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8 hrs ago | ArkansasMatters

NBC's The Biggest Loser Looking for New Season Contestants

NBC's hit weight-loss series "The Biggest Loser," seen on KARK 4, is looking for its next season's contestants.

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Related Topix: Game Show, The Biggest Loser, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Los Angeles, CA, University of Georgia Kennewsaw State, Planet Fitness, Health Club, Startups, Napster

12 hrs ago | Michigan Radio

Healthcare providers can better meet the needs of American Muslim patients

A new study sheds some light on how health care providers can better meet the cultural needs of American Muslim patients.

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Related Topix: University of Chicago, Religion, Islam

Wed May 30, 2012

PE Hub

Strupp Jumps to Ladenburg Thalmann

David Strupp has joined Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. as an MD in healthcare investment banking effective immediately.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Rodman and Renshaw, Bates College

Oracle

The Oscar of Java Programming

Why bother nominating a peer, yourself or your company for a Duke's Choice Award? I asked Duke's Choice Award winner Fabiane Nardon, whose team won in 2005 for the Healthcare Information System they created for the Brazilian government, what it was like winning the award and if it had any impact on her career.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Programming Languages

Pharmaceutical Online

New Drug Application For Regorafenib For The Treatment Of Metastatic...

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Bayer HealthCare has submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval for the oral multi-kinase inhibitor regorafenib for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer .

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Related Topix: Startups, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Bayer HealthCare, Chemicals, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Oncology, Medicine

Miami Today

Profile: Fernando Valverde, Chief Executive Officer, FIU Healthcare Network.

View excerpts of the interview with Fernando Valverde, Chief Executive Officer, FIU Healthcare Network.

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Related Topix: Florida International University

Customer Interaction Solutions

OSI Systems Receives $4 Million Contract for Patient Monitoring & Connectivity Solutions

OSI Systems, Inc. today announced that its Healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has received an approximate $4 million contract to provide its state-of-the-art solutions to a Texas hospital's new Telemetry, Intensive Care and Emergency Departments.

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Related Topix: Osi Systems, Scientific Instruments, Electronics, Semiconductors, OSI Systems

Tue May 29, 2012

The Daily News

Scott Joins Methodist South as Chief Medical Officer

Wednesday, May. 30, 2012 Monday, May. 28, 2012 Friday, May. 25, 2012 Thursday, May.

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Related Topix: Johns Hopkins University, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Rhodes College, University of Memphis, University of Phoenix

Freshnews

Anthelio Adds Industry Veterans John McConnell, M.D., and Kevin...

Dr. McConnell has overall responsibility for research, commercialization, education and patient care programs at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

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Related Topix: Wake Forest University, Medicine, Urology, Health Insurance, Health, Medicaid, Medicare

Business Journal

WellCare director Kevin Hickey joins Healthcare Innovation Council

The council, established by health care IT firm Anthelio, is made up of independent group of experts who generate innovative ideas about how U.S. hospitals can meet escalating quality and financial pressures.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Technologies, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health Insurance, Health

Fri May 25, 2012

Wonkette

How Dare This 'Out-Of-Bounds' Reporter Ask Jesse Kelly...

The last time we said 'hey' to young Jesse Kelly, he was running for Miss Teen USA, and it went a little something like this: Healthcare, right or privilege? My belief system is this.

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Benzinga

Top 4 Small-Cap Stocks In The Health Care Plans Industry With The Highest Revenue

Below are the top small-cap health care plans stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of revenue.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Centene, Healthcare Industry, Insurance, Molina Healthcare, Healthcare Technologies, Biotech, Healthcare Services Group, Medicine, Apparel

Thu May 24, 2012

CisionWire

Young Americans Remember "Freedom Is Not Free" As Memorial Day Approaches

Washington, DC Generation Opportunity today launched an online scroll for Americans to sign to thank the brave men and women who have selflessly served the nation and made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our enduring freedoms.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, Mesa, AZ, Non-Profit, Social Software

Wed May 23, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Healthcare Business Recap: GlaxoSmithKline Shakes on Human Genome,...

GlaxoSmithKline shares move lower Wednesday as the firm modifies the terms of its $2.6 billion tender offer for Human Genome , which require that its quarry redeem or invalidate its poison pill.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Human Genome Sciences, Healthcare Industry, GlaxoSmithKline, Social Solutions, Express Scripts

Benzinga

New Drug Application for Regorafenib for the Treatment of Metastatic...

Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Bayer HealthCare has submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval for the oral multi-kinase inhibitor regorafenib for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer .

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Related Topix: Startups, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Bayer HealthCare, Chemicals, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Oncology, Medicine

Mon May 21, 2012

New York Daily News

More countries look to profit from medical tourism

A South Korean woman passes by a cluster of medical posters during a medical tourism expo in Seoul.

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Related Topix: South Korea, World News, Travel, Thailand, Laos Travel, Laos Travel

AME Info

Healthcare needs to adopt and adapt to changing technological ecosystem says Siksek

HE Engineer Zaid Daoud Al Siksek, CEO, Health Authority - Abu Dhabi welcomed up to 600 delegates to the HIMSS Middle East Conference 2012 event by emphasising the irrefutably vital role technology plays in modern healthcare.

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Related Topix: eHealth

Sun May 20, 2012

The Miami Herald

SmartCamp shines light on healthcare innovation

The admittedly partisan crowd of startups, investors, executives and academics who attended IBM SmartCamp last week thinks it's possible.

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Related Topix: Florida International University, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Medicine

Sat May 19, 2012

PR-inside.com

Welch Allyn Will Showcase High-Performance Solutions Designed to...

Welch Allyn : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. , a leading global provider of medical diagnostic devices headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY, will showcase its latest generation of connected solutions designed to address the needs of new medical practices at booth 111 this week at the Healthcare Information and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Skaneateles Falls, NY

Fri May 18, 2012

PR-inside.com

Psychologists, Social Workers & Marriage Counselors in the US -...

The trend toward greater awareness and de-stigmatization of mental health problems and treatments will continue.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Science

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