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March 19, 2010
UroToday.com – The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy. When the standard of care in microsurgery gradually migrated to the use of an operating microscope over standard visual loop magnification, there was a great deal of argument in terms of increased cost…
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March 19, 2010
UroToday.com – The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy. When the standard of care in microsurgery gradually migrated to the use of an operating microscope over standard visual loop magnification, there was a great deal of argument in terms of increased cost…
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March 19, 2010
UroToday.com – The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy. When the standard of care in microsurgery gradually migrated to the use of an operating microscope over standard visual loop magnification, there was a great deal of argument in terms of increased cost…
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March 19, 2010
The health insurance company WellPoint delivered on only about one-fifth of a $30-million pledge to help the uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It was not the first time the nation’s largest insurer cast itself as an agent of change. In 2007, just as Democrats took control of Congress, WellPoint pledged that its charitable foundation would spend $30 million over three years as part of a “comprehensive plan to help address the growing ranks of the uninsured.” Yet, tax filings from 2007 to 2009 show the firms charitable foundation only gave $6.2 million for that cause…
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March 19, 2010
The health insurance company WellPoint delivered on only about one-fifth of a $30-million pledge to help the uninsured, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It was not the first time the nation’s largest insurer cast itself as an agent of change. In 2007, just as Democrats took control of Congress, WellPoint pledged that its charitable foundation would spend $30 million over three years as part of a “comprehensive plan to help address the growing ranks of the uninsured.” Yet, tax filings from 2007 to 2009 show the firms charitable foundation only gave $6.2 million for that cause…
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March 19, 2010
A report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured, looks at the rise in the level of uninsured middle-class people in the last eight years. USA Today reports on the most significant national statistics affecting middle-class families earning between $45,000 to $85,000 annually. “Between 2000 and 2008, more than 2 million middle-class people became uninsured. Their ranks rose to 12.9 million of the estimated 46.3 million Americans without health insurance…
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March 19, 2010
A court case has revealed that the insurer Fortis, now called Assurant Health, automatically targeted customers diagnosed with HIV for fraud investigations geared toward finding reasons to revoke their coverage, Reuters reports. After a computer algorithm initiated the investigations, “their insurance policies often were canceled on erroneous information, the flimsiest of evidence, or for no good reason at all, according to the court documents and interviews with state and federal investigators…
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March 19, 2010
Agriculture ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean came together Tuesday to discuss strategies aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty by 2025, Xinhua/People’s Daily Online reports. “The ministers debated common strategies to fight hunger and poverty, though the situation in each country was different,” the news service writes (3/17). Thirteen countries were represented at the meeting, which was coordinated by Mercosur, the Andean Community and Caricom, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. Representatives from the U.N…
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