A new assessment tool published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine can help hospital medicine groups across the country improve their patient care and make their operations more effective. Published as "The Key Principles and ...
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Clarissa Niese has been featured in the Wall Street Journal for her creative approaches to marketing to women. Tire Discounters Inc. has named Clarissa Niese to the newly created position of chief marketing officer, executive vice ...
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There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to the huge influx of soldiers returning from war zones with brain injuries, athletes with sports-related head injuries, and the growing population with age-related ...
Today's headlines include progress reports on health exchanges in Washington state and New York as well as poll results on Virginia's Medicaid Expansion. Kaiser Health News: Insuring Your Health: Advocates Worry That Drug Company ...
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LHC Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), a national provider of home health, hospice and comprehensive post-acute healthcare services, announced today that it has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement with BioScrip®, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOS) to ...
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Clinicians and patients should use shared decision-making to select individualized treatments based on the new guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease, according to a commentary by three Mayo Clinic physicians published in this week's ...
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Children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease may benefit from early treatment with the biologic drugs known as anti-TNF-α agents, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological ...
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The president told the Fox anchor that he regrets his earlier comments that people who like their insurance would be able to keep it. Politico: Pre-Super Bowl, Obama Sparks With Bill O'Reilly President Barack Obama faced questions ...
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Getting tested and treated for the flu and strep throat became much easier today in Omaha. It's now as convenient as a trip to the grocery store. Hy-Vee, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of ...
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House Republicans are considering linking their support for raising the national debt to a repeal of the health law's risk corridors, which helps mitigate risk for insurers. In other news, lawmakers continue to weigh proposals to change how ...
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News outlets detail how patients still don't completely understand the benefits that are now available to them. Los Angeles Times: Medi-Cal Seen As Relief For Some, Confusing Burden For Others Supporters of national health care reform ...
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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that the randomized Phase 2 trial [PALOMA-1] of palbociclib achieved its primary endpoint by demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival ...
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Adoption of new guidelines recommending screening mammography every two years for women ages 50 to 74 would result in breast cancer screening that is equally effective, while saving the United States $4.3 billion a year in health care ...
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New research findings may soon help doctors personalize preterm birth prevention treatments by identifying which women at higher risk for preterm birth will be helped by progesterone injections. Injections of one type of progesterone, a ...
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In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at 3:15 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting-, in New Orleans, researchers will report on a correlation between initial neonatal and early ...
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