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UF scientists shed new light on old medical procedure

You might not know what it's called, but if you've had general anesthesia before surgery, especially after an accident, it is likely you have received Sellick's maneuver. That's when fingers are pressed against a patient's throat to prevent regurgitation and spilling of stomach contents into the airway and lungs while anesthesia is being administered.

21 Oct 2009

Pelosi remarks on the health bill and its affect on people with pre-existing conditions

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Congressman Mark Schauer of Michigan held a press availability this afternoon in the Capitol with representatives from Easter Seals to highlight the urgency of health insurance reform for children with pre-existing conditions.

21 Oct 2009

New public health tool to identify all Tier 1 candidates for H1N1 vaccination

Practice Fusion Inc. (www.practicefusion.com), the free, web-based electronic health record (EHR) for physicians, today implemented a first-of-its-kind tool that allows its physician-users to immediately and accurately identify all Tier 1 candidates for H1N1 vaccination from their patient populations using criteria published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

21 Oct 2009

WellAWARE Systems and AMAC collaborate to deliver integrated health monitoring solutions

WellAWARE Systems, the leading developer of next-generation wellness monitoring solutions for senior care providers, today announced it has entered into a technology integration collaboration with American Medical Alert Corp.

21 Oct 2009

Community Health Care partners with SUNRx to provide discount medication program

Community Health Care, a provider of comprehensive healthcare services to uninsured and underinsured residents in southern New Jersey, today announced a partnership with SUNRx, a Mt. Laurel-based health technology company, to offer discount medications to tens of thousands of families in the Garden State beginning in October.

21 Oct 2009

Raydiance makes major breakthrough by manufacturing bioabsorbable vascular stent materials

Raydiance Corporation, developer of the world’s first commercial-grade ultrafast laser, announced today that it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bio-absorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes and with no heat affected zones (HAZ).

21 Oct 2009

Drug abuse expert Dr. Drew Pinsky and the Five Moms join in fight against OTC cough medicine abuse

Dr. Drew Pinsky, a nationally renowned drug abuse expert, and the Five Moms, five exceptional women dedicated to spreading the word about the dangers of cough medicine abuse, are speaking out to educate parents and congressional staff on Capitol Hill about the issue of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine abuse among teens and how to prevent it through education.

21 Oct 2009

NIH grant for Lpath to advance clinical development of its antibody therapeutics

The National Cancer Institute's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program has awarded Lpath (OTCBB: LPTN), the category leader in lipidomics-based therapeutics, two Phase 1 grants totaling $0.3 million. This follows a series of other SBIR grants awarded to Lpath totaling $6.9 million, including a $3.0 million Phase 2 bridge grant from the NCI awarded this past June.

21 Oct 2009

No significant differences in pregnancy outcomes with different progesterone formulations

A retrospective analysis, conducted at a large infertility clinic between January 2003 and December 2008, demonstrated that there were no significant differences in pregnancy outcomes with three different progesterone formulations for women aged 35 to 40 undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) procedures. These data were presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) annual meeting in Atlanta.

21 Oct 2009

OXIS International retains Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges to enforce all patents related to L-Ergothioneine

OXIS INTERNATIONAL, INC. announced today that the Company has retained Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges (“Quinn Emanuel”) to enforce all patents related to the unique benefits of its potent antioxidant compound L-Ergothioneine (“ERGO”).

21 Oct 2009

St. Jude Medical's quadripolar pacing system receives European CE Mark approval

St. Jude Medical, Inc. today announced it has received European CE Mark approval for the industry’s first quadripolar pacing system for cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The quadripolar system offers physicians the ability to more effectively and efficiently manage the ever-changing pacing needs of patients with heart failure.

21 Oct 2009

Oncolytics Biotech invests in BCBC; purchases convertible shares in exchange for common shares

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") announced today that it has made an investment in British Canadian Biosciences Corp. (BCBC), a privately held biotechnology company specializing in the development of peptides for the treatment of a variety of conditions, including cancer.

21 Oct 2009

MMPF technique for diagnosing and predicting brain syndromes

NASA technology will now be available to the medical community to help in the diagnosis and prediction of syndromes that affect the brain, such as stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury.

21 Oct 2009

Study finds lung scintigraphy more reliable than CTA for pulmonary embolism diagnosis in pregnant patients

A medical imaging procedure known as lung scintigraphy may be more reliable than pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) for identifying or excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnant patients, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

21 Oct 2009

Research shows exon-skipping drug may prove effective for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy

An exon skipping PPMO has demonstrated dramatic effects in the prevention and treatment of severely affected, dystrophin and utrophin-deficient mice, preventing severe deterioration of the treated animals and extending their lifespan.

21 Oct 2009

Research provides further insights into brain mechanisms

Research presented today at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide further insights into brain mechanisms, including those involved in music, social interaction, learning and memory.

21 Oct 2009

FDA purchases Waters ACQUITY UPLC Systems for protecting the U.S. food supply

Waters Corporation announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), College Park, MD recently purchased nine Waters® ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) Systems to support its priority to protect the U.S. food supply by monitoring domestically-produced and imported food sold in interstate commerce.

21 Oct 2009

School-based intervention programs alleviate posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents

What to do to help children psychologically after a natural disaster (earthquake, flooding, etc.) is a controversial issue. The current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics reports on an important study which adopted a controlled design to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention.

21 Oct 2009

Manhattan Scientifics enters into a non-binding LOI with Edward R. Flynn

Manhattan Scientifics announced today that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Edward R. Flynn, Ph.D. and his company, Senior Scientific, LLC, to acquire all the manufacturing and marketing rights, together with all commercial rights associated with Dr. Flynn’s patents and IP in the emerging field of nanomedicine.

21 Oct 2009

Venture capital competition: MicroMed Cardiovascular in Top 50 Emerging Companies list

On Oct. 8, MicroMed Cardiovascular (www.micromedcv.com), manufacturer of the HeartAssist 5™ left ventricular assist device (LVAD), was selected as one of the Top 50 Emerging Companies in the nation’s largest venture capital competition, the Sixth Annual Pitching Across America competition.

21 Oct 2009

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UF scientists shed new light on old medical procedure

Pelosi remarks on the health bill and its affect on people with pre-existing conditions

New public health tool to identify all Tier 1 candidates for H1N1 vaccination

WellAWARE Systems and AMAC collaborate to deliver integrated health monitoring solutions

Community Health Care partners with SUNRx to provide discount medication program

Raydiance makes major breakthrough by manufacturing bioabsorbable vascular stent materials

Drug abuse expert Dr. Drew Pinsky and the Five Moms join in fight against OTC cough medicine abuse

NIH grant for Lpath to advance clinical development of its antibody therapeutics

No significant differences in pregnancy outcomes with different progesterone formulations

OXIS International retains Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges to enforce all patents related to L-Ergothioneine

St. Jude Medical's quadripolar pacing system receives European CE Mark approval

Oncolytics Biotech invests in BCBC; purchases convertible shares in exchange for common shares

MMPF technique for diagnosing and predicting brain syndromes

Study finds lung scintigraphy more reliable than CTA for pulmonary embolism diagnosis in pregnant patients

Research shows exon-skipping drug may prove effective for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Research provides further insights into brain mechanisms

FDA purchases Waters ACQUITY UPLC Systems for protecting the U.S. food supply

School-based intervention programs alleviate posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents

Manhattan Scientifics enters into a non-binding LOI with Edward R. Flynn

Venture capital competition: MicroMed Cardiovascular in Top 50 Emerging Companies list

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