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POPSOmniMD EMR Specialities The OmniMD™ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Software automates and simplifies the patient record documentation, storage and retrieval process.
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POPSIpsen Buying Tercica The weak dollar strikes again, as another U.S.-based biotech gets bought by an overseas drugmaker. Ipsen already owned 25% of Tercica, which makes a hormone for treating children who are not growing adequately. Still, that 104% premium is pretty eye-catching.
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POPSAustralia Day Award for infertility expert Amongst his findings is the fact that regulation of egg development and ovulation was not just hormone based, but involved interaction between cells in the ovary. His findings have led to improved outcomes in stimulating women to produce eggs in IVF procedures
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POPSCalcium: Heart Risk for Older Women? The risk of a heart attack was about 1.5 times greater for those in the supplement group, but the link did not reach statistical significance. Considered together, strokes, heart attack, or sudden death were more common in those on supplements than on placebo, but the differences -- when taken as a whole -- were statistically only of borderline significance But he speculates that the calcium supplements may elevate blood calcium levels and possibly speed calcification in blood vessels, which is known to predict the rates of vascular problems such as heart attack. Proceed with caution....