Analysis in Medical News

GenVault's GenSolve(TM) Reagents Enable State-of-the-Art Genomic Analysis of Dried Blood Spots

CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- GenVault Corporation is pleased to report that their DNA recovery product, GenSolve(TM), is enabling independent groups, from diverse research areas, to recover DNA from Guthrie cards and FTA paper for microarray based genomic analysis and Il...

Post-Recession Incomes Will Be Hit Hard by Health Care Spending for Middle Class Working Families, PENN Analysis Shows

PHILADELPHIA, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a post-recession America, even though as a nation income levels may rise, middle class families still won't be shielded from the crushing burden of health care costs and will watch their standards of living continue to erode, according ...

UB start-up provides innovative digital sperm analysis to infertile couples worldwide

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Couples struggling with fertility problems have a new option for assessing their ability to have a child with the start-up of a new Buffalo-based company called LifeCell Dx, Inc. (LCDX). The company was founded by Lani J. Burkman, Ph.D., a reproductive physiologist in the Depar...

Abilify Has Made Strong Gains in Patient Share Across All Lines of Therapy Since Last Year's Analysis of Prescribing Trends in Schizophrenia

WALTHAM, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the patient share of Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka's Abilify has grown in the first three lines of therapy si...

House Democrats' Health Plan Contains Words of Coercion -- Not Choice -- Text Analysis Shows

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Democrats use words such as "choice" in stump speeches on behalf of their recently introduced health care legislation, but according to an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF), the actual text of the bil...

Addiction Treatment Will Help Make Health Reform Affordable, New Analysis Shows

White Paper Details "Unforeseen Benefits" of Addiction Treatment WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Treating Americans who are addicted to alcohol and drugs will lead to substantial health care savings totaling billions of dollars over a decade, according t...

Motion analysis helps soccer players get their kicks

New York, 9 July 2009 As soccer continues to grow in popularity, injuries to soccer players are likely to increase as well. Certain injuries fall into gender-based patterns and new research at Hospital for Special Surgery suggests some underlying causes that could help lead to better treatment, o...

Perceptive Informatics Enhances CNS and Oncology Medical Image Processing and Analysis Capabilities Through Alliance With Biospective

BOSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), today announced that it has enhanced its capabilities with respect to processing and analysis of medical images for centr...

iData Research Publishes Market Analysis Series on Electronic Medical Records and PACS

U.S. Market for EMR and PACS to Reach $9.3 Billion by 2013 VANCOUVER, July 7 /PRNewswire/ - According to a new market research report series by iData Research ( www.idataresearch.net ), an international medical device, dental and pharmaceutical market research firm, the U.S. market for Electr...

New Analysis Examines Fraud in Both Private and Public Health Insurance Markets

WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy challenges the notion that fraud is a problem only in public health insurance markets and finds that fraud is a system-wide problem affe...

Seroquel's First- and Second-Line Patient Share Has Grown Since Last Year's Analysis of Prescribing Trends in Bipolar Disorder

Although Risperidone Is Now Available In Generics, There Is No Clear Evidence of Expanded Uptake in Early Lines of Therapy, According to a New Report from Decision Resources Patient-Flow Forecasts Need to Take Into Account Shifts in Seroquel XR's Use by Line of Therapy Over the Next Two Years...

Broadlane Selects Silver Creek Systems To Accelerate Core Business Analysis And New Client Services

Leader in Product Data Mastering Chosen by Leading Healthcare Cost-Management Company Westminster, Colo. (PRWEB) June 16, 2009 -- Silver Creek Systems®, the pioneer and leader in automated Data Mastering, including product data quality, integration and governance an...

Lethality of H1N1 Influenza Virus Increasing According to Latest Replikin Analysis of Virus Peptide Genomic Data

Boston Biotech Firm Reports First Rise in 76 Years of Replikin Count* of H1N1 Lethality Gene Boston (PRWeb) June 11, 2009-- As the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert to phase 6, the top of its six-point scale, a new analysis released yesterday (June 10)...

Evidence-Based Analysis of Aspartame Research

Questions Put to Rest CHICAGO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A just-published research review concludes that, media speculation aside, using aspartame as a sweetener has no effect on appetite or food intake. The same evaluation reaffirmed what regulators and health authorities have said many times b...

NSD Bio Group, LLC Selected By U.S. - China Economic & Security Review Commission for Analysis of China's Pharma Supply Chain on U.S. Pharmaceuticals

PHILADELPHIA, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- NSD Bio Group, LLC - North American Advisory firm, has been tapped by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, to conduct special research and analyses on the increasing role of China's raw ingredients used in pharmaceutical products and dietary ...

Medicaid Health Plans Provide Cost Savings to States and High Quality and Value to Beneficiaries, New Analysis Shows

Lewin Group Report Finds that Health Plans Contain Costs and Provide Beneficiaries with Improved Access to Health Services WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medicaid health plans are producing cost savings for states, increasing access to services for individuals covered by Medica...

Transplant patients have worse cancer outcomes, analysis shows

CINCINNATIAfter comparing two patient cancer registriesone featuring transplant patients and the other the general populationresearchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that transplant patients experience worse outcomes from cancer. These results will be published in the May 15...

Retrospective Analysis Finds Treatment of Cancer Chemotherapy Patients With Epoetin Alfa Associated With Lower Drug Cost Than Darbepoetin Alfa

HORSHAM, Pa., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Data from a study of managed-care cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and newly treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) found that the cumulative ESA cost with Epoetin alfa (EPO) was 29 percent lower than treatment with darbepoetin alfa (DARB)....

Webcast Alert: Release of Economic Analysis Revealing $734 Billion in Savings Produced by Using Generic Medicines in 1999 - 2008

ARLINGTON, Va., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) will discuss the results of an independent analysis commissioned from IMS Health, the leading healthcare market intelligence company, revealing that generic pharmaceutical utilization has contributed $734 billion i...

New data analysis shows possible link between childhood obesity and allergies

A new study indicates there may be yet another reason to reduce childhood obesity it may help prevent allergies. The study published in the May issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology showed that obese children and adolescents are at increased risk of having some kind of allergy...

Genetic analysis may predict risk of invasive bladder cancer

DENVER Genetic variations in the inflammation pathway may predict who would respond to Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin (BCG) treatment and who might experience a recurrence among patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research...

Sirion Therapeutics Announces Positive Results From Interim Analysis of Phase II Trial and Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Fenretinide

TAMPA, Fla., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirion Therapeutics, Inc. announced today positive results from a planned interim analysis of its Phase II trial evaluating fenretinide for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) associated with age-related macular degeneration. This interim analysis was tri...

How Can We Improve Our Elementary School System? - Unique Market Research Analysis of the Subconscious of Parents

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Intuition is a psycholinguistic-based computer program that analyzes the person's written or spoken language and retrieves information from the subconscious. In the last 15 years, Computer Intuition was used to analyze focus groups, interviews, and...

China Medical Technologies Announces Receipt of SFDA Quality Testing Certificate for its SPR-based Analysis System

BEIJING, March 25 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Medical Technologies, Inc. (the ''Company'') (Nasdaq: CMED ), a leading China-based medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets advanced in-vitro diagnostic products, today announced that the Company received quality t...

CDC analysis finds unique social and behavior intervention helps reduce MRSA rates up to 62 percent

Princeton, NJ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Plexus Institute (Plexus) today announce results from an analysis of a multifaceted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevention program that employed positive deviance (PD), a novel approach to social and behavior...

Edifecs Announces New Version of Its Integrated HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 Analysis and Migration Solution

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning, March 17, 2009, the first of two effective dates in the modifications to HIPAA Electronic Transaction Standards Final Rule goes into effect. This final rule adopts Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 Version 5010 replacing Version 4010A1 a...

An even-handed analysis of environmental policy

The 1969 crisis of the Santa Barbara, California, offshore oil spill gave birth to new environmental laws that made the United States a leader in environmental protection worldwide. Since then, environmental regulation has been a key issue to both industrial and environmental performance and has c...

Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes

COLUMBIA, Mo. A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing a device that will analyze breath or urine samples for volatile markers inside ...

Caldwell College to Host National Conference on Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis in April, Autism Awareness Month

Caldwell College: A leader in training the new Autism specialists CALDWELL, N.J., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Caldwell College will host a national conference on Innovations in Autism Treatment and Applied Behavior Analysis on Friday, April 17 and Friday, April 24, 2009 fr...

Highline Data Analysis Shows Year-over-Year P&C Industry Net Income Down 67.7%, Life Industry Net Unrealized Capital Losses Totaled $51.7 billion in 2008

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's top 100 property and casualty insurers closed 2008 with net income levels not seen in more than seven years, while the top 100 life insurers suffered unprecedented unrealized capital losses, according to Highline Data. The Highline Data ...

ForteBio Launches New Biosensor for Kinetic Analysis and Screening of Human IgG Antibodies

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- ForteBio(R), Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, today announced the launch of its Anti-Human IgG Fc Capture (AHC) biosensor for use on the company's Octet(R) i...

Paragon Benefits, Inc. Selects North Star Health for Data Analysis and Cost Management Reporting

Paragon Benefits, Inc. to roll out Lumina to the Georgia Banker's Insurance Trust ATLANTA, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Benefits, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Georgia Bankers Association Insurance Trust (GBAIT), announced today a partnership with Atlanta-based North Star Health, ...

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Aesku.Diagnostics For Providing an Overall Analysis Platform For a Wide Range of Autoimmune Complications

LONDON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the autoimmune disease diagnostics markets, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Aesku.Diagnostics with the 2008 European Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for its consistent approach towards product development. It has anti...

QSAI & SGS-CSTC to Begin Joint Food Analysis Services in China

FUKUOKA, Japan, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- QSAI Analysis and Research Center Co. announced on Feb. 26 that the company and SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co. signed a business cooperation agreement the same day to combine their mutually complementary resources to conduct food analysis services...

New analysis shows liver cancer incidence has tripled since 1970s, but survival rates improving

Study Summary A new study examining data on incidence trends, mortality rates and survival rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registries indicates that the incidence of liver cancer in the United States tripled between 1975 an...

Webinar Alert: Coverity Announces Verification and Validation of Medical Device Software with Static Analysis - A Review of FDA Guidance and Best Practices

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc. announces the following TechOnline Webinar: What: Coverity Webinar When: February 19 @ 1 pm ET / 10 am PT Where: http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/distrib.cgi?s=1346&d=2794 How: Live over ...

EMBL GeneCore purchases Genomatix's next generation sequencing data analysis solution

Genomatix Software, a leading provider of complete solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, announced today that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix Genome Analyzer at its Genomics Core Facility. These sy...

Diagnosoft(R) Introduces Its Third MRI Analysis Innovation

MORRISVILLE, N.C. and PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Diagnosoft, Inc., an innovator in magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis software that assists in diagnosis, staging and therapeutic monitoring of cardiovascular disease, has unveiled its newest software solution: Diagnosoft(R) SENC....

Umbilical cord protein analysis detects early onset infection

Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified proteins associated with early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), a stealthy bacterial infection linked to premature birth, illness and death. Using protein analysis, the researchers have found the biomarkers that can provide key information on how EO...

Providence Service Corporation Provides The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Preliminary Analysis of Potential Medicaid Assistance for States in the House Economic Recovery Package

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Providence Service Corporation (Nasdaq: PRSC ) today provided The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' preliminary analysis of Medicaid assistance for states in the House Economic Recovery package. The report was issued on J...