Top Obama administration officials to hold rural health community forum
Cabinet Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda L. Solis, Tom Vilsack and Eric K. Shinseki will p articipate in community forum and hold m edi a a vailability WASHINGTON , July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser...Rendell Administration Officials to Participate in National Flu Summit
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced that representatives of his office, the departments of Health and Education, and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency will participate in a federally sponsored H1N1 Influenza Preparedness S...Contemptible: Governor, State Officials Defy Court Order to Stop Home Care Cuts, Says SEIU
OAKLAND, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than 200,000 California home care workers, filed a motion with U.S. District Court to hold the State in contempt for illegally cutting the wages of In-Home Supportive S...ERT Officials Ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell
PHILADELPHIA , June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ERT (Nasdaq: ERES ), a leading provider of centralized ECG and eClinical technology, ePRO, and other services to the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and related industries, closed the stock market on 18 June by ringing the famous NASDAQ bell. ...Return of Swine Flu in the Fall Worries Health Officials
CDC says cases might not remain mild in a resurgence TUESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- As the swine flu continues to spread across the United States -- and most cases continue to be mild -- federal health officials said Monday that they're shifting their focus from individual cases o...Texas Officials Report 2nd Swine Flu Death in U.S.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials say there's no longer a need to close schools due to outbreak TUESDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- A Texas woman who lived along the U.S.-Mexico border and had chronic health problems died this week after contracting swine flu, state health officials said Tuesd...Top Washington Health Officials to Honor Framingham Heart Study Participants
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's top health officials will honor residents of Framingham, Mass., Nov. 29, when they visit the Boston-area community to pay tribute to the thousands of individuals who have participated in the landmark Framingham Heart Study. HHS Secre...Sanofi Pasteur Submits Supplemental Application for A(H1N1) Pandemic Vaccine to U.S. FDA
...nsure process for the pandemic vaccine. "Filing this application is consistent with our commitment to work collaboratively with public health officials in producing a vaccine against the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 virus ," said Wayne Pisano, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi Pasteur. "It is...China Animal Welfare Law Under Review While 36,000 Dogs Culled
...lly owned companion animals." The cull in Hanzhong began in May after several rabies deaths were reported. IFAW has since pleaded with government officials to stop the slaughter and has offered its expertise in the humane prevention of rabies. Meanwhile, the central government is working with IFAW an...Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference
...emia, private industry, governments, public health officials and philanthropic organizations." In a keynot...ealth Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, public-health officials are now targeting individuals of all ages, not jus... Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Public health officials in Burkina Faso will soon begin immunizing people ...Midwest Research Institute Launches Clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
...IA Certification and CAP Accreditation PALM BAY, Fla., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To address the growing need for molecular diagnostics, officials at the Florida Division of Midwest Research Institute (MRI) announced today that they have established a Clinical Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory tha...The COSHAR Foundation Urges Parents to Ensure Children Are Up-to-Date on Vaccinations
...ek. The Foundation has successfully reached parents and health care providers through its "Immunization Sundays" program that provides pastors, church officials and parishioners with an immunization toolkit and religious sermons focusing on the importance of vaccines. The toolkit includes resources, flyers, in...Inverness Medical Innovations Participates in Meeting on HIV/AIDS with UN Secretary-General
...ior executives of seventeen of the world's leading research-based and generic pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Inverness, together with senior officials from the United Nations system and representatives from the other firms, reviewed progress of programs to expand access to HIV prevention, treatment, ...Sexual orientation and medicine
...tion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People in Medicine. School officials claimed “the organization and its leader would advocate and promote activit...ry of protest from various groups, the school restores the group and school officials apologize. [8] 2007 The American Medical Student Association me...Ocean research officials hail completion of modernization for US scientific ocean drilling vessel
Senior officials from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Implementing Organization for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program today marked the occasion of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution sailing off from Singapore for science sea trials and transit to Honolulu, after a complete...Key OSU water research receives national funding
...receive $226,890 in grant funding from the U.S. Geological Survey, provided through the Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute. OWRRI and USGS officials are funding the division study on eastern redcedar encroachment and the water cycle in the tallgrass prairie, two key elements of ecosystem health for...Bioterrorism and disaster preparedness explored in special issue of Medical Decision Making
...atest type of modeling techniques scientists use in the disaster preparedness.field. Such models have become increasingly important to public health officials and hospital administrators. To improve the consistency and quality of these models, the Society for Medical Decision Making convened experts to reco...Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins
...nglois, director of the state of California's Marine Biotoxin Monitoring Program. "This is critical information for coastal managers and public health officials in mitigating impacts on the coastal ecosystem, since the toxicity of these algae can vary widely from little or no toxicity to highly toxic." Beyo...UH team analyzes Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination
...ly at what was done, and, at the end of the day, I wasn't surprised." While the industrial history of Houston is amazing, Rifai said, residents and officials are dealing with the repercussions of it now and will continue to for a long time, especially in coastal communities. "You have to balance the prot...Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost
... to analyze secondary inspection images; and to overcome some information technology challenges associated with sharing scanned images with government officials who require them. When it comes to protecting the nation's ports, the authors warn, the challenge of comprehensive inspection and the cost of failur...American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009
... 15 issue of ACS' Environmental Science & Technology , a semi-monthly journal. In the new study, Yingjun Chen and colleagues note that government officials have said for years that coal briquettes and improved stoves with better ventilation may cut emissions, but few scientific studies have tested this cl...GEN reports on alternative feedstocks for ethanol production
...ffects on growth, yield, and cellulose hydrolysis, would be applicable to a variety of energy crops including switchgrass, sorghum, and sugar cane. officials at Coskata say the company relies on a hybrid approach based on its Flex Ethanol technology, which combines gasification and fermentation in a thermo-...Athletes, spectators faced unprecedented air pollution at 2008 Olympic Games
...nment efforts to reduce pollution output, the study concluded. The finding of levels of pollution higher than those announced previously by Chinese officials reflects a difference in measurement methodology, researchers said, although the approaches used in this study have been widely accepted for many year...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009
...t screening passengers and their bags is an "enormously challenging detection problem." Since some of the terrorist tools are so tiny, law enforcement officials have to downsize their equipment with one device the size of a fingernail used to find vapors of various explosives. To receive a free copy of this C&...Local officials move toward monitoring nanotechnologies
Washington, DC State and local officials have taken steps to begin monitoring the manufacture and storage of nanomaterials, a major step for a cutting-edge technology that has yet to be regulated by the federal government. On July 28, the Cambridge (Mass.) Public Health Department recommended...U.S. Health and Human Services officials to speak at the Digital Healthcare Conference
Patient Safety and Information Technology is a national priority MADISON - Kathleen Heuer, deputy assistant secretary of budget, technology and finance at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, and senior advisor of the National Health Informa...Biotech officials praise focus of new venture fund
Milwaukee, Wis . - Ordinarily, the news that Wisconsin, which is struggling to gain traction in the venture capital game, is losing one of its key venture capital firms would be greeted with dismay, but Mason Wells ' decision to spin off its venture capital business is being greeted as a positive...Microbix Sales Grow 22% For Nine Months
...ercial conditions. Microbix expects to see more companies begin to work with the technology over the next few months." The Company recently met with officials from Changsha National Biomedical Industrial Park in China to discuss financing and construction plans for the influenza vaccine manufacturing facilit...China-Biotics, Inc. Applies for Four Patents on Probiotic Formulations
...e Company also announced that Mr. Zhenjia Bian and Mr. Chengdong Yi, senior officials from the State Food and Drug Administration, visited the Company recently. ...ich sets more stringent standards for food production throughout China. The officials praised the Company's significant achievements in probiotics applications d...Monitoring water through a snake's eyes
...iver, or a pipeline, and detect trace amounts of contaminants in real time, adds Prof. Katzir. Water management executives in Florida's Everglades and officials in Germany are among those who have expressed an interest in using the technology. Skyscrapers in New York City a Likely Point of Attack "Toxic ...Study on keeping nuclear bombs from US ports shows misplaced fear over cargo scanning cost
... to analyze secondary inspection images; and to overcome some information technology challenges associated with sharing scanned images with government officials who require them. When it comes to protecting the nation's ports, the authors warn, the challenge of comprehensive inspection and the cost of failur...