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PHM announces financial results for quarter and year ended September 30, 2010

Patient Home Monitoring, a company focused on in-home cardiology healthcare services, today announced financial results for the quarter and year ended September 30, 2010.

29 Jan 2011

Paralyzed Veterans of America condemns Bachmann's plan to cut veterans' health care, benefits

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's plan to radically cut veterans' health care and benefits by $4.5 billion is being condemned by Paralyzed Veterans of America.

29 Jan 2011

Elderly Americans most likely to have one or more cognitive disorders: AHRQ

Slightly over 5 percent of the nearly 39 million Americans age 65 and older in 2007 reported one or more cognitive disorders, such as senility or dementia, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

29 Jan 2011

Bionovo prices public offering of common stock at $1.30 per share

Bionovo, Inc., a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of safe and effective treatments for women's health and cancer, today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering, to sell up to 30,031,200 units at a price per unit of $1.00 for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $30 million.

29 Jan 2011

FDA reports possible association between breast implants, ALCL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported on January 26 that "a possible association between saline and silicone gel-filled breast implants and anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a very rare type of cancer. Data reviewed by the FDA suggests that patients with breast implants may have a very small, but significant risk, of ALCL in the scar capsule adjacent to the implant.

29 Jan 2011

Physiotherapy Associates opens physical therapy clinic in Castle Rock, CO

Physiotherapy Associates, the nation's foremost provider of outpatient rehabilitation services, announces a new clinic location in Castle Rock, CO. The clinic offers a comprehensive range of physical therapy services, including: orthopedics; back and neck programs; hand therapy; vestibular rehabilitation; workers' compensation; orthopedic pediatrics; and foot and ankle programs.

29 Jan 2011

North Shore-LIJ seeks patients with early-stage prostate cancer to participate in Phase I study

The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Radiation Medicine announced today it is seeking patients with early-stage prostate cancer to participate in a Phase I Research study.

29 Jan 2011

FWC selects athenahealth's EHR service to provide high-quality care

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of web-based practice management, electronic health record, and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that Florida Woman Care, one of the largest OB/GYN medical groups in Florida, has selected athenahealth's EHR service, athenaClinicals, to provide to its network of 170 physicians a fully scalable, and cost-effective way to share health information, ultimately bringing efficiencies to FWC's workflow and improving its ability to deliver coordinated, high-quality care.

29 Jan 2011

Adeona to sell 2.85 million common stock at $1.40 per share

Adeona Pharmaceuticals, a developer of innovative medicines for serious central nervous system diseases, announced today that it has executed an agreement for the sale of approximately 2.85 million shares of its common stock at $1.40 per share to two new institutional investors in a registered direct offering for $4 million in gross proceeds.

29 Jan 2011

Senate GOP ready to question CMS chief

The White House decision to mount a fresh effort to get Medicare's top administrator, Donald M. Berwick, confirmed will again inject the volatile issue of rationing into a health care law debate already dominated by the Republican drive for repeal.

29 Jan 2011

Disparities in limb salvage procedures may be driven by SES, access to high-volume hospitals

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA have published a study in the February Journal of Vascular Surgery stating that disparities in limb salvage procedures may be driven by socioeconomic status and access to high-volume hospitals.

29 Jan 2011

Etanercept can restore responsiveness to pain-relieving effects of morphine: Study

A drug called etanercept can restore responsiveness to the pain-relieving effects of morphine in rats that have developed morphine tolerance, reports a study in the February issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

29 Jan 2011

Covalon Technologies' annual revenue up 54%

Covalon Technologies Ltd., an advanced medical technologies company, today announced the following financial results for its year ended September 30, 2010

29 Jan 2011

Genetic study helps investigators solve medical mysteries

The mystery began in 1976. Adolfo Pampena was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that caused a strange combination of symptoms and was associated with the occurrence of multiple tumours in his stomach and colon. His medical team was stumped and was unable to answer the most important questions for him and his family: the cause of his disease and the risk for future generations.

29 Jan 2011

Athersys enters definitive agreements to sell common stock, warrants

Athersys, announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements with certain investors to sell 4,366,667 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase up to an additional 1,310,000 shares of common stock in a registered direct offering for gross proceeds of approximately $13.1 million, before deducting fees and offering expenses.

29 Jan 2011

BGU, PTT sign R&D collaboration agreement for commercial development of green algae strain

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the PTT Chemical Public Company Ltd. in Thailand have signed a research and development collaboration agreement for commercial development of BGU's proprietary green algae strain.

29 Jan 2011

Hy-Vee to kick off American Heart Month in February

Hy-Vee is kicking off American Heart Month in February with a special company-wide ad circular featuring nutrition information, shopping tips and heart-healthy recipes from Hy-Vee chefs.

29 Jan 2011

Awarepoint ends 2010 with 91 hospital sites contract containing RTLS network coverage

Awarepoint Corporation, a privately held San Diego-based corporation, today announced it ended 2010 with 91 hospital sites contracted consisting of 45,062,013 million square feet of real-time location system network coverage in U.S. hospitals and 135,265 healthcare assets under management.

29 Jan 2011

Scientists use full genome sequencing to identify precise steps in molecular evolution of S. pneumoniae

Despite penicillin and the dozens of antibiotics that followed it, streptococcus bacteria have remained a major threat to health throughout the world. The reason: the superb evolutionary skills of this pathogen to rapidly alter its genetic makeup.

29 Jan 2011

BMJ News reports on calls for WHO to control, prevent spread of cholera

BMJ News examines the growing pressure on the WHO to control and prevent the spread of cholera following the ongoing outbreak of the disease in Haiti.

29 Jan 2011