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SU2C opens fully stocked online store to support cancer research

This is where the end of cancer begins… with the start of the New Year. Just in time for the New Year, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is opening a fully stocked online store whose proceeds will support cancer research to bring new therapies to patients faster.

29 Dec 2009

Providence Service comments on the landmark healthcare legislation passed by the Senate

The Providence Service Corporation today commented on the landmark healthcare legislation that was passed last week by the United States Senate. The Senate Bill, which still needs to be merged with the House Bill and therefore could still undergo substantial changes, has a number of features that are expected to add funding for many of the types of home and community based social services that Providence provides to Medicaid eligible populations.

29 Dec 2009

Research suggests common mechanism is associated with different human diseases

Inherited mutations in voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are associated with many different human diseases, including genetic forms of epilepsy and chronic pain. Theodore Cummins and colleagues, at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, have now determined the functional consequence of three such mutations.

29 Dec 2009

Researcher Avinash Patwardhan wins top honor from North American Spine Society

Researcher Avinash Patwardhan, Ph.D., of Loyola University Health System, a leading expert on the biomechanics of the human spine, has won a top honor from the North American Spine Society.

29 Dec 2009

Radient Pharmaceuticals receives NYSE Amex non-compliance notice

Radient Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced it has received notice from the NYSE Amex that the Company is not in compliance with the continued listing standard in Section 1003(a)(iv) of the Exchange's Company Guide. The Company has until January 22, 2010 to submit a plan to regain compliance by June 23, 2010.

29 Dec 2009

Aetna and WellPoint are first national health plans to earn CORE Phase II certification

CAQH® announced today that Aetna and WellPoint, together serving over 50 million members, are the first national health plans to earn certification for electronically exchanging administrative data using the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange® (CORE) Phase II rules.

29 Dec 2009

Promising results from Soligenix' RiVax vaccine against ricin toxin

Soligenix, Inc., formerly known as DOR BioPharma, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company, announced today the publication of an article in the January 2010 edition of Infection and Immunity, detailing the characteristics of several immunodominant regions of ricin A chain, the antigenic component of RiVax((TM)). RiVax((TM)) is Soligenix's vaccine to protect against exposure to ricin toxin and is currently being evaluated in Phase 1 human safety and immunogenicity trials, as well as nonhuman primate trials for efficacy.

29 Dec 2009

ABCs for good health

While the common underlying theme of most New Year's resolutions is health-related, many tend to forget about the basics of maintaining good health through regular visits to the doctor. Even more so, we forgo the regular visits to the dentist.

29 Dec 2009

eHealthInsurance releases tips to provide consumers with year-end health insurance checkup

eHealthInsurance, the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses, today released a series of questions and tips to provide consumers with a year-end health insurance checkup and make sure their policy is the right fit.

29 Dec 2009

Cholesterol expert offers simple resolutions and advice for staying heart healthy in New Year

Family physician and cholesterol expert Michael Cobble, M.D., has some simple resolutions and fun advice for staying heart healthy in the new year. Cobble is a board-certified clinical lipidologist (NLA), certified hypertension specialist (ASH), medical director of the private practice Canyons Medical Center in Sandy, Utah, and Chief Medical Officer at Atherotech, Inc., developer of the VAP Cholesterol Test.

29 Dec 2009

Grant of $2 million awarded to understand PIGD in Parkinson's disease

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded a total of $2 million to five research teams carrying out clinical studies to refine understanding of postural instability and gait disturbances (PIGD) in Parkinson's disease, and help speed the development of urgently needed treatments.

29 Dec 2009

Nutrient-rich foods for weight loss

For the majority of Americans who are unhappy with their weight at any given moment, the New Year brings mixed emotions: the renewed resolution to shed pounds and the challenge of learning how to eat right to reach those goals.

29 Dec 2009

Health Sciences Group to operate under the Healing Center-Livingston

Health Sciences Group, Inc. would like to announce that it has completed a licensing agreement with The Healing Center of Montana for the territory of Livingston County, Montana for purposes of operating a medical marijuana collective and distribution center for medical marijuana patients as pertains to Montana state and Livingston County law.

28 Dec 2009

Nanoscaffolds could play a central role in tissue and organ reconstruction

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a study in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:9), now freely available on line at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct, that explores ways to successfully keep stem cells "forever young" during implantation by slowing their growth, differentiation and proliferation.

28 Dec 2009

Genesys Health System to pay $669,413 over Medicare false claim allegations

Genesys Health System has agreed to pay the United States $669,413 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the health care provider violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.

28 Dec 2009

SVA submits the first clinical trial application for HFMD vaccine in China

Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced today that it has filed the application with China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to commence a human clinical trial for its vaccine against human enterovirus 71 (EV 71), which causes hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD). This is the first clinical trial application for HFMD vaccine submitted in China.

28 Dec 2009

Cambridge Heart completes $1.8 million Series D preferred stock financing

Cambridge Heart, Inc., today announced that it has completed a private placement of Series D convertible preferred stock, raising proceeds of approximately $1.8 million.

28 Dec 2009

CGEN-671, a new drug target for multiple epithelial tumors discovered by Compugen

Compugen Ltd. announced today the discovery and experimental validation of CGEN-671, a new drug target for multiple epithelial tumors.

28 Dec 2009

Canadian Health deploys IceWEB's GIS server technology to combat the growth of H1N1 Flu virus

IceWEB, Inc., www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that Canadian Health has deployed IceWEB high performance GIS (Geographic Information System) server technology to augment their efforts to combat the growth of the H1N1 Flu virus.

28 Dec 2009

CoachRx: An interactive website for CIGNA’s customers

As former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D. once said, “Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.” That’s why CIGNA is introducing CoachRx, an interactive Web site to help CIGNA Home Delivery Pharmacy customers identify their personal barriers to taking their medications, and then providing ways to help people stay on track with the medications they need.

28 Dec 2009