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The National Health Service and Attainia Move to Modernize Medical Capital Equipment Budgeting and Planning for the United Kingdom

DERBYSHIRE, England and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Attainia and The National Health Service Supply Chain today announced they will deploy Attainia's suite of web-based budgeting and planning applications to Hospital trusts within the United Kingdom. "NHSSC has moved quic...

New Treat And Teach Program To Modernize Dental Services in Scotland

In an attempt to strike a balance between clinical practice and learning, it has been proposed to increase the funding from the Scottish Executive to modernize the existing dental practices. //This unique program would enable simultaneous training of dentists and the treatment of patients. ...

Hispanic Alliance Urges Congress to Work Through Recess on Health

...ase patient access to Health Savings Accounts, reduce frivolous lawsuits and defensive medicine that is both expensive and unnecessary, cut waste, and modernize to medical record-keeping to save lives. Take your vacation after the work is done, not before." The Hispanic Alliance seeks bipartisan health...

Pew Statement on House Passage of Food Safety Legislation

...on, Director of Food and Consumer Product Safety, The Pew Charitable Trusts: "We applaud the House of Representatives' bipartisan vote today to modernize and strengthen the nation's food safety system. This historic action takes a major step toward ensuring Americans can have increased confidence in the...

GMA Applauds U.S. House for Passage of Landmark Food Safety Bill

...ll its food safety mission. Combined with increased industry resources and vigilance, this legislation represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to modernize our food safety system and restore the public's faith in the safety and security of the food supply. "We applaud the House for its vision and...

St. Elizabeth Healthcare Drives Kentucky's Largest Electronic Medical Records Initiative With IBM

... of U.S. hospital systems have a comprehensive electronic records system putting St. Elizabeth Healthcare at the leading edge of nationwide efforts to modernize health care and meet the nation's goal of providing every patient an electronic medical record by 2014. The system is expected to replace a warehouse ...

WellPoint Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...n Medicare and Medicaid programs; events that result in negative publicity for us or the health benefits industry; failure to effectively maintain and modernize our information systems and e-business organization and to maintain good relationships with third party vendors for information system resources; even...

Critical Access Hospital Consolidator Seeks Cost-Management Solutions with Broadlane

...ane. "As HMC/CAH continues to acquire and consolidate critical access hospitals, we hope to deliver the most cost-effective means to improve and modernize these facilities. We are confident that the custom solutions we developed will deliver significant process improvements and cost savings to HMC/CAH ...

CMPI to Host Hill Briefing Tomorrow on Follow-on Biologic Drugs for Media and Congressional Staff With Reps. Eshoo and Rogers

...erce Committee, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI). The Representatives are lead sponsors of bipartisan legislation to modernize the regulatory pathway for Food and Drug Association approval of follow-on biologics. Representative Eshoo's legislation: H.R. 1548, the Pat...

Immucor Submits 10-Day Response to FDA; Establishes Product Surveillance and Improvement Department

...develop high quality systems," stated Dr. De Chirico. "Our new Product Surveillance and Improvement Department is an important example of our drive to modernize our quality approach." About Immucor Founded in 1982, Immucor manufactures and sells a complete line of reagents and systems used by ho...

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European Union's CHMP Issues Positive Opinion on Sugammadex

...tively unknown asset before our acquisition announcement last March, and we are pleased we saw this opportunity." "This product has the potential to modernize the use of anesthesia around the world," added Thomas P. Koestler, Ph.D., executive vice president and president, Schering-Plough Research Institute. ...

Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) to Help Lead Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative

... and worldwide, today announced its leadership role in the recently formed Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative (CTTI). The goal of the CTTI is to modernize the mechanics of clinical trials and to increase their efficiency and productivity. The CTTI was established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...

Test for Life Commends North Carolina Rules Commission for Implementing CDC Recommendations for HIV Testing

... HIV testing will be offered through general consent and pre-test counseling is no longer required. "I am thrilled that North Carolina has worked to modernize their existing HIV screening laws to incorporate the CDC recommendations. These changes to the counseling and consent requirements are an important st...

California Legislature Passes Historic HIV Testing Bill (AB 682); AHF Urges Governor to Sign Crucial Lifesaving Legislation

...dations for HIV Testing." In that document, the CDC strongly urged routine HIV screening of all persons in a health care setting. AB 682 will serve to modernize California law and enable the state to meet CDC expectations. A study published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

New Critical Path Report Highlights Research Needed to Foster Generic Drug Development

...valence studies. Last year FDA issued the Critical Path Opportunities Report listing 76 specific scientific projects that, if undertaken, would help modernize the Critical Path sciences. This companion document focuses more narrowly on the scientific challenges unique to the development of generic drugs. T...

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Ocean research officials hail completion of modernization for US scientific ocean drilling vessel

...of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution sailing off from Singapore for science sea trials and transit to Honolulu, after a complete transformation to modernize and upgrade the ship in a Singapore shipyard. The JOIDES Resolution is the U.S. research vessel for exploring and monitoring the sub-seafloor; it ...

New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool

...uences, including "Mycobacterium avium." Hernandez led the sampling, and microbial analysis was done at CU-Boulder. "This highlights the need to modernize public health methodology," said Pace, recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur "genius grant" in 2001 for his studies on the range and diversity of microbia...

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DuPont Innovation Addressing Major Global Market Trends

...les to be generated over the next five years, with more to come after that," Kullman said. Decreasing Dependence on Fossil Fuels. As economies modernize in emerging markets, Kullman said DuPont is anticipating increased demand for renewable energy sources by developing products and technologies for pho...

Synthetic Biology: The Next Biotech Revolution Is Brewing

...andle 21st century technological advances. "Before synthetic biology matures, Congress and policymakers should consider how to rationalize and modernize the regulation of new converging technologies, instead of attempting to shoehorn each new area of technological development into laws previously writt...

Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. Acquires BioProcessors Corp.

...LIR Systems Inc, Healthcare Ventures, New Science Ventures and HLM Venture Partners. Seahorse applies its expertise in engineering and biology to modernize cell-based science using "smart plastic" consumables and easy to use instruments. Its XF series instruments measure energy consumption and mitochondr...

Abbott Employee Giving Sets New Records for Employee Participation and Total Donations

...al communities -- investing their time and expertise to help make a difference in people's lives. One example is the work done by Abbott employees to modernize and double the capacity of the HealthReach free health clinic near the company's headquarters in north suburban Chicago. "Many people in our co...

NewCardio Joins the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium

...ustry, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was formed in 2005 in response to the Critical Path Initiative, the FDA's premier effort to modernize the drug development process. The CSRC's primary goal is to facilitate development of new tools to improve cardiac safety assessment of medical produc...

DSM and Crucell Announce Another Key Achievement for PER.C6(R) Technology; Scale Up of High-Titer Fed-Batch Process to 250 Liters

... production conditions. Marco Cacciuttolo, CEO and President of PERCIVIA, comments that, "This new development further strengthens our commitment to modernize therapeutic protein manufacturing. The successful scale up of the high-titer fed-batch process means that the PER.C6(R) platform can be easily and qui...

DuPont Well Positioned for Long-Term Growth in Agricultural Productivity, Safety and Security, Renewable Energy

...ns are under way to meet strong global demand for products such as DuPont(TM) Kevlar(R) and Nomex(R)," Holliday said. Renewable Energy. As economies modernize in emerging markets, the demand for hydrocarbon resources is increasing dramatically, further contributing to climate change and other environmental i...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Board Elects Jean-Marc Huet Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

...ollowing a period of significant challenges," said Jim Cornelius, chairman and chief executive officer. "He instituted new processes and procedures to modernize the company's financial reporting and streamlined the global finance organization to deliver superior financial support. We are pleased he has agreed ...

SpectraScience Appoints the Honorable Tommy Thompson to its Board of Directors

...tment of Health & Human Services, Secretary Thompson served as the nation's leading advocate for the health and welfare of all Americans. He worked to modernize and add prescription drug coverage to Medicare for the first time in the program's history. A leading advocate of welfare reform, he also focused on e...

UW-Madisons IT Metamorphosis

...liant. A recent article in Syllabus magazine, a monthly focusing on high tech in higher education, describes how a campus-wide IT systems upgrade to modernize all student operations on campus, from admissions to enrollment to student financial processes, was completed last year with campus-wide collaboration...