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BioVigil's second generation hand hygiene monitoring system released

BioVigil LLC has released the second generation of the BioVigil hand hygiene monitoring system. The innovative system enables hospitals to more effectively combat Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) by dramatically increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.

16 Mar 2010

National, state efforts seek to reduce medical errors

The Wall Street Journal: "Errors made by doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths a year. Hospital infections, many considered preventable, take another 100,000 lives. ... Hospitals are taking what might seem like a surprising approach to confronting the problem: Not only are they trying to improve safety and reduce malpractice claims, they're also coming up with procedures for handling—and even consoling—staffers who make inadvertent mistakes."

16 Mar 2010

Sharp Health Plan selects PureWellness for supporting NCQA accreditation goals

PureWellness, Inc., the leading provider of online wellness solutions, announced today that San Diego-based Sharp Health Plan selected the company to deliver a comprehensive online wellness platform for their employer groups and members.

16 Mar 2010

Correction to daily report, Mar. 15

In the March 15 Morning Edition, "Economists, Dems Differ On Who's To Blame For Insurers' Rate Hikes," KHN omitted a word in a summary of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coverage.

16 Mar 2010

Quinnova Pharmaceuticals introduces NEOSALUS CREAM for chronic inflammatory skin conditions

Quinnova Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and markets novel topical delivery platform-based prescription drugs, announced the launch of its NEOSALUSTM CREAM. NEOSALUS CREAM, the latest addition to Quinnova’s NEOSALUS brand, is a prescription product with anti-inflammatory properties that can be used without age or long-term use restrictions for the treatment of a variety of chronic inflammatory skin conditions like atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, and hand eczema.

16 Mar 2010

Human amniotic fluid skin cells "reprogrammed" to pluripotency

In a breakthrough that may help fill a critical need in stem cell research and patient care, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have demonstrated that skin cells found in human amniotic fluid can be efficiently "reprogrammed" to pluripotency, where they have characteristics similar to human embryonic stem cells that can develop into almost any type of cell in the human body. The study is online now and will appear in print in the next issue of the journal Cellular Reprogramming, to be published next month.

16 Mar 2010

Varian Medical Systems chooses EasyLink as provider for hosted fax services

EasyLink Services International Corporation, a premier global provider of comprehensive messaging services and e-commerce solutions, announced today that Varian Medical Systems has selected EasyLink as its provider for hosted fax services for an initial three-year term.

16 Mar 2010

External beam radiotherapy device without shielded bunker infrastructure for breast cancer irradiation

Orbital Therapy has completed the build of their proof-of-concept prototype for breast cancer irradiation, and demonstrated the feasibility to develop and operate an external beam radiotherapy device without the use of a heavily shielded bunker infrastructure.

16 Mar 2010

Seatac Digital Resources provides $1.5M bridge financing commitment to AMHN

AMHN, Inc., parent company of America's Minority Health Network, Inc., announced bridge financing commitments in the aggregate of $1.5 million provided by one of its majority shareholders and vendors, Seatac Digital Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

16 Mar 2010

Actoplus Met and Actos: Mylan enters into settlement agreements with Takeda Pharmaceutical

Mylan Inc. today announced that it has entered into settlement agreements with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. related to two treatments for type 2 diabetes: Actoplus Met®, 15 mg/500 mg and 15 mg/850 mg, known generically as Pioglitazone Hydrochloride (HCl) and Metformin HCl Tablets, and Actos®, 15 mg, 30 mg and 45 mg, known generically as Pioglitazone HCl Tablets.

16 Mar 2010

WebMD Health increases pricing of tender offer for common stock to $46.80 per share

WebMD Health Corp. announced today that it is increasing the price in the pending tender offer for its common stock to $46.80 per share. The number of shares proposed to be purchased in the tender offer is, as previously announced, 5,800,000, representing approximately 11% of WebMD's currently outstanding shares.

16 Mar 2010

EMSI selects SmartDog Services for Oracle eBusiness Suite support through ZDA

SmartDog Services, LLC, a leading provider of services for the Oracle community is pleased to introduce its new client, Examination Management Services, Inc. (EMSI).

16 Mar 2010

Adam 3XL addresses young people with weight problem

Adam 3XL (published by Trafford) by Dr. Martin Noelke is a novel about basketball, love, friendship ... and some nutritional guidelines for weight reduction in the long run. It's the story of a one-time high school basketball all-star who stops exercising and packs on the pounds after losing both of his parents. Dr. Noelke infuses his expertise as a general practitioner and nutrition specialist into the story to send a message to today's youth about health.

16 Mar 2010

Optics Balzers acquires mso jena Mikroschichtoptik

Optics Balzers, a leading supplier of innovative optical thin-film components and assemblies, is continuing its growth in great strides. With its acquisition of “mso jena Mikroschichtoptik GmbH” in Jena, Germany, it is expanding its competencies and manufacturing technologies into a unique portfolio.

16 Mar 2010

CareTech Solutions signs five-year infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital

CareTech Solutions, Inc., (www.caretech.com) an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company servicing U.S. hospitals and health systems, announced today that it has signed a five-year, comprehensive infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital, a full-service, 328 bed nonprofit acute care community hospital serving the Washington, D.C. area.

16 Mar 2010

PCI Biotech completes treatment of third dose group in phase I/II study of Amphinex in cancer patients

PCI Biotech reported today that it has completed the treatment of the third dose group in the phase I/II study of its proprietary photosensitiser Amphinex® used in combination with the cytotoxic agent bleomycin in cancer patients.

16 Mar 2010

LUMC purchases Fluidigm Access Array system

Fluidigm Corporation and BIOKÉ, distributor of Fluidigm systems in the Benelux, today announced that Leiden University Medical Center’s (LUMC) Human Genetics Department has purchased a Fluidigm Access Array™ system. The Access Array system enables users to automatically prepare sequencing-ready libraries from up to 48 individual samples at a time, for as little as €7 (EUR) per sample.

16 Mar 2010

Sigma-Aldrich signs agreement to acquire Ace Animals

Sigma-Aldrich® today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Ace Animals, Inc., a Berks County, PA.-based provider of high quality research rodents to the biomedical industry.

16 Mar 2010

Tolerx publishes follow-up data from study of otelixizumab therapy for new onset T1DM patients

Tolerx, Inc., today announced the publication in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, of the four-year follow-up clinical data from new onset type 1 diabetes (T1DM) patients (age 12-39) who received a single short course of therapy with otelixizumab (ChAglyCD3).

16 Mar 2010

The Beryl Institute joins with Sodexo to release white paper focusing patient-centered environment

The Beryl Institute, an organization dedicated to improving customer service in healthcare, has combined efforts with Sodexo, Inc., a leading integrated food and facilities management services company in North America, to release its latest white paper, “Perspectives on a Patient-Centered Environment.”

16 Mar 2010

Medical News

BioVigil's second generation hand hygiene monitoring system released

National, state efforts seek to reduce medical errors

Sharp Health Plan selects PureWellness for supporting NCQA accreditation goals

Correction to daily report, Mar. 15

Quinnova Pharmaceuticals introduces NEOSALUS CREAM for chronic inflammatory skin conditions

Human amniotic fluid skin cells "reprogrammed" to pluripotency

Varian Medical Systems chooses EasyLink as provider for hosted fax services

External beam radiotherapy device without shielded bunker infrastructure for breast cancer irradiation

Seatac Digital Resources provides $1.5M bridge financing commitment to AMHN

Actoplus Met and Actos: Mylan enters into settlement agreements with Takeda Pharmaceutical

WebMD Health increases pricing of tender offer for common stock to $46.80 per share

EMSI selects SmartDog Services for Oracle eBusiness Suite support through ZDA

Adam 3XL addresses young people with weight problem

Optics Balzers acquires mso jena Mikroschichtoptik

CareTech Solutions signs five-year infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital

PCI Biotech completes treatment of third dose group in phase I/II study of Amphinex in cancer patients

LUMC purchases Fluidigm Access Array system

Sigma-Aldrich signs agreement to acquire Ace Animals

Tolerx publishes follow-up data from study of otelixizumab therapy for new onset T1DM patients

The Beryl Institute joins with Sodexo to release white paper focusing patient-centered environment

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