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Web-based records worried patients, prompting more neutral language

Kaiser Permanente's experience while providing digital records to patients highlights the potential for miscommunications -- and sometimes needless alarm, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund reports. The health care company gave patients access to the same online lab reports that went to doctors and they included warning messages, such as a capital "H" to indicate above average results. That worried enough patients that the managed-care giant changed its format.

27 Jan 2010

January is ‘Thyroid Awareness Month’

We often go to great lengths to look and feel our best. Yet many never realize that one of the keys to a healthy body and a productive life rests just below the neck.

27 Jan 2010

CBO: Stimulus more expensive than expected, Medicare costs to double by 2020

A new Congressional Budget Office report "provides more ammunition for Republicans who say the stimulus has been long on spending and short on creating promised jobs," The Associated Press/ABC News reports. The report says the stimulus will cost $75 billion more than expected, because of increased unemployment, requirements for the food stamp program and the high popularity of an infrastructure bonds program. The report comes as Democrats consider a second stimulus bill that could include another extension of unemployment benefits, job creation tax credits and further help for jobless people to buy health coverage (Taylor, 1/26).

27 Jan 2010

Abbott declares quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share

Abbott today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009.

27 Jan 2010

Positive results from Supernus Pharmaceuticals' SPN 810 Phase IIa trial for ADHD

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced that its Phase IIa U.S. clinical trial for SPN 810 in children with ADHD and persistent serious conduct problems met the primary endpoints of safety and tolerability, as well as showed statistically significant reduction versus baseline in conduct problems across all doses. The trial was initiated in 2009 and was a proof-of-concept, open-label study in children 6 to 12 years of age, assigned to one of four doses over a six-week treatment period, after 2-5 weeks' titration.

27 Jan 2010

Imagine Media signs non-binding LOI to acquire DMI Life Sciences

Imagine Media, Ltd., a Delaware corporation today announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire DMI Life Sciences, Inc., a Denver, Colorado-based biotechnology company. (“DMI”). Under the terms of the LOI, if the acquisition is completed, the shareholders of DMI will acquire approximately 90.52% of the total issued and outstanding shares of the Company, and the transaction will constitute a change in control.

27 Jan 2010

AHS announces acquisition of premier anesthesia billing company

AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions (AHS), one of the nation’s leading providers of medical billing and practice management services, today announced that it has acquired Medical Account Services (MAS), the premier anesthesia billing company throughout Ohio. This agreement will expand AHS anesthesia billing and practice management operations, and enable the Company to serve additional anesthesia clients in Ohio.

27 Jan 2010

Juvaris BioTherapeutics completes second close on its Series B equity financing

Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing adjuvanted vaccines for infectious diseases, announced that it has completed a second close on its Series B equity financing of up to $25 million. The additional equity investment came from an undisclosed strategic corporate investor who joins SV Life Sciences and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the round.

27 Jan 2010

VentriPoint Diagnostics to present abstract on VMS clinical validation study

VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd. today announced the abstract of a clinical validation study of the second application of the VentriPoint Medical System (VMS) will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 59th Annual Scientific Session, March 14 to 16 in Atlanta, Georgia. The study demonstrates the accuracy of the method used by the VentriPoint Medical System (VMS) to generate critical heart measurements in three dimensions from two-dimensional ultrasound images with significantly greater speed and accuracy and at considerably lesser cost than is otherwise possible.

27 Jan 2010

TE can be accurately performed in majority of NAFLD patients to exclude advanced fibrosis

Researchers from France and Hong Kong determined that transient elastography (TE), a noninvasive, ultrasonic imaging modality, can be accurately performed in the majority of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to exclude advanced fibrosis. Full findings of this study, funded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, appear in the February issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

27 Jan 2010

Home health care fraud: Detroit-area physical therapist pleads guilty

Detroit-area resident Jessica Vigil pleaded guilty today for her role in a Detroit-area home health care fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade; Special Agent in Charge Andrew G. Arena of the FBI's Detroit Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General's (HHS-OIG) Chicago Region.

27 Jan 2010

International Stem Cell joins StockProfile.com

International Stem Cell Corporation, announced today that it has expanded its market awareness program by joining www.StockProfile.com, a customized web-based platform showcasing emerging growth stocks.

27 Jan 2010

Pediatricians need to refer children with suspected delays for further testing or treatment and follow up

Many pediatricians score high on screening their patients for developmental delays, but barely make a passing grade in referring children with suspected delays for further testing or treatment, according to a study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions to appear in the February issue of Pediatrics.

27 Jan 2010

Conmed Healthcare Management and Pima County, Arizona sign $2.8M medical services agreement

Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc., a leading full service provider of correctional facility healthcare services to county and municipal detention centers, today announced that it has signed a medical services contract with Pima County, Arizona to provided services at their Juvenile Detention Center. The initial term of the contract is two years and five months with projected revenues of approximately $2.8 million.

27 Jan 2010

St. Jude Medical reports net sales of $1.203 billion in fourth-quarter of 2009

St. Jude Medical, Inc. today reported sales and net earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended Jan. 2, 2010.

27 Jan 2010

WellWorld Science officially launches Livea in the U.S.

After more than 30 years of research and an extensive open-label weight loss study, WellWorld Science® announces the official U.S. launch of Livea®, a doctor-developed, non-prescription, patent-pending appetite-control supplement that is unlike any other dietary supplement on the market.

27 Jan 2010

EU Clinical Trials Directive: ECCO supports proposals by its member organisations

In response to a European Commission consultation on the EU Clinical Trials Directive, ECCO - the European CanCer Organisation - has supported proposals by its member organisations for adapting the Directive's requirements to reflect practical necessities in cancer research and treatment.

27 Jan 2010

Treating septic shock patients with intensive insulin therapy does not reduce risk of in-hospital death

Treating adults with septic shock with intensive insulin therapy to counter elevated blood glucose levels associated with corticosteroid therapy did not result in a reduced risk of in-hospital death, compared to patients who received conventional insulin therapy, according to a study in the January 27 issue of JAMA.

27 Jan 2010

AcuMedSpa Holdings completes Authorized Share reduction

AcuMedSpa Holdings, Inc., in accordance with its vision to increase shareholder value and confidence, announces that it has completed its Authorized Share reduction from 375,000,000 to 175,000,000. The Outstanding Shares remain unchanged at 127,124,965. AcuMedSpa Holdings would like to reiterate its position that it intends to maintain and increase shareholder value.

27 Jan 2010

FedSources to host an InFocus Event on Healthcare Technology

FedSources, a Washington Management Group company, is hosting an InFocus Event on Healthcare Technology on Thursday, January 28, 2010.

27 Jan 2010

Medical News

Web-based records worried patients, prompting more neutral language

January is ‘Thyroid Awareness Month’

CBO: Stimulus more expensive than expected, Medicare costs to double by 2020

Abbott declares quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share

Positive results from Supernus Pharmaceuticals' SPN 810 Phase IIa trial for ADHD

Imagine Media signs non-binding LOI to acquire DMI Life Sciences

AHS announces acquisition of premier anesthesia billing company

Juvaris BioTherapeutics completes second close on its Series B equity financing

VentriPoint Diagnostics to present abstract on VMS clinical validation study

TE can be accurately performed in majority of NAFLD patients to exclude advanced fibrosis

Home health care fraud: Detroit-area physical therapist pleads guilty

International Stem Cell joins StockProfile.com

Pediatricians need to refer children with suspected delays for further testing or treatment and follow up

Conmed Healthcare Management and Pima County, Arizona sign $2.8M medical services agreement

St. Jude Medical reports net sales of $1.203 billion in fourth-quarter of 2009

WellWorld Science officially launches Livea in the U.S.

EU Clinical Trials Directive: ECCO supports proposals by its member organisations

Treating septic shock patients with intensive insulin therapy does not reduce risk of in-hospital death

AcuMedSpa Holdings completes Authorized Share reduction

FedSources to host an InFocus Event on Healthcare Technology

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