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Study shows prevalence of depression among low-income urban mothers

More than half of low-income urban mothers met the criteria for a diagnosis of depression at some point between two weeks and 14 months after giving birth, according to a study led by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers and published online by the journal Pediatrics.

19 Feb 2010

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute awarded $11.5M NIH grant for research into methods of targeting cancer stem cells

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute was awarded an $11.5 million Center Grant by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) today to study the best way to attack deadly cancer stem cells to enhance treatments for breast cancer. Other members of the team include Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

19 Feb 2010

Lower dose of avosentan drug may provide more favorable results in diabetes patients

The drug avosentan substantially reduces urinary protein loss in people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, but the drug causes serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

18 Feb 2010

Dartmouth Atlas analyses of hospital spending called 'flawed'

The New York Times reports that certain hospitals, including the Mayo Clinic, are lauded "for delivering high-quality care at low costs" based on "a widely cited analysis called the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care."

18 Feb 2010

BIOGUARD wound dressings with Quick-Med’s NIMBUS antimicrobial technology to be sold by Medline Industries

Quick-Med Technologies, Inc. announced today that its licensee, Derma Sciences, Inc., has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Medline Industries whereby Medline will market and sell BIOGUARD™ wound dressings with Quick-Med’s proprietary NIMBUS antimicrobial technology. The agreement covers the acute care segment of the health care market, which includes nearly 6,000 hospitals in the United States plus surgery centers, wound care centers, and other associated health care facilities. Sales under this new agreement are expected to start later this month.

18 Feb 2010

Emtec to demonstrate thin client solution at HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition

Emtec, Inc., a systems integrator, announced today that it will demonstrate its thin client solution for healthcare in the Avnet booth #7467 at the HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition. This solution integrates the ThinIdentity™ virtual desktop infrastructure solution, smart card technology and stateless thin-client computing based on the Sun Microsystems™ Sun Ray virtual display client.

18 Feb 2010

Ventas reports 7.8% increase in normalized FFO for year ended December 31, 2009

Ventas, Inc. said today that normalized Funds From Operations (“FFO”) for the year ended December 31, 2009 increased 7.8 percent to $409.0 million, from $379.5 million for the comparable 2008 period.

18 Feb 2010

Medline Industries signs exclusive distribution agreement with Derma Sciences for BIOGUARD Barrier Dressings

Derma Sciences, Inc., a specialty medical device and pharmaceutical company focused on advanced wound care, today announced that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Medline Industries for sales of one of its key products – BIOGUARD™ Barrier Dressing – into the acute care market. Medline is the 2nd leading provider of traditional wound care products into Acute Care facilities, with over 800 sales representatives. Sales will begin this month.

18 Feb 2010

Cardiac ablation procedure performed with Stereotaxis System featured on recent BBC documentary

Stereotaxis announced that the recent BBC documentary "From the Heart" included a cardiac ablation procedure performed with the Stereotaxis System by Dr. Muchtiar Khan of OLVG Hospital in Amsterdam. The program's second half, beginning at 10:30 of the 25-minute run time, features extensive scenes from the Stereotaxis procedure.

18 Feb 2010

Dartmouth Atlas hospital ratings could be misleading, says former CMS Senior Policy Advisor

A "Perspective" piece in today's New England Journal of Medicine by Peter B. Bach, MD, MAPP, points out that policy makers are relying on hospital ratings from the Dartmouth Atlas that could be misleading.

18 Feb 2010

First Edition: February 18, 2010

Today's headlines focus on continuing hopes for health reform as well as various health industry developments.

18 Feb 2010

Ortivus implements new strategy to streamline its core operations

Ortivus is now implementing its strategy to streamline its core operations into a clear focus on advanced mobile and clinical decision support for modern medical care. Consequently its North American subsidiaries, which provide administrative systems primarily for ambulance services, have been sold to an American company - TriTech Software Systems.

18 Feb 2010

Vertebroplasty effective in treatment of VCFs

The results of a study of more than 4500 patients from six Italian EVEREST (European Vertebroplasty Research Team) Centers (Dr. G.C. Anselmetti-Candiolo Torino, Dr. G. Bonaldi-Bergamo, Dr. P. Carpeggiani-Pisa, Dr. S. Masala-Roma, Dr. M. Muto-Napoli,) confirms the effectiveness of vertebroplasty in treating vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), finding that the procedure provides significant and sustained pain relief.

18 Feb 2010

Portico Systems, SDI announce new partnership to improve health plans

Portico Systems, the leader in Integrated Provider Management (IPM) solutions, and SDI, a leader in healthcare informatics, are announcing a new partnership. This partnership will integrate Portico’s provider management platform with SDI’s extensive provider data and managed care analytics to enable health plans to intelligently target providers for recruitment, enhance provider performance management programs, and increase decision support to members via enhanced provider profiles.

18 Feb 2010

La Pitie hospital performs 200 implants of SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced that Groupe hospitalier de la Pitié-Salpétrière (La Pitié) in Paris has performed 200 implants of the Total Artificial Heart, more than any other hospital in the world.

18 Feb 2010

Norwegian government task force suggests formation of single company to commercialise biomaterial assets

Having studied the ethical, judicial and political arguments, the Norwegian government task force has suggested that a single nationwide company should be formed to commercialise biomaterials assets from the country’s various sources. The task force has also recommended HUNT Biosciences be a model for the national company.

18 Feb 2010

Home palliative care: A major strategy to improve end-of-life care in UK NHS

Time and again, in every part of the world, surveys show that people with life-threatening illness want to spend as much of the time that is left at home, rather than in hospital. They aspire to die in their own surroundings, peacefully and pain free. Increasingly, clinicians, managers and commissioners of health services are recognising this and building services to meet it. In the UK NHS, it has become part of a major strategy to improve end-of-life care.

18 Feb 2010

Nautic Partners completes recapitalization of HPS in partnership with management

Nautic Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with more than $2.5 billion of capital under management, today announced that it has completed a recapitalization of Healthcare Payment Specialists, LLC (“HPS”) in partnership with management. HPS is a provider of payment and reimbursement solutions to hospitals and other healthcare systems.

18 Feb 2010

Training birth attendants in essential newborn-care techniques can reduce perinatal deaths

New findings in a study led by the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Neonatology show that that training birth attendants in essential newborn-care techniques reduced stillbirths by more than 30 percent - and potentially could save as many as 1 million lives worldwide each year.

18 Feb 2010

Mental illness associated with more lost work days than any other chronic condition: Study

With mental illness associated with more lost work days than any other chronic condition and costing $17.7 billion annually in lost productivity, understanding its underpinnings is increasingly important to the Canadian economy. Now new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) indicates that the strongest predictor for work disability leaves is a person's past history of occurrences.

18 Feb 2010

Hospital News and Research

Study shows prevalence of depression among low-income urban mothers

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute awarded $11.5M NIH grant for research into methods of targeting cancer stem cells

Lower dose of avosentan drug may provide more favorable results in diabetes patients

Dartmouth Atlas analyses of hospital spending called 'flawed'

BIOGUARD wound dressings with Quick-Med’s NIMBUS antimicrobial technology to be sold by Medline Industries

Emtec to demonstrate thin client solution at HIMSS 2010 Conference and Exhibition

Ventas reports 7.8% increase in normalized FFO for year ended December 31, 2009

Medline Industries signs exclusive distribution agreement with Derma Sciences for BIOGUARD Barrier Dressings

Cardiac ablation procedure performed with Stereotaxis System featured on recent BBC documentary

Dartmouth Atlas hospital ratings could be misleading, says former CMS Senior Policy Advisor

First Edition: February 18, 2010

Ortivus implements new strategy to streamline its core operations

Vertebroplasty effective in treatment of VCFs

Portico Systems, SDI announce new partnership to improve health plans

La Pitie hospital performs 200 implants of SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

Norwegian government task force suggests formation of single company to commercialise biomaterial assets

Home palliative care: A major strategy to improve end-of-life care in UK NHS

Nautic Partners completes recapitalization of HPS in partnership with management

Training birth attendants in essential newborn-care techniques can reduce perinatal deaths

Mental illness associated with more lost work days than any other chronic condition: Study

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