As Congress approaches a possible finale to its year-long health debate, advertisements that attempt to influence the results have flooded airwaves, Time reports. “Across the country, groups on all sides of the health care reform debate have been targeting swing members of Congress with costly ad campaigns.” Firms, industry groups, unions and advocacy organizations could spend $24 million this week alone, on top of $200 million already spent on health overhaul-related ads (Scherer, 3/16).
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16Mar
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16Mar
BioVigil LLC has released the second generation of the BioVigil hand hygiene monitoring system. The innovative system enables hospitals to more effectively combat Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) by dramatically increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.
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16Mar
Bathing severely injured intensive-care patients with antiseptic-soaked washcloths can cut their risk of developing certain types of infections, and also seems to help keep drug-resistant bacteria at bay, new research shows.
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16Mar
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16Mar
If Democrats fail to pass health legislation, the loss could have lasting consequences for a president whose supporters have become accustomed to victory, Time writes. “If the President fails to win the upcoming series of congressional votes designed to get health care legislation to his desk, it will be a calamitous failure for his presidency and for him personally, dwarfing the potholes he has hit during his first bumpy year in office…
Tags: Health, Health Care
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16Mar
After struggling for decades “to win support from the scientific community,” contraceptive researchers have “re-established themselves as dedicated to a deserving craft with impressive developments that redefine conventional birth control,” according to a Slate opinion piece by Jennifer Austin, a medical school graduate who is beginning an obstetrics and gynecology residency this summer…
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16Mar
“The American Public Health Association supports Congress as it seeks to finalize comprehensive health reform legislation this week. The measure before Congress and the plans to strengthen it represent the greatest opportunity our nation has had to improve our health system and strengthen public health. We cannot squander this moment.
Tags: Health
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16Mar
Today, CLC bio released a groundbreaking whole-genome de novo assembler that will assemble genomes of any size, including human and plant genomes on a single workstation computer. Equally important, CLC bio’s de novo assembler is the first assembler that enables molecular biologists to set up, adjust, and run their large genome de novo assemblies through a graphical user-interface.
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16Mar
Lowering blood pressure and blood fat levels to below current targets did not bring down higher risks of heart problems for diabetes patients, according to new results from a landmark federal study.
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16Mar
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15Mar
Hospital electronic health records vendor Medsphere Systems Corp. has introduced a “Stimulus ROI Calculator” to estimate meaningful use incentives a facility can expect and the date of a return on investment for implementing the company’s EHR.
Tags: EHR, Electronic Health Record, Health, Hospital
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15Mar
The Department of Health and Human Services on March 15 announced $161.7 million in stimulus-funded grants to 16 states to advance creation of state-level health information exchanges.
Tags: Health
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15Mar
USA Today: “In a backlash against President Obama’s health care legislation that stretches from Virginia to California, lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are scrambling to undercut the bill before it even passes Congress.” Legal scholars say that state legislation isn’t the final word, however. “The state measures are likely to be challenged in court, setting up new legal battles over whether federal law can trump state laws.
Tags: Health, Health Care
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15Mar
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today confirms that it has initiated a challenge of the patent listed by Abbott Laboratories and Fournier Laboratories Ireland Ltd. in connection with its TRILIPIX® (choline fenofibrate) delayed-release capsules, 135 mg and 45 mg.
Tags: Gene
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15Mar
Erectile dysfunction is a major warning sign for cardiovascular disease and early death.
Tags: Heart
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15Mar
The risks associated with hip fractures may linger long after the initial recovery period is over, especially for men.
Tags: Health
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15Mar
Diovan, Starlix also had limited or no effect in shielding users from cardiovascular woes, study finds
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15Mar
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the AMA welcomes the Government’s significant investment in medical training with the announcement of big increases in the number of medical training places across the board. The Government has announced there will be 1200 general practice training places by 2014, 975 Pre-vocational General Practice Placements Program (PGPPP) places by 2013, and 900 specialist training positions in private, community and rural settings by 2014…
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15Mar
GTCR, one of America’s leading private equity firms, today announced an investment in ATI Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of physical therapy and operator of outpatient rehabilitation clinics.
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15Mar
Regado Biosciences, Inc., a privately held company leading the development of antithrombotic aptamers with active control agents, announced that Chris Rusconi, PhD, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and Steven Zelenkofske, DO, FACC, Senior Vice President , Chief Medical Officer presented an abstract at the American College of Cardiology on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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