HealthLeadersMedia.com | October 28 - For a good part of Tuesday, health providers across the country lined up in a federal phone cue.
They'd been invited to a special forum to express their deep concerns about a major piece of health reform rules yet to be written;...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 3 - Stroke patients admitted to the hospital on weekends are slightly more likely to die compared to stroke patients admitted on weekdays, regardless of the severity of the stroke, according to a Canadian study published by the American Academy of Neurology.
"We...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 3 - A Rhode Island Hospital report shows that 33 patients needed 305 medical interventions to remove foreign objects, including knives, razor blades, and batteries that were intentionally swallowed, resulting in more than $2 million in hospital costs over eight years.
The findings appear...
DiagnosticImaging.com | November 2 - Brain MRI could expand the number of stroke patients eligible for a potentially life-saving treatment, according to a new study, published online and in the December issue ofRadiology.
In the study, Dr. Catherine Oppenheim and her team of researchers reviewed data from...
Statesman.com | October 29 - Doctors working in Texas emergency rooms and their allies lined up once again to tell the Texas Medical Board on Friday that a year-in-the-making rule restricting the claims that doctors can make about their credentials was a "food fight" that would...
