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AMC receives GWTG-Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award for caring stroke patients

Adventist Medical Center recently received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) - Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes AMC's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations provided by the AHA/ASA.

12 Feb 2010

NMDP Phase III filgrastim trial: Biologics to provide pharmacy management services

Biologics, Inc., the leading cancer management company in the United States, announces that its Oncology Clinical Trial Services division has been selected by the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP), a nonprofit organization that facilitates unrelated hematopoietic cell transplants.

12 Feb 2010

Sales of Cobroxin exceeds XenaCare Holdings' projections for first 45 days of 2010

XenaCare Holdings, Inc., a company specializing in the marketing and retail distribution of consumer healthcare products, announced today that it has begun distributing and selling Cobroxin through mass food and drug retail chains in the Northeast, Southeast, Middle Atlantic and Midwest regions.

12 Feb 2010

Ulcerative colitis drug market to grow up to $2.1 billion in 2018

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the ulcerative colitis drug market will nearly double from $1.2 billion in 2008 to $2.1 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.

12 Feb 2010

Siemens Healthcare renews strategic alliance with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems

Today, Siemens Healthcare announced it has renewed its strategic alliance with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to deliver innovative ambulatory information technology (IT) solutions. More than 35 Siemens customers have already deployed NextGen Healthcare's ambulatory IT tools throughout their physician networks as a result of the relationship, formed to offer healthcare providers interoperable solutions that cross the care coordination gap between the acute and ambulatory environments.

12 Feb 2010

Second-quarter fiscal 2010 results announced by Pharmacyclics

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2009.

12 Feb 2010

Researchers identify potential drug candidate that halts tumor growth

A novel - and rapid - anti-cancer drug development strategy has resulted in a new drug that stops kidney and pancreatic tumors from growing in mice. Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have found a drug that binds to a molecular "switch" found in cancer cells and cancer-associated blood vessels to keep it in the "off" position.

12 Feb 2010

RTI Biologics supports Haiti relief efforts with Matrix HD sterilized dermis allografts donation

RTI Biologics Inc., the Florida-based processor of orthopedic, dental, hernia and other biologic implants, has donated Matrix HD™ sterilized dermis allografts to use in limb salvage procedures for victims of the recent natural disasters in Haiti.

12 Feb 2010

Cancer drug could be effective for treating recurrent nose bleeds

Patients suffering from hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), an inherited vascular condition characterized by profuse nosebleeds, may find hope in a cancer-fighting drug called bevacizumab, also known as Avastin.

12 Feb 2010

Scientists find single-dose of drug cures visceral leishmaniasis

A study has shown that a single infusion of Gilead Sciences' drug AmBisome, known generically as iposomal amphotericin B, cured nearly all patients with visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, a parasitic infection, Reuters reports.

12 Feb 2010

SonoSite reports lower revenues in fourth-quarter, full-year results

SonoSite, Inc., the world leader and specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.

12 Feb 2010

pSivida reports consolidated net loss of $24,000 for quarter ended December 31, 2009

pSivida Corp. , a drug delivery company with two of the only three ophthalmic sustained release delivery products approved by the FDA for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, today announced financial results for its second quarter and six months ended December 31, 2009.

12 Feb 2010

Measures to tackle school avoidance in children

Children and adolescents who refuse to attend school should not be given doctors' sick notes. In the current issue of Deutsches -rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[4]), child and adolescent psychiatrist Martin Knollmann and colleagues explain the causes of school avoidance and describe measures to tackle the problem.

12 Feb 2010

States push for insurers to increase coverage

States tackle several health care policy issues focused on health insurance coverage mandates and requirements.

12 Feb 2010

Therapeutic cell types obtained from iPS cells demonstrate abnormal expansion and early cellular aging

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. or “ACT” reported that a range of therapeutic cell types obtained from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells exhibit abnormal expansion and early cellular aging. The research, which appears online (published-ahead-of- print) in the journal STEM CELLS by ACT and its collaborators at Stem International (SCRMI), Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois, compares a variety of replacement cell types derived from human iPS cells with their embryonic stem (ES) cell counterparts. The findings support the use of ACT’s single blastomere-derived human embryonic stem cell lines which do not display early aging.

12 Feb 2010

Mesa Laboratories reports fiscal third quarter results

Mesa Laboratories, Inc. today reported sales and earnings for both its fiscal third quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2009.

12 Feb 2010

HIE leaders convene to discuss prospect of healthcare delivery

Dr. David Kibbe, recognized healthcare futurist and Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians, headlined Medicity’s Customer Summit last week, which attracted the nation’s most progressive healthcare organizations engaged in health information exchange (HIE) across the largest ecosystem of connected providers nationwide.

12 Feb 2010

New York's detained youth lack coordinated mental health care

The New York Times: "The State of New York does not have a single full-time staff psychiatrist charged with overseeing the treatment of the 800 or so young people who are detained in state facilities at any given time." The Times reports that all 17 psychiatrists at the detention facilities in the state's juvenile justice system are working either on contract and part time.

12 Feb 2010

HealthSpring enters into $350M senior secured credit facility

HealthSpring, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a new $350 million senior secured credit facility. The new agreement consists of $175 million in five-year term loans and a four-year, $175 million revolving credit facility, $25 million of which was drawn at closing. Outstanding loans under the new credit facility bear interest at a spread over a base rate or LIBOR (initially 325 basis points), depending on the Company’s total leverage ratio.

12 Feb 2010

Study could lead to new ways to combat obesity

The tiny tongue of a fruit fly could provide big answers to questions about human eating habits, possibly even leading to new ways to treat obesity, according to a study from a team of Texas A&M University researchers.

12 Feb 2010