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Nurses lobby for more protections; Med school enrollment misses target

News outlets are covering medical professionals: a rally to combat the nursing shortage, medical school enrollment shortfalls and internationally-trained doctors.

12 May 2010

Phase IIb study of EVP-6124 initiated in patients with Alzheimer's disease

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals today announced the initiation and dosing of patients in a Phase IIb study of its EVP-6124 compound, a selective alpha-7 nicotinic agonist in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

12 May 2010

FDA approves software upgrade to Boston Scientific's LATITUDE Patient Management system

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for LATITUDE 6.0, a software upgrade to the Company's LATITUDE® Patient Management system. The LATITUDE system enables physicians to remotely monitor patients with implantable cardiac devices. The upgrade provides enhanced functionality, including the ability to view an expanded history of a patient's remote follow-up data.

12 May 2010

Exelixis first-quarter revenues increase to $42.2 million

Exelixis, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

12 May 2010

Health on the hill: Health insurance coverage for young adults moves forward

Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey talks with the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd about newly released proposed regulation "to implement a provision in the health care law that would allow adult children to stay on their parents' health insurance policy until age 26" (5/10).

12 May 2010

Routine dental treatment can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes: Researchers

Routine dental treatment can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes who have preexisting gum disease.

12 May 2010

Health overhaul provisions raise moral, religious debates

The new health law has renewed concerns about some moral and religious issues, such as the government's role in providing sex education and health care workers' ability to opt out of providing end-of-life care and abortions.

12 May 2010

Compugen discovers CGEN-928 as antibody drug target for treatment of multiple myeloma

Compugen Ltd. announced today the discovery and initial experimental validation of CGEN-928 as a drug target for the treatment of multiple myeloma. In recently completed studies, CGEN-928, a membrane protein which previously had no known function or potential clinical utility, demonstrated broad expression in human multiple myeloma tumor cells, including drug resistant and aggressive primary tumor cell lines.

12 May 2010

Phakic IOLs safer than laser surgery for correcting moderate short-sightedness

A new type of procedure for correcting short-sightedness could be safer than laser eye surgery, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The study also shows that patients prefer the new procedure, despite there being little difference between the two in terms of improving vision.

12 May 2010

Bionovo reports net loss of $4.7M for first-quarter 2010

Bionovo, Inc. today announced first quarter highlights and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2010.

12 May 2010

States take legal action against health law

The New York Times reports on the lawsuit challenging the new health law brought by 20 states. "Some legal scholars, including some who normally lean to the left, believe the states have identified the law's weak spot and devised a credible theory for eviscerating it. … The power of their argument lies in questioning whether Congress can regulate inactivity — in this case by levying a tax penalty on those who do not obtain health insurance.

12 May 2010

Quest initiates dosing in Phase I clinical trial with SL052 Photodynamic Therapy in prostate cancer patients

Quest PharmaTech Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer, today announced the dosing of the first patient under the Company's recently initiated Phase I clinical trial with SL052 Photodynamic Therapy in prostate cancer patients. The study will evaluate the localization, safety, tolerability and preliminary treatment response of SL052 photodynamic therapy in 18 patients with localized prostate cancer.

12 May 2010

Cities struggle to pay for health benefits for active, retired workers

The Sacramento Bee reports that 12 of 13 school districts in Sacramento County don't have enough money to pay for their retirees' health benefits "and are not setting aside money to pay for them, according to a grand jury report released Monday."

12 May 2010

Preliminary data from Achillion Pharmaceuticals' Phase 1b clinical trial of ACH-1625 reported

Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported additional preliminary data from its Phase 1b clinical trial of ACH-1625, which demonstrated that both the third and fourth patient cohorts receiving treatment with ACH-1625 achieved meaningful reductions in HCV RNA after five-day monotherapy, with continued safety and tolerability in patients with hepatitis C.

12 May 2010

Chocolate, coffee and red wine may not benefit the heart: Study

Heart Foundation revealed in a recent review of over 100 studies over the last decade that claims of chocolates, red wine and coffee that are supposedly loaded with antioxidants that do good to the heart are unreliable.

11 May 2010

Debate over benefits and privacy concerns in the proposed Australian e-health scheme

There has been a move towards complete computerization of health and related information in the Australian Government’s e-health scheme that will be set up in the next two years. This scheme is purported to cost $467 million of taxpayers’ money. The plan has been criticized because of the fear that all test results; prescriptions etc. will then be available on a national database and accessible over the internet.

11 May 2010

A 75 minute wait for ambulance costs life of a heart patient in North Queensland

On Monday a 44 year old man from Marian west of Mackay, called an ambulance after he developed heart problems. The paramedics reached his home more than an hour later to find him dead. The man called an ambulance at 1.31pm (AEST) on Monday but the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) said paramedics did not arrive until 2.46pm.

11 May 2010

Overtime workers at 60% higher risk of heart-related problems

Working overtime is bad for the heart according to results from a long-running study following more than 10,000 civil servants in London (UK): the Whitehall II study.

11 May 2010

Microfluidics International first-quarter revenue up 21%

Microfluidics International Corporation, today reported unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

11 May 2010

DNA Medicine Institute awarded Grand Challenges Explorations grant to develop finger scanner for malaria

The DNA Medicine Institute announced today that it has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Eugene Y. Chan, M.D. titled "Optomagnetic Finger Scanner for Malaria."

11 May 2010

Medical News

Nurses lobby for more protections; Med school enrollment misses target

Phase IIb study of EVP-6124 initiated in patients with Alzheimer's disease

FDA approves software upgrade to Boston Scientific's LATITUDE Patient Management system

Exelixis first-quarter revenues increase to $42.2 million

Health on the hill: Health insurance coverage for young adults moves forward

Routine dental treatment can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes: Researchers

Health overhaul provisions raise moral, religious debates

Compugen discovers CGEN-928 as antibody drug target for treatment of multiple myeloma

Phakic IOLs safer than laser surgery for correcting moderate short-sightedness

Bionovo reports net loss of $4.7M for first-quarter 2010

States take legal action against health law

Quest initiates dosing in Phase I clinical trial with SL052 Photodynamic Therapy in prostate cancer patients

Cities struggle to pay for health benefits for active, retired workers

Preliminary data from Achillion Pharmaceuticals' Phase 1b clinical trial of ACH-1625 reported

Chocolate, coffee and red wine may not benefit the heart: Study

Debate over benefits and privacy concerns in the proposed Australian e-health scheme

A 75 minute wait for ambulance costs life of a heart patient in North Queensland

Overtime workers at 60% higher risk of heart-related problems

Microfluidics International first-quarter revenue up 21%

DNA Medicine Institute awarded Grand Challenges Explorations grant to develop finger scanner for malaria

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