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The Wall Street Journal: "Hospital stocks moved higher Tuesday after the agency that runs Medicare proposed new inpatient services rates for the next fiscal year that were somewhat better than many had expected. Monday evening the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would like to cut Medicare operating payments to acute care hospitals for inpatient services occurring in the next fiscal year by $142 million, or 0.1%. These figures don't include the impact of the new health-care reform law, which analysts said would cut the rate by another 0.25%".
A study led by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O. at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has found that oral folic acid may provide a safe and inexpensive treatment to improve vascular function in young female runners who are amenorrheic (not menstruating).
Health care providers are warning that President Barack Obama's new jobs plan could actually siphon jobs from one of the few industries still hiring -; because the only way to pay for it would be to make deeper cuts in the health care entitlement programs (Dobias, 9/11).
Eli Lilly and Company today announced that the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Alimta® (pemetrexed disodium) vitamin regimen patent would be indirectly infringed by a generic competitor that had stated its intent to market certain alternative salt forms of pemetrexed in the United Kingdom prior to the UK patent's expiration in June 2021.
Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) today announced patients are now enrolling in a multicenter, open-label expanded access program (EAP) in the United States for the investigational oral Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib, which is being jointly developed by Janssen and Pharmacyclics, Inc.
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