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Long-Term Aspirin Use Linked With Vision Loss: Study
People who use aspirin regularly for at least 10 years run a small risk of developing a potentially blinding condition known as age-related macular degeneration, researchers report.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Hillsborough receives $500K grant for health center near USF
Students in Hillsborough County will soon have a new health center.
The county received a grant of $500,000, authorized under the Affordable Care Act, to build the center, according to a written statement.
The money will be used to build a new health center to provide services to children from poverty-stricken areas.
The district currently runs a portable health center unit at Hunter’s Green Elementary School, which is currently infested with termites and in a state of disrepair, the statement…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Covered California adding jobs as it moves ahead with insurance marketplace
Local hiring is picking up as Covered California -- the new name for the state health benefit exchange -- charges ahead with plans for a new insurance marketplace in 2014.
With 13 new staff, the program is up to 66 employees. Another 36 hires are in the works, which will bring the Sacramento headquarters to more than 100 by Jan. 1, executive director Peter Lee reported at a board meeting Tuesday. Ultimately, the number is expected to double to about 200.
Additional staffing statewide is in the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: research
Looking for Health Care Heroes 2013
Do you know a health researcher who is making headway on a new treatment? A physician who goes above and beyond? What about a hospital or clinic administrator who has turned the facility around?
Please consider nominating him or her for our annual Health Care Heroes award.
The San Antonio Business Journal has opened the nomination process for its annual Health Care Heroes award program. Nominations are due by Monday, Feb. 4th, 2013.
Visit this link to access the nomination form. Health Care Heroes…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Donna J. Tuttle Source Type: research
Winter Garden approves Florida Hospital campus
Winter Garden city commissioners on Dec. 19 approved Florida Hospital’s seven story hospital project in Winter Garden, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Eventual plans call for a seven-story, 200-bed hospital, which would compete for West Orange residents with Health Central, on a 58-acre site near State Road 429 and Daniels Road. Check here to read an earlier story about the project, which will start with a freestanding emergency department and a medical office building, as well as a detailed look…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Abraham Aboraya Source Type: research
UnitedHealthcare chooses CEO of California health plan
UnitedHealthcare created a new job, CEO of its California health plan, and chose Brandon Cuevas to do it, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
In the past, two people handled the work that Cuevas will do -- they were Dan Rosenthal and Dave Anderson, CEOs of the company's operations in Northern and Southern California, respectively.
UnitedHealthcare has about 8,600 employees in California, and it covers about 2.3 million people in the state with its health plan.
Cuevas had been west region…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Well: Seeking Help for E.P.I. in Pets
For a growing number of pets there is a diagnosis of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, or E.P.I., a mysterious illness that fortunately can be treated.
Source: NYT - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and JENNIFER CONTOGEORGOS Tags: Genetics and Heredity Cats DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Diarrhea Pancreas Well Pets Veterinary Medicine veterinarians Dogs Featured Breeding of Animals Source Type: news
FDA Issues Pradaxa Valve Warning
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The FDA is warning clinicians not to prescribe dabigatran (Pradaxa) to patients with mechanical heart valves, an indication for which the oral anticoagulant is not approved.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Seniors say doctors don’t provide enough mental health care
Forty-six percent say their physicians didn’t follow up after prescribing treatment, and 38% weren’t informed of possible drug side effects.
Source: American Medical News - HEALTH - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Nuron Biotech brings in $80 million in private deals
Nuron Biotech Inc., in one of the largest private investment deals of the year for a local life sciences company, raised $80 million Thursday.
The financing consists of a $30 million equity investment by Healthcare Royalty Partners and a $50 million “synthetic royaty agreement ties to future sales of company products.
A synthetic royalty financing is a nondilutive financing alternative created by HC Royalty (which has trademarked the term) for companies seeking to raise capital in lieu of issuing…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: John George Source Type: research
NanoMedical Systems secures $1.7M funding
Drug delivery company NanoMedical Systems Inc. received $1.7 million of a planned $2 million financing.
The Austin-based company collected the capital from 18 investors, according to a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
NanoMedical Systems, founded in 2007, is developing a personalized molecular drug delivery system that is designed to be an implanted drug delivery platform tailored to dose, duration, size and shape.
In 2009, the company received $3.5 million from…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher Calnan Source Type: research
Meningitis: Outbreak Large, Attack Rate Low (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- The attack rate in the continuing meningitis outbreak is relatively low, with fewer than five exposed people in 20 having developed the disease, researchers reported.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Kansas ranks lowest for disaster preparedness
A survey ranking states' preparedness for public health emergencies, terrorism and national disasters ranked Kansas at the bottom of the list, the Lawrence Journal-World reports.
The Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Kansas at the bottom of the "Ready or not?" report, scoring 3 of 10 points.
However, officials noted that the state's score has varied widely through the years, the report says.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Dendreon sells N.J. facility for $43M
Beleaguered Seattle biotech Dendreon Corp., which announced it was is closing its Morris Plains, N.J. facility in July, said it's sold the facility to Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. for $43 million.
Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) said the Morris Plains facility is 173,100 square feet and was built to make its Provenge prostate cancer treatment. The plant was closed as part of "a strategic restructuring plan designed to accelerate the company’s path to profitability and future growth," Dendreon said in…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Bill raising taxes on $1M earners moves forward
A bill that proposes raising taxes on people who earn more than $1 million a year is inching forward despite vehement opposition, KCTV5 reports.
The bill would keep in place military and domestic agency budget cuts and could spare most workers from facing tax increases, the report says.
But President Obama said Wednesday that he and House Speaker John Boehner were coming close to a deal that in 10 years could cut the deficit by more than $2 trillion.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Judge OKs $762 Million Deal in Aranesp Case
(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge approved a $762 million settlement Wednesday in a case involving Amgen's off-label promotion of darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp), an anemia drug.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 20, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Guns Obama administration handed to Mexican drug lords continue to turn up at crime scenes
Even as President Obama searches for a way to take away your right of self-defense in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, guns his own administration let "walk" across the border into the hands of Mexican drug gangs continue to show up at crime scenes...
Source: NaturalNews.com - December 20, 2012 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Exercise Experts Tackle Obesity by Catering to Kids
Echoing First Lady Michelle Obama’s rallying cry to get kids moving, Boston Sports Clubs in Andover is among the local workout places trying to get more kids moving by offering what used to be grown-up fitness classes to them. Younger kids take yoga, step and spinning classes while pre-teens can take cardio sculpting classes. Kids ages 11 to 14 learn about muscle development and body changes while they work out.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - December 20, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Officials Confront Skepticism Over Health Law
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act appears here to stay, but many of those it is supposed to help still do not understand what the law can do for them, officials have found.
Source: NYT Health - December 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By ABBY GOODNOUGH Tags: United States Aetna Inc AET NYSE Obama, Barack Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) Health Insurance and Managed Care Enroll America Law and Legislation Source Type: news
Obama's Fiscal-Cliff Plan Said to Repeal SGR Obama's Fiscal-Cliff Plan Said to Repeal SGR
Meanwhile, CMS said it is obliged to implement a 26.5% Medicare pay cut for physicians next month in light of Congressional inaction, which the AMA called "inexcusable." Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Reumofan Plus Dietary Supplement Relabeled and Sold as “WOW”: Public Warning - Undeclared Drug Ingredients
The product is being marketed to treat arthritis, muscle pain, osteoporosis, bone cancer, and other conditions; laboratory analysis confirmed "WOW" contains prescription drug ingredients that have the potential to cause serious injury.
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
FDA Lagged on Specialized Pharmacy Regulations
The FDA under Obama didn't push for a law to regulate drug-mixing pharmacies before a recent outbreak of more than 600 meningitis cases tied to such a pharmacy, the head of the agency said.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - December 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PAID Source Type: news
Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate mesylate): Drug Safety Communication - Should Not Be Used in Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Heart Valves
Pradaxa users were more likely to experience strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots forming on the mechanical heart valves than were users of the anticoagulant warfarin.
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Compounding Pharmacies Focus of All Day Hearing
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The FDA and all 50 states came together Wednesday for a one-day workshop to help identify and close the gaps in overseeing compounding pharmacies.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Family Dinners Promote Healthier Eating (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Having the family sit down together for dinner every night may make children more likely to eat their fruits and vegetables, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
God’s love leads to benevolence, authors contend
What: Orlando Solar Bears vs. Wheeling Nailers
When: 7 Thursday night
Where: Amway Center
Records: Solar Bears, 15-20-2-2 (34 points); Nailers, 18-13-2-4 (42 points)
The Buzz: The ECHL teams will meet again at 7 Saturday night and 3 p.m. Monday at...
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
FDA permits marketing of device to seal lung punctures
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of the Bio-Seal Lung Biopsy Tract Plug System, a device that seals punctures left by biopsies performed to confirm a diagnosis of suspected lung conditions.
Source: Food and Drug Administration - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
American Healthcare Investors Facilitates Acquisition of Houston Hospital and Three Building Senior Care Portfolio in Massachusetts on Behalf of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Corporation, the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II, Inc., announced today the acquisition of Bellaire Medical Center in Houston and a three-building portfolio of senior care facilities in Massachusetts by the REIT for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $47.6 million.
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - December 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
With doctor under investigation, patients want records kept private
Drug agents in Seminole County are investigating a long-practicing Sanford physician whose patients are trying to stop investigators from looking at their medical records.
Agents with the City-County Investigative Bureau this fall searched the West First...
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Rate of New HIV Infections Drops for First Time Among Black Women: CDC
But gay and bisexual men, and minorities, still make up bulk of new cases
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: African-American Health, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health, HIV/AIDS in Women
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - December 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Abused Black Girls More Likely to Develop Asthma
Stress still affects immune system years later, researchers say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: African-American Health, Asthma, Child Abuse
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - December 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Need to be the perfect lady? India's motivation experts have just the course
Self-improvement businesses enjoy boom despite national slowdown, as newly rich try to bridge cultural divideIndian economic growth may be slowing up, but there is at least one sector that is ever more successful: self-improvement. Whether it is English language classes for some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities or Anurag Aggarwal's courses for the middle classes, nothing seems to stop the boom.On a Saturday afternoon in a conference room in a south Delhi suburb, Aggarwal is talking fluently and forcefully. In a three-piece suit with his iPad and a wireless microphone clipped to an ear, he is advising on bo...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 19, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Jason Burke Tags: The Guardian India Psychology World news Society Social mobility Features Science Source Type: news
Incivek (telaprevir) In Combination with Drugs Peginterferon Alfa and Ribavirin (Incivek combination treatment): Drug Safety Communication - Serious Skin Reactions
Reports of serious reactions and death, including toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
For power and status, dominance and skill trump likability
Finding the next Barack Obama or Warren Buffett might be as simple as looking at who attracts the most eyes in a crowd, a new study finds. For the study, which used eye-tracking technology, participants who observed groups of strangers were able to accurately predict who would emerge as leader of the group in 120 seconds or less.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
Children Can Usually Recover From Emotional Trauma
For young people exposed to gun trauma — like the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — the road to recovery can be long and torturous, marked by anxiety, nightmares, school trouble and even substance abuse. Witnessing lethal violence ruptures a child’s sense of security, psychiatrists say, leaving behind an array of emotional and social challenges that are not easily resolved. But the good news is that most of these children will probably heal.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Former CEO of Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic Pleads Guilty to Drug Charge
James Derek Johnston, the former CEO of the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic, waived indictment and pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court to one count of obtaining hydrocodone by fraud.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Zicam Extreme Congestion Relief Nasal Gel: Recall - Contamination With Burkholderia Cepacia
Use of affected product could cause upper airway colonization and secondarily lead to respiratory infections in individuals with a compromised immune system or those with chronic lung conditions.
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Zuckerberg donates 18 million Facebook shares to charity
Mark Zuckerberg just took sharing to a new level.
Facebook's CEO announced Tuesday, via Facebook post, that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have donated 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The organization will help appropriate the sizable donation into areas Zuckerberg is interested in focusing on, education and health, according to the post.
According to a report from the Huffington Post, the 18 million Facebook shares areworth nearly $500 million and would…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Alex J. Martin Source Type: research
Durham man makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
The founder of a cancer research foundation in Durham has made Forbes magazine’s annual “30 Under 30” list, a who’s-who of the nation’s top young entrepreneurs and executives.
The Triangle Business Journal reports that the magazine named Josh Sommer of the Chordoma Foundation to the annual list on Monday, just as the organization ramps up for a new fundraising drive. The feature is in the magazine’s next issue.
Forbes chose Sommer, 24, as its top winner in its “science and healthcare”…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Dominello Braun Source Type: research
Harvard, Tufts professors weigh in as 'zombie apocalypse' experts
Picking up on the Mayan Calendar prediction that the world will end Friday, the Discovery Channel (Nasdaq: DISCA) on Tuesday aired a program examining just what doomsday might look like. Two Boston-area professors display their zombie science expertise, weighing in on what might happen in a "zombie apocalypse" scenario.
"The key to understanding zombie behavior is to understand the zombie brain," says Harvard Medical School Professor Steven Schlozman.
Schlozman is known for his zombie predilection:…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Galen Moore Source Type: research
Health Care Guide: People - Sharron Coffie
Sharron Coffie has been promoted to a newly created role of manager of nursing practice-specialty clinics at Froedtert Hospital. Prior to her new role, she was a clinical nurse specialist in inpatient cardiology nursing at Froedtert.
NEW POSITION: Manager of nursing practice-specialty clinics, Froedtert Hospital, Wauwatosa
HOMETOWN: Oxford, Miss.
EDUCATION: BSN, St. Louis University; MSN, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO YOUR NEW OPPORTUNITY: “My most recent experience…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Barb Zaferos Source Type: research
O'Malley to introduce gun control legislation
Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday he expects to introduce a gun control package in the upcoming legislative session aimed at preventing catastrophic mass shootings like the one last week at Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Washington Post reported.
O'Malley told reporters at the State House in Annapolis that his plans are "very much a work in progress," but that he senses a strong will among lawmakers to take action in the 90-day General Assembly session that begins Jan. 9.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Maryland health reform council adjusts insurance plan model
Maryland’s Health Care Reform Coordinating Council plans to use the insurance plan designed for small businesses as the model for all private market health plans beginning in 2014 after receiving new guidance from the federal government on the rules for essential health benefits.
The state is required under the federal Affordable Care Act to establish essential health benefits — benefits that all private health plans sold to small groups and individuals will be required to include beginning…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Atl. senator to propose assault rifle ban in Georgia, says mental health discussion is key
State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) says it may now be possible for gun-rights advocates and gun-control advocates in the legislature to find “a comprehensive approach” to address mental health issues – and to ban assault weapons throughout Georgia.
"If it means people disagreeing and debating and discussing, and have a conversation about this, so be it. But to do nothing is a crime in and of itself," Fort said, reports Atlanta Business Chronicle broadcast partner WXIA-TV. "If we do nothing,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 19, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Carla Caldwell Source Type: research
