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Private Medical Insurance in the United Kingdom
This paper provides a descriptive overview of the market for supplementary Voluntary Health Insurance VHI, or Private Medical Insurance PMI, in the United Kingdom. The structure of the paper reflects the three principal dimensions of the market: the product, demand and supply. An appendix discusses the market for health cash...
Effects of Armed Conflict on Access to Emergency Health Care in Palestinian West Bank: Systematic Collection of Data in Emergency Departments
Armed conflict affects public health in various ways. In the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, tight restrictions have been imposed on the population. Towns and villages are encircled by military checkpoints, making passage difficult, unpredictable, and occasionally impossible. The World Health Organization recommends collection of data in emergency departments as...
Children's Health and Environment Developing Action Plans
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
Human Resource Indicators and Health Service Performance
Public expectations and increasing financial pressures are requiring health services to adopt new approaches to the management of their resources, particularly human resources. This paper examines the use of human resource indicators HRI to support management-led initiatives to improve health service efficiency and effectiveness. The paper continues with an identification...
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Novartis Begins Shipment to US of Fluvirin(R) Influenza Virus Vaccine With Three New Strains for the 2008-2009 Influenza Season
Novartis announced today that it startedshipments of its Fluvirin® Influenza Virus Vaccine to US health carefacilities and practitioners for the 2008/2009 influenza season. The company is producing up to 40 million doses of Fluvirin, with the WorldHealth Organization recommended change in all three virus strains includedin the influenza vaccine composition....
Drug Resistance Is Slowing Global Fight Against TB
Standard methods of treating tuberculosis are failing in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant MDR forms of the disease, say researchers who analyzed World Health Organization data from 2003 to 2004 for 155 countries. 21.4 percent vs. 11.9 percent. The findings suggest that current TB treatment regimens need to...
YourCity.MD Sets Up Largest Single Owned, Geo-Targeted Online Ad Network Covering 450 Cities and States Across U.S
YourCity.MD Ad Network Reaches 215 Million Internet Users with Annual Spending Over $200 Billion for Out of Pocket Healthcare Expenses CINCINNATI -- YourCity.MD LLC (www.YourCity.MD), a medical and information network with 450 city and state-specific .MD Web sites across the U.S., today announced the first ever, single owned,...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation to Preview AIDS Advocacy March and Events Set for Mexico City's AIDS Conference
Thousands of AIDS Advocates to March Sunday for 'Universal AIDS Action Now' MEXICO CITY -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Key Events Include: * AIDS MARCH & RALLY, Sunday, August 3rd--March Demanding 'Universal AIDS Action Now' Proceeds from Plaza de la Revolucion to Zocalo Plaza, Starts...
French Agency Receives 10 Million Dollar Grant From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Support the Establishment of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia
PARIS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The French agency Agence de Medecine Preventive AMP has received a grant of 10 million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the development of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia. These Committees will help the National Health Authorities...
NIH's National Center For Research Resources Selects Collexis To Develop State of Science Analysis System
Collexis' Technology To Enhance Decision Making On Biotechnology Research Funding COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic and knowledge discovery software, announced today that the National Center for Research Resources NCRR, of the National Institutes of Health NIH, has...
Access to essential biomedical research to be expanded through collaboration by Collexis Holdings Inc and JISC Collections
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 July 2008-Access to essential biomedical research to be expanded through collaboration by Collexis Holdings Inc and JISC CollectionsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Collexis Holdings Inc (OTCBB:CLXS), which develops software that supports the market-building tools to search and mine sets of information, reported yesterday (7...
Wyeth Applauds Six Countries Across Europe, and the Middle East, That Recently Announced the Inclusion of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Their Immunization Schedules
MAIDENHEAD, England, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - PREVENAR Vaccine to Help Protect Children Against the Leading Vaccine-Preventable Cause of Death in Young Children Wyeth applauds the countries of Cyprus, Hungary, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Republic and Sweden for announcing their...
Leading Worldwide Cause of Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified by Diet
Potassium, Other Minerals Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A new article indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and...
FDA Grants AMDL Clearance to Market the AMDL-ELISA DR-70® Blood Test for Monitoring Colorectal Cancer
TUSTIN, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMDL , a leading vertically integrated bio-pharmaceutical company with operations in China and the US, announced today the US Food and Drug Administration FDA has issued a letter of substantial equivalence to an existing predicate device and granted clearance to...
Collexis Holdings, Inc. and JISC Collections - Helping to Widen Access to Essential Biomedical Research in the United Kingdom
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A major new agreement was announced today between Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic knowledge discovery software and expert profiles, and JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical...
International Guidelines Will Promote Food Safety of Plant and Animal Biotech Products
BIO Applauds Codex Adoption of Guidelines on Low-Level Presence, GE Animals WASHINGTON -- The Biotechnology Industry Organization congratulates the Codex Alimentarius Commission for approving key guidelines to further promote the safety of products from agricultural plant and animal biotechnology. The Codex Commission took final action...
Healthy and Delicious Home Delivery Just Got Easier: Dine to Thrive Cuts Prices in July
LOS ANGELES, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- While healthcare is becoming more expensive for many Americans, Dine to Thrive, a Los Angeles-based company that makes wellness promoting meals which may help prevent cancer, is cutting its prices by 40%. For the entire month of July, the...
Learn about Cough and Throat Remedies in the United States 2008
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c1fc69/cough_and_throat_r) has announced the addition of the "Cough and Throat Remedies in the United States 2008" report to their offering. The cough and throat remedies market has undergone significant fluctuations during 2002-07, due mostly to the relative severity of...
Commentary in The Lancet on the Declaration of Istanbul Sees Organ Transplantation Worldwide Threatened by Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism and Commercialism
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The July 5 issue of the leading medical journal, The Lancet, highlights the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, an important affirmation of ethical principles and practices adopted on May 2, 2008, at an International Summit of...
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Early Results in Phase II Study of Bavituximab in Breast Cancer
- Pre-Specified Primary Efficacy Endpoint Met in Stage 1 of Two-Stage Study - - 100% of Evaluable Patients to Date Continue to Show Objective Tumor Response or Stable Disease - TUSTIN, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported...
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All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services: 621999
