'Reports' Tag

• Final rules for e-health rewards unveiled

  July 15, 2010

  [Story ID: 2880] The federal government has issued new regulations defining the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records, a requirement doctors must fulfill in order to gain funds from a $27-billion pot set aside in the 2009 stimulus law, The New York Times reports. “A doctor can receive up to $44,000 under Medicare and $63,750 [...]

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• Massachusetts fighting to control health costs

  May 11, 2010

  [Story ID: 1777] “Bake sales saved the nonprofit Athol Memorial Hospital the first time around, Steve Penka says with a smile. Eleven years later, it took a big Tennessee-based, for-profit hospital chain to keep it in business,” the (Worcester, Mass.) Telegram & Gazette reports. In light of a recent report by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha [...]

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• Gilead Sciences halts Phase II trial of GS 9450 for chronic hepatitis C

  April 20, 2010

  [Story ID: 1403] Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced the company is stopping its ongoing Phase II clinical trial of GS 9450, an investigational caspase inhibitor, in patients with chronic hepatitis C. This decision follows reports of significant laboratory abnormalities and adverse events in a number of clinical study participants.

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• HP sues Asian firms over patents (ZDNet)

  March 9, 2010

  [Story ID: 748] Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia

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• Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair calls for more emphasis on diplomacy, soft power

  March 6, 2010

  [Story ID: 717] U.S. foreign policy should should rely more on diplomacy and “soft power,” Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a speech at Kansas State University on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports. “U.S. foreign policy is still too dominated by the military – too dependent upon the generals [...]

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