ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) – A U.S. advisory panel weighed potential limits on Thursday for widely used asthma drugs to address long-held concerns that they raise the risk of death and serious asthma attacks.
The inhaled drugs include one of the world’s top-sellers, GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s Advair, as well as AstraZeneca PLC’s blockbuster Symbicort.
Doctors appealed to the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel to keep the medicines known Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpts from the Globe’s blog on the Boston-area medical community.
Massachusetts residents can now search a new website to compare the cost and quality of care at different hospitals, part of an ambitious state plan to help control healthcare costs by giving consumers more information.
) gives consumers access to previously confidential information about how much insurers pay individual hospitals for surgical procedures such as knee and hip Read the rest of this entry »
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has signed an agreement to be the new health care and emergency medical services provider for the Nashville Predators, Nashville’s National Hockey League team.
The multi-year partnership will include both a strategic business partnership,
encompassing marketing and charitable involvement, and Vanderbilt assuming the role of official health care provider of the Predators and the Sommet Center, the team’s Read the rest of this entry »
Builder fined $4,000 in collapse of Alcona Health Center
LINCOLN – A Northeast Michigan builder must pay $4,000 for what state safety inspectors call two “serious violations” related to the collapse of the partially complete Alcona Health Center last July.
Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration directors said that Arthur Builders of Alpena inadequately braced the health center’s trusses, thereby causing its topple on July 8. Read the rest of this entry »
Pro-choice organizations and women’s groups
have rightly been vocal about a recent proposal by the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) to expand protections for medical professionals who refuse
to provide health care services that they object to on moral grounds.
Among the flurry of comments sent to HHS before the
shortened public response period closed, was one that could be a serious blow
to the regulation. This letter focused not Read the rest of this entry »
Nightingale continues to grow Ontario customer base, adding new clinics to its OntarioMD ASP certified EMR platform
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MARKHAM, ON, Oct. 7 /CNW/ – Nightingale Informatix Corporation
(“Nightingale” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: NGH), an application service provider
(ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, today
announced contract wins with two OntarioMD funded physician groups for its ASP
EMR solution, highlighting Read the rest of this entry »
November 14, 2008 11:18 pm
Seven Terre Haute employees were rewarded Friday for accepting the challenge to “Fall into Fitness.”
About 40 people participated in the challenge that wasn’t about weight loss, but just getting people into the gym. Employees had six weeks to log 1,000 hours of working out at the gym, but were only allowed to log 60 minutes a day.
This program was hosted by Fitness Experts, the facility the city Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press
10.08.08,
11:23 AM ET
Tenet Healthcare Corp.
edged higher Wednesday after the hospital operator said it will close a hospital in Irvine, Calif., in early 2009.
After the markets closed on Tuesday, the company announced plans to close Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center on Jan. 15, 2009. Tenet is letting its lease on the property expire and was told by owner HCP Inc. that the new lessee does not want an operating Read the rest of this entry »
RED BANK, N.J., September 15, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — The National Women’s Health Resource Center (NWHRC) today teamed up with Emmy award-winning life coach and best-selling author Rhonda Britten to launch a new educational campaign to raise awareness of fibromyalgia, one of the most common chronic, widespread pain conditions in the United States, affecting 6 million Americans, primarily women, though men can be affected as well.
The campaign, “Reframe Read the rest of this entry »
George Bush continues his assault on women, pushing his ideology and political agenda above patient health care. Earlier this summer, Planned Parenthood received a draft regulation that left no doubt as to the administration’s intent to go after women’s access to birth control. The administration has accomplished that same goal in a proposed rule that uses language that does less to advertise its true objective.
On Aug. 21, the Department of Health Read the rest of this entry »