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Booz Allen announces CMS, NIH contracts

By Melanie Evans | October 03, 2012 | Basic Web

Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton announced four federal contracts signed in the past two months.
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NIH awards $11 million for clinical studies program

By Rich Daly | September 26, 2012

The National Institutes of Health awarded about $11.3 million to seven health systems and a coordinating center to undertake and better understand large clinical studies.
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Study divides breast cancer into four distinct types

By New York Times | September 24, 2012

In findings that are fundamentally reshaping the scientific understanding of breast cancer, researchers have identified four genetically distinct types of the cancer. And within those types, they found hallmark genetic changes that are driving many cancers.
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Doing the math | Groups say the debt-ceiling law's $11.1 billion hit to Medicare would lead to mass layoffs in healthcare

By Jessica Zigmond | September 15, 2012 | Print Magazine

The White House finally put a number on how much needs to be cut from Medicare as part of the debt-ceiling law, and healthcare groups put a number on how much it would cost them—in jobs.
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Jobs tool, NIH research site up for HHS 'People's Choice' award

By Maureen McKinney | September 10, 2012 | Basic Web

HHS is enlisting the public's help to choose one of the latest winners of its HHSinnovates program, which recognizes innovative ideas pitched by HHS employees.
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Outliers: NFL helps NIH tackle research

By Modern Healthcare | September 08, 2012 | Print Magazine

The NFL and the NIH are two acronyms that you'll rarely find in the same sentence.
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Blog: NIH scores $30 million donation from NFL

By Jessica Zigmond | September 07, 2012

The NFL and the NIH are two acronyms that you’ll rarely find in the same sentence let alone in the same huddle.
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Govt. gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6

By Associated Press | August 22, 2012

Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital.
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Ripple effect | Research office seen as turning point in ER care

By Paul Barr | August 04, 2012 | Print Magazine

A seemingly small move by the National Institutes of Health—creating an Office of Emergency Care Research—could have a big effect on the quality of care throughout a hospital and also within a physician's office.
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New approach needed on disaster preparedness, report says

By Paul Barr | August 01, 2012 | Basic Web

The U.S. needs to alter its approach to preparing for disasters and hazards by focusing more on building resilience and less on shorter-term, reactive fixes, according to a report from the National Academies.
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