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Reliance Standard collaborates with AllOne Health to provide HPM services

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (Reliance Standard), a leading insurance carrier specializing in flexible employee benefits, today announced business collaboration with AllOne HealthSM, a leader in workforce health and productivity, to enhance and improve the value of those services to businesses’ most important assets – their employees. Together, Reliance Standard and AllOne Health will provide a cutting edge model for health and productivity management (HPM) services called RelianceONE™.

14 Oct 2009

2009 American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care awarded to James A. Block

James A. Block, M.D., president of J.A. Block Health Associates, will receive the inaugural 2009 American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated innovation and ingenuity in their contributions to the advancement of the field of palliative care.

14 Oct 2009

Pelosi's statement after Senate Finance Committee passes the health insurance reform proposal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after the Senate Finance Committee voted to pass the committee's health insurance reform proposal.

14 Oct 2009

Geckosystems' Mobile Robots conference to focus on economics of personal companion robots

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. announced today that during their first annual "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference November 4-5, 2009 attendees will be able to learn and discuss the expected cost savings and ROI of personal companion robots in an eldercare setting.

14 Oct 2009

Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan bill is the best blueprint for comprehensive health care reform: PhRMA

"Today's vote represents an important step forward for the millions of Americans who don't have access to high-quality and affordable health care coverage and services. Chairman Baucus has tirelessly shepherded one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetime and deserves a lot of credit for reaching out to members on both sides of the aisle.

14 Oct 2009

Key provision in health insurance reform legislation for young Americans

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Chris Van Hollen, and Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper joined a coalition of 20 youth organizations from 30 states for a press conference this afternoon in the Capitol to announce a key provision impacting young adults in health insurance reform legislation.

14 Oct 2009

Survey shows etiology of current mastectomy rates is multifactorial

With there being a concern that mastectomy is excessively used as a treatment for breast cancer, a survey of nearly 2,000 women indicates that breast-conserving surgery was attempted as the initial therapy for about 75 percent of those surveyed, according to a study in the October 14 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on surgical care.

14 Oct 2009

Swedish Risk Drinking Project surveys physicians and nurses of Sweden

The proportion of health care personnel reporting that they always or often queried their patients regarding alcohol use has increased significantly. This is particularly notable with nurses, where the proportion has doubled to 60 per cent, and midwives, where 92 per cent estimate their capacity to identify risk consumption as good or very good.

14 Oct 2009

NTU condemns Senate Finance Committee's support for health care bill

The 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) today condemned the Senate Finance Committee's 14-9 vote to support the health care bill drafted by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), pointing to hundreds of billions of dollars in damaging tax increases. This so-called "moderate" health care reform bill would grow the already bloated federal budget while saddling middle class families with billions in new taxes.

14 Oct 2009

NIH awards research grants for NYU Langone Medical Center

NYU Langone Medical Center has been awarded more than $30 million in research grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for 86 research projects being conducted at NYU School of Medicine across a broad range of basic science and clinical departments.

14 Oct 2009

Use of minimally invasive procedures for radical prostatectomy has advantages as well as complications

New research indicates that the use of minimally invasive procedures (including the use of robotic assistance) for radical prostatectomy, which have increased significantly in recent years, may shorten hospital stays and decrease respiratory and surgical complications, but may also result in an increased rate of certain complications, including incontinence and erectile dysfunction, according to a study in the October 14 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on surgical care.

14 Oct 2009

Increase in adiponectin hormone levels protects against sepsis-related mortality

A hormone naturally found in the fat that surrounds the abdominal organs for the first time has been linked to death related to sepsis, surgeons reported at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. A study exhibited at the conference showed that low levels of the hormone adiponectin placed animals at a profoundly high risk of death from a septic insult.

14 Oct 2009

House, Senate Democrats to face off over health taxes

The 'Cadillac tax' on employer-sponsored insurance will likely be the focal point of a "fierce clash" between Democrats in the House and Senate if it clears the Senate Finance Committee's vote today, the New York Times reports.

14 Oct 2009

National Vaccine Information Center to launch a research fundraising campaign

At the Oct. 2-4, 2009 Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center in Reston, VA, 700 citizens from 44 states and 11 nations raised more than $100,000 to launch an international scientific research fundraising campaign to investigate health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children and identify those at risk for suffering vaccine injury.

14 Oct 2009

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal treads reform line between Dems and Republicans

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is moving between sides in the health care reform debate as he considers a role in national politics and seeks to appeal to his party's base.

14 Oct 2009

K Streeters must choose sides as health debate nears showdown

Health industry lobbying groups are positioning themselves for the final battles over health reform, and that will mean formally choosing sides - for, or against - on Democrats' health-care overhaul, The Hill reports.

14 Oct 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to support research in numerous health areas

As part of the $5 billion in grants announced by President Obama, the National Institutes of Health has granted Kaiser Permanente more than $54 million over two years through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to conduct health research on a multitude of critical public and clinical health areas.

14 Oct 2009

H1N1 patients with ARDS survive illness when treated with ECMO

Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were treated with a system that adds oxygen to the patient's blood survived the disease, according to a study to appear in the November 4 issue of JAMA.

14 Oct 2009

States have initiated tort reform experiments

President Barack Obama can look to a variety of models as he seeks to fulfill a pledge to fund state tort reform experiments, a longtime wish-list item for physicians, the New York Times reports. States have so far tried a few approaches, with mixed results, and considered more.

14 Oct 2009

Portico Healthnet to launch Minnesota Coalition for Kids Health Coverage

Portico Healthnet, a non-profit agency working to reduce the number of people without coverage for health care services, has been awarded more than $988,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to launch the Minnesota Coalition for Kids Health Coverage, a partnership of community agencies from around the state, to identify and enroll uninsured children into the Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare state health coverage safety net programs.

14 Oct 2009

Health Care News and Research

Reliance Standard collaborates with AllOne Health to provide HPM services

2009 American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care awarded to James A. Block

Pelosi's statement after Senate Finance Committee passes the health insurance reform proposal

Geckosystems' Mobile Robots conference to focus on economics of personal companion robots

Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan bill is the best blueprint for comprehensive health care reform: PhRMA

Key provision in health insurance reform legislation for young Americans

Survey shows etiology of current mastectomy rates is multifactorial

Swedish Risk Drinking Project surveys physicians and nurses of Sweden

NTU condemns Senate Finance Committee's support for health care bill

NIH awards research grants for NYU Langone Medical Center

Use of minimally invasive procedures for radical prostatectomy has advantages as well as complications

Increase in adiponectin hormone levels protects against sepsis-related mortality

House, Senate Democrats to face off over health taxes

National Vaccine Information Center to launch a research fundraising campaign

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal treads reform line between Dems and Republicans

K Streeters must choose sides as health debate nears showdown

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to support research in numerous health areas

H1N1 patients with ARDS survive illness when treated with ECMO

States have initiated tort reform experiments

Portico Healthnet to launch Minnesota Coalition for Kids Health Coverage

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