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EyePromise is marking the National Eye Institute's Healthy Vision Month with a campaign inviting doctors, consumers and athletes to share their experiences with its eye vitamins for a prize drawing, alongside online material on nutrition and macular pigment.
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Hospice Hub, a Pennsylvania technology firm, is offering to take over Medicare Part D prior authorization processing for hospices, responding to CMS requirements effective May 1, 2014 that hospices and Part D plans communicate about drug coverage.
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Thomson Reuters released an Affordable Care Act tax overview and a monthly newsletter that tax, accounting and benefits firms can send to clients, covering employer reporting requirements, small employer tax credits, marketplaces and related IRS guidance.
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SeeChange Health, which sells value-based health plans and health improvement services, was named a Red Herring Top 100 North America winner for 2014. CEO Martin Watson says the company is in its third year of triple-digit growth.
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The National Institute of Nursing Research appointed three new members to its National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, among them Centura Health senior vice president James Corbett. The council meets three times a year and conducts second-level review of grant applications.
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Researchers at NIH, the University at Buffalo and Emory report that couples in which both partners had high cholesterol took longest to achieve pregnancy, and couples where only the woman did also took longer. The authors say high cholesterol may impair fertility. Published in JCEM.
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The British-based Huntington Disease Youth Organization opened its first U.S. office at MedStar Georgetown, offering events, online resources, peer connection and mentoring for people up to age 25 and their families. The region has an estimated 1,400 people with HD and 9,000 at risk.
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Nutritionist Joy Bauer's PBS special, airing on stations from May 31, 2014, offers a step-by-step eating plan and singles out foods she says help manage specific conditions, among them pistachios, kale, ginger, turmeric, strawberries, pumpkin and black beans.
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EcoFarm is asking readers to suggest speakers, plenaries, workshops and discussion topics for the 35th annual conference next January, with submissions due June 15, 2014. A 37-member planning committee reviews the ideas and votes on them.
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NIH researchers identified Bmp7, a protein produced during embryonic development, as helping sensory cells find their position on the tonotopic map that organizes the auditory system by sound frequency. The animal study appeared in Nature Communications.
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United Fresh will host 'Beyond the Buzz,' a June 12 session in Chicago on the complexities of buying, selling and marketing local produce, with speakers from FreshDirect, Wegmans Food Markets and Pro*Act.
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Medtronic received CE mark for the NC Euphora noncompliant balloon dilatation catheter, inflated at high pressure after stent placement so the stent seats fully against the artery wall. It is available in Europe and other CE-mark countries, but not in the United States.
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USAID announced an almost $5 million Global Development Alliance with Texas A&M entities and others to rebuild Central American coffee growing after a rust epidemic that cost the industry $1 billion in the late 2012 harvest alone. Work centers on disease-resistant varieties for smallholders.
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Medtronic reported fourth-quarter revenue of $4.566 billion, up 3 percent at constant currency, and fiscal 2014 revenue of $17.0 billion. A one-time $746 million pre-tax litigation charge cut quarterly net earnings to $448 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, down 54 percent from a year earlier.
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Medtronic and Edwards Lifesciences settled their global heart valve patent fights, dropping all pending litigation and cross-licensing. Medtronic pays $750 million up front plus royalties on CoreValve sales through April 2022 of at least $40 million a year. Neither side admits infringement.
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FKS sells eFlavors, an installable program with audio and video instructions that walks users through creating flavors at their own pace in their own lab. It is based on the company's hands-on flavorist courses and Flavor Creator software, and five programs are available.
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An Environmental Working Group alert urges readers to tell their representatives to oppose the House Chemicals in Commerce Act, arguing it would let new chemicals reach the market before EPA review, limit EPA action to 'unreasonable' risks and let industry hide safety data as trade secrets.
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Rain again cancelled the ranch tours, but 150 cattle producers gathered at the Upper Gulf Coast Ranch Expo to hear Texas A&M AgriLife Extension experts on herd expansion, debt financing, livestock leases and horticulture. Economist Levi Russell charted rising feeder cattle prices.
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