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Winners of 2010 IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards announced

The International Association for Dental Research and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare today announced the 2010 winners of the annual IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards. The three prestigious awards recognize research in innovative oral care technologies that may maintain and improve oral health and the quality of life.

15 May 2010

Merck, Cardiome Pharma show superiority of BRINAVESS to amiodarone injection

In a new Phase III study, BRINAVESSTM (vernakalant) intravenous, an investigational compound being developed in the European Union by Merck (known as MSD outside the USA and Canada) and Cardiome Pharma Corp. to treat atrial fibrillation, showed that BRINAVESS was superior to amiodarone injection, in converting patients' heart rate from atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm (SR) within 90 minutes of the start of administration.

15 May 2010

Hospira's I.V. administration set product line to be standardized to non-DEHP

Hospira, Inc., a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, will expand its commitment to non-DEHP products by transitioning customers to its portfolio of non-DEHP intravenous administration sets.

15 May 2010

HTDS completes Quarterly Reports

Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. and the company's IR representative Mina Mar Marketing Group announce, that the company completed its Quarterly Reports.

15 May 2010

AutoImmune stockholders vote in favor of voluntary dissolution

AutoImmune Inc. today announced that its stockholders have voted in favor of the company's voluntary dissolution pursuant to a Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution at a special meeting of stockholders held on May 11, 2010. Stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the dissolution of the company pursuant to the Plan of Complete Liquidation and Dissolution, with the proposal receiving an affirmative vote from approximately 99% of the votes cast at the special meeting of stockholders.

15 May 2010

Research roundup: Whistleblowers, spreading best practices, Medicare's growth-limiting strategy

The Impact Of Removing Financial Incentives From Clinical Quality Indicators: Longitudinal Analysis Of Four Kaiser Permanente Indicators - The researchers found the removal of pay-for-performance incentives "was associated with a decrease in performance of about 3% per year on average for screening for diabetic retinopathy and about 1.6% per year for cervical cancer screening" (Lester et al., 5/11). More details about the study and related news coverage are in the May 12 Morning Report.

15 May 2010

Northstar Healthcare reports net loss of $1.4M in first-quarter 2010

Northstar Healthcare Inc. today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. All dollar amounts are in United States currency; percentage calculations are based on the numbers in the financial statements and may not correspond to rounded figures presented in this release.

15 May 2010

New GE SPHHS building to serve as convening place for public health leaders

The George Washington University announced today plans to begin construction of a new building for its School of Public Health and Health Services on Pennsylvania Avenue, to be completed in the summer of 2014.

15 May 2010

Sec. of State Clinton pledges support for Afghan women during Pres. Karzai visit

During a meeting with women ministers from Afghanistan on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "promised aid for female education, maternal and other health services, protection of women from violence, and for enhancing their roles in agriculture and the economy," Agence France-Presse reports.

15 May 2010

New intervention method reduces self-stigma in mentally-ill patients

A new intervention, the result of a collaboration between researchers from the University of Haifa, City University of New York and Indiana University, was found to reduce the self-stigma and improve the quality of life and self-esteem among persons with serious mental illness.

15 May 2010

Foundation Venture Capital Group makes initial investment of $175,000 to develop test to diagnose AD

As many as 5.3 million Americans, and 35 million people worldwide, are living with Alzheimer's disease, a devastating neurodegenerative illness characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline and widespread destruction of neurons in the brain. Today, there is no definitive diagnosis for the disease, and no treatment to cure it.

15 May 2010

Imaging Dynamics reports $1.56M net loss for first-quarter 2010

Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd. a global leader in the high growth digital radiography (DR) equipment market, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

15 May 2010

Lincare Holdings declares stock split to increase trading volume and liquidity of common shares

Lincare Holdings Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a three-for-two stock split. The stock split will be effected in the form of a 50% stock dividend to be distributed on June 15, 2010, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2010.

15 May 2010

Elie Hirschfeld gifts $50,000 to help Roosevelt Hospital's ED Expansion and Redesign Project

A new commitment of $50,000 from Elie Hirschfeld, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hirschfeld Properties and a Trustee of Continuum Health Partners, will help further underwrite Roosevelt Hospital's Emergency Department Expansion and Redesign Project. His gifts to the initiative, to date, total over $150,000.

15 May 2010

Sebelius, Holder: New health reform law will help prevent medical fraud

Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas reports: "Obama administration officials, touting $2.5 billion recovered from Medicare overpayments and fraud, immediately turned to talk of how health reform could ensure bigger successes in the future"

15 May 2010

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

A hitherto unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered by researchers at Linköping University.

15 May 2010

LifeCare Holdings reports $95.0 million net patient service revenue for first-quarter 2010

LifeCare Holdings, Inc. today announced its operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

15 May 2010

Two community dental clinics to receive $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania

Two community dental clinics that provide much-needed services to low-income people who lack access to care will receive a $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania.

15 May 2010

Senate Appropriations Committee approves spending bill with foreign aid funding for Haiti

The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday unanimously voted to approve a $59 billion war funding measure that includes "more than $5 billion to replenish disaster aid accounts, as well as funding for Haitian earthquake relief," the Associated Press reports (Taylor, 5/13).

15 May 2010

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

Researchers found that as dominant members of the population surrendered to host immune defenses, they were replaced by a hyperaggressive, mutant minority population that thrived and took over the abandoned community to become the new majority.

15 May 2010

Medical News

Winners of 2010 IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Awards announced

Merck, Cardiome Pharma show superiority of BRINAVESS to amiodarone injection

Hospira's I.V. administration set product line to be standardized to non-DEHP

HTDS completes Quarterly Reports

AutoImmune stockholders vote in favor of voluntary dissolution

Research roundup: Whistleblowers, spreading best practices, Medicare's growth-limiting strategy

Northstar Healthcare reports net loss of $1.4M in first-quarter 2010

New GE SPHHS building to serve as convening place for public health leaders

Sec. of State Clinton pledges support for Afghan women during Pres. Karzai visit

New intervention method reduces self-stigma in mentally-ill patients

Foundation Venture Capital Group makes initial investment of $175,000 to develop test to diagnose AD

Imaging Dynamics reports $1.56M net loss for first-quarter 2010

Lincare Holdings declares stock split to increase trading volume and liquidity of common shares

Elie Hirschfeld gifts $50,000 to help Roosevelt Hospital's ED Expansion and Redesign Project

Sebelius, Holder: New health reform law will help prevent medical fraud

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

LifeCare Holdings reports $95.0 million net patient service revenue for first-quarter 2010

Two community dental clinics to receive $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania

Senate Appropriations Committee approves spending bill with foreign aid funding for Haiti

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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