House Approves Delay Of Medicare 'Trigger' Measure The House on Thursday by a 231-184 vote approved a rule (HRes 1368) that delays consideration of President Bush's Medicare "trigger" bill for the remainder of the 110th Congress, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. The resolution does not require Senate action (AP/Arizona Daily Star, 7/25).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMassachusetts Eye Surgeon Awarded "Best Paper" Of Session On Cataract & Lens Implant Surgery At ASCRS Annual Meeting Dr. D'Ambrosio Jr. presented his work titled "Secondary Implantation of the Array Multifocal IOL in Patients with Previous Monofocal IOLs" in the session on Intraocular Surgery and Presbyopia Correcting Lens Implants. Dr. D'Ambrosio, Jr.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comKey Prostate Motion Management Experience Using The Calypso� Medical's 4D Localization System To Be Presented At The 50th AAPM Annual Meeting Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. (Calypso Medical) has announced that eight new abstracts will be presented on prostate motion management in radiation therapy using the Calypso� 4D Localization System (Calypso System) at the AAPM annual scientific meeting July 27-31, 2008 in Houston, Texas.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAlzheimer's Bill Passes State Senate, USA Just 10 days before the close of the session, the State Senate voted unanimously to pass SB425, An Act Relative to Dementia Special Care Units in Long Term Care Facilities, sponsored by Senator Marc Pacheco. In short, the bill calls for established standards for any facility that has an "Alzheimer's Unit.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIHTSDO Launches New Global Effort To Build Essential Health Terminology Toolset The International
Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced a global effort to improve access to tools needed to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in
health systems around the world.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRequiring Animal Research To Be More Evidence-based' It is generally believed by the public that animal research is only carried out providing: a) it leads to improvements in human
health b) non-animal models and technologies are unavailable c) it is not duplicated unnecessarily d) it is not done for trivial and non-medical reasons e) it cannot be conducted ethically in humans f) suffering of laboratory animals is minimised.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDr. Michael DeBakey, Medical Trailblazer And Longtime Friend Of National Library Of Medicine, Dies At 99 Dr. Michael DeBakey, who died Friday, July 11th of natural causes, was one of the 20th century's great pioneers of cardiovascular surgery. He was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFragrance Materials Association Assures Safety Of Fragrance Ingredients - No Contrary Evidence In Contested University Of Washington Study A study was released by Anne Steinemann, a researcher at the University of Washington claiming fragrance ingredients contained in a selection of consumer products are potentially toxic. The fragrance materials industry has the highest concern for the safety of its products. We have a sound four-step safety testing process.
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