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First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 28 mins ago - 30 Documents (in Politics)

Republican Party (US)

House members face decisive vote on Obama health care plan; GOP united in opposition

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency. ... [Minneapolis Star Tribune - 28 mins ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Health Care, Barack Obama

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 9 Documents

Guidant Corporation

Boston Scientific reaches agreement with DOJ related to product advisories issued by its Guidant subsidiary

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) related to product advisories issued by its Guidant subsidiary in 2005. The alleged conduct and product sales ... [News-Medical.Net - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Guidant Corporation, Boston Scientific Corporation, Ray Elliott, Food and Drug Administration

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 33 Documents (in Politics)

Howard Dean

House Health Care Bill Basics and Key Provisions

After reviewing details of the revised House health care reform bill , I agree with Dr. Howard Dean's sentiment that "The House bill is actually very good."(See Key Provisions of the House Health Care Bill for a one-page summary of the House health care ... [About - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Affordable Health Choices Act, Howard Dean

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 7 Documents (in Medicine)

Modification urged for H1N1 protection among healthcare employees

N95 respirators don’t offer additional protection against H1N1 influenza than provided by the use of surgical masks, infectious disease experts have said.Federal PPE guidance and requirements issued recently by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ... [FreshNews.in - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Infectious Diseases, Richard Whitley, Mark Rupp

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 12 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

TPG Capital LLP

TPG Capital, CPP Investment Board to acquire IMS Health

IMS Health (NYSE: RX), the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by investment funds managed by TPG Capital (“TPG”) ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/06/2009]

Entities: TPG Capital LLP, IMS Health Inc, Torys LLP, Health Care, Goldman Sachs Group Inc

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 10 Documents (in Medicine)

US Spends More On Health Care, But Quality Falls Short

An international survey of primary care doctors released on Wednesday found that Americans are more likely than people in 10 other countries to have trouble getting medical treatment because of insurance restrictions or cost, Reuters reported.The annual ... [Red Orbit - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Cathy Schoen, United States, Karen Davis, Health Care, Commonwealth Fund

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 7 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Politics)

CII, US-India Business Council announce healthcare initiative

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the US-India Business Council (USIBC) Friday announced a joint partnership in the field of healthcare under the banner 'Coalition for Healthy India'.Announcing the partnership here, CII director Chandrajit ... [NetIndia123.com - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Chandrajit Banerjee, India Today Group, Coalition, Confederation of Indian Industry

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 6 Documents

Merge settles fraud case with SEC, former execs pay $870K

FURTHER READING Organization Person Justin Dearborn Richard Linden Scott Veech Topic Portals Healthcare IT Advanced Visualization The (SEC) has settled with Milwaukee-based Merge Healthcare and two former senior executives over their roles ... [HealthImaging - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Fraud, Accounting Fraud, Enhancer, Administrative Order

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 5 Documents

Inscrybe Healthcare to be included in CPR+ Integrated Solutions Provider program

Authentidate Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: ADAT), a worldwide provider of secure Health Information Exchange and workflow management services, has introduced an interface that allows Inscrybe® Healthcare to be easily integrated with one of the homecare industry's ... [News-Medical.Net - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Corroboration, Authentidate Holdings Inc

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 8 Documents (in Politics)

AMA supports House health care bill despite dissent

The nation's largest doctors group came out Thursday in support of health care reform legislation scheduled for a House vote Saturday, when scores of member physicians will gather in Houston for a policymaking meeting and debate that contentious issu ... [Houston Chronicle - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Medicare, Health Care, Houston (Texas, United States), John Cornyn

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 23 Documents (in Politics)

House Democrats May Push Health Care Vote to Next Week

Democratic leaders in the U.S. House scrambled Friday to allay lingering concerns about a broad health care overhaul and raised the possibility a vote planned for Saturday could slip into next week.House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer said 'we're very ... [CNBC - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Health Care, Abortion, Steny Hoyer

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 Documents

HL7 EHR standard for clinical research defines high-level reqs

Health Level Seven has released the Electronic Health Record System Functional Requirements Standard for Clinical Research, which offers guidelines for data integration necessary to support clinical research methods and patient care.Health Data Management| ... [SmartBrief - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Level Seven, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine

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