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Wound Management Technologies, Inc. Announces Conference Plans and Clinical Data Presentation at Leading Diabetic Foot Conference

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (OTC Bulletin Board: WNDM) Wound Management Technologies, Inc., a growing  provider of specialty medical products, announced today that its subsidiary Wound Care Innovations will exhibit at the DFCon 10 Global Diabetic Foot Conference in Los Angeles March 18-20.  Expected attendance is more than 1000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, scientists, and limb salvage experts from all 50 U.S. states and more than 42 foreign countries.  An evidence based study using their advanced wound care collagen product, CellerateRx®,  "Activated Collagen Accelerates Wound Repair and Modulates Cytokine Production in Whole Blood and PBMC Cultures" by Greg Pott, PhD, K.Scott Beard, PhD, Matthew Regulski, DPM, and Leland Shapiro, MD is one of the accepted abstracts presented at the conference.

GoodTherapy.org and PsychCentral.com Partner to Help Therapy Seekers Find a Therapist

Two of the internet's most prominent therapy resources come together to facilitate more connections between quality therapists and potential clients searching for professional help

OLYMPIA, Wash., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- To the casual observer, it might seem that the task to find a therapist is relatively simple; open up a phone book or type a few words into a major search engine, and a host of options are instantly available. But without a meaningful way to differentiate between professionals, potential clients are sometimes left feeling forced to pick the closest office or the listing with the biggest advertisement, and such methods are rarely if ever able to ensure a degree of quality. This quality is of great importance in the field of psychotherapy, as working with an unqualified or otherwise questionable therapist can lead to significant emotional and mental harm. Recognizing the need for a reliable and consistent way to find a therapist who is both local and dedicated to providing meaningful, heartfelt care, GoodTherapy.org developed an exclusive and stringent online directory in 1997, and is now proud to announce the directory's collaboration with PsychCentral.com.

PsychCentral.com has partnered with GoodTherapy.org to incorporate the quality, hand-reviewed listings into its own therapist search function. PsychCentral.com is the leading mental health and psychology website online today, reaching more than 1.1 million users each month. "I found that GoodTherapy.org offers a great selection of therapists and focuses as much on the quality of providers, as the quantity," said John M. Grohol, Psy.D., Founder & CEO of Psych Central. "We're proud to partner with GoodTherapy.org in helping our users find a high quality therapist." Users of the PsychCentral.com directory will now be able to view entries from the GoodTherapy.org database, bringing an exceptional level of integrity and reliability to the site. The move will also allow for greater exposure for GoodTherapy.org professional members, as their listing information will now be displayed to two of the internet's largest therapy-related audiences.

Landmark ACCORD Trial Finds Intensive Blood Pressure and Combination Lipid Therapies do not Reduce Combined Cardiovascular Events in Adults with Diabetes

Lowering blood pressure to normal levels — below currently recommended levels — did not significantly reduce the combined risk of fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular disease events in adults with type 2 diabetes who were at especially high risk for cardiovascular disease events, according to new results from the landmark Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) clinical trial. Similarly, treating multiple blood lipids with combination drug therapy of a fibrate and a statin did not reduce the combined risk of cardiovascular disease events more than treatment with statin alone. The study of more than 10,000 participants is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

ACCORD is one of the largest studies ever conducted in adults with type 2 diabetes who were at especially high risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, stroke, or death from cardiovascular disease. The multicenter clinical trial tested three potential strategies to lower the risk of major cardiovascular events: intensive control of blood sugar, intensive control of blood pressure, and treatment of multiple blood lipids. The lipids targeted for intensive treatment were high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and triglycerides, in addition to standard therapy of lowering low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.

DMAA, CMSA to Present March 16 Webinar on Case Management Model Act

Presentation by top CMSA executives will highlight potential for Model Act to improve care coordination, transitions in care and clinical outcomes. Document provides framework for important standards at the federal and state levels.

WASHINGTON—DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance and the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) next week will present a 90-minute online presentation on the CMSA Case Management Model Act of 2009.

The Model Act provides a framework of important standards for case management services at the federal and state levels. The March 16 Webinar, "The Case Management Model Act: What You Need to Know," will explore the standards' potential to improve care coordination, transitions in care and clinical outcomes.

Speakers for the 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST Webinar will include CMSA Public Policy Committee Chair Carol A. Gleason MM, RN (opening remarks); CMSA Executive Director Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN (presentation); and CMSA President Margaret Leonard, MS, RN-BC (closing remarks).

Senate Votes to Again Delay Medicare Cut

AMA renews call for permanent reform of Medicare payment formula for America’s seniors and the physicians that care for them

For immediate release:
March 10, 2010

Statement attributable to:
J. James Rohack, MD
President, American Medical Association

“Today, the U.S. Senate voted to again delay this year’s steep 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut to October 1, pushing the problem off into the near future.  If the House adopts this Senate bill, America’s seniors and their physicians will be left in limbo, and access to health care for Medicare patients will continue to be in grave danger.  Physicians cannot keep their practice doors open to all Medicare patients without clear direction from Congress on Medicare payment rates. Already, Medicare payment rates are far below the costs of providing patient care, and physicians are left wondering how they can continue to run a medical practice if Congress does not inject security and stability into the Medicare program.

For Immediate Release:
March 12, 2010

What are Living Wills?  NHPCO Offers Free Advance Care Planning Resources

(Alexandria, Va) – Over the past weeks, Keith Olbermann has shared his personal experience regarding his father’s health crisis on his MSNBC program “Countdown.” On yesterday’s broadcast (03/11/10) Olbermann spoke about the necessity of loved ones talking about the care they would want and completing a living will and appointing a health care proxy.

“Talking with families about health care wishes and completing living wills while you are healthy is about living fully,” said J. Donald Schumacher, president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.  “Planning ahead and understanding the choices you and your loved ones might have to decide during a medical crisis has nothing to do with the infamous ‘death panels’ that have caused such confusion and distraction about an issue important to every single one of us.”

NHPCO’s Caring Connections initiative offers a range of materials and information free of charge—including state specific advance directive forms—at www.caringinfo.org/planningahead.

A Social Worker is Human Heart of Comedy Central’s Horror-Comedy “Ugly Americans”

Voice Actor Matt Oberg Talks to Social Workers Speak About Portraying “Mark Lilly”

WASHINGTON— The creators of Comedy Central’s new animated horror-comedy “Ugly Americans” hope viewers will connect with “Mark Lilly,” the social worker who helps the vampires, werewolves, zombies and other clients at the fictional “Department of Integration” adapt to life in New York City.

Actor and comedian Matt Oberg, who provides the voice of Mark, sat down with SocialWorkersspeak.org to talk about the show, which premieres March 17 at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

SocialWorkersSpeak.org is a National Association of Social Workers Web site. It is designed to get social workers talking about and influencing how they are portrayed in the media.

3/15/2010

ECRI Institute Offers Free Educational Seminar on Top Ten Health Technology Hazards

March 30, 2010 seminar is hosted by Fraser Health at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Vancouver 

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—ECRI Institute, (www.ecri.org), an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, is offering a free educational seminar, “Top Ten Health Technology Hazards,” at Fraser Health's Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

The seminar will focus on ECRI Institute’s new list of the top ten health technology hazards that should be on every hospital’s list of safety concerns for 2010. The list—updated annually based on problems reported to and investigated by ECRI Institute—includes detailed descriptions of these hazards and actionable steps for avoiding them.

Vaccinating Children against Flu Helps Protect Wider Community

Trial Results in Rural Canadians Show Effect of Herd Immunity

WHAT:       
Results of a clinical trial conducted in a largely self-contained religious community during the 2008-09 influenza season show that immunizing children against seasonal influenza can significantly protect unvaccinated community members against influenza as well. The study was conducted to determine if immunized children could act as a barrier to limit the spread of influenza to the wider, unvaccinated community, a concept known as herd immunity.

Researchers recruited volunteers from 46 Canadian Hutterite religious colonies that have limited contact with surrounding, non-Hutterite populations. A total of 947 children between 36 months to 15 years of age participated in the trial; 502 children in 22 colonies received 2008-09 seasonal influenza vaccine, while 445 youth in the other colonies received hepatitis A vaccine. The hepatitis A vaccine served as a control vaccine for comparison.

Total Medical Solutions Launches Complex Care Blog

Workcompcomplexcare.com covers treatment techniques, emerging technologies and more
 
ORLANDO, FL (March 10, 2010) — Total Medical Solutions (TMS) has launched an aptly named blog www.workcompcomplexcare.com that focuses on issues surrounding the provision of medical services in complex workers' compensation cases. It is aimed at everyone who participates in the workers' compensation industry: payers, nurse case managers, medical providers, adjusters, rehabilitation and disability professionals, home health nurses and complex care patients.

Workcompcomplexcare.com features updates on assistive technologies for people with disabilities and the latest in home modifications and home health care practices along with news and events in the workers’ compensation industry. To sign up for email alerts of new postings or an RSS feed, go to www.workcompcomplexcare.com.