EDINA, Minn., Sep 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Universal Hospital Services (UHS) , a leading equipment lifecycle
management company, and Memorial Herman Health Care System
announced today a pact for UHS to implement and manage state of the art
infusion systems across Memorial Herman’s system of hospitals. The pact
anticipates that UHS will manage all infusion devices, freeing Memorial
Herman nurses and staff Read the rest of this entry »
Pricing, regulation squeezed drug industry in 2008
By LINDA A. JOHNSON –
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Stricter regulation, a dearth of new blockbuster drugs, increased pressure to lower prices and more intense generic competition hammered the pharmaceutical industry in 2008, but its stocks still weathered the market collapse better than many other sectors.
The industry’s ills predate the financial crisis but are being exacerbated as the Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the month after (you made all those New Year’s resolutions) and the
morning after (you broke most of them while sitting on a couch consuming
thousands of calories while watching other people play a sport that would
probably kill you).
Adults of a certain age, especially, could use a little inspiration
today.
Vonda Wright is happy to oblige. Wright is an orthopedic surgeon who
advises and studies aging athletes, including competitors in the Read the rest of this entry »
1.5 million uninsured Hispanic children will receive coverage
,
Feb. 4
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “This afternoon, Congress put America’s families first on their agenda by reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Today’s final vote in the House of Representatives delivers critical help to modest-income families struggling to make ends meet in challenging financial times,” said Dr.
Jane L. Delgado
, President Read the rest of this entry »
Snoqualmie Valley Hospital won’t be allowed to move its hospital to a rural-zoned site on the edge of Snoqualmie, the Metropolitan King County Council decided Monday.
The hospital’s proposal to build just north of the Interstate 90-Highway 18 interchange at the entrance to Snoqualmie Ridge was one of the most closely watched requests for changes in the county’s urban-growth boundary.
Some property owners were more successful. The council voted Read the rest of this entry »
Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they’ll say that it’s instinctive — that that’s how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things?
When my young sons were exploring the streets of Brooklyn, I couldn’t help but wonder how good crushed rock or Read the rest of this entry »
The long-simmering concern about how physicians’ financial relationships with industry could compromise medical research and education has led two prominent academic medical centers to declare they will shine a light on these ties. But some doctors wonder whether access to this kind of information is something that matters to patients.
Physicians and biomedical researchers affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Pennsylvania will Read the rest of this entry »
Think you don’t have time to exercise and stay in shape? Think again. You’ve
clearly not heard of high-intensity interval training (HIT). Devised by a
team of exercise biologists at a Scottish university, the routine amounts to
a measly four minutes of pedal-to-the-metal activity, two or three times a
week.
Compared to the government recommended five or six hours a week to keep fit,
this looks like a cinch – and might even get Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Health Secretary-designate Tom Daschle apologized in a letter released on Monday for errors that prompted him to pay $140,000 in back taxes, saying he was “deeply embarrassed” and would answer any questions a Senate panel had about them.
“I apologize for the errors and profoundly regret that you have had to devote time to them,” Daschle said in a letter to Sen. Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2009)
— Diet – and how it has shaped our genome – occupies much of an evolutionary scientist’s time. Anne Stone, associate professor of anthropology in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, will discuss how diet holds keys to understanding who we are, how we live and form societies, and how we evolved from hunter-gatherers to agriculturists, all the way to modern urban dwellers, Read the rest of this entry »