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Prevent Blindness America, Real Kids Shades partner to promote children's eye protection

In an effort to educate parents about the need to protect children's eye health, Prevent Blindness America, the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization, and Real Kids Shades a leading manufacturer of quality eyewear for infants and children, are teaming up to ensure that 5 million children have healthy eyes for healthy futures. The joint effort supports "Star Pupils," a national program of Prevent Blindness America designed to arm parents with the information they need to help their children achieve a lifetime of healthy vision.

19 Mar 2010

Reese Pharmaceutical chooses SYSPRO ERP for private labeling and distribution operations

SYSPRO, the leading provider of visionary, pragmatic ERP software, today announced that Reese Pharmaceutical Company has selected SYSPRO ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to run its private labeling and distribution operations. Reese, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has been in business for more than a century.

19 Mar 2010

Call for regionalization of hospital services threat to Cornwall Community, states CUPE

Liberal MPP Jim Brownell's call for the regionalization of hospital services is at best naïve and ignores the threat this poses to the Cornwall Community, CUPE Local 7811, which represents 600 nurses, clerical, maintenance, cleaning, dietary and support staff at the Cornwall Community Hospital said today.

19 Mar 2010

CIO Healthcare Summit to be sponsored by Zanett Healthcare

Zanett Healthcare is pleased to announce that it will sponsor the CIO Healthcare Summit, a leading gathering for CIOs, analysts and industry-thought leaders within healthcare information technology. The CIO Healthcare Summit will be held at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 9-12, 2010.

19 Mar 2010

Comprehensive healthcare reform: March Madness in Congress

"It's March Madness in Congress as well as on the nation's basketball courts this week, so let's look at the past performance charts to see how the two teams have performed on the big challenge of comprehensive healthcare reform.

19 Mar 2010

ViroPharma launches 'Ryze Above' for patients with HAE enrolled in CINRYZESolutions support program

ViroPharma Incorporated today announced the launch of 'Ryze Above' (www.ryzeabove.com), an exclusive patient resources program within the company's patient support program, CINRYZESolutions®. The Ryze Above program was created for HAE patients prescribed Cinryze, the first and only drug specifically approved to help prevent swelling and/or painful attacks in teenagers and adults with HAE.

19 Mar 2010

Kaiser Permanente to invest nearly $2M to open new medical office in Lawrenceville

Located in Building 100 at 455 Philip Blvd., the new medical office will become Kaiser Permanente's third location in Gwinnett County, along with its Sugar Hill-Buford and Gwinnett locations. The Lawrenceville location is the third new Kaiser Permanente medical center to open in the past six months, along with East Cobb and Downtown Decatur.

19 Mar 2010

Activeion Cleaning Solutions announces new European subsidiary, Activeion GmbH

Activeion Cleaning Solutions LLC, Rogers, MN USA is proud to announce its new European subsidiary, Activeion (Europe) GmbH. Activeion (Europe) GmbH will distribute and market the ionator EXP™ throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Activeion's ionator EXP™ is a handheld, on-demand, completely chemical-free cleaning tool that activates and converts tap water into ionised water, a powerful dirt-removing and bacteria-killing product.

19 Mar 2010

One-third of patients hospitalized on weekends receive needed major procedures on day of admission

Of the 8 million patients who were admitted to U.S. hospitals on weekends in 2007, approximately one-third received needed major procedures on the day of admission, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In comparison, patients who were admitted on weekdays received 65 percent of all major procedures on their first day in the hospital.

19 Mar 2010

Kidney donors and recipients favor exchange of personal health information before transplantation, but not physicians

Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology.

19 Mar 2010

Community-driven approaches needed for reducing cancer-death disparities

Cancer death rates for African-Americans far exceed non-Hispanic Caucasians in the United States, and only community-driven approaches to reducing health disparities will lessen the gap, says Edward Partridge, M.D., president-elect of the American Cancer Society (ACS) National Board of Directors and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center.

19 Mar 2010

White paper describes health and economic burden of diabetes on Americans

PositiveID Corporation announced today that it has published a white paper entitled “Fixing the Black Hole in Diabetes Management,” which describes the health and economic burden of diabetes on Americans and our economy.

19 Mar 2010

NMA to discuss the impact of health care reform on health disparities

The National Medical Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization representing the interests of 30,000 African American physicians will hold a press conference to address health care reform legislation and its impact on health disparities.

19 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 19, 2010

The headlines reflect yesterday's flurry of activity as House Democratic Leaders unveiled their $940 billion health-care compromise bill and steamed toward a Sunday vote. All the while, Republican leaders plotted was to stall this progress and nullify the measure.

19 Mar 2010

First Lady and HHS Secretary to announce new grants for supporting public health efforts

On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be joined by several high-ranking HHS officials to announce the release of new grants for communities to support public health efforts in preventing obesity and tobacco use while improving nutrition and increasing physical activity among the American people.

19 Mar 2010

RAND study: Common insurance plans may not achieve intended savings

Increasingly common insurance plans that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

19 Mar 2010

New research project studies interactions between police and people with mental illness

One of the most challenging issues facing law enforcement today is handling encounters involving people with mental illness. Although the majority of people with mental illness do not commit criminal acts, around 1 in 5 will come into contact with the law as police officers are often the first to respond to incidents.

19 Mar 2010

New report on the state of U.S. mobile health market

CSMG, the strategy division of TMNG Global, a leading provider of professional services, products and services to the converging communications, media and entertainment industries, today released its report on the state of the U.S. mobile health market, entitled: mHealth: Taking the Pulse.

19 Mar 2010

Altarum Institute Policy Roundtable to discuss role of WIC in childhood obesity prevention

This Altarum Institute Policy Roundtable will consider the role of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (“WIC”) in childhood obesity prevention, how the program is already addressing the childhood obesity epidemic, and – with the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act imminent – what policy changes may be needed to ensure WIC can be successful in addressing childhood obesity.

19 Mar 2010

Despite recommendations, nearly 14% of Medicare beneficiaries with STEMI undergo multi-vessel PCI

Nearly 14 percent of Medicare beneficiaries admitted with a primary diagnosis of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) undergo multi-vessel primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), despite recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association to intervene on only the culprit vessel.

19 Mar 2010

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Prevent Blindness America, Real Kids Shades partner to promote children's eye protection

Reese Pharmaceutical chooses SYSPRO ERP for private labeling and distribution operations

Call for regionalization of hospital services threat to Cornwall Community, states CUPE

CIO Healthcare Summit to be sponsored by Zanett Healthcare

Comprehensive healthcare reform: March Madness in Congress

ViroPharma launches 'Ryze Above' for patients with HAE enrolled in CINRYZESolutions support program

Kaiser Permanente to invest nearly $2M to open new medical office in Lawrenceville

Activeion Cleaning Solutions announces new European subsidiary, Activeion GmbH

One-third of patients hospitalized on weekends receive needed major procedures on day of admission

Kidney donors and recipients favor exchange of personal health information before transplantation, but not physicians

Community-driven approaches needed for reducing cancer-death disparities

White paper describes health and economic burden of diabetes on Americans

NMA to discuss the impact of health care reform on health disparities

First Edition: March 19, 2010

First Lady and HHS Secretary to announce new grants for supporting public health efforts

RAND study: Common insurance plans may not achieve intended savings

New research project studies interactions between police and people with mental illness

New report on the state of U.S. mobile health market

Altarum Institute Policy Roundtable to discuss role of WIC in childhood obesity prevention

Despite recommendations, nearly 14% of Medicare beneficiaries with STEMI undergo multi-vessel PCI

Digital pathology and the PathoVerse: A conversation with Dr. Singh

Bioprocess Efficiency with Cell Density Monitoring

Exploring electron microscopy for plant and microbial imaging at the John Innes Centre

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