Managed Care Law Weekly

Legislative Issues - Iowa lawmakers debate healthcare measures

Lund University - Received truth turned on end in cancer research

Macfarlane Burnet Inst. for Med. Res. & Pub. Hlth - Role of monocytes in latent HIV infection reviewed

Medicaid - Kansas governor says disputes could cost state millions

Medical Malpractice - Poll indicates Americans favor common-sense tort reform

Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City - Management of women at increased risk for breast cancer reviewed

Mergers & Acquisitions - Horizon Health Corp. acquires Indiana psychiatric hospital

National Autonomous University of Mexico - CD4+CD57+ activated memory T cells expanded in TB patients

Obesity - Californians show concern over childhood obesity, study shows

Orphan Medical, Inc. - Xyrem marketing authorization application accepted for review in Europe

Osteotech, Inc. - Biomaterial product developer names new member to board of directors

Patient Privacy - University of Kansas reports hacking of health center computers to FBI

Portland VA Hospital - Screening can essentially prevent colorectal cancer

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham - Risk factors and recurrence of primary biliary cirrhosis

Roche - Partnership plans to target cancer cells through the E2F pathway

RxBazaar, Inc. - Pharmaceutical distributor announces increase in net sales

Schepens Eye Research Institute - Influence of aqueous humor on immunity reviewed

Scripps Research Institute - Structure of drug resistance transporter from E. coli identified

Serono, Inc. - Serostim improves lean body mass in HIV-associated wasting, study shows

Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Novel, small peptide, GA3, has potential as drug delivery ligand

St. Jude Children's Hospital - PET scanning for pediatric oncology patients is explored

State Medicaid - Deficit predicted for Texas healthcare programs

Swiss Tropical Institute - Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis among travelers reviewed

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries - Microbia expands partnership to improve biomanufacturing processes

Thomas Jefferson University - Molecular profiling reveals novel genes linked to glomerular disease

Tibotec Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. - IPM will take over the development of microbicide TMC120

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures may represent cross contamination

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Enterotoxin-producing E. coli O169:H41 outbreaks summarized

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Distinct mechanisms lead to HPRT gene mutations in leukemic cells

U.S. National Cancer Institute - Pheophorbide is specific probe for measuring ABCG2 function and inhibition

U.S. National Institutes of Health - M-tropic chimeric SHIV strains in CD4 cell-depleted macaques characterized

Univ. of Rochester Medical Center - Comprehensive study: We know little about environment's effects on kids

Univ. of Rochester Medical Center - Newer drugs more effective at curing strep throat than penicillin

Univ. of Rochester Medical Center - Researchers caution against linking strep, neuropsychiatric disorders

Univ. of Texas SW Medical Center - Researchers reveal mechanisms of smooth-muscle contraction

University at Buffalo - New animal model of hearing disorder developed

University of Aberdeen - Evidence that chronic inflammation causes cancer

University of Michigan - Susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes found on chromosomes 6, 11, 14A

University of Minnesota - Murine and human ES cell hematopoiesis models reviewed

University of Munich - Genetic background affects role of TLR proteins

University of Oxford - Novel CTL-mediated mechanism limits mycobacterial macrophage infection

University of Pennsylvania - New mode for killing cancer cells described

University of Pittsburgh - Intensive diabetes management yields positive results

University of Ulm - Anti-nanobacteria phototherapy ameliorates HIV- and diabetes-related neuropathy

University of Utah Hospital - Oral CMV therapy superior to intravenous treatment

University of Washington - Elderly get tips to beat back the blues

West Nile Virus - Drug maker may drop research on West Nile virus

West Nile Virus - West Nile season may already be here

Yonsei University - LIM kinase 1 overexpression makes PC12 cells resistant to apoptosis