For clarification purposes, Fallon Clinic, a medical group based in Worcester, Mass., has announced a change in name to Reliant Medical Group, according to a Worcester Telegram & Gazette report. The new name will differentiate the medical group from Fallon…
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Christine Varney, the top antitrust regulator at the U.S. Justice Department, plans to step down next month to join the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Ms. Varney, assistant attorney general…
Here are 10 states with the greatest number of Medicare beneficiaries, according to data recently published by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Medicare beneficiaries include aged and disabled beneficiaries.
People are living longer and retiring a lot later. I was recently introduced to a land developer from Louisiana who was in her 70s but she looked a lot younger. In fact, she had participated in four triathlons just this…
Roughly 12 percent of angioplasties performed in an elective, non-emergency setting may be inappropriate and not beneficial, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Rulon F. Stacey, PhD, FACHE, CEO of Fort Collins, Colo.-based Poudre Valley Health System and current chairman of the American College of Healthcare Executives, has released a new book discussing the state of the current healthcare crisis, how we got…
Health Inventures, a surgical services and practice management company, is expanding and offering three new service lines: physician practice management; perioperative and anesthesia services; and human resources employment services, according to a report from Becker ASC Review.
Low-dose CT scans could reduce mortality in lung cancer patients by up to 20 percent, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital in Westerville, Ohio, is set to break ground on its $110 million heart center project, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
Progress West HealthCare Center in O'Fallon, Mo., part of BJC HealthCare, has added a 6,000 square-foot cardiac catheterization lab to its site, according to a PWHC news release.