Letter from Tommy Thompson

Evaluation Results for the ESRD

Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)

Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3] et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3], a frozen embryo [4] adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [5] published by the National Institutes for Health were unla...

Thomson, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)

Thomson [4], et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell re...

Nurses’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Preferences

It is estimated that by the year 2005, the majority of healthcare facilities will have implemented some type of electronic health records (EHR) and electronic documentation systems. In 2003, Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), asked two prestigious organizations, the Institute of Medicine and Health Level 7 (HL7), to form a national task force to ...

Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2015

This paper describes entries to the third Playable Experiences track to be held at the AIIDE conference. We discuss the five entries accepted to the track for 2015, as well as the ongoing development of the track as part