Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . May 22nd, 2010
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Allstate Insurance Company - 'Save 11' Campaign Seeks to Save Teen Drivers' Lives
Business News - AMA OFFERS PHYSICIANS HELP CLAIMING DAMAGES FROM UNITEDHEALTH SETTLEMENT More than $350 million available to physicians and patients
Medicare and Medicaid - Affordable Medigap Plans M and N Are Now Available Through Medicare Solutions
Business News - AvMed Health Plans Achieves CAQH CORE Phase I Certification for Consistent Healthcare Administrative Data Exchange
Medical Appliances & Equipment - Baptist Hospital East adopts TandemHeart(R), designed to offer new hope to heart patients
Regenerative Medicine - BioTime, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire ES Cell International
Biotechnology - Biotech Posts Weak Performance in April
Medicare and Medicaid - Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Executive and Three Employees Charged in Health Care Fraud Scheme
Medicare and Medicaid - Consumer Reports Health: How to Navigate the Newly Reformed Health Care System
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu - Deloitte: Global Economic Downturn Likely to Change Face of Life Sciences Industries for Years to Come
Medicare and Medicaid - Elder Law Seminars Hosted by Flushing House
MedNeutral - Farmers Insurance Selects MedNeutral's MROinsight: A Cost Effective Early Case Assessment Medical Decision Tool
Dentistry - Findings in dentistry reported from A. Popelut and co-researchers
Hearing Loss - Findings in hearing loss reported from Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Non-Therapeutic Body Modification - Intact America Blasts American Academy of Pediatrics' Call To Weaken U.S. Ban on All Forms of Female Genital Cutting as Outrageous and Unethical
Clinical Trial Research - Investigators at University of London target clinical trial research
Mental Illness - Los Angeles County Jail Plagued By Violence and Hazardous Conditions, ACLU Report Finds
Coagulants - Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. Awarded $29.4 Million in Patent Infringement Law Suit
Medicare and Medicaid - Medicare Provides Assistance to Help Low-Income Beneficiaries Get Big Savings on Prescription Drug Costs
HIV/AIDS - Miami Clinic Consultant Convicted in $5.8 Million Fraudulent HIV Infusion Scheme
Psychiatry - New NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends
Obesity - New government pay-for-performance policies punish doctors who care for obese patients
Health and Medicine - New health and medicine research from Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy discussed
Obesity - New studies examine adverse outcomes associated with obesity and more applicable measures of obesity
Thrombosis - New thrombosis findings from Jacobi Medical Center, Department of Medicine published
Biological Products - Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics to Pay More Than $72 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning TOBI
Marketing and Licensing Agreements - Par Obtains Exclusive Rights to Market and Distribute Generic Zetia in the U.S.
Stem Cell Research - Patent on Human Embryonic Stem Cells Rejected After Consumer Groups' Appeal
Medical Equipment and Supplies - Patient Recruiters and Employee at Houston Medical Equipment Company Plead Guilty to Health Care Fraud Scheme and Illegal Health Care Kickbacks
Medicare and Medicaid - Pay-for-performance programs may worsen medical disparities, study finds
Phosphorus - Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to Spend More Than $195 Million on Improvements to 126 Drinking Water Plants
R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. - R-Tech Ueno's Sanda Factory Gets U.S. Nod for Manufacture of Rescula Eye Drops
Science - Recent studies from Curtin University of Technology add new data to science
Diagnostic Imaging - Research conducted at Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics has updated our knowledge about diagnostic imaging
Internal Medicine - Research on internal medicine reported by scientists at University of Massachusetts, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Machado-Joseph Disease - Research results from Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy update knowledge of Machado-Joseph disease
Medicare and Medicaid - Sandata Chosen to Implement Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Telephonic Home Health Project
Long QT Syndrome - Scientists at Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy target long QT syndrome
Benzamides - Spike in Use of Popular Reflux Drug to Treat Infants Causes Alarm
Ovarian Cancer - Studies from Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy in the area of ovarian cancer described
Volunteers of America - Study Shows Women in America Prefer Aging at Home But Many Will Not Have Financial Resources to Do So
Electronic Medical Records - The Jackson Clinic Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 130 Providers
U.S. Department of Justice - Two Puerto Rico Police Officers Sentenced for Federal Civil Rights Charges Related to Fatal Assault
Academic Medical Centers - Urgent changes needed to prepare doctors to care for aging America
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Watson Confirms Trilipix Patent Challenge
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