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Campaign Overcomes Anti-Abortion Challenge to Preserve Federal Funding When the National Institutes of Health ruled that stem cell research could be legally funded last year to explore its potential for curing a long list of… Continued

The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) is sounding an alarm about the bleak financial outlook of the state’s hospitals – most ended 1998 in the red. This represents a pivotal springboard opportunity for hospitals there… Continued

Depression – not HIV – is the most pressing health concern for gay men and women, according to a GayHealth.com survey. The survey concludes that the depression experienced by gays is often attributable to the… Continued

While the healthcare industry is uncertain about how it should handle medication errors, the public is clear on what it favors – mandatory reporting with limited or no immunity for those committing the errors, according… Continued

Consumers hold in high regard the recommendations hospitals and physicians give to health Web sites and use them as online seals of approval. The survey, by LaurusHealth.com, confirms that healthcare consumers are more apt to… Continued

CHICAGO – While there is ample recognition that healthcare Web sites are often no more than electronic billboards, healthcare marketers are paralyzed by limited resources to take their organizations’ sites to the next more interactive… Continued

The information in Media Moves is provided by the health research department of Press Access, which provides contact informaton for more than 1,000 journalists at more than 1,000 consumer and business publications. Internal Moves American… Continued

A. Magazine/ Aonline.com 677 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10022 Asian Americans are one of the most underserved minority communities where targeted healthcare information is concerned. What further complicates this situation is the… Continued

April 29-May 2 National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare’s Building Communities That Care conference. Arlington, Va. 800/233-1234. May 4-5 Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development’s 2000 Strategic Planning Workshop: Healthcare in the 21st Century:… Continued

Earlier this month, Prospect Associates and The American Institutes for Research partnered to strengthen both organizations’ ability to provide behavioral and social science research and science-based health information. (Prospect Associates, Ann Horton, 301/592-8600, ext. 2308;… Continued