INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Each year, about half of U.S. adults age 65 and older who are hospitalized must have family assist in medical decision-making, researchers say. Dr. Alexia Torke, an associate professor of medicine at Indiana ...
Tags: Hosital Senior, JAMA, medical dicision
On 22 January 2014 the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) published the results of a literature search for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the treatment of people with asthma. The aim of the ...
A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll was released today on the views of Latinos in America about their health and health care, communities, financial situation, and discrimination in their lives. The ...
A selection of health policy stories from New York, California, Washington and Georgia. The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal: Medicaid Waiver Called Essential For NY Hospitals New York's health commissioner says the state has been ...
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) today reported sales and net earnings for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 28, 2013. Fourth quarter highlights: Net sales increased by approximately 6 percent on a constant-currency basis ...
Tags: CRM, AF, Neuromodulation, St.Jude Medical
A selection of health policy stories from Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota. Providence Journal: Chafee's $43-Million Cut In Medicaid Program Touches Many Sectors Of Health Care ...
A new long-range wireless tag detection system, with potential applications in health care, environmental protection and goods tracking, can pinpoint items with near 100 per cent accuracy over a much wider range than current systems. The ...
Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics
A new community program is helping African-American women embrace good health by enabling treatment of substance abuse and mental health problems that increase their risk of HIV infection or spreading the virus. SHE PREVAILS, which is ...
Virginia Mason announced today it has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the fourth consecutive year from Healthgrades, an online resource for comprehensive information about U.S. physicians and ...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and FSMB Foundation are collaborating with several partners to provide state medical boards with resources to educate health care professionals on the safe and responsible prescribing of ...
The New York Times: Health Care Reform Survives A Lawsuit A long-shot lawsuit that could have damaged the effectiveness of health care reform got a well-deserved brushoff from a federal district judge on Wednesday. The suit was brought ...
Tags: New York Times, Alemtuzumab, Maternity Leave, FDA
Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Molly Berkowitz, R.N., Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator, recently received the "Outstanding Emergency Medical Services Educator Award" at the annual New Jersey statewide conference on Emergency ...
Could a doctor's white coat or necktie help spread germs among patients? The jury's still out on that question. But one of the world's leading infection control organizations is raising that possibility under just-released germ control ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, White Coat
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
H.I.G. Capital, LLC ("H.I.G."), a leading global private equity investment firm with more than $13 billion of equity capital under management, announced today that it has completed the sale of its portfolio company MagnaCare Holdings, Inc. ...
Tags: H.I.G., MagnaCare Holdings, EBITDA, successful investment