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Nursing Shortage Eases With Recession's Help
"The nation"s deep recession is helping to alleviate the decade-long nursing shortage, as workers who had left the field in better times are returning in droves," the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper quotes a study, one of six papers on the nursing workforce published today in the journal Health Affairs, that found "nearly a quarter-million nurses entered the work force in 2007-08, an 18% surge that was the largest two-year increase in at least three decades." Many of them had left nursing, but "re-entered the work force to compensate for a spouse"s lost income or health benefits, the study said." The increase is "particularly remarkable at a time when the U.S. economy has shed more than six million jobs, helping to solidify the profession"s "recession-proof" image." The study found that the surge in new nurses is due to "efforts to expand nursing schools, attract more young people into the field and improve working conditions," along with an increase in the number of foreign-born nurses.

LDR Announces FDA Clearance Of The ROI-C™ Cervical Cage
LDR, a total spine solution company, announced that it has begun to market its ROI-C™ cervical cage following 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The ROI-C cage, when used with the company"s integrated VerteBRIDGE™ plating technology, offers a zero profile, stand-alone construct for fusion in the cervical spine. ROI-C addresses the growing interest within the market for stand-alone cervical fusion technology that reduces the need for thick cervical plates that may contribute to dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing.
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Stanford's Kuldev Singh, MD Elected To Chair The Glaucoma Research Foundation

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Service at the Stanford University School of Medicine, was elected to Chair the Board of the Glaucoma Research Foundation at the Board of Directors Annual Meeting held April 29. The Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) is America"s oldest national institution dedicated solely to preventing vision loss from glaucoma. Dr. Singh received his MD and MPH degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has received Senior Achievement and Secretariat awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Franklin G. Ebaugh Award from Stanford University where he has served on the faculty since 1992. Dr. Singh also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Glaucoma Society and is Executive Vice President of the World Glaucoma Association. Dr. Singh joined the GRF Board of Directors in April 2007. He is Chairman of the Patient Education Committee and the GRF Council, a national leadership group of glaucoma specialists. Effective July 1, 2009, Dr. Singh will succeed Ms. Deirdre Porter of the San Francisco firm Wentworth, Hauser, and Violich, Inc. who has served the past three years as Board Chair for the Foundation. "Kuldev has already brought many inventive ideas to GRF during his time serving on the Board of Directors, and we look forward to the leadership that his broad knowledge and experience in the field of glaucoma will bring to the Foundation," said Thomas M. Brunner, GRF President and CEO. The Glaucoma Research Foundation


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