News For: Wa State Medical InsuranceMore Money for Medical College Senator Bob Casey along with the state's senior senator, Arlen Specter, delivered more government money to a project Monday in Scranton. Casey and arlen Specter promised $1 million for the new Commonwealth Medical College that's being developed. North Carolina Insurance Investigator's Autopsy Inconclusive An autopsy says the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator that was found in South Carolina in May was so badly decomposed that medical examiners can't determine how she died. The autopsy Obama criticizes McCain on health insurance regulation Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama Ill. over the weekend criticized Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain Ariz. for an article that McCain wrote about the health insurance market in an "obscure journal," the Washington Post reports. Obama Ad Attacks McCain On Health Insurance RTTNews - Health insurance is the focus of the latest ad from Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, who accuses Republican rival John McCain of working to deregulate the health insurance marketplace. Medical machines idle MULTIMILLION-dollar medical scanning machines have been sitting idle in the Flinders Medical Centre basement and a freight shed at Adelaide Airport for at least three months. Day cares to close at 3 state nursing homes Day-care centers at three state nursing homes for veterans, including the Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, will close Sept. 19 as the result of budget cuts. The day-care centers tend to children of employees at the veterans centers in Wilmore, Hazard and Hanson, near Madisonville in Western Kentucky. The day-care cuts will not affect medical care to veterans at the centers. ... Medical tourism may be a temporary boom It seems like a fairly straightforward question: Would an uninsured patient rather pay $130,000 for a heart bypass in the United States or pay about $10,000 for the same procedure in India, where the entire medical staff has been trained in the U.S. and the hospital meets standards set by the Joint Commission International? Calypso Medical and Siemens Announce Innovative Product Development Collaboration Agreement Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. Calypso Medical and Siemens Healthcare today announced a product collaboration agreement that will begin to integrate Calypso Medical's real-time tumor tracking data with Siemens' linear accelerator products. The first application to be addressed under this agreement will include adaptive gating, the capability of automatically interrupting the radiation beam ... Calypso Medical and The University of Pennsylvania Health System Announce Collaboration for Proton Therapy Calypso Medical today announced that it has received a $1 million grant from The University of Pennsylvania Health System to develop a compatible version of the CalypsoR 4D Localization System that would enable real-time tumor tracking during proton therapy for cancer treatment. This funding will go toward developing a modified version of the Calypso System, utilizing GPS for the BodyR ... Medical debt plagues Mass. residents Medical debt continues to be a problem for lower- and middle-income residents of Massachusetts, even though hundreds of thousands of state residents now have health insurance under the landmark health reform law, according to a new report from research group The Access Project. |


