WellPoint Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
..., including those related to CMS sanctions, potential uncollectability of receivables resulting from processing and/or verifying enrollment (including facilitated enrollment), inadequacy of underwriting assumptions, inability to receive and process correct information, uncollectability of premium from members, i...Columbia leads national effort to develop early intervention for schizophrenia
...tions in Schizophrenia are Still Emerging The goal of RAISE is to develop an evidence-based strategic intervention for early psychosis that can be facilitated both in community-based and public mental health-settings, and in private clinical practice settings. Since patient dropout and poor continuation in t...OB10 and Memorial Hermann Show How e-Invoicing Program Optimized Accounts Payables and P-Card Spend
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...esented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). "The hospital's acquisition of a portable CT scanner facilitated more rapid assessment of acute stroke patients and is anticipated to increase the number of patients to whom thrombolytic therapy can be administered,...Progen Terminates PATHWAY Trial & Confirms Focus on Potential High Value Molecules and M&A
...nal level, initially from amongst those parties that had entered into Non-Disclosure Agreements and Due Diligence on PI-88. The PI-88 trial had been facilitated through external agencies, and had resulted in 23 sites being opened for patient recruitment and 12 patients from 5 recruitment centres having been re...SENSAR® Acrylic IOL with OptiEdge
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...the generous donation of breast tissue by women undergoing breast surgery, together with the support of their surgeons and pathologists. The study was facilitated by the Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer. ...Stress signals link pre-existing sickness with susceptibility to bacterial infection
...iratory tract. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), shows that infection with the pneumonia causing bacteria Legionella , is facilitated by an increased amount of a signaling protein that is associated with mitochondrial disease. Patients with mitochondrial disease exhibit a wide rang...Investing wisely to save the Great Barrier Reef
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