Hospital and Nursing Home Week

Bellvitge University Hospital - Neuropathology of encephalitis after A-beta immunization described

Bertek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Accredo selected as a pharmacy provider for Apokyn

Bertek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - PharmaCare named a preferred specialty pharmacy provider of Apokyn

Cancer Research UK - Idoxifene only modestly efficacious in breast cancer patients

Drug Importation - Health secretary says legalized drug imports inevitable, cheaper

Healthcare Costs - Over 70% of HSAs paid $100 or less per member per month.

HealthCare Coverage - Pharmacy Care Alliance and ePocrates to inform about discount drug card

Healthcare Coverage - South Carolina BlueCross to market Medicare-endorsed discount drug card

Healthcare Coverage - Surveyed seniors without drug coverage believe in Medicare drug discount card

Hormone Replacement Therapy - Discussion on HRT pros, cons needed, expert says

Hormone Replacement Therapy - Serum FSH levels predict bone mineral density in women on HRT

Karolinska Hospital - Effect of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines is additive in elderly

Legal Issues - Oregon woman files suit against large pharmaceutical companies

Nymox Pharmaceutical Corp. - AlzheimAlert urine test premarket approval application suitable for filing

Okayama University - Angiogenic cytokine affords neuroprotection to dopaminergic neurons in rats

Acute Coronary Syndrome - Women affected with ACS at older age than men, and have delayed treatment

Adventist Health System - Florida hospital implements state-of-the-art call center solution

Agenzia Sanitaria Regione Emilia Romagna - Discharge diagnoses not suitable for monitoring surgical infections

Aptamera, Inc. - Mark C. Rogers becomes chairman of oncology drug-development company

Ardais Corporation - Biorepository to be launched at Duke for clinical research in cancer

Assaf Harofeh Medical Center - Normal p21Ras/MAP kinase pathway found in polycystic ovary disease

Aventis Pharmaceuticals - Enoxaparin prevents stillbirth in pregnant women with clotting disorder

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Fatty acid profiles are abnormal in short gut rats fed parenterally

Beth Israel Medical Center - Role of obesity in pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome reviewed

Birmingham Nuffield Hospital - Metal-on-metal hip resurfacing effective in young osteoarthritis patients

Birmingham Women's Hospital, U.K. - Diagnostic tests for uterine condition are more accurate than estimates suggest

Bispebjerg Hospital - Fat metabolism in exercise reviewed

Boston University - Overnight stay not required for most performed surgeries for sleep disorder

Breast Cancer - Surgical excision still necessary when core biopsy shows minimal abnormal cells

Broomfield Hospital, Essex - Researchers prepare guidelines for managing familial breast cancer

Bureau of Natl. Health Insurance, Taipei - Fear of disease impacts healthcare access

Business Update - Hospital's plans delayed by dispute over Indian care

Business Update - Judge upholds approval for West Virginia hospital plans

Business Update - New Mexico hospital expansion means jobs, more services

Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo - Human papillomavirus 18 and altered genes combine to form glassy cell carcinoma

Caritas St. Elizabeth's, Boston - CAD a viable option for second reading of mammograms, and as MRI adjunct

Caritas St. Elizabeth's, Boston. - Vacuum-assisted technique completely removes benign breast masses

Case Western Reserve University - Researchers discover new clinical syndrome leading to severe joint disease

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Mechanism enables stem cells to track migrating brain tumor cells

Central Hospital, University of Quebec - Vaginal radical trachelectomy is an alternative to radical hysterectomy

Centre Hospitalier de Martigues - Mysterious adverse reaction to pentavalent vaccine reported in infants

Cervical Cancer - Revised screening guidelines require re-education of women, physicians

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital - CD28 not directly involved in NK cell response to lipopolysaccharide

Children's Hospital Boston - Early visits to pediatrician may help prevent complication due to jaundice

Children's Hospital Boston - Pertussis vaccination program may be cost-effective in face of rising incidence

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles - Ceramide synthesis can be targeted for the treatment of cancer

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Child safety restraint use increasing in auto trips

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - For foster children, unstable placements have higher health care costs

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test is sensitive to the effects of low-grade tumors

Children's Hospital, Birmingham - Adenovirus disease in transplant patients worsens with immunosuppressive therapy

Children's Hospital, Boston - Short sirolimus half-life in pediatric renal transplants without calcineurin

Children's National Medical Center - Black, white asthma patients receive equal care in hospital setting

Children's National Medical Center - Pediatric asthma patients not using ER as often as once thought

China Medical University Huayu Hospital - Optimal thread form configuration determined for novel stepped screw implant

CHU, Montreal - Correlation between congenic mapping and gene profiling results important

Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Cntr. - Mother's milk may prevent sepsis in extremely low-birth-weight infants

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Business strategy used to increase vaccination rates in children

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Study detects protein in human milk linked to reduced obesity risk

City Hospital, Nottingham - Bone loss during pregnancy, breastfeeding, appears transient in most women

Ciudad Real Hospital Complex - Serum zinc levels predict wound healing after hip hemiarthroplasty

Collaborations - Christus Santa Rosa, UT create comprehensive care setting

Collaborations - Guardian, Destiny Health expand alliance to offer CDHPs in mid-Atlantic states

Columbus Children's Hospital - Technique efficiently delivers gene therapy to soft-tissue tumors

Compliance - Report: Many healthcare organizations remain noncompliant with HIPAA

Copenhagen University Hospital - Demographics of regional differences in obesity prevalence reported

Dementia - Creativity does not dim with age or illness

Duke University - Exercise helps heart attack patients who are depressed, without social support

Dunedin Public Hospital - Bilateral uncemented total hip arthroplasty effective for osteopetrosis

Eating Disorders - Women who binge and purge more likely to have attempted suicide

Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon - Cyclosporine may have limited renal effects in children exposed in utero

Eli Lilly and Co. - For many, depression persists after routine treatment

Environmental Tectonics Corp. - Contract awarded to supply a Bara-Med hyperbaric chamber in Eastern Europe

Erasmus Medical Center - Real-time PCR detects human metapneumoviruses from known genetic lineages