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Urinary microbiome altered in urge incontinence

The frequency and nature of bacteria in the urinary tract differs significantly between healthy women and those with urge incontinence, a US study demonstrates.

28 Jul 2014

Uroflowmetry reflects symptom severity in men with LUTS

Uroflowmetry is valuable for assessing disease severity in men with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia, researchers believe.

28 Jul 2014

Opioid use does not impair reverse shoulder arthroplasty success

Taking opioids prior to reverse shoulder arthroplasty does not hamper patients’ chances of having successful outcomes, researchers have found.

28 Jul 2014

Pneumococcal pneumonia mortality falling

Between 2000 and 2013 there has been an increase in the early prescription of antibiotics and use of combination therapy in patients with pneumococcal pneumonia, researchers report.

28 Jul 2014

Probiotics have ‘modest’ effect on blood pressure

The consumption of probiotics may help to reduce blood pressure, say the authors of a meta-analysis.

28 Jul 2014

Researchers receive grant to improve treatment for patients with COPD

Research into improving treatment for patients with one of the UK's most common respiratory diseases has received a -810,000 funding boost.

28 Jul 2014

New wave of patients boosting hospital earnings

Earnings reports offered last week by two hospital operators offer evidence that the health law's coverage expansion is leading more patients to seek treatment.

28 Jul 2014

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital earns Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named one of 15 recipients of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve of the Department of Defense.

28 Jul 2014

Childhood obesity linked to early puberty

A new link has been identified between obesity in childhood and the lowering of the age of puberty.

28 Jul 2014

Endoscopic resection not always best for localized, early-stage esophageal cancer: Study

A new study, published in the July, 2014, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by Northwestern Medicine- researchers, sheds new light on the risks associated with the growing popularity of endoscopic resection in the treatment of localized, early-stage esophageal cancer.

28 Jul 2014

ECRI Institute PSO selected to provide patient safety data to MCIC Vermont

ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has been selected to provide patient safety collection, analysis, and reporting services to MCIC Vermont, Inc. PSO, a component entity of MCIC Vermont (A Reciprocal Risk Retention Group).

28 Jul 2014

Medicare turns up heat on fraud investigations

One U.S. attorney in South Dakota says such cases will be one of the fastest-growing areas of criminal investigations, while some providers are crying foul.

28 Jul 2014

PLXNA4 gene may increase risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine report variants in a new gene, PLXNA4, which may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). The discovery of this novel genetic association may lead to new drug treatment options that target PLXNA4 specifically.

28 Jul 2014

Astute Medical, OCD partner to expand access to new acute kidney injury test

Astute Medical, Inc. today announced a strategic collaboration with Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. that will expand access to a new test that assesses critically ill patients for risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), a prevalent and deadly condition.

From Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. 28 Jul 2014

Psychemedics' Q2 revenue increases 12% to $7.7 million

Psychemedics Corporation today announced second quarter financial results for the period ended June 30, 2014. The Company also announced a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share payable to shareholders of record as of August 7, 2014 to be paid on August 18, 2014.

28 Jul 2014

athenahealth expands strategic agreement with Henry Schein

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, and Henry Schein, Inc., the world's largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, animal health, and medical practitioners, today announced an expansion of their strategic agreement announced on May 21, 2014.

28 Jul 2014

Cardioxyl reports positive results from CXL-1427 Phase I trial for treatment of ADHF

Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the positive results of a clinical trial demonstrating that CXL-1427, a novel potential treatment for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), was well tolerated in healthy volunteers.

28 Jul 2014

Avidus acquires Truestar Health

Avidus Management Group Inc. is pleased to announce that further to its news release of July 16, 2014, it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Truestar Health Inc., a Toronto based network-marketing company (the "Acquisition").

28 Jul 2014

Envarsus gets marketing authorization from EC for treatment of kidney and liver transplant patients

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S and Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization for Envarsus for the prevention of organ rejection in adult kidney and liver transplant patients in the European Union.

28 Jul 2014

FDA clears Lorus' LOR-253 IND application for treatment of hematologic malignancies

Lorus Therapeutics Inc. today announced that the Food and Drug Administration completed its review and cleared the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application of LOR-253 for the treatment of hematologic malignancies including acute myeloid leukemia (AML), high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), lymphomas and multiple myeloma.

28 Jul 2014