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Mayo Clinic announced today the release of a new book, “Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization.” This historical book weaves together three important themes: major developments in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in the 20th Century, how Mayo Clinic evolved from a family practice in Minnesota into one of the world's leading medical centers, and how the invention of new technologies and procedures promoted specialization among physicians and surgeons.

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Ingredient B2B company proves purity of its products amid widespread industry adulteration.

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A new partnership between Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) and Kitchener-Waterloo based startup Chalk.com makes theoretical physics lessons accessible to educators worldwide.

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The recent NCSBN National Simulation Study found substantial evidence that up to 50% simulation training can be effectively substituted for traditional clinical experience in all prelicensure core nursing courses. B-Line Medical has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to provide nursing education and hospital simulation programs access to robust and proven healthcare curriculum.

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Georgia State University has signed a license agreement with Cisen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., a comprehensive pharmaceutical enterprise in China, to develop cancer-fighting compounds designed by Georgia State researcher Dr. Binghe Wang, in collaboration with Professor Muxiang Zhou of Emory University, a cancer biologist.

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Carrier screening for inherited genetic disorders is an important part of preconception and prenatal care for the nearly 4 million women who give birth in the US annually. Carrier screening is meant to identify couples at risk for passing on such genetic conditions to their children. While there have been limitations to this approach in the past, new technology in genotyping and genetic sequencing allows for more efficient carrier screening of a greater number of conditions simultaneously.

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Experts can discuss the prediction that Americans may spend $4.8 billion on jewelry this Valentine’s day, and why moissanite, the world’s most brilliant gem®, represents one of the most economically sensible choices for this type of gift.

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The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announce the availability of a free online continuing education program (CME/CPE), entitled “Internet Drug Sellers: What Providers Need To Know,” for pharmacists and physicians focused on the growing problem of illegal online drug sales. Recent studies found that nearly 97% of online drug sellers are operating illegally, and one in two websites selling medicine online peddle counterfeit drugs.

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Mayo Clinic announced today that Epic has been selected as its strategic partner for a single, integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management (RCM) system. The new system will replace Mayo’s three EHRs in use today and will be a foundation for Mayo Clinic operations over the next several decades.

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Today, Mayo Clinic announced it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Hillhouse Capital to advance the quality of health care in China.

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More than 100 cancer patients have received an innovative form of radiation therapy at the S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy in the center’s first year of operation.

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Intrexon Corporation, a leader in synthetic biology and its oncology partner, ZIOPHARM Oncology, today announced a broad exclusive licensing agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, including an exclusive sublicensing agreement through MD Anderson for intellectual property developed at the University of Minnesota for the development of non-viral adoptive cellular cancer immunotherapies.

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University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Advanced Biological Laboratories in Luxembourg, have signed an agreement to work together on designing and validation of an HIV drug-resistance and tropism assay.

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Six of Ohio’s leading health systems have agreed to form a large-scale entity whose mission is to improve the value of health care services delivered to patients and communities throughout Ohio.

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Novella Clinical, a Quintiles company (Novella), and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) today announced a preferred provider collaboration that will offer a set of clinical trial services to developers of cardiovascular drugs and devices.

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/PRNewswire/ -- Citeline®, an Informa business unit, and the pharmaceutical industry's leading research authority on clinical trials, today announced the official release of Chinatrove, the newest addition to its suite of pharma R&D intelligence services.

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Mapi, a leading Health Research and Commercialization services company, has completed the acquisition of select Optum Life Sciences services, including North American and European Regulatory Consulting, Late Phase CRO and European Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) teams.

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Loyola University Medical Center has implanted its 100th patient with a new artificial aortic heart valve that does not require open-heart surgery.

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/PRNewswire/ -- Tigercat Pharma, Inc. today announced positive results of a Phase 2 study evaluating the investigational oral NK-1 receptor antagonist VPD-737 (serlopitant), for the treatment of patients with severe, chronic itch who are unresponsive or inadequately responsive to the current standard of care, including topical steroids and antihistamines.

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Sandia National Laboratories and industrial gas giant Linde LLC have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) that is expected to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy and industrial technologies, beginning with hydrogen and fuel cells.

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The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and education partner Elsevier Clinical Solutions have launched “AACN: Acute and Critical Care Pharmacology,” an online course providing case study-based education focused on safe medication administration for both acute care and critical care staff nurses.

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Mayo Clinic announced today a new collaboration with Techstars to offer the Techstars++ program. The Techstars++ program will bring together health care entrepreneurs and companies with Mayo Clinic to find innovative solutions to improve patient care at an accelerated pace. Mayo Clinic is the first to participate in this new program.

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Baylor Research Institute (BRI), the research arm of the Baylor Scott & White Health, announced that it has signed an agreement with Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi) to non-exclusively license Baylor’s patents pertaining to the treatment of Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

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As only 840 out of almost 5,000 eligible hospitals—19 percent—have attested to Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 throughout the nation, Engage, a division of Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS), continues to assist customers in overcoming attestation obstacles. Whitman Hospital and Medical Center, Tri-State Memorial Hospital, Mid-Valley Hospital, Pullman Regional Hospital and Grays Harbor Community Hospital, all located in Washington State, recently completed successful attestation toward the EHR financial incentive program. This brings the total number of Engage hospital customers achieving MU 2 to eight.

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4 Reasons to go organic with your caffeine. Applied Food Sciences, Inc. (AFS) Dissects what purity, safety, and market research mean for the future of caffeine ingredients.

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The ACR Mammography Case Review (MCR) Online improves physicians’ breast cancer detection skills by supplementing real world experience with electronic cases. This self-paced eLearning program features a state-of-the-art interface with an interactive image detection mechanism to enhance learning.

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Healthcare educators and practitioners seeking guidelines, best practices, and recommendations for creating and managing cost-effective, researched-based simulation education and training programs now have a world class road map in the new textbook Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs.

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Rush Health has expanded its network with the addition of Riverside Medical Center, which joined Rush Health at the beginning of September. Rush Health is a clinically integrated network of hospitals, physicians and other clinicians. Riverside Medical Center is a 325-bed hospital based in Kankakee that employs approximately 57 doctors and 35 non-physician clinicians, who also have joined Rush Health.

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Smart technology is in our homes, cars and phones. And soon, it will power our luggage, thanks in part to University at Buffalo engineering student Martin Diz. Diz, a doctoral candidate in UB’s aerospace engineering program, is co-founder and head of engineering for Bluesmart, a company that’s developing a carry-on that uses digital technology to solve some of the problems that frustrate many travelers.

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Texas Tech University and the National Wind Institute developed a patent-pending concept that will optimize wind plant performance.

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MMIS is a global technology company providing innovative compliance and business intelligence solutions for the life science industry. MMIS is a leading provider of cloud-based SaaS solutions dedicated to helping pharmaceutical, medical device and bio-pharmaceutical companies comply with global transparency laws. The MediSpend® Global Compliance platform allows organizations to cost-effectively comply with transparency laws, analyze data and securely communicate with healthcare providers across the world. For more information, please visit www.medispend.com.

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The U.S. Navy and Office of Naval Research are developing unmanned surface vehicle (USV) technology that allows USVs to act in tandem as an autonomous “swarm” of robot boats potentially providing enhanced security against enemy vessels. But the USV technology suffers from technical hurdles, including a lack of a stable platform required for proper communication among the boats. The Ghost—a high-speed attack craft designed by Juliet Marine Systems to protect vital waterways—offers a potential alternative, with stability on the water that the USV technology needs.

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Mapi, a global leader in Real-World Evidence, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR), Market Access, Epidemiology and Patient-Centered Research solutions, strengthens its North American team with the appointment of Charles Makin as Vice President, HEOR and Strategic Market Access.

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The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) has contracted with SAGE, a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets, to publish its official journal, Workplace Health & Safety, beginning in early 2015.

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New methods are improving connections between private businesses and technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with 101 licenses and options executed during the last three years.

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A Penn Medicine-developed drug has received orphan status from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare, life-threatening disease that causes anemia due to destruction of red blood cells and thrombosis.

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Two, free online Ebola education downloadable courses will provide easy-to-understand instruction and resources for health care professionals, as well as the general public.

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The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Foundation has published an updated and expanded edition of a book intended to help address the rise of opioid abuse and related deaths in the United States by better educating physicians and other clinicians about their risks and proper use.

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The Rockefeller University Press has expanded access to its book collection, with nearly 50 titles available for free download in multiple e-book formats at books.rupress.org. The collection dates back to 1959 and includes works by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning authors.

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An inexpensive, disposable external medical device created and developed by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) professors can now be bought and used by clinicians to monitor contractions in pregnant women. The tocodynamometer, marketed as Koala Toco, was approved in May by the Food and Drug Administration. Koala Toco, manufactured and marketed by Murray, Utah-based Clinical Innovations, is compatible and works with existing equipment like fetal heart rate monitors.

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According to a recent study published online by The Journal of Pediatrics, adolescents who participated in even one or two family meals per week were less likely to be overweight or obese in adulthood as compared to adolescents who never participated in family meals. The Kids Cook Monday, a national nonprofit campaign, aims to help parents incorporate family meals at least once a week by offering a variety of free online resources. The latest is The Family Dinner Date, an easy-to-navigate e-cookbook featuring recipes that parents and kids can easily prepare together.

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United States Drug Testing Laboratory, Inc., a forensic laboratory specializing in drug and alcohol testing using advanced specimens, has released a new assay to detect zolpidem (Ambien®) use in fingernail and hair specimens.

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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is one of the many breast cancer-related entities nationwide that will benefit from the sale of the Pink Ribbon Bagel at Panera Bread® bakery-cafes during the month of October. The effort is in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and is designed to raise awareness about the disease.

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Citeline®, an Informa business unit, and the pharmaceutical industry's leading research authority on clinical trials, reported today that clinical trial transparency, also known as responsible data sharing, is in a much healthier state than shown in previous studies, when you refer to the right variety of sources.

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Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce a partnership with Visible Body®, producer of an award-winning suite of 3D anatomy education solutions, to distribute their web-based and mobile products via its Ovid® medical research platform for institutions globally. Visible Body is an entity of Argosy Publishing.

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JournalGuide – a free tool created by Research Square to help researchers choose the best journal for their manuscript – has added a new designation to its database to help authors identify the most reputable publishing options.

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Anyone can get involved to support Nationwide Children’s Hospital through the marathon's Children’s Champions program.

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Virginia Mason, a national leader in improving quality and safety and controlling health care costs, today introduced a surgical warranty for hip and knee replacements. It protects patients, insurance providers and employers from incurring additional costs for the treatment of avoidable, surgery-related complications.

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An Arkansas-based company headed by an organic chemist has partnered with AbTech Industries to address the removal of heavy metals and other soluble impurities from contaminated water

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Over the past 11 years, Derm In-Review (made possible by an educational grant from Merz) has prepared over 9,500 residents nationwide for Board certifying exams, including the subspecialty exam in dermatopathology. In that timespan, Educational Testing and Assessment Systems (ETAS), the creators of Derm In-Review, have worked closely with a faculty of over 20 thought leaders to develop and update the study system's content annually. As part of ETAS' commitment to maintaining the educational integrity of their Board prep program, new this year they have also partnered with Aurora Diagnostics to further enhance the dermatopathology content of Derm In-Review.