Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Examines Recent Health Reform Developments Summaries of several developments related to health care reform appear below. Rising costs without reform: A failure to overhaul the U.S. health care system could result in 66 million U.S. residents being uninsured and individual and family spending on health care increasing by 68% by 2019, according to a recent study prepared by the Urban Institute,
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGTCbio Announces Its 4th Annual Assay Development And Screening Technologies Conference Taking Place On June 8-9, 2009 In San Francisco GTCbio Announces 4th Annual Assay Development and Screening Conference taking place June 8-9, 2009. As compounds derived from high throughput screening increasingly find their way into clinical trials, drug screening has become widely accepted as a critical step in the drug discovery process. After more than a decade of rapid growth, tremendous progress has been made in assay technology, laboratory automation, and informatics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNPA Brings Pharmacy Owners Issues To Welsh Assembly Government Representatives of the NPA have met with the Minister for Health and Social Services, Edwina Hart, to discuss a number of matters on behalf of members in Wales. The Minister expressed a desire to better understand those issues that are acting as barriers to community
pharmacy contributing its full potential.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAnimal Production And Health To Be Addressed At FAO/IAEA Symposium An international symposium to be held in Vienna next week will focus on the use of nuclear technologies to enhance animal nutrition and reproduction strategies and to detect and control animal-origin diseases that can be transmitted to humans, such as swine and avian influenza. Around 500 animal production and health experts from over 100 countries will present up-to-date findings for solving or alleviating factors affecting animal production.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIBM And Golden State Medical Supply Create Drug Safety Model To Help Combat Counterfeiting IBM (NYSE: IBM) and contract manufacturer and third party logistics provider Golden State Medical Supply (GSMS) announced the two companies have worked together to help drug companies comply with stringent
prescription drug pedigree regulations in advance of state and federal mandates. Global counterfeit drug sales will grow at almost twice the rate of legitimate pharmaceutical commerce by 2010 according to estimates from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFew Pharmacies Can Translate Prescription Labels Into Spanish Surprisingly few pharmacies in the U.S. are able to translate
prescription medication instructions into Spanish, making it difficult for patients who speak only Spanish to understand how to take their medications properly, according to a new study from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMedical Care Sought In Mexico By Nearly 1 Million Californians Annually Driven by rising health care costs at home, nearly 1 million Californians cross the border each year to seek medical care in Mexico, according a new paper by UCLA researchers and colleagues published in the journal Medical Care.
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