The Department of Health and Human Services has named Cincinnati and Detroit as the final Beacon Communities to serve as pilot sites for comprehensive use of health information technology.
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02Sep
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02Sep
Availity LLC, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based claims clearinghouse, has enhanced its capabilities by acquiring RealMed, which operates a clearinghouse headquartered in Indianapolis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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02Sep
Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations.
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02Sep
An antibacterial peptide developed by Laszlo Otvos, a research professor of biology in Temple’s College of Science and Technology, looks to be a highly-effective therapy against infections in burn or blast wounds suffered by soldiers.
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02Sep
The journey toward health care reform reached a historic milestone March 22 when the House approved legislation that would extend coverage to 32 million more Americans and impose new restrictions on the insurance industry.
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02Sep
If you’re new to massages, all the types and techniques can be a little overwhelming. WebMD answers common massage questions and explains the different styles.
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02Sep
While researchers saw no rise in deaths, some experts wonder if this drug has a future
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02Sep
US researchers found that short sleep and insomnia was linked to a four times higher risk of early death in men; they urged public health policy makers to emphasize earlier diagnosis and treament of chronic insomnia. You can read how researchers from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, came to these findings in a paper they wrote that was published on 1 September in the journal SLEEP…
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02Sep
Contrave (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR), an investigational drug aimed at combination therapy to address both biological and behavioral drivers of obesity, will be developed and commercialized by Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in the USA, Canada and Mexico. The two drug firms have just signed an exclusive partnership for the North American area. The Contrave combination treatment targets the central pathways involved in controlling the balance of both food consumption and metabolism, as well as regulating eating behavior, Orexigen informs…
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02Sep
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02Sep
Breast cancer classification algorithm to identify 20 gene signature developed using Microsoft Excel
Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research will enable researchers to quickly generate valuable gene signatures without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training.
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02Sep
PruHealth has become a competitor of scale in the UK Private Medical Insurance (PMI) market following the completion of the acquisition of Standard Life Healthcare by Discovery Holdings of South Africa.
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02Sep
Source: Dept. of Health and Human Services
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02Sep
The latest edition of the “AACN Procedure Manual for Critical Care Nursing” increases the focus on patient safety and infection prevention, while continuing to emphasize evidence-based practice. Published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the 1,312-page manual presents procedures for the critical care environment in an easy-to-use illustrated and step-by-step format. The Procedures and Patient Monitoring sections are presented in a special tabular format with considerations and rationales for each intervention…
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02Sep
Xcellerex, Inc. announced that Project GreenVax has agreed to acquire XDR GMP single-use production bioreactors from Xcellerex. The systems will be deployed in a new facility currently under construction in Bryan, Texas. Project GreenVax is spearheaded by Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium, which consists of G-Con, LLC and The Texas A&M University System. Financial terms were not disclosed. “The XDR system has been demonstrated to be very adaptable and effective in growing wide variety of organisms to support our process needs,” commented Dr. Barry Holtz, president of G-Con…
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01Sep
Content and analytics vendor Thomson Reuters has acquired Healthcare Data Management Inc., a vendor of data analytics software for the health payer market. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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01Sep
HIV infection is on the rise but there is potential to control the upsurge of infections with effective measures only if there are adequate funds. According to UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe the world has become numb to the fact that 7,400 people are being infected with AIDS every day and funds to combat it are not pouring in as they should. Since 2001, the number of newly infected people has fallen by 17 per cent a year – but there are still 2.7 million new cases each year.
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01Sep
General Practitioner Dr Rajendra Moodley has helped hundreds of people in his care during his tenure. After being deregistered by the Medical Board of Australia last Friday, his patients are rising to appeal the deregistration decision.
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01Sep
Many people fail to rev up their exercise regimen before they leave for a ski vacation — and the sudden burst of activity on the slopes puts them at risk for heart attack, researchers say.
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01Sep
The drugs apixaban and Xarelto are effective at preventing deadly blood clots, new studies show.
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