HHS is considering adopting guidance from an independent panel of medical experts that recommends against regular mammograms for women under 50 unless they are at acute risk for breast cancer. If this guidance is adopted, insurance companies will no longer…
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Tom Frieden, MD. Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Frieden has served as director of the CDC and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry since he was appointed by…
UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.). Licensed for 1,157 beds, UAB Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the nation by bed size and is the largest academic medical center in the state. Not only is it large, it is also…
Honor Shea Medical Center. Established as a small hospital on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Shea Medical Center has grown to become a large medical and research facility. The 433-bed hospital offers a wide variety of services, including a Level III…
Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Hospital is the flagship of the Lehigh Valley Health Network, comprised of five full-service hospitals, a children’s hospital, community health centers, home health and hospice services and a physician group. In 2014, the…
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A group of 50 activists from the Trauma Care Coalition chained together and blocked traffic on Michigan Avenue in Chicago Thursday night to demand the University of Chicago build a trauma center on the city's South Side, according to NBC…
Sierra Leone government ministers have lost track of more than $3 million in internal emergency funds for fighting the Ebola virus, according to Sierra Leone's national auditor general, Lara Taylor-Pearce, The New York Times reports.
As a newly minted healthcare journalist, I've had to learn a lot of information on a myriad of topics very quickly. For example, I had to learn about accountable care organizations, EMRs, interoperability and meaningful use. Most arduously, I've had…
Anyone who has ever worked in a hospital knows that things aren't always as clean as they appear, including airplanes. For those travelers taking flight during the holidays, knowing where planes are germiest can reduce the chances of getting sick.
Despite the major blowback following the uncovering of a wait-time scandal at Veterans Affairs hospitals, wait times continue to be long for more than 600,000 veterans, or about 10 percent of all patients, according to a report from USA Today.