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New study reviews science behind the efficacy of biofield therapies on pain management

Biofield therapies, which claim to use subtle energy to stimulate the body's healing process, are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in a number of conditions, reducing anxiety for hospitalized patients and reducing agitated behaviors in dementia, over and above what standard treatments can achieve.

30 Oct 2009

Echo Therapeutics enhances its needle-free Symphony tCGM biosensor

Echo Therapeutics, Inc., a diabetes management company developing the needle-free Symphony(TM) tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring (tCGM) system and the Prelude(TM) SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery, announced today that it has made significant advances to the development of its needle-free Symphony tCGM biosensor.

30 Oct 2009

Americans United for Life CEO's statement on the new House health care bill

"Just as Americans United for Life had expected, the new House health care bill unveiled this morning includes the Capps Amendment language added during the Energy and Commerce Committee mark-up. This bill will explicitly allow federal funding of abortion through the public option and permits federal subsidies to go to private insurance plans that cover abortion. The bill also ensures that at least one health insurance plan must cover abortion in every area of the country."

30 Oct 2009

Pre-dialysis recipients with high kidney function do not benefit from kidney transplants

Pre-dialysis transplant recipients with a high level of kidney function don't benefit from their transplant more than pre-dialysis recipients with low level kidney function, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA.

30 Oct 2009

Hard to Treat Diseases negotiating possible merger with EU based stem cell research company

Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS; http://www.htdsmedical.com/) and its operating subsidiary Slavica Bio Chem, announces that it is targeting an EU based company, and has initiated talks that may involve a merger.

30 Oct 2009

Winners of 4th annual Katz Prizes in Cardiovascular Research announced

Columbia University Medical Center today announces the winners of the 4th annual Katz Prizes in Cardiovascular Research, with the senior scientist prize being awarded to an internationally renowned researcher from the National Institutes of Health, and the young investigator prize recognizing a cardiovascular researcher actively studying left ventricular assist devices and heart function.

30 Oct 2009

Case Western Reserve awarded $14.7M to lead study on effects of lowering systolic blood pressure

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $14.7 million, nine-year contract from the National Institutes of Health to be one of five institutions to lead a trial to determine if lowering systolic blood pressure in hypertensive patients, without diabetes, to below the currently recommended level can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and kidney disease and slow cognitive decline.

30 Oct 2009

Venza Group sponsors charity event; proceeds to benefit Georgia's foster and adoption families

Again, the Venza Group generated a positive impact on the lives of Georgia's foster and adoption families by sponsoring their 2nd Annual Charity Wine-Tasting Event. The crowd sipped and sampled in assistance of Supporting Adoption and Foster Families Together (SAFFT), a newly established organization that declares the following belief: BUILDING and MAINTAINING a supportive foundation for all caregivers improves the overall lives of children in care.

30 Oct 2009

PSI to provide operations and maintenance support to EHR for the Military Theater environment

Planned Systems International, Inc. (PSI), a respected provider of information technology (IT) solutions and services to the federal government, announces it has been awarded a task order by the Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS) Program Office to provide operations and maintenance support to AHLTA-Theater (AHLTA-T), the military’s electronic health record for the Military Theater environment.

30 Oct 2009

Johns Hopkins bioethicists raise important issues on recent creation of live mice from iPSCs

The recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement, but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics.

30 Oct 2009

Fine print: Finance bill may cause consumer sticker shock

Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee's health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers.

30 Oct 2009

Women face higher risk of graft loss after liver transplantation compared to men

Although women with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are at lower risk for developing cirrhosis, researchers who compared outcomes for men and women after having liver transplantation found that women have a significantly increased risk of overall graft loss and graft loss from recurrent HCV than men.

30 Oct 2009

University of Virginia Cancer Center commences patient treatment with the TomoDirect delivery mode

TomoTherapy Incorporated announced today that the first patients are now being treated with the TomoDirect™ radiation therapy delivery mode at the University of Virginia Cancer Center. The addition of the TomoDirect modality to the TomoTherapy® platform gives clinicians an efficient new option that expands their ability to fight cancer.

30 Oct 2009

Highly publicized vaccine products not only boost pharmaceutical companies, but also benefit others

Highly publicized vaccine products not only boost the bottom lines of pharmaceutical companies, but also benefit insurance companies, doctors and retailers with their businesses, according to analysis of the recent flu vaccine season by life science market research publisher Kalorama Information.

30 Oct 2009

Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Center established; European patients can benefit from new radiation therapy

A new, innovative form of radiation based on verified scientific facts will be available to patients all over Europe within the next few decades. The official kick-off meeting of the Community project ULICE (Union of LIght Ions Centres in Europe), which the European Union is supporting with nearly 10 million euros, was held in fall 2009 in the Department of Radiooncology and Radiation Therapy of the Heidelberg University Hospital.

30 Oct 2009

NIH awards $75 million to establish medical research consortium to combat health disparities

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $75 million to Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and three other historically black institutions to establish a medical research consortium to combat health disparities in minority and underserved populations.

30 Oct 2009

Official European guidelines for management and treatment of hypertension

A Task Force of the European Society of Hypertension have released the official European guidelines on the management and treatment of hypertension. The guidelines are an update of those published in 2007, and will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Hypertension.

30 Oct 2009

Virtual Pharma Rep 360 Managed Care solution released

Virtual Pharma Rep™, a new company built by pharmaceutical industry veterans, today announced the release of Virtual Pharma Rep 360 Managed Care. This module builds on the existing Virtual Pharma Rep virtual sales platform of patent pending technology designed to significantly decrease the marketing, sales and educational expenses in the pharmaceutical sales and education process.

30 Oct 2009

TGen to secure emergency FDA approval for 2009 H1N1 flu test

The Phoenix-based non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) announced today that, along with a business collaborator, it will submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of a new test to diagnose the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus.

30 Oct 2009

Pennsylvania outstrips every state in the loss of employer-sponsored health care

Employers provided health insurance to 694,471 fewer Pennsylvanians in 2007 and 2008 than at the start of the decade, according to a new report analyzing U.S. Census data.

30 Oct 2009

Medical News

New study reviews science behind the efficacy of biofield therapies on pain management

Echo Therapeutics enhances its needle-free Symphony tCGM biosensor

Americans United for Life CEO's statement on the new House health care bill

Pre-dialysis recipients with high kidney function do not benefit from kidney transplants

Hard to Treat Diseases negotiating possible merger with EU based stem cell research company

Winners of 4th annual Katz Prizes in Cardiovascular Research announced

Case Western Reserve awarded $14.7M to lead study on effects of lowering systolic blood pressure

Venza Group sponsors charity event; proceeds to benefit Georgia's foster and adoption families

PSI to provide operations and maintenance support to EHR for the Military Theater environment

Johns Hopkins bioethicists raise important issues on recent creation of live mice from iPSCs

Fine print: Finance bill may cause consumer sticker shock

Women face higher risk of graft loss after liver transplantation compared to men

University of Virginia Cancer Center commences patient treatment with the TomoDirect delivery mode

Highly publicized vaccine products not only boost pharmaceutical companies, but also benefit others

Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Center established; European patients can benefit from new radiation therapy

NIH awards $75 million to establish medical research consortium to combat health disparities

Official European guidelines for management and treatment of hypertension

Virtual Pharma Rep 360 Managed Care solution released

TGen to secure emergency FDA approval for 2009 H1N1 flu test

Pennsylvania outstrips every state in the loss of employer-sponsored health care

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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