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ActiveCare announces capital raise commitment, balance sheet restructuring

ActiveCare, Inc., a biotelematic technology company that specializes in products and services that help seniors manage and control their health and wellbeing while reducing overall costs to the healthcare industry, announced a capital raise commitment and balance sheet restructuring.

21 Aug 2010

First Physicians Capital reports 12.6% increase in net revenue for third fiscal quarter 2010

First Physicians Capital Group, Inc., an operator of healthcare services firms primarily in rural and suburban markets in the U.S., reported results for the Company's third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010.

21 Aug 2010

New plans for uninsured off to slow start

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports that some officials say there has been "an unexpectedly small number of people" signing up for a new federally subsidized program for uninsured people with health problems.

20 Aug 2010

Colleges say new health law may imperil student policies

Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports on confusion about how the new health law affects college health plans. "Colleges and universities say some rules in the new health law could keep them from offering low-cost, limited benefit student insurance policies

20 Aug 2010

Protalex initiates dosing in multicenter PRTX-100 Phase 1b clinical study in RA

Protalex, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing a class of biopharmaceutical drugs for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced the dosing of the first patient in a multicenter Phase 1b clinical study of PRTX-100 in adult patients with active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The study is being conducted in South Africa.

20 Aug 2010

New law offers hope for homeless health care

Kaiser Health News staff writers Mary Agnes Carey and Andrew Villegas, writing in collaboration with The Washington Post, report: "Tianne Hill dreads getting mail at the city shelter on Guilford Avenue where she lives. She knows it often includes medical bills she can't pay.

20 Aug 2010

Hay Group's survey reports positive news for health insurance employee compensation in 2011

Hay Group's 2010 Health Insurance Survey, released today, had some positive news for health insurance employee compensation in 2011. Median salary budget increases (the total available budget to invest in employees through salary) for 2011 are expected to reach 2.9 percent for executives and 3 percent for all other employee levels. This is a slight increase from last year's survey that reported median salary budget increases of 2 percent for executives and 2.5 percent for all other employee levels.

20 Aug 2010

SUNY Downstate Medical Center to provide content from 'Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills' to nurses

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced today SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, will provide the expert clinical content from Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills to the nurses in their facility. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy. SUNY Downstate Medical Center is one of the nation's leading urban medical centers, serving over 2.3 million people.

20 Aug 2010

Causes and consequences of increased adiposity and decreased muscle and bone mass

Increased adiposity and decreased muscle mass contribute substantially to age-dependent disease and disability. In particular age-related increase in adiposity is quickly becoming a major threat to public health throughout the world. Although the hypothesis that age-related changes in body composition are due to lifestyle choices alone is well accepted, it is a vast oversimplification.

20 Aug 2010

ProSanos' CEWorks analytic software application provides comparative effectiveness data on demand

ProSanos Corporation is pleased to introduce CEWorks™, an innovative analytic software application providing comparative effectiveness data on demand for professionals in the life sciences and healthcare industries. CEWorks is part of the award winning suite of software products and services offered by ProSanos for pharmacovigilance, health outcomes, and the assessment of product effectiveness.

20 Aug 2010

Washington's adult smoking rate drops to 14.8%, but smokeless tobacco use is on the rise

New survey results show Washington's adult smoking rate has dropped to a new low of 14.8 percent. That's down from 15.3 percent the previous year. Washington now has the third lowest smoking rate in the nation—the state's best ranking since measuring across all 50 states started in 1995. Despite these gains, people from low income and lower educational backgrounds continue to smoke at higher rates. Smokeless tobacco use, including products like chew, is also on the rise among people who already smoke.

20 Aug 2010

Anchor Therapeutics announces initial closing of $10 million Series B financing

Anchor Therapeutics today announced an initial closing of $10 million in a Series B financing. The investment is being led by current investors TVM Capital, HealthCare Ventures and the Novartis Option Fund. The company is in continuing discussions with additional investors interested in joining the Series B. Anchor Therapeutics is focused on developing peptide drug candidates, called pepducins, that modulate G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), particularly those historically difficult to target using standard pharmaceutical approaches.

20 Aug 2010

Tips for management of COPD

What is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States? Many would be surprised to learn that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is, and the number of people with COPD is increasing. According to the COPD Foundation, more than 12 million Americans are currently diagnosed with COPD and an additional 12 million may not realize their shortness of breath and coughing are in fact symptoms of this debilitating condition.

20 Aug 2010

ForeverGreen reports decrease in revenue for second quarter 2010

ForeverGreen Worldwide Corp., manufacturer and distributor of all natural whole foods, today announced that it has filed 2010 Q2 financial reports.

20 Aug 2010

U.S. boosts aid relief to Pakistani flood victims; U.N. donors meet about funding

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) visited Pakistan on Thursday "to assess the damage and relief efforts" as flooding continues and millions remain in need of humanitarian aid, the New York Times reports. According to the newspaper, Kerry "said the United States would increase its flood aid to $150 million" (Masood/Gall, 8/19).

20 Aug 2010

Cyprotex launches new in vitro toxicology service

Cyprotex PLC, the preclinical ADME Tox services company, today announces the launch of its new in vitro toxicology service, branded as Cyprotox(R). Supporting the new service is an additional 90 square metres of laboratory space at Cyprotex's Macclesfield, UK facility housing the latest technology in multi-parametric automated fluorescent imaging and cellular analysis. This gives Cyprotex's Macclesfield site the same in vitro toxicology capabilities as those of Apredica (Watertown, MA, USA), which Cyprotex acquired on 6 August 2010.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 20 Aug 2010

First Edition: August 20, 2010

Today's headlines include articles on health insurance for college students, new plans to overhaul the government's bioterror and flu preparations, changes in store for health care for the homeless and a look at the new high risk insurance plans.

20 Aug 2010

Commonwealth Employment Relations Board rules that Cambridge Health Alliance violated state labor law

The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board (CERB) ruled today that Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) violated state labor law, by bargaining in bad faith and depriving nurses of their union rights following CHA's decision to prematurely cease negotiations, declare impasse and unilaterally slash nurses' retiree health benefit.

20 Aug 2010

Report says developing countries remain unprepared for cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment

"Developing countries will bear 60 percent of the world's cancer burden by 2020 and 70 percent by 2030," according to a report released Thursday during the World Cancer Congress in Shenzhen, China, Reuters reports. These countries also lack the necessary "infrastructure … to prevent cancer, diagnose it early or provide long-term treatment, according to CanTreat International, which comprises experts from leading international cancer organizations," the news service writes.

20 Aug 2010

AARP commends opening of enrollment for 'Illinois Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan'

Countless Americans of all ages have been blocked from health care coverage by private insurers because of pre-existing conditions, leaving them uninsured and at risk of both health and financial disasters. One of the most important provisions of the new federal health care law is the creation of Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIPs, or High-Risk Pools) which will help many individuals get the coverage they need.

20 Aug 2010

Medical News

ActiveCare announces capital raise commitment, balance sheet restructuring

First Physicians Capital reports 12.6% increase in net revenue for third fiscal quarter 2010

New plans for uninsured off to slow start

Colleges say new health law may imperil student policies

Protalex initiates dosing in multicenter PRTX-100 Phase 1b clinical study in RA

New law offers hope for homeless health care

Hay Group's survey reports positive news for health insurance employee compensation in 2011

SUNY Downstate Medical Center to provide content from 'Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills' to nurses

Causes and consequences of increased adiposity and decreased muscle and bone mass

ProSanos' CEWorks analytic software application provides comparative effectiveness data on demand

Washington's adult smoking rate drops to 14.8%, but smokeless tobacco use is on the rise

Anchor Therapeutics announces initial closing of $10 million Series B financing

Tips for management of COPD

ForeverGreen reports decrease in revenue for second quarter 2010

U.S. boosts aid relief to Pakistani flood victims; U.N. donors meet about funding

Cyprotex launches new in vitro toxicology service

First Edition: August 20, 2010

Commonwealth Employment Relations Board rules that Cambridge Health Alliance violated state labor law

Report says developing countries remain unprepared for cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment

AARP commends opening of enrollment for 'Illinois Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan'

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How cohesin mechanics and nanotracker tech are redefining DNA research

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