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Indiana receives $10.3M federal grant to enhance quality and reach of existing health information technology

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program announced the award today of a four-year, $10.3 million grant to the State of Indiana to further enhance the quality and reach of the state's existing health information technology delivery system to improve health outcomes for Hoosiers and reduce costs across the continuum of health care.

16 Mar 2010

Debate on end-of-life care

With skyrocketing Medicare costs contributing to record-setting budget deficits, does the United States need to ration costly end-of-life care? This compelling topic will be the focus of an upcoming debate produced by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and The National Press Club.

16 Mar 2010

International symposium to feature latest findings on vector-borne diseases in humans and plants

Leading insect vector biologists from around the world will gather at the University of California, Riverside for two days this month to discuss their latest research on vector-borne diseases in humans and plants.

16 Mar 2010

Boston Scientific announces results from HORIZONS AMI trial assessing Express bare-metal stent

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced results from an analysis of one-year subset data from the HORIZONS AMI trial assessing the impact of diabetes on clinical and angiographic outcomes in heart attack patients treated with the TAXUS® Express2™ Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System or the Express® bare-metal stent.

16 Mar 2010

McKesson’s Horizon Cardiology CVIS simplifies complex cardiovascular processes

Recognizing that a single database cardiovascular information solution (CVIS) can streamline workflow and improve staff efficiency in the cardiology department, hospitals across North America are replacing their legacy hemodynamic systems with McKesson’s Horizon Cardiology CVIS. Through combining hemodynamic monitoring, ECG Management, and multi-modality imaging and reporting in a single database, Horizon Cardiology CVIS enables cardiologists to address today’s challenges of decreasing revenues, increasing costs and mounting documentation requirements.

16 Mar 2010

Metabolic drugs top the list of prescription drug expenses for elderly Medicare beneficiaries

Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 - about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers.

16 Mar 2010

CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent provides better outcome compared to Medtronic’s Endeavor Stent

Investigators reported the long-term follow-up of the largest randomized comparison between the CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent and Medtronic’s Endeavor® Stent highlighting significant and sustained clinical differences. These important findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting, (ACC 2010) in Atlanta and published on-line in the prestigious journal The Lancet.

16 Mar 2010

SBS, ALA merger awaits membership approval

For the past 18 months, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences and the Association for Laboratory Automation have been strategizing a merger to unite their complementary missions within the context of one inclusive organization -- the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening. The SBS-ALA merger awaits membership approval via a proxy voting process.

16 Mar 2010

Houston scientists unveil new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures

The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of Houston scientists this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that could save millions of dollars in drug-testing costs. The research is reported in Nature Nanotechnology.

16 Mar 2010

Home Diagnostics merges with Nippon Product Acquisition

Nipro Corporation today announced the successful completion of a short-form merger of Home Diagnostics, Inc. with Nipro’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Nippon Product Acquisition Corporation.

16 Mar 2010

UVA Health System offers Gamma Knife eXtend system to treat patients with head and neck cancer

A powerful new tool available at the University of Virginia Health System offers treatment to patients with some of the most challenging cancers of the head and neck.

16 Mar 2010

Study confirms blood-stage infection is due to population mixing and disease evolution

In a paradigm changing discovery, Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria has been identified in a population historically thought to be resistant to the disease, those who do not express the Duffy blood group protein on their red blood cells, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Pasteur Institute, and the Madagascar Ministry of Health.

16 Mar 2010

UMass Memorial Health Care implements Picis CareSuite perioperative and anesthesia solutions

Picis today announced that UMass Memorial Health Care, the largest healthcare system in Central and Western Massachusetts, has selected Picis CareSuite® perioperative and anesthesia solutions for more than 60 operating rooms in its five hospitals. UMass Memorial chose Picis integrated technology to deliver clinical documentation and financial information more quickly and accurately across the UMass Memorial Health Care system, thereby promoting quality patient care.

16 Mar 2010

Alliance members advocate passage of Alcohol-Related Services Act

A diverse, statewide network of concerned individuals, treatment and prevention service providers, cities, counties, public health departments, enforcement, labor, youth and faith-based groups determined to pass a fair and meaningful alcohol-harm mitigation fee in California.

16 Mar 2010

Vertebroplasty helps patients become better equipped to continue with treatment for multiple myeloma

Treating non-osteoporotic compression fractures in patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, shows that the use of vertebroplasty-a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists using imaging guidance that stabilizes collapsed vertebrae with the injection of medical-grade bone cement into the spine-results in a reduction of pain, medication usage and disability, according to researchers in the largest study of its kind at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.

16 Mar 2010

Opinions: Discrimination against sexual orientation; WFP in Somalia; Haiti's recovery; WHO's policy role

In a Washington Post opinion piece, Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, speaks out against efforts to deny individuals "their fundamental rights and freedoms" based on their sexual orientation.

16 Mar 2010

Kettering Health Network licenses DIATHERIX Laboratories' TEM-PCR testing process

Kettering Health Network is the nation's first health system to use a new testing process developed by DIATHERIX Laboratories, which dramatically reduces the time it takes to detect H1N1, methicillin resistant staphylococcus (MRSA), Clostridium difficile (C-diff) and other infectious diseases. Kettering Medical Center will be the first hospital in the network to use the testing system and DIATHERIX will maintain an onsite lab at the facility.

16 Mar 2010

Mental health experts cite positive aspects of March Madness, offer tips to temper drawbacks

The perfect storm of sporting events is nigh, and for three weeks people will become riveted by the David and Goliath matchups and Cinderella stories set against a backdrop of beers and big screens and bar food favorites.

16 Mar 2010

UCL scientists explore decision-making process of human brain

The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in 'status quo bias' in the human brain.

16 Mar 2010

Researchers study health gap between people of high and low SES in China

Studies in the United States have long shown that rich people tend to be healthier than poor people, and that this "health gap" between the haves and have-nots gets worse as people get older. But is that because the U.S. is a capitalist society? Apparently not. A new study from North Carolina State University shows that the same is true in China.

16 Mar 2010

Medical News

Indiana receives $10.3M federal grant to enhance quality and reach of existing health information technology

Debate on end-of-life care

International symposium to feature latest findings on vector-borne diseases in humans and plants

Boston Scientific announces results from HORIZONS AMI trial assessing Express bare-metal stent

McKesson’s Horizon Cardiology CVIS simplifies complex cardiovascular processes

Metabolic drugs top the list of prescription drug expenses for elderly Medicare beneficiaries

CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent provides better outcome compared to Medtronic’s Endeavor Stent

SBS, ALA merger awaits membership approval

Houston scientists unveil new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures

Home Diagnostics merges with Nippon Product Acquisition

UVA Health System offers Gamma Knife eXtend system to treat patients with head and neck cancer

Study confirms blood-stage infection is due to population mixing and disease evolution

UMass Memorial Health Care implements Picis CareSuite perioperative and anesthesia solutions

Alliance members advocate passage of Alcohol-Related Services Act

Vertebroplasty helps patients become better equipped to continue with treatment for multiple myeloma

Opinions: Discrimination against sexual orientation; WFP in Somalia; Haiti's recovery; WHO's policy role

Kettering Health Network licenses DIATHERIX Laboratories' TEM-PCR testing process

Mental health experts cite positive aspects of March Madness, offer tips to temper drawbacks

UCL scientists explore decision-making process of human brain

Researchers study health gap between people of high and low SES in China

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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