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Chinese Tourists Among Injured in New Zealand Bus Crash

Dec 31, 2015

At least 16 tourists, most of them Chinese, have been taken to hospital after a crash between a bus and a car on a major tourist route in New Zealand's South Island Thursday. Police and ambulance officers were at the scene of the crash, ...

Tags: Chinese Tourists, Bus Crash

Doctors in The United States Are Writing More Prescriptions for Sedatives Than Ever Before

Mar 11, 2014

Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...

Tags: prescriptions, Health&Medicine, care visits

Kentucky Heroin Overdose Deaths and Emergency Department Visits Increased

Feb 27, 2014

LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Kentucky heroin overdose deaths and emergency department visits increased from 2011 to 2012, while prescription painkiller overdoses dropped, officials say. A report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and ...

Tags: heroin, Prescription Painkiller Abuse, Medicine

Patrick J. Murphy Jr., M.D. Has Been Named One of Six Finalists

Feb 26, 2014

Patrick J. Murphy Jr., M.D., director of the University of Louisville Home Call Program and professor of geriatrics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, has been named one of six finalists for a national award recognizing ...

Tags: Finalist, Recognizing Leadership, Long Term Care, AMDA

Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents

Feb 26, 2014

Health Affairs: Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are frequent and result in complications, morbidity, and Medicare ...

Tags: Telemedicine, Medicaid, Medicare Premium

Several Individuals and Organizations Were Honored Today at The 95th Annual Meeting

Feb 10, 2014

Several individuals and organizations were honored today at the 95th Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. NJHA Healthcare Leader Awards The 2014 Distinguished Service Award was ...

Tags: Healthcare, Njha

Affording The Affordable Care Act

Jan 16, 2014

Stateline examines the difficulty for many working families to buy insurance while KHN spends time at a California hospital to survey how some without insurance try to afford care. Other news coverage on health law outreach and enrollment ...

Tags: Obamacare, Emergency Room, Connecticut, The Affordable Care Act

Trevena Announced Today Initiation of Dosing in BLAST-AHF

Jan 10, 2014

Trevena, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company involved in the discovery and development of G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) biased ligands, announced today initiation of dosing in BLAST-AHF, the Company's randomized, multi-center ...

Tags: Trevena, GPCR biased ligands, BLAST-AHF, acute heart failure

Managing Parental Stress and Using Cell Phone Apps to Monitor Medication Usage

Jan 8, 2014

Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine at Children's National Health System, says that aggressively managing parental stress and using cell phone apps to monitor medication usage in at-risk youth with asthma may ...

Tags: Stephen J.Teach, cell phone apps, asthma, monitor medication usage

Oregon Residents Covered by Medicaid Are 40 Percent More Likely to Use Emergency Rooms

Jan 6, 2014

New research reveals that Oregon residents covered by Medicaid -- the publicly funded health insurance program for the poor -- are 40 percent more likely to use emergency rooms than people with no insurance. This finding suggests that ...

Tags: Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, emergency department

It Will Survival If Victims of Gunshots Injuries Are Transported to Emergency Department

Jan 6, 2014

New research suggests it may not make much difference to survival if victims of gunshots and stabbing injuries are transported to the emergency department in a police car or by emergency medical services (EMS). The study sheds light on ...

Tags: scoop and run, gunshots, stabbing injuries, emergency medical services

Patients May Be Driven by Lack of Alternatives Instead of The Severity of Their Illness

Jan 3, 2014

A study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows patients with Medicaid insurance seeking care in an emergency department may be driven by lack of alternatives instead of the severity of their illness. The study is published ...

Tags: Medicaid insurance, emergency department, emergency care, Roberta Capp

Asthma Patients Are at Increased Risk for Unplanned Hospital Admissions

Jan 3, 2014

By Kirsty Oswald, medwireNews Reporter Results from a German national health survey indicate that asthma patients with multiple comorbidities are at increased risk for unplanned hospital admissions. The findings also confirm that ...

Tags: asthma patients, comorbidities, cardiovascular disease, health

Company Announced The Opening of Its Newest Urgent Care in Sunrise

Jan 2, 2014

MD Now Medical Centers, the fastest growing Urgent Care company in Florida today announced the opening of its newest urgent care in Sunrise, Florida at the corner of West Oakland Park and Nob Hill Road. This latest facility to open ...

Tags: MD Now Medical Centers, Urgent Care company, newest urgent care, Sunrise

Belief That Mentally Ill Substance Abusers Are Most Frequent Users Is an "Urban Legend"

Dec 27, 2013

The widely held belief that mentally ill substance abusers are the most frequent users of hospital emergency departments is an "urban legend," a new study claims. Researchers examined emergency room visits by more than 212,000 Medicaid ...

Tags: mentally ill substance abusers, Medicaid patients, substance abuse

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