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Oncomine Again Key To Prostate Cancer Discovery

Compendia Bioscience the leading provider of cancer profiling data and analysis tools, today announced the central role of their flagship product Oncomine in the discovery and identification of SPINK1 as a key new therapeutic target and biomarker for prostate cancer. Oncomine is a rapidly growing compendium of nearly 26,000 gene expression and DNA copy number [...]

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Iowa Likely to Reject Health Insurance Mandate

A bill mandating nearly all Iowa children have health insurance is currently facing an uncertain future. Senate File (SF) 2390 would provide subsidies to families with annual incomes between 200 percent and 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($62,500 for a family of four). The bill would require all parents to provide proof of [...]

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AMA Lobbies for Changes to Health Care in New Hampshire

The American Medical Association (AMA) has been promoting a reform plan in the state of New Hampshire that it says would help improve the state’s health care system. Analysts are offering mixed reviews of the plan, with some calling it %26quot;a very good step%26quot; for the AMA and for New Hampshire, and others criticizing it [...]

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Indiana Uses Market-Based Plan to Help Uninsured

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) has used free-market thinking and a healthy dose of individual responsibility to create an innovative health insurance program to help uninsured people in the state get health insurance coverage. The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) passed the legislature with bipartisan support last year, and people already are enrolling in the new [...]

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Unions Retooling Message in Effort to Organize Nurses

Employers in health care have seen a significant increase in union efforts to organize nurses during the past few years. The national rate of unionization among nurses now exceeds 23 percent, whereas in 1998 it was less than 17 percent. Nationwide, unionization in health care fields is 14 percent. Nurses are a desirable source of [...]

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Half Of Would-Be Dads Reluctant To See A Doctor

On the eve of Father’s Day, a new Internet poll suggests that social pressures and emotional discomfort are thwarting the desires of nearly half the men wanting to become dads — hurdles that New England fertility experts say can be easily overcome. According to an informal Web poll produced by IntegraMed, the leading operator of [...]

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Salmonella In Garden Birds Responsive To Antibiotics

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that Salmonella bacteria found in garden birds are sensitive to antibiotics, suggesting that the infection is unlike the bacteria found in livestock and humans. Salmonella is increasingly resistant to antibiotics and can sometimes go undetected in animals, which increases the risk of the infection being spread to [...]

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Reform Needed To Stop Inhumane Practice Of Transplant Tourism

The UK government must bring in presumed consent to organ donation or allow a controlled donor compensation programme for unrelated live donors, in order to bring the inhumane practice of transplant tourism from the UK to an end, claims a doctor in this week’s BMJ. Professor Maqsood Noorani, former transplant surgeon at The Barts and [...]

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Ten Steps To Insuring the Uninsured

A state can reform its health care system by lowering costs and increasing access, through 10 steps. Step No. 1: Use Free Care Dollars to Subsidize Private Insurance. The current system encourages people to be uninsured because it offers highly subsidized or free care to the uninsured and very little subsidy for the purchase of [...]

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Independent Panel To Advise NHS On Specialist Treatment

A new independent panel made up of members of the general public will be set up to decide which specialist treatments will be provided by the NHS, Health Minister Edwina Hart announced today. The recommendation for such a body forms part of the conclusions of the review, commissioned by the Health Minister last October, into [...]

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Northern Ireland To Tackle Underage, Binge Drinking

Health Minister Michael McGimpsey is vigorously progressing plans to address young people’s drinking in Northern Ireland. Increasingly concerned about the high level of alcohol consumption in the province, the Minister said he will soon be outlining his plans to tackle young people’s drinking in Northern Ireland and reducing the related harms. The Minister said: “We [...]

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Baldor Specialty Foods Responds To FDA Tomato Recall

Baldor Specialty Foods immediately released a statement in response to the tomato recall issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A salmonella saintpaul outbreak was found to be linked to Red Plum, Red Roma and Red Round tomatoes. We immediately responded to the recall, and have substituted all orders with Lucky tomatoes. Baldor will [...]

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