Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has been awarded $38.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). BIDMC scientists received a total of 69 grants across all medical-center departments, including surgery, neurology, pathology and a wide swath of divisions within [...]

Children’s Hospital Boston, with the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, has been awarded a Grand Opportunity grant from the National Institute of Mental Health as part of the federal stimulus package, to pursue “whole-genome” sequencing of patients with autism, using new technologies for rapid DNA sequencing to better understand autism’s causes. The roughly $4.5 [...]

The California Medical Association warned today that time is running out for the state to restore Medi-Cal eligibility rules allowing it to qualify for more than $10 billion in federal health care funding.

The California Healthcare Institute (CHI) lauded President Barack Obama’s Executive Order to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund research using embryonic stem cells. The NIH was previously able to fund research only on a very limited number of stem cell lines.

The following statement was released by Bruce T. Roberts, Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) in response to President Barack Obama’s Address to Congress: