Ins and Outs

September 22nd, 2009 News

  • Baucus Plans Changes to Health Bill … [WSJ]
  • Is Health IT a Humpty Dumpty?… [mobihealthnews]
  • Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Plans Draws Flak … [WSJ]
  • FDA Awards Three Grants Designed to Stimulate Development of Pediatric Medical Devices… [FDA]
  • Autism rates back MMR jab safety… [BBC]
  • NIH Opens Website for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines for Approval… [NIH]
  • A chat with Pressure BioSciences CEO Richard Schumacher… [MassDevice ]
  • Give medicine access to PC standards… [Dana Blankenhorn]
  • FDA Approves Donor Screening Test for Antibodies to HIV… [FDA]
  • Boston Scientific Completes Enrollment in Pivotal Workhorse Trial for Next-Generation Everolimus Stent… [Boston Scientific]
  • Biogen Makes Hostile Bid for Facet … [WSJ]
  • Medtronic’s Resolute® Drug-Eluting Stent Maintains Strong, Sustained Efficacy and Safety in Long-Term Follow-Up… [Medtronic]
  • TAXUS Under Attack: Endeavor® Stent Reduced Risk of Heart Attack/Cardiac Death by 48% at Three Years Compared to Taxus® Stent in Large Study… [Medtronic]; Abbott’s XIENCE V® Continues to Outperform TAXUS With Sustained Clinical Advantages and Impressive Long-Term Safety Results in SPIRIT III Trial… [Abbott]
  • Cheap, Quick Bedside “Eye Movement” Exam Outperforms MRI for Diagnosing Stroke in Patients with Dizziness… [Johns Hopkins]
  • Seasonal Transmission Potential and Activity Peaks of the New Iinfluenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo Likelihood Analysis Based on Human Mobility… [arXiv]
  • First stem cell trial for ALS treatment wins FDA approval… [University of Michigan]
  • Healing Badly Damaged Lungs: Distinct Set of White Blood Cells Found to Set the Pace of Wound Repair… [Johns Hopkins]
  • Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms… [Brookhaven NL]
  • Mechanisms of growth impairment in pediatric Crohn’s disease… [Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology]
  • Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy… [NYT]
  • Where will synthetic biology lead us?… [The New Yorker]
  • Bashed your head? You needed a stiff drink… [New Scientist]

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