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Sec. of State Clinton pledges support for Afghan women during Pres. Karzai visit

During a meeting with women ministers from Afghanistan on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "promised aid for female education, maternal and other health services, protection of women from violence, and for enhancing their roles in agriculture and the economy," Agence France-Presse reports.

15 May 2010

New intervention method reduces self-stigma in mentally-ill patients

A new intervention, the result of a collaboration between researchers from the University of Haifa, City University of New York and Indiana University, was found to reduce the self-stigma and improve the quality of life and self-esteem among persons with serious mental illness.

15 May 2010

Foundation Venture Capital Group makes initial investment of $175,000 to develop test to diagnose AD

As many as 5.3 million Americans, and 35 million people worldwide, are living with Alzheimer's disease, a devastating neurodegenerative illness characterized by memory loss, cognitive decline and widespread destruction of neurons in the brain. Today, there is no definitive diagnosis for the disease, and no treatment to cure it.

15 May 2010

Imaging Dynamics reports $1.56M net loss for first-quarter 2010

Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd. a global leader in the high growth digital radiography (DR) equipment market, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

15 May 2010

Lincare Holdings declares stock split to increase trading volume and liquidity of common shares

Lincare Holdings Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a three-for-two stock split. The stock split will be effected in the form of a 50% stock dividend to be distributed on June 15, 2010, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2010.

15 May 2010

Elie Hirschfeld gifts $50,000 to help Roosevelt Hospital's ED Expansion and Redesign Project

A new commitment of $50,000 from Elie Hirschfeld, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hirschfeld Properties and a Trustee of Continuum Health Partners, will help further underwrite Roosevelt Hospital's Emergency Department Expansion and Redesign Project. His gifts to the initiative, to date, total over $150,000.

15 May 2010

Sebelius, Holder: New health reform law will help prevent medical fraud

Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas reports: "Obama administration officials, touting $2.5 billion recovered from Medicare overpayments and fraud, immediately turned to talk of how health reform could ensure bigger successes in the future"

15 May 2010

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

A hitherto unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered by researchers at Linköping University.

15 May 2010

LifeCare Holdings reports $95.0 million net patient service revenue for first-quarter 2010

LifeCare Holdings, Inc. today announced its operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

15 May 2010

Two community dental clinics to receive $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania

Two community dental clinics that provide much-needed services to low-income people who lack access to care will receive a $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania.

15 May 2010

Senate Appropriations Committee approves spending bill with foreign aid funding for Haiti

The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday unanimously voted to approve a $59 billion war funding measure that includes "more than $5 billion to replenish disaster aid accounts, as well as funding for Haitian earthquake relief," the Associated Press reports (Taylor, 5/13).

15 May 2010

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

Researchers found that as dominant members of the population surrendered to host immune defenses, they were replaced by a hyperaggressive, mutant minority population that thrived and took over the abandoned community to become the new majority.

15 May 2010

Mental health problems outpace pregnancies, injuries at military hospitals

USA Today: "Mental health disorders caused more hospitalizations among U.S. troops in 2009 than any other reason according to medical data released recently by the Pentagon. ... Last year was the first in which hospitalizations for mental disorders outpaced those for injuries or pregnancies in the 15 years of tracking by the Pentagon's Medical Surveillance Monthly report."

15 May 2010

States consider joining Medicaid expansion early to take advantage of federal money

Despite budget squeezes, some states are considering expanding Medicaid , due to the new health law.

15 May 2010

Rich Canadian men increase their likelihood of being overweight

In Canada, in stark contrast with the rest of the world, wealthy men increase their likelihood of being overweight with every extra dollar they make. The new study was led by Nathalie Dumas, a graduate student at the University of Montreal Department of Sociology, and presented at the annual conference of the Association francophone pour le savoir.

15 May 2010

CAPG releases results of fourth annual SOE survey of its medical group members

The California Association of Physician Groups released the results of its fourth annual Standards of Excellence survey of its medical group members. The SOE survey is the first known voluntary large scale, critical self-assessment for medical groups in the United States.

15 May 2010

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Sec. of State Clinton pledges support for Afghan women during Pres. Karzai visit

New intervention method reduces self-stigma in mentally-ill patients

Foundation Venture Capital Group makes initial investment of $175,000 to develop test to diagnose AD

Imaging Dynamics reports $1.56M net loss for first-quarter 2010

Lincare Holdings declares stock split to increase trading volume and liquidity of common shares

Elie Hirschfeld gifts $50,000 to help Roosevelt Hospital's ED Expansion and Redesign Project

Sebelius, Holder: New health reform law will help prevent medical fraud

LiU researchers discover new mechanism in stem cell regulation

LifeCare Holdings reports $95.0 million net patient service revenue for first-quarter 2010

Two community dental clinics to receive $10,000 grant from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania

Senate Appropriations Committee approves spending bill with foreign aid funding for Haiti

UC researchers explore dynamics of bacterial evolution

Mental health problems outpace pregnancies, injuries at military hospitals

States consider joining Medicaid expansion early to take advantage of federal money

Rich Canadian men increase their likelihood of being overweight

CAPG releases results of fourth annual SOE survey of its medical group members

Dehaier Medical Systems first-quarter net income increases 54% to $0.52 million

MTBC launches free medical billing software for healthcare industry

National BBB accreditation and A+ rating for Aspen Dental practices

Ecological speciation linked to emergence of new fungal diseases in plants

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

Fluidics in Modern Healthcare & Medical Device Innovation

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