With all the talk about federal bailouts and funding, one sector that is left out of most primetime conversations is the health care industry. However the economic downturn will reach out to every market, and the medical space is not ‘immune’.
The DNA Repair Company (DNAR) announced today that it has identified a promising set of protein biomarkers that may aid in the treatment of a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. These findings were presented at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
EMRs have garnered a tremendous amount of attention in the health care community. Numerous studies have illustrated the potential for increased profitability if EMRs are utilized consistently, however they have not gained significant traction in the US, and it does not appear that the industry will be adopting this solution anytime soon.
There has been much discussion in recent weeks of the 14-year-old patient from Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami living without a heart for more than 100 days. What has not been reported are the facts behind the struggle as to how initially and immediately treat the young patient in post-transplant failure. This patient was fairing so poorly that she could not be weaned from cardio pulmonary bypass. She faced great odds of expiring and was not in any condition to immediately endure a complicated surgical BiVAD insertion or another transplant, even if another organ was immediately available.
Being diagnosed with a brain tumor can be devastating news. But thanks to a decade of advances in minimally invasive surgical procedures and improvements in instrumentation, patients today have a far better chance of recovery—without the risks of traditional “open-skull” surgery or other techniques.
Adena Health System has put LifeSize high definition video communications solutions to work linking neonatal patients in rural Ohio with pediatric specialists in Columbus. In its first year of use, the number of newborns transferred from Adena’s hospital in Chillicothe to the neonatal specialists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus was cut in half – from 140 to 70 – improving patient care, cutting costs and sparing mothers, infants and their families of the burden of traveling to a specialist.
Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function. Arend Sidow, PhD, associate professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, recently launched the novel bioinformatics tool, which enlists evolution as the guide to determining the role different proteins play in a wide array of organisms.
Two studies, presented this week at the 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), concluded a novel technique can improve outcomes for patients with vertebral compression fractures (VCF) caused by malignant tumors in the spine. The American Cancer Society estimates 30 to 70 percent of more than half a million people who die annually of cancer have metastatic disease and 10 percent of the 750,000 vertebral compression fractures that occur each year are caused by metastatic spine tumors.
The genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from Madagascar may help scientists understand how HIV-like viruses coevolved with primates, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The discovery, to be published online on Dec. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could provide insight into why non-human primates don’t get AIDS and lead to treatments for humans.
Dr. Leonel Fernandez Liriano, Professor of Medicine at Pontifical Catholic University School of Medicine (PCUSM), announced nine month follow up results for the first patient treated with engineered stem cells in a clinical study of primary pulmonary hypertension. The stem cells are extracted from patients’ own blood and trained to become new blood vessels.