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Membership for leading health insurers decline for the first six months of 2009

The nation’s leading health insurers saw an aggregate decline of 836,000 members for the first six months of 2009. Declining commercial enrollment was offset primarily by gains in products offered to seniors and growth in Medicaid business. Administrative Services Only (ASO) enrollment experienced its first quarterly decline since June 2007.

13 Nov 2009

Zynex signs lease to rent a 75,000-square-foot building

Zynex, Inc., a provider of pain management systems and electrotherapy products for medical patients with functional disability, announces it has signed a lease to rent a 75,000-square-foot building in Lone Tree (Littleton), Colorado. Zynex currently leases 16,553 square feet in Littleton, Colorado and the new building will house its headquarters, office, plant and warehouse.

13 Nov 2009

Study confirms that people with severe mental disorders more at risk of dying from heart disease

A large new study confirms that people with severe mental disorders — such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders — are 25 percent to 40 percent more prone to die from heart disease than people without mental illness are.

13 Nov 2009

Decreased heart functions associated with fat collection in different body locations: Study

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that fat collection in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, are associated with certain decreased heart functions. The study, which appears on-line in Obesity, also found that measuring a person's body mass index (BMI) does not reliably predict the amount of undesired fat in and around these vital organs.

13 Nov 2009

athenahealth receives U.S. Patent for its "Practice Management and Billing Automation System"

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, today announced that on November 10, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued athenahealth a patent entitled, ‘Practice Management and Billing Automation System’ (U.S. Patent No. 7,617,116) for its athenaNet® rules engine that is part of the Company’s revenue cycle management service, athenaCollectorSM.

13 Nov 2009

Carl Zeiss Meditec releases new software advances for the ATLAS® Corneal Topography System

New software advances for the ATLAS® Corneal Topography System were released today by Carl Zeiss Meditec during the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Orlando, Florida. Review Software and MasterFit II™ Contact Lens Software for the ATLAS corneal topography system are designed to make clinical data and images more accessible for eye care providers, while facilitating improved eye care diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients.

13 Nov 2009

Merge Healthcare to sell up to 9,034,033 shares of common stock to institutional investors

Merge Healthcare announced today that it is offering to sell up to 9,034,033 shares of common stock in a registered direct offering to select institutional investors at a purchase price of $3.00 per share. Merge expects to enter into definitive agreements with respect to this offering later today.

13 Nov 2009

Veterans' health: Measuring the scope of mental health challenges

NPR profiles retired General Eric Shinseki, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and his efforts to measure the scope of veterans' mental health issues. In his first nine months in this position, he "has spent hours just listening to veterans talk. Shinseki tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that he feels a strong obligation to 'give back' to the men and women he once served with." NPR reports on the task Shinseki faces: "Since 2001, more than 1 million new veterans have come into a system that is being stretched thin." One of Shinseki's missions to improve the care and resources available to these vets is to work with the Department of Defense to "create a computer-driven system that will track service personnel through their careers — including when they become veterans.

13 Nov 2009

Senate aides: Reid considering Medicare payroll tax increase on wealthy

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pondering a proposal to increase the Medicare payroll tax on high earners "to help offset the costs of providing health insurance to millions of Americans, Senate aides said Thursday," The New York Times reports.

13 Nov 2009

DC HIV study: Can intense treatment prevent spread

The Washington Post: "The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS." In conjunction with the study, NIH will provide experts to the city health department to help modernize clinic record-keeping efforts and to improve the tracking of HIV-infected people.

13 Nov 2009

CDC releases revised H1N1 estimates

USA Today: As expected, CDC released revised H1N1 estimates Thursday indicating that 3,900 people in the U.S. have died from the infection, including 540 children (Sternberg, 11/12).

13 Nov 2009

M3 USA, Bristol-Myers Squibb to launch next-generation eLearning and eMarketing solution

M3 USA, together with Bristol-Myers Squibb, is launching a pilot program to oncologists using M3’s next-generation eLearning and eMarketing solution. The solution – M3 Messages™ – takes a new approach to developing valuable, long-term, online connections that help doctors stay current on advances in oncology.

13 Nov 2009

Kun Run Biotechnology net revenue increases 65% for the quarter ended September 30, 2009

Kun Run Biotechnology, Inc., a leading bio-pharmaceutical company in China that focuses on manufacturing and sales of peptides and peptide-based drugs, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.

13 Nov 2009

Echo Therapeutics to raise $3 million from institutional investors

Echo Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing its 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 entered into definitive agreements with accredited and institutional investors to raise approximately $3 million through the sale of approximately 2.37 million shares of common stock at $1.25 per share through a private placement transaction.

13 Nov 2009

Pro-Pharmaceuticals announces financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2009

Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a developer of galectin-targeted, carbohydrate therapeutic compounds to treat cancer and fibrosis, today reported its financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2009. These results are included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009, which has been filed with the SEC.

13 Nov 2009

Overhaul could leave kids' hospitals strapped for cash

Industry advocates say health reform could place a disproportionate burden on children's hospitals, because they will face cuts along with other hospitals, but do not stand to benefit from expansions in insurance coverage, USA Today reports.

13 Nov 2009

Suggestions abound for cutting national health care costs

Two publications looked at the problem of rising health costs and ways to try to "bend the curve."

13 Nov 2009

In rural Kentucky, an unexpected take on the health debate

Frank Browning reports for Kaiser Health News on how the health reform debate is playing out in rural Kentucky. "From a strip-mined bluff at the edge of this famous mountain town you can see one of the most concentrated and diverse sets of medical facilities in rural America: a general hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a university-based rural health care center and clinics for primary care, cancer, urology, cardiology, addiction and ear-nose-and throat problems.

13 Nov 2009

Agilent Technologies reports decreased revenues of $1.17 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2009

Agilent Technologies Inc. today reported revenues of $1.17 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2009, 21 percent below one year ago. Fourth quarter GAAP net income was $25 million, or $0.07 per diluted share. Last year’s fourth quarter GAAP net income was $231 million, or $0.64 per share.

13 Nov 2009

Study of GBHN Order Set project reveals improvements in the length of stay and ordering of best practices

A study of the Grey Bruce Health Network (GBHN) Order Set project has revealed impressive improvements in the length of stay and ordering of best practices.

13 Nov 2009

Medical News

Membership for leading health insurers decline for the first six months of 2009

Zynex signs lease to rent a 75,000-square-foot building

Study confirms that people with severe mental disorders more at risk of dying from heart disease

Decreased heart functions associated with fat collection in different body locations: Study

athenahealth receives U.S. Patent for its "Practice Management and Billing Automation System"

Carl Zeiss Meditec releases new software advances for the ATLAS® Corneal Topography System

Merge Healthcare to sell up to 9,034,033 shares of common stock to institutional investors

Veterans' health: Measuring the scope of mental health challenges

Senate aides: Reid considering Medicare payroll tax increase on wealthy

DC HIV study: Can intense treatment prevent spread

CDC releases revised H1N1 estimates

M3 USA, Bristol-Myers Squibb to launch next-generation eLearning and eMarketing solution

Kun Run Biotechnology net revenue increases 65% for the quarter ended September 30, 2009

Echo Therapeutics to raise $3 million from institutional investors

Pro-Pharmaceuticals announces financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2009

Overhaul could leave kids' hospitals strapped for cash

Suggestions abound for cutting national health care costs

In rural Kentucky, an unexpected take on the health debate

Agilent Technologies reports decreased revenues of $1.17 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, 2009

Study of GBHN Order Set project reveals improvements in the length of stay and ordering of best practices

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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