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Irelands first major effort in stem cell research is getting off the ground at the National University of Ireland (Galway). The National Center for Biomedical Engineering Science at the college has secured EUR 15 million from Science Foundation Ireland and another EUR 4 million from industry partners to establish the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI), which plans to develop approaches to treating vascular disease and arthritis based on genetically modifying adult stem cells.
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The cytokine interleukin-6 plays an important role in triggering the rapid damage to heart muscle function that can develop in people with septic shock following infection with meningococci, a condition that often is fatal. The team making that discovery says it will be important to investigate IL-6 as a target for therapeutic agents.
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Cardiovascular companies and cardiovascular topics captured much of the spotlight in healthcare investor conferences that took place last month a little more than a week apart at opposite ends of the country.
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Michigan hospitals track bioterror; Ohio group issues surgical protocol; NFPA now allows hand-rub dispensers.
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Employees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), an academic facility in Lebanon, NH, that includes a 400-bed tertiary hospital, research and clinical space, work for an organization that places prime importance on sound environmental stewardship and they become aware of that fact their first day on the job.
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A task force of leading internal medicine physicians is recommending significant changes to their profession and the health care industry so they can better serve patients while stemming chaos in the current health care system.
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All Saints Healthcare, a multifacility system in Racine, WI, has adapted a pre-existing template for meeting structure to more closely mesh with its strategic goals, creating a more organized meeting process while at the same time reinforcing key mission and vision messages with staff personnel.
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Generating physician involvement in QI efforts has been an ongoing challenge for quality professionals, but an initiative to increase diabetes awareness among the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) 220 primary care physician practices, called UPMC Community Medicine Inc. (CMI), has produced impressive results.
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