Reforming Care Delivery: How Will It Affect Your Nursing Career?

While no one knows whether Congress and the president will achieve comprehensive health care reform, nursing experts are convinced that, regardless of what happens in Washington, nurses will find greater career opportunities in the future.
From larger patient populations and greater demand to advances in telemedicine and more community-based, non-hospital careers, a number of factors are [...]

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Flu Vaccination Rate At BJC HealthCare Rises Dramatically Due To Mandatory Policy

Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare’s nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, according to a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study’s lead author, infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock, M.D., says the success of the mandatory program demonstrates it is [...]

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Ten Years Later: Look To Nurses As Champions of Patient Safety Kaiser Health News
If we are to move forward, we must do a better job of providing policymakers, health care leaders and the public with the evidence showing the link between nursing care and patient safety. Any health care reform legislation must support the role of nurses in building a better system that provides the highest standard of care that is not only safer but is also likely to save money (Mary Nailer and Mark Paly, 12/10).

Bone Solutions Inc. appoints orthopedic surgeon, Nancy Lynch, M.D., of Scale Venture Partners to its Scientific Advisory Board

Bone Solutions Inc. (BSI) announced today that it has appointed Nancy Lynch, M.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board, effective immediately. Dr. Lynch is a Principal with Scale Venture Partners, based in Foster City, Calif.
“This addition of Dr. Lynch to our SAB represents an important milestone for BSI, in light of Dr. Lynch’s stature as both [...]

Lixte Biotechnology Holdings Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors

ohn S. Kovach, M.D., Chair, Board of Directors and CEO of Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. announces the appointment of Mel Sorensen, M.D. to the company’s Board of Directors.
Dr. Sorensen is currently Board Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascenta Therapeutics. He is a highly experienced leader and administrator in cancer therapeutics and cancer drug [...]

Medtronic And Scoliosis Research Society Provide Free Scoliosis Screening Kits To More Than 13,000 School Nurses

Medtronic and the Scoliosis Research Society launched Spine Check – a new program designed to help promote scoliosis screenings for middle school and junior high school students.
The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), one of the world’s premier spine societies, and Medtronic are supporting the Spine Check program to help improve the overall spinal health of students. [...]

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced an annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the Company’s lead product, amadacycline, formerly PTK 0796, a first-in-class aminomethylcycline, will be the subject of a Late Breaker poster presentation at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). ICAAC will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 25 – October 28, 2008.
More information on the poster [...]

Mentice, Inc. and Education Management Solutions, Inc. Form OEM Partnership

Mentice, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of virtual reality (VR) based medical simulation systems and Education Management Solutions, Inc. (EMS), a leader in clinical skills training and evaluation software solutions, today announced at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium in Washington D.C., an OEM partnership that enables Mentice to market MenticeSIM(TM) as a standard option [...]

Boston Scientific Inc. announced comprehensive data from the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced comprehensive data from the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program, a series of global, prospective, multi-center, single-arm, historically controlled trials, which evaluate the TAXUS® Liberte® Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System in a variety of lesions and patient groups. The TAXUS Liberte Stent received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval on Friday. Results from the [...]