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Panels will advise PCORI on research priorities and patient engagement efforts WASHINGTON, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the individuals from across the healthcare community who will make up the final rosters of PCORI's first four advisory panels. The panelists, selected from among 1,021 individuals who submitted applications, were approved by PCORI's Board of Governors in a public webinar on March...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Two men have died after contracting a strain of bird flu that had previously never been detected in humans, Chinese health officials reported on Sunday. According to BBC News, a 27-year-old man and an 87-year-old man both fell ill with the H7N9 influenza strain in February and died a few weeks later. A third person, a 35-year-old woman from nearby Anhui province, also caught the virus and is said to be “critically ill.”...
QUEBEC CITY, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), today announced its operational and financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012. The Company's financial statements and management report are available at www.sedar.com and at www.medicago.com. "2012 was a...
ATLANTA, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Valley Fever, a fungal respiratory infection, dramatically increased in several southwestern states from 1998 through 2011, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah rose from 2,265 in 1998 to more than 22,000 in 2011. Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) is caused by inhaling a fungus called Coccidioides, which lives in the soil in the...
NEW YORK, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- An EmblemHealth project found evidence that practice redesign and embedded care management in general adult primary care practices using the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model results in modest, but promising, reduction in Emergency Department (ED) visits and improved quality of care. The findings, reported in an independent study by University of Connecticut (UConn) researchers, were published online by the Journal of General Internal...
Although chelation therapy with the drug disodium EDTA has been used for many years with limited evidence of efficacy for the treatment of coronary disease, a randomized trial that included patients with a prior heart attack found that use of a chelation regimen modestly reduced the risk of a composite of adverse cardiovascular outcomes, but the findings do not support the routine use of chelation therapy for treatment of patients who have had a heart attack, according to a study in the March...
Confirming Position as "Best in Determining the Value of Healthcare" LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Health economics and policy authority Precision Health Economics (PHE) announced today it has added three additional scientific leaders to its renowned stable of experts. The new principal consultants are preeminent researchers and educators representing the most notable institutions in health economics and health policy; they will contribute to the knowledge base and...
Panels will advise PCORI on research priorities and patient engagement efforts WASHINGTON, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved 84 people with a broad range of expertise to serve on PCORI's first four multi-stakeholder advisory panels. The panels will advise PCORI on critical research questions for possible funding and how to ensure that PCORI's work remains patient centered. Each panel...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Two Virginia Tech researchers successfully altered the eye color of a mosquito in an ongoing effort to develop genetic strategies with the specific goal to disrupt the transmission of disease such as malaria and dengue fever. Zach Adelman and Kevin Myles, associate professors of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) have been studying vector-borne disease transmission on a genetic level to develop...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Despite the predictions of a popular theory, maintaining biodiversity in an ecosystem does not necessarily reduce the transmission of diseases from animals to humans, say researchers from the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment. Writing in the journal Ecology Letters, co-authors James Holland Jones and Dan Salkeld challenge what is known as the dilution effect – a widely held hypothesis claiming that the risk...
Latest Epidemiology Reference Libraries
Diabetes Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal established in 1978 and published monthly by the American Diabetes Association. It covers research in the following five categories: clinical care/education/nutrition/psychosocial research; epidemiology/health services research; emerging treatments and technologies; pathophysiology/complications; and cardiovascular and metabolic risk. The journal also publishes clinically relevant review articles, letters to the editor, and commentaries....
Influenza A virus causes influenza in birds and some mammals. It is a genus of the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses. Although the virus is uncommon several strains have been isolated from wild birds. Some can cause severe disease in domestic poultry and sometimes in humans. They are negative sense, single-stranded, segmented RNA viruses. Each subtype has mutated into a variety of strains with different pathogenic profiles. There is a vaccine for humans incase there is an avian influenza, or...
