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New Lab Test Helps Predict Kidney Damage
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication in patients in intensive care. A new laboratory test called urine neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) helps predict if patients will develop acute kidney injury, reports an upcoming study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). "As a stand-alone marker, urine NGAL performed moderately well in predicting ongoing and subsequent AKI," comments T. Alp Ikizler, MD (Vanderbilt University).
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Mount Sinai Receives $34.6 Million Clinical And Translational Research Award From NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcedrecently that Mount Sinai School of Medicine has received a Clinical and Translational Research Award (CTSA) for $34.6 million over the next five years. The CTSA will help support a new research paradigm at Mount Sinai that will facilitate the translation of breakthrough research from bench to bedside and will be led by Hugh Sampson, MD, Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences, Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, and the Kurt Hirschhorn Professor of Pediatrics.
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California Gov. Schwarzenegger's Plan To Reduce State Spending Includes Cuts To HIV/AIDS Services
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday sent state lawmakers a plan to reduce more than $5 billion in spending that includes cuts to HIV/AIDS services, the Los Angeles Times reports (Rothfeld/McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, 5/27). The proposed cuts include $55.5 million in California"s AIDS Drug Assistance Program and other state Office of AIDS programs. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Schwarzenegger"s plan would make HIV-positive people pay more for drugs, while HIV/AIDS programs such as counseling, monitoring and education would be reduced or eliminated. "We were expecting cuts, but this is much, much worse than what we were expecting," Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, policy and legislative associate for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said (Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/27). Tuesday"s plan follows a separate proposal to cut $16 billion in overall state spending that Schwarzenegger announced two weeks ago. Aides say that Schwarzenegger plans to propose an additional $3 billion in reductions by the end of the week to offset a projected $24.3 billion budget shortfall. "Behind every one of these dollars that we cut there are real faces," Schwarzenegger said, adding, "Even though those are tough choices, what is the alternative?" (Los Angeles Times, 5/27).
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MEDEC Commends The Ontario Government's Decision To Make PET Scans More Accessible To Patients In The Province

MEDEC - Canada"s Medical Technology Companies - applauds the Ontario Government for its recent decision to add Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Technology to the services covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) thereby ensuring that Ontarians have access to PET technology. MEDEC Vice President Corporate Affairs, Lawrence Sereacki praised the actions of the Ontario government, noting that this is an opportune time for the government to modify its PET policy to help resolve the medical isotope dilemma and enhance the expeditious review and adoption of new technology for the benefit of patients. He added that MEDEC looks forward to working with the government and acting as a re to ensure smooth implementation of PET access for Ontarians. "PET scan technology is well recognized by Health Canada and others around the world" he said. "We are pleased that the government has decided to make this modern medical technology available to a wide cross section of Ontarians. Historically, Ontario had taken a decision to restrict PET scans. MEDEC had repeatedly stressed in the past that this restrictive access to PET technology has disadvantaged Ontario residents who needed access to PET scans for appropriate diagnosis and treatment and created a disparity between access to health care in Ontario versus other provinces. While applauding the province"s new step towards improving access to health technologies, MEDEC sees the need for the Ontario government to make additional changes to expeditiously assess and make modern technology more rapidly available to Ontario patients. Additionally, MEDEC recommends that the Ontario Government set up a Medical Device Technology Fund to finance technologies recommended by the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) to improve patient access to advanced medical technologies and ensure hospitals and healthcare facilities offer advanced technologies that can save lives. MEDEC


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