Category: Healthcare IT

Venous Health Systems, Inc., a developer of solutions for treating vascular insufficiency by enhancing blood circulation, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food & Drug Administration to market the…

Some say it was against all odds. Others insist it is nothing short of divine intervention. “It was a long wait, but fortunately a donor heart was made available that was a…

As the first baby boomers turn 65, Loyola University Hospital has begun offering stem cell transplants to leukemia and lymphoma patients who previously were too old to qualify. Hospitals traditionally have not…

Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced the treatment of the first patient in a multi-center Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating CTS-1027 in combination with Peginterferon Alfa-2a (Pegasys®) and ribavirin (Copegus®) in a treatment experienced,…

Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia – the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections – dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a…

Cigarette smoking has been linked with overproduction of mucus associated with chronic bronchitis, according to a study conducted by researchers in New Mexico. The study indicates cigarette smoke suppresses a protein that…

Hospital staff in Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) cut by more than 70 percent the rate of pneumonia in patients who are on ventilators by using a targeted quality improvement initiative funded…

Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc., a leader in adult allogeneic stem cell manufacturing, research and development announced that it has received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval from the University of California, San Diego…

New research from the University of Pennsylvania is beginning to crack the code of which strain of flu will be prevalent in a given year, with major implications for global public health…

In analyzing alternate development strategies for health care tourism, Estonia concluded that it needs a much better understanding of what consumers in target countries want. The Estonian Development Fund commissioned a report…

In the ten years since the human genetic code was mapped, expectations among scientists, health care industry, policy makers, and the public have remained high concerning the promise of genomics research for…

Scientists at The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report the discovery of protein markers that could provide physicians with the first reliable blood test to predict ectopic…

Top Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) is launching a new research project that should make stem cell transplants more successful. A stem cell transplant is usually performed on adults with acute leukemia. “Umbilical…

Depending on the level of smoking and leisure time exercise, vitamin E supplementation may decrease or increase, or may have no effect, on the risk of pneumonia, according to a study published…