The website Wikipedia is the single leading source of medical information for U.S. patients and healthcare professionals, an information services company says. A report by IMS Health, a global information and technology services company, ...
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In the meantime, Medicare is trying to crack down on habitual overcharging by some doctors. The Washington Post: Doctors Cut From Medicare Advantage Networks Struggle With What To Tell Patients Thousands of primary-care doctors and ...
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The Washington Post: Making Progress On Inequality Intense as it is, the current debate over rising income inequality is hardly new. ... The good news is that there's more good news than one might expect. ... In addition to avoiding ...
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A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is ...
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Carestream plans to showcase a raft of innovation designed to help radiology professionals improve patient care, workflow and costs at The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. The work-in-progress updates include new ...
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BD Launches the PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of the CE-marked PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe. The ...
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Elsevier, world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of open access journal, Pathogenesis. Pathogenesis will be published on behalf of The Royal College of ...
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Infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery and may expect to live beyond 15 years post-surgery with reasonable cardiac function and quality of life, according to a study released ...
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Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative ...
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UK-based MPE, a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and Tempest filters and feed-through capacitors, has appointed Electrade as its distributor covering the whole of Germany for both ...
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A so-called implantable insulin delivery device could one day free people with type 1 diabetes from the need for multiple daily injections, scientists say. "Diabetes is a difficult-to-treat condition, and yet keeping in very good balance ...
Drugs.com, the leading online clinical drug resource, and TrialReach are partnering to provide patients with information and access to treatments that are still under development. Announced today at Rock Health, this new partnership will ...
Battery specialist, Accutronics, has launched a new range of pre-qualified and pre-tested batteries for applications such as medical equipment and industrial electronics. Customisable VR420 batteries are manufactured by Accutronics in the ...
More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
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Natus Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ: BABY) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013, the Company reported revenue of $90.6 million, ...
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