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O’Malley floats $3 million tax credit pool to bolster cybersecurity in Maryland
Maryland is looking to build on the success of a biotechnology tax credit to bolster another industry here — cyber security.
Gov. Martin O’Malley proposed in his fiscal 2014 budget a new cyber security tax credit that would set aside $3 million to encourage cyber security companies to expand or set up shop in Maryland.
“The impetus for it came from the fact that we regularly talk with not only cyber security companies but also investors in that space, some who are just discovering Maryland,”…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Sarah Gantz Source Type: research
Cincinnati hospital system to hire for 80 jobs
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: James Ritchie Source Type: research
New statins labelling update: Risk of increased blood sugar levels and diabetes
Health Canada is informing Canadians of a labelling update for all cholesterol-lowering drugs (also known as statins) regarding the risk of increased blood sugar levels and a small increased risk of diabetes among patients already at risk for the disease.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Tags: Health Products Source Type: news
Puerto Rican health care provider joins Mayo network
A Puerto Rican ambulatory health care provider has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
Mayo announced Thursday that Salus, an ambulatory clinic and dental care provider, has joined the network as an affiliate.
Hospitals that enter into an affiliate agreement with Mayo pay a subscription fee, based on their own revenue, for access to Mayo experts and physicians and the right to use the Mayo name in their branding. Each new provider in the network represents additional revenue for Mayo, as well…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Ashley Gurbal Kritzer Source Type: research
Well: Living With Cancer: The Good Patient Syndrome
Being a submissive or dutiful patient doesn't always pay off. Who exactly was I being good for? Sometimes it's good to be bad.
Source: NYT - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: By SUSAN GUBAR Tags: Doctors Voices Medicine and Health Living With Cancer Featured Ovarian Cancer Source Type: news
Will LipoScience become the first health care IPO of 2013?
Should Raleigh diagnostics company LipoScience succeed in its efforts to go public Friday, it would be the first health-care company to do so in 2013 and that means added scrutiny, says W.B.B. Securities president and managing partner Stephen Brozak.
“Believe it or not, the clock resets every January first,” he says. “It’s a resetting clock and now we’re looking for, what are the first deals getting priced?”
A bad deal can “cause a problem for everybody,” he says.
“People look…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Lauren K. Ohnesorge Source Type: research
Rotavirus Vax: Protection for the Family (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Vaccinating children against rotavirus may help prevent disease in adults, too, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
BizNext: 7 things you need to know 01.24.13
Activist investor Carl Icahn invested $321 million in Netflix three months ago. After the company released its earnings this week, Icahn's stake is now worth $748 million.
Mary Jo White, a former United States attorney who prosecuted John Gotti, was just nominated by President Obama to chair the Securities & Exchange Commission. So now maybe we can move along and get this JOBS Act thing done.
IBM researchers made a major breakthrough in nanomedicine that doctors could use to attack bacteria…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Joe Dwyer Source Type: research
Long Island College Hospital in danger of closing
Long Island College Hospital has operated for 150 years, but it may soon close before it takes down its parent, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, with it, according to a report by the New York Daily News.
The Cobble Hill hospital was purchased in 2011, but according to an audit by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office, all of SUNY Downstate is in danger of going under as it hemorrhages money. A major factor in the organization’s slide: purchasing LICH, DiNapoli’s report said.
The News added…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Clumsy and cack-handed? Lefties are leaders, not losers | Mind your language
The stigmatising language faced by left-handed people has not hampered their successYes, that's right, you're about to read yet more lefty stuff in the Guardian.Barack Obama's inauguration this week should again revive hope among a minority group. This group of people, simply because of the way they were born, have often been stigmatised by the language that's used to describe them. But it's not the group you're thinking about.Like me and just under 10% of the population, Obama is left-handed. The lexical tools available to describe his left-handedness are as negatively loaded as the worst ones are to describe his race. Th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 24, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Gary Nunn Tags: Comment Blogposts guardian.co.uk Media Language Obama inauguration Source Type: news
Brownback's proposed elimination of property tax deduction concerns Realtors
It feels like Gov. Sam Brownback is hitting the housing industry with a "double whammy," Tessa Hultz, president of the Wichita Area Association of Realtors, tells KAKE News.
The industry and the Kansas Legislature learned this week that under the governor's plan to reduce income tax rates, home owners would no longer be able to deduct from state income taxes what they pay in property tax. That's on top of Brownback's proposal to eliminate the mortgage interest tax deduction. Hultz says that together,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Pernix trims workforce after Hawthorn acquisition
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (NYSE MKT: PTX) said Thursday it will reduce its combined sales staff in the wake of the acquisition of two Mississippi-based pharmaceutical companies late last year.
The Woodlands-based Pernix acquired Cypress Pharmaceuticals Inc., a generic drug maker, and Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals Inc., a branded pharmaceutical company, in a deal valued at $101 million. The two companies had 170 employees.
Pernix said in a statement that it has restructured its combined sales…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Greg Barr Source Type: research
Drug shortages extracting "terrible toll" on patients: CMA
Source: cma.ca - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Tags: cma.ca Healthcare News Source Type: news
Hey, Obama: who's really ginning up fear in the USA?
If your goal as a leader is to be an authoritarian and rule over people rather than represent them and govern on their behalf, then you're probably a student of one of the most popular and oft-taught political principles throughout the ages: the use of fear.
In 1513...
Source: NaturalNews.com - January 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Extreme Cold Snap Brings Unexpected Health Risks
As extreme cold blankets many parts of the United States, one expert warns that frigid temperatures can put people at greater risk not only for hypothermia and frostbite, but also for stroke, heart attack and asthma flare-ups.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Vaccinating Kids Against Common Gut Bug Helps Shield Adults Too: Study
A new study finds that vaccinating children against rotavirus may also help protect unvaccinated adults against the highly contagious virus that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New Strain of Stomach Bug Spreading Across U.S.
A new strain of stomach bug sweeping the globe is taking over in the U.S., health officials say. Since September, more than 140 outbreaks in the U.S. have been caused by the new Sydney strain of norovirus. It may not be unusually dangerous; some scientists don't think it is. But it is different, and many people might not be able to fight off its gut-wrenching effects.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
U.S. Researchers Tracking Flu Through Twitter
Researchers and computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have devised a way to track cases of influenza across the United States using the microblogging site Twitter.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
WellPoint expects states to expand Medicaid
(Reuters) - A top U.S. insurance industry executive on Wednesday predicted that most states will agree to expand their Medicaid programs under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, despite opposition from more than a dozen Republican governors.
Source: Reuters: Health - January 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
IOM Sees Need for New Tactics Against Gulf War Syndrome
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- No "one-size-fits-all" approach should be used by the government to care for veterans with chronic multisymptom illness, the Institute of Medicine recommended.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
ACS Poll Shows Support for Medicaid Expansion
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Voters supported expanding Medicaid programs as provided for under the Affordable Care Act by large margins in seven key states, according to a poll conducted by the American Cancer Society.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
FDA approves Exjade to remove excess iron in patients with genetic blood disorder
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Exjade (deferasirox) to treat patients ages 10 years and older who have chronic iron overload resulting from a genetic blood disorder called non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia (NTDT).
Source: Food and Drug Administration - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Seau lawsuit adds to NFL empire in disarray
How is that State of the Union speech working out for you, Mr. Goodell?
Just days before the signature sporting event in the United Football States of America, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reigns over an empire in disarray.
The family of Junior Seau...
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Bausch and Lomb 27G Sterile Cannula Packed in Amvisc and Amvisc Plus Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices (OVD): Class I Recall - Cannulas May Leak or Detach From the Syringe
Some disposable cannulas provided may leak viscoelastic material or detach from the syringe during injection. In rare incidences, detachment has resulted in serious patient injury.
Source: FDA MedWatch - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Quality Control Costs Tied to Drug Shortages
(MedPage Today) -- Too little reward for manufacturing quality stands at the center of drug shortages involving sterile injectable generics, FDA officials asserted.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Health-Care Summit: America's health, costs lie behind economic slide
Once the strongest economy in the world, America has been on a steady downhill slide. One big reason: Americans' poor health and the high cost of their care.
That was some of the bad news from the Florida Health Care Affordability Summit, which met in...
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Foreign Product Alert: Muscletech Hydroxystim capsules
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) warned consumers not to purchase or use this product after it was found to contain 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA), a drug that is not approved for sale in Canada.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Tags: Health Products Source Type: news
Foreign Product Alert: Hong Kong Department of Health
The Hong Kong Department of Health has warned consumers not to purchase or use certain batches of these products after they were found to contain excessive levels of lead or mercury. Ingestion of excessive amounts of heavy metals such as lead or mercury poses serious health risks because the metals may accumulate in vital organs of the body. Children are most susceptible to the toxic effects. These products are not authorized for sale in Canada.
Source: Government of Canada News - Health Canada - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Tags: Health Products Source Type: news
Cracks form in GOP opposition to HIX
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Source: Healthcare IT News - January 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Online Only Arizona Barack Obama District of Columbia Idaho Insurance Jan Brewer Larry Jacobs Mike Chaney Minnesota Mississippi Nevada New Mexico North Dakota Phil Bryant Phil Galewitz Republican Party University of Minne Source Type: news
Contrary to His Inaugural Address, Obama Has Forced Us to Choose Between the Old and the Young
President Obama’s second inaugural address has been widely hailed (or panned, depending on your point of view) as an unapologetic defense of big-government liberalism. But despite the fact that his speech argued the contrary, Obama’s policy legacy is that future generations of Americans will fight each other for access to scarcer and costlier health-care resources.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 23, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Avik Roy Source Type: news
NIH-developed candidate dengue vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial
A candidate dengue vaccine developed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health has been found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients, according to results from an early-stage clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. The trial results appeared in the January 17 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
David Goldhill's Dream for Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care
In the September 2009 issue of the Atlantic, David Goldhill rocked the health-care world with his compelling account of how bureaucratic American health care killed his father. Now, Goldhill is back with a new book expanding on the topic, published by Knopf, entitled Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—And How We Can Fix It. What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from the book, in which Goldhill, a life-long Democrat, discusses what a market-oriented universal health-care system might look like.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 23, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Avik Roy Source Type: news
Butch Wilkins Proposes Abortion Insurance Limit
An Arkansas lawmaker has proposed banning most abortion coverage offered by Arkansas insurers under part of the federal health overhaul. Unlike a proposal tabled two years ago, it includes exemptions for rape and incest.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Smoke-free Laws Linked to Drop in Child Asthma Attacks
Introducing laws banning smoking in enclosed public places can lead to swift and dramatic falls in the number of children admitted to hospital suffering asthma attacks, according to a study in England published on Monday.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Arkansas Senate Votes to Study Closure of State Veterans Home
The Arkansas Senate has voted to create a task force that will study replacing a state veterans home that closed last year.
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New Mexicans are ready to retire
New Mexicans top residents of other states when it comes to being prepared for retirement. They have saved, on average, more of their annual household income than people in other states.
New Mexicans have saved an average of 4.56 times their average annual household income, compared to the national average of 2.42 times, according to ING U.S., a firm that provides retirement, insurance and investment management services.
New Mexico’s median annual household income is $44,732, according to the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Dennis Domrzalski Source Type: research
Panel recommends changing name of common disorder in women
An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health has concluded that the name of a common hormone disorder in women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), causes confusion and is a barrier to research progress and effective patient care.
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
CPRIT investigation is ongoing, DA says
An investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas by Travis County prosecutors is ongoing despite a statement from one of the agency's officials claiming the organization and current board members are free from suspicion, the District Attorney's office said Tuesday.
CPRIT oversight committee chairman and Austin businessman Jimmy Mansour recently met with the DA's office and was told that the cancer agency and all current board members have been cleared from suspicion in the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Yadkin Valley Community Hospital parent emerges from bankruptcy
The parent company of Yadkin Valley Community Hospital has emerged from bankruptcy, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
HMC/CAH Consolidated Inc., based in Kansas City, will still operate its 12 rural community hospitals.
The company had been in bankruptcy for 15 months and recently named Shawn Bright as chief executive of the Yadkinville hospital.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Amy Dominello Braun Source Type: research
Harvard prof. takes issue with neanderthal clone story
Harvard University genetics researcher George Church wants to talk about the possibilities cloning presents, and says new advances in his lab may enable re-creation of humanity's ancestors. But he's not recruiting a surrogate mother to help him clone a neanderthal.
Comments he made in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel were mistranslated and blown out of proportion by some publications, Church said, according to the Boston Herald. The Herald cited a UK Daily Mail headline that screamed,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Galen Moore Source Type: research
Doctors, techies spend day at Texas Capitol
Health information technologists from across Texas descended upon the Capitol Tuesday to try and shape the future of patient care in the Lone Star state.
Physicians, nurses and IT experts used Texas Health Information Technology Day to educate state legislators about health IT’s ability to decrease costs while increasing quality of care.
A 2012 report by Texas State University estimated that 10,000 additional health IT workers will be needed in the $103.6 billion Texas healthcare industry by…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: James Jeffrey Source Type: research
How vulnerable is Jacksonville to the flu?
Flu season is ramping up and while many rush to get a vaccine, some wonder just how vulnerable is Jacksonville?
The folks over at Esri have used data from the Center for Disease Control to put together an interactive map that shows exactly how at risk the area is.
The latest CDC figures show that nearly 30 have died from the flu this season, including a woman from Middleburg, First Coast News reports.
Check out the map below to see how at risk seniors and children are. Drag it down to Jacksonville…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Michael Clinton Source Type: research
Aetna seeks rate hike
Health insurer Aetna is seeking to increase rates for its Individual Advantage HMO plans by an average 16.3 percent.
The state Insurance Department has until April 4 to act on Aetna’s request, which will affect some 15,500 policyholders statewide. Some members would see no increase in the medically underwritten plans and the maximum increase would be 18.1 percent, according to the filing.
Aetna spokesman Walt Cherniak said the request was based on “our experience in the market” and anticipated…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: research
Excela to open new crisis center
Excela Health’s new behavioral health crisis response center is scheduled to open Feb. 11, thanks to a county grant of $750,000.
The 4,000-square-foot facility is located at Excela Behavioral Health - Westmoreland Campus in Greensburg. The drop-in center, located across the street from Westmoreland Hospital, will allow early treatment of such problems as anxiety and depression while relieving the hospital’s emergency room of patients with emotional problems who can be better treated in a lower…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: research
UPMC upgraded by A.M. Best
Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. likes what it sees at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s insurance divisions.
The agency upgraded the financial strength rating to A- excellent from B++ good for UPMC Health Plan Inc. and affiliates UPMC Health Network Inc., UPMC For You Inc., UPMC Health Benefits Inc. and Community Care Behavioral Health. The outlook has been revised to stable from positive.
The ratings upgrade reflects the “strong membership and premium growth” across its diversified…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: research
Express Scripts named likely candidate for tender offer
Morgan Stanley named Express Scripts as one of the stocks that could be a candidate for a tender offer in the next 12 months.
The firm identified 40 stocks with its new quantitative model, or Acquisition Likelihood Estimate Ranking Tool, which uses 10 factors, including dividend yield, debt-to-asset ratio and sector relative price-to-book ratio, CNBC reports.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: research
Will FDA Limit Vicodin Rx?
(MedPage Today) -- Is Vicodin less addictive than other prescription painkillers? That question has vexed physicians and regulators for years, and this week the FDA will once again put it to one of its advisory panels during a 2-day-long hearing that could decide the future of this popular drug.
Source: MedPage Today Campaign '08 - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Obama Wants To Build On Climate Accomplishments
President Obama vowed in this week's inaugural speech to address climate change. The comments recevied a chilly reception in Congress. There are, however, steps the administration can take on its own.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - January 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thousands rally across the country to support gun rights and freedoms
Scores of rallies held Jan. 20 around the country to demonstrate support for the Second Amendment and opposition to new gun control regulations proposed by President Obama and some Democrats in Congress drew thousands in a rare show of constitutional solidarity, reports...
Source: NaturalNews.com - January 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Enforcement Report for January 23, 2013
Source: Food and Drug Administration--Enforcement Report - January 23, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
