GREENVILLE, S.C.–(
)–Customer Effective, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and implementer
of Microsoft Dynamics CRM today announced that its client Equinox was
awarded the 2008 Gartner & 1to1 Customer Award at the Gartner CRM Summit
on Sept. 8, in Washington, D.C. Equinox was recognized as the winning
company in the Sales Optimization category, which identifies
organizations that have excelled in the use of Read the rest of this entry »
John McCain and Barack Obama are both proposing big changes to the way health insurance works in America. Nobody knows exactly how those changes would play out in the real world, but that hasn’t kept the candidates from throwing around lots of numbers.
An Obama ad, for example, says McCain “could cut Medicare by $800 billion,” raising premiums and copays, and increasing prices for prescription drugs. A
calls this assertion a Read the rest of this entry »
The Associated Press – Saturday, January 03, 2009
FARGO, N.D.
Parents of Fargo middle school students can soon test their children for drugs.
Project 7th Grade, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based group, provides the kits to school systems, police and other organizations at no charge. The tests rely on urine samples.
Sullivan Middle school is the only school in North Dakota participating in the project, officials said.
“No family, no schools are exempt,” Read the rest of this entry »
“Just again, the example of the eloquence of
Sen. Obama
. He's '
health for the mother.
' You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, '
.'”
Sen. John McCain
, during
What's really extreme here is that John McCain doesn't understand that women's health matters.
said last night, in front of millions Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2008)
— Women with a history of serious mental illness are much more likely to have babies that are stillborn or die within the first month of life, new research reveals.
Researchers at the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at The University of Manchester studied almost 1.5 million births in Denmark between 1973 and 1998, including 7,021 stillbirths.
The risk of stillbirth and newborn deaths from any cause was at least Read the rest of this entry »
It’s wise to stay informed when a hurricane is on the way. That could mean leaving the tube on an all-weather network or navigating to a Web site that tracks the storm.
And while adults can understand that Hurricane Ike likely won’t reach Texas until late this week, the constant chatter and catastrophic images on television can strike fear in children, mental health experts warn.
“The really hard part is talking about destruction that happens Read the rest of this entry »
BOVIE MEDICAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE THREE AND NINE-MONTH PERIODS
Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
September 30, September 30, Read the rest of this entry »
[Dec 19, 2008]
Summaries about recent news involving health care in the state budgets of California, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington state appear below.
California: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Thursday said he would veto an $18 billion plan by state Democrats that aims to address the state budget deficit by cutting $7.3 billion from health care, school and other programs, the
reports. Read the rest of this entry »
A longtime Mesa family with vast real-estate and petroleum holdings has pledged a $10 million gift to Banner Health to aid the Banner Children’s Hospital expansion under construction in Mesa.
The Cardon family gift will help fund an expansion that aims to make the hospital one of the top pediatric-care institutions in the Southwest.
Wilford Cardon has served on the board of Banner Health and its predecessor organization for more than 25 years, Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the 200 patients were asleep when Santa Ana winds that had swept down from the high desert circled the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in fire.
Nearby office bungalows went up in flames in the Los Angeles foothills and the fire surrounded a power plant, knocking out electricity to the hospital.
Hospital staff members quickly shut down the ventilation system to keep the smoke out. Backup generators were out, so Read the rest of this entry »