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| Lawmakers: Slow Down on Health Care Obama should re-evaluate his push to overhaul the nation's health-care system and move more slowly, some key lawmakers said. online.barrons.com |
Forest Labs Presents Encouraging Pneumonia Drug Data Zacks.com submits: We are pleased to hear that Forest Laboratories (FRX) presented encouraging data from its phase III trial of ceftaroline for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized patients. The company presented new data from two multicenter studies – FOCUS 1 and FOCUS 2 – at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco. In addition to CAP, ceftaroline is also being studied for complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by gram-positive bacteria.The randomized, double-blind trial compared ceftaroline with ceftriaxone in hospitalized adult patients with moderate to severe CAP. Following both the trials, it was found that patients treated with ceftaroline demonstrated a better cure rate (84.3%) compared to those treated with ceftriaxone (77.7%). In addition, the overall microbiological response rate in the microbiologically evaluable (ME) population was 87% for ceftaroline and 81% for ceftriaxone, while in the microbiological modified intent-to-treat (MITT) population it was 84.8% for ceftaroline and 80.4% for ceftriaxone.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Medicare Premiums to Rise 25% Premiums that seniors pay for Medicare Advantage plans will increase an average of 25% next year, largely because insurers are canceling many plans that carry no premiums. online.wsj.com |
Alliance HealthCare Services Announces Proposed Private Offering of $200 Million of Senior Notes (Business Wire) NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.----Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $200 million aggregate principal amount of seven-year senior notes in a private offering. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Cord Blood America Says 2009 Debt Reduction Tops $10 Million (PR Newswire) Cord Blood America, Inc. , the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells, a biological insurance policy, to families nationwide and internationally, said today that it has reduced its debt by a total of $1.4 million so far in the fourth quarter of 2009 and total debt eliminated for the year now tops $10 million. us.rd.yahoo.com |