Mobile Health Expert and mHealth Summit Panelist, Dr. Richard Migliori of UnitedHealth Group, Available for Interview.
Researchers at the Abramson Center for the Future of Health are on a quest to determine how people acquire and use information to make decisions, how they test those decisions and how they use that knowledge to act in their own self interest in the health care arena. Cliff Dacso, a practicing physician and UH professor, leads the charge.
Health Affairs recognizes U-M leadership in implementing Value-Based Insurance Design in public and private sectors.
While many young adults will share the details of their daily lives with friends on Facebook, communicating with their doctors about mental illness is another story. E-SMART-MH, developed at Case Western Reserve University, might improve those communications.
Patients at Loyola's Melrose Park community hospital order meals from a restaurant-style menu at the time of their choosing.
The Venous Disease Coalition is proud to announce the launch of a new toolkit that provides some of the key concepts about venous thromboembolism (VTE) and anticoagulant management. It may be accessed online at www.venousdiseasecoalition.org/vte-toolkit.
Scientists from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Morgan State University have received a $ 3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant designed to promote racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity in reproductive science research.
Techulon Inc. has signed a license with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. to market a new DNA delivery platform that carries a beacon so scientists can follow its progress. The material, which integrates therapy with diagnostics, was created by Theresa Reineke at Virginia Tech and Joshua Bryson at Techulon.
A recently formed Boston-based start up called HanGenix is the first company to be spun out of the new CIMIT Accelerator program. HanGenix is focused on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by installing comprehensive hand hygiene solutions that remind clinicians to perform proper hand hygiene and document their compliance. The CIMIT Accelerator program facilitates technological innovations that can be handed off to industry within twelve to eighteen months.
Volunteers in New York, NY are being sought for a clinical study examining the subtle changes that may take place in the brains of older people many years before overt symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) appear. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are specifically looking for people with the very earliest complaints of memory problems that affect their daily activities.
MD Anderson anticipates new law’s prevention benefits.
The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), a non-profit organization based at the University of California, San Diego with affiliates across North America, urges pregnant women to receive the influenza vaccine as soon as possible.
Researchers say the robot – the first worldwide to be tested in patients - is designed to be consistently accurate in placement of radioactive seeds during prostate brachytherapy.
At the 129th AES Convention, House Ear Institute is returning for its 13th year to provide hearing conservation education and screenings to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members, as well as launching a free and confidential help-line for audio pros.
Kennedy Krieger Institute announced today the launch of a first‐of‐its‐kind, phase II clinical trial to investigate a treatment for heart disease in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
The walker most patients use today was patented in the 1940s; Innovative new Secure Tracks decreases patient falls and improves recovery times.
In a Canadian first, the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre used a new kind of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) to treat a patient with advanced heart failure. The new device is longer lasting than older generation LVADs and may eliminate the need for a second LVAD – a major drawback with the old technology.
Anaphylaxis Community Experts (ACE) educational program launches today. Allergist and community member teams to bring program to 150 communities in U.S.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today unveiled the AMGA Workshop and Retreat Service, which harnesses the expertise of leaders in AMGA’s member group to help medical groups and organized systems of care accelerate their learning curve in key strategic areas.
A clinical trial at UT Southwestern Medical Center aims to determine whether adding the hormone leptin to standard insulin therapy might help rein in the tumultuous blood-sugar levels of people with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes.
The 7th International Congress on Mental Dysfunction & Other Non-Motor Features in Parkinson’s Disease (MDPD 2010), to be held in Barcelona, December 9 – 12, 2010, aims to provide specialists with the latest developments in the understanding of cognitive and psychiatric aspects of the disease.
The Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) has started a live donor liver transplant program. Live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a procedure in which a living person donates a portion of his or her liver to another person.
A stabbing pain in Cameron Giammalva’s abdomen came on so suddenly one day during his freshman year of college that he and his friends mistook it for appendicitis.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, today launched 5MinuteConsult.com, a clinical decision support site that gives healthcare professionals answers to their clinical questions in 30 seconds or less. Launched at the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) 2010 Scientific Assembly after successful beta tests, 5MinuteConsult.com helps healthcare professionals quickly obtain critical information for the diagnosis, treatment and management of thousands of diseases and conditions.
The American Medical Group Association is convening more than 650 participants, representing the leaders of the nation's leading healthcare provider organizations, at IQL 2010: AMGA National Summit on ACOs, September 29 - October 1 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. The summit is setting attendance records for this annual meeting of the association's Institute for Quality Leadership, which this year is focused on creating high-performance care organizations.
Ten pacesetting doctoral students are on their way to earning their Ph.D. in Nursing in an innovative three-year pilot program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing.
S. Mark Redwood, M.D., chief of the Department of Urology at Sinai Hospital, is using a state-of-the-art predictive prostate cancer test called Prostate Px+ to better understand the aggressiveness of each individual patient’s cancer and how best to treat it.
A year after a government panel revised its recommendations for breast cancer screening, many other professional organizations have not followed suit. U-M experts remind women that screening mammography saves lives and regular mammograms are still important.
Beginning this month, all patients undergoing cardiac catheterization at Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be tested for a genetic variation that can affect their response to Plavix, the most commonly prescribed clot-preventing drug for heart patients and one of the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide.
International experts in type 2 diabetes will gather in Rome on September 27-28 to discuss how metabolic surgery may open new treatment opportunities for the disorder, which is on the rise worldwide.
The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) has published a 2011 Membership Directory. It is a comprehensive referral resource providing information on the nation’s behavioral healthcare systems.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Belfer Institute of Applied Cancer Science and sanofi-aventis have entered into a collaboration and license option agreement to identify and validate novel oncology targets for further discovery and development by sanofi-aventis of novel therapeutics agents directed to such targets and related biomarkers.
Economic pressures impact massage, routine medical care.
Women confused about when to have a mammogram have a new interactive source of information — MammographySavesLives.org — launching this week along with a series of public service announcements on television and radio stations across the country.
The first oral medication for multiple sclerosis was approved today by the Food & Drug Administration. Physicians praised the decision to approve the drug, called fingolimod, saying it would give multiple sclerosis patients new options for treatment.
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Each year over 32,000 men will die from prostate cancer and about 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed during their lifetime with the disease -- the second most common type of cancer in men. Prostate cancer specialists from the Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center are lead investigators for clinical trials using the latest minimally invasive treatments for prostate cancer including: high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) that uses high-energy sound waves to destroy cancer cells without radiation and vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT) that destroys cancer using light energy waves.
Compared to traditional liposuction, Zerona requires no incisions, and there are no burning aftereffects, as with other types of lasers.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application to encourage health-care professionals and patients to send and receive information about the use and side effects of prescription medications.
Healthier people are more likely to select a high-deductible health plan over a conventional plan, according to data from several employers that first offered the option in 2006.
Residents of Durham County, N.C., are encouraged to take part in the largest ever long-term study of children’s health and development undertaken in the United States.
TheShopsAtLBH.org will offer thousands of health and wellness products.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) today celebrated a new outpatient chemotherapy center, which is scheduled to open later this month, pending approval from the State Department of Health. The 7,745-square-foot facility, called the Brooklyn Infusion Center, will provide leading-edge chemotherapy services to current MSKCC patients who live in or near Brooklyn — which amounts to more than 15 percent of MSKCC’s patients currently being treated in Manhattan. Many of these patients can now be spared the regular commute and receive their treatment in a more convenient setting designed to meet the special needs of chemotherapy patients and their caregivers.
A new issue brief from The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, co-authored by Commission staff and researchers at the George Washington University’s Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the role of health centers in national health reform and the issues that will affect health center expansion to meet the growing need for primary health care.
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the lead institution in a national clinical trial of technology that will allow artificial heart patients to recuperate, rehabilitate and wait in the comfort of their own homes until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience (JHN) is launching the Jefferson Neuroscience Network (JNN) to promote collaboration among area hospitals to advance neuroscience care throughout the region. Chestnut Hill Hospital is the first hospital to join JNN.
Web site features trilingual support, interactive nutrition guides for Asian meals and other culturally relevant information.
Kansas State University has been a issued a patent for a plentiful and noncontroversial source of stem cells from a substance in the umbilical cord. The patent addresses procedures to isolate, culture and bank stem cells found in Wharton's jelly -- the substance that cushions blood vessels in the umbilical cord. These cells are called cord matrix stems cells and are different than those obtained from the blood cells in umbilical cords.
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics.
Sangart, Inc., today announced positive results from its Phase IIa proof-of-concept study of MP4OX (oxygenated pegylated hemoglobin) in severely injured trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock causing lactic acidosis.
A recent study from the RAND Corporation, one of the country’s most trusted analytic organizations, finds a current shortage of 3,800 anesthesiologists and 1,282 nurse anesthetists. However, if current trends continue, a dramatic shortage of anesthesiologists and a significant surplus of nurse anesthetists are projected by 2020.
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