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Ryan budget, with Medicare and Medicaid overhaul, rejected by Senate

With five Republicans joining Democrats in opposition, the Senate easily rejected a House-passed budget plan Wednesday calling for deep cuts in domestic appropriations and major restructuring of Medicare, the government-backed healthcare program for the elderly.

26 May 2011

HP, Healthways sign 10-year applications and technology services outsourcing agreement

HP Enterprise Services and Healthways, Inc. today announced the signing of a 10-year, $380 million applications and technology services outsourcing agreement to support growth and expand value to Healthways' customers.

26 May 2011

Vatican newspaper article addresses condom use among married couples

Three days before the start of a Vatican conference focusing on "the centrality of care" in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, on Tuesday printed a piece by Spanish theologian Juan Jose Perez-Soba arguing that married couples with one HIV-positive partner "should abstain from sex, because intercourse performed with a condom is, 'from the moral point of view, not a fully conjugal act,'" RNS/Beliefnet News reports.

26 May 2011

Boehringer Ingelheim's new afatinib-cetuximab phase Ib data in NSCLC presented at ASCO 2011

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will present new phase Ib data at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago that indicates combining its investigational therapy afatinib with cetuximab at the maximum tested dose controlled disease in all (n=22) treated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutation positive patients with non-small cell lung cancer who developed acquired resistance to treatment with a reversible EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

26 May 2011

Quality Systems fiscal 2011 fourth quarter net revenues increase 24% to $97.1 million

Quality Systems, Inc. announced today results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter and year ended March 31, 2011.

26 May 2011

Dems win upset in NY special election; Medicare viewed as game-changing issue

Democrats claimed a victory Tuesday, winning a congressional seat in one of New York's most conservative districts. The win is considered by many as a blow to the GOP plan to overhaul Medicare. It's also likely to add to Republican intra-party strains surrounding the issue.

26 May 2011

Study links decrease in U.S. workplace physical activity with obesity epidemic

In a new study conducted at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, scientists have found that the decrease in workplace physical activity over the past fifty years is a significant contributor to the obesity epidemic.

26 May 2011

IPS examines access to medicine in Malawi

"Health experts say an inadequate number of nurses and pharmacists is among the leading factors denying people access to medicines in Malawi," Inter Press Service writes in an article examining medication shortages in rural Malawi.

26 May 2011

Studies find antibiotics overused for children with asthma, urinary tract infections

Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found some antibiotics may be overused for children with asthma and urinary tract infections.

26 May 2011

NWBT accelerates addition of clinical sites for new enrollment into ongoing GBM brain cancer trial

Northwest Biotherapeutics today announced that it has accelerated the addition of clinical trial sites, exceeding its projections for the doubling of such sites across the U.S. this calendar quarter, for enrollment of new patients into the Company's ongoing 240-patient randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of DCVax immune therapy for Glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal form of brain cancer.

26 May 2011

More wealthy families in India choosing to abort female fetuses, study shows

India's 2011 census data show that "wealthier, better-educated families," who have a first-born daughter "are choosing more and more often to abort subsequent pregnancies if the child is female," despite fetal sex determination and sex-selective abortion being illegal in the country, according to a study published on Tuesday in the Lancet, National Journal reports.

26 May 2011

Scientists discover protein involved in nerve cell motor-cargo mechanism

With every bodily movement-from the blink of an eye to running a marathon-nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers that excite muscles cells into action. It's a complex process, which scientists are still trying to understand. A new study by Syracuse University researchers has uncovered an important piece of the puzzle.

26 May 2011

Yoga improves quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis

Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who practice yoga showed statistically significant improvements in disease activity, according to a small study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress.

26 May 2011

Patients with celiac disease 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis

Patients with celiac disease are more than 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis compared to healthy people in an age and gender matched cohort with no identifiable risk factors for osteoporosis, according to a study presented today at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress.

26 May 2011

AIBioTech works with U.S. FDA to keep Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers

American International Biotechnology Services today announced it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to keep its Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers.

26 May 2011

Health Media Syndicate releases LiVe 2.0 for teens to stay healthy

Health Media Syndicate announced the release of LiVe 2.0, the newest addition to the nation's largest teen fitness public service campaign that is being deployed by healthcare organizations.

26 May 2011

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis two times more likely to have concurrent COPD

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are two times more likely to have concurrent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than healthy controls -- an association which was sustained even when variables such as age, gender, smoking and obesity were controlled for, according to a study presented today at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress.

26 May 2011

State Legislatures struggling with efforts to fund health programs

A second measure designed to streamline state government advanced late Tuesday as the Senate voted to merge several agencies for the disabled and a rehab program for injured workers into a new social services bureau.

26 May 2011

Lytix Biopharma completes two LTX-109 Phase I/IIa studies in MRSA, Gram+ skin infections

The Norwegian pharmaceutical company Lytix Biopharma today announces the successful completion of two Phase I/IIa studies with the topical antimicrobial drug Lytixar - one for nasal decolonisation of MRSA / MSSA bacteria and one for treatment of Gram+ skin infections.

26 May 2011

Study evaluates effectiveness of systems training for emotion control in 'real world' patients with BPD

A study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics evaluates the effectiveness of systems training for emotion control in "real world" patients with borderline personality disorder.

26 May 2011

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Ryan budget, with Medicare and Medicaid overhaul, rejected by Senate

HP, Healthways sign 10-year applications and technology services outsourcing agreement

Vatican newspaper article addresses condom use among married couples

Boehringer Ingelheim's new afatinib-cetuximab phase Ib data in NSCLC presented at ASCO 2011

Quality Systems fiscal 2011 fourth quarter net revenues increase 24% to $97.1 million

Dems win upset in NY special election; Medicare viewed as game-changing issue

Study links decrease in U.S. workplace physical activity with obesity epidemic

IPS examines access to medicine in Malawi

Studies find antibiotics overused for children with asthma, urinary tract infections

NWBT accelerates addition of clinical sites for new enrollment into ongoing GBM brain cancer trial

More wealthy families in India choosing to abort female fetuses, study shows

Scientists discover protein involved in nerve cell motor-cargo mechanism

Yoga improves quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis

Patients with celiac disease 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis

AIBioTech works with U.S. FDA to keep Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers

Health Media Syndicate releases LiVe 2.0 for teens to stay healthy

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis two times more likely to have concurrent COPD

State Legislatures struggling with efforts to fund health programs

Lytix Biopharma completes two LTX-109 Phase I/IIa studies in MRSA, Gram+ skin infections

Study evaluates effectiveness of systems training for emotion control in 'real world' patients with BPD

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