Health Market Science Unveils CompleteView, the Most Comprehensive Master Data Management (MDM) Solution Available in the Healthcare Market

...rom end to end, the customer's only requirement is loading the customer master back into the core systems. This frees up client resources and reduces unneeded stress that surrounds customer data management today. Zach Henderson, VP of Marketing, Product Development & Analytics shared, "CompleteVie...

June 2009 Mayo Clinic Health Letter Highlights Probiotics, Carotid Artery and Breast Cancer Treatments

...women are at the highest risk of recurrence and which of those are more likely to benefit from chemotherapy. Conversely, women at lower risk can avoid unneeded treatment. Researchers are looking at changes in radiation, too. They are finding that shorter-course radiation may be effective for patients wi...

Healthcare Staffing Company Medical Solutions Named Among "2009 Best Places to Work in Omaha"

...aff translates to quality relationships with its traveling healthcare professionals and client hospitals. The great teamwork at the company eliminates unneeded stress for the travelers and the hospital staffing professionals they work with, allowing them to focus solely on providing quality patient care. ...

Supply of Key Children's Vaccine Almost Back to Normal

...cines such as the DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel), so physicians need to assess this carefully "to ensure appropriate coverage while minimizing extra doses of unneeded vaccine." Last November, CDC officials said the Hib vaccine shortfall had caused them to monitor Hib infections. At the time, the agency said it ha...

Perot Systems Releases ARRA Webcast Featuring Leading Analyst Firm

...organizations sharing information about the patients across the various care venues in a timely fashion so that we can reduce duplication of services, unneeded tests and preventable medical errors." About Perot Systems Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services and busin...

Gullapalli & Associates Launches First-of-Its-Kind Patient Centered CME(TM) (PCCME(TM)) Service, Names Dora Ochsenbein Manager of Educational Planning

...g. Patient-centered care ensures that transitions between providers, departments, and health care settings are efficiently coordinated, which reduces unneeded and unwanted services while increasing patient satisfaction and medication adherence and persistence. "Historically, most medical decisions were...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology

...ynuclein-caused cell death, Wei et al treated cells with a molecule that disrupts the function of lysosomes, cell components responsible for digesting unneeded and excess material in cells. Treatment with gangliosides reversed the lysosomal disruption, which suggests that gangliosides protect against the lys...

Educating referring clinicians about advanced imaging leads to drop in imaging exams

...eness of radiation from radiologic studies and increasing costs of medical imaging we hypothesized that a simple intervention of education will reduce unneeded studies and thereby decrease cost and radiation doses to patients," said Joseph Platnick, MD, lead author of the study. "The study found that targeted...

More intense bladder cancer treatment does not improve survival, U-M study finds

...nefit to the patient. It makes sense to many doctors and patients that more would be better, but unfortunately there can be unintended consequences of unneeded care," says study author Brent Hollenbeck, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of urology at the U-M Medical School. The study found that patients trea...

New AARP Initiative Encourages Community Members to Help Others Better Manage Their Prescriptions

...rcent of Americans over 65 are using one or more inappropriate medications, and 57 percent are taking medications that are ineffective, duplicative or unneeded (1). An initiative of Create the Good, a network of independent volunteers active in neighborhoods across the country, Rx Snapshot is an easy wa...

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Study of Drug Therapy for Compulsive Buying Yields a Puzzle, Stanford Researcher Says

...t, while five of the eight patients receiving a placebo relapsed. People suffering from compulsive buying disorder are preoccupied with shopping for unneeded items and are frequently unable to resist purchasing them. The problem is not a simple lack of willpower, said Koran, who described it as being as rea...

Stanford Study Finds No Conclusive Benefit From Treating Kleptomania With Medication

...s. More than 1.2 million people in the United States are thought to suffer from kleptomania, the guilt-ridden, impulsive stealing of inexpensive and unneeded items. The condition differs from shoplifting, in which the action is usually planned and motivated by need or monetary gain. People suffering from kl...

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Epidemic of unneeded amputations

Non-traumatic amputations ?those caused by arterial blockages related to diabetes, smoking, obesity and vascular system complications ?are occurring at an alarming rate. Yet physicians may be too quick to amputate as 85 percent of them may be preventable, according to the International Diabetes Fou...

Conaway Lab identifies novel mechanism for regulation of gene expression

...iously, the Conaway Lab demonstrated that Uch37 is associated with another multiprotein complex, the proteasome a large protein complex that degrades unneeded or damaged proteins. In the new paper, the team shows that when bound to INO80, Uch37 can also be activated in the presence of proteasomes. Although t...

Researchers discover inherited mutation for leukemia

...istant female relative developed this form of leukemia. The chemical change is called DNA methylation. Healthy cells use this process to silence unneeded genes. But abnormal DNA methylation can turn off genes that control cell growth, and that lead to tumor growth. "Our findings identify for the f...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

... Using a nuclear medicine technique and molecular imaging to "see" programmed cell loss—the body's normal way of getting rid of unneeded or abnormal cells—may help in early identification of those individuals who are at risk of developing heart failure, say researchers in the April Jour...

Dying of excitement

... For neurons, overexcitement is deadly. To avoid this, brain cells must sop up unneeded neurotransmitters from the synapse through membrane-bound transporters. If these transporters fail, neurons and other brain cells get excited to deat...

Bacterial protein mimics host to cripple defenses

...contain infections, nip potential cancers in the bud, and get rid of old or unneeded cells. However, runaway PCD leads to everything from unseemly spots on toma... enzyme plant and animal cells use to attach the small protein ubiquitin to unneeded or defective proteins. Other enzymes then chew up and "recycle" the ubiquit...

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Regional Biotech Association Warns Legislation Would Make VT Least Friendly State in Nation for Biotechnology and Life Sciences

...f Vermonters who stand to benefit from miracle drugs." She said the legislation would also eliminate existing protections of trade secrets, create an unneeded new state bureaucracy, and drive away research funding by mandating additional disclosure of expenditures. Four other states, including New Engla...

Favrille Announces Resolution of Debt Obligations and Plans for Maximizing Assets

...y laid off 132 of its 144 employees, including six of its eight executive officers, effective June 6, 2008. In addition, the Company plans to sell all unneeded fixed assets in the near future. Favrille is currently in discussions with its landlord regarding the terms of the existing lease agreement in light...

Video and Photo: Tekturna HCT(R), a Single-tablet Combination of Tekturna(R)* and a Diuretic, Receives US Approval for Treatment of High Blood Pressure

...he effects of renin, Tekturna helps blood vessels to widen so blood pressure is lowered. Diuretics work to lower blood pressure by ridding the body of unneeded water and salt, but are also known to increase PRA. "Most patients need at least two medicines to control their high blood pressure," said Marjorie ...

Technology Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley

...utes arise. A RM process evaluates documents for their fiscal, legal, operational and historical value and minimizes risks by periodically destroying unneeded items. Many companies do not have good internal controls, especially when it comes to e-mail, content management and processes. The ramification...

James Thomson plans to stay in Madison to study genesis of stem cells

...ble embryonic stem cells have high levels of Caspase 3/7, enzymes that break down proteins as part of a process called programmed cell death, in which unneeded cells are culled during normal development of the body. Yet the stem cells do not die, Thomson said, even though the Caspase levels would kill most ot...

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Kidney

...atter (especially electrolytes ) in the body by first filtering the blood, then reabsorbing some necessary fluid and molecules while secreting other, unneeded molecules. Reabsorption and secretion are accomplished with both cotransport and countertransport mechanisms. The final solution is then excreted as...

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Segregating

...lotype 17. ... Suit Says State Is Segregating Mentally Ill. By CLIFFORD J. LEVY ... Act by segregating the mentally ill ... abuse, neglect and unneeded segregation . ... Dynamic instability and bipolar stabilization drive plasmid segregation . ... tion of a DNA- segregating system from puri- f...

Proteasome

..., as well as in some bacteria. In eukaryotes, they are located in the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The main function of the proteasome is to degrade unneeded or damaged proteins by proteolysis, a... proteasome ( ′prōdēə′sōm ) ( biochemistry ) A large proteolytic particle found in the cytoplasm an...