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Swine flu concern greater among less educated and low income people

Are Americans concerned about swine flu? About one-third say they are, one-third say they're not, and one-third say, well, maybe a little. Concern is greater among people with lower incomes and less education.

23 Oct 2009

Recent health policy studies and analyses

The Urban Institute: Age Rating Under Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Household Financial Burdens - The authors of this study brief compare the "financial implications of the premium rating policy," as outlined in the House Tri-Committee proposal (H.R. 3200), across households of different ages, incomes, and sizes.

23 Oct 2009

IDEXX Laboratories reports increased revenues for 2009 third quarter

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., today reported that revenues for the third quarter of 2009 were $259.1 million compared to $251.1 million for the third quarter of 2008.

23 Oct 2009

Vaccine Vial Monitors to monitor potential heat damage of H1N1 vaccines donated to WHO

Temptime Corporation announced today that it will donate its Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVMs) to the World Health Organization (WHO) to monitor potential heat damage of H1N1 vaccines to be distributed by WHO to developing countries most in need.

23 Oct 2009

Modified NAGA: New enzyme for enzyme replacement therapy

A new study uses a creative structure-based remodeling strategy to design a therapeutic protein that exhibits significant advantages over currently available treatments for a rare disease that often leads to cardiac and renal failure. The research, published by Cell Press on October 22nd in the American Journal of Human Genetics, describes a new and highly promising candidate for enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for Fabry disease.

23 Oct 2009

First Edition: October 23, 2009

The latest developments surrounding health reform's public option grab a lot of headlines today, including news regarding a version of the plan that allows states to opt not to participate in it.

23 Oct 2009

Follow healthy lifestyle to overturn genetic predisposition to heart disease

When it comes to heart disease, lifestyle usually trumps genetics, says noted genetic researcher Dr. Robert Hegele, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Lecturer at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009.

23 Oct 2009

Findings may lead to new vaccine strategies for pulmonary tularemia

Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends off bacteria called Francisella tularensis, which could lead to vaccines that are better able to prevent tularemia infection of the lungs. Their findings were published today in the early, online version of Immunity.

23 Oct 2009

Study compares differences between inpatient and day treatment of bulimia nervosa

A German study published in the fifth issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics compares the differences between inpatient and day treatment of bulimia nervosa.

23 Oct 2009

Medgenics signs $7 million agreement to develop the Biopump technology for Factor VIII

Medgenics is pleased to announce that it has signed a preclinical development and option agreement with a major international biopharmaceutical company that is a market leader in the field of hemophilia.

23 Oct 2009

Sittercity partners with Bright Horizons Family Solutions to create a Corporate Program

Sittercity Inc, America's first and largest online source for connecting parents and sitters has partnered with Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, back-up care, education, and work/life solutions to create a program that allows employers to offer their employees access to Sittercity as part of their work/life benefits package.

23 Oct 2009

ICU usage among terminal patients eight times higher in the U.S. than in England: Study

Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. What's more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the U.S. than in England, according to new research from Columbia University that compared the two countries' use of intensive care services during final hospitalizations.

23 Oct 2009

Workers with MetS can cost employers up to $5,867 in health care annually: Study

Someone healthy enough to work could still cost an employer more than $4,000 annually in unnecessary health care costs.

23 Oct 2009

Scientists demonstrate how second set of cells carry signals from the inner ear to the brain

Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second set of cells also carry signals from the inner ear to the brain and have a real role in processing sound has been a matter of debate.

23 Oct 2009

University researchers inject 'nanowires' in rat brains

The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments involving the injection of so-called 'nanowires.'

23 Oct 2009

No rise in sex crimes during Halloween; kids more at risk to get hit by car

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (October 22, 2009) The rates of non-familial sex crimes against children under the age of 12 are no higher during the Halloween season than at any other times of the year, according to a study published in the September issue of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment the official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (published by SAGE).

23 Oct 2009

Tips to prevent allergy during Halloween

The haunted happenings of Halloween are upon us and soon we'll be carving pumpkins, dressing in costumes and telling spooky stories. But if your child has a food allergy, what's at the bottom of his or her trick-or-treat bag may be more frightening than any ghost or goblin.

23 Oct 2009

Preachers Coffee signs agreement to enhance its nutraceutical-health marketing strategy

PREACHERS COFFEE, INC. (PINKSHEETS: PRCF) in order to enhance its Nutraceutical Health Marketing Strategy entered into an Agreement with "GANO EXCEL COFFEE COMPANY" -- a robust Multi Level Marketing Health Coffee Company that has a broad range of 3,000,000 customers with respect to population and followings.

23 Oct 2009

U.S. Government awards one-year $13.5 million IDIQ contract to OSI Systems

OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications announced that its Healthcare Division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has been awarded a one-year $13.5 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Medical Supplier Operations Directorate to provide patient monitoring systems, sub-systems, training and consumables.

23 Oct 2009

Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control

Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control and may be more vulnerable to drug abuse than female monkeys, even a decade or more after the exposure, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The findings could lead to a better understanding of human drug abuse.

23 Oct 2009

Medical News

Swine flu concern greater among less educated and low income people

Recent health policy studies and analyses

IDEXX Laboratories reports increased revenues for 2009 third quarter

Vaccine Vial Monitors to monitor potential heat damage of H1N1 vaccines donated to WHO

Modified NAGA: New enzyme for enzyme replacement therapy

First Edition: October 23, 2009

Follow healthy lifestyle to overturn genetic predisposition to heart disease

Findings may lead to new vaccine strategies for pulmonary tularemia

Study compares differences between inpatient and day treatment of bulimia nervosa

Medgenics signs $7 million agreement to develop the Biopump technology for Factor VIII

Sittercity partners with Bright Horizons Family Solutions to create a Corporate Program

ICU usage among terminal patients eight times higher in the U.S. than in England: Study

Workers with MetS can cost employers up to $5,867 in health care annually: Study

Scientists demonstrate how second set of cells carry signals from the inner ear to the brain

University researchers inject 'nanowires' in rat brains

No rise in sex crimes during Halloween; kids more at risk to get hit by car

Tips to prevent allergy during Halloween

Preachers Coffee signs agreement to enhance its nutraceutical-health marketing strategy

U.S. Government awards one-year $13.5 million IDIQ contract to OSI Systems

Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control

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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