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The Molecular Basis Of Detecting Tissue-Damaging Chemicals Goes Back More 500 Million Years
Whenever you choke on acrid cigarette smoke, feel like you’re burning up from a mouthful of wasabi-laced sushi, or cry while cutting raw onions and garlic, your response is being triggered by a primordial chemical sensor conserved across some 500 million years of animal evolution, report Brandeis University scientists in a study in Nature this week…
International Anesthesia Research Society Funds $1 Million In Research Awards In 2009
The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) announced 10 grant recipients in 2009, committing over $1 million to anesthesia research and other projects that will advance the specialty of anesthesiology. Grant recipients include researchers, clinicians and educators from around the world who have provided outstanding contributions to the anesthesia community…
MicroTransponder Raises $10 Million To Begin Clinical Trials Of Wireless Neurostimulation For Chronic Pain And Obtain FDA Clearance
MicroTransponder, Inc., a privately-held medical device company, has just announced a $7 Million Series B round of funding. MicroTransponder is developing a wireless neurostimulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain and other neurological indications. In addition, the Company is announcing that it has been awarded a $2…
Sebelius Awards Over $10 Million To Utah To Test Innovations In Children’s Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a grant of over $10 million to Utah to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Sebelius Awards $100 Million To 10 States To Test Innovations In Children’s Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $100 million in federal grant funds to 10 states to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
$10 Million In Grants Aimed At Enrolling American Indian, Alaska Native Kids In Health Care To Be Awarded
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of up to $10 million in grants to help reach American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children who qualify for, but are not yet enrolled, in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These new grants are part of a broader effort to find and enroll uninsured children who are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but not enrolled.
U-M Receives $1.8 Million To Develop Therapy For Neuropathic Pain
Researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology have received a $1.8 million dollar grant to develop a novel therapy for neuropathic pain, a difficult to treat condition in which patients experience pain because of damage to nerve without obvious tissue injury.
1.46 Million Working-Age Vets Lacked Health Coverage Last Year, Increasing Their Death Rate, Harvard Researchers Say
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911 as of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001.
US H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Supply On Track To Hit 10 Million Increase Says CDC Director
H1N1 pandemic swine flu vaccine supplies are “on track to hit the 10 million increase” according to the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a telephone conference on Tuesday, CDC Director Tom Frieden told the press that: “As of today there are 31.8 million doses of flu vaccine available.” He said the US was now on track to hit the anticipated and hoped for 10 million increase for the current week.
Federal Officials Say Louisiana Owes $362 Million For Overpayments To Public Hospitals
The federal government says Louisiana public hospitals were overpaid by hundreds of millions of dollars. “Louisiana received a $362 million debt collection notice Tuesday from Washington health care officials, but state officials say they’re planning to appeal the move,” The Associated Press/Forbes reports.
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