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Mouse with "golden ears"

What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with "golden ears" - mice that have outstanding hearing as they age.

10 Nov 2009

St. Jude collaborates with UF Proton Therapy Institute to commence proton therapy clinical study

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first clinical study to evaluate the use of proton therapy for rare brain cancers in children younger than 3 years old.

10 Nov 2009

Disparities in emergency room waiting times for chest pain patients

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health researchers will present Nov. 10 on a range of topics at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, including a study that examined compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their arrival to the Emergency Department (ED).

10 Nov 2009

ikaSystems' enterprise-wide systems help lower administrative costs for health plan members

The United States moved a step closer to major healthcare reform this weekend as the House of Representatives voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that will, among other goals, extend coverage to an estimated 36 million people without insurance, create a government health insurance option and prohibit such contentious insurance company practices as denying coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and rescinding coverage without clear and convincing evidence of fraud.

10 Nov 2009

Speaker Pelosi praises H.R. 3962 that will improve Medicaid access to HIV/AIDS-affected people

"Effective drug treatments have improved both health and quality of life for thousands of Americans living with HIV/AIDS. However, many uninsured, low-income HIV-positive individuals still do not have access to these life-saving medications because they generally do not meet Medicaid requirements until becoming disabled by full-blown AIDS.

10 Nov 2009

Treatment of allergic rhinitis can improve nasal and ocular symptoms

The treatment of allergic rhinitis is shown to improve co-existing conditions including conjunctivitis, asthma, sinusitis, otitis media with effusion (fluid in the middle ear) and sleep disorders according to an international expert at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Miami Beach, Fla.

10 Nov 2009

MU continues ice cream research; scientists study how to add nutrients to frozen desserts

A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence - ice cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream tastier and healthier and have contributed to ice cream development and manufacturing for more than a century.

10 Nov 2009

Cannabinoid medicine: Challenges for health care providers and its potential benefits for patients

Groundbreaking articles in current issues of Journal of Opioid Management, for the first time explore, in depth, the emergence of cannabinoid medicine, its challenges for health care providers and its potential benefits for patients.

10 Nov 2009

H1N1 vaccine updates from Pennsylvania Department of Health

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, has allocated a total of 1,351,400 doses of H1N1 vaccine to Pennsylvania to date, the state Department of Health announced today.

10 Nov 2009

Meditation training can have a positive effect on pain management

A new study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques has found that relatively short and simple mindfulness meditation training can have a significant positive effect on pain management.

10 Nov 2009

NAPGCM certification programs for geriatric care management

As the aging population continues to grow, the need for qualified geriatric care management standards is increasingly critical. To evolve industry standards and ultimately improve profession-recognized qualifications, the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM) introduced new membership categories, including the official "Certified Geriatric Care Manager" category which requires specific higher education levels, supervised work experience and one of four industry-sanctioned professional designations.

10 Nov 2009

Activating TAp63 protein, a viable anti-cancer strategy

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. As a critical anti-cancer watchdog, p53 masterminds several cancer-fighting operations within cells. When cells lose p53, tumors grow aggressively and often cannot be treated.

10 Nov 2009

Scientists find way to splice cell networks down to their genesis

On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped into indistinguishable clusters. Because these complex cell networks are the backbone of life - and illness - scientists have long searched for ways to splice cell clusters down to their original pairs.

10 Nov 2009

CAEP: Long Gun Registry saves lives, repealing the bill will have tragic consequences

The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) is greatly concerned about the recent endorsement by the House of Commons of Bill C-391, which, if passed, would repeal the Long Gun Registry. As emergency physicians, we see the true horror of firearm injury and death and can attest to the fact that the long gun registry saves lives.

10 Nov 2009

Environmental factors, obesity and diabetes: Long-term study launched

Three Singapore biomedical institutions have launched a major, long-term study of pregnant mothers and their fetuses as well as infant children to determine just how profoundly environmental factors early in life influence the onset of diseases such as obesity and diabetes in later years.

10 Nov 2009

Court denies preliminary injunction against Hologic, Conceptus to continue patent infringement suit

Conceptus, Inc., developer of the Essure® procedure, the first proven non-incisional permanent birth control method available, today announced that the United Stated District Court, Northern District of California has denied Conceptus’ motion for a preliminary injunction prohibiting Hologic, Inc. from importing, using, selling or offering to sell the Adiana system in the United States.

From Hologic, Inc. 10 Nov 2009

Patient quality improvements a must for obtaining federal EHR stimulus fund, urge members of Congress

Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D, RI) and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D, TX) have taken the lead in urging their fellow members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require patient quality improvements as a prerequisite to obtaining federal electronic health record (EHR) stimulus funds.

10 Nov 2009

Prostatitis is a psychoneuromuscular condition: Study

In the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Urology, Stanford Medical School researcher Dr. Rodney Anderson and researchers at the National Center for Pelvic Pain Research, in a new study, demonstrated a high correlation between the location of painful trigger points inside the pelvic floor muscles of men with chronic prostatitis and the location in the body where they routinely complain of pain.

10 Nov 2009

"Point of Care Diagnostics 2010 and Beyond: Rapid Testing at a Crossroads" report from MarketResearch.com

MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Kalorama Information's new report "Point of Care Diagnostics 2010 and Beyond: Rapid Testing at a Crossroads," to their collection of In Vitro Diagnostics market reports.

10 Nov 2009

Computerized alerts induce clinicians to prescribe comparable generic equivalents

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received computerized alerts, which compared medication brands, they changed 23.3 percent of prescriptions for four heavily marketed sleep medications to comparable generic equivalents.

10 Nov 2009

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Mouse with "golden ears"

St. Jude collaborates with UF Proton Therapy Institute to commence proton therapy clinical study

Disparities in emergency room waiting times for chest pain patients

ikaSystems' enterprise-wide systems help lower administrative costs for health plan members

Speaker Pelosi praises H.R. 3962 that will improve Medicaid access to HIV/AIDS-affected people

Treatment of allergic rhinitis can improve nasal and ocular symptoms

MU continues ice cream research; scientists study how to add nutrients to frozen desserts

Cannabinoid medicine: Challenges for health care providers and its potential benefits for patients

H1N1 vaccine updates from Pennsylvania Department of Health

Meditation training can have a positive effect on pain management

NAPGCM certification programs for geriatric care management

Activating TAp63 protein, a viable anti-cancer strategy

Scientists find way to splice cell networks down to their genesis

CAEP: Long Gun Registry saves lives, repealing the bill will have tragic consequences

Environmental factors, obesity and diabetes: Long-term study launched

Court denies preliminary injunction against Hologic, Conceptus to continue patent infringement suit

Patient quality improvements a must for obtaining federal EHR stimulus fund, urge members of Congress

Prostatitis is a psychoneuromuscular condition: Study

"Point of Care Diagnostics 2010 and Beyond: Rapid Testing at a Crossroads" report from MarketResearch.com

Computerized alerts induce clinicians to prescribe comparable generic equivalents

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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