Category Archives: Health Care

More than 40 international and regional joint reconstruction experts at ICJR-ME in Dubai.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Obama administration’s budget proposal allows more employers to qualify for a tax credit to offset the costs of providing health insurance to their workers.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Congress has passed a compromise bill that would delay the impending 27% cut in Medicare pay rates for 10 months.

(MedPage Today) — CardioGen-82, a generator that produces the PET imaging agent rubidium-82, can return to market, says the FDA, but it must carry a new boxed warning.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The weight-loss pill phentermine/topiramate (Qnexa) helps overweight and obese patients lose weight, but may also increase the risk for cleft palates in babies born to mothers who took the pill while pregnant, FDA reviewers said.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The number of hospitals using health information technology has more than doubled in the past two years, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced.

(MedPage Today) — Mifepristone, best known as the “abortion pill” once called RU-486, has been approved for treating hyperglycemia associated with endogenous Cushing’s disease, the FDA said.

(MedPage Today) — The FDA has approved the Resolute Integrity drug-eluting stent, the first such stent to carry an indication for use in diabetics with coronary artery disease, according to a statement from the manufacturer.

WASHINGTON –Congress passed a bill to delay a scheduled 27% cut in Medicare payments by 10 months, and the president released his 2013 budget proposal, which requests a slight increase for health programs.

GlaxoSmithKline announced today that it has submitted regulatory applications in Europe and the US related to Tykerb/ Tyverb (lapatinib) and its use in combination with trastuzumab to treat patients with HER2 (ErbB2)-positive metastatic breast cancer.