Expressing Growing Concern, THCA Urges Texas Congressional Delegation to Protect Seniors' Medicare-Funded Nursing Home Care as Health Reform Debate Proceeds

Potential Size of Cumulative Federal Medicare Cuts as Part of "Reform" Jeopardize Viability of Already-Troubled Texas Medicaid Program; Seniors' Care at Risk, Local Jobs Base Threatened AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expressing growing concern t...

Finland Biotech Delegation Visits Sundia

SHANGHAI, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- A Finland Biotech Delegation visited Sundia MediTech Company, a leading pharmaceutical R&D outsourcing CRO service company in Shanghai, China, in April. The 9 members of the delegation are from Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovatio...

Nobel Prize Winner Professor Muhammad Yunus Leading Delegation From Bangladesh to World Health Care Congress to Advance Affordable Health Care Innovations

Health Care innovations and opportunities attract attendees from more than 35 countries and delegations from over 12 to the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress April 14-16, 2009, Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank and a deleg...

First Major Chinese Medical Delegation Visits Minnesota

HealthPartners hosts nine physicians from Chongqing Bureau of Health BLOOMINGTON, Minn., May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education is hosting the first major medical delegation of Chinese physicians ever to visit Minnesota. During their three-month st...

Front Line Caregivers from 16 States to Visit Capitol Hill to Urge State Congressional Delegation to Reject Medicare Cuts that Could Threaten Quality Care in Nation's Nursing Homes

April 2nd Capitol Hill Fly-In to Raise Profile of Medicare Cuts in Election Year WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, ( April 2nd), front line long term caregivers from around the nation will meet with their lawmakers on Capitol Hill about pending threats to Medic...

Texas Health Care Association Asks Texas Congressional Delegation to Sign Letter Urging House Budget Committee to Rescind Bush Medicare Cuts

Five-Year, $24 Billion Cuts to Medicare Nursing Home Benefit in Proposed FY 2009 Budget Will Threaten Texas' Most Vulnerable Seniors, Further Destabilize Facility Staffing WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the nation's long term care leaders in Washington to strategize on...

Texas Health Care Association Urges Texas Congressional Delegation to Fight Planned Federal Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare

Federal Budget Reductions Would Further Undermine Texas Seniors' Nursing Home Care AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Commenting on a New York Times news article that appeared January 31 reporting the Bush Administration's FY 2009 budget will include federal Medicaid and Medi...

Pelosi, Members of Texas Delegation to Rally for Children's Health Care in San Antonio Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi will join Congressmen Ciro D. Rodriguez, Charlie Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar tomorrow, Saturday, November 17, to discuss the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill that will provide health insurance to 10 million c...

Capps to Lead Bipartisan Women's Caucus Congressional Delegation to Represent United States at Women Deliver Conference in London

Delegation Will Join More Than 1500 World Leaders at Major International Conference on Combating Maternal Mortality WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congresswoman Lois Capps, Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, will lead a bipartisan Congressional delegation ...

Ohio Delegation Members Urge Colleagues to Vote for Override of SCHIP Veto

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With both the Senate and House expected to vote this week on over-riding the presidential veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Tim R...

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Top Academic Medical Centers, Research Institutions, and Partners Gather, Share Experiences and Success Stories at Velos eResearch Annual Meeting

...ture. We believe that this exceptional and growing customer base is increasingly positioned to move the industry forward as a whole." A South Korean delegation was an eager participant in the many sessions. South Korea is deploying the Velos eResearch system in an unprecedented countrywide initiative that all...

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Reduction in parasite infections ahead for India

...esearch into the infections which cost the world economy around $200 billion in lost crop production and $5.3 billion in animal health each year. A delegation led by Dr Gerry Brennan from the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's has been invited to Alagappa University in Tamil Nadu in southern India to s...

BIO-key(R) Fingerprint Biometrics Media Spotlights

...ppears to have yielded a result that accurately reflects the will of Bangladeshi voters," according to Constance Berry Newman, the head of a 65-person delegation of observers from the International Republican Institute, as reported by the Associated Press on December 30th. A compilation of stories on this proj...

NWO and Academy launch research program with China

...on different themes every year. The Academy and the NWO will announce the theme for the first round at the start of next year. Working visit A delegation representing the Dutch education, cultural and scientific communities and headed by the Dutch Minister of Education, Science and Culture, Mr Ronald Pl...

TSC honors Sen. Charles Schumer

...chumer sees funding for scientific competitiveness as an investment in the American economy and the success of the next generation," Seligman added. A delegation of representatives from New York's research universities and Science Coalition members accompanied Seligman at the event on Capitol Hill. The Scien...

Screw worm outbreak in Yemen

...screw worm fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a country where rearing livestock is a traditional way of life. In recent weeks, a Ministerial delegation was at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, to turn to the international community for emergency assistance to fight the deadly pest. The menacing fly lays...

USP Convention and Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission sign Memorandum of Understanding

...al of ChP and deputy commissioner of Chinas State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), signed the MOU at USPs Headquarters in Rockville, Md. A Chinese delegation of representatives from the ChP and the SFDA joined Mr. Wu in visiting USP. USP is pleased to partner with the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission on ...

Vega main engine test in Kourou

...ajor responsibility in the management of the P80 development. The industrial team is led by the French-Italian joint venture Europropulsion, under delegation from Avio SpA of Italy. Among the main industrial subcontractors involved in the P80 are SABCA of Belgium (thrust vector control system), Snecma Propu...

Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system

...bserving system, says Prof. Howard Roe, Director Emeritus, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K. and past POGO Chair, who will lead the POGO delegation in Cape Town. Finally, notes Jesse Ausubel, CoML program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: "2012 will be the centenary of the sinking of...

Human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system: Scientists

...bserving system, says Prof. Howard Roe, Director Emeritus, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K. and past POGO Chair, who will lead the POGO delegation in Cape Town. Finally, notes Jesse Ausubel, CoML program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: "2012 will be the centenary of the sinking of...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

...as been brought to the public’s attention in many ways, most notably in the movie "Erin Brockovich." Eleven members from the California Congressional delegation sent a letter to the NTP Director requesting the NTP conduct the studies. Nominations for studying this compound also came from the California Environ...

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Kansas Delegation Defends NBAF, Refutes Washington Post

U.S. Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts along with Representatives Lynn Jenkins, Jerry Moran, and Todd Tiahrt today commented on the upcoming NBAF facility in Manhattan, Kansas, and responded to a Washington Post story today that was factually incorrect. WASHINGTON ...

Murray Leads Delegation in Securing $2.1 Million for Proton Therapy Center

Leading-edge radiation treatment facility to serve Pacific Northwest SEATTLE, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Steadfast support by Washington Sen. Patty Murray and the western Washington state congressional delegation has resulted in $2.1 million in federal funding designated to help development of ...

Governor To Lead Tech Delegation to Washington

Governor Doyle will lead a group of over 70 Wisconsin business executives, economic development officials, and venture capitalists to Washington in an effort to recruit and attract the biotech industry and more investment to the state. The delegation will be attending BIO 2003, the annual meeting o...

Wisconsin business leads small delegation to international BIO Conference

SAN FRANCISCO Following on the heals of national press exposure in Forbes magazine and other industry publications that rave about Wisconsins growing biotech industry, one would expect the local industry and state would package all these strong indicators of a booming industry, rally the troops in...

Indian pharma delegation arrives in Chicago as part of multi-city tour

In 1966, film director Norman Jewison came out with the movie "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians are Coming" featuring Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel and Tessie O'Shea. Though this film was a comedy, you have to remember its timing i...

GeneThera Extends its Reach Overseas

...all and medium size enterprises, research and university centers presented their products, research projects and technologies. The Conference foreign delegation session fostered the internationalization process taken by many businesses, to develop international cooperation; the presence of Business Angels and ...

Genopole(R) to Accompany 7 Companies and a Research lab to BIO Atlanta

...anization (BIO) Conference and Exhibition will take place in Atlanta from May 18th-20th. Genopole(R) will participate in this major event as part of a delegation from the Paris Ile-de-France Region. Seven of Genopole(R)'s innovative companies (BioQuanta, Drugabilis, GenOptics, Innavirvax, Texcell, Watchfrog and...

African Health Delegates Welcomed to Washington

... delegation honors President Carter, Carter Center for fight a...foundations and the business community, welcomed a delegation of senior African health officials to Washington, D.C., at a reception on Capitol Hill today. The delegation presented a tribute to President Jimmy Carter and ...

Health Care Innovations and Opportunities Attract Attendees from 40 Countries and Delegations from 12 to 6th Annual World Health Care Congress

...zech Republic , Denmark , Canada , and Nigeria . Representatives from dozens of other countries are also registered. A 12-person delegation of senior health leaders from Bangladesh will be led by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus from the Grameen Bank, who will be speaking at...

News Release: Homeland Security to Take Centre Stage with Global Security Asia 2009

... than 20 countries, spread across 5 continents. As part of the event, the Ministry of Home Affairs will host an inter-ministerial and inter-agency delegation from the US, Australia, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and many others. According to Andrew Marriott, Managing Director, GSA Exhibitions, "Th...

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