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Exclusive Breastfeeding Increases Child's Risk For Vitamin D Deficiency; Black, Darker-Skinned Children Already Have Increased Risk
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0700
Exclusive breastfeeding can increase a child's risk of developing rickets because breast milk alone does not provide adequate levels of vitamin D, a critical ingredient that helps to absorb calcium and build strong bones, the New York Times reports. Rickets develops when a child's vitamin D levels are too low and is characterized by the curving of a child's legs and the softening of other bones.
Human Rights Should Be Focus Of Efforts To Fight HIV/AIDS Worldwide, Editorial Says
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0700
The U.S. should shift its policy on fighting HIV/AIDS to a "fight for basic human equality, providing a basis for more realistic outreach," a Daytona Beach News Journal editorial says. According to the editorial, HIV/AIDS is "reclaiming a foothold" around the world among younger populations "who don't want to admit they may be vulnerable" or think of the virus "as something treatable.
WHO Commission Says Equity Is The New Agenda
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0700
A new report from the World Health Organization suggests that the reason most people in the world do not enjoy the good health that their bodies potentially offer from a biological perspective is due to a "toxic combination of policies, economics, and politics" and if this is to change, the world must unite to put equity at the centre of the agenda for human health and development.

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IDEA Consulting Group LLC - Provides healthcare decision support and general financial consulting using a variety of PC based products; site includes consulting, seminars and training, and products.

IIIrd Millennium - Provides technology solutions, outsourcing, professional staffing services, and international business development; places nurses in hospitals, nursing homes, home care facilities, and clinics.

Image Management Consultants - Provides assistance in planning, integration, and development of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for the medical marketplace.

Incare Services - Provide support services to care providers to improve performance and ensure regulatory compliance.
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Ingenix Online - Offers publications, online resources, and consulting services on coding, physician documentation, billing compliance, and reimbursement issues for physicians and health care professionals. Contains newsletters, online data, audioconferences, software, and links to related resources.
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Innovara - Provides strategic consulting and management development, assessment, and training for health care and related industries. Services include benchmarking best practices, results-oriented marketing, and launching new products.

Innovative Consulting Solutions Inc. - Provides quality assurance, regulatory affairs and clinical trials assistance to the pharmaceutical, herbal, medical device, healthcare and cosmetics industries.

Innovative Medical Services - Highwood, Illinois company specializing in the development of outpatient wound treatment programs.
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Innovative Resource Group - Provides healthcare management and consulting services, including employee assistance and behavioral health programs.
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Insight Strategy Advisors - Offers commercial development consulting and market research for the pharmaceutical, life science, and healthcare industries; services include product development strategies and life-cycle management.
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Integranet Management Services, Inc. - Credentials verification services for healthcare delivery systems.
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Integrated Healthcare Information Services - Develops integrated, Web-based information solutions to assist healthcare organizations improve clinical, operational and financial performance.
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Integrity Care Consultants - Provides health care solutions for providers, investors and developers specializing in senior services and products, palliative care, living options for the disabled, and rehabilitation support.
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Intensive Consults - Provides comprehensive consultative services regarding pulmonary and critical care medicine.

International Health Resources - Serves hospitals, medical centers, physicians, managed care organizations, insurance companies, government institutes and private healthcare corperations and provides planning and project management services. Located in North San Juan, CA.

International Hospital Benchmarking Forum - Provides benchmarked comparisons of procedural outcomes and cost structures of specified clinical processes.
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International Medical Cluster - Association of Austrian companies providing health care solutions, offering services including strategic consulting, planning, construction, equipment and training.

International SOS - Singapore-based firm assists corporations in assessing healthcare risks, designing medical programs, conducting medical audits, staff training and disaster planning. Largest number of world-wide locations concentrated in Asia.

InTouch Life Sciences - Develops collaborative relationships between technology buyers (within pharmaceutical, device, and diagnostic companies) and potential technology suppliers.
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Iowa Academy of Family Physicians - Facts about information by the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians.
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Izzo Consulting - Offers training and consulting to technology, financial service, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and education organizations; services focus on leadership development, staff motivation, and employee retention.