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KHN's Blog Watch: Taking in the health care confab

Kaiser Health News' Blog Watch column details some of yesterday's chatter in the blogosphere. "It was a long day of commentary for many health policy bloggers, who concluded that President Barack Obama signaled his intention to push forward with the current proposals, though who will score the most political points from the seven hour health care summit remains contentious"

27 Feb 2010

Cell Therapeutics files 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-K

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009. This filing is available for review on CTI's website at www.CellTherapeutics.com, or on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

27 Feb 2010

iSOFT Group to showcase interoperability focussed suite of innovative health IT solutions at HIMSS

iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world’s largest healthcare information technology companies, today announced that it will showcase its suite of innovative solutions that focus on interoperability at the HIMSS health IT conference in Atlanta in the US from March 1-4, 2010.

27 Feb 2010

State roundup: S.C. plan would end benefits to 30,000 disabled residents; Judge bars Calif. from cutting elderly from day care; Mass. faces lawsuit on immigrant health care

Children with autism, people with spine and brain injuries and the long-term disabled in job programs are among the 30,000 people who would lose state help under a $5.1 billion spending plan approved by a House committee Thursday.

27 Feb 2010

CHI lauds California state Assembly's proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day

CHI-California Healthcare Institute, a non-profit public policy research organization, applauds the state Assembly’s proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day. This day helps bring awareness of the biomedical companies that are dedicated to researching and developing treatments for patients suffering from rare diseases.

27 Feb 2010

Shire receives marketing approval from FDA for VPRIV

Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing approval for VPRIV, a human cell line derived enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for the long-term treatment of Type 1 Gaucher disease in pediatric and adult patients.

27 Feb 2010

Health Policy Research Roundup: Length of hospital stays, analyses of Obama's reform proposals

Archives Of Internal Medicine: Hospital Cost Of Care, Quality Of Care, And Readmission Rates - This study compares patients treated for pneumonia and congestive heart failure (CHF) and finds that high-cost hospitals don't always deliver better care. The researchers, who based their analysis on the data from 3,146 hospitals in the 2004 to 2006 Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR), report that "risk-adjusted costs of care for CHF and pneumonia varied widely between hospitals, although hospital cost-of-care patterns seemed stable over time and correlated across conditions."

27 Feb 2010

Neurogenesis linked to drug addiction and relapse

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis - that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent addiction - is based on a rodent study demonstrating that blocking new growth of specific brain nerve cells increases vulnerability for cocaine addiction and relapse.

27 Feb 2010

Synta Pharmaceuticals presents preclinical and clinical data of Hsp90 inhibitor STA-9090

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that Dr. Geoffrey I. Shapiro of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presented preclinical and clinical data on STA-9090, a potent second-generation Hsp90 inhibitor, at IASLC (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) 10th Annual Targeted Therapies of the Treatment of Lung Cancer Meeting in Santa Monica, CA.

27 Feb 2010

TPG and CPPIB affiliates complete acquisition of IMS Health

IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, today announced the completion of its acquisition by entities created by certain affiliates of TPG Capital, L.P. and the CPP Investment Board.

27 Feb 2010

NIH awards $3M grant to VCU Massey Cancer Center to develop test to measure health literacy of cancer patients

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Virginia Commonwealth Massey Cancer Center a National Cancer Institute grant totaling nearly $3 million to develop a standardized test to measure health literacy among cancer patients.

27 Feb 2010

Health on the Hill: After the summit

Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey and the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd discuss the health care summit between President Obama, Republicans and Democrats. The forum ended with the president laying out some areas of consensus between the two parties but many disagreements remain (Kaiser Health News).

27 Feb 2010

CPIPA selects ICA’s CareAlign technology to broaden existing reporting functions

Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), unmatched in its ability to deliver a cost-effective, proven solution that leverages complete data across clinical settings to aid decision-making and improve patient outcomes, announced that its CareAlign™ technology was selected by Tennessee-based Cumberland Pediatrics Independent Practice Association (CPIPA).

27 Feb 2010

Walgreens donates $2M to American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund

As Haiti continues its rebuilding efforts from the devastating earthquake that hit its largest city in January, Walgreens wrapped up its in-store giving campaign with customers donating nearly $2 million to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund.

27 Feb 2010

Micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes associated with poorer overall survival in breast cancer patients

Metastases that were 2 millimeters or less in diameter ("micrometastases") in axillary lymph nodes detected on examination of a single section of the lymph nodes were associated with poorer disease-free and overall survival in breast cancer patients, according to a new study published online February 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

27 Feb 2010

Federal officials focus on radiation practices at Florida clinic; Medical scan makers announce new efforts to prevent mistakes

Medicare regulations require that when patients receive some types of highly specialized cancer treatments, their radiation oncologist must be on site. But The New York Times reports that federal officials are investigating a Florida cancer clinic that billed Medicare for such treatments while the doctors were absent, sometimes on overseas trips.

27 Feb 2010

Dabigatran as effective as warfarin in preventing subsequent strokes among atrial fibrillation patients

The drug dabigatran was as effective as the currently recommended drug – warfarin – in preventing a subsequent stroke among people with atrial fibrillation and prior stroke or transient ischemic attack – and it did so with less bleeding according to late-breaking science presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.

27 Feb 2010

Federal officials seek to root out financial and Medicare fraud

The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division told a gathering of criminal defense lawyers on Thursday that the division was using tools 'not often seen in white collar cases' to combat financial fraud," which includes Medicare.

27 Feb 2010

President Obama, Pelosi inaccurately respond: Health bills do not fund abortion

Yesterday members of Congress attended the White House Summit on Health Care Legislation. Responding to a claim by Minority Leader John Boehner that the health care legislation will fund abortion, President Obama dismissed it as talking points and "untrue." Speaker Pelosi also inaccurately responded that the health bills do not fund abortion.

27 Feb 2010

Fact-checks of the bipartisan health care summit

News outlets fact-check the bipartisan health care summit and provide analyses of the messaging and poll numbers lawmakers used during the six-hour event.

27 Feb 2010

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KHN's Blog Watch: Taking in the health care confab

Cell Therapeutics files 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-K

iSOFT Group to showcase interoperability focussed suite of innovative health IT solutions at HIMSS

State roundup: S.C. plan would end benefits to 30,000 disabled residents; Judge bars Calif. from cutting elderly from day care; Mass. faces lawsuit on immigrant health care

CHI lauds California state Assembly's proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day

Shire receives marketing approval from FDA for VPRIV

Health Policy Research Roundup: Length of hospital stays, analyses of Obama's reform proposals

Neurogenesis linked to drug addiction and relapse

Synta Pharmaceuticals presents preclinical and clinical data of Hsp90 inhibitor STA-9090

TPG and CPPIB affiliates complete acquisition of IMS Health

NIH awards $3M grant to VCU Massey Cancer Center to develop test to measure health literacy of cancer patients

Health on the Hill: After the summit

CPIPA selects ICA’s CareAlign technology to broaden existing reporting functions

Walgreens donates $2M to American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund

Micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes associated with poorer overall survival in breast cancer patients

Federal officials focus on radiation practices at Florida clinic; Medical scan makers announce new efforts to prevent mistakes

Dabigatran as effective as warfarin in preventing subsequent strokes among atrial fibrillation patients

Federal officials seek to root out financial and Medicare fraud

President Obama, Pelosi inaccurately respond: Health bills do not fund abortion

Fact-checks of the bipartisan health care summit

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