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Romney: Federal health reform worse than Mass. plan

News outlets covered a major political speech by former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney on Saturday.

6 Mar 2011

Health care political battles tied to budget, insurance costs

"As Congress continues to debate the new health care law, health insurance costs are still rising, particularly for small businesses. Republicans are seizing on the trend as evidence that the new law includes expensive features that are driving up premiums. But the insurance industry says premiums are rising primarily because of the underlying cost of care and a growing demand for it. Across the country, premiums have more than doubled in the last decade, with smaller companies particularly hard hit in recent years, federal officials say".

6 Mar 2011

Mintz Levin's Health Law Practice to sponsor WBL's 10th Annual Summit

The Health Law Practice of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. is a sponsor of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation and WBL's 10th Annual Summit.

5 Mar 2011

Researchers explore ways to improve human-computer interaction

Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.

5 Mar 2011

BlueCross earns LEED Gold campus certification

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee announced today its certification as a LEED Gold campus, established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute. LEED is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.

5 Mar 2011

Members of Congress receive messages from lupus advocates during Lupus Advocacy Day

Members of Congress received more than 2500 emails, messages, and stories from lupus advocates across the country during the Lupus Foundation of America's Thirteenth Annual Advocacy Day held February 28-March 1, 2011. More than 200 individuals met in person with their Congressional Representatives and staff on Capitol Hill, and countless others called, wrote letters, or helped spread the word online through Facebook and Twitter, to raise awareness about the need for increased federal funding for lupus research, education, and awareness programs.

5 Mar 2011

SLM, Johns Hopkins, MDSNe partner to provide medical education for European healthcare providers

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, San Lucas Medical, a leading London-based medical education communications company and medical publisher of fifteen medical journals throughout Europe and Asia and MDSNe, a healthcare specific, social media startup, announced today their partnership to design, implement and distribute medical education to European healthcare providers based on social learning.

5 Mar 2011

Efficient medical treatments to be showcased at SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting

The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries in treating a host of diseases at its 36th Annual Scientific Meeting March 26–31 at McCormick Place (West) in Chicago, Ill. The theme of the meeting is "IR Rising: Leading Image-guided Medicine," chosen to reflect interventional radiology's continued revolutionizing of modern medicine.

5 Mar 2011

Deal Search Online: Pharma is the single most active sector in decade's health care M&A market

According to Deal Search Online, an Irving Levin Associates M&A database, there has been a total of 1,431 pharmaceutical M&A deals, totaling $632.3 billion dollars committed to the industry during the ten-year period ended December 31, 2010.

5 Mar 2011

Walgreens joins Care Continuum Alliance as new member

The Care Continuum Alliance today announced its newest member: Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain and a health and wellness leader.

5 Mar 2011

U.N. panel recommends reparations fund for victims of sexual violence in DRC

A high-level U.N. panel on Thursday recommended that the international community "create a special reparations fund for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo," following an assessment of the conditions faced by survivors of such acts, Agence France-Presse reports.

5 Mar 2011

GW Health Policy Researchers play a major role in AJPM supplement

GW Health Policy Researchers, led by Wilhelmine Miller, Ph.D., associate research professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy, played a major role in the supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

5 Mar 2011

New turf battle: Retail pharmacists vs. mail order companies

The New York Times: Pharmacists Fight The Rise Of Mail Order

5 Mar 2011

Senate Republicans urge White House to withdraw Berwick nomination

The Obama administration used a "recess appointment" last July to appoint Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Yesterday, 42 GOP senators signed on to a letter asking that this appointment be withdrawn.

5 Mar 2011

WSJ: A windfall for HCA investors

Meanwhile, a report by Health Care For America Now details profits for the nation's five largest insurers and draws a strong reaction from the industry.

5 Mar 2011

DaVita earns recognition in Fortune's Most Admired Companies list

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with end stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease, has been honored as one of the 2011 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and ranked second in the Health Care: Medical Facilities industry.

5 Mar 2011

Medical professionals vote to become part of UAPD

A group of medical professionals working at the thirteen clinics that make up the Northeast Valley Health Corporation voted last week to unionize, becoming part of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists in the process. Today, representatives of UAPD formally filed a request to bargain with NEVHC.

5 Mar 2011

Sebelius, GOP face off at House hearing

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stuck to the usual talking points Wednesday as she appeared before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in defense of implementation of the health law and the president's budget request for her agency. She also told Republicans that that there is no system by which Medicaid block grants can be created.

5 Mar 2011

Senate dems pitch long-term spending bill

"A long-term spending bill pitched by the Senate will not include language to strip federal funds from Planned Parenthood and implementation of the healthcare reform law, according to new highlights released by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday afternoon.

5 Mar 2011

Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease becomes official journal of COPD Foundation

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the first journal dedicated to publishing a range of research on the impact of COPD, has become the official journal of the COPD Foundation.

5 Mar 2011