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  • Indo-China bilateral meet on healthcare sector held at Geneva

    Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Dr Li Bin, Minister of Health and Population, People's Republic of China met here yesterday on the sidelines of World Health Assembly to discuss the strengthening of bilateral cooperation between the two countries in healthcare sector. Congratulating Dr Li Bin for taking over as Health Minister of China, Azad stated that in view of her keen interest ...

  • Medicare Nixes Coverage For New Cancer Tests

    By Scott Gottlieb, MD Medicare has sharply changed the way it pays for diagnostic tests, cutting payment rates and curtailing coverage for some new tests altogether. ...

  • Ministry Health Care cuts hundreds of jobs

    Milwaukee-based Ministry Health Care, which operates hospitals in Marshfield, Stevens Point, Oshkosh, Appleton and the Wausau area among its 15 hospital locations, said it will lay off the equivalent of up to 250 full-time positions because of declines in federal reimbursement rates and the effects of ...

  • Air ambulance company adds state-of-the-art Eurocopter

    In an ongoing program to modernize and upgrade its fleet of emergency medical helicopters, REACH Air Medical Services has bought a new Eurocopter EC135. In an ongoing program to modernize and upgrade its fleet of emergency medical helicopters, REACH Air Medical Services has bought a new Eurocopter EC135. This is the first of three state-of-the-art aircraft being built for REACH this year. The ...

  • What Pharmacist Conscientious Objectors Might Learn From Boston Bombing Suspects Nurses

    Florence Nightingale from Carte de Visite (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I can't imagine being placed in this situation. After caring for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, nurses at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital were called upon to care for one more patient: the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Liz Kowalcyzk reported ...


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The Invasion

The Invasion

The Invasion is the fourth cinematic incarnation of Jack Finney's 1954 novella The Body Snatchers, and its tortured production history (bad test screenings, sitting on the shelf for a year, secret reshoots by The Wachowski Brothers to punch up the action) is unfortunately muc ... ...

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  • NIH awards $3M grant to UK pharmacy professors firm

    A University of Kentucky pharmacy professors start-up company has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test and market a nasal spray that counteracts opioid overdoses. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that AntiOp Inc., started by professor Dan Wermeling, will receive the money over three years to continue his work on naloxone. The drug is currently used in ...

  • Doctors in Poland performed life-saving face transplant to accident victim

    WARSAW, Poland - Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The head of the team of doctors, Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first ...

  • Yankee Trace area to see new senior housing development

    Centerville Development Group wants the 65-acre plot of land bound by Social Row Road, Sheehan Road and Paragon Road in south Centerville to be an expansion to the senior community at Yankee Trace. Developers hope to expand the Yankee Trace senior community following a rezoning decision by Centerville City Council Monday night. Centerville Development Group wants the 65-acre plot of land bound ...

  • UC Health plans 2nd tower at West Chester Hospital

    UC Health CEO Jim Kingsbury is giving the go-ahead for an expansion. UC Health is planning to spend as much as $135 million to add a second tower to its West Chester Hospital, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. Along with regular patient beds, the new tower would include obstetrics and maternity services. The hospital opened in 2009 with 160 rooms. UC Health's board will vote on the ...

  • Cincinnatis Mercy Health appoints new CEO

    Yousuf Ahmad, chief transformation officer for Mercy Health since 2011, has been promoted to CEO. Mercy Health has promoted Yousuf Ahmad, its chief transformation officer since 2011, to replace James May as CEO, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. Ahmad's appointment is effective June 15, as May shifts focus to his executive vice president role with Mercy parent Catholic Health ...

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