Abiomed, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technlogies, today reported that the first patient was successfully supported for six days by the Impella Right Peripheral at the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sept. 09With the heat index still in the 90s, the threat of flu season is the last thing on most Hill Country residents' minds. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Peterson Regional Medical Center and H-E-B Pharmacy will sponsor a flu vaccine clinic at the Hill Country Youth Exhibition Center on Texas 27 East of Kerrville.
BridgeHead Software and Dell are offering hospitals a new way to store their medical and administrative data: in a centralised repository, within a robust, protected, intelligent enterprise storage environment.
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 9 Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota was awarded a five-year $1.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health Cancer Education Grants Program. Children's will use the funds to develop a training program to improve access to, and quality of, pediatric palliative care for children with advanced can
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 9 New Jersey is a model of diversity. But a state rich in diversity also faces healthcare challenges. With that landscape as a backdrop, the State of New Jersey has declared September Minority and Multicultural Health Month. "Cookie-cutter healthcare won't cut it in a state as diverse as New Jersey," said NJHA President and C
Sept. 09The Medical Center unveiled the results of its two-year, $30 million expansion project Wednesday that adds 48,000 square feet of space and more room for health care services and patients.
Sept. 09A hospital floor that has been mostly unused and gutted for more than seven years will be renovated into 31 private rooms in a $10.9 million plan Southeast Georgia Health System has for its Brunswick hospital. Pending final approval from the state, the system hopes to begin work on the third floor of the St. Simons Tower in late December.
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced a new agreement for coagulation meters, reagents, consumables and service has been awarded to International Technidyne Corporation of Edison, N.J. Effective September 1, 2010, the agreements are available to acute care and continuum of care members of the Premier healthcare alliance.
Sept. 09Eighty-hour workweeks, 16-hour shifts and five days off a month may sound like a sweat shop to most of us. But for many medical residents who toil long hours at hospitals around the nation, those working conditions would be a real improvement over what they've got now.
Working Together, They Aim to Make Illinois a National Leader on Quality and Patient Safety. NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 9 Nearly 200 hospitals across Illinois have joined the Illinois Hospital Association's "Raising the Bar" initiative to raise the level of health care quality and make Illinois a national leader in quality care and patient safety.
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health have held a parade to thank the South African Military Health Services for their assistance during the public servants' strike. The SAMHS were stationed at hospitals around the province that were hard hit by the strike and provided healthcare to thousands of patients.
Sept. 09Some outpatients using the laboratories in Lovelace Health System's three hospitals have been suffering from a new ailment: acute sticker shock brought on by the crazy way hospitals set list prices for their services.
MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 9 Language Line Services, the leading provider of language-based solutions and the number one provider of over-the-phone interpreting services for the healthcare industry, announced a program of support, instructional materials and consultations to help ensure compliance for hospitals as they gear up for the new Joint Commis
To: HEALTH, AND STATE EDITORS. Contact: Kerry McKean Kelly, New Jersey Hospital Association, +1-609-275-4069, kmckean@njha.com. New Jersey is a. model of diversity. nations, and the U.S. Census Bureau ranks the Garden State third in. the nation in the percentage of foreign-born residents. But a state rich in diversity also faces healthcare challeng
09/09/10 TomoTherapy Incorporated, maker of advanced, integrated radiation therapy solutions for cancer care, today announced that its technology will soon be used to treat cancer patients in Nottingham, England.
Fresh data on internal medicine are presented in the report 'Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.'
New research, 'Scintigraphic findings of growth arrest lines after bisphosphonate administration in a steroid-induced osteoporosis patient: a case study,' is the subject of a report. "We describe the case of a 14-year-old boy with steroid-induced osteoporosis, who was treated by pamidronate.
Sept. 08VALDOSTA Area folks can help people battling cancer during this weekend's Inaugural Partnership Cancer Fund Run. The run will benefit the Partnership Cancer Fund. The fund does not go to pay doctors or hospital bills. Requirements for receiving Partnership Cancer Fund grants are: Be a Lowndes County resident or currently treated for
Johannesburg, Sep 09, 2010 THE Gauteng provincial government is considering a proposal to have public hospitals declared national security points, a move that could protect patients in the event of an emergency such as a strike.
Scientists discuss in 'Physical activity levels after treatment for breast cancer: one-year follow-up' new findings in breast cancer. "Patients with a primary operable breast cancer filled in the Physical Activity Computerised Questionnaire before breast surgery and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months post-operatively.
Current study results from the report, 'The consequences of a new software package for the quantification of gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion studies,' have been published. "In this study the performances of two systems, quantitative gated SPECT and 4D-MSPECT, in the processing of clinical patient data and phantom data were compared.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 9 RadarFind, a subsidiary of TeleTracking Technologies, has developed a tamper-resistant version of its real time locating system's plug-in readers to further address hospital patient safety needs.
Author: Constantinos Ioannou. PAINTINGS by seven Turkish Cypriot artists were yesterday donated to the Nicosia general hospital as a token of gratitude to medical staff for the service provided to Turkish Cypriot patients. "All Cypriot patients regardless of ethnicity are treated equally by the ministry of health and by state hospitals."
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the lead institution in a national clinical trial of technology that will allow artificial heart patients to recuperate, rehabilitate and wait in the comfort of their own homes until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
Sept. 08Chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, unsafe staffing's got to go," registered nurses and others at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center staged an informational picket Wednesday to protest what they say is a lack of staffers and unreasonable reassignments.
