SAN FRANCISCO, CA –
The rapidly expanding number of
has
now reached a critical mark providing half a million student visits
annually in its 22 studios to a signature clientele of fit, urban women.
Founder Burr Leonard expects another 10 facilities, most of them
franchises, to open in 2009. The exercise studios are located in and
around San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, New York,
New Jersey, and Connecticut.
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The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative also calls for mandated coverage for those who do not get it through their employer. The group pledged that the policies would be more affordable than they are now.
The coalition of labor groups, churches, businesses and community organizations consulted with health policy experts from the University of Maryland, John Hopkins University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The plan aims to build on two Read the rest of this entry »

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Provisions In Stimulus Draws Concern About Care For Women, Minorities
) President Obama is expected to sign today includes $1.1 billion in funding for research to compare the effectiveness of different treatments for the same illness, a measure critics say could place the government in the middle of the physician-patient relationship and compromise treatment for women and minorities, the
reports. The
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Health authorities have called an urgent meeting after supply shortages at a western NSW hospital forced a doctor to buy equipment for essential patient tests.
The doctor bought the equipment so a diagnostic blood test could be processed at Dubbo Base Hospital, while nurses say they often got medical supplies from the local vet. The hospital’s medical staff council chairman, Dean Fisher, said there had been ongoing problems, but patient care was Read the rest of this entry »

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
,
Oct. 7
/PRNewswire/ — Reliant Technologies, Inc.,
the pioneer of fractional resurfacing and market leader of aesthetic laser
skin treatments, today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for
three new Fraxel re:pair laser handpieces. These handpieces expand the
capabilities of the Fraxel re:pair laser system, providing physicians with a
complete skin resurfacing and surgical treatment option. As part of Read the rest of this entry »

“From both policy and political perspectives, it is impossible to underestimate the positive influence of Massachusetts reform on the prospects for national health reform in 2009,” Kennedy said in a statement.
Both President-elect Barack Obama, in the healthcare plan he released during the campaign, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, in his 89-page white paper, have endorsed a Massachusetts-style “incremental universalism” approach, Read the rest of this entry »

It’s often the security issue that dogs Google, Microsoft and other purveyors of personal health records (PHR): How will so much personal medical data be kept safe?
A tangential question for Google, however — one that has dogged the search giant since its
Health offering was first made available in May 2008 — is whether Google’s search-based advertising platform creates a conflict with storing personal health data.
Google Vice President of Read the rest of this entry »

Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) today announced that a Phase III study
(RIBBON 1) of Avastin
(bevacizumab), in combination with
taxane, anthracycline-based or capecitabine chemotherapies for
first-line treatment of metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer, met its
primary endpoint of increasing the time patients lived without their
disease advancing, compared to the chemotherapies alone. The primary
endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) was assessed Read the rest of this entry »

January 29th, 2009 |
I’m the congressional reporter for the Federal Times. I started here in August 2008, just in time to learn that D.C. really does shut down in August! I was previously a reporter at The Indianapolis Star, where I covered various topics for three years. My most challenging assignment was Hurricane Katrina, where I spent two weeks in New Orleans and surrounding parishes. I’m also a sports fan, having covered four Indianapolis 500s, Read the rest of this entry »