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Protesters Disrupt Democrats' Best-Laid Plans For Health Reform 'Conversations'
Over the weekend, a series of protests at Democratic events meant to promote health reform "organized by loose-knit coalition of conservative voters and advocacy groups, were a raucous start to what is expected to be weeks of political and ideological clashes over the health care overhaul," the New York Times reports. "Republicans said that the protests were just the beginning of spontaneous opposition to the health care proposals and that they would only gain momentum as Americans learn more about the legislation." But Democrats said they were only an effort to block discourse, and were anything but a grass-roots campaign. "This is a very coordinated effort," said one Democratic Congressman who was confronted by protestors at a grocery store (Herszenhorn and Stolberg, 8/3).

Jet-Propelled Imaging For An Ultrafast Light
John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. It"s a particularly apt propensity for someone who works with x-rays, since they can"t be focused with ordinary lenses.
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Helping Mentally Ill People Find Jobs Could Save Federal Government $368 Million A Year
A national program to help mentally ill people on Social Security disability programs find jobs could spur greater independence while saving the federal government $368 million annually, according to a study by Robert Drake of Dartmouth Medical School and colleagues in the May-June 2009 issue of Health Affairs.
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Possible Government Rethink On NHS Private Finance Initiative Welcomed By UNITE, UK

A possible government rethink into the "flawed and expensive" private financing of NHS hospitals has been welcomed by Unite, the largest union in the country. Unite, which is campaigning strongly against the privatisation of the NHS, was commenting on an interview by health minister, Lord Darzi in which he said the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) "needs to be looked at." Lord Darzi told BMA News: "That model of funding may have been the right model but I have no doubt that the Department (of Health) will be appraising whether that it is still the model for the future or whether there are other, better models." "Quality is a moving target and PFIs have been very successful and might be in the future but it needs to be looked at." Unite National Officer for Health, Karen Reay said: "At long last, the government is beginning to realise that PFI is a flawed and expensive exercise that continues to consume billions of pounds in costly contracts for the enormous profit of private companies. This is money that could be better spent on frontline services for patients and clients." "Lord Darzi comments are to be welcomed - there is a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. However, when he talks about "better models for the future", we hope he means that the PFI experiment is abandoned, and not that the whole sorry process should be accelerated. We shall be seeking clarification from government on this point." Karen Reay welcomed the results of a BMA News survey which revealed that more than 90% of doctors were worried about the future of their local health services if they were left to market forces. She said: "This shows that right across the health service from GPs to health visitors to ambulance staff there is a broad coalition of health professionals opposed to the creeping tide of marketisation of the NHS." The Patchwork Privatisation of Our Health Service - a special report can be downloaded from http://www.unitetheunion.com/health and then clicking on Unite Health Sector web page: http://www.unitetheunion.com/health. Unite The Union


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