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Eight in 10 American adults support the Precision Medicine Cohort Program and up to 54% might participate if asked, according to a recent survey by the National Institutes of Health.
Community leaders called the 2003 report a wakeup call for Michigan’s Kent County. The county’s Infant Fetal Mortality Review reported an exceptionally high black infant mortality rate: 22.4 deaths per 1,000 births, the highest black infant mortality rate of any municipality in the…
Mark Gestring, M.D., a trauma surgeon at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center (URMC), was fed up seeing teenagers arrive at the trauma center to be treated for gunshot or knife wounds, only to return weeks or months later with more serious or fatal injuries.
The Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend that health care facilities not use certain Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors to reprocess duodenoscopes, the agency said today in a safety communication. The System 83 Plus reprocessors were recalled in May, but remain…
A study published online today in Health Affairs compares prescription fills and out-of-pocket spending for a panel of 6.7 million prescription drug users before and after the Affordable Care Act’s implementation. The newly insured people filled, on average, 28% more prescriptions and…
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has released proceedings from a recent workshop on community-level approaches to disaster risk reduction. The AHA was a sponsor of the event, which looked at specific strategies that can be…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union of a hospital to organize only a small portion of the unrepresented employees in a partially organized bargaining unit.
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative today released a compendium of their toolkits to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients examine the appropriate use of medical resources in five key areas: blood management, antimicrobial…
Healthcare Ready has activated its Rx Open mapping tool to help health care providers and patients in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas find open pharmacies in flooded areas. President Obama Sunday declared a major disaster in portions of southern Louisiana due to severe storms and flooding.
The Washington State Hospital Association today named as its next CEO Cassie Sauer, who currently serves as the association’s executive vice president. She will assume the role in January, when current CEO Scott Bond will retire after more than three decades in the health care field…