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Awards To Highlight Military Health Heroes, Wales
The Welsh Assembly Government is today encouraging people to nominate health professionals for a major UK-wide award aimed at highlighting their contribution to the care of armed services personnel.
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Recommendations for how the HHS Office of the Secretary will spend $400 million in funds for patient-centered research, also known as comparative effectiveness research, were released by Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). The report, mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to help the HHS Secretary and lawmakers improve the quality of care for patients, and provide patients and doctors the best information possible to make decisions about health care.
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Novartis Successfully Demonstrates Capabilities Of Cell-based Technology For Production Of A(H1N1) Vaccine
Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations. Cell-based manufacturing technology[1] allows vaccine production to be initiated once a pandemic virus strain is identified without the need to adapt the virus strain to grow in eggs, as with traditional vaccine technologies. This advance has cut weeks off the time required to begin vaccine production. This first batch of ten liters of wild type influenza A(H1N1) vaccine monobulk will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials. It demonstrates the value of the cell-based production approach, that is also being used by Novartis with reassortant influenza A(H1N1) seed.
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Today's Opinions And Editorials

What"s Up, Docs? The Wall Street Journal The AMA is essentially saying that if doctors get paid more, all else is negotiable. It can"t last (7/20). The Time To Act On Health Care Crisis Is Now The Nevada Appeal Some in Washington, and here in Nevada, are telling us that we cannot afford health reform, and that we need to wait. This just doesn"t make sense (Carla Sloan, 7/19). I Probably Won"t Be Your Family Doctor The Baltimore Sun With the number of senior citizens rapidly growing, by 2020 we will likely lack 200,000 physicians. So why do only two percent of medical students choose family medicine (Aggarwal, 7/19). Health Care Never Never Land The Atlanta Journal Constitution Once again, success in the business arena is punished in the government arena. Truly, this bill is a monstrosity (Barr, 7/20). Where Is Competition In Our Current Health Care Debate? Fort Worth Business Press Since when is government needed to stoke competition? Competition is what happens when government lets people alone (Stossel, 7/20). A Trillion Here, A Trillion There Politico Businesses will, in effect, be forced to send employees into the Democrats" government-run health care. It"s really not something to argue about, it is a fact (Jindal, 7/20). Costs And Benefits The New York Times [Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas] Elmendorf"s testimony should prod Democratic leaders to come up with more and better ways to restrain costs for federal programs and the health care system as a whole (7/19). Controlling Costs Won"t Limit Care Roll Call The idea of "rationing" is a myth, and anything resembling it will not be a part of health care reform (Kohl, 7/20). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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