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 ...
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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 ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Sisters Have Lung Transplants at the Same Time Two sisters who needed lung transplants and insisted that the other should be first ...
Tags: NHTSA, Myers-Santana, Methodist Hospital, Public Citizen
Patient centered medical homes (PCMHs) have been found to be an effective way to help care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Dr. Robert Gabbay, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin ...
A UCLA team has developed an easy-to-use "risk calculator" that helps predict heart failure patients' chances of survival for up to five years and assists doctors in determining whether more or less aggressive treatment is appropriate. ...
Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
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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 ...
New research finds significantly higher levels of infectious pathogens in water from faucet taps with aerators compared to water from deeper in the plumbing system. Contaminated water poses an increased risk for infection in ...
There is much value in training hospital and nursing home staff in the basics of palliative care to make the last days of a dying patient's life as comfortable and dignified as possible. So says F. Amos Bailey of the Birmingham Veterans ...
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 ...
Not prescribing opioids first or as a long-term therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain and avoiding MRIs, CTs and X-rays for low-back pain are among the tests and treatments identified by ASA that are commonly ordered but not always ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The use of glass as a building material has a positive effect on various processes such as learning, healing, performance and well-being of people - such a conclusion is based on a joint study of Guardian Industries, a leading manufacturer ...
BC Technical, a leading non-OEM medical imaging solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected by HealthTrust as a provider for refurbished medical imaging equipment for the 1,400 acute care facilities that are part of the ...
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