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NCCNHR is an Atlantic grantee. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NCCNHR (formerly the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform) announced today the launch of a major strategic planning process which will help strengthen the organization's role as a voice for individuals receiving long-term care.…

Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…

Rory O'Sullivan of the Young Invincibles contributed this piece to the Huffington Post which examined young people's increasing support of the Affordable Care Act and how it has helped over 2.5 million young Americans get health insurance since its passing. Young Invincibles is currently embarking…

The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up.  Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…

The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) was launched in November 2006 to study a representative cohort of at least 8,000 people, aged 50 and over and resident in Ireland, charting their health, social and economic circumstances over a 10-year period. Minister for Health and…

NUI Galway is an Atlantic grantee. by LORNA SIGGINS Western Correspondent MORE THAN 3,000 Irish teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 are caring for parents or relatives, according to recent Census figures. However, new research commissioned from NUI Galway (NUIG) by the Minister of State…

  Arthritis Ireland is funding three new academic chairs in rheumatology in Irish universities, costing €7 million, in a drive to boost research, education and clinical services for patients. WHEN IT comes to providing services for people with arthritis, Ireland finds itself sorely lacking, according…

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 14 Feb 2008 By Rachel Melcer Bob Calcaterra proudly presided over the Tuesday night graduation of three companies from the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a biotech business incubator he has run since its inception. It wasn't the first such ceremony in…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="650"] The goal of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building: Always Be Curing Cancer.[/caption] Atlantic invested heavily in UCSF’s Mission Bay campus—providing $290 million in grants—which helped realize many of the buildings on the site. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300"] Camella…

Original Source News AnalysisBy ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — With solid majorities in both houses of Congress, Democrats are tempted to use their political muscle to speed passage of health care legislation with minimal concessions to the Republican minority. That approach may be the only way…