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Washington State Nurse-Midwife Receives The Hattie Award, American College Of Nurse-Midwives' Highest Honor
Katherine Camacho Carr, CNM, PhD, a certified nurse-midwife, professor and assistant dean of graduate studies at the Seattle University College of Nursing, is the recipient of the 2009 Hattie Hemschemeyer Award from the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM.) The "Hattie" is ACNM"s most prestigious award and was presented to Carr at ACNM"s 54th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Carr has been a resident of the Seattle area for 32 years.
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New Study Demonstrates NanoScan's Novel Contrast Agent May Identify Heart Attack In Waiting
NanoScan Imaging, LLC announced the publication of new data demonstrating the use of its investigational, radio-opaque contrast agent (N1177) to visualize vulnerable plaques that can cause heart attack or stroke using advanced, non-invasive and high-resolution computed tomography (CT) techniques. Results of the study were published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Nuclear Medicine (J Nucl Med. 2009 Jun;50(6):959-965).
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In Human-Dog Communication, Breed Is As Important As Species
Dog breeds selected to work in visual contact with humans, such as sheep dogs and gun dogs, are better able to comprehend a pointing gesture than those breeds that usually work without direct supervision. A series of tests, described in BioMed Central"s open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions, should caution researchers against making simple generalizations about the effects of domestication and on dog-wolf differences in the utilization of human visual signals.
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In South Florida, Risk Of Unemployment Would Accompany Health Reform Benefits

The Miami Herald reports that healthcare reform could acutely affect South Florida and provide both benefits and risks. The paper notes that in "few places are healthcare costs more bloated than South Florida, especially Miami." The area has incredibly high Medicare costs, high doctor referrals for specialists, high levels of orders for high-tech imaging tests, employer-based health insurance that is 20 percent more expensive, expensive home health care, a high level of uninsured people and a lot of Medicare fraud and abuse. As a result, health care reform could mean: "the loss of billions of dollars to the South Florida economy, some hospitals consolidated or closed, and the disappearance of untold number of jobs in the lucrative healthcare field." The Miami Herald reports: "With so much at stake, you might expect South Florida"s medical establishment to be aligned against reform. Not true. They acknowledge that the present system is wrong and needs to be changed. ... Many patients are desperate for fast action. ... And yet change will be painful and disorienting, especially in South Florida. Federal labor statistics show 218,000 healthcare employees work in Miami-Dade and Broward. They earned $9.8 billion in 2007. Much of that income is supported by Medicare, which paid $9.4 billion in the two counties in 2007. Eliminating some of that Medicare money will mean eliminating existing jobs." The paper notes: "As reform moves along, all these high-cost areas will be targeted for reductions. If the feds succeed in reducing Medicare costs in South Florida to the national average -- admittedly a monumental task, experts say -- it could mean more than $4 billion removed from the local economy" (Dorschner, 6/27). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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