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Table of Contents . . . October 7th, 2005
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Business & Finance - Pathologists award sponsorship to The Doctors Company
Finance - Blue Shield of California Foundation awards $990,000 to reduce infections
Academy Medical Center, Amsterdam - Triple-modality approach used to treat patients with cervical carcinoma
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston - Breast milk provides ARV exposure to infants, but impact not yet understood
Bethesda General Hospital - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of diabetes therapy
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina - South Carolina insurance provider wins award for physician web access program
Brown University - Screening trial shows benefits of digital mammograms
CHU Pontchaillou, Rennes - Nosocomial infection prevalence among French children surveyed
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne - Invasive breast cancer following in situ ductal or lobular cancer studied
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao Yuan - Predictors for patterns of brain relapse in NSCLC patients discussed
Children's Hospital Boston - Surgery may induce angiogenesis in dormant breast cancer
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa - Hepatitis C virus proteins interfere with lipids to alter liver cells
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - How to best protect children in side-impact crashes presented
Colonial Supplemental Insurance - Insurance carrier sets up phones lines, e-mail for Katrina-affected customers
Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha - Microarray analysis clarifies role of circulating monocytes
Florida Hospital Centra Care - Central Florida hospital group offers free health exams to hurricane evacuees
Frenchay Hospital, Bristol - Neurofibrillary pathology studied, relationship to amyloid angiopathy defined
GEO Group - Florida state hospital management company renames Atlantic Shores Healthcare
Ghent University Hospital - HIV Nef induces rapid internalization of T-cell coreceptor CD8alphabeta
Hacettepe University School of Medicine - Effect of cytoreductive surgery evaluated in ovarian metastasis
Harris Interactive - Poll shows one in six of insured adults pay doctors not accepting their carrier
Healthcare Coverage - Georgia HMOs show moderate, steady growth, according to study
Hurricane Relief - Delta Dental offers administrative relief for customers hurt by hurricane
India Natl Inst of Cholera & Enteric Dis, Kolkata - V. fluvialis and V. cholerae El Tor hemolysin gene similar
Information Technology - Cortland Memorial Hospital goes live with Blue Iris Connect
Information Technology - Imaging, cardiovascular systems to be installed at Taiwan hospital
Information Technology - Patient safety improved with bar-coded medication administration
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford - Radiological appearances of pelvis following rectal cancer surgery characterized
Karolinska University Hospital - Heart health of former female endurance athletes studied
Kyoto University Hospital - Living-donor liver transplantation suggested for hepatoblastoma
Managed Health Care Associates - Managed care group reports growth with addition of 45,000 long term care beds
Massachusetts General Hospital - New findings in the area of gene silencing described
Mergers & Acquisitions - Acquisition of PacifiCare positions UnitedHealth for Medicare growth
Mergers & Acquisitions - Community Health Systems executes asset purchase agreement
Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium - Three new cancer centers join multiple myeloma research organization
National Hospital Organization, Kanagawa - Esophageal melanosis linked to squamous cell neoplasms in alcoholic Japanese men
Newcastle Dental Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne - BioXtra and Biotene Oralbalance systems used as salivary substitutes
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield - Optimal strategy for antiplatelet therapy during surgery determined
Odense University Hospital - Study evaluated how statins plus clopidogrel influence platelet aggregation
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