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Valley Presbyterian Hospital announces opening of premier Amputation Prevention Center

Valley Presbyterian Hospital is proud to announce the planned red-carpet grand-opening on March 17th of its premier Amputation Prevention Center (APC), an integrated limb-preservation center that is one of the nation’s only facilities of its kind.

4 Mar 2010

Study indicates personality does not influence career decisions

Researchers from the University of C-diz (UCA) have studied the connection between professional preferences and personality, based on interviews and questionnaires carried out on 735 secondary school students from the province of Cadiz. The results indicate that personality does not have an influence when choosing a professional career.

4 Mar 2010

Study indicates climate change plays a role in malaria transmission

Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand why malaria has been spreading into highland areas of East Africa, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

4 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 4, 2010

Today's headlines offer more detail about President Obama's health reform speech, his call for quick congressional action and reconciliation.

4 Mar 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals asks Court to dismiss MIT from any claims for monetary damages in ongoing litigation

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the company and Max Planck have asked the Court to dismiss the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from any claims for monetary damages in the ongoing litigation related to the Tuschl I patent series.

4 Mar 2010

Scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals to convene in Atlanta to set agenda for HAI prevention

Three thousand scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals from throughout the world specializing in epidemiology and infectious diseases will convene March 18-22 in Atlanta with the goal of setting the agenda for healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention for the next decade.

4 Mar 2010

Adams Food Ingredients launches new additives to enhance nutritional values of foods

Adams Food Ingredients Limited, the functional ingredients division of The Irish Dairy Board (based in Leek), has launched a range of additives to help food manufacturers enhance the health and nutritional values of their products.

4 Mar 2010

Parkinson's patients find facial and vocal expression difficult to read; deep brain stimulation seems to make it worse

Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognize expressions of emotion in other people's faces and voices, report two studies published by the American Psychological Association.

4 Mar 2010

SpePharm Holding acquires global rights to Savene from TopoTarget

SpePharm Holding, BV today announced the acquisition of the worldwide (with the exception of North and South America) rights to Savene® from TopoTarget A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark). As part of the acquisition SpePharm will also take on the European sales force of TopoTarget. Savene®, which has been marketed by TopoTarget since its approval by the EMEA in July 2006, is the only approved product for the treatment of extravasations, or leakage out of the blood stream, of certain commonly used anticancer drugs known as anthracyclines.

4 Mar 2010

SXC Health Solutions and HealthSpring sign PBM contract

SXC Health Solutions Corp., a leading provider of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) products and services, today announced that its informedRx PBM unit has been awarded a contract with HealthSpring Inc.

4 Mar 2010

Atacama Labs and Excella partner to sell PDG Granule and Tablet Manufacturing Services

Atacama Labs Oy has developed an innovative oral drug delivery technology (called 'pneumatic dry granulation' or 'PDG Technology(TM)'). The technology is aimed to replace existing solid dosage form development and manufacturing methods (like wet granulation or standard roller compaction) and will help both NCE galenic developers and life cycle managers to overcome development or differentiation issues.

4 Mar 2010

Teens who drink 100% fruit juice have lower intakes of dietary fat and higher intakes of nutrients

New research published in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion shows that teens who drink 100 percent fruit juice have more nutritious diets overall compared to non-consumers.

4 Mar 2010

P&R Dental Strategies develops and builds Rapid Review Imaging System for digitizing x-ray images

After nearly two decades building her company into the industry leader for third-party review of dental insurance claims, Dianne Rose, D.D.S., and principal of P&R Dental Strategies, Inc., was frustrated. In spite of many advances over the years in both dental x-ray technologies and the average quality of images supplied for review of dental claims, there was no consistency and, all-too-often, regardless of how up-to-date the x-ray equipment being used may have been, the images supplied were blurred and nearly useless for making accurate diagnostic determinations.

4 Mar 2010

Congressman Chaka Fattah's statement on healthcare plan

"There's an old expression: 'Lead, follow, or get out of the way.' President Obama today has stepped up in a big way and asserted his leadership. Solid majorities in Congress and a national mandate from the voters are prepared to follow the President's lead and get this job done. Make no mistake: there will be a vote on healthcare.

4 Mar 2010

Best Doctors Canada President available to discuss retesting of pathology reports Opinion

Canada's health experts are among the very best in the world, but Canadians may be surprised to learn that when it comes to reading their pathology reports, it is imperative that they seek a second opinion.

4 Mar 2010

MetLife data indicates middle boomers should be treated as separate demographic groups

For decades, American Baby Boomers have been characterized as a bloc of people who think and act as one monolithic generation. However, recent data from the MetLife Mature Market Institute®, show that Young, Middle and Older Boomers grew up during disparate “eras” and are now at different stages in their lives. They should, perhaps, be treated as separate demographic groups.

4 Mar 2010

25th Alzheimer's Disease International conference: Focus on new treatment developments

"What's new" in Alzheimer's disease medical treatments and diagnosis is the focus of the first day's plenary sessions at the 25th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), March 11, 2010 at the Grand Hotel Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece.

4 Mar 2010

Back injury can set you on your back and set you back financially

Whether you're doing heavy lifting as part of your "honey-do list" around the house or simply lifting groceries out of the car, a back injury can set you on your back (literally) and set you back financially. According to a tally of accident insurance claims submitted in 2009 to Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, back sprain or strain was the number-one occurring injury.

4 Mar 2010

Mosaic vaccines show promise in reducing HIV spread

Two teams of researchers-including Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical biologists Bette Korber, Will Fischer, Sydeaka Watson, and James Szinger-have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys provide the best animal model currently available for testing HIV vaccines.

4 Mar 2010

Scientists explore household bacteria to produce top-quality cheese

The Norwegian dairy company TINE is now planning an in-depth study that will find out whether household bacteria can be used for their own sake.

4 Mar 2010

Medical News

Valley Presbyterian Hospital announces opening of premier Amputation Prevention Center

Study indicates personality does not influence career decisions

Study indicates climate change plays a role in malaria transmission

First Edition: March 4, 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals asks Court to dismiss MIT from any claims for monetary damages in ongoing litigation

Scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals to convene in Atlanta to set agenda for HAI prevention

Adams Food Ingredients launches new additives to enhance nutritional values of foods

Parkinson's patients find facial and vocal expression difficult to read; deep brain stimulation seems to make it worse

SpePharm Holding acquires global rights to Savene from TopoTarget

SXC Health Solutions and HealthSpring sign PBM contract

Atacama Labs and Excella partner to sell PDG Granule and Tablet Manufacturing Services

Teens who drink 100% fruit juice have lower intakes of dietary fat and higher intakes of nutrients

P&R Dental Strategies develops and builds Rapid Review Imaging System for digitizing x-ray images

Congressman Chaka Fattah's statement on healthcare plan

Best Doctors Canada President available to discuss retesting of pathology reports Opinion

MetLife data indicates middle boomers should be treated as separate demographic groups

25th Alzheimer's Disease International conference: Focus on new treatment developments

Back injury can set you on your back and set you back financially

Mosaic vaccines show promise in reducing HIV spread

Scientists explore household bacteria to produce top-quality cheese

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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