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NRCNRC announces New Jersey as possible Agreement State RegulatoryMDS Nordion Provides Update on AECL’s Medical Isotope Supply Disruption MDS Nordion Opens New Radiopharmaceutical Production Facility in Belgium MedicareVirtual Colonoscopy Gets Final Verdict: No Medicare Coverage A SUMMARY OF THE 2009 ANNUAL REPORTS Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees FDAAlternative Standard #6, New Software Upgrades by Fuji and Hologic Updates Regarding Inspection-Related FFDM QC Procedures Digital Mammography Use Reaches the 50% Milestone President’s FY 2010 Budget for FDA Invests Substantially in Food and Medical Product Safety Health reformMedPAC: Self-Referrers’ Increased Imaging Has No Long-Term Savings General Joint Commission Online: May 2009 HHS Announces Members of Committees That Will Advise on Implementation of Health IT FY 2010 President’s Budget for HHS Funding Opportunities
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NRCNRC announces New Jersey as possible Agreement StateThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a request from New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine to assume part of the NRC’s regulatory authority over certain nuclear materials in the state. If the request is accepted, New Jersey will become the 37th state to sign such an agreement with the NRC... [see full article] RegulatoryMDS Nordion Provides Update on AECL’s Medical Isotope Supply DisruptionMDS Nordion, a leading provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals, has received information from its primary supplier, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), regarding an interruption in the supply of medical isotopes, primarily molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) used in the manufacturing of technetium-99m generators... [see full article] MDS Nordion Opens New Radiopharmaceutical Production Facility in BelgiumOTTAWA and FLEURUS, Belgium, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals used in molecular medicine, today announced the opening of a facility in Fleurus, Belgium for the production of Glucotrace (Fluorodeoxyglucose), a radiopharmaceutical used in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging... [see full article] MedicareSecretary Sebelius Announces Appointment of Cindy Mann as Director of the Center for Medicaid and State OperationsU. S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the appointment of Cindy Mann to serve as Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)... [see full article] Virtual Colonoscopy Gets Final Verdict: No Medicare CoverageCMS announced Tuesday (May 12) that Medicare will not cover CT colonoscopy (CTC) despite months of uphill lobbying focused on the agency, Congress and newspapers across the country... [see full article] Decision Memo for Screening Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC) for Colorectal Cancer (CAG-00396N)The evidence is inadequate to conclude that CT colonography is an appropriate colorectal cancer screening test under §1861(pp)(1) of the Social Security Act. CT colonography for colorectal cancer screening remains noncovered... [see full article] A SUMMARY OF THE 2009 ANNUAL REPORTS Social Security and Medicare Boards of TrusteesEach year the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report on the current and projected financial status of the two programs. This message summarizes our 2009 Annual Reports... [see full article] FDAPresident’s FY 2010 Budget for FDA Invests Substantially in Food and Medical Product SafetyThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a budget of $3.2 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget – a 19 percent increase over the current FDA fiscal year budget... [see full article] Health reformMedPAC: Self-Referrers’ Increased Imaging Has No Long-Term SavingsCongress' Medicare payment commission has found that physician self-referral of diagnostic imaging leads to increased use of imaging in an episode, which in turn has not led to downstream savings but instead has resulted in higher overall episode costs -- a break from earlier studies... [see full article] General Secretary Sebelius Announces Appointment of Cindy Mann as Director of the Center for Medicaid and State OperationsU. S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the appointment of Cindy Mann to serve as Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations (CMSO), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Mann most recently served as a research professor and executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute... [see full article] Joint Commission Online: May 2009Joint Commission Online will consolidate all Joint Commission enterprise news... [see full article] HHS Announces Members of Committees That Will Advise on Implementation of Health ITThe Department of Health and Human Services today announced the appointment of three members to the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee as well as members of the HIT Standards Committee. The two new federal advisory committees were established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009... [see full article] FY 2010 President’s Budget for HHSThe Health and Human Services (HHS) FY 2010 Budget supports the Department's mission to enhance the health and well-being of Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services... [see full article] |
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