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$75 Million to Sterilize Pets With A Non Surgical Procedure - $10 Million to Build a Better Health Care System in the US

These are a couple posts from last month. What is interesting is the difference of the dollar amounts here, $65 million more for a procedure for cats and dogs. Any money and donations of course are appreciated, but could the good doctor being...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 6:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Grants, R and D, sterilization, X-Pr5ize, healthcare for pets

$75 Million Prize for a way to sterilize pets – a one-time non-surgical means to sterilize male and female cats and dogs

It was just yesterday I posted about the Healthcare X-Prize for 10 million and this sure over shadows that amount by a long shot, and this might be a less complicated issue as it has only one point of focus and everyone would win. Nice comments...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 12:00 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Dogs, Science, Biology, Grants, sterilization, surgeon, cats, pharmacology

NIH Suspends Emory Grant Amid Questions Over Pharma Payments

Congressional investigation suspends grant. NIH grants are becoming more difficult to obtain, read the related link below for additional information, no 2nd tries, all at once. If the program is suspended we might just all be visiting facilities...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 2:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Grants, NIH, Congress Pharma

Cancer Groups Look for Common Ground As Competition for Research Funds Heats Up

This is a touchy subject as you don’t want to diminish any funds that are coming in, yet some type of umbrella where perhaps all are connected may not be a bad idea. As mentioned too, the groups are able to help gain research funds to innovators...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 1:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, Grants, R and D, American Cancer Society, Cancer Society, Advocacy

National Institute of Health Director Elias Zerhouni to Step Down

He also did recognize the effect of current budget cuts are having on the progression of R and D, as anyone who applies for and receives grants these days knows the bar has been raised and it is a bit more difficult to secure them, as a result many are...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 10:08 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Grants, Budgets, R and D, NIH, National Institue of Health

California Healthcare Foundation - Grants available to adopt HL7 Lab standards...

If you are a non profit hospital or healthcare association, well worth looking at as this can help pave the way to interoperability with electronic medical records. BD The California Healthcare Foundation in Oakland will offer grants to providers...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:42 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Health IT, HL7, Grants, Hosptial, Interoperability

Kaiser and Stanford get $3.89M to study heart disease with linked medical records - California

If you belong to Kaiser in northern California, Stanford Medical will now be able to see your medical records for the purpose of studying heart disease. It doesn't say if the records will be anonimized or not. Stanford will have access...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 6:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Heart Disease, Grants, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford University

Microsoft Launches New Online Resource for Nonprofit Groups

NGO = NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS All non profit folks who may be reading this post, this is worth looking at! Hospitals, fund raising groups, you name it. Are you looking for Grant Information, look here. There are software and...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 2:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Health IT, Hospitals, Grants, Nonprofits, software, NGO, Hardware

Albertsons Health and Nutrition Grants Available

Potential opportunity for tax exempt nonprofit organizations to apply for grants. Grants are available in the Health and Nutrition area as well as hunger relief and other areas of education. If you are a nonprofit, it’s worth taking a look...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 12:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Health Care, Grants, Nutrition, Nonprofits, Albertsons

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