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GHC expands to support 70 emerging leaders in 2011-2012 fellowship class

Global Health Corps is expanding this year to support 70 emerging leaders in their 2011-2012 fellowship class. Applications for placements in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and the USA are now open at www.apply.ghcorps.org.

5 Feb 2011

House Republican leaders’ FY11 budget proposal cuts $32b in spending

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on Thursday released a fiscal year 2011 spending proposal that would "slice more than $32 billion from agency budgets over the next few months," the Washington Post reports.

5 Feb 2011

PharmaMarketing Summit 2011 to focus on missing elements in pharmaceutical marketing

"The pharmaceutical marketing industry is, to borrow from a friend, in a perfect storm," says Cheryl Lawrence McDaniel, Owner, President & Chief Executive Officer, Direct Success, Inc.

5 Feb 2011

CDC: One quarter of all ED visits during winter are due to snowboarding, sledding accidents

Broken bones due to snowboarding and sledding top the list of common causes for visits to the Emergency Department during the winter months. According to the Centers for Disease Control one quarter of all ED visits are attributed to snowboarding accidents,, and half of all cases were broken bones and sprains.

5 Feb 2011

AvMed Health Plans joins community leaders to raise awareness about heart disease among women

AvMed Health Plans united with more than 100 community leaders this morning at the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women annual breakfast. As the main sponsor of the event, AvMed joined NBC 6 Anchor Jackie Nespral, South Miami Cardiologist Dr. Abbe Rosenbaum, National Go Red For Women Spokeswoman Gloria Boisvert, PRIMP Salon & Hair Extension Boutique's Jonathan Babicka and Palmetto General Hospital's Ana Mederos to raise awareness about heart disease among women.

5 Feb 2011

AstraZeneca contributes $250,000 to help La Red Health Center build new facility in Sussex County

AstraZeneca announced today a $250,000 contribution that will help the La Red Health Center build a new 15,000-square-foot facility to provide care to more patients in Sussex County. The announcement was made at a groundbreaking ceremony in Georgetown, DE.

5 Feb 2011

AMGA convenes leadership teams from 16 medical groups, organized systems of care

The American Medical Group Association recently convened leadership teams from 16 leading medical groups and organized systems of care at the inaugural meeting of the AMGA ACO Implementation Collaborative in Scottsdale, Arizona.

5 Feb 2011

Family mealtimes with ABC guidelines can improve quality of life in asthma children

A University of Illinois scientist reports that family mealtimes that contain three ingredients in the right amounts can improve the quality of life in children who have chronic asthma.

5 Feb 2011

AMS files patent lawsuit against BI in Colorado's Federal District Court

Denver-based Alcohol Monitoring Systems filed suit today in Colorado's Federal District Court asserting that Boulder-based BI Incorporated, a pending acquisition of The GEO Group, has infringed multiple patents with their BI TAD system. The GEO Group is one of the nation's largest operators of correctional facilities.

5 Feb 2011

Global Fund announces measures to increase fraud detection, prevention

The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Thursday announced "it is to launch a wide-ranging review of its procedures following concern over mismanagement of funds by countries receiving its money," the Financial Times reports. The U.N.-backed organization "which channels $3bn a year in donor funds to developing countries, will restructure its auditing procedures and appoint outside officials to review its systems," according to the news service.

5 Feb 2011

Uofl makes $6.8 million economic impact in four regions of Kentucky

Figures from a recently compiled report for 2009-2010 show that University of Louisville Health Sciences Center faculty and students made a $6.8 million economic impact in the four regions of Kentucky served by UofL Area Health Education Centers.

5 Feb 2011

Steward announces launch of new advertising campaign during Super Bowl XLV

Today, Steward Health Care System announced that its new advertising campaign, "Believe", will launch with a 30 second regional commercial during Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011. In addition to the Super Bowl, the advertising campaign, created by Waltham-based Boathouse Group, will air on prime time network television, online and in regional print publications throughout the month of February and into March.

5 Feb 2011

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses presented at Ochsner Medical Center-North Shore

UnitedHealthcare and The DAISY Foundation presented the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses at Ochsner Medical Center-North Shore in Slidell.

5 Feb 2011

VA announces first Ai2 awards under Industry Innovation Competition

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki officially announced today the first VA Innovation Initiative awards under the agency's Industry Innovation Competition, its third competition since it began in early 2010. These four projects will use innovative new technologies in VA facilities to improve the quality of patient care for Veterans. They represent the first of nearly two-dozen more awards to be made in the coming months.

5 Feb 2011

Medical News

GHC expands to support 70 emerging leaders in 2011-2012 fellowship class

House Republican leaders’ FY11 budget proposal cuts $32b in spending

PharmaMarketing Summit 2011 to focus on missing elements in pharmaceutical marketing

CDC: One quarter of all ED visits during winter are due to snowboarding, sledding accidents

AvMed Health Plans joins community leaders to raise awareness about heart disease among women

AstraZeneca contributes $250,000 to help La Red Health Center build new facility in Sussex County

AMGA convenes leadership teams from 16 medical groups, organized systems of care

Family mealtimes with ABC guidelines can improve quality of life in asthma children

AMS files patent lawsuit against BI in Colorado's Federal District Court

Global Fund announces measures to increase fraud detection, prevention

Uofl makes $6.8 million economic impact in four regions of Kentucky

Steward announces launch of new advertising campaign during Super Bowl XLV

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses presented at Ochsner Medical Center-North Shore

VA announces first Ai2 awards under Industry Innovation Competition

Vemma donates over 60,000 bottles of Vemma NEXT to K.I.D.S.

Stiefel introduces BPO Acne Creamy Washes for OTC use in the U.S.

Pharmacyclics second quarter non-GAAP net loss increases to $6.1 million

Studies show growing problems of non-communicable diseases in low-, middle-income countries

New understanding of how host and foreign structures are distinguished by front-line defence mechanism

Mental health, substance abuse spending grew more slowly than all other health spending: Study

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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