Endocrine Society Participates in White House Forum on Health Reform
At the invitation of the White House, Endocrine Society President Robert M. Carey attended the White House Regional Forum on Health Reform in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 31st. Nancy Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office for Health Reform...
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Society Works with Coalition to Secure Senate Sponsor for DXA Bill
As previously reported in Endocrine Insider, The Endocrine Society has been working for almost two years with a coalition of sister societies toward a legislative and regulatory solution to the Medicare payment cuts for DXA services performed in physicians’ offices...
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Society Urges Mississippi Governor to Support Coverage for Bariatric Surgery
Last week, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour signed House Bill 1530 which adds a new health coverage benefit to state and school employee health plans. The bill provides for the treatment and management of obesity and related conditions through various methods...
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Society Issues Statement on NICE-SUGAR Study
The Endocrine Society issued a statement on the findings of the Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation – Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation (NICE-SUGAR) study released last week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
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More ARRA Funding Opportunities Announced
On March 20, 2009 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new program entitled Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” or “GO” grants program. The program is one of many initiatives related to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009...
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