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Practice Nurses Pivotal To Easing Primary Care Pressure, Australia
Nurses play a key role in supporting general practice and giving people access to primary health care services, the Australian Practice Nurses Association (APNA) and Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) said after the release today of two reports on general practice and practice nurses in Australia.

GTCbio Announces Its 4th Annual Assay Development And Screening Technologies Conference Taking Place On June 8-9, 2009 In San Francisco
GTCbio Announces 4th Annual Assay Development and Screening Conference taking place June 8-9, 2009. As compounds derived from high throughput screening increasingly find their way into clinical trials, drug screening has become widely accepted as a critical step in the drug discovery process. After more than a decade of rapid growth, tremendous progress has been made in assay technology, laboratory automation, and informatics. These technological developments have not only facilitated a drastic increase in throughput and efficiency in drug screening, but have also provided novel solutions in other areas of drug discovery and development. As screening has also become prominent in biological research, screening facilities have become increasingly popular in academic institutions.
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Olympus Broadens Portfolio With New Biliary Metallic Stent
Olympus America Inc. has expanded its medical portfolio by introducing the X-Suit NIR®, a biliary metallic stent designed with exceptional anatomic conformability and superior radial support. The X-Suit NIR"s proprietary NIRflex™ cell design provides a physician support and flexibility; both critical to help relieve the symptoms associated with pancreatic, liver and bile duct cancers.
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President Obama "Open" To Coverage Mandate For All Americans

President Obama on Wednesday signaled in a letter to top Senate Democrats that he may be open to requiring all Americans to have health insurance coverage as part of health care reform. The Washington Post: "In his push to enact sweeping health-care reform legislation this summer, Obama previewed what could be the outlines of a compromise on two of the thorniest issues confronting Congress. He said he could support mandates on both individuals and employers to contribute to the cost of health insurance if the bill provides protections to certain small businesses and poor people." Employers would be asked by the government to share in the costs of covering their employees, and if they refuse they would face a penalty. Obama mentioned the hardship waiver in the letter addressed to key committee chairmen, Democratic Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, late Tuesday. He outlined his support for some facets of the reform, insisting again that they send him a bill to sign by the end of the year. Last year, during the presidential primaries, "Obama attacked then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton"s proposed individual mandate as a scheme to "go after people"s wages,"" the Post recalls. Draft legislation of a health reform bill may be available to Senate Finance Committee members June 17, with markup starting the following week (Connolly, 6/4). At least one Republican lawmaker praised Obama"s effort, according to The Los Angeles Times: ""Having the president engaged in the legislative debate with yesterday"s meeting and today"s letter, which doesn"t draw lines in the sand, is helpful because of his statements that reform legislation needs to have bipartisan support," said Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee" (Levey, 6/4). Politico writes: "Obama"s positions on these issues were not entirely surprising, but his decision to weigh in before congressional Democratic leaders released a single bill was unexpected. Prior to the letter, Obama and his aides had declined to say specifically where he stood on various issues, including the public plan and individual mandate, saying they wanted Congress to lead the way in writing a bill" (Brown, 6/3). 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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