September 9th, 2010 
JMB 
DRIVE4COPD, announced that it has added the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) – to its ranks. The AARC joins DRIVE4COPD, the Official Health Initiative of NASCAR®, and fellow partnering organizations the American Lung Association, COPD Foundation and founding sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in a combined effort to increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Tags: AARC, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, Danica Patrick, DRIVE4COPD, Inc. 
No Comments » September 8th, 2010 JMB Emerson Ecologics Provides Healthcare Professionals and their Patients with a Pace-Setting Program for Finding Quality Supplement Not all supplements are created equally but Emerson Ecologics, the largest provider of dietary supplements and services to healthcare professionals, is taking aggressive steps to make it more clear to healthcare professionals and their patients which manufacturers to trust [...]
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Cardiovascular/Pulmonary, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Home Care, Lab, Long Term Care, Mental Health, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Ortho/Rehab, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory, Women's Health Tags: dietary supplements, Emerson Ecologics No Comments » August 30th, 2010 JMB 68 Representatives and 24 Senators Also Communicate Their Concerns AOTA submitted comments challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2011 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule. AOTA’s comments particularly addressed the proposed Multiple Payment Procedure Reduction (MPPR), which AOTA opposes; the proposals for alternatives to the Medicare Part B cap; the Physician Quality [...]
August 26th, 2010 JMB 
The mold that spread like a rash across post-Katrina New Orleans did more than destroy homes – it made children with asthma sick. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, experts point to increased sensitivities to environmental asthma triggers as a risk for more severe asthma symptoms and attacks in hundreds of New Orleans children.
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Associations & Groups, Cardiovascular/Pulmonary, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Featured, Lab, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Tags: Asthma, Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, CMHDRE, HEAL Program, Hurrican Katrina, MCAN, Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Mold, New Orleans, Xavier University No Comments » August 25th, 2010 JMB Philips Respironics introduces the Trilogy200 portable life-support ventilator. Trilogy200 provides both invasive and noninvasive ventilation with added sensitivity for a wide range of adult and pediatric patients (> 5kg) in the home and in alternative care settings. Using a new single-limb circuit and proximal flow sensor, Trilogy200 offers improved triggering and leak compensation that allows [...]
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Cardiovascular/Pulmonary, Community Health, Emergency/Urgent Care, Family/General Practice, Home Care, Long Term Care, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pediatrics, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Tags: Philips Respironics, Portable Life-Support Ventilator, Trilogy200 No Comments » August 24th, 2010 JMB 
Breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow and the Pink Lotus Breast Center announced the grand opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center, a state of the art breast imaging center featuring the latest advancements in digital screening and diagnostic imaging technologies.
August 19th, 2010 JMB The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) announced that Dana Richter will serve as its new Director of Government Relations. Richter comes to NBCC from Representative Frank LoBiondo’s (R-NJ-02) staff where she was senior legislative assistant with responsibility for healthcare and environmental/energy issues. Before that, she was Director of Policy Research for the Arthritis Foundation where [...]
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Associations & Groups, Colleagues, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Home Care, Lab, Long Term Care, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, Radiology, Women's Health Tags: Advocacy, Dana Richter, Healthcare Reform, National Breast Cancer Coalition, NBCC No Comments » August 16th, 2010 JMB 
Decades after the last polio epidemic in the United States, people who had long since recovered from the disease are feeling its effects again. The August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource provides an overview of post-polio syndrome, its causes and treatment options.
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Featured, Home Care, Lab, Long Term Care, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Ortho/Rehab, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Radiology, Women's Health Tags: Polio. post-polio syndrome No Comments » August 12th, 2010 JMB Innovative Solutions to Support Nonprofit Organization Missions BestHomeHealthCare.com has launched its exclusive CaringCreditsTM Program to help advance the mission of nonprofit organizations and serve more individuals in their communities. The CaringCredits program is a FREE service that supports nonprofits by increasing awareness for their cause; virally spreading links to their donation page across the Internet to [...]
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Read the NEWS-Line August Feature Issues online. Click “Full Article” to continue reading about the Feature subject. Click “eMag” to read the entire publication.
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Colleagues, Emergency/Urgent Care, Featured, Home Care, Long Term Care, Mental Health, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Ortho/Rehab, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant Tags: Diann Goodman, June Halper, Katie Battern, Michele Evink, Rosamaria Karetsky, Todd Troy No Comments »
