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Anthem Blue Cross' payment cuts for physical therapy services will financially prevent providers from offering care

Patients enrolled in Anthem Blue Cross of California may be in for a rude and costly awakening the next time they visit a physical therapist. According to the California Physical Therapy Association, the insurance company is slashing payment for physical therapy services to a rate so low it is financially impossible for many physical therapists to continue providing care to enrollees of Anthem Blue Cross.

26 Feb 2010

Prospect Medical Holdings announces launch of new investor web site

Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. today announced the launch of its new investor web site at www.prospectmedicalholdings.com. The new site provides investors with a comprehensive resource of easy-to-find information, enabling them to stay current with developments at Prospect.

26 Feb 2010

SNI clinical study using ultrasound for treatment of ICH and IVH presented at International Stroke Conference

EKOS Corporation announced today that Dr. David W. Newell, Co–Executive Director, Swedish Neuroscience Institute (Seattle, WA) presented a SNI clinical study known as ‘SLEUTH’ (Safety of Lysis with Ultrasound in the Treatment of Intracerebral (ICH) and Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH) at the American Heart Association International Stroke Conference (San Antonio, TX).

26 Feb 2010

Alegent Health, TeleHealth Services partner in "Generation Patient" enhancement initiative

TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education solutions, today announced an extended partnership with Alegent Health. Building upon an existing relationship, Alegent has chosen TeleHealth Services as its interactive patient education and entertainment partner in the health system's unprecedented "Generation Patient" enhancement initiative.

26 Feb 2010

Teva Pharmaceutical announces clinical study results of Copaxone in RRMS patients

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. today announced the publication of data from the 15-year clinical study with Copaxone® (glatiramer acetate injection), which is the longest prospective and continuous evaluation ever conducted in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients. The data were published in the February issue of the journal Multiple Sclerosis.

26 Feb 2010

Locally advanced sinonasal malignancies: Proton beam radiation therapy promising

Proton beam radiation therapy shows encouraging results for patients with locally advanced sinonasal malignancies, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.

26 Feb 2010

Aetna Foundation announces two grants to eliminate health and health care disparities

The Aetna Foundation today announced two grants totaling $250,000 as part of its continuing efforts to establish racial and ethnic equity in health and health care. The elimination of health and health care disparities is one of three primary focus areas of the Aetna Foundation’s grant-making.

26 Feb 2010

Schizophrenia: Insight into late development of symptoms

In reports of two new studies, researchers led by Johns Hopkins say they have identified the mechanisms rooted in two anatomical brain abnormalities that may explain the onset of schizophrenia and the reason symptoms don't develop until young adulthood. Both types of anatomical glitches are influenced by a gene known as DISC1, whose mutant form was first identified in a Scottish family with a strong history of schizophrenia and related mental disorders. The findings could lead to new ways to treat, prevent or modify the disorder or its symptoms.

26 Feb 2010

Heel pain continues to be the most common reason patients seek care, say foot and ankle surgeons

If you are suffering from heel pain, you're not alone. According to foot and ankle surgeons attending the 68th Annual Scientific Conference of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons in Las Vegas this week, heel pain continues to be the most common reason patients seek care. Surgeons advise the best defense to keeping pain in control is early treatment.

26 Feb 2010

Study: Ongoing debate on how to pay for health care

Whether an individual is treated for a hip fracture at a hospital reimbursed by Medicare or is treated at a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center makes a significant difference in what happens to the patient after release from the medical facility, according to a large study which may contribute to the ongoing debate on how to pay for health care.

26 Feb 2010

SensAble Technologies announces second, fully integrated scanner option for Dental Lab System

SensAble Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of 3D touch-enabled modeling systems, dental CAD/CAM solutions and haptic devices, has announced that it will be offering a second, fully integrated scanner option for the SensAble Dental Lab System, as well as SensAble’s new OpenScan™ software interface. The new scanner supports the scanning of both models and impressions, providing a high degree of flexibility for labs and allowing further time-savings.

26 Feb 2010

Opening remarks spell out partisan divide at summit

As the health summit opened this morning, President Obama called the overhaul "absolutely critical," while Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said "We ought to start over," The Wall Street Journal reports.

26 Feb 2010

New Robotic Surgical Simulator created for robot-assisted surgery

A collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has produced one of the world's first simulators that closely approximates the "touch and feel" of the da Vinci- robotic surgical system.

26 Feb 2010

UCB adopts Enterprise version of NextBio platform

NextBio, developer of an innovative software platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data, today announced a license agreement with global biopharmaceutical company UCB, for NextBio Enterprise. NextBio Enterprise offers life sciences organizations unique tools for knowledge discovery and collaboration, seamless integration of internal and external research data, and secure data access.

26 Feb 2010

Supelco launches Ascentis Express Peptide ES-C18 HPLC columns

Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich®, announced today the launch of Ascentis Express Peptide ES-C18, a high-speed, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column based on a new 160 angstrom Fused-Core™ particle design. This column design exhibits very high column efficiency, providing a stable, reversed phase packing with a pore structure and pore size that is optimized for reversed-phase HPLC separations of peptides and polypeptides.

26 Feb 2010

KV Pharmaceutical makes agreement with U.S. Department of Justice to resolve investigation on ETHEX

KV Pharmaceutical Company today announced that it has reached an agreement, subject to court approval, with the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri and the Office of Consumer Litigation of the United States Department of Justice to resolve an investigation regarding certain activities of ETHEX Corporation, its generic pharmaceutical marketing and distribution subsidiary, which occurred in 2008.

26 Feb 2010

EuroFIR Stakeholder Event to take place in Brussels, Belgium

We are delighted to announce that this EuroFIR Stakeholder Event will take place in the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.

26 Feb 2010

Surgeons perform nation's first incision-free myotomy procedure to treat achalasia

Surgeons at UC San Diego Medical Center have performed the nation's first incision-free myotomy, a procedure to treat achalasia, a distressing disorder which causes difficulty swallowing, regurgitation and chest pain. The innovative surgery, performed through the mouth, is the most recent in a series of groundbreaking clinical trial surgeries being evaluated by the UCSD Center for the Future of Surgery.

26 Feb 2010

AST now offers programs and services to treat children with developmental disorders

Autism Spectrum Therapies, an agency providing comprehensive autism services throughout Southern California, is expanding its services to include speech and language programs and occupational therapy, in addition to behavior therapy. The focus of the new services will be early intervention for children from infancy to age three and developmental catch-up for young children who have fallen behind in any developmental area.

26 Feb 2010

DNC Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman issues statement praising President Obama's bipartisan meeting

Today's discussion was an encouraging step in the fight for health insurance reform. I commend the President for his continued leadership on the issue, which is a top priority for Latinos. Our community is disproportionately affected by lack of health insurance and insurers' unscrupulous practices – which is why Latinos and all Americans need health reform now.

26 Feb 2010

Medical News

Anthem Blue Cross' payment cuts for physical therapy services will financially prevent providers from offering care

Prospect Medical Holdings announces launch of new investor web site

SNI clinical study using ultrasound for treatment of ICH and IVH presented at International Stroke Conference

Alegent Health, TeleHealth Services partner in "Generation Patient" enhancement initiative

Teva Pharmaceutical announces clinical study results of Copaxone in RRMS patients

Locally advanced sinonasal malignancies: Proton beam radiation therapy promising

Aetna Foundation announces two grants to eliminate health and health care disparities

Schizophrenia: Insight into late development of symptoms

Heel pain continues to be the most common reason patients seek care, say foot and ankle surgeons

Study: Ongoing debate on how to pay for health care

SensAble Technologies announces second, fully integrated scanner option for Dental Lab System

Opening remarks spell out partisan divide at summit

New Robotic Surgical Simulator created for robot-assisted surgery

UCB adopts Enterprise version of NextBio platform

Supelco launches Ascentis Express Peptide ES-C18 HPLC columns

KV Pharmaceutical makes agreement with U.S. Department of Justice to resolve investigation on ETHEX

EuroFIR Stakeholder Event to take place in Brussels, Belgium

Surgeons perform nation's first incision-free myotomy procedure to treat achalasia

AST now offers programs and services to treat children with developmental disorders

DNC Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman issues statement praising President Obama's bipartisan meeting

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