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Poll: Economy -- not health law -- topped voters' concerns

Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "Health care ranked fourth among factors that influenced how people voted last week, according to the monthly Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll that was released Tuesday" (Kaiser Health News).

9 Nov 2010

Baxa launches ExactaMix 1200 Automated Compounding Device

Baxa Corporation, a leading provider of medical devices and systems that automate pharmacy operations, today introduced the ExactaMix 1200 Automated Compounding Device (ACD) for small- to mid-sized hospital pharmacies in need of an automated approach to compounding large-volume parenteral doses.

9 Nov 2010

Health advice on NHS website saves £44 million per year

The latest study has shown that as more people self diagnose using the NHS Choices website, Britain’s national healthcare service saves millions of pounds every year. The website was launched three years ago. Last year more than 100 million visits were recorded at the site which offers patients a quick reference guide to illnesses, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Overall, there was a 10% increase in the number of visits to the website in 2010 compared to 2009. Some 19 million people logged on to NHS Choices for information on swine flu.

9 Nov 2010

Stressed out Americans

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) have released the results of the 2010 Stress in America survey that shows up the long-term impact that chronic stress could have on physical and emotional health and the health of the families. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive in August 2010. It showed some worrying trends of stress among parents as well as children.

9 Nov 2010

Cholera cases continue to rise in Haitian capital

Officials have recorded more than 70 cholera cases in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and fear for a substantial rise in numbers if the epidemic continues. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Deputy Director Jon Kim Andrus said, “As of Monday, the Ministry of Health was reporting more than 9,100 hospitalized cases and some 583 deaths in some 240 communities… These include 73 cases reported in Port-au-Prince. We expect these numbers to continue to rise as more cases are detected.”

9 Nov 2010

Hypernetworking and hypertexting bad for kids in more ways than one: Study

According to a new study adolescents who text excessively or who are hooked on social networking sites are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors like smoking and binge drinking than their peers who are not similar users. Scientists at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine surveyed 4,257 high school students from an urban county in the Midwest to look at the health effects of communications technology usage.

9 Nov 2010

ARIAD reports $20.4 million net loss for third quarter 2010

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2010 and provided an update on corporate developments.

9 Nov 2010

ArQule reduces third quarter net loss to $6,394,000

ArQule, Inc. today reported its results of operations for the fiscal quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2010.

9 Nov 2010

Amount of healthy foods must be adapted to limit weight gain

Overweight children reported more frequent intake of healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, fish, brown bread and potatoes as well as low-energy cheese and yoghurt compared with normal weight children.

9 Nov 2010

Semafore's SF1126 for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia granted FDA orphan drug designation

Semafore Pharmaceuticals announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to the Company's SF1126 product candidate for the treatment of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In April 2010, the Company initiated an expansion of its ongoing Phase I clinical study into this disease setting. SF1126 is a novel peptidic prodrug that converts to LY294002, one of the most widely studied small molecule inhibitors of both phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR).

9 Nov 2010

Gentiva third quarter total net revenues increase 38% to $387.8 million

Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a leading provider of home health and hospice services, today reported third quarter 2010 results.

9 Nov 2010

Covance enters into accelerated share repurchase transaction with JPMorgan

Covance Inc. announced today it entered into an accelerated share repurchase transaction with JPMorgan Chase Bank. Covance will repurchase shares of its common stock pursuant to the ASR Agreement as part of the $250 million share repurchase program that it announced on September 28, 2010.

9 Nov 2010

Redpoint Bio decreases third quarter net loss to $1.8 million

Redpoint Bio Corporation, a company focused on the development of healthier foods and beverages and new approaches to the treatment of diabetes and obesity, today announced financial and operational results for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2010.

9 Nov 2010

First Edition: November 9, 2010

Today's news includes reports about the Supreme Court's decision regarding an early challenge to the health law.

9 Nov 2010

Changes in Medicare policies may hamper supply of power wheelchairs

Will power wheelchairs continue to be available to Nevada's Medicare patients following a series of federal regulatory and policy changes?

9 Nov 2010

Provectus holds second meeting with Australian TGA to review approval of PV-10 for metastatic melanoma

Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company, has held its second meeting with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration ("TGA") to discuss milestones for approval of PV-10 for treatment of metastatic melanoma. The TGA is the part of the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing responsible for the assessment, approval and monitoring of therapeutic goods available in Australia. The initial meeting with the TGA was held in October 2008.

9 Nov 2010

Human blood from adult human skin

In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.

9 Nov 2010

Study finds lack of medication adherence among people with RA and lupus

People with rheumatic diseases don't take their medication on a regular basis, and this leads to poor outcomes in their disease treatment, according to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta.

9 Nov 2010

Study says looking older does not necessarily point to poor health

Even though most adults want to avoid looking older than their actual age, research led by St. Michael's Hospital shows that looking older does not necessarily point to poor health. The study found that a person needed to look at least 10 years older than their actual age before assumptions about their health could be made.

9 Nov 2010

Tyco reports revenue of $4.5 billion for fourth quarter 2010

Tyco International Ltd. today reported $0.55 in diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2010 and diluted EPS from continuing operations before special items of $0.74 per share. Revenue in the quarter was $4.5 billion with organic revenue growth of 2% year-over-year. Cash from operating activities was $963 million and free cash flow was $598 million. These amounts included $39 million of cash outflows related to restructuring activities and acquisition-related costs.

9 Nov 2010