HHS Announces New Tool To Help Fight Health Care Fraud In Florida

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that health care fraud fighters in the state of Florida will now have additional funding to help find potential fraud and abuse in the state's Medicaid program through the use of Medicaid claims data. Today, Secretary Sebelius approved Florida's Medicaid waiver request to help fund a demonstration program that will allow the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) to "mine" Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) data to identify cases of potential Medicaid fraud...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Aggressive Breast Cancer Blocked By New Arsenic Nanoparticle

You can teach an old drug new chemotherapy tricks. Northwestern University researchers took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumors, packaged it with nanotechnology and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women. That drug is arsenic trioxide, long part of the arsenal of ancient Chinese medicine and recently adopted by Western oncologists for a type of leukemia...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Sun Pharma Announces USFDA Approval For Generic Flomax(R)

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE:SUNPHARMA, BSE:524715) announced that USFDA has granted approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Flomax ®, tamsulosin capsules. These tamsulosin hydrochloride capsules, 0.4 mg are therapeutically equivalent to Flomax® Capsules 0.4 mg from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Tamsulosin hydrochloride capsules are indicated for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

BSD Medical Announces Presentation At ASCO Of Duke University Clinical Study Using Hyperthermia With Chemotherapy To Treat Bladder Cancer

BSD Medical Corporation ("BSD" or "Company") (NASDAQ: BSDM) reported presentation of a clinical study being conducted at Duke University on the use of hyperthermia, delivered using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System, combined with chemotherapy to treat bladder cancer patients who have failed standard therapy...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Shoulder Arthritis? What Patients Need To Know Before Treatment

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has approved and released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on "The Treatment of Glenohumeral Joint Osteoarthritis." This major joint in the shoulder - the ball and socket joint - is sometimes affected by osteoarthritis, causing pain, loss of function, and reduced quality of life. According to Rolando Izquierdo, MD, chair of the Academy work group on glenohumeral joint osteoarthritis, shoulder replacement surgery has been routinely performed since the 1970s for patients with advanced osteoarthritis of the shoulder...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Outlining Knowledge Gaps For 20 Suspected Carcinogens

A new report from the American Cancer Society and other world-leading health groups identifies gaps in research for 20 suspected carcinogens whose potential to cause cancer is as yet unresolved. The report is designed to prioritize agents for additional research, and to lead to well-planned epidemiologic or mechanistic studies leading to more definitive classification of these agents...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Ellipse Technologies Completes Enrollment For The Initial Trial Of The MAGEC Remote Control, Non-Invasive System For The Treatment Of Scoliosis

Ellipse Technologies, Inc. ("Ellipse") announced it had completed the initial clinical study enrollment for its MAGECTM (MAGnetic Expansion Control) Technology in "At Risk Early Onset Scoliosis Patients." This study has enrolled a total of 25 patients in six hospital centers located in three countries. Each of these patients has received either one or two of the MAGEC implants as prescribed by the participating clinical investigator. The majority of patient procedures have been conducted using a minimally invasive surgical procedure...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

AAP Press Statement On HHS Interim Rule On Preventive Services

"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) applauds the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the newly released preventive services interim final rule. The regulation mandates coverage of clinically appropriate health services for children and promises to be a major improvement in promoting the health and well-being of America's children. "Prevention is the heart of pediatric medicine. The mission of pediatric care is to promote and monitor the physical, mental and behavioral health of children at every stage of development...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Diabetes Advisory Group - Decision Without Consultation Or Negotiation, Australia

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said that the announcement of the Diabetes Advisory Group is another example of the Government announcing flawed policy before engaging in a proper process of consultation and negotiation with all the key players. Dr Pesce said that failure to engage in genuine consultation with the AMA over its serious concerns with the proposed plan for care for people with diabetes is a snub to doctors and their patients with diabetes...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource Special Report On Deciphering Dementia: Many Disorders Can Cause Loss Of Brain Function

Occasional misplaced keys or forgotten names don't mark the beginning of dementia. All dementia isn't Alzheimer's disease. Some dementia symptoms can be reversed. Those facts and many more are covered in Deciphering Dementia, a supplemental Special Report to the July issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource. The report provides in-depth coverage of the causes, risk factors, diagnoses and treatment options for dementia...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am

Malaysia's 'forgotten' tribes face poverty, hunger (AFP)

AFP - Just a few hours from the glittering Malaysian capital is a pitiful scene of hungry children and desperate parents, in an indigenous village home to the "forgotten Malaysians".

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Jul 2010 | 12:34 am

Changing Tune, Administration Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate.


Source: NYT > Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 11:01 pm

Insurers Push Plans That Limit Health Choices

As the White House begins to enact the new national health care law, the biggest insurers are promoting plans with lower premiums that allow fewer doctors and hospitals.


Source: NYT > Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 10:32 pm

Raising cancer awareness, one pedal at a time

When Anne Feeley was diagnosed in April 2006 with an aggressive form of brain cancer, doctors told her to prepare for the worst.
Source: CNN.com - Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 7:03 pm

Highlighting Haiti's health

Surgeons who helped after quake say victims still need treatment
Source: BBC News - Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 6:11 pm

FDA cites quality problems at NY brain-imaging lab (AP)

AP - A respected brain-imaging center run by Columbia University has halted some research after federal officials repeatedly complained that patients were getting drugs that failed purity tests.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 17 Jul 2010 | 5:11 pm

Global economic crisis threatens fight against AIDS (AFP)

AFP - The global fight against HIV/AIDS is threatened by stagnating economies around the world, which have caused governments to shrink their budgets and, with them, grants to fight the illness.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 17 Jul 2010 | 10:00 am

FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives (AP)

AP - Follow-up studies of a Roche breast cancer drug showed that it failed to extend the lives of patients, federal health scientists said Friday, opening the door for it to be potentially withdrawn for use in treating that disease.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 17 Jul 2010 | 7:00 am

Russia Gazprom denies RWE invitation to South Stream

VARNA, Bulgaria, July 17 (Reuters) - Gazprom , Russia's gas export monopoly, denies on Saturday it has invited the German utility RWE to join its South Stream pipeline in order to weaken the rival Nabucco...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Jul 2010 | 6:03 am

Drug Trials Test Bold Plan to Slow Alzheimer’s

A new type of Alzheimer’s drug study will, in the boldest effort yet, test the leading hypothesis about how to slow or stop this terrifying brain disease.


Source: NYT > Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 6:01 am

Will you have your mother's menopause?

Sandra Gordon is dreading menopause. The 46-year-old from Weston, Connecticut, watched her mother's memory falter in her mid-50s, due to changing hormone levels. "Every time I get my period I say to myself, 'Yes! I'm so relieved!' " says Gordon.
Source: CNN.com - Health | 17 Jul 2010 | 5:05 am