A medical technology company that employs 500 people here should get a significant boost – translating into more jobs – from President Obama’s economic stimulus package, Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday.
Patrick’s remarks came during a tour of eClinicalWorks’ Rte. 9 headquarters where he and officials were shown the software that allows physicians and other health care workers to tap into up-to-the-minute information on patients.
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A medical technology company that employs 500 people here should get a significant boost – translating into more jobs – from President Obama’s economic stimulus package, Gov. Deval Patrick said yesterday.
Patrick’s remarks came during a tour of eClinicalWorks’ Rte. 9 headquarters where he and officials were shown the software that allows physicians and other health care workers to tap into up-to-the-minute information on patients.
“The very good Read the rest of this entry »

Coverleaf.com Welcomes Rodale Titles to Growing Stable of Digital Magazine Editions
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Coverleaf.com, the service from Texterity, Inc. that gives magazine publishers new digital tools to build reader engagement, today announced the addition of all Domestic and Canadian Rodale digital magazine titles. Rodale’s
Prevention, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Best Life, Bicycling, Running Times, Read the rest of this entry »

– A slim, easy-to-use device that checks the authenticity of medicines would be available in every pharmacy if Facundo Fernandez had his way.
— something that is increasingly a concern amid a rise in fake medicines.
A self-described optimist, Fernandez doesn’t think his dream is that far-fetched. “I think it’s possible,” he told CNN. “The technology is available. It’s a matter of making this really widespread.”
An analytical chemist and Read the rest of this entry »

Students in at least four Onondaga County school districts have been caught distributing prescription drugs in their schools in the past two months, and local doctors and police believe that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
“This is so prevalent, it’s just startling,” said Dr. Richard Steinmann, head of emergency medicine at Crouse Hospital. “As a parent and as someone who grew up in the ’60s, I am taken aback by the number of kids who are using drugs Read the rest of this entry »

Phoenix, AZ, November 16, 2008 –(
)– Local Phoenix, Arizona fat loss expert Curtis Hoekstra is the founder of Arizona Fitness Boot Camp, which employs Rapid Fire Interval workouts . The program offers rapid fat loss group training workouts claiming twice the results in less than half the time with their 30-minute express workouts that are a third the cost of typical one-on-one personal training. Their first location was launched in Phoenix back Read the rest of this entry »

People in the Panama City community are grooming a little less these days, and it’s not for insulation from the cold!
They’re doing it for Movember!
Nope, that’s not a type-o.
The Movember Foundation is working in conjunction with the Prostate Cancer Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization, sponsoring Movember. Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a charity event held during November each year.
At the start of Movember guys register Read the rest of this entry »

The most common drugs found were cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and cocaine and cannabis in combination. Age was not a factor, the study showed. Drivers 45 to 54 led drivers testing positive for drugs, in part because researchers were also testing for legal drugs that can impair driving.
No 16-to-18-year-olds tested positive for alcohol, but a small portion tested positive for drugs.
“The good news is that drinking and driving appeared to be on the Read the rest of this entry »

Excerpts from the Globe’s blog on the Boston-area medical community.
For Massachusetts families, health insurance premiums are growing faster than their paychecks while their coverage gets thinner, a report issued today says.
The findings, based on federal census, labor, and healthcare data, coincide with a Boston Globe-Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation poll released last week that says even though more Bay State residents have Read the rest of this entry »

As a licensed agent, Nancy Evans can sell insurance.
She just can’t buy any.
Evans, 50, who also works as a landscape contractor in Memphis, has been unable to obtain health-insurance coverage because she’s self-employed and has a pre-existing medical condition. She was diagnosed with a non-cancerous but inoperable mass in her liver.
“I sell insurance, but I’m not eligible for any major medical health coverage,” Evans says.
If Census estimates Read the rest of this entry »