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Detroit Physician Among 10 Finalists for J.H. Kanter Prize

...dent and CEO of Health Centers Detroit Foundation, Inc., which operates three community-based health centers in Detroit. "While our nation is debating health care reform, Doctor Smitherman has been working under the radar for the past 23 years to improve access to health care and reducing health care...

Surgical Masks Help Ward Off Flu, Maybe

... New study does little to settle debate over their usefulness MONDAY, Aug. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Experts are still debating the usefulness of wearing surgical face masks to ward off the flu, and the results of a new study aren't likely to clear up the confusion. Research...

Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference Today on Health Care Reform and Medical Costs

...pass this legislation. It is the legislative process, I keep saying that over and over again. People say, "Well other people do all of their debating behind closed doors." That's not who we are as a party. We have the reinvigoration of the freshness of ideas that go across our Caucus and some of the...

Full Transcript of Pelosi Press Conference on Health Care Reform

...se are essentials if we're going to have any quality of life. Indeed, the first two are essential if we're going to have life period. We are debating in this Congress all of those issues. Clean air, we passed an energy bill. We passed it in the timeframe in which we said we'd pass it. It's now in th...

Neuropathy Patients, Doctors and Medical Professionals Rally in Sacramento to Demand Access to Lifesaving Medical Treatments

...ous immune globulin (IVIG) to patients who rely on this lifesaving therapy. We further ask our Members of Congress to remember, while debating healthcare reform, that all patients, especially those with rare diseases, need access to all therapies prescribed appropriately by th...

Health-Care Reform Could Be Obama's Toughest Challenge

...hat, exactly, is that $1 trillion supposed to buy America? Several committees in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are aggressively debating both the larger and the finer points of a reform plan. But the push seems to consist of three major components, explained David Cutler, a professor...

AARP, Others Push for Health Parity for Puerto Rico

...mprehensive health care reform in its proposed budget. Since then, House and Senate leaders have been drafting reform legislation and are set to being debating proposals the week of June 21. For more information on this issue and to learn how you can help achieve Parity for Puerto Rico, please visit www...

Senators Who Signed Letter Opposing Public Health Plan Took $17.7 Million in Campaign Donations from Health Care and Insurance Industries

...their donors at the expense of advancing health care reform." All nine Senators sit on the Senate Finance Committee, which is actively engaged in debating health care reform. The nine signers include Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), Mike Crap...

Global Testing Shows No Variation in Swine Flu Virus

...raphic spread of swine flu, the world is "at phase 5 but getting closer to phase 6," Fukuda said, the Associated Press reported. The WHO also was debating whether to add a second measure that indicates how dangerous the H1N1 swine flu virus is -- rather than just how widespread -- after several countries...

WHO Close to Declaring Swine Flu Pandemic

...e geographic spread of swine flu, the world is "at phase 5 but getting closer to phase 6," Fukuda said, the Associated Press reported. The WHO is debating whether to add a second measure that indicates how dangerous the H1N1 swine flu virus is -- rather than just how widespread -- after several countries...

Debating in Medical Technology

Ties Between Physicians and Drug Companies Still Too Strong: the Prescription Project Offers Solutions to Prevent Conflicts of Interest

... a joint effort with consumers and health groups there to strengthen the state's first-in-nation 1993 gift law. -- Maine and Vermont legislators are debating gifts disclosure and data-mining bills now, and a hearing on an academic-detailing bill is scheduled in Maine next Monday. "Our ability to support a...

Debating in Medical Dictionary

Pimples

...on only during the teenage years, pimples can occur throughout adulthood, depending ... How to get rid of pimples ...properly. There's a lot of debating on what to do ... Pimples and blackheads are created when excess sebum is produced and the ... ... glowing skin, black spots and pimples ......

Debating in Biological News

South Africa still debating how to tackle HIV/AIDS when 5 million are infected

A national conference in South Africa was dominated this week by the continuing debate over HIV/AIDS drugs. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang repeated yet again that drugs were not the only way to fight HIV/AIDS, and that eating habits were also important. After previously denying links b...

Reading the brain without poking it

... project to develop a lifelike bionic arm that war veterans and other amputees would control with their thoughts, just like a real arm. Scientists are debating whether the prosthetic devices should be controlled from nerve signals collected by electrodes in or on the brain, or by electrodes planted in the res...

First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico

...iversity's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico. "Mexico's debating the adoption of more stringent national standards for allowable levels of arsenic in drinking water, and officials in Guanajuato are looking ahead to ...

'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes University of Minnesota anthropologist

...03, controversy has surrounded the fossilized hominid skeletons of the so-called "hobbit people," or Homo floresiensis ever since. Experts are still debating whether the 18,000-year-old remains merely belong to a diminutive population of modern-day humans (with one individual exhibiting "microcephaly," an a...

Egalitarian revolution in the Pleistocene?

... Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, supports the view that the first egalitarian societies may have appeared ...

In scientific first, Einstein researchers correct decline in organ function associated with old age

... documented that these processes become less efficient with age, allowing protein to gradually accumulate inside cells. But aging researchers continue debating whether this protein buildup actually contributes to the functional losses of aging or instead is merely associated with those losses. The Einstein st...

Young mineral scientists rock!

...h, having received her M.Sc. in Physics at Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, in 2006. She was astonished to have won the prize and is still debating on what to do with her travel grant. I might use it to attend the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco said Narygina. Verity Borthwick is a 25-year ol...

390-million-year-old scorpion fossil -- biggest bug known

...e authors, it is believed that these extinct aquatic creatures are the ancestors of modern scorpions and spiders. Tetlie said that geologists are debating the reasons for evolution of these giant arthropods, While some believe they evolved with the higher levels of atmospheric oxygen that were present in...

Predators keep the world green, ecologists find

...ars old, the green world hypothesis has been almost impossible to test until now. "Since the landmark paper by Hairston et al, ecologists have been debating whether herbivores are limited by plant defenses or by predators," wrote the authors. "The matter is trivially simple in principle, but in practice th...

Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity

... quite different from what we were thinking even a few years ago," says Liewei Wang, M.D., Ph.D., lead Mayo researcher in the study. "People are still debating what its function really is, but it appears to play a role here by receiving misfolded proteins." Significance of the Research "Nobody has shown...

Debating in Biological Technology

Bio-IT World Announces the Winners of its 2009 Best Practices Awards Program

...avies, editor in chief of Bio-IT World. "We especially thank our volunteer judges for their time, expertise, and enthusiasm in reviewing and debating the merits of the record number of entries received this year. And we congratulate the distinguished winners of the 2009 Bio-IT World Best Practices ...

Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves

... People debating politics are well-advised to shed more light than heat. Engineers working in optical technologies have the same aspiration. Light waves transmit da...

An In-Depth Look at Wisconsin's Mediocre Economic Report Card

...s around the issue of capital formation. A little while ago, many of our business leaders couldnt describe venture capital as a concept. Now, they are debating what plan is better. Hozeny said COMMERCE efforts could also impact the 2004 report card. At the DOC, we have launched the Bureau of Entreprene...

Technology with Aloha

...nt among start-ups, and perhaps more significantly among larger companies that have used it to spin out technology subsidiaries. State politicians are debating now whether to renew the credits which are due to expire next year. With or without credits, some of the most interesting development will continue...

The Enterprise and the Individual

.... With this mindset, IT isn't looking to take on massive projects. Don't even talk to them about paradigm shifts. They have enough on their plates debating platform migration, digesting briefings on next-generation operating, and keeping legions of end users happy. They're guarding the network, swatting a...

Wisconsin must produce more science-savvy students to remain competitive

...todays increasingly global environment. At the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System, a joint planning group is debating how to graduate more people with four-year baccalaureate degrees and in what disciplines those degrees should be focused. Those are two examples o...

Reading Tommy Thompson's mind – life after public service

...as much as I hate to admit it, Jim Doyle is doing an OK job on the big stuff. I suppose I could run for U.S. Senate, but who wants to join a full-time debating club? Finally, the family would like me to hang around a bit more. For all its rewards, public life has been tough on SueAnn and the kids. Our chil...

In the Wisconsin Legislature, the promise of a productive session

...mes in the Legislature, and neither is a stranger to working with Democrats. Gard and Assembly Minority Leader Jim Kreuser, D-Kenosha, may spar on the debating floor or through the press, but they also know when to get down to business and reach compromise. Senate Minority Leader Judy Robson, D-Beloit, is con...

Ready to leave? Why you shouldn't give two weeks' notice

...usiness. New best practice: immediate departure Here is a true story that just happened where someone was leaving for a better opportunity and was debating this exact issue of "giving notice." My advice to her was to clear out her office the day before, give a clear resignation letter and have everythi...

The Attack of the Clones: No, its not a summer movie

...efully regulated stem cell research but ban cloning, which he sees as a far larger ethical threat. If I had my way, the Legislature wouldnt even be debating stem-cell research a year from now, Kestell told me. Kestells implied suggestion is that opponents of cloning would adopt a hands off stance towar...