|
Diversified Employee Benefit Services, LLC |
 |
|
|
|
Meet S.A. HC+B Magazine |
 |
Welcome! to San Antonio's first healthcare and bioscience online community.
|
| Sign-up today to start receiving
The HCB Newsletter! |
 | |
|
| Welcome!
To The HCB Newsletter, feeder publication to the San Antonio Healthcare & Bioscience Magazine and website.
In this week's news read about Dr. Cigarroa departing UTHSCSA; OncoVista to present to the Rodman & Renshaw Healthcare Conference; Racial disparities increasing for cancers study; Hospital medicine groups aligning their business models, and the Alamo turns blue!
These are just some of the latest news and updates available this week through The HCB Newsletter. For more industry news and archived stories, log onto www.hcbmagazine.com for the full stories and more or click on the stories attached.
Make sure your friends and collegues are receiving the latest news and updates on healthcare business impacting our community found on the San Antonio Healthcare & Bioscience website by forwarding them The HCB Newsletter today.
Enjoy!
Melba Romero
Publisher/Editor
S.A. Healthcare & Bioscience Magazine |
| Cigarroa To Leave UT Health Science Center San Antonio Presidency After 2009 Legislative Session |
 UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX - November 11, 2008Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., recently announced his intention to step down as president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in September 2009 after appointment of a successor. Dr. Cigarroa, 50, was appointed eight years ago by the UT System Board of Regents. He became the first Hispanic chief executive of a comprehensive health sciences university in the continental United States, and has continued to practice his medical specialty of transplant surgery part time during his tenure as president. Full Story. |
|
OncoVista Innovative Therapies, Inc. to Present at Rodman & Renshaw Healthcare Conference |
 OncoVista Innovative Therapies, Inc., San Antonio, TX - November 4, 2008OncoVista Innovative Therapies Inc. (OTC BB: OVIT.OB), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of targeted cancer therapies and diagnostics, announced today that Alexander L. Weis, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer, will present a company overview and update at the Rodman & Renshaw 10th Annual Healthcare Conference in New York City. Full Story. |
| Society Study Finds Racial Disparities Increasing for Cancers Unrelated to Smoking |
 American Cancer Society - November 6, 2008A new American Cancer Society study finds that recent progress in closing the gap in overall cancer mortality between African Americans and whites may be due primarily to smoking-related cancers, and that cancer mortality differences related to screening and treatment may still be increasing. The study, appearing in the November issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, is the first to analyze racial and ethnic differences between the two broad categories of disease. Full Story. |
| Hospital Medicine Groups Must Align Business Models |
 The Hospitalist Company, by Adam Singer - November 11, 2008A recently released annual survey conducted by the Society of Hospital Medicine confirms that the business model adopted by hospital medicine groups fall into two roughly equal camps: those that are employed by hospitals and those that function as private practice groups. Full Story. |
| The Alamo to Turn Blue in Support of Ending Diabetes |
 San Antonio, TX - November 11, 2008 The Alamo will join the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Sydney Opera House and some 200 other landmarks across the world in going "blue" for the 2nd Annual United Nations' World Diabetes Day on Friday, November 14 at 5:30 p.m. Remarks at Alamo Plaza will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by lighting of the Alamo. Full Story. |
|
|
|
|
