Click Title for complete article or
click Summary for overview of each
article.
High
Growth Reported for the US Patient Monitoring
Systems Market
From Marketwire - May 06, 2008
Reportlinker.com announces that a
new market research report related to the Medical
devices industry is available in its catalogue. US
Patient Monitoring Systems Market
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Demand to grow nearly 6% per year through 2011 US
demand for ...
[ Summary
]
Starting
Flu Vaccination in August Could Help Protect
Nearly 11 Million More Children During Scheduled
Doctors' Visits
From PR Newswire Europe (inc. UK
Disclose) - May 05,
2008
HONOLULU, May 5
/PRNewswire/ -- Research presented at the annual
meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies shows
that by starting flu vaccinations in August --
ahead of the start of the typical flu vaccination
season -- healthcare providers could reach an
additional 10.7 million children when these
children are already in the doctor's
...
[ Summary
]
Other
News To Note.
From BIOWORLD Today -
May 06,
2008
Apotex Inc., of
Toronto, is collaborating with Intas
Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., of Gujarat, India, to
develop a biosimilar protein for
neutropenia.
[ Summary
]
| FDA: New Treatments and
Technology |
| Click Title for complete article or
click Summary for overview of each
article.
FDA's
Inspection Program Under
Scrutiny
From Biopharm International -
May 06,
2008
HEADNOTE The
heparin safety crisis puts a spotlight on
manufacturing processes and regulatory oversight
Questions have been multiplying about the JUS Food
and Drug Administration's ability to monitor the
quality and manufacturingprocesses of drugs and
medical therapies produced at home and
abroad.
[ Summary
]
LEVP:
Complete Response Submission Accepted by FDA re
Cinryze(TM)
From Comtex Business -
May 06,
2008
Ridgeland, MS,
MAY 06, 2008 -- By Fain Hughes,
fhughes@knobias.com Lev Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
[ Summary
]
Discovery's
Surfaxin delayed by FDA
From Marketletter - May 06, 2008
USA-based Discovery Laboratories
has received an "approvable" letter for its drug
candidate Surfaxin , indicated for the treatment
of respiratory distress syndrome in premature
infants, from the Food and Drug
Administration.
[
Summary
]
US
public confidence in the FDA plunges, new drug
oversight a priority, survey
finds
From
Marketletter - May 06,
2008
A large
section of the US public has lost confidence in
the Food and Drug Administration's ability to
fulfil its tasks, according to the latest edition
of a regular survey by Harris
Interactive.
[ Summary
]
GE
Healthcare Gets FDA Approval To Open Plant After
20-Month Shutdown
From Comtex Business -
May 06,
2008
-- May 6, 2008
The surgery business of General Electric Co.'s
unit GE Healthcare's started up again Monday, 20
months after the company shut down a plant in Utah
that made X-ray surgical equipment amid concerns
over quality control. GE Healthcare said that it
received the go-ahead to reopen from the Food and
...
[ Summary
]
Advantage
Medical obtains FDA approval for
VantageCath
From Datamonitor Pharmaceutical
and HealthWire - May
06, 2008
Advantage
Medical Devices has received FDA's market
clearance for the company's new safety engineered
short-term peripheral intra-venous catheter,
VantageCath.
[ Summary
]
HeartWare
Receives Conditional Approval of
IDE
From PR
Newswire Europe (inc. UK Disclose) - May 05, 2008
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. and SYDNEY,
Australia, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- HeartWare Limited
today announced that it had received conditional
approval from the United States Food and Drug
Administration of an Investigational Device
Exemption for its lead product, the HeartWare Left
Ventricular Assist System .
[ Summary
]
Click Title for complete article or
click Summary for overview of each
article.
Health
Publication Wins 2008 Institute for Healthcare
Advancement Health Literacy Award for UC
Berkeley
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 05,
2008
BERKELEY,
Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2008 - For its
groundbreaking development of a guidebook for
seniors and people with disabilities who have
Medi-Cal, UC Berkeley's Health Research for Action
received the Institute for Healthcare
Advancement's outstanding achievement in health
literacy award for published materials.
[ Summary
]
Treatment
of Coronary Risk Factors ? Some More Good
News!
From
AHC Newsletters - May
06, 2008
Treatment
of Coronary Risk Factors ? Some More Good News!
Abstract & Commentary By Jonathan Abrams, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Dr. Abrams
serves on the speaker's bureau for Merck, Pfizer,
and Parke-Davis.
[
Summary
]
Medicare
Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding
Program
From
Congressional Testimony via CQ - May 06, 2008
xfdte MEDICARE-DURABLE sked
TESTIMONY May 06, 2008 TOM RYAN PRESIDENT AND CEO
HOMECARE CONCEPTS INC. HOUSE Ways and Means HEALTH
MEDICARE DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT COMPETITIVE
BIDDING PROGRAM CQ Transcriptions, LLC 1255 22nd
Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037
Transcript/Programming: Tel.
[ Summary
]
Health
care providers sue to stop California
cuts
From
Reuters Health - May
06, 2008
LOS
ANGELES (Reuters) - Health care companies said on
Monday they had sued to stop some $1.3 billion in
California cuts to state medical and dental
programs. The providers, including the California
Medical Association, the California Hospital
Association, and others, said in a statement they
had asked the court for an injunction before the
cuts go into effect on July 1.
[ Summary
]
Medicare
Prescription Drug Plans Not Fully Compliant With
Federal Regulations, According to Tufts Center for
the Study of Drug Development
From Marketwire - May 06, 2008
A new study by the Tufts Center for
the Study of Drug Development has found that
Medicare prescription drug plans that came into
being following the landmark Medicare
Modernization Act of 2003 are not fully compliant
with federal regulations governing medications in
six therapeutic categories. The study determined
that ...
[ Summary
]
Avoidable
Complications for Revascularization Procedures
Cost Hospitals; Financial Risk to Increase with
Changing Medicare Reimbursement
Policies
From PR Newswire Europe (inc. UK
Disclose) - May 06,
2008
ATLANTA, May 6
/PRNewswire/ -- Hospitals currently cannot recover
increased costs of treating Medicare patients
experiencing certain complications associated with
revascularization procedures.
[ Summary
]
| Genetics & Genomics
Research |
| Click Title for complete article or
click Summary for overview of each
article.
Caution
urged in choosing gene tests
From AP Online - May 05, 2008
WASHINGTON_Everyone's genes spell
out a risk for some disease, and a coming
anti-discrimination law is about to give genetic
testing a boost.
[
Summary
]
ExonHit
Launches Rat Genome SpliceArray(TM) Products to
Expand High Resolution Gene Expression Profiling
for use in Disease Modeling and
Toxicogenomics
From PR Newswire Europe (inc. UK
Disclose) - May 06,
2008
PARIS, May 6
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ExonHit Therapeutics
S.A. , a drug and diagnostic discovery company,
announces today the availability of its new
SpliceArray for use in disease modeling and
toxicogenomic applications by the basic and
pre-clinical research communities.
[ Summary
]
Health
Discovery and DCL Medical to Develop a Computer
Assisted Diagnostic Test for Cervical
Cancer
From
Market News Publishing US - May 06, 2008
HEALTH DISCOVERY CORP HEALTH
DISCOVERY CORP - Health Discovery and DCL Medical
to Develop a Computer Assisted - Diagnostic Test
for Cervical Cancer Health Discovery Corporation,
a leader in support vector machine based molecular
diagnostics development, and ...
[ Summary
]
Applied
Biosystems Genomic Analysis Platform Fuels New Era
of Life-Sciences Research
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 05,
2008
FOSTER CITY,
Calif., May 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- When
Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera
Corporation business, introduced its
ultra-high-throughput genomic analysis system less
than a year ago, the company entered a new era of
life-science research, enabling scientists to
adopt new approaches for studying the genetic
basis of health and disease.
[ Summary
]
New
Chemicals Shield ?Genome
Guardian?
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 04,
2008
This important
discovery could potentially lead to the
development of an exciting new drug for a variety
of cancers. Researchers based in Scotland, jointly
funded by Tenovus Scotland, Cancer Research UK,
and the University of Dundee, have now found a
family of chemicals ? which could be developed
into drugs in the future ? that stop enzymes
responsible for flagging up p53 for destruction
from working.
[ Summary
]
Click Title for complete article or
click Summary for overview of each
article.
Pfizer
plans $300M biotech plant in
Ireland
From
Marketletter - May 06,
2008
World drug
giant Pfizer plans to open a $300.0 million
biologics facility in County Cork, Ireland,
establishing 100 permanent local jobs over the
next three years.
[
Summary
]
Biosimilar
G-CSF: Cooperation on Three
Continents
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 05,
2008
VIENNA, May 6,
2008-A biosimilar protein that can be used to
treat neutropenia (a side effect of cancer
chemotherapy) is to be developed by Apotex Inc. of
Canada in collaboration with Intas
Biopharmaceuticals Limited (IBPL). Neukine (R), a
recombinant granulocyte colony stimulating factor
(G-CSF) is already manufactured and marketed in
India by IBPL.
[
Summary
]
Novartis
Menveo Vaccine Shows Superior Immune Response
Against Four Types of Meningitis Disease in
Pivotal Phase III Trial
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 05,
2008
BASEL,
Switzerland, May 6, 2008 - New Phase III data for
Menveo (MenACWY-CRM) show that the vaccine
produced a greater immune response against
meningococcal serogroups A, C, W-135 and Y in
adolescents 11-18 years of age compared to
Menactra. Infection with any of these four
vaccine-preventable serogroups can lead to
bacterial meningitis, an infection of the membrane
around the brain and spinal cord, or sepsis, a
serious infection of the blood stream.
[ Summary
]
Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN) Reports
on Early ADMET Use
From PR Newswire Europe (inc. UK
Disclose) - May 05,
2008
NEW ROCHELLE,
N.Y., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Biotech and pharma
companies are increasingly utilizing novel
technologies to assess the druggability of test
compounds early in the development cycle to avoid
costly late clinical-stage attrition, according to
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
.
[ Summary
]
Unique
Three-Year Data Demonstrating Long-Term Efficacy
and Safety of Raptiva in the Treatment of
Psoriasis Published in the British Journal of
Dermatology
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 04,
2008
GENEVA,
Switzerland, May 5, 2008 ? Final results of the
first three-year prospective efficacy and safety
study in moderate-to-severe chronic plaque
psoriasis were recently published in the British
Journal of Dermatology. They demonstrate the
sustained safety and efficacy obtained with
Raptiva (efalizumab) in the long-term three-year
therapy of this chronic autoimmune
disease.
[ Summary
]
Emergent
BioSolutions Acquires Advanced Recombinant
Protective Antigen Anthrax Vaccine Candidate and
Technology
From PharmaLive News Archive -
May 04,
2008
ROCKVILLE,
Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2008 - Emergent
BioSolutions Inc. announced today that it has
completed the acquisition of all assets and rights
related to a recombinant protective antigen (rPA)
anthrax vaccine product candidate and related
technology from VaxGen, Inc.
[ Summary
]
Professional
"Reminder" Technology Automates
Patient
Confirmation
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harnesses the computer to the telephone yields
annualized improvements in income of tens of
thousands of dollars...In a case of technology
working for the benefit of the doctor, staff and
the patient, today's latest iterations of
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uncomplicated software programs to dial the
telephone to remind patients of their coming
appointment. In such straightforward manner, staff
is freed up to perform more productive work,
patient "no shows" drop dramatically, and the
office's "bottom line" ascends
proportionately.
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Sr. Vice President of Quality Improvement,
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Springfield, MA and
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Provides education, assessment and outreach to
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Manager, Provider Relations and
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Austin, TX; Ft. Lauderdale; Orlando
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Chief Medical Officer
San Antonio,
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Nashville, TN
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Birmingham, AL; Miami, FL; Chicago,
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Houston,
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Medical Director, Managed Care, Jacksonville,
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Regional Vice President of Sales,
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Director, QM, Baltimore, MD
VP of Health Services, Birmingham, AL, Miami,
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Dir., Utilization Management, Miami, FL
Medical Director, St. Petersburg, FL
VP, Health Care Management Services, Multiple
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