CHRISTUS Health Selects Five Elsevier Clinical Decision Support Solutions to Transform Care Delivery for Patients, Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists

September 23rd, 2009 ATLANTA, Georgia - - Mosby's Essential Nursing CE wins, and Mosby's Perioperative Nursing is a Finalist Elsevier / MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations and 2.5 million learners nationwide, is proud to announce that the lesson "Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock" from Mosby's Essential Nursing CE, a Clinical e-Learning course, was named winner in the Infectious Diseases category of the 2009 FREDDIE Awards (www.thefreddies.com/) presented by the MediMedia Foundation. Mosby's Essential Nursing CE provides a clear focus not only for individual nurses advancing their knowledge and skills, but also for the entire nursing organization when tackling Joint Commission performance improvement requirements or pursuing the path to Magnet Recognition.

September 13th, 2009 ORLANDO, Florida - - MEDai's Pinpoint Review Clinical Surveillance System Will Help Novant Hospitals Ensure Patient Safety and Quality, Safeguard Hospital Reimbursement MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier company and leading provider of advanced solutions for healthcare that utilize award-winning predictive analytics, announced today that Novant Health, a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices, will roll out MEDai's Pinpoint Review(TM) to its nine hospitals in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina. Pinpoint Review is a patient-specific early-warning system for hospitals that generates predictions for acute-care patients, focusing on the likelihood of a patient developing a complication, like decubitus ulcers, or at risk for being readmitted.

August 17th, 2009 MORRISTOWN, New Jersey - An H1N1 influenza channel has been added to the Elsevier Global Medical News (EGMN) wire service division of the International Medical News Group. The H1N1 channel was created to meet physicians' continuing needs to keep up-to-date with the news about the spread of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, as well as the new diagnostics, vaccines, clinical trials, and treatments for H1N1 infections.

August 10th, 2009 LONDON - The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has called on the Prime Minister to introduce parity between nurses and pharmacists in the prescribing of controlled drugs. In its evidence to the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery, the RPSGB points to the existing discrepancy between the ability of nurses to prescribe controlled drugs in certain conditions as independent prescribers, when pharmacist independent prescribers cannot so prescribe, even when the medicine in question is a controlled drug which they can sell as ingredients in over the counter medicines.

August 9th, 2009 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - - Nursing Consult Feature Empowers Nurses to Improve Patient Care, Help Prevent Costly Mistakes; Hospitals Benefit From Averting the Reimbursement Losses PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a world leader in healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced the availability of a new online tool within Mosby's Nursing Consult designed to help nurses prevent the 10 "Never Events" identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an October 2008 fact sheet. Available at the Mosby's Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com/) Web site, the CMS Never Events section on Nursing Consult online empowers nurses to prevent so-called Never Events or Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) in the quest to improve care quality and maximize hospital reimbursement.

May 26th, 2009 PHILADELPHIA - Dillon to Lead Effort to Deliver Trusted Clinical Knowledge via Evidence-based Content and Powerful Analytics Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, announced today that Chris Dillon has joined Elsevier Health Sciences as Managing Director for the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) group. Dillon will assume responsibility for all CDS operations and strategy, including product development, marketing and sales.

May 6th, 2009 PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Walsh is the Primary Editor of Palliative Medicine, a new Clinical Reference Published by Elsevier Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, congratulates Declan Walsh, MSc, FACP, FRCP (Edin) on receiving the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's 2009 Project on Death in America (PDIA) Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award (www.aahpm.org/membership/awards.html) at the AAHPM 2009 Annual Assembly on March 26.

May 3rd, 2009 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, announced today that Dr. David Goldmann has joined Elsevier Health Sciences as Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, First Consult.

April 28th, 2009 ST. LOUIS, Missouri - Increases Accessibility to Market-Leading Specialty Content Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that ten new eBook Specialty Collections have launched on MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its online clinical reference tool. This launch provides online availability of market-leading specialty content in Dermatology, Dermatologic Surgery, Family Medicine, General Radiology, Geriatric Medicine, Hand Surgery, Neonatology, Otolaryngology, Pathology, and Shoulder Surgery.

April 6th, 2009 ST. LOUIS, Missouri - Acquisition Extends the Evolve Testing and Remediation Product Suite Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of the assets of Professional Development Software, Inc. (PDS), the provider of Softwarefornurses.com online learning education products.

May 13th, 2009 Pharmacists to discuss CVS Caremark concernsWASHINGTON — Dozens of pharmacists and customers will raise concerns with trade regulators today about the influence of CVS Caremark Corp. over prescriptions and patient privacy.

May 8th, 2009 Elsevier unit failed to disclose journal sponsorsNEW YORK — Publisher Elsevier (EL-seh-VEER) says an Australian unit contracted with drugmakers several years ago to publish what appeared to be medical journals that didn't disclose who had paid for them. Those publications included one that heavily favored drugmaker Merck's osteoporosis drug Fosamax and the painkiller Vioxx.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study conducted at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, has found that majority of ordering physicians lack knowledge of CT-related radiation exposure and its associated risks. "More than 100 surveys were completed by physicians from various specialties who order CT scans at a tertiary-care teaching hospital," said Jeremy McBride, MD, lead author of the study.

August 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study conducted at the University of Kentucky has found that meal replacements in a medically supervised weight loss program are successful in facilitating weight loss. The meal replacements are products of Health Management Resources Corporation (HMR), a privately owned national health care company specializing in weight loss and weight management.

May 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - MakroCare, a global clinical services firm, provides clinical research support to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, is taking a lead in the training of professionals for the clinical research industry by providing series of informational through workshop and seminars. Advanced GCP workshop will be held at CHITRAMAYEE Auditorium, State Arts Gallery, Kavuri Hills, Madhapur, Hyderabad on May 15.

January 18th, 2009 TORONTO - Abuse and addiction to opioid analgesics, prescribed for chronic pain, is less common than suspected, according to the latest research. In a review study for pain treatment topics, editor of Pain-Topics.org, Stewart B.

September 15th, 2009 Health care issues: Shortage of doctorsA look at key issues in the health care debate: THE ISSUE: Will there be enough doctors to provide care to millions of previously uninsured patients if health reform is passed? THE POLITICS: With primary-care doctors in limited supply, Republicans opposed to sweeping reform say the health care system would be overwhelmed if nearly 50 million uninsured Americans are given coverage. As is, the American Academy of Family Physicians is predicting a shortage of 40,000 primary-care doctors by 2020, with medical schools graduating only half the number needed to meet demand.

August 5th, 2009 Calif. nurses protest lack of swine flu equipmentLOS ANGELES — A union says some California hospitals aren't adequately protecting nurses from swine flu. The California Nurses Association plans to protest Wednesday in San Francisco in the wake of a Sacramento nurse's swine flu death last month.

May 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After nine years of living in constant fear of venturing out of her house, 53-year-old Anna Raisor approached physicians for alternative measures to treat embarrassing accidental or involuntary loss of urine. Physicians of the Loyola University Health System (LUHS) in Chicago enrolled Raisor in a clinical trial using cognitive therapy to manage her overactive bladder.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A beaming little boy has become the first baby to be born at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in its 157-year history. Pregnant Nicola Tyler, from Canvey Island, Essex, was staying with her six-year-old daughter Kelly at the hospital where the youngster, a cancer patient, was being treated for non-Hodgkin's ­lymphoma in her neck.