Angelina Jolie’s disclosure of her preventive double mastectomy was a powerful show of solidarity with the more than 100,000 American women who undergo breast removal surgery each year.But Jolie’s story ...
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You’re working in the ER when a patient comes in with severe congestive heart failure. You look up their file and find out they were discharged within the past 25 ...
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One of the biggest challenges that healthcare professionals face is figuring out the level of health literacy their patients possess so they can convey information in a way that’s understandable ...
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it would help Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new SARS-like virus to draw up ...
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NORMAN -- In an effort to help local children process their emotions in the wake of tornadoes on Sunday and Monday, the University of Oklahoma's Center on Child Abuse and ...
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Medical device company CytoSorbents (OTC: CTSO) has developed a filtration system for the blood to treat the root cause of sepsis for some of the most vulnerable patients in a ...
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Nurses are the unsung heroes of the hospital who navigate crappy software on outdated hardware to keep you healthy ’ and it needs to stop. Executives from Cedar’s-Sinai and Kaiser ...
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AxoGen, a medical device company that develops peripheral nerve repair technology is splitting a $1.1 million grant from government medical research program with Vanderbilt University. The grant comes from the ...
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allow commercial labs ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women in their 40s didn't cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a government-backed panel said annual breast cancer screening should be optional ...
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Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is in discussions with Moanalua Golf Club to acquire 10 acres of the course adjacent to its flagship Oahu hospital for $4 million.An aging population and expected ...
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The Department of Health and Human Services marked a milestone this week, announcing more than 50 percent of eligible providers have adopted or used electronic health records — a goal ...
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Now that next-generation DNA sequencing is fast enough, cheap enough and commercially available, the next challenging for innovators is finding ways to effectively apply it to everyday medicine outside of ...
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Calculating the return on investment of expensive drugs and surgeries can mean good news for patients. A recent conversation among decision makers at big insurance companies also showed that payers ...
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It’s notoriously difficult to secure funding for the pre-clinical stage of drug development. Risk averse investors don’t want to take a chance on research where there’s a high risk of ...
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