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Cosmetic Bootcamp introduces comprehensive esthetic textbook

Cosmetic Bootcamp LLC is pleased to announce the launch of its comprehensive esthetic textbook, The Cosmetic Bootcamp Primer. This book contains chapters written by a variety of different specialties and in addition to the outstanding medical information also contains chapters on practice management as well as an instructional DVD.

5 Feb 2011

Virginia asks high court to expedite review of health law challenge

Virginia's attorney general has hopes to bypass an initial appellate court review and take his state's case against the health overhaul directly to the Supreme Court. The federal Department of Justice has made clear it will oppose this request. Meanwhile, the lawsuits against the health law are just one of many paths being followed by activists who hope to undo the measure.

5 Feb 2011

Unemployed people suffer more often from physical, emotional complaints: GEDA study

Compared to people in employment, men and women who are unemployed suffer more often and longer from both physical and emotional complaints. Why the un-employed should have health problems more often is discussed by Lars E. Kroll and his coauthor in the current issue of Deutsches -rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 4: 47-52), along with a report on the findings of the GEDA study.

5 Feb 2011

U-M Medical School earns $368.7 million in NIH research funding during federal fiscal year 2010

University of Michigan Medical School physicians and scientists earned more than $368.7 million in National Institutes of Health research funding in federal fiscal year 2010, according to NIH data. In all, the School's faculty brought in $481.8 million in research funding from all sources in U-M fiscal year 2010.

5 Feb 2011

Systematic review confirms benefits of taking exercise in natural environment

A systematic review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry has analysed existing studies and concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise in the natural environment. Their findings are published in the leading research journal Environmental Science and Technology today, 4th February 2011.

5 Feb 2011

Roundup: Fla. turns down another $1m grant; Colo. provider fees; Conn. bulk Rx purchases

Using as ammunition a Florida judge's ruling this week that the federal healthcare law is unconstitutional, state officials are wasting no time stepping away from the controversial overhaul. Their latest move: rejecting a $1 million federal grant awarded to the Agency for Health Care Administration to plan a system required by the law where consumers can comparison shop for health plans.

5 Feb 2011

Be R.E.A.D.Y. safety initiative to help reduce tube feeding errors in hospitalized kids

In partnership with the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Nestle HealthCare Nutrition launched the "Be R.E.A.D.Y." safety initiative at A.S.P.E.N.'s Clinical Nutrition Week this week to educate pediatric health care professionals on safe enteral (tube) feeding practices for hospitalized kids.

5 Feb 2011

National Minority Quality Forum launches novel resource to map lung cancer prevalence estimates

In recognition of World Cancer Day, the National Minority Quality Forum today launched the Lung Cancer Atlas. This novel resource enables users to map lung cancer prevalence estimates and total counts at the zip-code level for the United States as well as for individual states, federal and state legislative districts.

5 Feb 2011

Tenet signs multi-year agreement with UnitedHealthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation today announced it signed a multi-year agreement with UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvania that covers Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA. The agreement also covers physicians employed by subsidiaries of the two hospitals. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

5 Feb 2011

Ascend Health opens Mother-Infant Outpatient Program to treat post-partum depression

Ascend Health Corporation, through Cedar Hills Hospital, announced the opening of the Mother-Infant Outpatient Program, the first in the Pacific Northwest region where new mothers can receive treatment with their children in a safe, caring and convenient setting. Cedar Hills Hospital is a facility of Ascend Health Corporation.

5 Feb 2011

Pay gap growing for women physicians

Women are playing a greater and greater role in medicine. But when it comes to salaries, they're actually losing ground. A provocative study in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs finds female physicians' average starting salaries earned nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts' in 2008.

5 Feb 2011

SVHC to deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of web-based practice management, electronic health record, and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that St. Vincent's HealthCare (SVHC), a not-for-profit regional medical facility in Jacksonville, Florida, will deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service, athenaCollector®, to its growing network of more than 120 employed medical providers.

5 Feb 2011

Recent releases in Global Health

"Africa should be one of the leading regions in shaping global food security policies and feeding the future instead of others shaping it for Africa. Developing practical, integrative and more small-scale solutions for agricultural inputs and outputs, farming, and for managing both land and water resources, will help Africa provide for future generations on the Continent and elsewhere," Robin Renee Sanders, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, writes in a Huffington Post blog post.

5 Feb 2011

Roundup: House Republicans plan to advance anti-abortion agenda with action next week; Medical device makers lobby to repeal tax

House Republicans said Thursday that they plan to consider two significant bills next week that would prevent taxpayer-funded abortions. One of the controversial measures was slightly modified after abortion rights supporters lashed out against language that included limits on exemptions for such situations as rape and incest (Adams, 2/3).

4 Feb 2011

Jungle Brolly launches new natural line of non alcoholic industrial hand sanitizers

Natural hand sanitizers prove a viable alternative to chemical-based hand sanitizers. In today's world, we are surrounded by a multitude of bacteria, germs, and viruses, as well as stories of new strains of those viruses, leading to serious illnesses and, in some cases, even death. In response, we seek convenient and more effective ways to protect ourselves.

4 Feb 2011

Senior citizens can benefit from new emergency detection system

Elderly people living alone have a dangerous life: after a fall, they often spend hours lying on the floor before their situation comes to anyone's attention and a doctor is contacted. A new system automatically detects predicaments like this and informs a trusted person. This makes it possible to live an independent life in one's own four walls.

4 Feb 2011

Opinions: Global Fund; Accountability for Haiti Aid

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes of the "breathless Associated Press story" about the uncovering of some corruption in grants given by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the subsequent reaction: "When scandals fit preexisting ideological narratives, they assume a life of their own. This particular narrative - the story of useless, wasted aid - is durable. It is also misleading and might be deadly."

4 Feb 2011

General Dynamics to collaborate with MPT to offer EHR solution to DoD

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has entered into a letter of intent with McKesson Provider Technologies to collaborate in offering an Electronic Health Record solution known as the "Way Ahead" to the Department of Defense.

4 Feb 2011

FDA clears new mobile radiology application

A new mobile radiology application cleared today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow physicians to view medical images on the iPhone and iPad manufactured by Apple Inc.

4 Feb 2011

Research roundup: Comparing profit and nonprofit hospice care; Hospital mortality and spending; High-deductible insurance plans

Association Of Hospice Agency Profit Status With Patient Diagnosis, Location of Care, and Length of Stay - "The current Medicare Hospice Benefit reimburses hospices at a fixed per diem rate that does not consider the patient's diagnosis, location of care, or hospice LOS [length-of-stay]," and as such, "profit can be maximized by caring for patients with certain diagnoses that require fewer skilled services, patients residing in nursing homes, or patients with longer hospice stays."

4 Feb 2011

Healthcare News

Cosmetic Bootcamp introduces comprehensive esthetic textbook

Virginia asks high court to expedite review of health law challenge

Unemployed people suffer more often from physical, emotional complaints: GEDA study

U-M Medical School earns $368.7 million in NIH research funding during federal fiscal year 2010

Systematic review confirms benefits of taking exercise in natural environment

Roundup: Fla. turns down another $1m grant; Colo. provider fees; Conn. bulk Rx purchases

Be R.E.A.D.Y. safety initiative to help reduce tube feeding errors in hospitalized kids

National Minority Quality Forum launches novel resource to map lung cancer prevalence estimates

Tenet signs multi-year agreement with UnitedHealthcare

Ascend Health opens Mother-Infant Outpatient Program to treat post-partum depression

Pay gap growing for women physicians

SVHC to deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service

Recent releases in Global Health

Roundup: House Republicans plan to advance anti-abortion agenda with action next week; Medical device makers lobby to repeal tax

Jungle Brolly launches new natural line of non alcoholic industrial hand sanitizers

Senior citizens can benefit from new emergency detection system

Opinions: Global Fund; Accountability for Haiti Aid

General Dynamics to collaborate with MPT to offer EHR solution to DoD

FDA clears new mobile radiology application

Research roundup: Comparing profit and nonprofit hospice care; Hospital mortality and spending; High-deductible insurance plans

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