HOUSTON, TX– – The distinguished group of orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians of Methodist Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine are featured in the much anticipated Texas Super Doctors 2011-2012 …
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02-02-2012 08:56 Executives and guests of Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., an innovative healthcare information technology solutions and services provider, visit the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate the company’s successful completion of its initial public offering. Greenway® will begin trading on the NYSE today under the ticker symbol “GWAY”. In honor of the occasion, Greenway Medical Technologies President and Chief Executive Officer Wyche T. “Tee” Green, III, joined by other members of the Greenway management team, ring the NYSE Opening Bell?. About Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: GWAY) Greenway Medical Technologies provides innovative EHR, ambulatory healthcare and clinical research business solutions and services to more than 33000 healthcare providers nationwide, in 30 specialties and subspecialties, by enhancing the delivery of patient care through advanced health IT software and on-demand services that allow physician practices to function at their highest level of efficiency in group practice, IDN, REC, HIE, IPA, Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) settings. Established in 1998, Carrollton, Ga.-based Greenway has more than 500 employees.
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Kevin Goodwin, president and CEO of the medical technology company SonoSite, Inc., and a 1980 graduate of Monmouth College, has made a $1 million gift to his alma mater to honor his former business professor, Rod Lemon.
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Tulane Medical School will hold a fundraiser Wednesday for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a charity that raises money to fund childhood cancer research.
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NEWMAN, Calif.–When Bernice Arnett accepted a school nurse position with the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District seven years ago, people suggested the job would entail little more than applying Band-Aids to boo-boos.But as the sole medical provider for seven schools…
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JANESVILLE — The Janesville and Beloit area is among eight locations the Medical College of Wisconsin is considering for a community-based medical education program designed to address Wisconsin’s impending physician shortage.
The private college in Milwaukee is studying the feasibility of placing a community-based medical school focused on primary care medicine in one or more locations in the state. Curriculum would focus on practicing in rural or urban areas that are underserved.
Administrators are hoping to complete the studies by the end of March and focus on one or two sites by spring or early summer, said Dick Katschke, associate vice president for public affairs.
The goal is to launch the first program as early as 2014 and no later than 2015.
Other regions under consideration are: Fox River Valley (Appleton, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac) Green Bay, Eau Claire, La Crosse, north central Wisconsin (Wausau, Stevens Point, Marshfield), northwest Wisconsin and Racine/Kenosha.
The Wisconsin Hospital Association projects that the state will need to add 100 physicians annually to avoid a shortfall of 2,000 physicians by 2030.
In this region, the southwestern counties of Grant, Iowa and Lafayette have been federally designated as physician shortage areas.
The goal for the program is to partner with local colleges and universities, local health systems and local government, Katschke said.
Doctors in Janesville or Beloit, for example, could be among the instructors, and students would be on clinical rotations within the local health care facilities, he said. The college also will be studying the expertise available at local universities with the potential that professors could teach some basic science courses, he said.
A typical medical school program is four years, and the plan would be to have students complete all four years in the community along with a residency, he said.
“The reality is wherever you do your residency training is the best predictor of where you’re going to practice medicine,” he said.
“One of the things we’d be looking at in the process is the enthusiasm and commitment of local hospitals/health systems to develop residency programs,” he said. “It’s not enough if we offered medical education in the Janesville area but then have no residency positions.”
The average medical student graduates with $150,000 of debt, he said, so the college also is looking at possibly developing a 3.5-year model to cut tuition costs.
The University of Central Florida is proceeding with plans to build a teaching hospital despite objections and concerns being voiced by its two partners in the medical school — Florida Hospital and Orlando Health.
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23-01-2012 12:22 www.ntvuganda.co.ug The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is rooting for the provision of health insurance covers to its contributors in the Pension Liberalization Bill. According to the Managing Director NSSF, Richard Byarugaba, this is to enable the savers start drawing benefits from their contributions before retirement.
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Current medical news from today, including blood test finds internal signs of depression, Big Pharma backs off TV advertising, and San Diego's growing life science sector.
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Sibling Study Suggests Drug Addiction Is 'Hard Wired'
Some people have brain abnormalities that make them “hard wired” for drug addiction, a new study says.
U.K. researchers found that 50 cocaine or crack addicts and their non-addicted brothers and sisters have the same abnormalities in the brain region (frontal-striatal systems) that controls behavior, BBC News reported.
The findings suggest that addiction is in part a “disorder of the brain,” according to the University of Cambridge study in the journal Science.
“It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognize this,” lead researcher Dr. Karen Ersche told BBC News.
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Taco Bell Identified as Source of Salmonella Outbreak
Taco Bell has been identified as the previously anonymous restaurant chain linked to a salmonella outbreak in October 2011 that infected 68 people and sent more than 20 of them to the hospital.
Most of the victims were in Texas. There were no deaths linked to the outbreak, according to a January report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ABC News said.
Federal officials couldn't identify the specific food product that may have caused the outbreak, but said the salmonella contamination likely occurred before the product reached “Restaurant Chain A locations.”
On Wednesday, Food Safety News identified the restaurant chain as Taco Bell. The identification was based on data provided by an Oklahoma State Department of Health official, ABC News reported.
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Army Bans Exercise Supplements After Soldiers' Deaths
The role that certain dietary supplements for athletes may have played in the deaths of two soldiers is being investigated by the U.S. Army.
A spokesman said the soldiers died last year after they had heart attacks during workouts, The New York Times reported.
After the deaths, the Defense Department removed all products containing an ingredient called dimethylamylamine (DMAA) from stores on military bases until the Army's safety review is completed.
DMAA is found in dietary supplements such as the “preworkout booster” Jack3d and the fat burner OxyElite Pro. Some experts say DMAA should be classified as a drug, which would require that it be approved by the Food and Drug Administration before it could be marketed, The Times reported.
Products containing DMAA can still be bought at retailers across the U.S.
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Fungicide Levels in Orange Juice Don't Pose Health Risk: FDA
Low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in orange juice do not pose a health risk, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The fungicide is banned in the U.S. but has been found in orange juice made with oranges from Brazil, where the use of carbendazim is legal, ABC News reported.
Tests show that the amount of carbendazim in the affected orange juice is far below unsafe levels, the FDA said.
Research has shown that the fungicide can cause birth defects in rodents and affect chromosomes in human cells in laboratories, but it hasn't been found to have any health effects in humans, ABC News reported.
In a statement on its website, the FDA said it “is confident that orange juice in the United States may be consumed without concerns about its safety due to the possible presence of such residues.”
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Hockey Great Gordie Howe Has Dementia
Even though hockey legend Gordie Howe has mild dementia, he still plans to begin another series of fundraisers to support dementia research.
A form of dementia called Pick's disease killed Howe's wife Colleen in 2009. Family members haven't sought a diagnosis of the exact type of dementia afflicting the 83-year-old Howe, who started showing signs of the condition in his late 70s, the Associated Press reported.
Concussions weren't tracked during Howe's playing career, so it's impossible to know how many the man known as Mr. Hockey might have sustained or whether there's any link between possible concussions and his dementia.
“He's a little bit worse than last year, but pretty close to about the same,” son Marty told the AP. “He just loses a little bit more, grasping for words.”
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Sam Sabin said he heard that the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is one of the nation’s top academic institutions.
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23-11-2011 22:10 There’s a new way to explore biologys secrets. With a flash of light, scientists from the US Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley zeroed in on the type of neural cell that controls swimming in larval zebrafish. Using innovative light-activated proteins and gene expression techniques, the scientists zapped several zebrafish with a pulse of light, and initiated a swimming action in a subset of fish that was traced back to the type of neuron that drives the side-to-side motion of their tail fins. The technique behind this needle-in-haystack search for the neural roots of a specific behavior could become a powerful way to learn how any biological system works. newscenter.lbl.gov This three-dimensional microscopy image reveals an output neuron of the optic tectum lighting up in response to visual information from the retina. The scientists used this state-of-the-art imaging technology to learn how neurons in the optic tectum take visual information and convert it into an output that drives action. More information: newscenter.lbl.gov Dendrite growth and synaptogenesis in larval zebrafish optic tectum
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Tuberculosis patients may soon receive treatments specially tailored to their DNA (pictured), a research team from the UK, Vietnam and the U.S. revealed.
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'Goldilocks' gene used to find drug treatment that is 'just right' for TB patients
'Goldilocks' gene could determine best treatment for TB patients Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King's College London, Vietnam and the USA.
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What’s the News: If you’ve ever been told been that a massage is good for “releasing toxins”—or to sound more scientific, “lactic acid”—from your muscles, then you’ve been told wrong. Turns out muscle cells do like a good massage, but it has nothing to do with lactic acid.
In the first study on the cellular effects of massage post-exercise, researchers found that massage bolsters chemical signals reducing inflammation and promoting repair of muscle cells.
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Strenuous exercise actually tears your muscle fibers; that’s why an intense workout can leave you sore for days. (Don’t worry—it’s normal and it generally heals fine.) The researchers wanted to study how massage affects this muscle damage, so they made 11 healthy young men cycle to the point of exhaustion. Then, finally, relief! Sort of. One leg on each man was randomly chosen for a 10-minute massage. Unfortunately more pain was then in store for these volunteers. A tissue sample was taken from the quadriceps muscle (often known simply as “quad”) of each leg 10 minutes and 2.5 hours after the massage. Researchers looked at the level of different mRNA, or messenger RNA, transcripts in these tissue samples. mRNA carries the information for building proteins in the cell, so the level of a particular mRNA molecule can tell you how much of its corresponding protein is being made. Compared to unmassaged muscle cells, the tissue from massaged legs had different levels of two key proteins: less NFkB and more PGC-1alpha. Lowering NFkB levels reduces inflammation and increasing PGC-1alpha levels leads to the creation of more mitochondria that generate energy for cell growth, so both these massage-induced changes are good news for healing muscle cells.
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Massage is one of the most common forms of “alternative” medicine, and it’s been proven to reduce pain. Before this paper though, there was surprisingly little science on how massage actually works. And this study might finally kill the lactic acid myth that has persisted for so long.
Reference: Justin D. Crane et al. “Massage Therapy Attenuates Inflammatory Signaling After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.” Science Translational Medicine, published 1 February 2012. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002882
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Washington, Feb 3 (ANI): In the future, tuberculosis patients may receive treatments according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, researchers say.
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Chris Behling, an Albion native, shed a new light on the old struggle between science and the humanities Tuesday. In his hour-long presentation given before administrators, faculty, staff and students, Behling’s thesis was that a liberal arts education is the silver bullet of modern medical science.
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