Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has made grants to three state boards of education to promote more effective instruction to K-12 students about HIV prevention. The $13,000 grants are being made to the North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee State Boards of Education.
"HIV remains a dire threat ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Bryten Solutions, LLC is proud to introduce Professional Sleep Solutions to their line of sleep businesses. Prosleepsolutions.com is focused on distributing natural sleep products to Sleep Centers, Physicians, Medical Suppliers, Hotel, Spas and Retailers.
Professional Sleep Solutions is a distributor for natural sleep products which help people create better sleep habits ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The National League for Nursing, for more than 60 years a recognized leader in assessment and evaluation in nursing education, announced increased benefits to faculty and students who use the comprehensive Total Assessment Program (TAP) for NCLEX-RN Success across the curriculum. TAP, the most complete package now available, enables nursing ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The New York Times on Thursday examined how Britain's National Health Service, which provides all residents with no-cost medical services, has "been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The National Osteoporosis Foundation released its new "Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis" which represents a new era for healthcare providers in the evaluation and treatment of people with low bone mass or osteoporosis.
The Clinician's Guide was developed by an expert committee of NOF collaborating with a multi-specialty ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The National Kidney Registry and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced the successful completion of three simultaneous living donor transplants in one of the nation's first triple swaps involving a donor chain. The surgeries took place last week on Valentine's Day and all six donors and recipients are doing well.
Today's ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Donna Bednarski, MSN, ANP, BC, CNN, CNP, has been elected national president-elect of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA) for 2008-09. Bednarski's responsibilities will include serving on the National Board of Directors (BOD) and as liaison to assigned committees. Bednarski is a nephrology nurse practitioner at Harper University Hospital, Detroit, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
n the United States, as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and death battle with anorexia or bulimia and another 25 million with binge eating disorder, according to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). As these numbers have continued to rise, so does ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The implementation of a national health care information technology system would reduce costs and help prevent medical errors, lawmakers and experts said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Thursday, CongressDaily reports (Povich, CongressDaily, 2/14). Such a system would include electronic prescribing, electronic health records and billing, and integrated communication ...
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