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EU-SILC data show older people face higher poverty risks than total EU population

Results using the latest EU-SILC data for 2008 show that, on average, older people face a higher poverty risk rate than the total population: the rate for older people was 19% as opposed to rate for the total population of 17%.

29 Jan 2010

GMC's findings against Dr. Wakefield unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism

Parents of children with autism around the world are calling the findings against Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism as a medical condition. The verdict comes less than a month after an article in the journal Pediatrics urged further study of a link between gastrointestinal disturbances and autism originally pointed out by Dr. Wakefield in 1988.

29 Jan 2010

New XtraCredit application provides physicians with CME credit for online clinical research

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of medical information, has launched XtraCredit®, an iPhone® and iPod Touch® application that provides physicians with continuing medical education (CME) credit for clinical research done online.

29 Jan 2010

Researchers use sophisticated brain-imaging techniques to predict Alzheimer's before symptoms appear

Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

29 Jan 2010

Diamyd Medical announces share capital and total number of shares as of January 29, 2010

As of January 29, 2010, the share capital in Diamyd Medical AB (publ.) is 14 330 494 SEK. The total number of votes is 4 160 187 and the total number of shares is 28 660 988, divided among 1 437 876 shares of series A (1 vote) and 27 223 112 shares of series B (1/10 vote).

29 Jan 2010

Pretreating BPA plastic may be the key to dispose waste in an eco-friendly way

Just as cooking helps people digest food, pretreating polycarbonate plastic - source of a huge environmental headache because of its bisphenol A (BPA) content - may be the key to disposing of the waste in an eco-friendly way, scientists have found. Their new study is in ACS' Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal.

29 Jan 2010

EZ-CAP celebrates its growth in 2009 and sees further expansion in 2010

EZ-CAP, the flagship product of MZI HealthCare, LLC (MZIHC), a leading provider of health plan administration software, celebrated growth in 2009 and sees further expansion in 2010.

29 Jan 2010

Lebanon Cardiology Associates and The Good Samaritan Hospital team up to implement hypothermia protocol for improved cardiac care

Lebanon Cardiology Associates teamed with The Good Samaritan Hospital to implement one of the top 15% performing emergency cardiac catheterization teams treating heart attacks in the United States.

29 Jan 2010

UCLA researchers predict brain's progression to Alzheimer's before symptoms are visible

Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

29 Jan 2010

Econiche vaccine cited in February, 2010 issue of Scientific American

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that Econiche(TM), the world's first vaccine developed to reduce the shedding by cattle of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157, has been cited in the February, 2010 issue of Scientific American (Vol. 302, # 2).

29 Jan 2010

Hormones & Cancer: A new journal from The Endocrine Society

Today, The Endocrine Society unveiled its newest journal, Hormones & Cancer. This bi-monthly journal will include research articles covering all aspects of hormone action on cancer causation, progression, dependence, prevention, resistance and treatment.

29 Jan 2010

Discovery may help in designing drugs for sun-damaged skin

Researchers at Ohio State University have found a new way to study how enzymes move as they repair DNA sun damage -- and that discovery could one day lead to new therapies for healing sunburned skin.

29 Jan 2010

Invatec welcomes first clinical results of Drug Eluting Balloon

Invatec, a comprehensive innovator of interventional products, welcomed the first clinical results of the Drug Eluting Balloon (DEB), IN.PACT Amphirion, for complex Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI) in Below the Knee (BtK).

29 Jan 2010

New advances for detection of cancer featured as cover story in "Lab on a Chip" journal

New advances for the detection of cancer led by Rafael V. Davalos of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Science (SBES) are featured as the cover story in the January 19, 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, "Lab on a Chip," the premier journal for researchers in microfluidics.

29 Jan 2010

URAC's 2010 Best Practices Awards will recognize innovative leadership and successful health programs

URAC, the nation's leading health care accreditation and education organization, has issued a call for entries for its 2010 Best Practices Awards in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection to find which companies are setting the standard in advancing the role of consumers as active participants in health care.

29 Jan 2010

ACP urges Congress to reach agreement on comprehensive health reform legislation

The American College of Physicians (ACP) today urged Congressional leaders to "reach agreement on a legislative pathway to provide affordable care to all Americans and ensure that they have access to primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages."

29 Jan 2010

Targeted sequencing of exome can help identify potential disease-causing genes

Researchers from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Roche Applied Science have recently published a research study on human exome resequencing results from eight individuals that span across three generations of a family. The findings of this study showcased the value of targeted enrichment for family-based studies which allows researchers to quickly identify potential disease-causing genetic variants and will provide the data and information for further research to better understand disease and the impact across generations of a family.

29 Jan 2010

Medical News

EU-SILC data show older people face higher poverty risks than total EU population

GMC's findings against Dr. Wakefield unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism

New XtraCredit application provides physicians with CME credit for online clinical research

Researchers use sophisticated brain-imaging techniques to predict Alzheimer's before symptoms appear

Diamyd Medical announces share capital and total number of shares as of January 29, 2010

Pretreating BPA plastic may be the key to dispose waste in an eco-friendly way

EZ-CAP celebrates its growth in 2009 and sees further expansion in 2010

Lebanon Cardiology Associates and The Good Samaritan Hospital team up to implement hypothermia protocol for improved cardiac care

UCLA researchers predict brain's progression to Alzheimer's before symptoms are visible

Econiche vaccine cited in February, 2010 issue of Scientific American

Hormones & Cancer: A new journal from The Endocrine Society

Discovery may help in designing drugs for sun-damaged skin

Invatec welcomes first clinical results of Drug Eluting Balloon

New advances for detection of cancer featured as cover story in "Lab on a Chip" journal

URAC's 2010 Best Practices Awards will recognize innovative leadership and successful health programs

ACP urges Congress to reach agreement on comprehensive health reform legislation

Targeted sequencing of exome can help identify potential disease-causing genes

Enhancing the pool of underrepresented minorities may help alleviate healthcare disparities

Diabetes vaccine: Diamyd Medical to file for market approval in 2011

Surgeons have a lower preference for back surgery than family doctors

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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