Archive: 29/08/2016
Cost savings possible from reducing use of low-value health services, study says
The first national study to examine spending on a wide array of low-value health services among adults with commercial health insurance finds that while use of such services is modest, there is considerable potential for ...
Aug 29, 2016
US regulators issue emergency authorisation for Roche Zika test: company
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Monday that US regulators had issued emergency authorisation to use its not-yet-approved diagnostic test for detecting the Zika virus in certain circumstances.
Aug 29, 2016
CHART-1: Largest cardiac regenerative therapy trial brings new insights
A therapy that uses bone-marrow stem cells to promote heart repair did not significantly improve the primary outcome over a sham procedure among patients with congestive heart failure. However, it revealed critical new insights, ...
Aug 29, 2016
Infused stem cells in heart failure: Improved health status but not cardiac function
A single dose of mesenchymal stem cells delivered intravenously to patients with chronic non-ischemic cardiomyopathy was not associated with significant cardiac structural or functional improvements, but did result in several ...
Aug 29, 2016