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MoviMED Announces Participation in NIWeek 2009 Conference to Examine Trends and Technologies for Boosting Productivity and Increasing Competitive Advantage

MoviMED will introduce the first analog frame grabber for the National Instruments CompactRIO embedded real-time platform at the 15th annual NIWeek, opening Aug. 4 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. NIWeek the world's leading graphical system design conference and exhibition hosted...

Government Officials, Community Leaders Invited to Come Together to Examine the Rising Cost of Healthcare

Teva Pharmaceuticals Hosting Local Roundtable as part of the Year of Affordable Healthcare Campaign PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to Families USA, health insurance premiums in Pennsylvania increased by 86.2% between 2000 and 2007. In an effo...

National Leaders Examine Sex and Responsibility in New Book

WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The role of personal responsibility in pregnancy planning and prevention is examined in the new book, Rethinking Responsibility: Reflections on Sex and Accountability. Released by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregn...

AMERIGROUP Public Policy Institute, Black Leadership Forum, Inc. Convene Summit to Examine Preterm Birth Policy Solutions

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- National leaders in maternal health, health disparities and public policy will look for ways to combat the devastating impact of preterm births on communities of color at a summit today co-convened by The AMERIGROUP Public Policy Institute and th...

First national study to examine rock climbing-related injuries

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) In the past decade the popularity of rock climbing has dramatically increased. It has been estimated that rock climbing is now enjoyed by more than 9 million people in the U.S. each year. A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Inst...

Businesses, Community Leaders Invited to Come Together to Examine the Rising Cost of Healthcare

CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to Families USA, between 2007 and 2008, nearly one out of three people in Illinois under the age of 65 went without health insurance. In an effort to bring awareness to the healthcare issues facing everyday Americans, on July 13, 2009, Teva Pha...

Businesses, Community Leaders Invited to Come Together to Examine the Rising Cost of Healthcare

Teva Pharmaceuticals Hosting Second Business Roundtable as part of the Year of Affordable Healthcare Campaign CHICAGO, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to Families USA, between 2007 and 2008, nearly one out of three people in Illinois under the age of 65 went without healt...

New essays examine the use of fMRI to recognize deceit

Cambridge, Mass.June 8, 2009The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has published a volume of essays, "Using Imaging to Identify Deceit: Scientific and Ethical Questions," examining the scientific support for using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to recognize deception. The seve...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Examine the Psychological Impact of Child Abuse

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a new Mayo Clinic study, a history of child abuse significantly impacts the wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients. Included are an increase in suicide attempts, prevalence of substance use disorder, and a higher incidence...

Mayo Clinic researchers examine the psychological impact of child abuse

SAN FRANCISCO -- According to a new Mayo Clinic study, a history of child abuse significantly impacts the wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients. Included are an increase in suicide attempts, prevalence of substance use disorder, and a higher incidence rate of personality disorder. A...

National Coalition Hosts Event to Examine Costs Projections for Chronic Diseases

New White Paper Outlines Possible Ways to Improve CBO Modeling and Information for Policymakers WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, during a Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease policy briefing on Capitol Hill, health policy researchers Michael J. O'Grady, Ph.D., and James C....

2 studies examine medical consequences of police use of force during restraint

Dr. Jared Strote at the University of Washington Medical Center led a group that examined the medical records of nearly 900 patients subdued by the Seattle Police Department with a Taser over a six-year period. Less than one percent required hospital admission for an injury related to the restrain...

Rush University Medical Center orthopaedic experts examine overhead

Baseball season is underway. With the pros, college and high school teams taking to the baseball diamonds and Little Leaguers soon to follow, orthopedic specialists at Rush University Medical Center are cautioning players to be aware of and take precautions against throwing injuries. An analysis o...

New studies examine elimination of hepatitis B and C

Two new studies in the April issue of Hepatology explore the ways that hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be cleared from patients' bodies. Hepatology is a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)....

Meeting to examine FDA requirements for manufacturing PET radiopharmaceuticals

Reston, VASNM and the International Partnership for Critical Markers of Disease (CMOD) are co-hosting an in-depth meeting on Friday, May 1, 2009, examining FDA requirements for manufacturing positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals. The meeting, which takes place at the Natcher Audi...

U of Minnesota researchers examine the value of health information technology

University of Minnesota researchers found that the use of health information technology (IT), a popular health policy initiative, has had little or no effect on patient safety. Despite this, the researchers say it's still too early to judge the effectiveness of health IT. They employed innovative ...

Experts examine causes, treatment and prevention of glaucoma

Although scientists know progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells and their axons is the primary cause of glaucoma, researchers have yet to identify a way to stop or prevent the degeneration. The challenge to find a solution brought together a panel of 39 scientists to discuss the fac...

Gang researchers at UH examine health, consequences of long-term gang

The University of Houston Center for Drug and Social Policy Research (CDSPR) has been awarded a $2.4 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term consequences of adolescent gang membership among Mexican Americans. The funds will be awarded over the next four years. ...

Studies examine quality of care for hospitalized sickle cell disease patients

(SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2008) A study assessing the quality of care for patients with sickle cell disease in a variety of hospital settings will be presented at a press conference on Saturday, December 6, at 9:30 a.m., during the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in Sa...

First study to examine rare injuries and conditions of US high school athletes

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)Rare injuries accounted for 3.5 percent of high school athletes' injuries 2005 through 2007, according to the first study to examine rare injuries and conditions of U.S. high school athletes. Rare injuries include eye injuries, dental injuries, neck and cervical injuries and dehydr...

New MacArthur network to examine impact of aging society

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is creating a new inter-disciplinary research network to help America prepare for the challenges and opportunities posed by our aging society. In the middle of the next decade, the United States will become an aging society, one feature of which i...

Studies examine treatment for gout and the condition's protective effects

The goal in treating patients with gout is to reduce acute attacks by lowering serum urate levels, which are usually high in this disease. At the same time, high serum urate levels have been shown to lower the risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD). A new study compared the safety and efficac...

Consumer Reports Urges Chronic Headache Sufferers to Examine Their Use of Pain Relief Drugs

Regular Use of Pain Pills Can Make Headaches Worse YONKERS, N.Y., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Reports advises people who suffer from frequent headaches to talk to their doctors before reaching again into their medicine cabinets. Overuse of prescription and over-the-counter pa...

Researchers Examine Safety of Internet Prescriber Service Providing Erectile Dysfunction Medications

ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You can research a product in the privacy of your own home and purchase most anything by clicking a mouse. But should we be allowed to buy prescription drugs via the Internet, bypassing a t...

Researchers examine safety of Internet prescriber service providing erectile dysfunction medications

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You can research a product in the privacy of your own home and purchase most anything by clicking a mouse. But should we be allowed to buy prescription drugs via the Internet, bypassing a traditional office visit or conversat...

DIA/AAPS Co-Sponsored Conference to Examine the Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Proteins

The Drug Information Association (DIA) and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) will co-sponsor Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Proteins (September 10 -12; Bethesda, MD). Horsham, PA (Vocus) July 30, 2008 -- The Drug Information Association (DIA) a...

Experts examine challenges of split liver transplantation

Can split liver transplantation reliably yield grafts for two adults? Experts consider this question alongside new findings about the procedure in the July issue of Liver Transplantation , a journal by John Wiley & Sons. The articles are also available online at Wiley Interscience ( www.interscie...

First national study to examine golf cart-related injuries

The popularity of golf carts has skyrocketed in recent years, and unfortunately so has the number of golf cart-related injuries. In fact, a new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that the num...

First study to examine vitamin D insufficiency in pediatric patients with low bone density

Vitamin D insufficiency is common in adults and is emerging in the world of pediatrics. A mild degree of vitamin D deficiency, also known as vitamin D insufficiency, causes rickets in children and can be treated with increased amount of nutritional vitamin D intake as well as increased sun exposur...

Medical Research Should Include More Women Participants and Examine the Role of Gender in Disease Incidence and Treatment

ROCHESTER, Minn., May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Are the health needs of women adequately addressed by medical research as it is currently conducted? In the May issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a team of Australian researchers and two cardiologists closely examine this question. "The t...

Medical research should include more women participants and examine the role of gender in disease

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Are the health needs of women adequately addressed by medical research as it is currently conducted? In the May issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a team of Australian researchers and two cardiologists closely examine this question. The traditional model of medical research w...

UCLA researchers examine human embryonic stem cell genome

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as...

GREENGUARD 2008 Memorial Fellowship Winners Will Examine Design

Process/Chemicals to Determine Affects on Health ATLANTA, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI), the pre-eminent brand in indoor air quality, congratulates the recipients for this year's Ken Dillon Memorial Fellowship for Indoor Environmental Quality D...

Health care reform and 2008 elections: New reports examine candidates' plans, public's views

January 15, 2008, New York, NYEighty-one percent of Americans believe that in order to help reach the goal of health insurance for all, employers should either provide health insurance to their workers or contribute to the cost of their coverage, according to survey data released today by The Comm...

Studies Examine Life After Weight-Loss Surgery

More than 6% of patients die within 5 years, but certain factors can boost outcomes MONDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Coronary heart disease and suicide helped fuel the rise in the risk of death among patients after weight-loss surgery, a new study finds. The research found that about one ...

Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke

Individuals who live in a nursing home or take medication to lower blood pressure appear more likely to die during or following hospitalization for heatstroke, according to a study posted online today that will appear in a later print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archive...

Spanish Doctor to Examine Cuban Leader Castro

A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya reported on Sunday.// Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido has already flown to Cuba at the request of the country's government. The doctor from Madrid's Gregorio-Maranon Hospital is co...

A New Study To Examine ADHD's Role In Smoking

Most people find that smoking helps them alleviate symptoms like forgetting, distracted, impulsive or fidgety - now a new study launched by Columbia University Medical Center// investigates whether these symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) are causing people to smoke. ...

Studies Examine Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

The rate of colorectal cancer screening appears to be increasing among Veterans Affairs patients, although use of colonoscopy is less common than other screening procedures// , according to a report. A second report in the same journal shows that younger veterans with other illnesses and reduced li...

Three Eminent Neurosurgeons To Examine Shahabuddin

The Patna High Court has order three neuro-surgeons to examine RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan jail and report to the court in three weeks. //The MP has repeatedly requested the court to allow doctors to examine his spinal problem and give appropriate treatment. Justice Chandramauli Kum...