Clare in Medical News

Dr. Kim-Chi Vu in Portland Selects Artefill to Meet Growing Patient Demand for a Longer Lasting Dermal Filler

... Artefill patient before and after pictures visit http://www.artefill.com/content/c/beforeandafter/overview.asp . Contact: clare Campos 503-297-8555 clare.campos@drvuplastics.com ...

Latest Berry Health Benefits Revealed

... Millbury, Ph.D. and Wilheimina Kalt, Ph.D., Tufts University "Epidemiological Evidence of Antioxidant Nutrients and Brain Health" Martha clare Morris, Ph.D., Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center "Topical Black Raspberry Extract and Skin Cancer" Tatiana O...

Glen's Markets Adds Discounted Generic Drug Program

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Survey Results Show Long-Term Care Providers Wary about Healthcare Reform

... "Home health and nursing home care is expected to be one of the fastest growing provider segments over the next several years," said clare DeNicola, IVANS President and CEO. "IVANS analysis reveals that while providers are optimistic about reform's ability to improve patient outcome...

Providers Believe Healthcare Reform Will Increase Their Costs, According to IVANS Survey

...Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) earmarked for healthcare information technology (HIT) will have little to no success in encouraging HIT adoption. clare DeNicola, president and CEO of IVANS, Inc., said, "Providers are diverse and significant attention from the government needs to be placed on addr...

Practice Greenhealth Announces Winners of 2009 Environmental Excellence Awards

...um Health Butterworth Hospital - Grand Rapids, MI Spokane VA Medical Center - Spokane, WA St. Bernardine Medical Center - San Bernardino, CA St. clare Hospital - Lakewood, WA St. Elizabeth Community Hospital - Red Bluff, CA St. Francis Hospital - Federal Way, WA St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospi...

Improved Care for Kidney Patients Reduces Medicare Costs and Saves Taxpayers Money

...ogists and vascular surgeons to improve care for patients at risk of, and with CKD by preventing or slowing the progression of the disease," explained clare Bradley, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at IPRO. According to the USRDS, the savings to Medicare for each patient who does not progress to dialysis i...

IPRO Honors Upper Capital Region Health Care Providers

...ther to make dramatic improvements in care continuity, with the goal of reducing costly and often unnecessary readmissions to hospitals," according to clare Bradley, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at IPRO. "To do this, we need to do a better job of identifying high-risk patients before discharge and imple...

IPRO Alerts New Yorkers to 'Silent' Killer; Chronic Kidney Disease Doubling Every Ten Years

...y month: a perfect time to call attention to the fact that most people who have kidney disease don't know it," according to IPRO Chief Medical Officer clare Bradley, MD, MPH. She explained that most people do not have outward symptoms in the early phase of the disease. In fact, many do not have any obvious...

Maggie O'Hara Named as a Finalist in Connecticut Technology Council's Women of Innovation Awards Program

...et, including the January 2008 launch of a high-speed Internet access solution for Medicare claims processing called IVANS LIME™ . According to clare DeNicola, IVANS president and CEO, "After indentifying there was a need to accelerate Medicare claims processing, Maggie led the marketing and pr...

Ronald McDonald House at Stanford Bids a Holiday Goodbye to Longest Residents

...tional information on Shawn or Ronald McDonald House at Stanford , contact clare Maloney or visit http://www.ronaldhouse.net . About Ronald McDonal... For more information, visit http://www.lpch.org . CONTACT: clare Maloney (650) 470-6036 Direct clare@ronaldhouse.net Todd ...

MidCap Financial Launches Commercial Finance Company With Over $500 Million of Equity

...en, Head of Real Estate Finance, who formerly served as Managing Director and Head of ML Capital Healthcare Finance's real estate business; -- clare Bailhe, Head of Leveraged Finance, who formerly served as Managing Director and Head of ML Capital Healthcare Finance's leveraged loan business; and ...

Foundation Releases Comprehensive Regional Health Care Report Card

... findings are generally positive, our report card found variation in performance at the county level, sometimes even among neighboring counties," says clare B. Bradley, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, IPRO. "We need to redouble our efforts at quality improvement in order to reduce...

It's Here! Lockport Memorial Ramps up Siemens MR System for Local Community

...viously, when a doctor at Lockport would prescribe an MRI to a patient, they would have to travel to an off-site facility to have the exam done," said clare Haar, chief executive officer of Lockport Memorial Hospital, a 134-bed facility located in upstate New York. "But now, our new MR scanner is available...

First Major Medical Meeting Convening for MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound to Treat Cancer, Stroke, Fibroids, Other Conditions

...ire field. MRgFUS is a major part of our clinical research currently and will grow and become a major treatment option for many of our patients." -- clare M. C. Tempany, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Ferenc Jolesz Chair of Radiology Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ...

1/5 of British adult survivors of childhood cancer smoke despite hazards

... additional source of risk for this population. To learn what fraction of adult survivors are current smokers or have smoked regularly in the past, clare Frobisher, Ph.D., of the University of Birmingham, UK, and colleagues sent surveys to all those who could be contacted from among 14,836 eligible surv...

Baxter International Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Conference Call

... difference in patients' lives. Contact Information: Investor Relations Contact Mary Kay Ladone, +1-847-948-3371 Mary_Kay_Ladone@baxter.com clare Trachtman, +1-847-948-3085 Clare_Trachtman@baxter.com ...

Age-old money matters: Positivity in older adults leads to balanced investments

...iously paid for the seats. So who is more likely to commit or avoid the sunk-cost fallacy and why? In a recent study, psychologists JoNell Strough, clare Mehta, Joseph McFall and Kelly Schuller from West Virginia University found that younger adults were more likely to commit to a situation if they had ...

Pennsylvania Tells Autism Speaks to Stop Talking

...y in all my years in the autism community. This level of unity definitely sends a clear message, but is Autism Speaks listening?" State Senator Jane clare Orie, head of the Pennsylvania Autism Caucus touted the document as "a gold standard of care" for Pennsylvanians. "Only with Speaker O'Brien's amend...

Futuremedia Learning Launches Next Generation Learning Portal for Bupa

...with more than treble the usual number of learners logging on in just one day! We are very proud of the site. Thank you to the Futuremedia team," said clare Shell, e-HR Consultant of Bupa. Andrea Miles, Managing Director of Futuremedia Learning said, "Futuremedia has a history of innovation in learning a...

...And the Grand Prize Goes to... Lockport Memorial Hospital, Winner of Siemens National 'Win an MRI' Contest

... "We are a small hospital that, much like most community hospitals in this country, struggled with how to afford a state-of-the-art MRI machine," said clare Haar, Chief Executive Officer of Lockport Memorial Hospital. "We are thrilled to have won the competition for the Siemens MAGNETOM ESSENZA, as it will...

Ad Campaign Targets Abuses by Not-For-Profits

...aid for with an expenditure of $110,000 through Novak's North Fork Political Action Committee. The poster child of abuses by a not-for-profit is The clare at Water Tower which receives particular attention in many of the ads and for which Novak has created a special Website, http://www.fransisters.com ....

First New York/New Jersey Health Care Report Card Released

... Have Large Variation in Quality, Cost "Our report card found that New York and New Jersey do well when compared with national averages," says clare B. Bradley, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, IPRO. "But there is a significant amount of variation both within and between co...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...gether, this catalogue of failings is preventing rehabilitation and making it more likely that prisoners will re-offend after their release Dr clare Jenkins, chairman of the BMAs Civil and Public Services Committee said: The Government must provide a set of concrete and long term proposals ...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

...don, head of the federal Government's National Indigenous Council. Waking up to the enormity of the problem, Northern Territory chief Minister clare Martin said the report very clearly had said that not enough has been done to check the abuse of Aboriginal children and promised to implement recomme...

Toddlers to Be Trained to Improve Their Communication Skills

...h and language skills, for example they only use short sentences and their vocabulary is not as enriched, the Daily Mail quoted charity's spokeswoman, clare Geldard, as saying. "The environment and society in which we live at the moment is less supportive of developing children's language, she adde...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

...y. "This treatment is ideal for older women who have completed their families and have a single or limited number of fibroids," said co-author clare M. Tempany, M.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of Clinical Focused Ultrasound at Brigham and Womens Hospital. ...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

...ot addressing the serious health conditions that lead prisoners to offend and re-offend, such as mental health and drug addiction problems. Dr clare Jenkins, the Chairman of the BMAs Civil and Public Services Committee said: Prison healthcare services have been neglected for many years by s...

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

...eve." A spokesperson for the trust insisted that outsourcing transcription to India was only one option they may consider in a bid to cut costs. clare Vattev, business manager at the Trust, said: "We will be looking at a number of options and the use of digital dictation and out-sourced transcribing ...

Researchers Complete Horse Genome Map

...stitute's Web site, and will be placed on online browsers for easier access within the next couple of weeks. One of the Lead Authors of the Study, clare Wade, said that the horse genome could not only help in studying equine health but also in researching diseases and genetic differences in human being...

Veggies ensure the brain doesn’t vegetat

...ributed to their rich Vitamin E content. Vegetables are known to contain higher levels of Vitamin E than fruits. According to lead author Martha clare Morris, a researcher at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, vegetables are most often consumed with heal...

High-Fat, Copper-Rich Diets Associated with Increased Rates of Cognitive Decline

...study found that the consumption of copper in drinking water could amplify the degenerative effects of a high-fat diet on rabbit brains. Martha clare Morris, Sc.D., Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, and colleagues assessed the connection between dietary fat and dietary copper intake in 3,718 ...

Increasing Numbers Of Dehydrated New Born Babies Needing Emergency hospital care

...so tired and dehydrated that it would eventually sleep through its feeding time, which the mother would mistake as a sign of being full or not hungry. clare Byam-Cook, who is a retired midwife and the author of 'What To Expect When You Are Breastfeeding', said that there was no doubt that lack of advice on...

Tasmanian Ecology Affected By Devil Facial Tumor Disease

...this species is also being threatened by the disease. The animals are now vulnerable to being killed or replaced by the nascent fox population. Dr clare Hawkins who is the lead researcher says that concrete data is available only for one area, the Freycinet Peninsula on Tasmania's east coast. Dr Hawkin...

UK Patients Seek Fertility Treatment Abroad Due To The Long Waiting List

... before hand about the treatment and information such as the level of patient confidentiality and what rights they would have if treatment goes wrong. clare Brown, chief executive of patient support group Infertility Network UK, said that patients would not travel abroad for treatment if they could access ...

New Home-Fertility Kit Launched For Men

...pian tubes. We would recommend to couples that if they have any concerns about their fertility they speak to the GP for further investigations”, added clare Brown of Infertility Network UK.

Aspirin induces Cancer Cells To Commit Suicide

..., Ph.D., Center for Pharmacogenetics, department of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Contact: Jim Swyers / clare Collins SwyersJP@upmc.edu / CollCX@upmc.edu 412-647-3555 / 412-647-3555 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...

Women can now gauge their own future fertility

...how many viable eggs are left. While this test will assist women in planning a family, there are other important factors involved in the decision. clare Brown, chief executive of Infertility Network UK stated that ovarian reserve is not the only aspect of a woman's fertility, which may have an effect o...

Cryopreservation of Ovaries for Cancer patients undergoing treatment

...e are aware that a great deal more research and discussion is required before this will become an ethically and clinically acceptable treatment," said clare Brown, chief executive of The Charity Infertility Network commented. ...

Chemists Discover Cation Considered Too Unstable To Exist

...nstable and doesn’t exist dozens of times in organic chemistry class, but, as it turns out, the molecule had different ideas," said Joseph B. Lambert, clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern. He and graduate student Lijun Lin discovered that the cation is stable in the solid state for we...