Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Lobbies For Electronic Prescribing Requirement In Medicare Bill

More than 40 businesses, consumer groups and pharmaceutical stakeholders -- led by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association -- on Thursday sent a letter to congressional committee leaders calling for electronic prescribing legislation to be included as part of a 2010 Medicare package that the Senate Finance Committee is drafting, CongressDaily reports.

Cancer Patients Put At Risk For PTSD By Anxiety And Mood Disorders

Breast cancer patients who have a prior history of mood and anxiety disorders are at a much higher risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder following their diagnosis, new research suggests.A study of 74 breast cancer patients at the Ohio State University Medical Center found that 16 percent of them (12 women) suffered from PTSD 18 months after diagnosis.

Despite Therapy For Hypertension Kidney Disease Worsens In A Fourth Of African-Americans

The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Loss Of Protective Heart Failure Protein Causes High Blood Pressure

Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that a protein that appears to have protective and perhaps healing effects for failing hearts also plays a similar role in high blood pressure.

Key To Spread Of Common Form Of Breast Cancer Held In Cells Lining Milk Ducts

When a form of cancer that begins in the milk ducts of the breast invades neighboring tissue to spread to other parts of the body, the cause lies not in the tumor cells themselves but in a group of abnormal surrounding cells that cause the walls of the duct to deteriorate like a rusty pipe, according to a new study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers.

Philadelphia Initiative Seeks To Reduce Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease Among Blacks

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday examined the Healthy Black Family Project, a University of Pittsburgh Center for Minority Health initiative that provides physical activities for blacks in an effort to reduce hypertension and diabetes rates among the group.

How Cells Communicate To Activate The Cell Division Machinery May Address Problem Of Proliferation Of Malignant Cells And Tumor Growth

A study performed by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) on the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, unveils how distinct signaling pathways operate between neighboring cells in order to activate the cell proliferation machinery that results in the organized growth of the fly wing.

British Sign Language, The Deaf And Criminal Justice

Deaf people on trial were granted the right to an interpreter as early as 1725, according to Old Bailey records examined by UCL (University College London) scientists.

Democrat Who Opposes Abortion Rights Wins Special Congressional Election In Louisiana

State Rep. Don Cazayoux (D), who opposes abortion rights, on Saturday won a special election for a Louisiana U.S. House seat that has been held by Republicans for 33 years, the Washington Post reports (Kane, Washington Post, 5/4).

Early ADMET Use Reported By Genetic Engineering And Biotechnology News

Biotech and pharma companies are increasingly utilizing novel technologies to assess the druggability of test compounds early in the development cycle to avoid costly late clinical-stage attrition, according to Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN) (http://www.