LDR Announces Release Of Its ROI-T(TM) Transforaminal Approach Implant LDR, a total spine solution company, announced that it has begun to market its ROI-T? partial vertebral body replacement device following recent 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPeople OK With Summary Care Record Program, But Largely Uninformed A study published on bmj.comreports on the failure of an extensive public information campaigndesigned to let people know of the NHS Summary Care Record(SCR) - just 30% of people living in the areas piloting the programhave heard about it.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHospitals Hire 'Nocturnists' To Improve Patient Care During Night, Weekend Hours, Wall Street Journal Reports The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how some hospitals have begun "taking steps to improve safety and reduce their own legal liability from mishaps" that occur during "thinly staffed" night and weekend shifts, when patients "suffer higher rates of death, complications and medical errors.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLouisiana Nursing Home Owners Likely To File Lawsuit Against State For Lower Medicaid Rate Increase In 2009, Health Official Says Louisiana Department of
Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine on Friday said that the state likely would face a lawsuit from nursing home owners if Medicaid cuts approved by the state House are not restored, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports (Moller, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 5/24).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOpinion Piece Takes On Attack Aimed At Kan. Gov. Sebelius' Abortion-Rights Support A recent syndicated column by Robert Novak, the "redoubtable right-wing hit man," criticizing Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for her actions as governor on abortion-related issues is an example of the Republican Party's "hard cultural right" attempting to "revive abortion's single-issue virulence in this presidential cycle," Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten writes in an opinion piece.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comReported Cases Of PTSD In Soldiers Up 50% In 2007, According To Defense Officials The number of U.S. service members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder increased by nearly 50% from 2006 to 2007, according to Pentagon data released on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Nearly 40,000 soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan from 2003 to 2007 have been diagnosed by the military as having PTSD (Scott Tyson, Washington Post, 5/28).
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