Michigan Chamber of Commerce Raises Concerns With Flawed Federal Health Care Reform Proposal, Rushed Timeline

LANSING, Mich., July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Michigan Chamber of Commerce today expressed serious concern with Congress' rushed timeline to address health care reform and urged Michigan's Congressional Delegation to demand that legislative leaders reconsider their approach and prio...

Crucial medical supplies rushed to Baghdad

International Medical Corps and Agility join hands to ensure speedy delivery of essential supplies to strife-affected hospitals BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- International Medical Corps (IMC) and global logistics giant Agility, have teamed up to deliver essential medical suppl...

President Obama's Health Care Plan: Too Big, Too Expensive, Too Rushed

As one of the Nation's Leading Hispanic Small Business Advocates, TLC Urges Caution on Healthcare Reform WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Latino Coalition (TLC) today joins the growing number of civic, business and public policy organizations - including...

Diana Could Have Been Saved Had She Been Rushed to Hospital

Diana, Princess of Wales could have been saved if she had been moved more quickly to the hospital, an independent medical practitioner has claimed. Dr James Colthurst, who has spent more than 25 years practicing medicine, believes that the Princess may have still been alive if French doctors had a...

Health Minister-Gujarat Rushed To Civil Hospital

Ashok Bhatt, Gujarat Health minister was admitted to UN Mehta’s civil hospital on Thursday morning. Hospital authorities said, he was admitted// for the complaint of chest pain. He rus...

Doctors Are Too Rushed To Give Bedside Manners Its Due

According to a study funded by Pfizer it was found that older patients gave their doctors higher marks than they deserved based on a review of whether physicians followed accepted standards for technical quality. // The study was conducted among 236 elderly patients. The findings were published in ...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Urges Constant Vigilance Against Growing Threat of Killer 'Superbug'

... or pimple. Feverish, he went to bed. By morning, the sore spot was a large, bright red rash. "I still had a fever. My leg was twice its normal size." rushed to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, doctors pumped him with antibiotics with little effect. "They kept asking me where I might have pick...

Omnicell Improves Nursing Workflow with New Anywhere RN(TM) Remote Medication Management Application

... the use of medication automated systems has increased, nurses are spending more time in transactions at medication cabinets. At times, they can feel rushed or pressured while other nurses queue up behind them waiting for access to the same medication cabinet. The Anywhere RN application offers the nurse t...

For Every Blow to the Head, Quick Action Is Urged

... to have saved at least one life. An Ohio couple whose 7-year-old daughter had been struck in the temple two days earlier by a baseball hit by her dad rushed the girl to a doctor after watching a news report on Richardson, according to published reports. It turned out she was suffering from the same cond...

Beeston To Pursue Gold And Silver Royalty Interests

...ow Virginia City on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Mountain range. After the discovery was made public in 1859, prospectors rushed to the area and scrambled to stake their claims. Mining camps soon thrived in the vicinity, which became bustling centers of fabulous wealth. Between ...

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New technology for boosting vaccine efficiency

...resented on the cell surface and stimulate immunity. If this was the complete story, life-saving solutions would be so close. A lot of research groups rushed to enhance their vaccines by fusing different viral proteins used in vaccines with specific transport signals directing the proteins to the proteosome...

Bleeding, not inflammation, is major cause of early lung infection death

... had for years believed that the breathing difficulty was brought on by inflammation: the swelling and fluid build-up caused as immune system proteins rushed to the lungs to fight the infection. A medical mystery emerged, however, when our studies revealed that such inflammation was actually lower during th...

Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

...he period after his vasectomy. At a twice-yearly Chicago support group for PPA patients Weintraub sees from around the country, the male patient rushed into the room and asked the men sitting there, "OK, guys, how many of you have PPA?" Nine hands went up. "How many of you had a vasectomy?" he de...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...c Northwest Research Station in Olympia, Wash., and Jeff Copeland, a wolverine researcher with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Mont., rushed to the Methow Valley to fit the young female wolverine with a satellite radio collar to initiate the first scientific study of wolverines ever conduct...

Research Permits First-Ever Visualization of Psychological Stress in the Human Brain

...ration -- and measured the corresponding changes in stress hormone and heart rate. Many subjects described themselves as being "flustered, distracted, rushed and upset" by the stress task. The results showed increased cerebral blood-flow during the "stress test" in the right anterior portion of the brain...

Scientists devise way to measure RNA synthesis on the fly in a live cell

...s that the motion of galaxies is affected by the presence of invisible matter called 'dark matter,'" Cluzel said. In recent years, astronomers have rushed to design experiments that might help them determine what dark matter is made of. "RNA molecules could be called the 'dark matter' of biology," Cluzel...

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Biotechnology Value Fund Urges Stockholders to Remove and Replace Current Board of Avigen, Inc. in an Effort to Protect and Maximize Stockholder Value

...stockholders they have a fiduciary duty to represent. Avigen delayed calling the special meeting for approximately two months before setting a rushed meeting date that we believe was set to prevent stockholders from having adequate opportunity to receive and review proxy materials and vote at the sp...

Healthcare Coalition Approves Tools to Improve Patient Safety During Transitions of Care

...another care setting. The U.S. healthcare system often fails to meet the needs of elderly patient populations during these transitions because care is rushed and responsibility is fragmented with little communication across care settings and multiple providers. These failures lead to undue burdens on patien...

When do you go from "beta" to "product launch"?

...have been a bit quiet that way. The technology coming to market in the past two to three years has been far more mature, on average, than the products rushed to market between 1998-2000. But the question of "What is a launch?" is back. There are those who ask the question because they have taken a Google...

Careful with that electronic health record, Mr. Leavitt

...l records could quickly kill the patient, and nobody would know why. A very dangerous national electronic health record system is being carelessly rushed to market for short-term monetary gain by the insurance industry, its most powerful "stakeholder." The hope that a carefully planned and executed heal...

Rocket docket speeds patent infringement suits

...egal life on the rocket docket moves at warp speed, with few exceptions even for emergencies. In one instance, a hearing continued while paramedics rushed to the courtroom to attend to a defendant who was suffering a mini-stroke. The judge later explained the proceedings continued because the conference ...

In a fast-paced economy, lawmakers must pick up speed

...t AT&T last week; change at that level usually leads to new marching orders below. The perpetually cautious might say, Well, Wisconsin shouldn't be rushed into passing a new law just because a big company like AT&T wants to move quicker. Fair enough. In fact, some questions about consumer protection are ...