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 relaying a message here? His announcement...
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on 11-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Grants, R and D, sterilization, X-Pr5ize, healthcare for pets
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 too on his healthcare foundation which has funded...
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on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Dogs, Science, Biology, Grants, sterilization, surgeon, cats, pharmacology
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 already equipped with one of these for the...
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 that may not otherwise be able to get a traditional...
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on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Cancer, Grants, R and D, American Cancer Society, Cancer Society, Advocacy
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 looking to investors outside the NIH for funding...
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on 09-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Grants, Budgets, R and D, NIH, National Institue of Health
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 in the state to implement the new EHR-Lab Interoperability...
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 to 3.3 million records to study what is working and...
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on 08-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Heart Disease, Grants, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford University