of Mycobacterial cell wall-DNA complex (MCC), known as Urocidin™ or EN3348.

18 Feb 2011

$Helmets reduce skull fractures in skiers, snowboarders$

Helmets reduce skull fractures in skiers, snowboarders

A compelling clinical article published online in the March 2011 issue of Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, entitled Helmet Use Reduces Skull Fractures in Skiers and Snowboarders Admitted to the Hospital discusses skull fractures incurred by young skiers and snowboarders and the role helmets play in reducing these head injuries.

18 Feb 2011

Obama Administration acts on waivers, awards exchange innovation grants

The Obama administration Wednesday granted waivers to four states to allow health insurance companies located within them to continue offering less generous health benefits. Meanwhile, $241 million in grants were awarded to help states set up online shopping systems for the purchase of health insurance.

18 Feb 2011

Micell initiates enrollment in DESSOLVE II MiStent Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent System trial

Micell Technologies,™ Inc. today announced it has enrolled the first patient in the DESSOLVE II (DES with Sirolimus and a bioabsorbable pOLymer for the treatment of patients with de noVo lEsions in the native coronary arteries) clinical trial. Stefan Verheye, M.D., Ph.D. at Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium enrolled the first patient in the study. This clinical investigation is being conducted to support CE Mark approval of the company's MiStent™ Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent System (MiStent DES).

18 Feb 2011

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Daily Report Global Health Conversations: Global health funding and the FY11, FY12 budgets

CCS Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines help Canadian physicians recognize and treat heart conditions

Scottsdale Healthcare implants MRI-safe pacemaker

Rinsing technique with betadine may reduce infection rate following total knee, hip arthroplasty

Certain uses of terbutaline could lead to maternal heart problems and death, FDA warns

Longer looks: KHN's best health policy picks from thought-provoking publications

RyMed's InVision-Plus IV Connector decreases catheter-related bloodstream infections by 92.6%

Cell Therapeutics enters securities purchase agreement with single life sciences institutional investor

Positive interim data from cabozantinib Phase 2 metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer trial

BDSI announces over 50% enrolled in BEMA Buprenorphine Phase 3 study in chronic pain

Arizona plan to cut adults from Medicaid highlights possible 'escape hatch' for states

U.S. officials should improve access to suicide prevention program across military services

New approaches for controlling sleeping sickness caused by trypanosomes

NHI fourth quarter normalized FFO improves to $0.72 per basic and diluted common share

Report finds neglected diseases research funding up in 2009, funding for related non-profits down

Scientists discover axons can send signals to cell body

Urocidin Phase III non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer trial interim results to be presented at EAU, AUA conferences

Helmets reduce skull fractures in skiers, snowboarders

Obama Administration acts on waivers, awards exchange innovation grants

Micell initiates enrollment in DESSOLVE II MiStent Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent System trial

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