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Slightly to moderately elevated CRP levels in patients undergoing CABG surgery: Implications

A new study published in the March issue of Anesthesiology raises awareness for an additional risk category for patients undergoing routine coronary artery bypass surgery - low to moderate levels of inflammation.

23 Feb 2010

Dental health needs of children: Louisiana receives failing grade

Louisiana is failing to ensure the dental health needs of its children, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States. The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, released with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Foundation, grades each state's policy responses to the urgent challenges in dental health among America's children.

23 Feb 2010

ExonHit Therapeutics includes proprietary lead compounds into collaboration with Allergan

ExonHit Therapeutics today announced the inclusion of proprietary lead compounds, which were derived from one of its internal medicinal chemistry programs, into its productive and long-running strategic collaboration with Allergan.

23 Feb 2010

Behavioral Neuroscience: Adolescents more susceptible to internal and environmental factors

While the otherworldly behavior of teenagers is well documented, University of Pittsburgh researchers have taken a significant step toward finally unraveling the actual brain activity that can drive adolescents to engage in impulsive, self-indulgent, or self-destructive behavior.

23 Feb 2010

Scientists create tiny RNA molecule to synthesize proteins

An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado at Boulder team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding "the very origin of Earthly life," the lead researcher contends.

23 Feb 2010

Strategies to reduce inappropriate treatment by clinicians

Clinicians may use one of several approaches to deny patient requests for an inappropriate treatment while preserving the physician-patient relationship, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

23 Feb 2010

Improving health care quality for children: HHS Secretary announces $100M grant to explore new technologies

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $100 million in federal grant funds to 10 states to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

23 Feb 2010

Tel Aviv University unveils new synthetic supplement to stall age-related memory loss

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests that magnesium, a key nutrient for the functioning of memory, may be even more critical than previously thought for the neurons of children and healthy brain cells in adults.

23 Feb 2010

Unitrin to sell Reserve National Insurance to Physicians Mutual

Unitrin, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement in principle to sell its health insurance subsidiary, Reserve National Insurance Company, to Physicians Mutual®. The transaction is subject to negotiation and execution of a definitive purchase agreement, completion of due diligence and regulatory approval. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2010. Terms of the transaction were not announced.

23 Feb 2010

Pennsylvania fails to address children's dental needs: Pew Report

Pennsylvania lawmakers are failing to ensure the dental health needs of its children, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States. The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, released with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the DentaQuest Foundation, grades each state's policy responses to the urgent challenges in dental health among America's children.

23 Feb 2010

Medquist to particpate as Implementer in the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase

Demonstrating the value of standards-based health information technologies, MedQuist Inc., a leading provider of technology-enabled clinical documentation services, is participating as an Implementer in the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase at booth #233 in Hall C of the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The Showcase is part of the 2010 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition being held from March 1-4.

23 Feb 2010

TCAD therapy active and synergistic against drug resistant influenza virus strains

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company, reported today on the publication of results from a preclinical study that demonstrated the synergistic effects of triple combination antiviral drug (TCAD) therapy against multiple strains of seasonal, pandemic, and avian influenza A (H1N1, H3N2 and H5N1) virus, including three strains of amantadine resistant pandemic H1N1 and two strains of oseltamivir resistant seasonal H1N1.

23 Feb 2010

Florida among nine states to receive F grade in children's dental health: Pew Report

Florida is failing to ensure the dental health needs of its children, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States.

23 Feb 2010

Genentech's Avastin combination Phase III study in advanced stomach cancer does not meet primary endpoint

Genentech, Inc., a wholly owned member of the Roche Group, today announced that a Phase III study (AVAGAST) did not meet its primary endpoint of showing Avastin® (bevacizumab) plus Xeloda® (capecitabine) or 5-FU and cisplatin chemotherapy extended the lives of people with inoperable or advanced stomach (gastric) cancer, compared to chemotherapy alone.

23 Feb 2010

Multidisciplinary rounds may facilitate implementation of best clinical practices: Study

Multidisciplinary care teams consisting of clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals appear to be associated with a lower risk of death among patients in the intensive care unit, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A second report finds that an increasing number of surgical patients are being managed jointly by a surgeon and another clinician, such as a hospitalist or internal medicine sub-specialist.

23 Feb 2010

FDA issues approval for Gileads's Cayston for respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis

Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Cayston® (aztreonam for inhalation solution) as a treatment to improve respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cayston’s safety and efficacy have not been established in pediatric patients below the age of 7, patients with forced expiratory volume in one second of less than 25 percent or greater than 75 percent predicted, or patients colonized with Burkholderia cepacia.

23 Feb 2010

Obecure granted patent covering betahistine with olanzapine for mitigating antipsychotic drug associated weight gain

Obecure Ltd., a subsidiary of Bio-Light Israeli Life Science Investments Ltd., has received notice of allowance from the US Patent Office for its two key patent applications covering methods of use and compositions covering the use of betahistine with olanzapine for the mitigation of the serious weight gain associated as a side effect of the antipsychotic drug.

23 Feb 2010

National public service campaign to raise mental health awareness in young African American adults

Officials from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Ad Council and the Stay Strong Foundation will unveil a national public service campaign designed to raise awareness of mental health problems among young adults in the African American community. The event is part of Black History Month and it is being held to coincide with the first annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Mental Health Awareness Day. The launch will be telecast to colleges and universities nationwide.

23 Feb 2010

Merge Healthcare increases offer for AMICAS to $6.05 cash per share

Merge Healthcare Incorporated today announced its pending $6.05 cash per share offer for AMICAS, Inc.. Merge’s proposal, for an aggregate of $248 million, represents a 13% premium to the previously-announced offer for AMICAS from a newly-formed affiliate of Thoma Bravo, LLC for $5.35 cash per share. Merge’s current offer follows its offer of $6.00 cash per share that was made during the “go-shop” period contemplated by AMICAS’ merger agreement with Thoma Bravo.

23 Feb 2010

Somerset Hospital collaborates with Mckesson to automate pharmacy with PROmanager-Rx system

Somerset Hospital in Pennsylvania has joined with McKesson to automate its pharmacy using the new PROmanager-Rx™ system. The system will enable the 150-bed hospital to fully automate dispensing of tablets, capsules, and other oral solid medications that come directly from drug manufacturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form. Somerset, already a user of McKesson’s Paragon® community hospital information system, expects PROmanager-Rx to automate dispensing for approximately 80 percent of its daily scheduled patient doses.

23 Feb 2010

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Slightly to moderately elevated CRP levels in patients undergoing CABG surgery: Implications

Dental health needs of children: Louisiana receives failing grade

ExonHit Therapeutics includes proprietary lead compounds into collaboration with Allergan

Behavioral Neuroscience: Adolescents more susceptible to internal and environmental factors

Scientists create tiny RNA molecule to synthesize proteins

Strategies to reduce inappropriate treatment by clinicians

Improving health care quality for children: HHS Secretary announces $100M grant to explore new technologies

Tel Aviv University unveils new synthetic supplement to stall age-related memory loss

Unitrin to sell Reserve National Insurance to Physicians Mutual

Pennsylvania fails to address children's dental needs: Pew Report

Medquist to particpate as Implementer in the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase

TCAD therapy active and synergistic against drug resistant influenza virus strains

Florida among nine states to receive F grade in children's dental health: Pew Report

Genentech's Avastin combination Phase III study in advanced stomach cancer does not meet primary endpoint

Multidisciplinary rounds may facilitate implementation of best clinical practices: Study

FDA issues approval for Gileads's Cayston for respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis

Obecure granted patent covering betahistine with olanzapine for mitigating antipsychotic drug associated weight gain

National public service campaign to raise mental health awareness in young African American adults

Merge Healthcare increases offer for AMICAS to $6.05 cash per share

Somerset Hospital collaborates with Mckesson to automate pharmacy with PROmanager-Rx system

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