Public Health

LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, part of Intermountain Healthcare, announced the opening of a disaster preparedness center.

The following is reprinted with permission from the blog, "Not Running a Hospital," authored by Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.This op-ed ran in the current issue of the Boston Business Journal:Massachusetts has a…

Oregon is giving consumers until April 13 to submit responses about the most important aspects of the state's health insurance exchange, according to The Lund Report.

The Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee last week held its first meeting to discuss pain research collaboration with the federal government, the American Society of Anesthesiologists reported.

The CDC reported death rates from all cancers combined for men, women and children continued to decline in the United States between 2004 and 2008.

iData Research announced new findings showing the U.S. patient monitoring market is expected to grow from approximately $3.1 billion in 2011 to nearly $4.2 billion by 2018.

The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center announced the opening of the Memory Care Program to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease and other causes of progressive memory loss.

The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center announced new plans for a $180 million children's hospital.

Researchers from the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine have published the results of a new study that could help develop better treatment strategies bacterial gastrointestinal infections, according to a news release.

The federal government spent $87.2 billion on children's health in 2010, indicating a five-fold increase in healthcare spending on pediatric care despite slower growth in the pediatric population, according to an Urban Institute analysis.