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How African American Men Decide Whether Or Not To Get Prostate Cancer Screening
UroToday.com - Prostate Cancer Screening among African Americans. Our manuscript that was published in Cancer Nursing, revealed an important topic in how African American men decided whether or not to get a prostate cancer screening. This is particularly important currently due to the controversy of prostate cancer screening.

Roche And Google.org Start Initiative For Early Discovery Of New Diseases
Roche and Google.org recently started a joint project to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a multidisciplinary surveillance, research and response system. This system will enhance the ability to predict and prevent emerging infectious diseases in East Africa. Roche has donated a Genome Sequencer FLX system as backbone of this project."We are proud to work with Google.org, and the dedicated research organizations in Kenya to bring this technology to a region of the world where novel viruses frequently emerge. We are confident that access to the 454 Sequencing Systems will improve monitoring of novel infectious diseases and enable faster discovery in case of an outbreak," said Chris McLeod, CEO of 454 Life Sciences, a member of the Roche Group.
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Rep. Wolf Says Entitlement Programs Could Affect U.S. Bond Rating
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) on Friday in a letter to President Obama said that the U.S. could lose its triple-A bond rating if Congress does not act quickly to overhaul U.S. entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, and reduce federal debt, the AP/Detroit News reports.Several lawmakers in Congress over the past two years have introduced bills to create a bipartisan task force to address the growing costs and potential insolvency of entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. Wolf is a co-author of one such bill (HR 1557). A federal report issued earlier this month found that the trust fund Medicare uses to pay for beneficiaries" hospital care will be insolvent by 2017, two years earlier than previously predicted.According to the legislation, the task force would be responsible for developing a "grand bargain" package of recommendations to Congress on tax increases and benefits related to the entitlement programs. However, the task force has been opposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), several top congressional committee leaders and White House aides who said that other priorities, such as a health care system overhaul, need to be addressed first.Wolf said, "The fact that the leadership has been opposed to it has been a problem," adding, "There"s an economic tsunami off the coast and it"s ready to wipe us out." David Walker, president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, said that currently the potential for the task force is not good but that it should improve as the economy recovers and Congress can offer more attention to the plan (Raum, AP/Detroit News, 5/24). Opinion Pieces
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Informa Healthcare Journals To Unite On One Platform - Pharmaceutical Science And Medicine Journals Create Robust Information Service For Customers

Informa Healthcare - one of the world"s leading medical and scientific publishers- has announced that its peer-reviewed medical titles will be joining the company"s pharmaceutical science titles to form one, united platform for drug discovery and clinical medicine on http://www.Informahealthcare.com. The combination of medicine and pharmaceutical science titles simplifies the customer experience in one new, easy to use, robust platform that will deliver online content and archive material from more than 170 journals. All of the journals will utilize the online content management and delivery system provided by Atypon Systems, Inc. - a platform provider for over 70 information providers including JSTOR, New England Journal of Medicine and the American Chemical Society. The new platform offers the option of online trials, advanced searching, alerting, and single article purchases. In addition, the Atypon system enables Informa Healthcare to integrate the online content of over 170 journals with a comprehensive archive service, giving pharmaceutical and healthcare professionals one central, high-quality of information spanning the fields of medicine and pharmaceutical science. The beta site on the new platform is scheduled for release in summer 2009 and the complete transition will continue through to the end of this calendar year. "Our flexible technical architecture allows us to deploy functionally rich web sites tailored to the needs of particular information sectors. We are delighted to have delivered a cost-effective solution that addresses the specific needs of clinical medicine, pharmaceutical and allied markets for Informa Healthcare," says Chris Beckett, Vice President of Sales and Marketing - Atypon Systems. "We are excited to be able to offer this one-stop-shop hosting platform for our customers," said Phil Garner, Publishing Director at Informa Healthcare. "This new platform means that healthcare, academic and corporate professionals will have one central, high-quality of information spanning the drug discovery and clinical medicine fields from bench to bedside - including a comprehensive and easy-to-use archive service dating back to 1921." Informa Healthcare is encouraging customer feedback throughout the transition process. Subscribers will have a chance to send feedback and post questions about the beta site, and Informa is doing everything possible to make the transition as seamless and easy as possible. There will be a dual-hosting period with the informaworld platform, which currently hosts the content, through 2009 allowing for a gradual migration and the site will provide reports and statistics to help subscribers analyze usage. "This new improved service provides users with outstanding navigation and functionality and is all about bringing together quality information and addressing the needs of our readers with the touch of a button," explained Phil. "Until now, users had to duplicate their searches across the different platforms or miss out on coverage in their interest area because it was published elsewhere. Now, readers will be pointed from one article towards other articles of interest within the http://www.Informahealthcare.com site. Informa Healthcare


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