A day after he had to jettison the person he hoped would be the architect of a healthcare overhaul, President Obama this afternoon will get to claim a smaller victory.
He signed into law a bill, given final approval by the House today, to extend subsidized coverage to 4 million more children across the country. The bill on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program costs nearly $33 billion and covers children whose parents earn too much to qualify Read the rest of this entry »

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Vital Images Inc. (VTAL:
) said it signed a co-development and collaboration agreement with Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. in which the companies would enter into a mutual license of intellectual property.
Vital noted that the two companies would jointly invest to develop and deliver innovative technology advancements for Toshiba’s modalities, including the Aquilion ONE CT scanner, and Vital Images’ Read the rest of this entry »

by Andrew Dagnell, Western Mail
WELSH singer Duffy has signed a lucrative six-figure deal to become the new face of Diet Coke, cementing her place as one of Britain’s most marketable faces.
The Mercy singer will appear in a multi-million-pound campaign for the fizzy drink – the first endorsement the 24-year-old has signed up to since shooting to number one in the singles and album charts last year.
The campaign, created by upmarket Read the rest of this entry »

MADISON, Wis. – Signs will be posted in UW Health clinics
next month telling patients that drug companies may be paying their
doctors for research or consulting work.
officials say they will post the
signs as part of an ongoing effort to strengthen
conflict-of-interest policies.
The dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health says
patients also will be able to request details on their doctors’
activities.
Faculty in all fields must report Read the rest of this entry »

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Premier Inc., a huge U.S. hospital purchasing group, said Thursday that it has
signed new agreements for drug-coated stent heart devices with
(JNJ).
The tiny devices prop open clogged arteries, use medication to fight
renarrowing and represent a roughly
domestic market. Owned by non-
profit hospitals, Premier runs a purchasing network that serves more than 2,100
U.S. hospitals and Read the rest of this entry »

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By Eleanor Momberg, Myrtle Ryan, Liz Clarke and Niyantha Singh
Two more people have been admitted to the Morningside Medi-Clinic for observation after they showed signs of viral haemorrhagic fever.
The hospital confirmed on Saturday that a man was admitted on Thursday night and a woman on Friday. The woman is the second nurse to show signs of the disease.
At the same time, two relatives of Gladys Mthembu, the nurse who died after being admitted Read the rest of this entry »

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2008)
— Research presented at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), found that coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms presented in the context of a stressful life event were identified as psychogenic in origin when presented by women and organic in origin when presented by men. The study could help explain why there Read the rest of this entry »

This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special
English. I’m Bob Doughty.
And
I’m Faith Lapidus. Wintry conditions are
returning to the northern part of the world.
Winter brings cold weather and, with it, a danger as old as man’s
knowledge of fire. The danger is death
or injury by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Today, we tell about this ancient and continuing danger.
Several
years ago, a family of five was enjoying a holiday in the American state of
California, Read the rest of this entry »

A delegation from Envita Asia Hospital Corp. was in Phoenix Monday to sign a joint venture with John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital.
This was the first time either hospital signed an international agreement.
The joint venture will provide the Vietnamese hospital’s most seriously ill and injured patients access to American health care expertise and technology. An estimated 60 percent of the population in Vietnam has no access to medical Read the rest of this entry »