Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Hospital Systems Corporation subsidiary has entered into a license agreement with Stryker Corporation and Stryker Imaging Corporation covering a portfolio of patents that relate to medical picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology.
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31Dec
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31Dec
Muscle Flex Inc. (www.MuscleFlex.com) announced today that it will attend Gridlock’s (www.gridlockla.com) New Years Eve at the Legendary Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles with Adam Lambert headlining the event to ring in the New Decade.
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31Dec
How do common medications affect pregnancy? Nobody really knows. Now the FDA and a consortium of HMOs have launched a huge study to find out.
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31Dec
Acupuncture not only cools hot flashes that occur as a result of breast cancer treatment but may offer a host of other benefits to boost women’s well-being, a study shows.
Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Treatment
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31Dec
Elevated levels of three proteins show ovarian cancer is starting to grow years before women are diagnosed, but they do not increase soon enough to be an early indicator of the disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Source: Reuters Health
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31Dec
Left untreated, plantar fasciitis can lead to other problems, doctor saysSource: HealthDay
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31Dec
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is featured in three pilot episodes of a new series titled Emergency Level 1 on TLC.
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31Dec
Ten years ago, Dale Shippam got a new heart. It’s taken him around the world, and, in the New Year, on a part of an Olympic journey across Canada.
Tags: Heart
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31Dec
Imagine this future of personalized healthcare: you have been diagnosed with a disease for which there are five different treatments, your doctor feeds your genetic details into a computer, and the virtual human in the machine suggests which of the five is likely to be most effective and have fewer side effects for you personally…
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31Dec
A vascular surgical technique pioneered at UT Southwestern Medical Center and designed to replace infected aortic grafts with the body’s own veins has proved more durable and less prone to new infection than similar procedures using synthetic and cadaver grafts. Aortic graft infections are one of the most serious complications in patients undergoing aortic grafting procedures for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and aortic aneurysms…
Tags: Health
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30Dec
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Dec. 30 posted a proposed–and long awaited–rule defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records to qualify for the Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Also posted was an interim final rule from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology that sets initial standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria for EHR technology.
Tags: EHR, Electronic Health Record, Health, Medicaid, Medicare
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30Dec
H1N1 swine flu is less catchy than previous pandemic flu bugs, a household study finds. Only 13% of family members caught the flu from the infected person.
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30Dec
New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology recommend against the use of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for the treatment of chronic low-back pain.
Tags: Treatment
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30Dec
The prevalence of left-sided advanced colorectal neoplasms was lower in participants in a community setting, but not right-sided advanced neoplams, who had received a colonoscopy in the preceding 10 years, according to a new study published online December 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Effectiveness of colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer has been studied, but evidence from community settings is sparse, especially with respect to anatomical site. To study this, Hermann Brenner, M.D…
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30Dec
Concentrations of the biomarkers CA125, human epididymis protein 4 (HE4), and mesothelin began to rise 3 years before clinical diagnosis of ovarian cancer, according to a new study published online December 30 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. However, the biomarkers became substantially elevated only in the last year prior to diagnosis. The stage of the cancer at the time of marker elevation is not known…
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30Dec
Curvy actress Kate Winslet has topped a UK national poll to find the perfect celebrity body. The Oscar-winning film star, who has been praised for promoting a more realistic body shape, took the top spot with 16% of the overall votes – narrowly pipping shapely Kelly Brook into second place with 15%. And super thin celebrities Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss finished bottom of the poll carried out with 2,000 respondents by Slimming World and YouGov, scoring just 1% each of the votes…
Tags: Health
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30Dec
With the economy showing signs of recovery, industry research firm IBISWorld analyzed more than 700 industries to identify the winning sectors in the coming year.
Tags: Research
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30Dec
Compugen Ltd. today announced it has raised gross proceeds of $20 million, completing in full its previously announced Controlled Equity Offering facility. Under this facility, a total of approximately 4.1 million ordinary shares were sold at a weighted average price of approximately $4.91 per share. These shares were sold in the open market at prevailing prices during the period November 13, 2009 to December 29, 2009.
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30Dec
More brain donors are needed to help research into Parkinson’s disease says a leading UK charity, and younger donors especially. Last week the Parkinson’s Disease Society revealed that a campaign earlier this year has helped to more than double the number of donors on the Parkinson’s Brain Donor Register, but more brains are still needed. In April this year the Society ran a campaign that inspired more than 2,300 people to join celebrities like Jane Asher, Jeremy Paxman and John Stapleton to sign up as donors and leave their brain to Parkinson’s research when they die…
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30Dec
Source: HealthDay
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