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Aetna selects Millennium Laboratories as national pain management services provider

Millennium Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and education to physicians and staff treating chronic pain patients, announced today a national agreement with Aetna, one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies that serves approximately 36.3 million people. Under the terms of the three-year ancillary services agreement which went into effect February 1, 2010, Millennium Laboratories’ will assist Aetna participating physicians nationwide with state-of-the-art therapeutic drug monitoring services and tools.

23 Feb 2010

Unique resource for families facing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

When she was forty-two, Joi Morris learned that she has a genetic mutation on a gene known as BRCA2. This meant that her risk of getting breast cancer could be as high as 84 percent by age seventy, and that her risk for ovarian cancer was also high.

23 Feb 2010

Role of behavioral health in pediatric IBD: NIHCD awards $500,000 grant to further study

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a two-year development grant to researchers with Hasbro Children's Hospital and the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center to better understand the role behavioral health plays in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a condition that causes chronic and painful inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.

23 Feb 2010

BCBSA’s statement on Obama's healthcare reform proposal

President Obama's proposal to establish a new Health Insurance Rate Authority ignores the unique cost drivers in each of the 50 state insurance markets. Several governors from both parties have recently expressed reservations about a one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare reform.

23 Feb 2010

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Option Fund partner to develop novel inhibitors against key metalloenzyme target

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a licensing option agreement with the Novartis Option Fund. Under terms of the agreement, Viamet will utilize its proprietary Metallophile™ Technology to discover and develop novel metalloenzyme inhibitors against a specific metalloenzyme of high interest to Novartis. The agreement includes an upfront fee and potential milestones totaling over $200 million as well as product royalties.

23 Feb 2010

Varian Medical Systems wins 100th X-ray tube patent

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a premier supplier of X-ray tubes and flat panel digital image detectors, announced it has been awarded a patent for improved shielding in X-ray tubes. It is the company's 100th X-ray tube patent from the United States Patent Office.

23 Feb 2010

Committee calls for strategies to curb hypertension

Public health officials and health care providers need to step up their efforts to reduce Americans' increasing rates of high blood pressure and better treat those with the condition, which triggers more than one-third of heart attacks and almost half of heart failures in the United States each year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

23 Feb 2010

'Religion And Ethics' examines U.S. foreign aid

PBS' "Religion & Ethics" looks at the U.S. government's "long history of trying to help poor countries get out of poverty.

23 Feb 2010

Kb Port launches innovative tool for storing and cataloging multiple ETC recordings

Kb Port LLC, an innovative multimedia solutions provider, is proud to announce the availability of its ETC Archiver. For current and future users of Kb Port’s powerful ETC Technology, the Archiver represents a breakthrough for clients who store and catalog multiple ETC recordings. It’s an advance in technology that, once again, distinguishes Kb Port in the medical simulation industry.

23 Feb 2010

Six scientists to study causes of preterm birth supported by funding from March Of Dimes

The March of Dimes has committed another $2.6 million to support the work of six scientists for the next three years as they study the causes of preterm birth. The 2010 grants bring the six-year total of the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Initiative grant program to more than $15 million.

23 Feb 2010

News outlets examine use of ART, microbicide development presented at conference

News outlets continue to report on the science discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), which ended Friday in San Francisco.

23 Feb 2010

Black women are more prone to peripartum cardiomyopathy around childbirth time

A study examining the incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy in women who gave birth at a Medical College of Georgia's teaching hospital between July 2003 and July 2008, showed that while 55 percent of the women were white, 93 percent of those who developed cardiomyopathy were black, said Dr. Mindy B. Gentry, an MCG cardiologist.

23 Feb 2010

Combination of MRI and mammography reduces mortality rate in high-risk women

Annual breast cancer screening with both mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is likely to be a cost-effective way to improve life expectancy in women with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a new study published in the March issue of Radiology.

23 Feb 2010

Pulmonx to raise new funding for global launch of Zephyr EBV and Chartis Pulmonary Assessment System

Pulmonx, an emerging leader in interventional pulmonology, announced today that it has concluded an agreement for a new round of equity financing from an investment syndicate led by two new investors. The company also announced that it plans to use this capital to support the international commercial launch of its Zephyr® Endobronchial Valve (EBV), and its recently approved Chartis® Pulmonary Assessment System. Both products are CE marked and cleared for sale in Europe and other major international markets.

23 Feb 2010

Melamine-contaminated dairy products leave 12% children with kidney abnormalities

While the majority of children who were affected by consuming toxic melamine-contaminated products in China recovered, kidney abnormalities remained in 12% of the affected children.

23 Feb 2010

Research reveals human Chlamydia pneumoniae has originated from animal source

Animals have been found to have infected humans sometime in the past with the common respiratory disease Chlamydia pneumoniae, according to Queensland University of Technology infectious disease expert Professor Peter Timms.

23 Feb 2010

Venza Group to demonstrate just-in-time healthcare solutions at HIMSS Conference

The Venza Group's Instructional Designers worked closely with client-side subject matter experts to create the eGuides, and the industry-leading Venza eGuide rapid development tool was used to build them. In the end, 69 eGuides totaling 571 screens and 1,071 steps were generated. The overall project was completed in a timely manner to the complete satisfaction of all concerned.

23 Feb 2010

PositiveID, RECEPTORS announce successful completion of rapid virus detection system Phase I development

PositiveID Corporation, in conjunction with its development partner RECEPTORS LLC, announced today that it has successfully completed Phase I development of its rapid virus detection system, a non-invasive, point-of-care test to test patient samples and identify various forms of influenza within minutes. Phase II of the development, which the Company expects to complete by the end of 2010, is planned to launch in February 2010.

23 Feb 2010

Acute stroke care and clinical outcomes improve substantially with stroke program

Acute stroke care and clinical outcomes have improved significantly at hospitals participating in the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program, according to a large study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association.

23 Feb 2010

SciCan forms merger with SycoTec, MICRO-MEGA to create dental equipment companies group

SciCan, a Toronto based manufacturer of infection control products and solutions with subsidiaries in Canonsburg PA, Augsburg Germany and Zug Switzerland has merged with dental manufacturer SycoTec (previously, EWL, a subsidiary of the KAVO Group located in Leutkirch Germany) and French endodontic specialist MICRO-MEGA (Besancon). SciCan, the worlds largest producer of table top autoclaves will be part of this strong company alliance under the leadership of SycoTec's Managing Partner Dr. Martin Rickert. Together the group will be one of the ten largest dental equipment manufacturers in the world of innovative products for the dental and medical markets.

23 Feb 2010

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Aetna selects Millennium Laboratories as national pain management services provider

Unique resource for families facing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

Role of behavioral health in pediatric IBD: NIHCD awards $500,000 grant to further study

BCBSA’s statement on Obama's healthcare reform proposal

Viamet Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Option Fund partner to develop novel inhibitors against key metalloenzyme target

Varian Medical Systems wins 100th X-ray tube patent

Committee calls for strategies to curb hypertension

'Religion And Ethics' examines U.S. foreign aid

Kb Port launches innovative tool for storing and cataloging multiple ETC recordings

Six scientists to study causes of preterm birth supported by funding from March Of Dimes

News outlets examine use of ART, microbicide development presented at conference

Black women are more prone to peripartum cardiomyopathy around childbirth time

Combination of MRI and mammography reduces mortality rate in high-risk women

Pulmonx to raise new funding for global launch of Zephyr EBV and Chartis Pulmonary Assessment System

Melamine-contaminated dairy products leave 12% children with kidney abnormalities

Research reveals human Chlamydia pneumoniae has originated from animal source

Venza Group to demonstrate just-in-time healthcare solutions at HIMSS Conference

PositiveID, RECEPTORS announce successful completion of rapid virus detection system Phase I development

Acute stroke care and clinical outcomes improve substantially with stroke program

SciCan forms merger with SycoTec, MICRO-MEGA to create dental equipment companies group

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