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MASSIVEGOOD launched to enable travelers make contributions towards major global health causes

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Bill Clinton join today with international recording artists will.i.am and David Guetta, South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, and director Spike Lee, to launch MASSIVEGOOD, an innovative fundraising movement that will enable travelers to make a "micro-contribution" towards major global health causes every time they buy a plane ticket, reserve a hotel room or rent a car.

5 Mar 2010

'Anti-gluten pill' needed

In the early 1980s, about one per cent of adults in Finland had gluten intolerance, but the figure has since gone up to two per cent by the 2000s.

5 Mar 2010

Christiana Care Health System named 2010 Alliance Innovation Award winner

Christiana Care Health System has been named the 2010 Alliance Innovation Award winner from the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC), a national organization made up of 69 major academic medical centers and health systems.

5 Mar 2010

Survey shows only 40% of adolescents aware of the difficulties of tattoo removal

Many adolescents think about getting tattoos, but less than half know what's involved in having them removed, according to an Italian study appearing online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

5 Mar 2010

China Cord Blood's fiscal 2010 third-quarter net revenue up 23.5%

China Cord Blood Corporation, China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing, and stem cell storage services, today announced unaudited financial results for the third quarter and first nine months ended December 31, 2009.

5 Mar 2010

China Pharma Holdings reports 21% increase in 2009 revenue

China Pharma Holdings, Inc., which develops, manufactures, and markets specialty pharmaceutical products in China, today announced financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

5 Mar 2010

Cymetrix Board Member Joe Sullivan recognized as 2010 Director of the Year Honoree

Cymetrix Board Member Joe Sullivan was recognized by the Forum for Corporate Directors as a 2010 Director of the Year Honoree. He was recognized in the category of Corporate Growth and Development for playing a significant role in enhancing the growth and operations of the companies he serves.

5 Mar 2010

Coordinated online social networks can help people with disabilities during emergencies

Online social networks could help with communications and recovery for people with disabilities following major natural disasters, or even terrorist attack, according to a research paper in the International Journal of Emergency Management.

5 Mar 2010

UC researchers find CT scan screening of non-smoking women is cost-effective

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that it is cost-effective to do CT scan screening of non-smoking women, ages 25-54, who come to the emergency room for the first time with a collapsed lung in order to diagnose and treat those with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM.

5 Mar 2010

Glencoe Enterprise article highlights medical innovation and research enable people to live longer, healthier

An article in the Glencoe Enterprise recently highlighted the fact that medical innovation and research are enabling many people to live longer, healthier and more productive lives.

5 Mar 2010

Congressman Levin becomes new acting Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee: Pelosi issues statement

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this morning on Sander Levin of Michigan becoming new acting Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee:

5 Mar 2010

Dialysis patients gather to encourage state lawmakers to support Medigap legislation

More than 50 dialysis patients, family members and kidney care advocates from across South Carolina gathered at the state Capitol today with the National Kidney Foundation Serving the Carolinas, South Carolina Region (NKF) and Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) to encourage state lawmakers to support Medigap legislation (S. 1128, sponsored by Senators Harvey Peeler (R-Cherokee) and Phillip Shoopman (R-Greenville), and H. 4552, sponsored by Representatives Joan Brady (R-Richland), Bill Sandifer (R-Seneca) and Kristopher Crawford (R-Florence)).

5 Mar 2010

CIGNA's Explanation of Benefits earns “Excellent” designation for Clarity, Content and Design

Health service company CIGNA has earned the top ranking among national health plans for the industry’s key customer communication, the Explanation of Benefits. CIGNA's Explanation of Benefits is one of only three to earn an “Excellent” designation for Clarity, Content and Design in an evaluation by DALBAR, Inc.

5 Mar 2010

America's Prostate Cancer Organizations release shared perspective on screening and treatment

America's Prostate Cancer Organizations today released the full text of written testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Committee will be holding a hearing on "Prostate Cancer: New Questions About Screening and Treatment" on March 4, 2010.

5 Mar 2010

Life Technologies, TGen, US Oncology collaborate to sequence genomes of triple negative breast cancer patients

Life Technologies Corporation today announced that it is collaborating with the Translational Genomics Research Institute and US Oncology to sequence the genomes of 14 patients afflicted with triple negative breast cancer whose tumors have progressed despite multiple other therapies.

5 Mar 2010

Porter Adventist Hospital designated as Blue Distinction Center for spine surgery, knee and hip replacement programs

Porter Adventist Hospital is among the first in the country to receive designation as Blue Distinction Centers in two surgical services that have recently been added to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's expansion of its Blue Distinction® designation.

5 Mar 2010

Genetic epidemiology: Importance of population genomics

Did women and men contribute equally to the lineage of contemporary populations? Did our ancestors, Homo sapiens, lean more toward polygamy or monogamy? To answer these questions, Dr. Damian Labuda, an investigator at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center and a professor at the Department of Pediatrics of the Universit- de Montr-al, headed a team that analyzed genomic data from three population samples of African, Asian and European origin. The study's findings are published in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

5 Mar 2010

Study shows encouraging results of DBS in psychiatric disorder treatment

Psychosurgery is making a comeback. Recently published case series have shown encouraging results of so-called deep brain stimulation (DBS) in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder, depressive disorders, and Tourette syndrome.

5 Mar 2010

KHN Column: Popular but ineffective: Repealing insurers' antitrust exemption

In today's Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt and Ian Crosby write: It is well known that concentration in the health insurance industry is to blame for rapidly rising premiums. Well known, but wrong.

5 Mar 2010

Tax treaty with U.S. will pave way for investment in Canadian biotechnology firms, says BIOTECanada

Removing administrative barriers under the Canada-US Tax Treaty for investors such as non-resident venture capital funds are a welcome change, and ease the way for investment in Canadian biotechnology firms according to trade industry association BIOTECanada.

5 Mar 2010

Medical News

MASSIVEGOOD launched to enable travelers make contributions towards major global health causes

'Anti-gluten pill' needed

Christiana Care Health System named 2010 Alliance Innovation Award winner

Survey shows only 40% of adolescents aware of the difficulties of tattoo removal

China Cord Blood's fiscal 2010 third-quarter net revenue up 23.5%

China Pharma Holdings reports 21% increase in 2009 revenue

Cymetrix Board Member Joe Sullivan recognized as 2010 Director of the Year Honoree

Coordinated online social networks can help people with disabilities during emergencies

UC researchers find CT scan screening of non-smoking women is cost-effective

Glencoe Enterprise article highlights medical innovation and research enable people to live longer, healthier

Congressman Levin becomes new acting Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee: Pelosi issues statement

Dialysis patients gather to encourage state lawmakers to support Medigap legislation

CIGNA's Explanation of Benefits earns “Excellent” designation for Clarity, Content and Design

America's Prostate Cancer Organizations release shared perspective on screening and treatment

Life Technologies, TGen, US Oncology collaborate to sequence genomes of triple negative breast cancer patients

Porter Adventist Hospital designated as Blue Distinction Center for spine surgery, knee and hip replacement programs

Genetic epidemiology: Importance of population genomics

Study shows encouraging results of DBS in psychiatric disorder treatment

KHN Column: Popular but ineffective: Repealing insurers' antitrust exemption

Tax treaty with U.S. will pave way for investment in Canadian biotechnology firms, says BIOTECanada

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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