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Hospital Business Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . June 6th, 2004

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Forest Laboratories, Inc. - Data highlight positive effect of Namenda on brain activity in AD patients

Health Care - Pharmacy Care Alliance launches Medicare-approved drug discount card

Healthcare Access - Rite Aid to accept Medicare Approved Discount Cards

Medicare - Elderly learning about Medicare discount cards

National Stroke Association - Alzheimer disease treatment effective in stroke survivors with dementia

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association - New government data suggest seniors will save hundreds of dollars per year

Premier, Inc. - Lipid-lowering therapy may reduce fatal heart attacks after noncardiac surgery

Acologix, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical firm closes $40M series B financing

Basel University Hospital - Intranasal influenza vaccine causes facial paralysis

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston - Mouse cardiac surgery techniques described

Breast Cancer - myDNA.com announces publication of breast cancer channel

Cancer - Heather Urich to serve as LifeRamp national spokesperson

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Effects of procainamide on electrical activity in thoracic vessels clarified

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Human metapneumovirus infection similar in severity to RSV in children

Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing - Cost-effectiveness analyses needed to evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention and care

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Radiation therapy reduces morbidity in children with medulloblastoma

Drug Benefits - CMS endorses discount drug card

Healthcare Access - Hospital community benefits increase despite financial constraints, poll shows

Healthcare Costs - Study finds more choices, more availability, more affordability in health plans

Healthcare Coverage - Democratic senators say health insurance law should go

Healthcare Coverage - Uninsured Oklahomans get attention

Healthcare Coverage - Utah health insurance pool financial unstable

Healthcare Professionals - Texas Health training program to receive $4 million grant

Holstebro Hospital, Denmark - Laparoscopic ovarian drilling: Effective first-line treatment for PCOS patients

Hospital Robert Ballanger, Aulnay Sous Bois - Researchers discuss valvular heart disease in 2003

Information Technology - Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh cuts medication errors in half

Information Technology - New Jersey healthcare provider to deploy clinical, financial IT solutions

Information Technology - New medication administration system launched

Kyoto University Hospital - Nifedipine retard and ACE inhibitors both reduce cardiac events

Legal Issues - Former nurse Cullen admits to a killing in Warren County

Linkoping University Hospital - Impaired cytokine regulation may play role in SS patients with myalgia

Medicare Fraud - Company says Kentucky county defrauded Medicare program

Menopause - More exercise and a little soy may reduce hot flashes

National Higashi-Utsunomiya Hospital - Preliminary optimal indication for nateglinide released

Newcastle General Hospital - Application of genomics and proteomics to neurosciences outlined

Pennsylvania State University - $5 million NIH contract to fund development of pediatric heart assist device

Portland VA Medical Center - Synthetic androstene analogue ameliorates murine collagen-induced arthritis

Ricardo Gutierrez Children Hospital - P6 protein intranasal vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae

Royal Free Hospital, London - Trend in case selection and PSA recurrence after prostatectomy reported

Royal Perth Hospital - HLA-B*5701 and Hsp70-Hom M493T alleles necessary for abacavir hypersensitivity

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown - MMF does not decrease viral load in chronic HCV liver transplant recipients

Rush University - Alternative medicine therapy now being tested for heart disease

Rush University - Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake

San Martino Hospital, Genoa - Safety and efficacy of coronary rotational atherectomy evaluated

St. Jude Children's Hospital - Gleevec reverses cellular resistance to topotecan and SN-38

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