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CMS report: House bill will raise health care costs, affect seniors' benefits

A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds that the health overhaul bill passed by the House will raise health costs by approximately $289 billion in the next ten years. The report was requested by House Republicans and compiled by CMS' chief actuary, Richard Foster.

16 Nov 2009

SynerMed and L.A. Care team up to launch e-consult program

SynerMed, Inc., the largest Medicaid managed service organization (MSO) in the country, in collaboration with L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, announced today the launch of an e-consult pilot program.

16 Nov 2009

Also in Global Health News: HIV/AIDS in Uganda; medical equipment in Tanzania; birth control in Afghanistan; Ethiopia malaria fight

"The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped," PlusNews reports. "Campaigns aimed at ending cross-generational sex will be abandoned in favour of generic warnings about engaging in risky sex because of fears that young people may believe that sex within their own generation is risk-free. Officials have also said factors such as alcohol abuse, which predispose people to risky sexual behaviour, must be tackled alongside HIV prevention" (11/16).

16 Nov 2009

Results of Phase III clinical trials of flibanserin for treatment of HSDD in pre-menopausal women released

Data from pivotal Phase III clinical trials demonstrate that flibanserin 100mg increased the number of satisfying sexual events (SSE) and sexual desire (the co-primary endpoints) while decreasing the distress associated with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD).

16 Nov 2009

Federal health overhaul could force state changes

The House bill includes, for instance, $23.5 billion to "allow Congress to continue pumping billions in new short-term aid to states to cover Medicaid costs that have increased with rising unemployment in the past year," The Washington Post reports.

16 Nov 2009

States experience Medicaid changes and offer new models for reform

News outlets report on a variety of health issues at the state level including the upcoming launch of a huge Medicaid data project in Florida, health care changes that could reduce spending in Georgia and a model for reform in Vermont.

16 Nov 2009

Scientists develop new technique to measure brain volume loss for monitoring of Alzheimer's disease

In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The study will be published the week of November 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

16 Nov 2009

Abortion-Rights groups mobilizing against House health bill restrictions

Abortions-Rights advocates are pressing lawmakers through new ad campaigns to keep a provision restricting abortion coverage in the House-passed health bill -- the so-called Stupak amendment -- out of the Senate health care bill, CBS News reports.

16 Nov 2009

Determining the cause for death of photoreceptors could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders

Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

16 Nov 2009

World Food Summit focuses on aiding agriculture in developing countries to fight hunger

Delegates at the World Summit on Food Security, which kicked off Monday, "rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves," the Associated Press reports.

16 Nov 2009

Amid health bill delays and snags, lawmakers target issues

The wait for the Congressional Budget Office score on the Senate health care reform bill has left Senators with time to carefully consider all the angles on reform, The New York Times reports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "has already received some substantial analysis of his measure, and if the numbers had been what he wanted, he would have released a bill by now.

16 Nov 2009

Carefx Fusionfx and Imprivata to provide integrated clinical access solution to Johns Hopkins Health System

Carefx Corporation, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions, and Imprivata®, Inc., the employee access management company, today announced that Johns Hopkins Health System, an internationally recognized group of healthcare institutions, has selected Carefx Fusionfx and Imprivata OneSign to deliver an integrated clinical access solution that streamlines access to workstations, applications and patient data. The complete, integrated system will launch in early 2010.

16 Nov 2009

Dyadic International reports financial results for the third quarter of 2009

Dyadic International, Inc. today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. The financial information contained in this press release should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and footnotes for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009 as well as the financial statements, footnotes and independent auditors’ report for the year ended December 31, 2008 which have been posted on the Pink Sheets website at www.pinksheets.com and on Dyadic’s website at www.dyadic.com.

16 Nov 2009

Sentillion reaches milestone: More than 500,000 “live” caregivers use their solutions daily

Sentillion, whose identity and access management (IAM) solutions are the most widely implemented in healthcare, today announced that over 500,000 users are live and productively using its single sign-on and context management solutions. Leading healthcare organizations, ranging from single facilities to large, complex, multi-state health systems are part of a 160+ customer community that has deployed Sentillion’s IAM solutions enterprise-wide in over 1,000 hospitals.

16 Nov 2009

ECR Pharmaceuticals to commercialize and manufacture ZolpiMist in the U.S. and Canada

NovaDel Pharma Inc. today announced its entry into an exclusive license and distribution agreement with ECR Pharmaceuticals Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. to commercialize and manufacture ZolpiMist™ in the United States and Canada. ZolpiMist™ is our oral spray formulation of zolpidem tartrate approved by the FDA in December of 2008.

16 Nov 2009

Sequella broadens the licensed therapeutic indications of its SQ109 lead drug candidate

Sequella, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products to treat life-threatening infectious diseases, today announced that it amended an existing agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to significantly broaden the licensed therapeutic indications, or "field of use," for Sequella's lead drug candidate, SQ109.

16 Nov 2009

American Dental Partners to acquire certain non-clinical assets of Christie Dental

American Dental Partners, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire certain non-clinical assets of Christie Dental Practice Group, P.L. and Christie Dental Partners, Inc. and enter into a 40-year service agreement with Christie Dental Practice Group, P.L.

16 Nov 2009

Additional data from Aegerion Pharmaceuticals' ongoing lomitapide Phase III trial

Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, today announced additional data from its ongoing Phase III trial involving its lead cholesterol management compound, lomitapide (AEGR-733), which is a microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) inhibitor small molecule drug.

16 Nov 2009

Migraine headaches linked with increased risk of common kind of stroke

Pooling results from 21 studies, involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: those occurring when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by the buildup of plaque or a blood clot.

16 Nov 2009

Talend bags orders from several global healthcare customers

Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced several global healthcare customer wins including Children’s Hospital & Medical Center of Omaha, Hosta, The Clermont-Ferrand Hospital and The University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT). The traction gained in this space further validates Talend’s ability to provide scalable and flexible solutions at an affordable cost to healthcare organizations of all sizes, while satisfying the need for the real-time data the industry demands.

16 Nov 2009

Medical News

CMS report: House bill will raise health care costs, affect seniors' benefits

SynerMed and L.A. Care team up to launch e-consult program

Also in Global Health News: HIV/AIDS in Uganda; medical equipment in Tanzania; birth control in Afghanistan; Ethiopia malaria fight

Results of Phase III clinical trials of flibanserin for treatment of HSDD in pre-menopausal women released

Federal health overhaul could force state changes

States experience Medicaid changes and offer new models for reform

Scientists develop new technique to measure brain volume loss for monitoring of Alzheimer's disease

Abortion-Rights groups mobilizing against House health bill restrictions

Determining the cause for death of photoreceptors could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders

World Food Summit focuses on aiding agriculture in developing countries to fight hunger

Amid health bill delays and snags, lawmakers target issues

Carefx Fusionfx and Imprivata to provide integrated clinical access solution to Johns Hopkins Health System

Dyadic International reports financial results for the third quarter of 2009

Sentillion reaches milestone: More than 500,000 “live” caregivers use their solutions daily

ECR Pharmaceuticals to commercialize and manufacture ZolpiMist in the U.S. and Canada

Sequella broadens the licensed therapeutic indications of its SQ109 lead drug candidate

American Dental Partners to acquire certain non-clinical assets of Christie Dental

Additional data from Aegerion Pharmaceuticals' ongoing lomitapide Phase III trial

Migraine headaches linked with increased risk of common kind of stroke

Talend bags orders from several global healthcare customers

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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