Baxa Corporation Wins Two 2009 Colorado BMA Gold Key Awards

Baxa campaigns awarded 2009 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for Best Strategy and Best Integrated Campaign. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of software and devices for healthcare systems, has won two Business Marketing As...

Pregnancy and Alcohol - a Dangerous Cocktail Warns BMA Scotland

Heavy drinking by pregnant women can cause disorders in their children, says the BMA. These include learning and physical disabilities and behavioural problems which are part of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders [FASD] and can drastically impact on the lives of the individual and those around them....

Abolish Car Parking Charges at Welsh Hospitals, says BMA Cymru Wales

Doctors leaders in Wales are calling on the National Assembly for Wales to abolish car parking charges at hospitals throughout Wales and release// patients from a heavy financial burden. Welsh Secretary of the BMA, Dr Richard Lewis said: "Charging people to park at hospitals is an indirect ta...

NHS research under pressure, and could face ￡300 million cut, BMA warn

The BMA today (Thursday 10 August, 2006) questions the government over a possible ￡300 million drop in the funding available for health research which, it warns, is already// under pressure on several different fronts. Under HM Treasury plans, a new single fund of at least ￡1 billion would be ...

Step up the legal age for smoking, says BMA Scotland

With a view to deterring youngsters from smoking, the Doctors' representative body BMA Scotland has urged the government to raise the legal age to smoke from the present 16 to 18. According to the BMA chairman//, Dr Peter Terry, this would help in putting-off youngsters from smoking. Though t...

Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA

Changes to health services in London are long overdue but it is unclear how the latest proposals announced by London Strategic Health Authority, would improve patient care in the capital , BMA leaders claim. Dr Tiz North, chairman of the BMAs London Regional Council, said: There is a case fo...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

The early release of more than a thousand prisoners has failed to solve the crisis that is undermining prison healthcare and prisoner rehabilitation programmes, said the BMA today. The 19th July marks the one month anniversary of the Ministry of Justices introduction of emergency measures ...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

Junior doctors who do not get training posts through the flawed Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) could face further misery because the government is stalling on a new contract for non-training grade doctors, the BMA warns. Latest figures show that 34,250 doctors are chasing 18,5...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

Recent figures from the Prison Service revealed that the prison population in England and Wales reached a peak of 80,846 at the end of May and that there were fewer than 300 cells available for new inmates. The prison authorities have already begun using police cells to house prisoners in some are...

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

Junior doctors who do not get training posts through the flawed Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) could face further misery because the government// is stalling on a new contract for non-training grade doctors, the BMA warns. Latest figures show that 34,250 doctors are chasing 18,50...

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Elsevier congratulates its British Medical Association Award winning medical authors and editors

...nal and scholarly books were honored at the annual bma Medical Book Competition ceremony in London on Sep...ogy by William Ovalle and Patrick Nahirney won the bma Illustrated Book Award. A new book, it presents a ...phs by Ralph Hutchings captured first prize in the bma Basic and Clinical Sciences Book category. This wo...

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Baxa Corporation Wins Two Colorado BMA 2008 Gold Key Awards

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of medical devices for healthcare systems, has won two 2008 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for its integrated direct mail campaign featuring the PadLock(R) Set-Saver product. One of Colorado'...

National Stem Cell Holding, Inc. Has Engaged BMA Securities to Assist and Advise the Company With Its Current Capital Raise of $3,500,000

MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Stem Cell Holding, Inc. (OTC: NHGI) today announced the engagement of Burt Martin Arnold Securities, Inc. ("BMA Securities") to provide advisory and investment banking services with respect to assisting and advising the company wit...

Rapid Quantification of Osteoarthritis With a Novel, Office-Based, High-Resolution Digital Imaging Device

...(OA) with a very low dose office-based system. The bma design provides user-friendly patient positioning ...ce for highly reproducible image acquisition. The bma image has a resolution of 8 lp/mm, which is 2-3 ti...zer(TM) software is completely integrated into the bma system, allowing instantaneous analysis of the res...