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Many breast cancer patients don’t know about safe, less-invasive mastectomy techniques

Many breast cancer patients don’t know about safe, less-invasive mastectomy techniques

May 25, 2013 7:38 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Readmission simulator could help healthcare staff improve care coordination

Readmission simulator could help healthcare staff improve care coordination

May 24, 2013 4:54 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more


An illustration of the challenge low health literacy poses to outcomes (infographic)

An illustration of the challenge low health literacy poses to outcomes (infographic)

May 24, 2013 12:21 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Annual pilgramage to Mecca spurs deeper look at SARs-like virus

Annual pilgramage to Mecca spurs deeper look at SARs-like virus

May 24, 2013 11:46 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Oklahoma clinic offers mental help for children after tornado

Oklahoma clinic offers mental help for children after tornado

May 24, 2013 11:17 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Blood purification device for ICU patients seeks to treat root cause of sepsis

Blood purification device for ICU patients seeks to treat root cause of sepsis

May 24, 2013 8:35 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Nurses want “healthcare versions” of user-friendly personal apps

Nurses want “healthcare versions” of user-friendly personal apps

May 23, 2013 4:00 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more


Vanderbilt, AxoGen share $1.1M DOD grant to advance nerve regeneration tech

Vanderbilt, AxoGen share $1.1M DOD grant to advance nerve regeneration tech

May 23, 2013 2:39 pm by | 1 Comments

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 ... Read more

Patent rights on coronavirus delay development of diagnostic tests

Patent rights on coronavirus delay development of diagnostic tests

May 23, 2013 2:04 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Despite recommendation, mammagram numbers didn’t go down

Despite recommendation, mammagram numbers didn’t go down

May 23, 2013 2:02 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Kaiser eyes expansion in Oahu, has $320M statewide plan

Kaiser eyes expansion in Oahu, has $320M statewide plan

May 23, 2013 11:55 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

EHR adoption reaches “tipping point” but challenges remain

EHR adoption reaches “tipping point” but challenges remain

May 22, 2013 4:59 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

Mayo Clinic-Cancer Genetics joint venture will put next-gen sequencing to work in diagnostics

Mayo Clinic-Cancer Genetics joint venture will put next-gen sequencing to work in diagnostics

May 22, 2013 4:58 pm by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

When payers will pay more: Calculating — and justifying — the ROI of expensive treatments

When payers will pay more: Calculating — and justifying — the ROI of expensive treatments

May 22, 2013 11:53 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more

GSK uses contest to advance academic researchers’ pre-clinical drug development

GSK uses contest to advance academic researchers’ pre-clinical drug development

May 22, 2013 8:42 am by | 0 Comments

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 ... Read more