MRM's U.S. units placed in rehabilitation Mutual Risk Management Ltd.'s insurance units in the United States have been placed in rehabilitation by Pennsylvania insurance regulators. The Philadelphia-based companies, Legion Insurance Co. and Villan MRM's U.S. units placed in rehabilitation Mutual...
To paraphrase one of television's first computer-animated characters, Max Headroom, you know how to tell when a health-insurance president is lying? His lips move. Or, more to the point, he gives a talk to a local chamber of commerce explaining why healthcare costs are rising so quickly. ...
Christina Applegate's choice to have a double mastectomy puts her in the company of a growing number of women who are taking aggressive steps to avoid dying of breast cancer. Studies show more patients are choosing mastectomies, even though women are just as likely to survive if they...
OmniComm Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: OMCM), aleader in integrated EDC solutions for clinical trials, today announcedthat the company is providing EDC software and services for a Phase IItrial in BRCA 1/2 and HNPCC patients sponsored by the Tucson Arizona basedbiotech, Systems Medicine LLC SML. SML initially began its relationshipwith OmniComm...
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- QHR client hospitals in the Palouse region, a rural area that spans from eastern Washington state into Idaho, offer residents a variety of choices in healthcare. In fact, within a 35-mile radius of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington the centers of the Palouse, five hospitals vie for...
Revenues Increased 110 Percent from Same Period Last Year Thanks to Rising Demand for Health Care Marketing Organizations to Reach, Influence, and Recruit Online. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MedTouch, the leading provider of interactive, web-based solutions for health care organizations, announced that its revenue doubled due to its expansion...
"The Feel Good Filler" Delivers Comfort, Affordability, and Immediate Results SAN DIEGO -- Artes Medical (NASDAQ:ARTE) today announced the immediate availability of Elevess[TM], a new, FDA-approved hyaluronic acid HA based dermal filler for the treatment of facial wrinkles, such as nasolabial folds. As the first FDA-approved HA filler...
A medical malpractice attorney said Friday that he plans to appeal a judge's reduction of a nearly $5 million jury award to $1.3 million in the case of a doctor who left a surgical sponge in a patient's stomach after performing a hysterectomy. Victoria M. Young's lawyer...
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nobody here is asking, "Will he?" Locals have embraced Bo Pelini, and believed in him, from the day in December that Nebraska's 40-year-old football coach was introduced. He is hardworking and straight-shooting, a fine choice to represent a sleeves-rolled, cut-the-bull state. He understands what once...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Align Technology, Inc. today announced a new addition to its Invisalign product family: Invisalign Teen for non-adult, comprehensive orthodontic treatment. With Invisalign TeenTM, teenagers get clear, removable aligners that meet their desire for aesthetic treatment and their need for appliances that...
July 15, 2008 To the House of Representatives: I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 6331, the "Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008." I support the primary objective of this legislation, to forestall reductions in physician payments. Yet taking choices away from...
Major clinical trials conducted by ateam of researchers and doctors at the University of Minnesota MinneapolisVA Hospital, demonstrate that mulberry leaf, the food source of silkworms,can help markedly stabilize blood sugar levels and inhibit carbohydrateabsorption in Type 2 diabetics by providing additional support whichenables them to...
Not just the economy is sagging. Cash-strapped folks are cutting back on body-firming services such as gym memberships, diets and cosmetic procedures. Some 53% of plastic surgeons say business has slowed, according to a recent survey by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of nearly...
Can you imagine a day when we could get our entire genomes scanned to search out signposts that might alert us to risks of various diseases? When children with a family history of Huntington's disease could find out with a simple genetic test if they would...
The co-CEOs ofSureScripts-RxHub, J.P. Little and Rick Ratliff, released the followingstatement today after the U.S. Senate passed a bill to give Medicare theability to reward physicians for acquiring and using electronic prescribingor"e-prescribing" technology as a replacement for paper prescriptions.Offering financial incentives to physicians who e-prescribe is widelyviewed as...
Elvia Barboa, Chief Executive Officer of PADRES Contra El Cancer PADRES issues a statement dispelling rumors their National Spokesperson Fernando Del Rincon lied about his cancer treatment LOS ANGELES, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to media reports suggesting that Univision's Fernando Del Rincon's...
First Organ-specific MRI Contrast Agent Approved in the United States in More Than a Decade WAYNE, N.J., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leader in diagnostic imaging, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA has approved EOVISTR (Gadoxetate...
BALTIMORE -- Ameritox, Ltd., the U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, today announced its addition of the industry's most advanced, most sensitive analytical method for detecting prescription pain medications: multiplexing liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Ameritox has implemented the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access[TM]...
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it will issue results for second quarter 2008 following the close of market on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. On the same day, at 2:00pm Pacific Time (5:00pm Eastern Time) Jay Flatley, President and Chief Executive Officer,...
MIAMI -- GenerationOne, Inc., is gearing up to launch the nation's first integrated collaborative care solution that utilizes mobile phones to connect patients, physicians and other care providers. By delivering interactive monitoring, real-time care alerts and useful medical information, GenerationOne gives individuals the tools they need to...
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