Funding unavailable for project to treat patients with advanced technology.
After snagging the regulatory go-ahead last year to be the state’s first hospital to treat cancer patients with proton beams, Beaumont Hospitals is putting the $159 million cancer therapy center on hold because it’s been unable to secure financing for its share of the project, health system officials said Monday.
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DALTON, Ga. — The squad shuffles along, sneakers pounding the pavement. As one man calls a quick cadence in the cold morning air, another stretches his arms high while holding the American flag.
A few minutes later, the 10 Dalton firefighters are inside the fire station, ready for the next phase of their workout. They are starting their shift with a workout designed to build cardiovascular fitness and a little camaraderie.
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Taipei, Nov. 9 (CNA) The renowned historian and editor John Watt, who is in Taiwan to promote his new book on the country’s healthcare system, suggested Saturday that Taiwan should help provide medical services to less developed countries.
According to Watt, Taiwan’s rapid economic and social development over the past decades resulted from “very good management of its healthcare system.”
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don’t really need them, and kids who eat poorly and are most likely to benefit from nutritional supplements rarely get them, a new study reports.
The results surprised researchers, said lead author Dr. Ulfat Shaikh, a pediatrician at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine who treats children with nutritional problems.
,” she said. “We actually found the opposite.”
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More than one in 10 Utah stroke patients die in Utah hospitals, according to new data released Wednesday.
It’s the highest death rate of any type of hospital deaths that the state tracks, including heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia. The problem is timing: For the most common type of stroke, patients have just three hours to receive a powerful clot-busting drug to reduce the chances of permanent disability. But some patients take too long Read the rest of this entry »

of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for people with spinal chord injuries. This monumental step officially is in no part President Obama’s doing, but he has made his stance clear on the use of stem cells, and included a line in his
that mentioned that “We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” If you think that the stock won’t fall by too much in the Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has approved an immune globulin product called Gamunex for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms.
The FDA designated Gamunex as an orphan drug to treat CIDP. The orphan drug designation provides manufacturers with financial incentives to Read the rest of this entry »

URBANA – Jeff Ingrum still remembers a major condition Dr. Robert Scully set to give up his beloved internal medicine practice and accept the job as chief medical officer at Health Alliance Medical Plans: Coverage decisions would be made based on what he thought was right for the health plan’s members.
“He’s always kept what’s best for the patient in mind with every decision he’s made,” said Ingrum, CEO of Urbana-based Health Alliance.
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Nine FDA scientists who reported that agency managers allegedly forced them to clear high-risk medical devices that did not undergo comprehensive testing complained that they may have become subjects of an FDA criminal investigation. In a letter to President Barack Obama, the experts requested swift intervention on the issue and offered a list of regulations that they say FDA officials breached. An FDA spokeswoman said she could neither confirm nor Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON (AFP) — Plans to tighten doping controls in English football were outlined on Tuesday but immediately ran into opposition from the body that represents the interests of players.
UK Sport, which oversees anti-doping in the United Kingdom, wants to introduce a system under which a selected group of 30 players will be liable for testing five times a year, on any day and at any location, including their homes and holiday accomodation.
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