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Clinical Discovery Annual Conference, Tuesday 16 October 2012, London

Date: Aug-30-2012
Events 4 Healthcare Ltd, who specialise in delivering bespoke events for the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry, have announced details of its group booking discount for the Clinical Discovery Annual Conference 2012, to be held on Tuesday 16th October, 2012 at The Royal Society, London. New models for the value-based pricing of pharmaceuticals are actively in development. Decision-makers in healthcare are increasingly using the highest quality scientific evidence to support clinical and health policy choices...

Cloud Computing For Life Sciences R&D Summit, 4-5 December 2012, Philadelphia

Date: Aug-30-2012
ExL Pharma will host the Cloud Computing for Life Sciences R&D Summit December 4-5 at the Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia. Cloud computing offers exponentially increased processing power and data storage that makes past computer capabilities seem miniscule. Scientists are just scratching the surface of what can be done with next generation genomic sequencing, large-scale chemistry solutions, pharmacodynamics and perhaps new areas of research that haven't been discovered yet. The two-day program focuses on examples of how pharmaceutical companies have implemented the new technology...

Partnering With ACOs Boot Camp, 4-5 December 2012, Philadelphia, PA

Date: Aug-30-2012
Partnering with ACOs Boot Camp, hosted by conference organizer ExL Pharma, will be taking place December 4-5, 2012 at the Inn at Penn, A Hitlton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. As the dust settles after the Supreme Courts upholding of the Accountable Care Act, the life science and device industries are scrambling to determine how they fit into the new healthcare landscape. This Boot Camp will explore how ACOs are structured, developed, and how a quality of care is determined...

Reducing Length Of Stay And Readmissions Ahead Of Reimbursement Cuts, National Healthcare CXO Summit, 21-23 October 2012, Dallas, Texas

Date: Aug-30-2012
With healthcare reforms now penalizing hospitals for patient readmissions, many more hospitals are making an effort to reduce their rate, but doing that along with minimizing length of stay (LOS) requires the delivery of better patient care. "A lot of our efforts are focused on communication, within the team as well as within the family dynamic and patient relationship," says Robert (Bo) Cofield, DrPH, MHA, FACHE, Chief Operations Officer and Associate Vice President, Hospital and Clinics Operations, University of Virginia Medical Center...

3rd Annual Pharma Project And Portfolio Management Toolbox, 8-9 March 2013, Basel

Date: Aug-30-2012
Due to growing competition, limited resources and increasingly challenging economic landscape on the pharma market, effective project and portfolio management requires foresight and preparation. EBCG's 3rd Annual Pharma PPM Toolbox (8th and 9th March 2013, Basel) aims to be the most important gathering for Pharma Project and Portfolio Managers in Europe. It presents a unique opportunity to develop fruitful, long-term and valuable business relations...

1,590 West Nile Virus Infections And 66 Deaths, Says CDC

Date: Aug-30-2012
1,590 people have become ill with West Nile virus and 66 have died so far this year, according to a report issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) yesterday - 56% (889) of them were classified as neuroinvasive disease. Forty-eight states have reported cases of West Nile virus infections in mosquitoes, birds or people. Neuroinvasive disease means the patient developed encephalitis, meningitis, or acute paralysis, which is mainly due to an infection of the virus of the spinal cord...

Chocolate May Lower Your Stroke Risk

Date: Aug-30-2012
Adding to the mounting evidence that consuming moderate amounts of chocoloate may benefit the heart, comes that of a new study of Swedish men that suggests it may also lower the risk of stroke. First author Susanna C. Larsson, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, told the media: "While other studies have looked at how chocolate may help cardiovascular health, this is the first of its kind study to find that chocolate, may be beneficial for reducing stroke in men...

Extensively Drug Resistant TB Levels Alarming

Date: Aug-30-2012
Tuberculosis that is resistant to first-line and second-line drugs is becoming more prevalent, an international team of experts reported in The Lancet today. They described levels of extensively drug-resistant TB as "alarming". 43.7% of TB (tuberculosis) cases in eight countries were found to be resistant to at least one second-line drug. In a linked Comment in the same journal, Sven Hoffner, from the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control wrote "Most international recommendations for TB control have been developed for MDR TB prevalence of up to around 5%...

Study Of Stroke Risk After AMI Reveals Ten Year Decline

Date: Aug-30-2012
The analysis of data from two Swedish registries was presented by Dr Anders Ulvenstam, and suggests that the reduction is due to improvements in AMI care. Ischemic stroke is a well known, relatively rare but potentially devastating complication following myocardial infarction. It can lead to severe neurological handicap and death for the patient and it is associated with great costs for society. "The risk of ischemic stroke after myocardial infarction has been studied previously, but there are many questions that remain unanswered," said Dr Ulvenstam...

In Swedish Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Patients, Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent 400 Cardiac Events And 200 Deaths

Date: Aug-30-2012
Up to 400 cardiac events and 200 deaths in Swedish PCI patients could be avoided by following a heart healthy lifestyle, according to research from the SPICI study presented at ESC Congress 2012. The results were presented at ESC press conference by Professor Joep Perk from Linnaeus University and at the scientific session by Dr Roland CARLSSON. The benefits of adherence to a heart healthy lifestyle in combination with drug treatment after an acute myocardial infarction treated with coronary artery balloon intervention (PCI) have recently been examined...