Pharmaceuticals Research 
This is an OPML file. It can be used to export all the MedWorm RSS feeds on this topic into your personal RSS reader (usually you have to save this file to your own computer before clicking on an Import OPML command in your own feed reader to upload the file which will then import all the feeds) or it can be used by webmasters to integrate MedWorm feeds with their own website. 
This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader, such as GoogleReader, or to display this data on your own website or blog. 
Subscribe to this data using MyMedWorm.
Subscribe to this data using GoogleReader.
Subscribe to this data using Bloglines.
Subscribe to this data using MyYahoo.
Find the best Christmas presents and January Sales in the UK with this simple shopping directory.
This page shows you the most recent publications within this specialty of the MedWorm directory. This is page number 14.
Astex dumps experimental lung cancer drug
Email this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has discontinued its work to bring an experimental cancer drug through clinical trials and onto the market, the company said Friday.
The Dublin-based company (NASDAQ: ASTX) said it will try to license the drug -- called amuvatinib, or MP-470 -- which was in the second phase of the three-part clinical trial process.
The Phase II trial looked at the drug as a treatment for small cell lung cancer.
"We have decided to end the clinical development of amuvatinib despite the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: research
European panel recommends Avastin for type of ovarian cancer patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Avastin, the world's best-selling cancer drug from Swiss drug maker Roche, received a positive opinion Friday from a European Union group to treat a subset of ovarian cancer patients.
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, essentially recommended that EU authorities approve Avastin in combination with the chemotherapy agents carboplatin and gemcitabine to treat women with recurrent, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer, the company said Friday.
Avastin was developed by South…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: research
Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes in 2011; 14.1% effective rateEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
It took a while, but Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney today finally released his 2011 federal income tax return: He paid $1.9 million in taxes on income of $13.7 million, mostly from investments.
That's an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent.
Romney and his wife made $4 million in charitable contributions last year, but deducted only $2.25 million of them.
The Romney campaign also released a summary of Romney's taxes from 1990 to 2009. His average effective tax rate over this span was…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kent Hoover Source Type: research
M.D. Anderson's $3B program could drive new life science industryEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's new $3 billion Moon Shots Program not only is expected to reduce patient mortality rates, but it also could help drive a new industry in Houston, the center's president says.
The program, which was announced Friday, will take a more-driven approach utilizing goal-oriented execution platforms to reduce mortality rates of eight types of cancers.
M.D. Anderson President Dr. Ronald DePinho said the Houston community is poised to create a life sciences…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bayan Raji Source Type: research
Medicare: Who do you trust more, Obama or Romney?Email this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
President Barack Obama is leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney on the issue of which candidate is better positioned to address the Medicare system.
In the nation’s top 12 battleground states, 50 percent of voters said they trust Obama more than Romney on Medicare, but 53 percent are pessimistic that Medicare will still provide all Americans over 65 with health care coverage 20 years from now, according to the USA Today/Gallup poll.
Romney has criticized Obama for federal health reform, which…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Annie Johnson Source Type: research
Aurora, Northwestern Mutual, Marquette react to steam rate increasesEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
An increase in steam costs for downtown buildings proposed by the Citizens Utility Board would hurt efforts to stem losses at Aurora Sinai Medical Center and weigh into Northwestern Mutual’s decision on whether to move to Franklin.
That is according to testimony downtown Milwaukee businesses filed Thursday with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. The testimony is part of a We Energies rate increase case.
The steam from We Energies’ Menomonee Valley power plant heats most downtown buildings.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sean Ryan Source Type: research
Study: Primary-care docs make less than specialistsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Earnings over the course of careers of primary-care doctors average as much as $2.8 million less than the earnings of their specialist colleagues, according to a new study by UC Davis researchers.
The wage disparity may make primary care a less attractive choice for medical-school graduates, exacerbate an already significant shortage of primary-care doctors and hamper access to care under federal health reform, study leaders suggested.
In response, they recommend reducing disparities in physician…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: research
IdeaFestival: Future of health lies in preventive care, Humana executive saysEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
The future of health, in the United States and around the globe, will come down to prevention and preparation, according to Shankar Ram, vice president of innovation at Humana Inc.
“It’s obvious that health care has a huge impact on the economy,” he said. “Reactive medicine is going to be expensive.”
The challenge for companies like Humana is getting individuals to embrace positive behavioral change, he said during a Friday morning panel discussion of the future of health and longevity…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: David A. Mann Source Type: research
Target drug wholesaler McKesson charged with artificially inflating prescription pricesEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
The drug wholesaler that stocks Target Corp.’s pharmacy shelves is being sued by the state of Arizona, which claims the company has violated state laws by artificially inflating prices of more than 400 brand-name prescriptions.
The Phoenix Business Journal reports that the complaint filed by the Arizona Attorney General alleges McKesson Corp., the nation’s largest drug wholesaler, began a price inflation scheme in 2000 that has cost Arizona consumers millions. McKesson could not be reached for…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 21, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kyle Potter Source Type: research
A Feasibility Study on Pellet Coating Using a High-Speed Quasi-continuous Coater.Email this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the feasibility of pellet coating in a newly developed coater built with a unique airflow system, the Supercell™ coater (GEA Pharma Systems, UK). A full factorial design study was carried out to evaluate the influences of the spray rate of the coating dispersion, batch size of the pellet load, pellet size fraction and plenum pressure of the fluidizing air on the color coating of pellets in the Supercell™ coater. Results showed that pellets could be successfully coated using the Supercell™ coater. Higher plenum pressures and lower spray rates were found to minimize pellet agglomeration during c...
Source: AAPS PharmSciTech - September 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Cahyadi C, Koh JJ, Loh ZH, Chan LW, Heng PW Tags: AAPS PharmSciTech Source Type: research
Excela Health loses chief medical officerEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Jerome Granato has resigned from Excela Health as chief medical officer, less than two years after being named to the position.
Excela Health spokeswoman Jennifer Miele said late Thursday that Granato resigned Sept. 14. She declined to specify reasons for his departure and Granato was unavailable for comment.
“We truly appreciate the great strides Dr. Granato made at Excela Health in quality and patient care at Excela,” Miele said. “And we wish him the very best.”
Granato was named…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 20, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: research
PBN honors Hawaii’s Healthiest Employers: SlideshowEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Castle Medical Center, Bowers + Kubota Consulting and Hawaii Human Resources were honored as PBN’s Healthiest Employers in Hawaii Thursday during a luncheon program at the Sheraton Waikiki.
The companies were each honored in a category based on the number of employees for their efforts to promote health and wellness in the workplace.
The winners were chosen by the Mainland-based wellness technology company Healthiest Employers, which measures six aspects of wellness programming with an online…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 20, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
Successful workplace health and wellness programs need support from the topEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
In order to have successful health and wellness programs in the workplace, Hawaii business leaders need to create a culture that supports them.
Creating a healthy workplace needs to start with support from the top, with employee buy-in at all levels of the organization, a panel of experts said at PBN’s health and wellness breakfast seminar at the Sheraton Waikiki Thursday before PBN’s Healthiest Employers luncheon.
Doing so, they said, leads to healthier employees and a healthier company that…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 20, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Stephanie Silverstein Source Type: research
Health exchange reconsidering stance on stand-alone vision plansEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Stand-alone vision plans may not barred from selling to individuals through the California Health Benefit Exchange after all.
Making no promises, executive director Peter Lee said Tuesday the board expects to revisit the matter at its Oct. 16 meeting.
Exchange staff confirmed Wednesday they are in discussions with VSP Global, the company that blasted the Aug. 23 board decision to keep them out of this part of the program for at least a year. Furious over the vote, CEO Rob Lynch suggested in an…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 20, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: research
Adventist HealthCare to fashion new proposal for White Oak hospitalEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Washington Adventist Hospital has admitted defeat, for now. The Adventist HealthCare subsidiary on Tuesday withdrew its request for regulatory approval to relocate from Takoma Park to White Oak, according to President Joyce Newmyer.
The decision comes two weeks after a member of the Maryland Health Care Commission recommended the full commission reject the $398 million proposal because of doubts of its cost-effectiveness.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
Group names two Winston-Salem health facilities among top performersEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Medical Park Hospital and Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services have been named to the 2012 list of top performers in quality and safety by The Joint Commission, a national hospital accrediting organization.
Medical Park, a specialty surgical hospital in Winston-Salem owned by Novant Health, was recognized for surgical care. Old Vineyard, a Winston-Salem-based mental health facility, was selected for hospital-based inpatient psychiatric care.
This is the second year the Joint Commission has recognized…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Owen Covington Source Type: research
Local hospitals recognized by Joint CommissionEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Three Birmingham hospitals have been recognized by the nation’s leading accreditor of health care organizations as 2011 top performers.
The Joint Commission announced today that Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Trinity Medical Center and Brookwood Medical Center were top performers in key quality measures dealing with heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.
The designation signifies the hospitals’ programs ranked in the top 18 percent among the more than 19,000 health care…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Evan Belanger Source Type: research
Procter & Gamble, TriHealth make Working Mother Best 100 Companies listEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Procter & Gamble Co. and TriHealth Inc. made Working Mother magazine’s 100 Best Companies list for 2012.
The application for the list includes more than 500 questions on work force representation, child care, flexibility programs, leave policies and more. It surveys the availability, usage and tracking of programs, as well as the accountability of managers who oversee them. This year, the magazine gave particular weight to child care, flexible scheduling options and advancement programs.
P&G…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
UCSF nets $20M gift for new Mission Bay buildingEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
A $20 million gift to UCSF from philanthropist Charles Feeney will help pay for a new building housing the university's global health sciences program while adding to an awesome legacy by the co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers.
In all, Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropies has given more than $292 million to the University of California, San Francisco, making him the single largest contributor to any campus in the UC system, the university said, and arguably the granddaddy of UCSF's Mission Bay campus.
Atlantic…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
Johnson & Johnson plans intravenous Simponi rheumatoid arthritis drugEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Janssen Biotech Inc. has submitted a biologics license application to the Food and Drug Administration requesting approval of an intravenous formulation of Simponi for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis.
The Horsham, Pa.-based biotechnology company, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), received approval for its subcutaneous formulation of Simponi in 2009.
The drug is now sold in 57 countries and is available either through the Janssen’s SmartJect…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: research
Pappas-backed CoLucid gets FDA accordEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Durham-based CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Neurology Products on the strategy the young pharma will follow in developing its migraine drug candidate.
The drug, lasmiditan, is intended for patients with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease, as well as patients who haven’t gotten help from some other treatments. Six clinical studies have been successfully completed so far, including a Phase 2b double blind placebo…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Lauren K. Ohnesorge Source Type: research
Vystar buys SleepHealthEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Vystar Corp. bought Monroe, Ga.-based sleep diagnostic company SleepHealth LLC for an undisclosed amount.
SleepHealth provides sleep lab management services to hospitals and physicians’ offices in the Southeast. It has 27 facilities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Duluth, Ga.-based Vystar (OTC BB: VYST) makes Vytex Natural Rubber Latex (NRL) -- a patented, all-natural raw material that reduces antigenic proteins found in natural rubber latex. It recently partnered with Islatex…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jacques Couret Source Type: research
Tranzyme hauls in $10.6MEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Tranzyme Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: TZYM) has closed on a previously announced share offering of approximately three million shares of its common stock at a price of $3.85 per share for gross proceeds, including the over allotment option, of approximately $11.5 million.
The net proceeds are about $10.6 million, after fees.
The money raised will go toward working capital and other general corporate expenses.
Company CEO Vipin Garg says Tranzyme, which focuses on treating gastrointestinal illnesses,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Lauren K. Ohnesorge Source Type: research
UPMC: Margin makes great care possibleEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
What Pittsburgh native Robert DeMichiei took home from Thanksgiving dinner with his family last year was that money and mission rarely intersect when talk turns to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
So, what started out as questions about UPMC’s finances at the DeMichiei dinner table has been transformed into an effort to explain that old axiom of health care finance to Joe Sixpack: no money, no mission.
Or in the case of UPMC: a robust balance sheet makes clinical excellence possible.
“The…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 19, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kris B. Mamula Source Type: research
Polls conflict: Survey finds small biz backs Romney, not ObamaEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Were you surprised by the George Washington University/Thumbtack.com survey that showed small business owners favored President Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney?
Well, another recent poll found that Romney has a big lead over Obama among small business owners. This poll, conducted by small business software developer Wave Accounting, shows Romney with a 44 percent to 32 percent lead over Obama among small business owners. It's based on a survey of 1,331 Wave customers in the U.S.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kent Hoover Source Type: research
UNM HSC receives $6M to start kidney research centerEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center has received a $6 million gift from a Tennessee-based nonprofit to form a UNM Kidney Research Institute in Albuquerque.
The grant from Dialysis Clinic Inc. of Nashville is one of the largest private donations ever received by the Health Sciences Center, the center said in a news release.
The UNM Kidney Research Institute will use the money to support research related to kidney disease.
DCI says it is the largest nonprofit dialysis provider…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Dennis Domrzalski Source Type: research
Governor signs workers' comp reform billEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Tuesday reforms to California’s system for workers injured on the job.
“These significant reforms save hundreds of millions of dollars for California’s employers while preventing an imminent crisis of skyrocketing rates that would have hurt both injured workers and businesses,” Brown said in a news release. “It’s extraordinary to see Republicans and Democrats come together to solve a problem before it becomes a crisis.”
The two key provisions of…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kelly Johnson Source Type: research
Responsibility for MN health exchange planning shifted following business complaintsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Complaints from business leaders has led Gov. Mark Dayton to give responsibility for creating Minnesota's health insurance exchange to a different state department.
The governor shifted responsibility for the exchange from the Commerce Department to the Management and Budget Office.
Business leaders have long complained that they couldn't get enough information about the exchange from the Commerce Department, the Pioneer Press reported.
Dayton also said Tuesday he will defer important decisions…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ed Stych Source Type: research
Kansas will be No. 7 most-obese state by 2030, report predictsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Kansas will be the seventh-most obese state by 2030, a new report predicts. Missouri won’t be far behind at No. 9.
The report, released Tuesday by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, predicts that more than 13 states will top a 60 percent obesity rate by 2030. The study warns that if U.S. obesity rates continue to climb, all states will have rates above 44 percent, with 39 states exceeding 50 percent.
Kansas’ obesity rate would be an estimated 62.1 percent of…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Autumn MorningSky Source Type: research
Meet HBJ's 2012 Best Corporate Counsel finalistsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
The 40 companies represented in HBJ's 2012 Best Corporate Counsel Awards made headlines all over the world this past year for deals that got their legwork right here in Houston.
HBJ in August revealed the finalists for this year's awards, which highlight the vital but often behind-the-scenes role of in-house counsel. Now we invite you to get to know the finalists, and the myriad of deals they've been working on, a little better.
Click through the slideshow at right to meet the 2012 Best Corporate…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Emily Wilkinson Source Type: research
UnitedHealth pays $54,000 fine to WisconsinEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
A subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has been fined $54,000 by Wisconsin for failing to comply with the state insurance commissioner.
The Milwaukee Business Journal reports that UnitedHealthcare failed to comply with the commissioner's examination orders related to complaint records and other items.
Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) said the company's division already has taken "aggressive steps" to address the issues.
Click here to read more about the reason for the fine.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ed Stych Source Type: research
Vince & Associates gets $10M contract to research substance-abuse medicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Vince & Associates Clinical Research has received a contract worth almost $10 million to research development of new medications to treat substance abuse.
The Overland Park contract research organization on Tuesday announced the five-year, $9.7 million award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
“Our organization will research investigational medications to include new chemical entities, new biological products such as monoclonal antibodies, enzymes…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: David Twiddy Source Type: research
Poll: Obama leads Romney among small business ownersEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
President Barack Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 47 percent to 39 percent in a new survey of small business owners.
The survey of 6,145 small business owners was conducted by the George Washington University School of Political Management and Thumbtack.com. Of this sample of likely voters, 32 percent identified themselves as Democrats, 29 percent as Republicans and 39 percent as independents.
The economy/job creation was the most important issue in this election for 40 percent…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kent Hoover Source Type: research
63.4% of Tennesseans could be obese by 2013: reportEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Here's a consideration for those looking to lower health care costs: Tennessee is on track to more than double its statewide obesity rate by 2030, an epidemic that could cost tax payers billions of dollars.
The "F as in Fat" report, released Tuesday by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, estimates that Tennessee will be the fourth fattest state by 2030, with an obesity rate that could reach 63.4 percent. That’s up from 29 percent in 2011, according to the U.S. Center…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 18, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Annie Johnson Source Type: research
Pharma Makers Enter Animal Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Acquisitions: Bayer Healthcare and Perrigo buy animal drug businesses
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - September 18, 2012 Category: Chemistry Authors: Michael McCoy Source Type: research
St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii plans to auction medical equipmentEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii said Monday that it plans to auction more than 3,000 pieces of medical equipment from the two shuttered Hawaii Medical Centers over a three-day period at the Westin Moana Surfrider hotel in Waikiki.
The three-day live auction, which begins Oct. 2 and is being conducted by Centurion Service, also will be simulcast on the Internet, St. Francis Healthcare System said in a statement.
The auction will feature a variety of surgical, cardiology, radiology, respiratory,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
Kaiser Permanente breaks ground on Big Island medical office buildingEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii broke ground Monday on construction of a 40,000-square-foot medical office building in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island.
The new building, which is being built on 10 acres across from Honokohau Harbor, will house 30 examination rooms and offices for 20 doctors and nurses and will serve more than 20,000 Kaiser Permanente members on the west and north sides of the Big Island.
“We are pleased to be expanding our services and creating a ‘medical hub’ for our members on the…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
Photodynamic therapy: treatment of choice for actinic cheilitis?Email this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
We report four patients with clinically severe AC who were submitted to one or two sessions of PDT. The lower lip was curetted and a thick layer of 5-aminolevulinic acid methyl ester (PDT-pharma) cream was applied. The lip was covered with an occlusive dressing and aluminum foil for 3 hours. The fluorescence was confirmed and the lip was irradiated for 8 minutes in three distinct areas, with LED red light source (630nm, 40 J/cm and 100mW) (Lince, MMoptics). All patients showed a significant improvement in physical exam and some patients showed alteration in the gradation of epithelial dysplasia (ED) after PDT. In one patie...
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - September 17, 2012 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP), June 22-27, 2012 Source Type: research
The efficacy of photodynamic therapy in actinic cheilitis: cases reportEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
We report three patients with clinically severe actinic cheilitis (AC) and epithelial dysplasia (ED) who were submitted to one session of PDT. The lower lip was treated with 160 mg of 5-aminolevulinic acid methyl ester (MAL, PDT-pharma) and then covered with an occlusive dressing. After 3 hours, the conversion of MAL was confirmed and the irradiation was performed in three distinct areas for 11 minutes using LED red light source (630nm, 40 J/cm and 75mW) (Lince, MMoptics). All patients showed a significant clinical improvement of AC. Histopathological examination demonstrated that the gradation of ED reduced after PDT. In ...
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - September 17, 2012 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP), June 22-27, 2012 Source Type: research
Children's Healthcare plans $6M expansion in KennesawEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta plans to invest about $6 million in an expansion of its outpatient center in Kennesaw.
The project calls for adding a 7,500 square foot imaging center to Children's Town Center outpatient pediatric clinic at 2985 George Busbee Parkway.
The outpatient center provides pediatric services in the specialties of urgent care, basic radiology, sports medicine and specialty physician care.
The expansion is expected to create about a dozen full time jobs.
Before Children’s…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Urvaksh Karkaria Source Type: research
Menorah Medical Center nurses approve new labor contractEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Registered nurses at Menorah Medical Center have unanimously approved a new labor contract with the hospital.
The 325 RNs represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United approved the agreement in a vote that took place last week. The union said the new contract with the Overland Park hospital eliminates wage caps on the most experienced nurses and guarantees raises in each of the agreement’s three years. Those increases are expected to help attract more experienced…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: David Twiddy Source Type: research
Salesforce giving $10 million to San Francisco groupsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
As Salesforce.com prepares for its largest Dreamforce conference yet, with more than 80,000 people registered to attend in San Francisco this week, the company’s nonprofit arm announced Monday it will grant $10 million to groups working in San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods over five years.
In addition, the Salesforce.com Foundation committed to donating more than 100,000 volunteer hours from employees and free technology services to organizations and projects in District 10, a corridor…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Patrick Hoge Source Type: research
Piedmont Pharma wins state incentivesEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
North Carolina will provide an economic incentive grant to Piedmont Pharmaceuticals worth $88,000 for the creation of 14 high-paying jobs in Greensboro during the next three years.
Gov. Bev Perdue announced the One North Carolina Fund Grant for the company, which was also offered incentives earlier this year from the city of Greensboro worth $1,000 per job created, with an expectation of 22 jobs over four years. The two incentive offers relate to the same expansion.
According to the state's announcement,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 17, 2012 Category: American Health Authors: Matt Evans Source Type: research
Snoqualmie Ridge industrial building sells for $13.9MEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
A big industrial building in Snoqualmie Ridge Business Park sold Thursday for nearly $13.9 million, or nearly half of the $26.9 million that the seller paid for it in 2007.
OSI Systems Inc. bought the 13-year-old, 176,600-square-foot building from Philips Oral Health Care. OSI is the parent company of Spacelabs Healthcare, a medical device company.
The purchase price works out to nearly $79 per square foot.
“My understanding is it would cost about $185 plus (per square foot) to build this building…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 14, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Marc Stiles Source Type: research
Big Pharma Fights Drug Rulings In IndiaEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Intellectual Property: Major drug companies try to protect their products
Source: Chemical and Engineering News - September 14, 2012 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jean-François Tremblay Source Type: research
ASU spinout company joins Chandler incubatorEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
A biotech company spun out of Arizona State University is joining Chandler's Innovations Incubator.
HealthTell Inc., whose technology can screen and diagnose diseases using only a drop of blood, will take up 2,000 square feet at the Southeast Valley incubator.
Phoenix Business Journal Senior Reporter Angela Gonzales reports that the company recently hired a CEO who will be looking to raise funds for the biotech firm. Read the details here.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 14, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: research
UT Southwestern lead list of largest colleges, endowmentsEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas reported its most current endowment at $1,285,900,000 to finish at the top of the Dallas Business Journal’s first Largest Colleges and Universities Endowment listing.
The school, which ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world, was one of three North Texas institutions to climb above $1 billion mark in endowments.
Texas Christian University was a close second with $1,191,900,000 as the Fort Worth school finished just ahead of Southern Methodist…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 14, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jerry Gunter Source Type: research
Drugs in Search of a Disease-Men s EditionEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
Got Low T? In one sense, it is refreshing to see men being the target of pharma, after all these years of women being the focus of relentless and misleading advertising. On the other, we re seeing the start of yet another pharma campaign to dupe the public by the unnecessary medicalization of symptoms to create new drug markets. I used to be a fairly enthusiastic pharma fan, but over recent years have become increasingly disillusioned. The hype over testosterone is the latest example of why. With so many pressing problems in the world, I wish pharma would focus their attention on doing something more useful with their energies. [More]
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - September 13, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Health,Mind & Brain Source Type: research
At St. Chris, ‘alignment’ is par for courseEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in North Philadelphia, like most pediatric hospitals, already has a long history of directly employing its doctors.
“You don’t typically find pediatric neurosurgeons in private practice,” said Carolyn Jackson, St. Christopher’s president and CEO. “Most doctors in pediatric sub-specialties are employed by hospitals.”
Jackson said the number of doctors employed by the hospital has grown by about 25 percent to 220 physicians in more than 30 subspecialty…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 13, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: research
At Bryn Mawr, a symbiotic partnership advances careEmail this article to a colleague.
Save this article to My Clippings.
Discuss or comment on this article.
BROOMALL --— Dr. Joseph Greco was an early advocate of the patient-centered medical home model, a key component of the Affordable Care Act.
“I could hear the drums beating,” said Greco, program director of the Bryn Mawr Family Practice Residency Program. “It was clear it was going to be the future, and I knew this was going to change the training of residents — (which) had not changed in decades.”
The patient-centered medical home model is a team-based approach in which doctors, specialists…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 13, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: research
