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Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee's health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers.
As advocates for patient safety in the operating room, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, (AORN), announced support for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's signing of HB 1641 requiring the presence of a circulating nurse in certain operating rooms. The bill, signed into law on June 16, applies to any hospital or class C ambulatory surgical facility.
CROs and Pharmaceutical companies are speeding the process of study launch and accelerating patient recruitment. Such initiatives involve the adoption of new processes, technologies and organisational structure. One such initiative is MediciGlobal's unique and proprietary web-based system called ADapt, focused on launching patient recruitment programmes faster.
A behavioral study has found that motivational text messages sent to smokers' mobile phones can double their chances of giving up tobacco. The "txt2stop" trial at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and funded by the Medical Research Council tested the effects of inspirational text messages designed to encourage quitting on almost 3,000 smokers. Participants were twice as likely to banish their habit as another group sent texts unrelated to smoking.
With a 95 percent genomic similarity to humans, mice have long been used to learn about the genetic causes of human disease. Once researchers can shine a light on the genetic factors that cause disease in mice, they can start to develop prevention and treatment options to protect the human population.
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