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DALLAS -- Odyssey HealthCare, Inc. (NASDAQ: ODSY) today announced that it will deliver a presentation at the Oppenheimer & Co. 19th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at 11:20 a.m. Eastern Time at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. To access a live broadcast of Odyssey's presentation, listeners...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- CIGNA Foundation, in partnership with Equal Justice Works and Jenner & Block, LLP, has named Jessa Barnard as its 2008 Fellow. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Barnard will work with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley to begin a Diabetes Law Collaborative. The Collaborative...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- LiveData, Inc. and KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. will premiere the companies' Patient-Aware OR at the CIMIT Innovation Congress in Boston, Oct. 28-29. KARL STORZ (www.karlstorz.com) is a global leader in minimally invasive endoscopic technologies and operating room integration; LiveData (www.LiveData.com) is the leader in real-time data integration...
Program to Address Physician Gaps in Managing Rheumatic Conditions and Improve Patient Care and Outcomes NEW YORK -- The University of Kentucky Pharmacy and Medicine Continuing Education Office UKPMCE announced today the launch of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Educational Challenge RAEC, which will address deficits in the treatment of rheumatic...
Research presented at American College of Emergency Physicians shows a 30 minute decrease in average patient length of stay and an increase in facility revenue using Picis ED PulseCheck WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Research from the University of Colorado Hospital to be presented at this week's American College of Emergency...
Contract supports U.S. Army's Stryker medical evacuation vehicle DENVER, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Methods Corporation , the largest air medical transportation company in the world, today announced its Products Division has been awarded a contract in excess of $15 million from General Dynamics Land Systems. The contract...
Technology Designed to Confirm Precise Brachytherapy Treatment ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading radiation oncologists are using the TargetScan TouchTM system to deliver radioactive seed therapy in the prostate. The innovative technology is based on a motionless probe which stabilizes the prostate during procedures. With the...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Parrish Medical Center, a 210-bed community hospital in Titusville, Florida, has implemented Clinical Xpert CareFocusTM and Clinical Xpert Navigator which are both part of the Clinical Xpert suite of workflow solutions from the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters. These tools enable...
Collaborative Program Shifts Paradigm with Evidence-Based Platform to Educate Providers on Fibromyalgia Management SAN FRANCISCO -- The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing and the National Fibromyalgia Association announced today the launch of the Fibromyalgia Circle of Care Initiative at the ACR/ARHP Annual...
Technology Streamlines Workflow, Supports Clinical Guidelines MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the medical imaging workflow solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes LUMEDX Corporation with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Healthcare Innovation. The company, in recent years,...
Darvi Rahaman left a successful private practice at the University of California at Los Angeles for a career at Peak Vista Health Centers. The reason? He wanted to give children in the Pikes Peak region something he didn't have growing up: access to quality, affordable health care. ...
- Free probiotics seminar will be held on October 28 in conjunction with the 2008 American Dietetic Association's Food & Nutrition Conference - TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With recent reports that North Americans will purchase roughly $1.7 billion worth of probiotic products per year by 2013,...
SAN ANTONIO -- Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (NYSE:KCI) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an investment of up to $100 million for the repurchase of its common stock as part of a new share buyback program through the third quarter of 2009. KCI intends to opportunistically purchase the...
This week at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, KwikMed CEO Peter Ax will be speaking on the Pharmacy & Medication Management breakout panel about the shift of healthcare to the online space and a new model for more convenient and effective patient care. According to an Aug. 1,...
Novel Outpatient Regimen Pioneered by Investigators from Tumor Institute in Milan SEATTLE, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. CTI (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that the Journal of Clinical Oncology has published the results of an innovative study that investigated high bone marrow ablative dose ZevalinR...
Commences Patient Dosing of Delayed-ReleaseCysteamine in Collaboration with UC, San Diego NOVATO, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. ("Raptor" or the "Company") (BULLETIN BOARD: RPTP) , today announced the initiation of patient dosing in a Phase 2a clinical trial, in collaboration with the University of...
WASHINGTON, BATTLE CREEK, Mich., and EVANSTON, Ill., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Cardiology ACC and the Center of Excellence for Simulation Research CESR of Western Michigan University announced the launch of an educational and research partnership, using in situ simulation to improve the time from hospital...
Special Meeting of Stockholders to Approve the Merger with Cornerstone Scheduled for October 31, 2008 LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Critical Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative products for respiratory and inflammatory diseases, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30,...
ZevalinR First-Line Indolent FIT Phase III Clinical Trial results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology SEATTLE, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. CTI (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that the Journal of Clinical Oncology has published the results of the First-line Indolent Trial FIT demonstrating that...
DETROIT, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Ford Hospital has performed Michigan's first incisionless surgical procedure for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD, a common, exasperating condition that affects men, women and children worldwide. The new procedure could become the treatment of choice for the millions of patients with GERD,...
