Nursing Home and Elder Business Week

Finance - American Shared Hospital Services posts 6% increase in revenue

Finance - HCA reports positive 2005 third-quarter results: Revenues rise despite Katrina

International Longevity Center - Survey reveals older Americans' attitudes toward sleep and healthy aging

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. - Hospital owner reports registration statement effective for resale of debentures

Mayo Clinic, Rochester - Findings advance knowledge in breast cancer research

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Quality of life considerations impact choice of cancer treatment

PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. - PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. reports third quarter net income of $118 million

Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer

Specialty Laboratories, Inc. - Clinical reference lab reports third quarter net revenue up 11.6%

Acacia Research Corp. - CombiMatrix announces availability of comprehensive influenza array and service

Administration Staff College of India - Nonbrothel based female sex workers at higher risk of HIV infection than brothel workers

Allergy and Immunology Associates of Ann Arbor - Long-term budesonide inhalation well tolerated in children with asthma

Alphatec Spine, Inc. - Spinal implant company promotes Hiscock to president and chief executive officer

American Specialty Health - Texas employers now able to offer complementary health care coverage

Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg - Interspecies transmission of Enterozytozoon bieneusi is possible

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Roles of diabetes and revascularization on extremity amputations examined

Brandeis University, Waltham - Study links enzyme energy state to function

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company - Survey shows adherence to HIV treatment regimens high but meaning not understood

British Columbia Cancer Agency - Recommended phase II dose for T900607 determined

Brown University, Pawtucket - Effects of breast-feeding on type 2 diabetic mothers reviewed

Burnham Institute for Medical Research - Biomedical institute announces management appointments

CV Therapeutics, Inc. - Molecular cardiology-focused company reports loss of $1.29 per share

Central Drug Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh - Aryloxyphenyl cyclopropyl methanones active against multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin - Sheep model shows bone healing course is influenced by initial shear fixation stability

Clinical University of Mannheim - Physiological range of mechanical synchronicity of the human heart determined

CoTherix, Inc. - Clinical registry launched to study pulmonary arterial hypertension

Cosme Argerich Hospital, Buenos Aires - Cinefluoroscopy facilitates assessment of prosthetic valve function and disc motion

Discovery Partners International, Inc. - Drug-discovery company announces collaboration with Mitsubishi Pharma Corp.

Duke University - Porphyrin superoxide dismutase mimetic enhanced tumor radio-responsiveness

EXACT Sciences Corp. - PreGen-Plus maker report Q3 revenues of $1.2 million

Emory University Health Sciences Center, Atlanta - Opposite immune responses explain different therapeutic effects in rheumatoid arthritis

Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam - Cytokine pattern in women with CIN III lesions shifts during carcinogenesis

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute - Gamma-linolenic acid boosts effectiveness of Herceptin on cancer cells

ExonHit Therapeutics - French drug and diagnostic discovery company names Patrick Langlois to supervisory board

Finance - AmSurg reports earnings from operations of $0.30 per diluted share

Finance - Express Scripts reports record third-quarter earnings, net income of $101.7 million

Finance - I-trax reports gain of $0.08 per share

Forbes Medi-Tech, Inc. - Maker of cardiovascular-disease-related products completes US$6 million private placement

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle - Immunotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma reviewed

Gamma Medica-Ideas - Researchers investigating use of imaging system for early lung cancer detection

Hana Biosciences, Inc. - California biosciences company completes previously announced private placement

Harvard University - Hemostatic risk factors in predicting arterial thrombotic events clarified

Hemedex, Inc. - Bill Gruber joins Hemedex, Inc., as president at tissue perfusion-focused company

Hemosol Corp. - Blood-related protein therapeutics developer lays off employees

Hokkaido University - Butyrate appears to regulate TNFa at the mRNA level, making it a potential RA therapy

Hologic, Inc. - Imaging systems maker records 22% increase in revenue

Howard University, Washington, DC - Skin of color requires unique care and treatment

Imperial College London - Langerhans cells transduced more efficiently than dendritic cells

Information Technology - CareScience expands relationships with healthcare organizations for quality manager solution

Institute Salud Carlos III, Madrid - 4-Phenylcoumarins inhibit HIV transcription

Instituto Internacional de Pesquisas Farmaceuticas, Sao Paulo - NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy predicts drug dissolution profiles effectively

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore - Recent findings in hepatocellular carcinoma described

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. - Kindred agrees to acquire Commonwealth Community Holding assets for $125 million

Kumamoto University - HLA-A*3101-restricted CTL response to HIV-1 identified in chronic HIV-1 infection

Kurume University, Fukuoka - Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and type 2 diabetes benefit from nateglinide

Kyoto University - Embryonic stem cells cocultured with Thy1-positive cells differentiate into hepatocytes

Kyungpook National University Hospital, Taegu - Higher NK cell dose reduces nonrelapse mortality and infectious events after SCT

Lifeline Systems, Inc. - Personal emergency response provider on Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list

Lincare Holdings Inc. - Respiratory home care services company reports impact of Medicare on revenues

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Patient age was not related to occurrence of PSA bounce phenomenon after radiotherapy

Maggiore Hospital Foundation, Milan - Researchers' findings advance hematology research

Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn - Super-super-obesity linked to mortality in patients undergoing duodenal switch

Massachusetts General Hospital - Chest CT and brain MRI provide optimal evaluation of patients with newly detected brain mass

Massachusetts General Hospital - Sentinel node biopsy recommended before neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Mayo Clinic - Atypical protein kinase C iota identified as oncogene in lung cancer

MediServe Information Systems - Information systems company announces contract with the Nebraska Medical Center

Medical Academy, Gdansk - Capillary electrophoretic method detects glycolysis metabolites in human red blood cells

Medical College of Georgia - Bacterial mimic under study as cancer vaccine may also help protect tumors

Medical University of South Carolina - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of hypertension

Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York - Access site reuse preferable to de novo placement for conversion to permanent catheters

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York - Lung cancer survival is found to be better in women than men

Nagasaki University - Valsartan decreases type I collagen synthesis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

National Cancer Institute, Naples - Cost of insurance policies for investigator-initiated cancer clinical trials in Italy discussed