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2012 Annual Women's Health Symposium set for Feb. 7

UT Southwestern Medical Center News — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:48:47 +0100

The annual Carolyn P. Horchow Women's Health Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 7, is titled “It’s What’s Inside That Counts.” (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)

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Transportation Service for Medicaid Enrollees Surpasses 857,000 Rides in First Six Months

Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0100

The state's non-emergency medical transportation manager, LogistiCare, has received more than 380,000 calls from Medicaid enrollees and coordinated more than 857,000 trips to physician and dental visits, mental health outpatient therapy appointments, physical, occupational or speech therapy, and hospital stays, according to Department of Health Services (DHS) officials. (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)

Health benefits of exercise may depend on cellular degradation, researchers report

UT Southwestern Medical Center News — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:56:52 +0100

The health benefits of exercise on blood sugar metabolism may come from the body’s ability to devour itself, researchers report in the journal Nature. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)

Abercrombie to sign organ transplant funding bill into law

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:50:56 +0100

Hawaii lawmakers on Friday passed legislation for about $1.8 million in emergency funds for kidney and liver transplants in the state. Gov. Neil Abercrombie plans to sign House Bill 608 into law on Saturday at The Queen's Medical Center. The law will appropriate emergency funds, subject to private matching funds, for the transplants, as well as to support a chronic kidney disease management program. Hawaii was left without an organ transplant center after the closure last month of Hawaii Medical Center East, which ran the state's only organ transplant program before it stopped taking patients in December... (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Parkland Hospital chief: Changes are in place

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:19:19 +0100

Parkland Hospital has started making the changes it needs to get back in the federal government's good graces, the hospital's interim leader said Tuesday. Daily huddles of health care professionals are taking place seven days a week, bringing a higher level of patient care, Dr. Thomas Royer told Parkland's Board of Managers in a meeting. "That's probably the most important strategy we've implemented," Royer said. In addition, a new chief nurse, Mary K. Eagen, has been hired and will implement a nursing department reorganization by March 1... (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Diagnostic brain tumor test could revolutionize care of patients with low-grade gliomas

UT Southwestern Medical Center News — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:53:06 +0100

Researchers have developed what they believe to be the first clinical application of a new imaging technique to diagnose brain tumors. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)

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US immunologists to honor DMS' Green

News at Dartmouth Medical School — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:00:56 +0100

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) will honor Dartmouth Medical School's chair of microbiology and immunology for his work on public policy issues and his advocacy of research funding on behalf of fellow immunologists and other scientists. (Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School)

Gates Foundation invites the world in with new visitors center

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:02:54 +0100

Several months ago, I saw a young mother with a baby strapped to her in a sling walk through the front doors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wander up to the front desk and ask, “What do you guys do?” The people at the front desk stifled a laugh and clearly weren't sure what to say. They told her the foundation does a lot of things. They handed her one of the pamphlets sitting on the counter and she wandered away, apparently no more enlightened than when she walked in. Should the woman come back to visit the foundation next week, she would probably walk away with a better answer after a tour through the brand-new Gates Foundation visitors’ center, opening Feb... (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Hospital closings put new focus on Hawaii health care

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:22:46 +0100

The shutdown of the two Hawaii Medical Center hospitals earlier this month caused a new wave of uncertainty for an already-burdened Hawaii health-care industry — but it has at least put a spotlight on the industry’s longtime woes. State lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation that would provide approximately $1.8 million in emergency funding for a new kidney and liver transplant facility, which will be located at The Queen’s Medical Center. Queen’s, the state’s largest acute-care hospital, is waiting on federal approval to establish its own organ transplant facility, allowing it to take over from Hawaii Medical Center East, which ran Hawaii’s only such center for decades before it stopped taking patients in December ahead of the shutdown... (Source: bizjournals.com Health Car...

State Health IT Network Plan Gets Final Approval

Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:39:00 +0100

Increased access to health care services for children through the BadgerCare Plus program qualified Wisconsin for a federal bonus of $23.1 million for this year, federal officials announced today. (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Welcomes Jacqueline Somerville as Senior VP of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer

BWH News — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Jacqueline Somerville, PhD, RN, joines Brigham and Women's Hospital as senior vice president of Patient Care Services and cheif nursing officer. (Source: BWH News)

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Pioneering diabetes research earns UTSW scientist state’s top honor for medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Center News — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:50:15 +0100

Dr. Philipp Scherer, director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was recognized today as a rising star in Texas research by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)

Chandler hosptial add neurosurgery

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:42:48 +0100

The Chandler Regional Medical Center is adding new neurosurgery services, according to the East Valley Tribune. Click below for the full story. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

Biodesix VeriStrat test could identify RCC disease characteristics

Hospital Management — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:16:27 +0100

Biodesix has reported that its pretreatment blood-based test, VeriStrat, was able to stratify renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients treated with a combination of two targeted therapies, sunitinib (Sutent) and erlotinib (Tarceva), by survival outcomes.Post to:Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon (Source: Hospital Management)

Department Seeks Input on Sustainability Initiative for Wisconsin's Long Term Care Program

Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:00 +0100

Department of Health Services Secretary Dennis G. Smith today launched a website outlining initiatives designed to keep the state's long term care programs sustainable. The proposals were developed after months of studying public long term care programs including Family Care, Include Respect I Self-Direct (IRIS) and PACE and Partnership. (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)

Giordano Named Executive Director for DF/BWCC at South Shore Hospital

BWH News — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Kevin Giordano, who previously served as administrative director for BWH Plastic Surgery, has been named executive director of the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in clinical affiliation with South Shore Hospital. (Source: BWH News)

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Getting Cancer Cells to Swallow Poison: Nanotechnology Researchers Develop New Strategy to Deliver Chemotherapy to Prostate Cancer Cells

BWH News — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

BWH researchers create a drug delivery system that is able to deliver a tremendous amount of chemotherapeutic drugs to cancer cells. (Source: BWH News)

Study: Rapid bone loss as possible side effect of anti-obesity drug now in clinical trials

UT Southwestern Medical Center News — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:29:12 +0100

An endocrine hormone used in clinical trials as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetes drug causes significant and rapid bone loss in mice, raising concerns about its safe use, have shown. (Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center News)

Dermira raises $42M for dermatology advances, acquires Valocor

bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:47:21 +0100

Dermira Inc. said Thursday it has raised $42 million in Series A funding. The Redwood City-based company plans to use the funds for acquisition, development and commercializing dermatology-related therapeutics. Dermira is a private, development stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing new therapies in dermatology, with a lead product in clinical trials for acne. Its investors include San Francisco-based Bay City Capital LLC, Menlo Park-based New Enterprise Associates and Menlo Park-based Canaan Partners... (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines)

New Technology Helps Beat the Winter Blues

BWH News — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Brigham and Women’s Hospital researcher tests new treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder (Source: BWH News)