FDA approved Bard Peripheral Vascular's device on June 17, 2014. The self-expanding Nitinol stent lined with ePTFE is placed inside a blocked existing stent on the venous side of a dialysis access circuit, after balloon angioplasty, to restore blood flow for dialysis.
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New CDC Report: Social Determinants of Health among Adults Diagnosed with HIV
A CDC supplemental surveillance report ties census-tract conditions to 2010 HIV diagnoses across 20 states, DC and Puerto Rico. Diagnosis rates were highest among black, Hispanic and white residents of the poorest tracts; Hispanic men were the exception on the education measure.
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Bronx Nursing Home, Gold Crest Care Center, Goes Green
Gold Crest Care Center in the Bronx is moving its marketing team into a fleet of smart cars and has installed low-energy fixtures with LED bulbs in its lobby and other areas, part of an effort to cut the nursing home's emissions and environmental impact.
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Home Care Agency NYC, All Heart Home Care Agency Offers Tips on Staying Cool This Summer
All Heart Home Care Agency offers hot-weather advice for elderly and disabled New Yorkers: drink eight glasses of water daily, skip caffeine, stay in air conditioning, close curtains, avoid midday sun, bathe in cool water and wear loose cotton. It asks relatives to watch for heat stroke signs.
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GSK Recalls Panadol Advance Bottles
GSK is recalling about 10,600 bottles of 100-count Panadol Advance caplets sold only in Puerto Rico because the packaging is not child-resistant, as the Poison Prevention Packaging Act requires for acetaminophen. Buyers can get a refund.
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FDA MedWatch - June 2014 Safety Labeling Changes includes 52 products with revisions to Prescribing Information
The posting covers 37 products with changes to boxed warnings, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions and patient package inserts. Affected drugs include several testosterone products, Benicar, Herceptin, Prolia, Sutent and Thalomid.
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Merriman Capital Initiates on OptimizeRx Corporation with a Buy Rating
Merriman Capital began equity research coverage of OptimizeRx with a Buy rating and a $3.00 price target. OptimizeRx's SampleMD lets doctors pull up sample vouchers, co-pay coupons and patient support through their e-prescribing systems.
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Tattoo Ink, Tattoo Needles, Tattoo kits Recalled
White & Blue Lion is recalling all lots of its tattoo inks, needles and kits, sold on Amazon and through 8Decades, after FDA testing found bacterial contamination that could cause infection and sepsis. One illness had been reported as of the release date.
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Sterile Drug Products by Unique Pharmaceuticals Ltd.: Recall - Lack of Sterility Assurance
FDA tells health care professionals to quarantine and not administer any drug marketed as sterile by Unique Pharmaceuticals of Temple, Texas, after two inspections found insanitary conditions, sterility failures and recurring environmental contamination. No illnesses had been reported.
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Mississippi Health Officials Confirm Two New Cases of Chikungunya Virus
The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed two more chikungunya cases, in residents who had returned from the Dominican Republic and Haiti, following a case reported in June. Officials urged Caribbean travelers to use DEET repellent and cover up, since these mosquitoes bite by day.
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Veran Medical Publishes Lung Cancer Patient Management Study
Veran Medical Technologies reported final results from its first SPiNPerc study, which calculated hospital savings of $693,327 per 200 lung cancer screening patients with positive findings and supported percutaneous biopsy when bronchoscopy is not possible. A Johns Hopkins trial continues.
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Hospira Lactated Ringer's And 5% Dextrose Injection, 1000 ML, Flexible Containers: Recall (One Lot) - Mold Contamination
Hospira is recalling one lot of Lactated Ringer's and 5% Dextrose Injection in 1,000 mL flexible containers after a customer found particulate indicative of mold, traced to a puncture that let the container leak. No adverse events have been reported for the lot.
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Young adults more likely to attend college
A Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics report finds Americans aged 18-24 are more diverse, likelier to finish high school and attend college, and less likely to smoke than earlier generations. They also carry more student debt, earn less than in 2000, and over 1 in 5 are obese.
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Charging Kits, Neck Knives, Power Adaptor/Chargers Recalled
CPSC posted three recalls: about 25,400 Lifeguard Press charging kits sold under the Ban.do, Jonathan Adler and Lilly Pulitzer names, whose wall chargers can overheat or shed prongs in the outlet; Master Cutlery neck knives over a laceration hazard; and Gemini power adaptors over burns.
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Funds passport to create 170K jobs, save USD20 bln: study
An APEC Policy Support Unit cost-benefit analysis estimates the Asia Region Funds Passport could save the region's investors USD 20 billion a year in fund management costs and create 170,000 jobs in APEC economies within five years by easing cross-border marketing of managed funds.
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Cytokinetics Announced Additional Results Relating to Tirasemtiv from Pre-Specificed Subgroup Analyses of BENEFIT-ALS
Pre-specified subgroup analyses of BENEFIT-ALS, presented in Nice, found the smaller decline in slow vital capacity on tirasemtiv versus placebo held consistently across ALS patient subgroups defined by age, sex, geography, riluzole use, disease onset, weight and body-mass index.
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Koch Exposed: Like His Father, Charles Koch Was a Bircher!
A newsletter from PRWatch editor Lisa Graves announcing the group's report that Charles Koch belonged to the John Birch Society in the early 1960s, and previewing The Progressive magazine's “Robber Barons” edition.
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United Fresh to Honor Industry Champion in Washington
United Fresh Produce Association is taking nominations for its 13th annual Produce Industry Advocate of the Year, which recognizes one member company for federal policy advocacy on behalf of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry. The award goes out in September at The Washington Conference.
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