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Pregnant women unsure about getting H1N1 flu shot, shows new survey

Despite majorities expressing concern about getting the novel H1N1 (or swine) flu this year, only about one in four pregnant women or new mothers plan to get the H1N1 flu shot, according to findings from a new survey conducted on behalf of HealthyWomen by Harris Interactive.

24 Oct 2009

Potentia Pharmaceuticals and Alcon Research sign license and purchase option agreements

Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that it has entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon Research, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alcon, Inc.

24 Oct 2009

Walgreen Eastern to acquire a substantial portion of DAW's operating assets

Nyer Medical Group, Inc., announced today that D.A.W., Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nyer which does business under the name Eaton Apothecary, and Nyer entered into a definitive agreement with Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. for the sale of a substantial portion of DAW's operating assets, including prescription files and inventory of a total of 12 neighborhood pharmacies which includes the assignment of eight leases, for a purchase price, subject to certain adjustments, of $12.0 million plus up to $5.75 million of qualifying inventory and $1.1 million of operating equipment.

24 Oct 2009

Blood Bank of Alaska licenses the LifeTrak blood donor management software

Mediware Information Systems, Inc. announced today that the Blood Bank of Alaska is the latest major blood center to license LifeTrak®, the company's 510(k) cleared blood donor management software. Using LifeTrak, the blood center plans to integrate core software systems, launch an additional mobile unit and increase the number of advanced collection machines, to help the center to more efficiently collect more blood products.

24 Oct 2009

New advertising campaign to promote recommended servings of fruits and vegetables

ConAgra Foods’ Manwich® brand announced this week a new television advertising campaign promoting the full serving of vegetables found in each serving of Manwich.

24 Oct 2009

PhotoMedex announces the closure of private placement, raises $2.7 million

PhotoMedex, Inc. today announced that it has closed a private placement of approximately 4.17 million shares of its common stock at a price of $0.65 per share. Gross proceeds from the private placement are approximately $2.7 million. The purchasers were accredited investors, some of which were institutions.

24 Oct 2009

Senate negotiators wrestle with employer mandate, unemployed have mixed feelings on health bills

News reports reflect how current reform plans are likely to affect employers as well as people who are unemployed.

24 Oct 2009

Washington Independent examines QDDR process, implications for State Dept., USAID

The Washington Independent examines the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, or QDDR, announced in June by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department's director of policy planning; James Michael, a senior USAID official; and Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew are "in charge of creating the document — a process of managing five working groups chaired by top-level agency heads to produce an interim report in January and a final document by next September."

24 Oct 2009

Multiple programs and strategies to improve patient safety presented

Kathy Donohue, R.N. of Independence Blue Cross (IBC), will present on a patient safety panel as part of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Summit this morning at 10:30 a.m. at DeSales University in the Lehigh Valley.

24 Oct 2009

SARRC awarded a $100,000 as the winner of the 2009 Arizona Benefits grant

The Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC), a non-profit working to advance research and provide support for individuals with autism and their families, has been awarded a $100,000 grant as the winner of the 2009 Arizona Benefits grant, funded by health benefits company Humana Inc.

24 Oct 2009

MediPACK honored with the 2009 Caregiver Friendly Award

Today's Caregiver, the first national magazine for all family and professional caregivers, and caregiver.com awarded its 2009 Caregiver Friendly® Award to MediPACK, the Reeves-Sain product which provides organized daily dosage packages for its customers.

24 Oct 2009

Leatt brings new brand identity on its sports product line

Leatt®, the company that invented the Leatt-Brace®, is evolving its brand and is showcasing a new logo. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Leatt is a market leader for design and safety in sports protection.

24 Oct 2009

Elekta to demonstrate stereotactic solutions at the 2009 CNS Annual Meeting

At the 2009 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, October 24-28 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Elekta will demonstrate how its line of stereotactic solutions expand treatment capabilities and bring new hope for patients presenting serious conditions.

From Elekta 24 Oct 2009

New report on the true cost of ObamaCare released

Far from providing "affordable" care for everyone, ObamaCare would result in higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty.

24 Oct 2009

Today's opinions and editorials

Increasing government oversight will not only hurt doctors in the pocketbook, as reimbursements are inevitably cut. It will also lead to greater bureaucratic inefficiencies (Marc Siegel, 10/22).

24 Oct 2009

Senate leaders close to including a version of public option in health bill

The New York Times: "In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out."

24 Oct 2009

Women and children important during groundwater arsenic pollution fieldwork, says geologist

A Kansas State University geologist and graduate student are finding that the most important tools in their fieldwork on groundwater arsenic pollution are women and children armed with pamphlets and testing kits.

24 Oct 2009

Recent releases in Global Health

"The spread of dengue virus throughout the tropics represents a major, rapidly growing public health problem with an estimated 2.5 billion people at risk of dengue fever and the life-threatening disease, severe dengue," write the authors of a Lancet Infectious Diseases review that examines what is known about the virus and progress in the development of a dengue vaccine (Webster et. al, 11/09).

24 Oct 2009

Egypt Race for the Cure supports breast cancer programs

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is expanding its global breast cancer mission to Egypt this October, working with Egyptian government agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to break the silence and stigma around breast cancer.

24 Oct 2009

Cardio Infrared Technologies to reduce its amount of authorized shares

Cardio Infrared Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CDOI) (www.cardio-cor.com) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a reduction of the authorized shares from 5,000,000,000 to 1,500,000,000.

24 Oct 2009