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Also this week, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health passed a slightly revised version of H.R. 5613, legislation recently introduced which would place a moratorium until March 2009 on seven Medicaid regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. BIAA has strongly endorsed this legislation and submitted an official letter of endorsement to the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Dingell (D-MI) and Rep. Murphy (R-PA), this week. Continue Reading »

by Rick Rollens - Consultant for CALBIA

The Legislature will reconvene from its recess on January 7.

The $14 billion State Budget deficit will dominate Sacramento for months to come. The Governor will release his proposed 2008-2009 Budget on January 10.

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Doctors inducing hypothermia in trauma cases

By JACOB GOLDSTEIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers

MIAMI - Twenty years ago, W. Dalton Dietrich and his colleagues had a problem: the rats in their laboratory experienced the same kind of stroke but had dramatically different outcomes.

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Name : BRAD KELLY
The Patriot Ledger
Helping victims of traumatic brain injuries often can be a frustrating process. But the owners of Community Rehab Care have been able to build a rewarding career guiding those with such disabilities to recovery.

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Farmington Hills site is planned
April 21, 2006
Name: JULIE EDGAR
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A chain of centers that treats people with brain injuries is opening another inpatient location in Farmington Hills in the fall.

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Name : Daniella Miletic
May 9, 2006
A DRUG-AFFECTED driver who was speeding when he smashed into a car, leaving a 71-year-old woman wheelchair-bound, has been jailed for two years.

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PORTLAND, Oregon - Oregon Health & Science University is part of the National Institutes of Health- funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC). This group of 11 regional medical centers across the United States and Canada seeks to find promising scientific and clinical advances to improve survival from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.

Source: http://www.centralpointnews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=330366&cp=4310

The ARC of Northwestern Vermont is holding its 29th Annual Pancake Breakfast as part of the Maple Festival on April 29th and 30th. The breakfast will be held at the St Albans City School Cafeteria on Bellows Street from 7:00 a.m. to Noon; Adults $6.00 and Children 3 to 10 will cost $3.00, toddlers two and younger are free.

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Name : Richard Kenney
Special for The Republic
Apr. 15, 2006 12:00 AM
Kelly Ramella helps people focus on their abilities, not their disabilities.

When they enroll in her Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation course at Arizona State University in Tempe, they quickly learn her message.

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New Mexico Business Weekly - April 26, 2006
Maas BioIAB LLC has received a $50,000 grant to continue development of its cyclosporin neuroprotection products.

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