Massachusetts' innovative use of "pay-for-performance" bonuses to try to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the case of Medicaid patients has turned up no evidence of the problem at any of the state's 66 acute-care hospitals, according to a new study that raises questions about the effectiveness of the state's novel approach. While the study, published in the June edition of Health Affairs (June 9, 2011), found that racial and ethnic inequities for disadvantaged patients may well exist, it also determined that the hospital "pay-for-performance" approach – typically ...

Contact: Preeti Singh psingh@burnesscommunications.com 301-280-5722 Meningitis Vaccine Project Dramatic fall in cases of meningitis A in 3 west African nations after new vaccine introduction New immunization campaigns to protect millions more in 2011; $375 million funding shortfall hindering wider rollout; new analysis projects enormous cost benefit over next decade from adopting new vaccine over existing ones This press release is available in French. Ferney-Voltaire, France, June 9, 2011—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger report the lowest number of confirmed meningitis ...

DALLAS – June 9, 2011 – A gene linked to emphysema also can be a factor for developing lung cancer unrelated to cigarette smoking, UT Southwestern Medical Center research indicates. Smoking was the only known risk factor previously associated with both diseases. In the study, mice bred to have the human gene pleiomorphic adenoma gene-like 2 (PLAGL2) all developed emphysema, and by gender also developed lung cancer at rates as high as one in every six rodents. Although the new study showed PLAGL2 as a contributing factor in emphysema and lung cancer development, the diseases ...

Proclaim best recover deleted files tool to retrieve your precious data back in just few minutes. Our all foremost data recovery products are updated to new version and developed with highly data recovery technology. If you lost your precious data and you need to search best data recovery software to recover your valuable data ¨C So don¡¯t need to be worry because we are here to help you any kind of data loss dilemma. Namosofts Data Recovery for Windows is the unique data recovery utility to recover & restore your significant files/folders from windows hard drive. ...

After damage from the Feb. 22 earthquake the two florists combined to continue providing beautiful fresh flowers with same day delivery Flowers on Cashmere has announced that it has combined with Flowers on Holmwood to continue providing customers with the same convenient service they expect. Because of damage to the shop from the Feb. 22 earthquake the two florists came together in order to continuing putting customers first. Flowers on Cashmere will continue with its commitment to provide the best flowers Christchurch wide. They provide top quality flowers at an ...

A "hot" topic in space exploration circles these days is transient activity, which is one of 12 topics discussed in the May special issue on the subject of Solar System Radar & Radio Science of Proceedings of the IEEE, the world's most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science since 1913. The paper entitled "A Prototype Radio Transient Survey Instrument for Piggyback Deep Space Network Tracking" defines NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) as a tool for making radio transient observations. The authors discuss ...

The EZ Tomato Cage brand, is pleased to announce the launch of its new tomato cage the EZ Tomato Cage or ¡§EZ TC¡¨ for short. This new and innovative design for a tomato cage can be demonstrated in a short product video found on the company¡¦s website http://www.eztomatocage.com/ You may also find this informational video and additional information on tomato gardening at the company¡¦s YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEZTC. This new tomato cage design will aid gardeners in producing a tomato crop with increased yields of 40% - 50% and help tomato gardeners ...

Underscoring its profound performance and notable proficiency in cardiovascular complications treatment, cardiologists NYC has since observed with a degree of surprise that many resident in the city of New York have fell short of their personal obligations in taking care of their hearts. Motivated by a genuine concern, cardiologist NYC has categorically noted that the external conditions and environment in New York City in addition to the pressure associated with its vibrancy can and indeed has been a common trigger of heart failure and cardiovascular complications. Furthermore, ...

topseos.com, an independent authority on search vendors has named the Top 10 Web Development Firms for the month of June 2011. As the importance of having a good website increases, so does the importance of web development. Web development is about tying together all the different functions of a website to have one coherent portal. All the best web developers recognized next to hundreds of other web development services have gone through an evaluation system facilitated by a qualified and experienced team of researchers. "A good web development company is one that ...

It starts off innocently enough: your child gets some Instant Messenger notices from someone she doesn't know. She may even see her photos tagged or some rather cute but puzzling messages left on her Facebook mail box. While things may start off rather harmless, your kid's online safety may be on the line. The person sending her messages might not be who he claims to be. The person your kid is exchanging "cute" emails with might have a criminal past—of harming children. Sounds extreme? Not a chance. As Facebook and Twitter's subscriber base explode, more and ...

Biodiesel consulting group, Lee Enterprises of Little Rock, Arkansas is pleased to announce its management of Diesels, LLC, a newly activated company designed to assist biodiesel producers and purchasers in buying and selling biodiesel. Wayne Lee, principal owner of Lee Enterprises Consulting, says his company is very pleased to have been selected to manage what he calls "a revolutionary step in the biodiesel industry." "Diesels, LLC was formed by four individuals with lots of experience in the biodiesel industry," says Lee. Two of them own the engineering ...

Burbank based AlphaDogs Post is pleased to announce the completion of Two Spirits, a documentary that will air nationally on PBS as part of the Independent Lens Series in June of 2011. Produced by filmmakers, Lydia Nibley and Russell Martin, the film asks the question "Why are people killed for being who they are?" as the film examines the life of Fred Martinez, one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history who lost his life at the age of 16 in Cortez, Colorado. AlphaDogs Post was responsible for conforming two versions of the docufilm, DVD authoring ...

ExtraHop Networks, a leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced support for decryption and analysis of 2048-bit secure sockets layer (SSL)-encrypted application data. The new functionality eliminates the growing blind spot in organizations' security and application monitoring capabilities caused by the increased use of SSL encryption. Insight into this encrypted data is particularly important as the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently advised that SSL certificates use 2048-bit RSA ...

Miratel Solutions (Miratel) are a leading provider of fundraising services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. Since its inception in 2000, the company has successfully completed more than 40 million donor interactions via phone, web, fax and mail representing over $1.3 billion in gross fundraising revenue. Miratel's client base includes some of Canada's largest and most reputable nonprofit organizations who rely on Miratel to provide expert telephone fundraising, lottery management, online fundraising, donation processing and other donor program management ...

Hot off the heels of the ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) 2011 Conference, Train by Cell has launched a new Mobile Content Platform. This web-based system transforms training courses and content into a sleek mobile website in under an hour. Audio, video, photos, and PDFs quickly become short form content accessible to employees anywhere, anytime, through their mobile device. With thousands in attendance, ASTD President & CEO Tony Bingham kicked off ASTD 2011 by highlighting mLearning as a viable means of training content delivery. During the ...

It's the cry heard around the country every day: "There just isn't enough time to get everything done!" Service Center to the rescue! BookKeeping Express' (BKE) innovative back office solution, which has proven to put business owners and management in position to grow their businesses, is giving back the greatest resource of all - their time. With business owners spending up to 40 percent of their time on office paperwork (U.S. Small Business Association), BKE's Service Center serves an intense need. "As a business owner, your day-to-day can become ...

Stacy Williams, President of Atlanta search engine optimization company Prominent Placement, Inc. (PPI), has been named President-Elect of SEMPO Atlanta. SEMPO Atlanta is the local chapter of Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). The group hosts several events throughout the year for professionals interested in Search Marketing, SEO, PPC and other Internet marketing-related topics. Stacy, an Atlanta SEO expert and charter member of SEMPO International, is a founding board member of SEMPO Atlanta and has been actively involved in the local chapter ...

WilliamsStaffing, the nation's leading provider of real estate sales and leasing professionals and premium training programs, announces its expansion into Texas with the opening of offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The Houston office opened in August 2010 while expansion into the other cities coincides with the hiring of Keith Rodgers, CGA, CSP, CGP as Vice President. Full immersion in Texas is a strategic move for JWilliamsStaffing and a testament to the success and growth of the company over the past 8 years. It also confirms the confidence the company ...

The welding industry continues to suffer a shortage of acetylene due to the accidental explosion back in March at Carbide Industries, LLC in Louisville, Kentucky. Because Carbide Industries is the nation's largest supplier of calcium carbide, the raw material used in the generation of acetylene gas, many companies have converted to HGX Fuel Gas. Baker's Gas and Welding Supplies, Inc. has assisted companies in the conversion process and is continuing to offer free consultations and demonstrations to make the conversion as simple as possible. Customers interested in finding ...

For a chilled weekend away from the hurly-burly, exploring another coastline with old friends and new, it's essential to pen the dates of the Gibraltar-Morocco Rally into the diary - Friday 24 to Monday 27 June. Dubbed 'the world's most sociable yacht rally' and now in its 11th year, the event departs from Ocean Village marina and offers a chance for non-racing sailors and motorboaters to get together on the water and cruise in company. From the first Rally in 2004 when a petite throng of just nine boats sailed the Strait to Morocco, the event has grown significantly ...

HubShout LLC is a national search engine marketing firm that specializes in services for agencies that outsource SEO. The HubShout dashboard, a search engine marketing technology portal, is the foundation of HubShout's private label SEO reseller service. The newly designed dashboard will be available to all HubShout SEO resellers and direct clients on June 10. HubShout is particularly proud that the new dashboard was developed with input from members of their SEO reseller program. HubShout's SEO resellers had requested that their logo be more prominently displayed on ...

Medix Staffing Solutions, Inc., a national staffing organization specialized in recruiting skilled personnel for clients in the Professional Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare and Information Technology industries, hosted its annual National Sales Conference last month in Lombard, Ill. The goal of the conference was to unite Medix's sales force from the company's 11 offices across the country to learn invaluable lessons on teamwork, sales strategies and methodologies. Sixty one Medix employees gathered at the company's corporate headquarters for a three-day summit ...

Michigan software company Datura LLC proudly announces it has received US Patent No. 7,953,755, "Semantic relational database", for the breakthrough technology used in its Equal Format Database line of products and services. It was invented at Datura by Dean Keith, Dennis Keith, and Sarah Moss Keith. A semantic-relational database is different because it stores any data as sentences. This differs from a traditional database design by eliminating custom records and structures. Future changes will not need special accommodations. Because sentences are stored ...

Who: When late entertainer Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962, he was not just changing the lives of children who would walk through its doors—he was changing lives across the world. When St. Jude completed its $1 billion, five-year expansion in 2005, it bolstered the hospital's efforts to find cures for the catastrophic diseases of childhood. The growth more than doubled the size of the hospital's original campus. The expansion included the Children's GMP, LLC—the nation's only pediatric research center on-site facility for ...

As the Albuquerque City Council prepares to vote this evening on the future of the city's critical traffic safety camera program, the Traffic Safety Coalition is outlining 10 reasons why the program should stay: 1. Albuquerque cameras are reducing crashes and saving lives: Following safety camera installation, the Albuquerque Fire Department reported a 23 percent reduction in Level 1 trauma calls at intersections with safety cameras (City of Albuquerque, 2011). 2. Speeding and red light running will likely increase in Albuquerque if cameras are removed. Red light ...