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Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP

...edical student members, ACP is the largest medical specialty society in the United States. David C. Dale, MD, FACP, president of ACP, sent letters to Representatives Charles Rangel, chair, and Fortney H. “Pete” Stark, chair of the Health Subcommittee, Committee on Ways and Means. The letter also was sent to ...

Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer

...d customer focus to accelerate Dow's growth in key specialty markets." For Bayer, the transaction fits with i...ts Water Soluble Polymers business to create a new specialty business driven to become the preferred development partner and premier application expert in the ce...

Medicaid Data Analysis

...port of mental illness treatments and one-third of specialty substance abuse treatment. The authors set out to understand where integrated psychiatric and substance abuse services may need to be provided for Medicaid beneficiaries. They examined the location of services used by persons with mental and substa...

IFC to Invest About Rs.3 Billion in Max Healthcare

...ife insurance, health care, clinical research, and specialty plastics. "While the government is focusing its resources on increasing services to the rural areas, it is critical for the private sector to complement the public sector by expanding access to meet the demand," Guy Ellena, IFC director for health ...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...eports annual issue of Americas Best Hospitals for specialty and overall care is one of the most well known, the authors write as background information in the article. Despite their prominent role in the public arena, the ability of the U.S. News & World Report rankings to identify hospitals with excellent...

Circassia Announces Acquisition of Organ Transplant Anti-Rejection Technology

Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on controlling immune system responses, announced the acquisition of a novel anti-rejection technology for use in organ transplantation. Circassia acquired the proprietary technology, known as ToleroTrans, from Th...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

.... The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, the oldest specialty hospital in the Western Hemisphere, is the primary teaching hospital for the New York Medical College. It has approximately 142,000 outpatient visits annually and over 20,000 surgical procedures per year. It has one of the nations most extensive eye,...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...ming are showing that money can be made by growing specialty products that consumers are willing to pay more for. At the French Farm in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi known mainly for its call centres, Roger Langbour raises thousands of free-range Peking and Muscovy ducks on feed that is free of pesticide and...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...as willing to contribute to the development of the specialty in Latin America. Dr. Marcheco recalled that over 100,000 Cuban health workers were serving in 103 nations around the world and noted that the medical genetics program had not yet been fully implemented in the region despite the recommendations mad...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...r. Instead, it should be treated as an independent specialty in its own right. Organ donation is not often th...of factors, though the initial trigger is to avail specialty training abroad. How can we reverse this trend? Availability of opportunity to train and progress...

AMSA Launches General Practice Student Network

...association for medical students interested in the specialty of General Practice, and those keen to dispel the ...eptions of General Practice. For too long, this specialty has been under-recognized and misunderstood. The GPSN will be a fantastic way of harnessing the inte...

New Food Allergy Clinic Opens at University of Michigan Health System

...variety of conditions, including food allergies, a specialty of many of the physicians at the clinic. The num...reated by the specialists. The center includes a specialty kitchen for the preparation of foods that commonly cause allergic reactions, negative-pressure rooms...

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

...3-bed childrens hospital and pediatric primary and specialty ambulatory care facilities A 36-bed womens hospital and limited womens ambulatory services A 70-bed cancer hospital A central utility plant, underground tunnel, bridge, helipad and parking The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will provide a...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...style)" were sponsored by Shire Pharmaceuticals, a specialty biopharmaceutical company which markets UC medications LIALDA and PENTASA (mesalamines). Please see Important Safety Information included below. UC patients generally report more stress/depression compared to other diseases. The findings illustra...

Scientists Develop Toothpaste That Rebuilds Tooth Enamel

...es of a wide range of personal care, household and specialty products is said to contain a liquid form of calcium, the key component of tooth enamel. The liquid calcium rebuilds the tooth by plugging microscopic gaps in the enamel. The repair stops dental nerves from becoming exposed thereby preventing pain,...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Apologizes, Lung Surgery an Option for Him

..., Robert C. Cooksey, is a CDC microbiologist whose specialty is TB and other bacteria. He said neither he nor his CDC lab was the source of Speaker's TB. Cooksey said he provided only "fatherly advice" to Speaker about traveling with the illness. "In my capacity as his future father-in-law, I told him to...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

CHICAGO, June 1 The specialty oriented professional medical search engines that contain only practical clinical information, today introduced SearchMedica Oncology, a new professional medical search engine that will prioritize search results by publication date, making the most ...

Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received

...orial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shows that the specialty of the physician patients see can influence the type of therapy they ultimately receive. The study analyzed men with localized prostate cancer. It found that men aged 65 to 69 years who consult an urologist are more likely to undergo surgery to remo...

AAAAI Offers Advice on Stinging Insect Allergies

...ng when a patient may need consultation or ongoing specialty care by the allergist/immunologist. Patients should see an allergist/immunologist if they: Have reactions possibly due to insect stings for accurate identification of specific allergen and consideration for immunotherapy (allergy shots). Have syst...

Eurand and GSK Reach Development Milestone

Eurand N.V., a global specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that Eurand, Inc. and its collaboration partner, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), reached a significant milestone in the development of an orally disintegrating tablet formulation of an undisclosed compound. GSK...

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