Clinton Delivers Speech At U.N. Women’s Meeting As Conference Closes

“Calling the subjugation of women a threat to American security, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary [Rodham] Clinton made a vibrant plea to give equal rights to women around the world,” during a speech a the U.N. on Friday, Agence France-Presse reports. Clinton’s remarks came on the final day of a two-week international women’s conference that examined the progress made in women’s rights since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. “The status of the world’s women is not only a matter of justice…

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President Delivers Emotional Speech, Pushes For Reform In Ohio

The Associated Press: ”With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage. ‘This proposal adds almost a decade of solvency to Medicare,’ Obama said in a visit to a senior center.” Obama’s Ohio appearance “marked his third out-of-town foray” as he works to generate support “for long-stalled legislation to remake the health care system. Administration officials have predicted the legislation will clear the House by the end of the week, but Democratic… Continue reading

Clinton Delivers Satellite Phones As Chile Earthquake, Tsunami Recovery Continues

As part of her trip to Latin America, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton handed out 25 satellite phones on Tuesday in Chile and said the U.S. would help “in any way the government of Chile asks us to,” the Washington Times reports (3/3). “Clinton toured an area of the airport where tea, flour and other supplies were being loaded into boxes for shipment to parts of the country where supplies are short,” the Associated Press/New York Times reports. “Meeting with the country’s president-elect [Sebastian Pinera], Clinton said she is sure Chile is handling the disaster well…

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SensAble Delivers More Dental Restorations, Speed And Convenience With New Release 3 Of SensAble Dental Lab System

SensAble Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of touch-enabled 3D modeling systems, dental CAD/CAM solutions and haptic devices, has announced Release 3 of the SensAble Dental Lab System (SDLS), with significant enhancements to this integrated system for creating dental restorations efficiently and more cost-effectively…

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PARI Pharma’s Altera Delivers Gilead’s Cayston, Approved By The U.S. FDA For The Improvement Of Respiratory Symptoms In Cystic Fibrosis Patients

Altera, which uses eFlow Technology, was cleared to market by the FDA as the first drug-specific nebulizer for use in the treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis and has been specifically developed to deliver Gilead Sciences’ Cayston (aztreonam for inhalation solution) 75 mg. Cayston is a new inhaled antibiotic that received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday as a treatment to improve respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa)…

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AMA Junior Doctor Survey Delivers Another Poor Report Card For Public Hospitals

An AMA national survey of junior doctors has exposed insufficient medical training resources and infrastructure in our public hospitals. The AMA Junior Doctor Training, Education and Supervision Survey has collated the views of more than 900 junior doctors from across Australia on the quality of their medical training and the support they are receiving to become independent practitioners…

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New Breast MRI Technology Enables Enhanced Breast Cancer Detection

The launch of Invivo Corporation’s ONCAD for DynaCAD marks the availability of the first FDA-cleared, fully-automated morphological system for the detection and analysis by a radiologist of suspicious breast lesions. The ONCAD system will be officially unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

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Developed in partnership with leading experts in breast MRI, ONCAD for DynaCAD uses a patented mathematical algorithm to analyze the entire breast and draw a physician’s attention to abnormal morphology during a contrast-enhanced breast MRI. ONCAD’s fractal mathematics and proprietary algorithms not only enhance the detection of both… Continue reading

IMRT delivers high doses to prostate with satisfactory functional outcomes

Prostate cancer patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy experience no significant worsening of urinary, sexual, or bowel function 5 years after treatment, Japanese researchers report. (Source: MedWire News – Prostate Cancer) Go to Source… Continue reading

Clinical Studies Show B&L’s Lo-Torque Design Delivers Better Rotational Recovery

Bausch & Lomb announced that the company’s Lo-Torque® lens design demonstrates significantly better rotational recovery, which can lead to more consistent vision, compared with Acuvue’s accelerated stabilization design. These findings from two clinical studies were presented at Academy 2009, the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

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Psychiatrist Delivers High-Risk Meds, Poor Care In Chicago Nursing Homes

ProPublica/The Chicago Tribune examine the case of a controversial psychiatrist who delivered an anti-psychotic medication to thousands of Medicaid patients in Chicago’s nursing homes. “Dr. Michael Reinstein is one of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities. But he is trailed by lawsuits and complaints while getting government reimbursement for seeing a large number of patients.”
Reinstein received payments totalling nearly $500,000 over 10 years from the drugmaker AstraZeneca, and published several studies promoting its drug Seroquel. ”During that period, Reinstein also faced accusations that he overmedicated and neglected patients who took a variety of… Continue reading