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Hospital Law Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . April 14th, 2005

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Related Areas: Other Issues in Hospital Law Weekly | Other Publications

American Physical Therapy Association - Physical therapists seek support for access to physical therapist services

Business Update - Henry Ford Health System to proceed with building of Michigan-based hospital

Healthcare Costs - Increasing cost pressures on hospitals is leading issue within healthcare sector

Premier Inc. - U.S. healthcare strategic alliance adopts global location number standard

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries

Addenbrookes Hospital - CVP chemotherapy combined with rituximab improves patients' outcomes

Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge - IL4RA, IL4, and IL13 genes are not associated with type 1 diabetes

Beit Trust Cure International Hospital, Blantyre - Sepsis not seen during 1-year follow-up of orthopedic implants in HIV infection

Biotronik - Study examines use of home monitoring for cardiac implant

Children's Mercy Hospital, Olathe, Kansas - Differences in IGE levels found between parents and children

Emory University - Invasive pneumonia, drug resistance lower after childhood vaccine introduced

Free University of Brussels -  Staphylococcus aureus studied, prevalence of methicillin-resistance revealed

GammaCan International, Inc. - Phase II trial of cancer drug GCAN 101 to start in Israel

George Washington University - Recent findings in hematology described

Healthcare Access - Highest need communities twice as likely to have preventable hospitalizations

Henry Dunant Hospital - Colistin effective for multiresistant Gram-negative ICU infections

Hogland Hospital, Eksjo - Neutrophil and platelet interaction is a component of proinflammatory activity

Hospital General Valle Hebron, Barcelona - Prognostic value of clinical markers in unstable angina is limited

Information Technology - Blue Shield of California offers online tools to provider community

JIM Laboratories, North Liberty - ESBL-positive K. pneunmoniae clones cause sustained epidemic outbreaks

Karolinska Hospital - Current practice of Gleason grading among genitourinary pathologists revealed

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm - FVII haplotypes associated with cardiovascular risk factors in women

Massachusetts General Hospital - Anticonvulsant drug poses greater birth-defect risk than suspected

Massachusetts General Hospital East, Charlestown - Oncolytic herpes simplex virus diminishes mammary tumors in mice

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston - Insulin gene variable number tandem repeat is a genetic risk factor

Medtronic, Inc. - Cardiac resynchronization therapy saves lives, reduces hospitalizations

Mergers & Acquisitions - Hospital merger and acquisition market rebounds in 2004 by 57%

National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei - GRP78 expression correlates with favorable prognosis in neuroblastic tumors

Ottawa Hospital - Benign Hurthle cell adenoma mimicked oncocytic papillary thyroid carcinoma

Pennsylvania State University - Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors

Pennsylvania State University - Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development

Pharmacia Diagnostics, Inc. - Test key to determining if symptoms are allergy-related

Pharmacyclics, Inc. - Patient enrollment complete in trial of Xcytrin for lung cancer brain metastases

SHL TeleMedicine Ltd. - German health insurance company enters agreement to use cardio device

Sarasota Memorial Hospital - UCB neutrophils yield same potency pattern for each ELR chemokine as adult cells

Sherwood Forest Hospitals, U.K. - Researchers urge ER doctors to routinely assess blood clot risks

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation - Life sciences company signs agreement with MIT to collaborate in RNAi Consortium

Sisli Etfal Training & Research Hosp., Istanbul - Manual removal of placenta after cesarean section causes more blood loss

St. George Hospital, London - Tumor cells evaded immune system by downregulating antigen processing

St. James Hospital, Dublin - Environmental agents linked to thyroid cancer development

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