Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly

Information Technology - Kryptiq introduces new physician office web portal

Information Technology - MedCom USA adds BlueCross/BlueShield of Florida and Texas

Johns Hopkins University - Smoking and diabetes differ in associations with atherosclerosis

Kosan Biosciences, Inc. - Maker of KOS-862 and 17-AAG reports $21.8 million revenue increase in 2003

Legal Issues - Metropolitan Health Networks reaches settlement with IRS

Leiden University - Apoptin expression kills human biliary tract cancer cells

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Concerns over the value of animal experiments

MEDecision Inc. - Medical management software company reports record growth in 2003

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Innate immune response relies on selectins and integrins for tumor suppression

Medicare - Power wheelchair industry starts lobbying

Mergers and Acquisitions - Long Term Care Group announces acquisition of competitor's TPA contracts

Mingtai Chemical Co. - ISP, Taiwanese company, form partnership to sell cellulose ingredients

Minnesota Dept. of Public Health - Cough and cold care kits reduce antibiotic use

NOP World Health - Forecast: Symbyax will take share from antidepressants

Nagoya City University - Extended periods of undetectable HBV DNA bode well for nonrelapse after therapy

Nellcor - MAX-FAST Forehead Sensor outperforms digit sensors, study shows

OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Company announces expansion and modification of phase I trial for OSI-461

Okayama University - Study suggests an alternative method to evaluate sunscreens protective ability

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. - Reolysin kills tumor cells without damaging healthy tissue, study shows

Pfizer Inc - U.S. Appeals Court upholds Norvasc patent

Pharmacopeia, Inc. - Drug discovery company announces change to trading symbol

Prescription Drugs - Missouri Senate OKs bill to take back unused prescription drugs

Saint Louis University - Paper calls for dads to participate more in their children's healthcare

Scolr, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical company announces $10.4M private placement of common stock

Seattle Genetics, Inc. - SGN-30 receives orphan drug designation for T-cell lymphomas

Seton Hall University - Effects of morphine on LPS-induced VEC permeability clarified

Sexual Violence - Group says South African government's inaction hurts rape survivors

Sir Charles Gairdiner Hospital - CASR gene changes may not be markers of postmenopausal osteoporosis

Sorenson Medical - ambIT pump line includes infusion therapies for chemotherapy and antibiotics

St. Marys Hospital, Manchester - Fast acquisition MRI yields timely information about the fetal nervous system

Stanford University - Researchers find genetic subtypes of prostate cancer

Substance Abuse - Senior female executives more likely to be problem drinkers

Sunnybrook & Women's Health Sci. Ctr., Toronto - Glomerular hyperfiltration prevails during the early postpartum period

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Calfection gives scientists a way to transfect cells in suspension cultures

Swiss Tropical Institute - Development of artemether resistance slow and reversible in mice

Tri Service General Hospital, Taipei - Tc-99m-TRODAT-1 SPET is useful in evaluating Parkinson disease

U.S. National Institutes of Health - DNA vaccine enhances Th1 immune response against hepatitis C virus

U.S. National Institutes of Health - New data lead NIH to halt active phase of one WHI study, begin follow-up

Univ. of California, Davis - Transplant enables mice to produce monkey sperm

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Cardiac effects of protein kinase C-delta, -epsilon clarified

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison - Baby's face lights up emotional center of new mom's brain

Universidad Complutense, Madrid - Inactivation of p16 in NSCLC and colorectal cancer has different clinical outcome

University Hospitals of Cleveland - Pediatricians can play key role in helping new moms

University of Birmingham - Nicotine reduces G-protein coupling to GABA_B receptor in rats

University of Hong Kong - Viral replication in nasopharynx linked with diarrhea in severe SARS

University of Lund Hospital - Endothelin implicated in ischemic heart disease and congestive heart failure

University of Oviedo - The angiogenesis inhibitor borrelidin is synthesized within microbes

University of Torino - PAX2 plays key role in Kaposi sarcoma pathogenesis

University of Toronto - Obesity linked to dopamine D4 receptor gene in women with SAD

Vencor International, Inc. - Biotechnology company appoints Paul F. Fasi as managing director

Visicu, Inc. - Network is first in the Dakotas to offer eICU care

Water Fluoridation - Opponents blast bill on mandatory fluoridation in Kansas

Weill Cornell Medical College - Human protein redesigned to mimic blood clot-preventing enzyme of biting insects