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About 3 million lose health coverage in California

About 3 million poor Californians lost health benefits or access to health care, and thousands more lost their jobs due to state budget cuts imposed six months ago, according to a report released Thursday.

8 Jan 2010

First Edition: January 8, 2010

Today's headlines reflect the continuing developments as congressional Democrats discuss policy specifics and take steps toward finalizing their health overhaul.

8 Jan 2010

Meridian Health and Cypak collaborate to improve patient care and clinical outcomes

Meridian Health and Cypak today announced a partnership to jointly develop new technology-based products and services aimed at improved patient care and clinical outcomes.

7 Jan 2010

Findings open up significant possibilities for developing micro-screening devices for drug discovery

A Nobel-winning process for testing new drugs to treat diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and muscular dystrophy is getting an electrical charge.

6 Jan 2010

Congressional negotiators returning to start conference talks on health reform bill

Democratic lawmakers will begin this week to try to hammer out a compromise between the House and Senate versions of a health care reform bill as they keep an eye on votes for the measures.

4 Jan 2010

DMET genotyping platform screens for 1256 genetic variations in 170 genes

It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center report a significant advance in this field of research using a new chip that looks for hundreds of mutations in dozen of genes.

29 Dec 2009

Food Safety News lists its top ten ten food safety stories of 2009

Food Safety News, the web-based newspaper that covers all things food safety, today published its list of the top ten food safety stories of the year.

29 Dec 2009

Flawed health care bill must be improved, says National Partnership for Women & Families

The following is a statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families:"The Senate took a historic step to fix our nation's broken health care system this morning by passing comprehensive reform that will cover 31 million more people, prohibit insurance practices that undermine meaningful, affordable coverage, help contain costs, and put us on track to improve the quality and coordination of care. But this flawed bill must be improved. The anti-choice provisions in the Senate and House bills are bad and worse, and represent a step the nation simply should not take.

28 Dec 2009

Children's Health Fund lauds Reid over release of the final Senate health care legislation

Irwin Redlener, MD, President and Co-founder of the Children's Health Fund, a national organization that advocates for and develops primary care programs for disadvantaged and medically underserved children, today released the following statement on release of the final Senate health care legislation by Majority Leader Harry Reid: "First and foremost, we applaud the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on producing this historic health reform bill which will provide millions of currently uninsured children access to comprehensive health insurance coverage.

24 Dec 2009

Study reveals genomic switches separate autoimmune disorders in different clusters

Genomic switches can predispose an individual to one set of autoimmune disorders but protect the same person against another set of them, scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have found.

24 Dec 2009

Researchers develop new technique for pH adjustments

How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente have developed a technique for 'gently' adjusting pH: in other words, without damaging biomolecules. This should soon allow them to measure the activity of a single enzyme as a function of pH.

22 Dec 2009

Majority of young adults support health reform legislation, says survey

An overwhelming majority-88 percent-of young adults across the political spectrum think it is important for Congress and the President to pass health reform legislation that would assure affordable health insurance for all and improve health care, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released today.

19 Dec 2009

Roundup of health policy research and analyses

Urban Institute/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: What Would Health Care Reform Mean for Small Employers and Their Workers? - "Small employers and their workers face a broad assortment of barriers to obtaining health insurance coverage today," such as "high administrative costs, limited ability to spread health care risk, and a low-wage workforce."

18 Dec 2009

Lab chip capable of growing cardiac tissue produced by biomedical engineers

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle.

16 Dec 2009

imaGenes achieves Roche NimbleGen CSP-status for ChIP-chip application

Roche NimbleGen has announced that imaGenes GmbH, a Berlin-based genomics & proteomics specialist, has achieved status as a Certified Service Provider (CSP) of NimbleGen microarrays for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP-chip). imaGenes GmbH has passed a rigorous ChIP-chip certification to officially become part of the Roche NimbleGen Certified Service Provider Program.

16 Dec 2009

PatientKeeper closes $13 million round of funding

PatientKeeper, Inc., the leading provider of Physician Information Technology, today announced that it has closed a $13 million round of funding comprised of equity and debt.

16 Dec 2009

U.S. questions California's CHIP program; Milwaukee schools face rising retiree health care costs

News outlets report on California's children's health program, health care costs for Milwaukee's schools and indigent care in Minnesota.

15 Dec 2009

New survey reveals expansion and safeguard of health coverage for children and parents in CHIP

Despite the deep recession, most states have managed to safeguard and, in some cases, expand health coverage for children and parents in their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs in 2009, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

9 Dec 2009

Report highlights the state of oral health for children and adults in the United States

Oral disease, primarily dental caries, is the most common pediatric disease and can lead to physical and psychological disabilities as well as significant morbidity in adulthood.

9 Dec 2009

Experts attribute increased demand for nursing jobs to rise in pediatric specialty services

A shift upward in the number of children treated by hospitals and outpatient facilities nationwide has created a spike in the demand for pediatric nurses, resulting in high pay and exceptional benefits for these positions.

8 Dec 2009

Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) News and Research

About 3 million lose health coverage in California

First Edition: January 8, 2010

Meridian Health and Cypak collaborate to improve patient care and clinical outcomes

Findings open up significant possibilities for developing micro-screening devices for drug discovery

Congressional negotiators returning to start conference talks on health reform bill

DMET genotyping platform screens for 1256 genetic variations in 170 genes

Food Safety News lists its top ten ten food safety stories of 2009

Flawed health care bill must be improved, says National Partnership for Women & Families

Children's Health Fund lauds Reid over release of the final Senate health care legislation

Study reveals genomic switches separate autoimmune disorders in different clusters

Researchers develop new technique for pH adjustments

Majority of young adults support health reform legislation, says survey

Roundup of health policy research and analyses

Lab chip capable of growing cardiac tissue produced by biomedical engineers

imaGenes achieves Roche NimbleGen CSP-status for ChIP-chip application

PatientKeeper closes $13 million round of funding

U.S. questions California's CHIP program; Milwaukee schools face rising retiree health care costs

New survey reveals expansion and safeguard of health coverage for children and parents in CHIP

Report highlights the state of oral health for children and adults in the United States

Experts attribute increased demand for nursing jobs to rise in pediatric specialty services

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