The American Nurses Association joins environmental health groups in urging the phase out of harmful chemicals in toys and other products.
One in Three Children's Toys Tested by www.HealthyToys.org Found to have Significant Levels of Toxic Chemicals Including Lead, Flame Retardants, and Arsenic Ann Arbor, MI -- The Ecology Center, a Michigan-based nonprofit organization, and partners across the country today released the 2nd annual consumer guide to toxic...

U.S. News Media Group Expands Online Health Channel with Interactive Medical Expert Forum.
- Panel of Leaders in Health & Medicine Offers Advice and Opinions - WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation's leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, today announced the expansion of its online health channel offerings to include an...

Sage Launches Sage Intergy Version 5.5 Integrated Electronic Health Records and Practice Management System.
Practices Leverage Enhancements to Improve Practice Quality, Interoperability, and Fiscal Fitness TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Leveraging its heritage and experience of more than a decade of standards-based interoperability, Sage today announced the launch of Sage Intergy version 5.5 integrated electronic health records and practice management...

Alliance for Pediatric Quality Supports New ANSI-Approved Standard for Child Health Passed by HL7.
Electronic Health Record Systems Used to Care for Children to Carry New Functionality CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Many electronic health record systems are built with the adult patient in mind. So when a child goes to his or her primary care doctor -- whether...

Probiotic is deemed safe, effective for children with IBS.
ORLANDO -- Children and adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome reported significant improvements in symptoms and quality of life with the use of a proprietary probiotic mixture, compared with placebo, in a randomized, double-blind, crossover trial. Probiotics have shown some efficacy in adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),...

Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Bacteria Found in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at NanoBio Corp. and the University of Michigan have demonstrated in the laboratory that their novel topical nanoemulsion kills the highly resistant strains of bacteria that cause chronic illness and death among individuals with cystic fibrosis. The findings are...

CSL Behring Receives FDA Approval of RiaSTAP(TM), First and Only Approved Treatment of Acute Bleeding Episodes in Patients with Congenital Fibrinogen Deficiency.
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- CSL Behring announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for RiaSTAP(TM), the first and only treatment of acute bleeding episodes in patients with congenital fibrinogen deficiency, including afibrinogenemia and hypofibrinogenemia. Congenital fibrinogen deficiency is...

JeJe Teether Takes Babies' Teething Troubles Away.
Infants - and parents - find relief in revolutionary therapeutic teething device THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to teething, it's not just babies that feel the aches and pains. Parents everywhere sympathize - and desperately seek safe ways to alleviate the stress...

FDA panels weigh risks, benefits of asthma drugs.
ROCKVILLE, MD. -- The benefits of the single-ingredient, long-acting [beta]-agonist products salmeterol (Serevent) and formoterol (Foradil) do not outweigh their risks when used for treating asthma in adults, adolescents, and children, according to a majority of the three Food and Drug Administration advisory panels who reviewed the safety of...

PTC Therapeutics Completes Enrollment of Pivotal Trial in Muscular Dystrophy.
- Ataluren designated as generic name for PTC124 - SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) today announced that it has successfully completed patient enrollment of its pivotal clinical trial of PTC124 in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (nmDMD/BMD)....