has joined Minnesota’s statewide health records exchange system, The Minnesota Health Information Exchange (MN HIE), as a sponsor.
The project, which was announced last year, is an effort by the state of Minnesota and several large health care organizations to create an electronic system that allows doctors to view patient records. It is being billed as one of the largest in the nation.
and Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, UCare, Read the rest of this entry »
Certain statements contained in this news release, including, without limitation, statements containing the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “expects,” “assumes,” “trends” and similar expressions, constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based upon the Company’s current plans, expectations and projections about future events. However, Read the rest of this entry »
The hardest choices for Barack Obama in the weeks to come won’t be deciding what to do in his first months in office, but rather what he shouldn’t try to do.
In Friday’s news conference, he implied he still hoped to tackle everything he’d promised. Bill and Hillary Clinton can tell him a thing or two about that. Their early, botched attempt to pass comprehensive health care reform buried the cause for 16 years. While Obama feels pressured to move Read the rest of this entry »
Are genetically engineered fish and meat coming soon? We examine the Food and Drug Administration’s regulations.
By Jill U. Adams
January 26, 2009
Fast-growing salmon. Pork containing heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. These are two examples of products you might see in your local supermarket soon — animals developed not through conventional breeding but through genetic engineering.
On Jan. 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Read the rest of this entry »
The Food and Drug Administration opened three offices in China late this past year as part of a strategy to improve safeguards on U.S. imports.
The contamination of Chinese ingredients that went into U.S. pet foods led to massive recalls in 2007. The same contaminant, melamine, resurfaced recently in Chinese infant formula—though the product did not appear to have reached the United States.
According to the FDA, establishing a permanent Read the rest of this entry »
The province in southern Afghanistan provides two thirds of the world’s heroin and more than 95 per cent of that found on Britain’s streets.
A British official working in the province claimed in a document released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act that 60 per cent of police staff in the area regularly took drugs.
The unnamed official said drug use among the police was “undermining security sector reform and state-building efforts Read the rest of this entry »
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – There’s a new approach to gym class for students at Tecumseh Junior High School.
“Before, we just used to run a couple laps back and forth, but now I think we get more variety in our workout,” said Madison Horn, 7th grader.
“We got this new thing called HOP Sports. I really like it because it gets us loose before we actually get to play,” added Quarin Hood, 7th grader.
Physical Education students get moving at the start Read the rest of this entry »
Cambridge Health Alliance said yesterday that it will reduce its workforce by more than 300 employees, end inpatient services at Somerville Hospital, and shut down its pediatric and addiction units.
The three-hospital system, which serves many poor patients, also will scale back psychiatric care in Everett and close six primary care clinics. It has been struggling with its finances for at least a year, but state budget cuts last fall and the recession Read the rest of this entry »
An investigation dating back to October led to the arrest of 38-year-old Stephanie Bowser Friday afternoon.
Bowser, a Waynesville resident, is now behind bars in Montgomery County and facing 22 charges.
Commander John Burke with the Warren County Drug Task Force led the investigation and says the 22 charges aren’t the surprising part of the situation.
“The marijuana was being grown by Stephanie Bowser, but her 14-year-old son assisted Read the rest of this entry »
Genentech’s Avastin, widely prescribed for colon cancer and some lung tumors, was linked to significantly higher rates of vein clotting in an analysis of earlier studies.
Patients who got the drug were 33 percent more likely to have blood clots develop in their veins than those who didn’t receive it, said researchers led by Shenhong Wu, a cancer specialist at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y. Avastin, Genentech’s top-selling drug with Read the rest of this entry »