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Team Health Holdings prices initial public offering of 13,300,000 common stock shares

Team Health Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 13,300,000 shares of common stock at $12.00 per share. All of the shares are being offered by the Company. The offering is expected to close on December 21, 2009.

16 Dec 2009

Pomegranate rind, metal salts and Vitamin C: An effective combination for treating MRSA infection

Pomegranates have already been hailed as a super-food but a team of scientists from Kingston University in South West London has found a new use for the deep red fruit. The team, led by Professor Declan Naughton, has discovered that the rind can be turned into an ointment for treating MRSA and other common hospital infections.

16 Dec 2009

3M to supply and distribute TSO3's STERIZONE 125L+ Sterilizer

TSO3 Inc. and 3M (MMM) today announced that an agreement has been reached for 3M to be the exclusive supplier and distributor of TSO3's STERIZONE(R) 125L+ Sterilizer. The partnership with TSO3, an innovator in low temperature sterilization technology for medical devices in healthcare settings through the use of ozone, will include new cycles to reach acute care facilities through 3M's global sales channel.

16 Dec 2009

New research building at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives LEED certification

Building materials that better retain heat in the winter, and reflect it in the summer; plumbing fixtures that save water; and facilities that encourage employees to bicycle to work. Environmentally-friendly features like these enable the new research building at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to be certified as a green structure.

16 Dec 2009

Cancer Research UK's phase I trial results of CHT25 published in Clinical Cancer Research

TWO THIRDS of Hodgkin's lymphoma patients treated with an experimental radioactive cancer therapy responded well to the treatment, reveal the results of a Cancer Research UK phase I trial published in Clinical Cancer Research, today (Tuesday).

16 Dec 2009

Food and Health Bureau invites EOI from Hong Kong in developing private hospitals

The Food and Health Bureau has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from Hong Kong and overseas parties in developing private hospitals at four sites in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

16 Dec 2009

Consumer Watchdog calls for preserving state authority, ban on annual benefit limits and effective rate regulation

Consumer Watchdog condemned the removal of the Medicare buy-in provision for those over 55 and the public option from the U.S. Senate health reform bill. But the group said that the Senate must still make three essential fixes to the greatly weakened bill to prevent ceding the entire health care system to the insurance industry.

16 Dec 2009

H1N1 outbreak reveals existing gaps in nation's public health emergency preparedness

The seventh annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, released today by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), found that the H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious underlying gaps in the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies and that the economic crisis is straining an already fragile public health system.

16 Dec 2009

Patient who received Total Artificial Heart and dual transplant celebrates Christmas

Last December, there were only two things 46-year-old Chuck Besen wanted for Christmas… a matching donor heart and kidney. This year, thanks to the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart and the dual transplant he received at University Medical Center (UMC) in March, Besen will celebrate his first Christmas at home with his 2-year-old son Dylan and his fiancée Jennifer Hokanson.

16 Dec 2009

Defentect's radiation detection solution to be installed in major medical facility

Defentect (OTC Bulletin Board: SLNH) is pleased to announce an $80,000 contract for its proprietary CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive) management, monitoring and messaging software platform. Defentect's DM3(TM) and Gammatect(TM) radiation detection solution is to be installed in a major medical facility in the Northeastern US.

16 Dec 2009

Avastin may lose significant patient share to Sanofi-Aventis' BSI-201, according to report

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that an overall survival benefit would be the most influential factor for three-quarters of surveyed European oncologists in their decision to prescribe a novel agent ahead of Avastin for the treatment of breast cancer.

16 Dec 2009

Spiritual care can improve outcomes in terminally ill cancer patients

In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients' spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, and greater quality of life near death. The

16 Dec 2009

MRSA, the most concerning pathogen to surveyed for skin and skin structure infections

Arlington Medical Resources (AMR) and Decision Resources find that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the most concerning pathogen to surveyed European infectious disease specialists with regard to their treatment of skin and skin structure infections.

16 Dec 2009

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services to pay U.S. $7.95M for resolving Medicare fraud allegations

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services Inc., the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals, has agreed to pay the United States $7.95 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The two hospitals are Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center (OLL) in Camden, N.J., and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County (LMC) in Willingboro, N.J.

16 Dec 2009

Pancreas removal, and successful isolation and transplantation of insulin producing cells

A 21-year old Airman severely wounded in Afghanistan is recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after several surgeries and an unprecedented transplant.

16 Dec 2009

Comprehensive SIS Solution implemented at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO recently went live with a perioperative solution from Surgical Information Systems (SIS), following a customized implementation that optimized the system according to the hospital's unique workflows.

16 Dec 2009

New method to improve accuracy of estimated blood loss

Determining blood loss at the scene of trauma can be critical to successful patient treatment. Health care workers such as emergency medical technicians have used visual estimation, which can be highly inaccurate, as their only means of determining volumes of blood loss. A new, simple method developed by UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School may drastically improve their accuracy.

16 Dec 2009

New top-line results for patient preference study evaluating Kristalose for Oral Solution announced

Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPIX) today announced new top-line results for a patient preference study evaluating Kristalose (lactulose) for Oral Solution, a prescription laxative packaged as a crystalline powder, compared to similar products in liquid forms.

16 Dec 2009

Post-surgical infections raise healthcare expenditures

Post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date.

16 Dec 2009

Drug monitoring may provide alternative treatments for patients with severe H1N1

An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the pandemic H1N1 virus.

16 Dec 2009

Hospital News and Research

Team Health Holdings prices initial public offering of 13,300,000 common stock shares

Pomegranate rind, metal salts and Vitamin C: An effective combination for treating MRSA infection

3M to supply and distribute TSO3's STERIZONE 125L+ Sterilizer

New research building at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives LEED certification

Cancer Research UK's phase I trial results of CHT25 published in Clinical Cancer Research

Food and Health Bureau invites EOI from Hong Kong in developing private hospitals

Consumer Watchdog calls for preserving state authority, ban on annual benefit limits and effective rate regulation

H1N1 outbreak reveals existing gaps in nation's public health emergency preparedness

Patient who received Total Artificial Heart and dual transplant celebrates Christmas

Defentect's radiation detection solution to be installed in major medical facility

Avastin may lose significant patient share to Sanofi-Aventis' BSI-201, according to report

Spiritual care can improve outcomes in terminally ill cancer patients

MRSA, the most concerning pathogen to surveyed for skin and skin structure infections

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services to pay U.S. $7.95M for resolving Medicare fraud allegations

Pancreas removal, and successful isolation and transplantation of insulin producing cells

Comprehensive SIS Solution implemented at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

New method to improve accuracy of estimated blood loss

New top-line results for patient preference study evaluating Kristalose for Oral Solution announced

Post-surgical infections raise healthcare expenditures

Drug monitoring may provide alternative treatments for patients with severe H1N1

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