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First Coast Medicare To Provide Case By Case Reimbursement For The Renessa(R) Treatment For Incontinence In Women
Novasys Medical, Inc., a developer of innovative therapies in women"s health, announced that as of July 1, 2009, First Coast Service Options, Inc. ("First Coast"), a large regional Medicare carrier serving over 3 million beneficiaries in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, has removed the non-surgical Renessa(R) treatment for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) from its noncovered services list and will be looking at claims for the Renessa procedure on an individual case by case basis.
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Vitamin A Supplements Can Reduce Malaria Cases In Children By One-Third, Study Finds
In malaria-endemic areas, vitamin A supplements - which cost about 2 U.S. cents each - can help reduce infections in children by one-third, according to a study published in the Malaria Journal, IRIN reports. The study analyzed results from previous studies conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Papua New Guinea since 1995. It found that vitamin A supplements decreased malaria cases by one-third in Papua New Guinea and Burkina Faso.
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Virus Filters For Medical Diagnosis
Providing reliable evidence of viruses in human blood presently requires time- and labor-intensive molecular-biological procedures. Established methods are particularly hard pushed to produce evidence when the viral burden is very low, for example during a phase of therapy. This could soon change. While developing new types of micro-pumps without movable parts, scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT came across an unexpected phenomenon: stable turbulence structures formed in the microscale pump channels. The nano- and microparticles actually intended to verify the pump effect accumulated in large quantities in the channels. The vortex patterns completely filled the whole microchannel, creating a virtually 100% trap for the particles that followed the generated flow profile, although there is a very large cross-section to flow through. "The development of flow vortices is nothing unusual on the macroscopic scale. However, in microchannels the flow lines almost run in parallel," explains Richard Stein from the IBMT. "The question, therefore, was, how is it possible for vortices to be formed from this which were sufficiently stable and effective for the concentration of nanoparticles?"
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National Organization For Rare Disorders To Honor Rare Disease Pioneers

The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) will honor a senior U.S. Senator, a top Administration official, a cutting-edge television network, and several pioneering companies developing treatments for rare diseases at the 2009 NORD Gala at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 14. The NORD Gala is an annual event at which researchers and others are honored for significant achievements to improve the lives of people with rare diseases. NORD represents the nearly 30 million Americans who have rare diseases. "We are honored to have this opportunity to pay tribute to pioneers in public policy, the sciences, and health-related education and awareness," NORD President and CEO Peter L. Saltonstall said. "These individuals and companies have demonstrated compassion and concern for what was once a forgotten community-people who have diseases affecting small patient populations. We are happy to honor them for accomplishments that have literally saved lives." In the United States, a disease is considered rare if it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), there are between 6,000 and 7,000 such diseases affecting nearly 30 million Americans. Many rare diseases are serious, life-threatening and chronic. The 2009 NORD Gala honorees are: - Senator Edward Kennedy for lifetime achievement in health promotion leadership and for specific accomplishments on behalf of populations that are underserved by our nation"s healthcare system - Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue, J.D., for his focus on reducing the disability backlog and improving service to the public - Discovery Health, for educational programming that helps the public understand problems such as difficulty getting an accurate diagnosis that accompany having a rare disease - John I. Gallin, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, for contributions as an excellent administrator, a caring physician, and a pioneering researcher - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, for developing and bringing to market Nexavar®, a treatment option for patients with a form of liver cancer known as hepatocellular carcinoma, when the cancer is inoperable - Baxter International Inc., for developing Ceprotin® for patients with life-threatening blood-clotting complications related to severe congenital protein C deficiency - BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc., for developing Kuvan®, the first specific drug therapy for phenylketonuria (PKU) - Biovail Corporation, for making available to the patient community Xenazine®, the first treatment to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the jerky movements (chorea) associated with Huntington"s disease - CSL Behring, for developing and bringing to market RiaSTAP™, the first and only treatment for acute bleeding episodes in patients with congenital fibrinogen deficiency, an extremely rare, potentially life-threatening bleeding disorder - Eisai Inc., for bringing to the patient community Banzel™, a much-needed treatment alternative for seizures linked to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of childhood epilepsy - GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc., for developing ATryn®, an anticoagulant to prevent blood clots in people with a rare disease known as hereditary antithrombin (AT) deficiency - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for developing Arcalyst®, the only approved treatment for people with a recently identified group of rare, inherited, autoinflammatory disorders known as CAPS - Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc., for developing Gamunex®, the first therapy approved for treating people with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy - ViroPharma, Inc., for making available to patients Cinryze®, the first drug approved by FDA to prevent swelling that occurs in various body systems as a result of a disease known as hereditary angioedema (HAE) NORD will also present its first Abbey S. Meyers Leadership Award to the Huntington"s Disease Society of America. The award was established in honor of NORD"s founding president, Abbey Meyers. In addition, Patty Delaney, an FDA staff member who was a strong advocate for patients and who died last year, will be honored posthumously. National Organization for Rare Disorders


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