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Prenatal cocaine exposure affects sustained attention and self-regulated behavior in children

Children exposed to cocaine in the womb face serious consequences from the drug, but fortunately not in certain critical physical and cognitive areas as previously believed, according to a new comprehensive review of research on the subject from scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. When a pregnant woman uses cocaine, it can interrupt the flow of nutrients and oxygen to the baby, putting such children at risk for premature birth, low birth weight and many other problems.

2 Mar 2010

Daily consumption of chlorella can help maintain healthy body

Americans' dietary habits have been scrutinized for being dependent on processed, refined and incomplete foods. This has left many Americans to reassess the foods they eat and essentially reconstruct their personal food pyramids.

2 Mar 2010

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Primordial, a leading vendor of communication, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, announced today that it will deploy and further develop Primordial’s applications at NYU Langone Medical Center. As part of the agreement, Primordial will install its platform and applications at NYU Langone Medical Center, an integrated academic medical center, to unify communications and manage complex workflow for a highly sub-specialized and distributed work environment.

2 Mar 2010

Health Impact Project announces $150,000 grant to examine health impacts of cap-and-trade regulation

The Health Impact Project today announced the award of a $150,000 grant to the Oakland-based Public Health Institute to collaborate with the California Department of Public Health on a health impact assessment (HIA) of a proposed "cap-and-trade" regulation under California's 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.

2 Mar 2010

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services and Rochester RHIO, the regional health information organization connecting medical providers across nine counties in New York today announced that fifty area eldercare agencies are joining the health information exchange. For the first time anywhere, health care providers are now able to view medical and social supports that human service agencies provide senior patients, alongside their clinical information.

2 Mar 2010

AstraZeneca drafts five principles for companies engaged in social media

AstraZeneca today asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt guidance that will enable AstraZeneca and others to fully engage in real-time, social media conversations that responsibly provide accurate, balanced information on medicines from a known, identifiable and reliable source.

2 Mar 2010

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

Thomson Reuters announced today the launch of its new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals.

2 Mar 2010

APTA: CMS announces dates for holding claims

(U.S. Physical Therapy) The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) reported on its website (APTA.org) on Friday, February 26, 2010 that “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will hold claims for the first 10 business days of March. The hold will apply to claims with dates of service of March 1, 2010 through March 12, 2010. Claims with dates of service of January 1, 2010-February 28, 2010 will continue to be paid based on the 0% update approved by Congress.

2 Mar 2010

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Today, the biotech-vaccine company Intercell AG announced its financial results for Q4 and the preliminary results for the full financial year 2009, and presented an update on the Company's development programs.

2 Mar 2010

Sea squirts help in fight against Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease affects an estimated 27 million people worldwide. It is the most common form of age-related dementia, possibly the most feared disease of old age. There is no cure, and the available drugs only help to relieve symptoms without slowing progression of the disease. One of the characteristic changes in the brains of Alzheimer's patients is the accumulation of plaques and tangles; currently, the best hope for curing or at least slowing the disease lies in developing drugs that target this buildup.

2 Mar 2010

First-ever international Omega-3 Awareness Day

Omega-3 Awareness Day, the nonprofit is proud to announce its plans for the first-ever international awareness day scheduled on March 3rd, 2010 at the University of California, Irvine. Teams of world-renowned doctors founded by Carol A. Locke, MD are scheduled to speak on the science and health benefits of Omega-3 essential fatty acids from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST in front of thousands of students at UCI.

2 Mar 2010

Clot-busting drug therapy after stroke beneficial for women

New research shows women who don't receive a clot-busting drug after a stroke fare worse than men who are not treated. The study is published in the March 2, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

2 Mar 2010

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Aspirus, a non-profit system of hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities with more than 4,200 employees and more than 400 licensed inpatient beds in its system, is helping its practitioners streamline workflows while reducing IT administrative costs leveraging EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization.

2 Mar 2010

Future work may uncover links between insulin use and cancer risk, say researchers

The benefits of using insulin to treat diabetes far outweigh the risks, but a review just published online by IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice, suggests that commonly used diabetes therapies may differ from each other when it comes to their influence on cancer risk.

2 Mar 2010

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that InterSystems Ensemble® was the software platform for the first-ever successful electronic transmission of comprehensive genetic data. The information was sent cross-country from Boston-based Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM) to Intermountain HealthCare in Salt Lake City, Utah. The announcement about reaching this milestone in personalized medicine came at the HIMSS10 conference.

2 Mar 2010

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

GE Healthcare today is announcing Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.

2 Mar 2010

C1-INH replacement therapy effective for treating acute swelling attacks in HAE

C1-esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) concentrate is an effective, well-tolerated therapy that rapidly relieves acute swelling attacks and successive attacks at any body location in patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and serious genetic disorder, according to data presented today at the 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting. Additional pharmacokinetic data presented at the meeting confirms that C1-INH concentrate has a longer half-life than other treatment options for HAE, which protects patients from rebound attacks.

2 Mar 2010

Inovio Biomedical's SynCon preventive DNA vaccine receives approval in Korea for Phase I clinical trial

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that its affiliate VGX International Inc. has received approval in Korea to begin a Phase I clinical trial in healthy volunteers for Inovio’s SynCon™ preventive DNA vaccine (VGX-3400) targeting H5N1 avian influenza.

2 Mar 2010

Visually impaired children benefit from earlier introduction to long cane

When "T" started kindergarten, she was an independent, confident child who was fully able to move about in her new environment—even though she was the only visually impaired child in her school and used a long cane. T was born in 2003 with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited eye disease, and has no light perception. She was introduced to the long cane at the early age of 14 months to foster her independence of mobility and functioning.

2 Mar 2010

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Lexmark International, Inc. will showcase Lexmark Downtime Reports, the first printer-based healthcare downtime solution, at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference being held in Atlanta.

2 Mar 2010

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Prenatal cocaine exposure affects sustained attention and self-regulated behavior in children

Daily consumption of chlorella can help maintain healthy body

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Health Impact Project announces $150,000 grant to examine health impacts of cap-and-trade regulation

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

AstraZeneca drafts five principles for companies engaged in social media

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

APTA: CMS announces dates for holding claims

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Sea squirts help in fight against Alzheimer's disease

First-ever international Omega-3 Awareness Day

Clot-busting drug therapy after stroke beneficial for women

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

Future work may uncover links between insulin use and cancer risk, say researchers

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

C1-INH replacement therapy effective for treating acute swelling attacks in HAE

Inovio Biomedical's SynCon preventive DNA vaccine receives approval in Korea for Phase I clinical trial

Visually impaired children benefit from earlier introduction to long cane

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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