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SLM, Johns Hopkins, MDSNe partner to provide medical education for European healthcare providers

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, San Lucas Medical, a leading London-based medical education communications company and medical publisher of fifteen medical journals throughout Europe and Asia and MDSNe, a healthcare specific, social media startup, announced today their partnership to design, implement and distribute medical education to European healthcare providers based on social learning.

5 Mar 2011

NIEHS, NTP to mark 50th anniversary of SOT

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology at the SOT annual meeting in Washington, D.C., March 6-10, 2011.

5 Mar 2011

Efficient medical treatments to be showcased at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries in treating a host of diseases at its 36th Annual Scientific Meeting March 26–31 at McCormick Place (West) in Chicago, Ill. The theme of the meeting is "IR Rising: Leading Image-guided Medicine," chosen to reflect interventional radiology's continued revolutionizing of modern medicine.

5 Mar 2011

FDA approves change to prescribing information for Gilead Sciences' Letairis

Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a change to the prescribing information for Letairis (ambrisentan 5 mg and 10 mg tablets), the company's once-daily treatment to improve exercise ability and delay clinical worsening in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO Group 1) patients with predominantly WHO Functional Class II-III symptoms.

5 Mar 2011

Study examines link between voice pitch and perceived infidelity

When choosing a partner, women believe the lower the man's voice, the more likely he's going to cheat. Conversely, men think a woman with a higher voice is more likely to be unfaithful, researchers have found.

5 Mar 2011

Core Performance uses IBM software to help consumers reach their fitness goals

IBM today announced that a leading provider of corporate fitness services is using business rules software to customize individual workouts to help consumers reach their fitness goals in the New Year.

5 Mar 2011

Deal Search Online: Pharma is the single most active sector in decade's health care M&A market

According to Deal Search Online, an Irving Levin Associates M&A database, there has been a total of 1,431 pharmaceutical M&A deals, totaling $632.3 billion dollars committed to the industry during the ten-year period ended December 31, 2010.

5 Mar 2011

Walgreens joins Care Continuum Alliance as new member

The Care Continuum Alliance today announced its newest member: Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain and a health and wellness leader.

5 Mar 2011

U.N. panel recommends reparations fund for victims of sexual violence in DRC

A high-level U.N. panel on Thursday recommended that the international community "create a special reparations fund for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo," following an assessment of the conditions faced by survivors of such acts, Agence France-Presse reports.

5 Mar 2011

GW Health Policy Researchers play a major role in AJPM supplement

GW Health Policy Researchers, led by Wilhelmine Miller, Ph.D., associate research professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy, played a major role in the supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

5 Mar 2011

Study examines effectiveness of active video games for improving health, fitness

A multidisciplinary team from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Universitat de València, Universitat Jaume I, University General Hospital from Valencia and the Biomedical Research Network Centre on Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) is developing a study on the effectiveness of active video games in children and teenagers (know as "exergaming platforms") for exercising and improving their health and fitness.

5 Mar 2011

New turf battle: Retail pharmacists vs. mail order companies

The New York Times: Pharmacists Fight The Rise Of Mail Order

5 Mar 2011

MedQuist extends exchange offer for all outstanding shares of common stock

MedQuist Holdings Inc., a leading provider of integrated clinical documentation solutions for the U.S. healthcare system, today announced that it has extended the expiration date for its exchange offer for all issued and outstanding shares of MedQuist Inc. common stock until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, March 11, 2011, unless further extended or earlier terminated.

5 Mar 2011

Senate Republicans urge White House to withdraw Berwick nomination

The Obama administration used a "recess appointment" last July to appoint Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Yesterday, 42 GOP senators signed on to a letter asking that this appointment be withdrawn.

5 Mar 2011

HIV prevention, treatment highlighted at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

Today was the last day of the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, a key HIV/AIDS research meeting being held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from February 27 through March 2. Highlighted below are selected presentations from March 2nd on research supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, both components of the National Institutes of Health.

5 Mar 2011

Psychiatrist releases new book on wide range of issues about life

Most immigrants fantasize about finding the American Dream, often associating fame with material wealth. Many give up in their quest because it takes hard work and discipline. But obstacles and failures should be learning experiences, not total barriers.

5 Mar 2011

Agenus receives letter from Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market

Agenus Inc. announced today that the company received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC on March 3, 2011 indicating that the company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2) (the "Bid Price Requirement") because the bid price for the company's common stock has closed below the minimum $1.00 per share requirement for 30 consecutive business days.

5 Mar 2011

BioAlliance Pharma awarded €2 million in funding to study Lauriad mucoadhesive technology

BioAlliance Pharma SA, a company dedicated to the supportive care and treatment of cancer patients, today announced the award of €2 million in funding over 30 months from the « Fond Unique Interministériel » (a French program supporting collaborative research projects) including an amount of €743,000 specifically allocated to BioAlliance Pharma.

5 Mar 2011

WSJ: A windfall for HCA investors

Meanwhile, a report by Health Care For America Now details profits for the nation's five largest insurers and draws a strong reaction from the industry.

5 Mar 2011

NFBI to hold seminar on everyday tips and techniques for blind people in Burlington

The National Federation of the Blind of Iowa, Iowa's largest consumer group of blind people, will hold its third technology seminar titled "Independence Is Easy -- Do You Know What I Know?" on Saturday, March 12. The seminar will be held at the Comfort Suites in Burlington.

5 Mar 2011

Medical News

SLM, Johns Hopkins, MDSNe partner to provide medical education for European healthcare providers

NIEHS, NTP to mark 50th anniversary of SOT

Efficient medical treatments to be showcased at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

FDA approves change to prescribing information for Gilead Sciences' Letairis

Study examines link between voice pitch and perceived infidelity

Core Performance uses IBM software to help consumers reach their fitness goals

Deal Search Online: Pharma is the single most active sector in decade's health care M&A market

Walgreens joins Care Continuum Alliance as new member

U.N. panel recommends reparations fund for victims of sexual violence in DRC

GW Health Policy Researchers play a major role in AJPM supplement

Study examines effectiveness of active video games for improving health, fitness

New turf battle: Retail pharmacists vs. mail order companies

MedQuist extends exchange offer for all outstanding shares of common stock

Senate Republicans urge White House to withdraw Berwick nomination

HIV prevention, treatment highlighted at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

Psychiatrist releases new book on wide range of issues about life

Agenus receives letter from Listing Qualifications Staff of The NASDAQ Stock Market

BioAlliance Pharma awarded €2 million in funding to study Lauriad mucoadhesive technology

WSJ: A windfall for HCA investors

NFBI to hold seminar on everyday tips and techniques for blind people in Burlington

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

Data management challenges in scientific research

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