- Ahead of the Bell: Varian Medical Systems
- Transcend Medical Expands Leadership Team Appointing Chief Medical …
- Boston Scientific Names Leading Electrophysiologist to Its Medical …
- BestHealthcareRates.com States The GovernmentWill Become The New …
- Medical team to investigation certain abuse cases
- Many Californians with medical debt are insured
- A-Life Medical Inc. Chief Financial fficer Named CF of the Year …

Ahead of the Bell: Varian Medical Systems
Forbes
Baird & Co analyst upgraded shares of Varian Medical Systems Inc. Monday citing his outlook for the medical device maker’s sales. Johnson upgraded the stock to “utperform” from “Neutral” and boosted the price target to $49 from $41 citing a better outlook for demand in the European radiation therapy market. The company focuses on cancer therapy systems.

Transcend Medical Expands Leadership Team Appointing Chief Medical …
Reuters
anophthalmic device company dedicated to delivering breakthrough advances in thetreatment of glaucoma today announced that it has filled two key positionswith the addition of Sean Ianchulev MD as Chief Medical fficer and GingerClasby as Vice President of Clinical Affairs. Ianchulev joins the company from Genentech Inc where he was the groupmedical director for the ophthalmology division and the Lucentis franchise. Inhis role he headed clinical development and medical affairs activities andwas instrumental to the launch and success of Lucentis – a multi-billiondollar bio-therapeutic for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

Boston Scientific Names Leading Electrophysiologist to Its Medical …
Reuters
FACC will join the Companyas Senior Vice President and Associate Chief Medical fficer for its CardiacRhythm Management (CRM) group. Stein is currently the Associate Directorof Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center andAssociate Professor of Medicine at Cornell University. “We are excited that Dr. Stein is joining our team” said Fred ColenPresident Boston Scientific CRM. “His extensive clinical and researchexperience coupled with his broad knowledge of cardiac rhythm managementwill make him a strong contributor to the development of our medicaltechnology.

BestHealthcareRates.com States The GovernmentWill Become The New …
Reuters
The government has outlined a list of reasons that different states need healthcare reform as they have proposed it. These reasons vary from statistics on thenumber of residents in the state without health insurance to the percentage ofoverweight children and adults living there both being valid information forhealthcare. It also cites the fact that certain states lack sufficient choicewhen it comes to the choosing a medical insurance provider and their reformswill fix that. However critics say a government run plan sets itself up to become the newmonopoly in every state. Supposedly the plan is for the reforms to not damagethe health insurance market but to supplement it. Yet if the requirements touse the government plan are open enough and the plan is comprehensive enoughmany people would possibly leave their private health insurance behind forcheaper pastures elsewhere. In the states where there truly is a monopoly in the healthcare insuranceindustry competition will occur and these companies will lose a small portionof the stronghold which may not be a bad thing.
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Medical team to investigation certain abuse cases
Chicago Tribune
Human services director Charles Krogmeier said Monday a reviewof regulations regarding child abuse indicates differing medicalopinions may prevent the agency from taking action to protectchildren. He says because of that the agency needs a quick andauthoritative review of such cases. Krogmeier’s action comes in the wake of a case involving JonasNeiderbach and Jherica Richardson both 20 of Des Moines.

Many Californians with medical debt are insured
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>More than two-thirds of the 2. 2 million Californians who reported being in debt due to medical expenses actually had health insurance when they incurred their debt according to a study released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A-Life Medical Inc. Chief Financial fficer Named CF of the Year …
Reuters
0 billion to revenue. For more than 25 yearsConnolly demonstrated leadership across a variety of roles spanning thehealthcare sector including those in diagnostic imaging clinical laboratoryphysician practice management and hospital services. and director of internal audit atLaboratory Corp. Connolly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Texas TechUniversity. She resides in San Diego.

- Mischa Barton speaks out about her stint in the hospital
- Medical mafia indictments reinstated
- Medtronic defends payments to physicians
- Cigna partners with Medical Clinic of North Texas to treat …
- Transcend Services buying Medical Dictation

Mischa Barton speaks out about her stint in the hospital
New York Daily News
She was taken from her home last month due to what the. ” Rumors flew that she was in involuntary psychiatric hold at.
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Medical mafia indictments reinstated
CNNMoney.com
health care system is struggling with a shortage of primary care physicians. com asked readers — especially those who are medical professionals — to weigh in on who can help solve the problem. Here are some responses:.

Medtronic defends payments to physicians
Minneapolis Star Tribune
com’>Home | Business Medtronic defends payments to physicians The CE stresses the value of medical devices and of alliances that can improve them. html’>JANET MRE Star TribuneLast update: August 27 2009 – 8:48 PM Featured comment.

Cigna partners with Medical Clinic of North Texas to treat …
Dallas Morning News
com Cigna HealthCare will announce today that it is partnering with Medical Clinic of North Texas to launch a pilot program aimed at improving quality and reducing health care costs of patients with chronic conditions. To support the “patient-centered medical home” program which begins Tuesday Cigna is hiring a care coordinator to help the clinic’s 82 doctors find cost-effective ways to treat Cigna’s 10000 patients. An estimated 10 percent of those patients have chronic conditions such as diabetes and have a higher risk of being admitted to an emergency room. For people requiring more follow-ups than an average patient the coordinator will work to ensure that the doctor’s orders are clearly communicated and that the patients comply. The medical home program also means the patients’ records will be shared electronically among their primary doctor specialists and pharmacists.

Transcend Services buying Medical Dictation
Forbes
said Wednesday it is buying Medical Dictation Services Inc. 2 million in a move to expand its national footprint. Medical Dictation Services based in Gaithersburg Md.

- Drug amounts in Michael Jackson death probe don’t add up medical …
- Transcend Services buying Medical Dictation
- Robben to head to Munich for Bayern medical? – Transfers
- Army report: Gaps in training for recovery unit
- Poll: 29% of hioans delay medical care
- Medical College creates endowed biophysics chair
- US helicopter blasts Afghan medical clinic

Drug amounts in Michael Jackson death probe don’t add up medical …
Los Angeles Times
If that's what his testimony is I don't believe it. "What's more likely Dombrowski said is that the numbers in the documents are somehow in error.  Murray might not have provided an infusion rate — such as 25 milligrams every few minutes — or police did not understand the medical terminology. If the amount of propofol is higher combined with the other medications Dombrowski said then "you are going to start to see an overdose. " The preliminary toxicology reports cited in the court records said that "lethal levels" of propofol were found in Jackson's blood a finding that sources familiar with the investigation maintain was a significant factor in the pop star's death. Murray has maintained that he believes nothing he administered Jackson should have led to his death and said through his attorney that he answered the questions posed by detectives truthfully. In a YouTube video posted recently Murray thanked his supporters and said "I have done all I could do.
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Transcend Services buying Medical Dictation
Forbes
said Wednesday it is buying Medical Dictation Services Inc. 2 million in a move to expand its national footprint. Medical Dictation Services based in Gaithersburg Md.

Robben to head to Munich for Bayern medical? – Transfers
ESPN
The Dutchman is believed to be on his way to Munich on Thursday to undergo a medical and sign a contract in a deal worth in the region of €25m after Bayern general manager Uli Hoeness reportedly flew to Madrid on Wednesday for talks with Real president Florentino Perez. Perez has already confirmed an agreement has been reached between the two clubs in an interview on Spanish radio station nda Cero but Bayern will not confirm the deal until the player has signed. Should the deal go through on Thursday Robben would be free to make his Bayern debut in Saturday’s Bundesliga clash with defending champions Wolfsburg.

Army report: Gaps in training for recovery unit
The Associated Press
— Soldiers recovering in special Army medical units have faced inconsistent discipline because the military hasn’t adopted standards for how they and their commanders should act according to a military review. The report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press said the units’ leaders need better training and should do a better job of communicating with the almost 9000 wounded and ill soldiers in the Warrior Transition system. The general who ordered the report said Wednesday that the review will only improve the units. “The Army has a tremendous program for taking care of our wounded ill and injured soldiers but it is not a prefect program” said Brig.

Poll: 29% of hioans delay medical care
Bizjournals.com
us Digg This Related News. The poll sponsored by the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati interviewed more than 800 adults by phone this past June. Besides medical care 34 percent of respondents said they had delayed dental care and 31 percent said they had not filled a needed prescription over the last year. Those who said they were in fair or poor health or did not have insurance were much more likely to delay getting care according to the poll. About 19 percent of those polled between the ages of 18 and 64 said they did not have health insurance.

Medical College creates endowed biophysics chair
Bizjournals.com
Hyde Chair in Biophysics honoring James Hyde for his accomplishments and contributions in biomedical research mentorship and technical innovation. Hyde will be the first person to hold the endowed chair that bears his name. Hyde is internationally recognized for his research in the development enhancement and application of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) instrumentation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies and applications. He has received more than $47 million in direct federal grant support and is the principal investigator of five National Institutes of Health grants including the grant that funds the College’s National Biomedical EPR Center.

US helicopter blasts Afghan medical clinic
msnbc.com
helicopter attacked a medical clinic in eastern Afghanistan after a wounded Taliban commander sought treatment there NAT and Afghan officials said Thursday. and Afghan forces clashed with insurgents at the clinic after militants put up resistance. The militant death toll from Wednesday’s fight varied widely from none killed to 12 dead.

- Walnut Creek passes emergency moratorium on medical marijuana …
- For a broken arm give a child ibuprofen — not codeine …
- IA board to hear from public on medical marijuana

Walnut Creek passes emergency moratorium on medical marijuana …
San Jose Mercury News
The 45-day ban on pot clubs stems from the city’s first request for a dispensary. The application to open a dispensary at 1291 akland Blvd. brought the realization there are no laws or regulations in Walnut Creek on such an establishment. A group called C3 Collective says it is already operating a yoga pilates and acupuncture wellness center at the akland Boulevard address.

For a broken arm give a child ibuprofen — not codeine …
Los Angeles Times
 A new study suggests that such relief should come from ibuprofen. Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin studied 336 children ages 4 to 18 with arm fractures half of whom were prescribed ibuprofen upon their discharge from the emergency department half of whom were given acetaminopen with codeine. The patients and their family then kept a diary of pain and medication side effects for the next 72 hours. Not only did the ibuprofen work just fine in controlling pain — at least as good as the codeine-laced acetaminophen — the medicine normally associated with relieving headaches and muscle aches also had far fewer downsides. Among those kids taking ibuprofen 29. 5% reported an adverse effect.

IA board to hear from public on medical marijuana
Chicago Tribune
As part of its effort the. Board director Lloyd Jessen says it also will look at federaland state drug laws including those in states that allow marijuanause for medical treatment. The board has scheduled four public hearings. They are set forDes Moines on Wednesday Mason City on Sept.
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- Lawmaker calls for medical-error reforms
- A’s Breslow aiming to attend medical school
- Dr. James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago …
- Medical isotope shortage threatens treatments
- Free medical clinic at Forum reached full capacity for second day
- How LA’s massive free clinic event came together

Lawmaker calls for medical-error reforms
Houston Chronicle
Jim McDermott D-Seattle a key subcommittee chairman who helped write the current health care reform legislation. “Dead by Mistake” a Hearst Newspapers investigation of medical errors published last week brought to light an issue that is “right there at the top of the list” of problems that should be solved McDermott said. The Hearst investigation showed that even though nearly 200000 people die each year from medical errors and infections in hospitals throughout the country — and hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating injuries — there is no concerted effort to track the carnage. Car accidents airplane incidents and workplace injuries are regularly accounted for but there is no national system for tracking deaths from medical care.

A’s Breslow aiming to attend medical school
San Jose Mercury News
Bert Lubin the research institute’s president “we’ve certainly never had a baseball player who could speak our language. “There’s a reason the Wall Street Journal anointed Breslow “The Smartest Man in Baseball. “Whenever his career ends Breslow hopes to attend medical school with the goal of doing research to help eradicate pediatric cancer. That passion was born in the traumatic childhood experience of watching his older sister fight thyroid cancer. That plan has been delayed because well this baseball thing is working out for an unlikely major leaguer whose contract once sold for $1. He has become a surprising workhorse in the akland bullpen after being claimed on waivers in May. Breslow also has used his unexpected baseball platform to create the nonprofit Strike 3 Foundation to raise money for cancer research.

Dr. James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago …
Chicago Tribune
James Madara resigns as CE of the University of Chicago Medical Center — chicagotribune. James Madara transformed the prestigious South Side institution reshaped its relationship with the surrounding community and put it at the center of a national debate about how to care for poor and indigent patients.

Medical isotope shortage threatens treatments
The Associated Press
— The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Canada has caused a shortage of a radioactive isotope used to detect cancers and heart disease forcing doctors into costlier procedures that can be less effective and expose patients to more radioactivity. Some 16 million people in the United States — 40000 patients each day — undergo medical imaging procedures using the isotope technetium-99. Eighty percent of nuclear medicine scans use it. Ninety-one percent of hospitals pharmacies and commercial imaging groups that answered a June survey by the Society of Nuclear Medicine said the shortage had affected them. “You already have a vulnerable population with cancer so it’s not trivial” said Dr. Jeffrey Norenberg who heads the National Association of Nuclear Pharmacies and directs radiopharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico.

Free medical clinic at Forum reached full capacity for second day
Los Angeles Times
Now | Los Angeles Times. The organization also continues to put out the call for volunteers including oral surgeons dental and.
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How LA’s massive free clinic event came together
Los Angeles Times
’s massive free clinic event came together A record executive and his wife saw a TV piece on the Remote Area Medical Foundation and contacted the founder. The couple used their connections and pieces fell into place. Thousands have been helped.

- Health Buzz: Diet and Exercise Protect Brain and ther Health News
- Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care
- Aspirin Seen Aiding Colorectal Cancer Patients

Health Buzz: Diet and Exercise Protect Brain and ther Health News
U.S. News & World Report
Difficult Medical Choice? 3 Steps to Making the Right DecisionAmericans have become accustomed to sitting in the driver’s seat when it comes to making important medical decisions. And many doctors are happy to leave a number of choices in their patients’ hands. Yet some medical experts argue that our healthcare system can go even further than it has toward letting the patient call virtually all the shots U. News’s Deborah Kotz reports.
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Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care
New York Times
Wah a spokesman for the. That is why he said doctors may simply abandon insurance plans.

Aspirin Seen Aiding Colorectal Cancer Patients
New York Times
The patients were all being treated for nonmetastatic or localized cancers and were followed for almost 12 years on average. The study written by researchers from Harvard Medical School.

- Jail says polygamist leader’s health improving
- Edwards out 2 to 4 weeks with foot injury
- Robinson named Guilford medical director The Business Journal of …

Jail says polygamist leader’s health improving
Dallas Morning News
Mohave County sheriff’s spokeswoman Trish Carter said Jeffs ate a breakfast of eggs potatoes and fruit Thursday morning. Jeffs has refused most food and liquids for more than a week as part of a self-imposed religious fast. “As of today the medical director did make a comment that it appears he is getting better” Carter said Thursday. “We are monitoring his intake and he is cooperating on and off. Medical staff at the Kingman Ariz. jail began force-feeding the 53-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints last Friday after the jail doctor said she feared Jeffs’ death could be “imminent” without medical intervention. In a letter to a Mohave County Superior Court judge Dr.

Edwards out 2 to 4 weeks with foot injury
ESPN
Appalachian State spokesman Mike Flynn said medical privacy laws prevented the university from releasing details about the injury. But a person familiar with the incident said Edwards received stitches for a deep cut after the mower rolled down a steep hill back at him. However the person said Edwards does not have any injuries to bones or tendons. “First of all we’re all fortunate and grateful that Armanti wasn’t more seriously injured in this accident” Appalachian State coach Jerry Moore said.
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Robinson named Guilford medical director The Business Journal of …
Bizjournals.com
MD has been hired as medical director for Guilford County Department of Public Health. Robinson has been a part of the Public Health staff since February in a contractual capacity. Robinson is a native of Winston-Salem and attended Duke University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

- Blue Cross adds Lohnes to medical advisory committee
- New NBC show ‘Trauma’ shows networks still believe in medical drama
- FF net income drops at Medical Properties Trust
- Vital Signs Mildly High Cholesterol at Midlife Linked to Alzheimer’s
- Salesforce.com Dips Its Toe in Electronic Medical Records
- New state law eases medical coverage for 20-somethings
- IPC buys Synergy Medical Group expands in Tampa market

Blue Cross adds Lohnes to medical advisory committee
Bizjournals.com
John Lohnes has been named to the Medical Advisory Committee for. He will serve a two-year term.

New NBC show ‘Trauma’ shows networks still believe in medical drama
New York Daily News
28 the departure of “ER” may be sparking a whole new cycle. “TV tends to go in waves” Scardapane told TV writers here Wednesday. “The specter of ‘ER’ in television looms large so a lot of people now want to find the next generation of medical shows. “I know that’s what we’re shooting for. ” In an odd sense “.
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FF net income drops at Medical Properties Trust
Bizjournals.com
The Birmingham-based health care real estate investment trust (NYSE: MPW) reported adjusted funds from operations (FF) at $16. 3 million for the quarter compared to $24. 6 million in the second quarter of last year. For the year FF was $33.

Vital Signs Mildly High Cholesterol at Midlife Linked to Alzheimer’s
New York Times
Whitmer an epidemiologist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the paper’s senior author. The study followed 9844 members of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Medical Group who had blood work done between 1964 and 1973 when they were 40 to 45 years old. All had remained members of the plan until at least 1994 when computerized outpatient diagnoses of dementia were made available. Some 598 of the original participants were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia a less common form of dementia between 1994 and 2007 when they were between 61 and 88 years old. Those whose total blood cholesterol had been high — over 240 milligrams per deciliter — were 57 percent more likely to have developed Alzheimer’s disease than those with optimal levels. Those who had borderline cholesterol values — between 200 and 239 milligrams per deciliter — were at 50 percent greater risk of developing vascular dementia.

Salesforce.com Dips Its Toe in Electronic Medical Records
Wall Street Journal
com?s ?cloud-computing? model ? in which companies use Web-based software hosted by Salesforce. com rather than installing software on local computers ? makes sense for doctors? offices which are typically small businesses without much of an IT staff. Practice Fusion already uses that model and lots of the bigger better known electronic medical records companies are offering that sort of thing as well. Howard told us that under the deal Practice Fusion?s EMR will reside on Salesforce. Another reason this deal is worth a mention: The big federal stimulus bill passed earlier this year includes some.

New state law eases medical coverage for 20-somethings
Newsday
The governor also signed into law an extension of CBRA from 18 months to 36 months. CBRA gives employees who have lost their jobs the option to buy continued health coverage that had been provided by their group health plan. Medical groups and consumer advocates praised the two laws though one questioned whether their impact would be sweeping. “I think everything you do to extend insurance coverage is helpful” said Arthur Levin director of the nonprofit Center for Medical Consumers in Manhattan. But he called the laws “teeny tiny steps. ” “At the end of the day you’re not attacking the big problem” he said referring to the uninsured and the high cost of health care. More than 30 percent of 2.

IPC buys Synergy Medical Group expands in Tampa market
Bizjournals.com
The purchase price was not disclosed in a release announcing the deal. Synergy founded by Dr. Chris Nussbaum is a hospitalist group that serves three acute care hospitals two long-term acute care hospital and 17 skilled nursing facilities in the Tampa Bay area. Hospitalists are physicians usually internists who specialize in providing care to patients while they are hospitalized. IPC (NASDAQ: IPCM) a national hospitalist physician group practice has been in the Tampa market since 2004 but not in the same facilities served by Synergy the release said. As a result of the Synergy acquisition IPC expects to add about 51000 patient encounters annually.

- Texas and Southwest News Briefs
- As FIU president leaves medical opens
- US Spends $33.9 Billion Annually on Alternative Medicine
- UTMB’s ER is back in business
- ‘Broken’ health system can learn from heart treatment
- Medical-marijuana proposal needs petitions to make ballot
- In rural America skepticism of health care reform

Texas and Southwest News Briefs
Dallas Morning News
The trauma center had treated about 64000 patients a year before Ike shut it down last September. Woman accidentally runs car into church GILMER Texas – Three people were injured when an SUV crashed into a church auditorium in eastern Texas just as Sunday morning services were about to start. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Kenneth Nolley said a 66-year-old woman indicated she stepped on the gas instead of the brake in the parking lot of the Zion Hill Baptist Church. She was not hurt but a man and two children were treated at local hospitals and released.

As FIU president leaves medical opens
MiamiHerald.com
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US Spends $33.9 Billion Annually on Alternative Medicine
About – News & Issues
9 Billion Annually on Alternative MedicineMonday August 3 2009Americans spent $33. 9 billion on complementary and alternative medical practices and products such as herbal supplements meditation chiropractic and acupuncture during the past 12 months according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health. 9 billion spent on alternative medicine represents about 1. 5 percent of the nation’s total annual.

UTMB’s ER is back in business
Houston Chronicle
“But people came to us right away and asked if we needed any assistance then the doctor saw us. Roughly 75 patients received treatment at the emergency room by early Saturday evening according to officials. The hospital laid off more than 2400 employees in November after Ike forced the temporary closure of the medical school and its hospital the school’s main source of revenue. ther employees including emergency physicians moved on to other jobs. Hill told the Houston Chronicle that a large percentage of UTMB’s pre-Ike employees have been brought back. In March the state Legislature forced the UT Board of Regents to reverse its decision to downsize the state’s oldest medical school to compensate for an estimated $710 million in storm-related losses. ___ n the Net: The Galveston County Daily News.

‘Broken’ health system can learn from heart treatment
USA Today
Experts say these variations are the clearest indication that the nation’s health system is ailing — as clear as a cholesterol test that reveals a high risk of heart disease. Cardiologists accustomed to using cholesterol and high blood pressure in gauging heart risk have pioneered ways to use data to evaluate the quality of heart disease treatment. Those methods now are being used more broadly to address the quality of medical care as a whole.

Medical-marijuana proposal needs petitions to make ballot
Tallahassee Democrat
Jennifer Davis a spokeswoman for the Division of Elections said it may be unlikely that the group People United for Medical Marijuana will be able to collect enough petitions to make the ballot. “That would be fairly difficult to do between now and Feb. 1″ she said referencing the deadline to get petitions submitted for the general election. There’s a step-by-step process involved before any constitutional amendment can be put on the ballot she said.

In rural America skepticism of health care reform
The Associated Press
Many folks in Huerfano County population 7900 depend on a low-cost outreach clinic for care. There’s no eye doctor no full-time dentist. The clinic relies on nurse practitioners midwives and medical assistants to provide basic exams but most sick patients are referred to a bigger town about 30 minutes away. “I don’t have any way to get up there to the doctor” said Tenorio who doesn’t drive. “Sometimes I can’t even get out of bed because of the pain. “The 25 percent of Americans who live in rural areas are poorer older fatter and sicker than their city neighbors. They live farther from doctors and have a harder time getting to appointments many depending on neighbors or church volunteers if public transportation doesn’t exist.
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- Calif. trims proposal for inmate medical centers
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- ABC expands medical coverage hires CDC doctor
- Bill would prevent medical debt from haunting credit records
- St. Elizabeth to roll out electronic medical records system

Calif. trims proposal for inmate medical centers
San Jose Mercury News
—California officials are proposing to build a single medical center for sick and mentally ill inmates half of what they previously said was needed to improve substandard care. Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate in May proposed spending $1. 9 billion on two prison hospitals for 3400 inmates under an agreement with a federal court-appointed receiver. The Schwarzenegger administration rejected the plan in June as too expensive. The administration says in a court filing Friday that it now plans a single medical center.

UCF medical school’s debut is just the beginning
rlando Sentinel
After a mile’s drive the building blocks of a new Medical City are falling into place framed by streets with names such as Exploration Boulevard and surrounded by hundreds of acres of open land adjacent to the upscale Lake Nona community. The region’s new biomedical industry reaches a milestone Monday as UCF’s College of Medicine — the heart of the project — welcomes its first 40 students. They will meet in temporary digs at the home campus till the new building opens next year at Lake Nona. verall the sprawling development — and its estimated $2 billion in construction work — is a compelling sight amid the nation’s worst recession since the Great Depression. The vigorous activity is a stark contrast to the double-digit unemployment that has hit Florida and the U.

ABC expands medical coverage hires CDC doctor
The Associated Press
Richard Besser who was acting director of the U. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when the swine flu epidemic began earlier this year will join the network as senior health and medical editor.

Bill would prevent medical debt from haunting credit records
Dallas Morning News
His efforts were fortified this week by U. Mary Jo Kilroy D-hio who introduced legislation that would keep medical debt from haunting your credit record after it’s paid off.

St. Elizabeth to roll out electronic medical records system
Bizjournals.com
_Elizabeth_Medical_Center_59056528DE2B47FF88AE1E8E7BC556D9. Elizabeth Medical Center will connect all of its facilities to an electronic medical records system by fall 2010 according to its vendor. _534B9CEF4BEC4FC08C9A8115B9EFEACD.
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