A leading British primary care physician says the time has come for the public to take responsibility for seeking prescription antibiotics for trivial maladies. "The change needs to come in patient expectation. We need public education: ...
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Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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Almost 4-in-10 U.S. adults did not see a doctor when sick or failed to fill prescriptions due to cost, compared to 5 percent in other nations, researchers say. An 11-country survey by The Commonwealth Fund also found about 2-of-5 U.S. ...
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Men taking testosterone had a 29 percent greater risk of death, heart attack and stroke compared with a "real world" population of men, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. Michael Ho, a cardiologist with the VA's Eastern Colorado Health ...
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Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS), a not-for-profit health system, has signed an agreement to implement PeriGen's PeriCALM fetal surveillance system in its seven metro and regional birthing hospitals in northwest Missouri and northeast ...
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WellStar Health System is set to install Capsule Tech's DataCaptor software across its five-hospital system in Marietta, Georgia, US. Initially focusing on the surgical settings, the DataCaptor will capture the physiological data directly ...
Sustainable transportation involves the development of economic, environmental and social aspects. It is the broad subject related to the transport that includes vehicles, infrastructures, railways, roads, pipelines and other transport ...
Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
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Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
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Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a multi-institutional health care system, has selected Epiphany's Cardio Server as an enterprise-wide ECG management system for its 13 hospitals. Hospital Sisters Health System CIO Kevin Groskreutz ...
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China has culled all poultry at Huhuai produce market in Songjiang district of Shanghai in order to limit a bird flu outbreak caused by a new strain of H7N9 virus. The culling was carried out after authorities from the China's Ministry of ...
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Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville in Florida, US, has acquired Mazor Robotics' Renaissance surgical guidance system to perform the first minimally-invasive spinal surgery. Baptist Medical is a community hospital and the central hub of ...
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The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health ...
Under pressure from federal regulators to implement electronic health systems, healthcare providers are struggling to find and keep a technology staff in what is the fastest growing IT sector in the U.S. A Healthcare Information and ...
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TherOx has started an investigational device exemption (IDE) pilot study of its new supersaturated oxygen (SSO2) therapy device, designed to salvage damaged cardiac muscle in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The TherOx ...
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