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Mental health care suffers as recession hurts state’s bottom lines

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:31:21 +0000

Mental health budgets are suffering as a lingering recession affects state bottom lines in America, Stateline reports. “States have taken the lead role in publicly funded care for the mentally ill, and paid the majority of the expenses. Even through recessions, the states have steadily increased their mental health budgets every year to meet increasing demand.

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Unidine, Xanitos enter strategic partnership

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:29:18 +0000

Unidine Corporation, a leading provider of food service management to healthcare and businesses, and Xanitos, Inc., an innovator in EVS management systems for hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership to offer combined food and dining service management and EVS management for hospitals that desire superior quality, personalized attention and the convenience of two industry leaders that share a common philosophy.

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DEKA Medical announces availability of new SmartXide DOT HP Fractional CO2 laser

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:20:19 +0000

DEKA Medical announced today the immediate availability of the High-Powered SmartXide DOT. The new SmartXide DOT HP Fractional CO2 laser, with average power of 50W, can attain irradiance of up to 250W of power with each pulse. This makes the new SmartXide DOT HP the most powerful superpulse CO2 laser available to aesthetic physicians.

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New health care leaders named

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:17:18 +0000

News outlets report on new leadership appointments at key health care groups.

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Competitive Technologies anticipates $1M revenue from sales of Calmare Pain Therapy Treatment

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:15:17 +0000

Competitive Technologies, Inc. today announced it expects revenue from sales of its Calmare Pain Therapy Treatment for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 to be about $1 million, nearly double that of the prior quarter. The Company expects significant additional growth in Calmare medical device sales in upcoming quarters resulting from the growing U.S. sales force of over 35 sales representatives.

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International Health News: German hospitals worry over end of compulsory military service; Britain tops study on end-of-life care

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:08:04 +0000

The Wall Street Journal: German hospitals are worried that the end of compulsory military service could hurt their workforce as most young German men end up fulfilling their duties there and in other public-service venues. “Increasingly conscription’s main impact has little to do with military training at all.

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Pharma industry leaders reduce R&D time, costs with aspenONE Process Development software

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:05:02 +0000

Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical industry leaders are reducing their research and development time and costs using newly patented technology that is part of AspenTech’s aspenONE Process Development for Pharmaceuticals software.

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Corgenix, ELITech establish broad strategic alliance

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:59:15 +0000

Corgenix Medical Corporation, a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, and the ELITech Group, a Paris, France-based, privately held group of companies and worldwide manufacturer and distributor of in-vitro diagnostic equipment and reagents, today announced a broad strategic alliance.

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Robotic therapies reduce blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:51:33 +0000

Research conducted by surgeons from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center shows that using robotics reduces blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures to repair diseased arteries. Research results were presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s 2010 Vascular Annual Meeting in Boston.

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Scientists develop new genomics-based approach to understand origin of cancer subgroups

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:18:01 +0000

An international team led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists finds unique combinations of cells and mutations lie at the heart of cancer subgroup revealed for the first time in a pediatric brain tumor.

Scientists have long recognized that cancers may look the same under the microscope, but carry different mutations, respond differently to treatment and result in vastly different outcomes for patients. An international team led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists has developed a new approach that uses genomic information from different species to understand the biology that drives the formation of these different cancer subtypes.

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