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Members of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Tuesday voted to approve legislation that would repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act included in the healthcare reform law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act tasked HHS with developing a benefit plan for CLASS, a voluntary long-term-care insurance program, that was financially sustainable and also met the legal requirements of the statute.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a $1.58 million grant to Huei-Sheng Vincent Chen, Ph.D., associate professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham). Chen's proposal was one of 28 new projects funded as part of CIRM's Basic Biology IV awards program, which supports basic research aimed at increasing our understanding of stem cells and how to work with them.
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced a suite of hyphenated solutions for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), or measurements made on gases released by a thermal analyzer.
Among the many topics to be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this month, one that is unlikely to feature is that of increasing concern about the effects on climate change on people with a history of mental health, and the potential for an increase in the overall burden of mental disorder worldwide.
KBOI (Boise, Idaho)/ABC News Radio: "According to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 49.9 million people ages 18 to 64," or about 26.2 percent of the adult population, "had no medical coverage for at least part of the past 12 months. … Moreover, when children 17 and under are factored in, the number of Americans uninsured for at least part of a year span numbered 59.1 million."
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