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New software helps visually-impaired people to access computers

For many blind people, computers are inaccessible. It can cost upwards of AUD$1000 to purchase "screen reader" software, but two blind computer programmers from Australia have solved this problem.

6 Oct 2010

Urovalve reports promising early results from Surinate Bladder Management System multi-site clinical study

Urovalve, a medical device company focused on creating superior products for urinary flow and control, reported today that early results are promising in a multi-site clinical study of the Company's Surinate® Bladder Management System. The Surinate® Bladder Management System is designed to improve the quality of life and health of men who suffer from acute or chronic urinary retention, an inability to empty the bladder.

6 Oct 2010

Research suggests carotenoids can support women's health

Only about a third of American women are meeting their fruit and vegetable intake recommendations, which means they are likely missing out on potentially important breast and ovarian health benefits. Along with vitamins, minerals and fiber, fruits and vegetables contain a type of phytonutrient called carotenoids, which research suggests help support women's health including breast and ovarian health.

6 Oct 2010

Gerresheimer third-quarter group revenues increase 9.5% to EUR 259.4M

Gerresheimer AG, one of the leading worldwide suppliers to the pharma and healthcare industry, is continuing its growth course in the financial year 2010. "Our business is developing well. We continue to focus on the field of pharma and healthcare. Doing so we are achieving solid and profitable growth," says Uwe Rohrhoff, CEO of Gerresheimer AG.

6 Oct 2010

Diamond-coated electrodes for implantable devices

Diamonds adorning tiaras to anklets are treasures but these gemstones inside the body may prove priceless.

6 Oct 2010

New hope for patients with brain injury

New neuroscience research by life scientists from UCLA and Australia may potentially help people who have lost their ability to remember due to brain injury or disease.

6 Oct 2010

UCLA-led consortium receives $9.9M to compare wireless and telephone management after hospitalizations

A UCLA-led consortium of five University of California medical schools, plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, has received $9.9 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to research the use of wireless and telephone care management to reduce hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.

6 Oct 2010

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of physician information technology, today announced that its new physician documentation software product, PatientKeeper NoteWriter™, has successfully been deployed for physician use at two premier community medical centers in the Midwest.

6 Oct 2010

Obama administration expected to announce $4B pledge to Global Fund

The Obama administration is expected on Tuesday to announce a large increase in its pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and to call for reform of the organization," the Wall Street Journal reports.

6 Oct 2010

Study on potential advantages and disadvantages of medical tourism

Medical tourism is to go under the microscope in a major new study, led by an academic from the University of York, which aims to assess its potential advantages and disadvantages.

6 Oct 2010

RDI launches HIV-TRePS system to predict patients’ response to HIV drugs

A ground-breaking system for predicting how individual patients with HIV and AIDS will respond to different drugs is launched today by RDI, a UK-based not-for-profit research group. The experimental system, called the HIV Treatment Response Prediction System (HIV-TRePS), is available free of charge over the Internet and helps physicians select the best treatment for their patients.

6 Oct 2010

Nurses push for bigger role gets powerful ally, Va. tries to retain docs they train

Nurses clamoring for a larger role in providing care for Americans got a powerful ally in the Institute of Medicine Tuesday as the institute released a report empowering nurses.

6 Oct 2010

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Health care delivered via telephone or Internet might not improve the quality of life for people with mild asthma, but it could keep those with severe asthma out of the hospital, a new evidence review finds.

6 Oct 2010

Study may lend insight about hallucination mechanism in schizophrenia

Scripps Research Institute scientists have shown for the first time that the neurotransmitter serotonin uses a specialized signaling pathway to mediate biological functions that are distinct from the signaling pathways used by hallucinogenic substances. The new findings could have a profound effect on the development of new therapies for a number of disorders, including schizophrenia and depression.

6 Oct 2010

Progress in predicting epileptic seizures

A team of physicists, physicians and neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg did a step forward towards the ambitious goal of predicting epileptic seizures, as published in the latest issue of the journal "Epilepsia".

6 Oct 2010

AHF applauds Obama administration for reasserting U.S. leadership in contributions to fight global AIDS

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded the Obama administration's announcement that it will seek $4 billion for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis over the next three years—a 38% increase over what has been provided in the previous three-year period. The U.S. also urged better management of grants by participating countries, as well as increased accountability and efficiency by the Global Fund.

6 Oct 2010

Study finds link between air pollution and breast cancer

Air pollution has already been linked to a range of health problems. Now, a ground-breaking new study suggests pollution from traffic may put women at risk for another deadly disease.

6 Oct 2010

Healthcare organizations urge Congress to raise awareness on sudden cardiac arrest

In a powerful demonstration of collective standing in the health care community, more than 40 organizations gathered on Capitol Hill to issue a call to action in reducing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) deaths.

6 Oct 2010

Study shows Strattice TM is safe for single-stage hernia repair

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. today announced that its LifeCell Strattice Reconstructive Tissue Matrix achieved highly favorable one-year outcomes in an ongoing clinical study of single-stage repair of contaminated or infected ventral incisional hernias.

6 Oct 2010

Repinotan blocks respiratory depressant effects of morphine without altering pain-relieving effects

A new drug called repinotan blocks the respiratory depressant effects of morphine-like opioid drugs—without altering their potent pain-relieving effects, according to a study in the October issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

6 Oct 2010

Medical News

New software helps visually-impaired people to access computers

Urovalve reports promising early results from Surinate Bladder Management System multi-site clinical study

Research suggests carotenoids can support women's health

Gerresheimer third-quarter group revenues increase 9.5% to EUR 259.4M

Diamond-coated electrodes for implantable devices

New hope for patients with brain injury

UCLA-led consortium receives $9.9M to compare wireless and telephone management after hospitalizations

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

Obama administration expected to announce $4B pledge to Global Fund

Study on potential advantages and disadvantages of medical tourism

RDI launches HIV-TRePS system to predict patients’ response to HIV drugs

Nurses push for bigger role gets powerful ally, Va. tries to retain docs they train

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Study may lend insight about hallucination mechanism in schizophrenia

Progress in predicting epileptic seizures

AHF applauds Obama administration for reasserting U.S. leadership in contributions to fight global AIDS

Study finds link between air pollution and breast cancer

Healthcare organizations urge Congress to raise awareness on sudden cardiac arrest

Study shows Strattice TM is safe for single-stage hernia repair

Repinotan blocks respiratory depressant effects of morphine without altering pain-relieving effects

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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