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		<title>Weekend Rounds: What do we want? Healthcare&#8230; and jobs. Now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the top stories at MedCity News this week:
• &#8220;What do we want?&#8221; &#8220;Healthcare.&#8221; &#8220;When do we want it?&#8221; &#8220;Now!&#8221; The  Strongsville, Ohio, crowd warming up for a speech by President  Barack Obama on Monday knew what it wanted. Healthcare. So did dozens of  protesters who lined Royalton Road [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/weekend-rounds-what-do-we-want-healthcare-and-jobs-now/</link>
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		<title>Best of the MedCitizens: Reform reform reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens, syndication partners and MedCity News readers who also contribute to MedCityNews.com. The MedCitizens are sponsored by MyPRGenie, the only Do-It-Yourself, PR platform and newswire that gives you access to over 540,000 journalist contacts.
Now, here&#8217;s the best of what YOU had to say.

Health care reform: This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/best-of-the-medcitizens-reform-reform-and-more-reform/</link>
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		<title>FDA panel approves Medtronic MRI-friendly pacemaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A special panel of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration has unanimously recommended the agency approve a MRI-friendly pacemaker developed by Medtronic Inc., a company spokesperson has confirmed.
The panel voted 15-0 to green light the company&#8217;s REVO Surescan pacemaker. The decision is not binding but the agency almost always follows the panel&#8217;s recommendation.
Spokesman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/fda-panel-approves-medtronic-mri-friendly-pacemaker/</link>
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		<title>President Obama: Save the geeks</title>
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I think  President Obama needs to present a state of the sciences in the union  address. Yes, of course, I’m biased in this subject, but times are  desperate. I work in a university hospital and train physicians and  scientists at the cutting edge of technology. What we do is discover new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/president-obama-save-the-geeks/</link>
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		<title>Stryker CEO rebuffed pay raise in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stryker Corp. (NYSE:SYK) CEO Stephen MacMillan&#8217;s salary held firm at  $1.2 million during 2009, as profits at the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based  orthopedic device giant slipped by 3.5 percent.
MacMillan volunteered to forego the pay raise to compensate for the  &#8220;challenging business environment&#8221; Stryker encountered during the year.  Despite the slippage, Stryker still posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/stryker-ceo-rebuffed-pay-raise-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Michael Roizen adds iVillage Health to media outlet roster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can add newly launched iVillage Health to the roster of media outlets for the Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s chief wellness officer, Dr. Michael Roizen.
Roizen is a New York Times best-selling co-author of several &#8220;YOU&#8221; books, television talk  show regular and one of the media&#8217;s go-to authorities on wellness. He leads the Clinic&#8217;s Wellness Institute, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/dr-michael-roizen-adds-ivillage-health-to-media-outlet-roster/</link>
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		<title>Lake Health opens osteoporosis clinics in Concord, Willoughby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofit community health provider Lake Health plans to open new osteoporosis clinics in Painesville and Willoughby.
The clinics will offer evaluation, education, screening and treatments in the areas of nutrition, exercise, smoking  cessation and medication with a focus on preventing and managing osteoporosis, according to a statement from Lake Health.
The new clinics will be located [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/lake-health-opens-osteoporosis-clinics-in-concord-willoughby/</link>
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		<title>Watered-down angel tax credit</title>
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Passing an angel investment tax credit in Minnesota is not important just for the dollar amount but to signal to investors in the Midwest, and indeed the rest of the country, that our state is a serious place to do business; that we are ready to embrace (finally) a commonly accepted way to spur investment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/watered-down-angel-tax-credit/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota bill would help long-term care facilities navigate state bureaucracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A summary of the latest developments in health care-related legislation in Minnesota:
Five senators, including Sen. Julie Rosen, introduced a bill that would establish a &#8220;long-term care liaison office&#8221; in the Department of Health. The office would help guide nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in their dealings with state agencies on matters such as licensing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/minnesota-proposal-would-help-long-term-care-facilities-navigate-state-bureaucracy/</link>
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		<title>Clinical trials excluding gays, lesbians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent story from CBC news has uncovered that in the US, clinical  trials are being done from which potential participants who identify as  gay or lesbian are being excluded. This trend was uncovered by a  biostatistician who was gathering data on enrollment into cancer studies  and found that, in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/03/clinical-trials-excluding-gays-lesbians/</link>
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