Advocacy Sponsors Three Academic Seminars on Entrepreneurship at the American
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The new service, Physician 's Briefing (http://www.

Dr. William Baumol Receives Advocacy Award for Contributions to Entrepreneurship Research

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com),
provides up-to-the-minute daily news articles on the latest research in
medical journals, presentations at medical conferences and government
initiatives that affect the way physicians and other health professionals
practice medicine.
"No one was organizing it for them," McKillen said, "Doctors don't know
where to start and where to stop with all the journal articles and research
papers. A veteran of more than 15
years in scientific and medical journalism, Tamkins has written and/or edited
for publications as diverse as American Health magazine, The Scientist, and
Audubon Magazine. These sessions featured Dr. The sessions highlighted the importance of the academic
study of entrepreneurship and its contribution to the economy and society.

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The news
service is also syndicated through the New York Times Syndicate. For more
information, visit http://www.

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HealthDay's parent company, ScoutNews, LLC is a privately held information
firm, headquartered in Norwalk, Conn . William Baumol, distinguished
economist and pioneer in entrepreneurship studies, has received the Office of
Advocacy Special Small Business Research Award.

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Baumol's achievements and insights, Advocacy
sponsored three academic seminars on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth
at the AEA annual meeting.

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Physicians Briefing will be
licensed to hospitals, managed care organizations, physician portals,
professional journals, and pharmaceutical Internet, Intranet and Extranet
sites as a way to encourage frequent visits by physicians.

In addition to the daily news, the Physician 's Briefing service provides
monthly journal and medical conference summaries for busy physicians who may
not have time to read the news each day.
Baumol's research and insights have added much to our knowledge of how
entrepreneurs do what they do, and why they do it."
Dr.

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Advanstar serves business professionals and consumers in these industries
with its portfolio of 81 events, 58 publications and directories, 125
electronic publications and Web sites, as well as educational and direct
marketing products and services. Baumol's previous honors and awards include ten honorary degrees,
presidency of the American Economic Association, the Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists, the Eastern Economic Association, and
the Atlantic Economic Society, and membership in the National Academy of
Sciences.sba.

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an independent voice for small business within the federal government.

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McKillen said HealthDay's Physician 's Briefing sorts the latest
information into 20 medical specialties, and sends updates twice daily ,
providing a minimum of 15 articles a day."
Theresa Tamkins, former executive editor of Reuters Health Information,
serves as managing editor of Physician's Briefing.S.

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Physician's Briefing also provides coverage of
more than 50 medical conferences and scientific sessions annually and tracks
alerts and institutional updates from government agencies such as the National
Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

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William Baumol is a giant in the world of entrepreneurship studies,"
said Dr.

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Among the medical news service's first clients is Medical Economics, a
twice-monthly magazine owned by Advanstar Communications in Montvale, N.
"The addition of Physician's Briefing updates represents a departure from
our non-clinical mission, but it fulfills perfectly our mission to help our
readers maximize their time," said Medical Economics Editor-in -Chief Marianne
Dekker Matera.
The Office of Advocacy, the "small business watchdog" of the government,
examines the role and status of small business in the economy and
independently represents the views of small business to federal agencies,
Congress, and the President.

The Office of Advocacy of the U.

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More than 150 journals are reviewed across 20
different medical specialties .sba.gov/advo, or call (202) 205-6533.

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A HealthDay study on the information market for physicians found that
health professionals were forced to wade through a large amount of material
from various sources to get what they wanted, said HealthDay president Dan
McKillen . "The HealthDay items will alert them to key clinical issues
they may want to investigate further . The
presidentially appointed Chief Counsel for Advocacy advances the views,
concerns, and interests of small business before Congress, the White House,
federal agencies, federal courts, and state policy makers.

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, A medical news service specifically
designed to serve the needs of the busy health professional was launched today
by HealthDay, whose daily consumer health news articles appear on thousands of
Internet sites and in newspapers around the world. They simply don't have the time to sift through all the material.
Founded in 1923, the magazine lists a circulation of more than 175,000 health
professionals .
For more information, visit the Office of Advocacy website at
http://www.

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Designed to feature the latest research into entrepreneurship, the
sessions covered a variety of topics with papers presented and discussed by
the participants.

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Physician's Briefing provides timely and concise summaries from peer-
reviewed medical journals. The award, given at the
annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA), is in recognition
of a lifetime of research into entrepreneurship issues. It is the source for small business statistics
presented in user-friendly formats and it funds research into small business
issues.

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Medical Economics will be featuring Physician's Briefing items in every issue. "Dr. Baumol as well as
other distinguished entrepreneurship scholars from Stanford, Columbia, MIT,
the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the University of Chicago, Harvard , NYU,
the Office of Advocacy, the World Bank, and other renowned institutions.

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About HealthDay
In addition to the Physician's Briefing, HealthDay provides a daily
consumer health news service that appears on more than 2,000 hospital and
health care Web sites, major Internet sites such as Yahoo!, MSN, iVillage and
through major news companies like Cox Communications and Gannett Inc. The company has roughly 1,000 employees and
currently operates from multiple offices in North America and Europe. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist for the Office of Advocacy. He is Professor of Economics at New York University, and Professor
Emeritus and Senior Research Economist at Princeton University as well as the
author of numerous books and over 500 articles published in professional
journals .

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Physician's Briefing does that for them.
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