Appreciating the valuable contributions dental assistants make to the dental profession is what Dental Assistants Recognition Week is all about.
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San Diego--The Pacific Partnership 2010, which currently includes the USNS Mercy hospital ship, is seeking dental and other health care volunteers to join its humanitarian effort to Southeast Asia this summer to help out in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia an...

Tempe, Ariz.--Later this month, a two-day orientation and kickoff here will mark the next phase in development for the ADA's Community Dental Health Coordinator project.

Washington--The U.S. House of Representatives Feb. 24 overwhelmingly passed ADA-backed legislation to repeal the 65-year federal antitrust exemption for health insurers. The 406-19 vote gives new life to legislation to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act exe...

Educating new members of the dental team was the focus of a Jan. 27-28 forum that brought 22 representatives of the ADA and American Dental Education Association to ADA Headquarters.
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Washington--A report issued Feb. 23 by the Pew Center on the States gives 35 states and the District of Columbia a C, D or F grade for their lack of government policies that help ensure dental health and access to care for children, but stresses that stra...

Jonesboro, Ark.--The way Dr. Benjamin Burris sees it, "With the right motivation and a little bit of luck we can have an impact on the political process, even a nobody from nowhere Arkansas who just happened to be in the right place at the right time."

Energy Star, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy program designed to promote energy efficient products and practices, recently awarded Whirlpool Corp. with its 2009 Sustained Excellence Award. The award recognizes Whirlpool for...

The deadline for submitting notification to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of any 2009 breaches of unsecured protected health information is March 1.

Washington--The Association will pursue "an aggressive lobbying strategy" for ERISA reform and noncovered services legislation, the Council on Government Affairs said in a report on its Jan. 22â€"23, 2010 meeting in the nation's capital.
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