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SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AAPC (www.aapc.com), the leader in credentialing the business side of medicine, will host its 21(st) annual health care business conference in Orlando, FL on April 14-17 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. Health care professionals nationwide will have the opportunity to learn and discuss the hottest industry trends in medical coding, billing, auditing, compliance, and practice management. The 2013 National Conference will also mark...

Decision Allows for Broader Access to Vaccine for the Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease in Adults KIRKLAND, QC, Nov. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - Pfizer Canada announced today that the World Health Organization (WHO) has granted an expansion to the prequalification of Pfizer's pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Prevnar 13, to include immunization of adults 50 years of age and older against pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the 13 pneumococcal serotypes (1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14,...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DebMed(®), creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization's (WHO's) "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene," will feature the DebMed® GMS(TM) (Group Monitoring System) at the upcoming Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) 24(th) Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, December 9-12, in Orlando, FL. The conference is being held at the Marriott...

SYDNEY, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that Magellan Asset Management has selected its award?winning order management system, the Eze OMS(TM), to streamline their investment management processes. Magellan Financial Group is a specialist funds management business based in Sydney, Australia. Magellan manages global equities and global listed infrastructure strategies for institutional investors and high-net-worth and retail...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced the launch of an advanced Outage Management System (OMS) that will use new "smart grid" technology to speed up the detection of power outages and help utility personnel restore electricity to customers faster than ever before. With this achievement, SDG&E stands as one of the first utilities in the nation to adopt an outage management system of this magnitude and sophistication for...

But researchers, reporting at ASTMH annual meeting, also cite barriers to complete elimination from a surge of cases in Nigeria to intensifying vaccine refusals in Pakistan Polio cases worldwide reached historic lows in 2012, and for the first time there were no new outbreaks beyond countries already harboring the disease, leaving researchers confident that a massive and re-energized international campaign to eradicate polio is on a path to success, according to presentations today at the...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AAPC (www.aapc.com), the leader in credentialing the business side of medicine, will kick off ICD-10 code set training at the 2013 April national conference in Orlando, FL, followed by 7 independent regional conferences scheduled through 2014. The conferences combine both general and specialty training and offer several supplementary ICD-10 sessions to fulfill the specific needs of all practice sizes. The training schedule allows...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TO: ALL FORMER SHAREHOLDERS OF BIOFORM MEDICAL, INC. WHO (A) TENDERED THEIR SHARES OF BIOFORM MEDICAL INC. COMMON STOCK TO MERZ GMBH & CO. KGAA PURSUANT TO THE CASH TENDER OFFER DATED JANUARY 15, 2010, OR (B) DID NOT TENDER THEIR SHARES OF BIOFORM MEDICAL INC. COMMON STOCK TO MERZ GMBH & CO. KGAA BUT WHOSE BIOFORM SHARES WERE NONETHELESS CONVERTED INTO A RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME CASH TENDER OFFER PRICE, BY OPERATION OF DELAWARE'S...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DebMed®, creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, today announced that Cooley Dickinson Hospital has become the first in the New England region to implement the DebMed(® )GMS(TM) electronic hand hygiene monitoring system. Located in Northampton, Mass., the 140-bed community hospital is a recognized leader in...

LONDON, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abrunhosa Calls on Government Leaders to Join Farmers and 'Step Back from the WHO Abyss' To mark the first-ever World Tobacco Growers' Day (#WTGD [http://www.twitter.com/tobaccogrowers ]) today, tobacco farmers across the globe are taking part in dozens of events to highlight the disastrous impact World Health Organisation proposals will have on their livelihoods if passed by parties...