HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 8 - The Massachusetts Hospital Association unabashedly announced this month that it will no longer hire tobacco users, sending a very public get-tough message that it hopes will resonate with other employers looking to reduce healthcare costs. MHA President/CEO Lynn Nicholas says the trade...
ModernHealthcare.com | November 8 - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to get involved in one of the many legal challenges gunning for the core of the national healthcare reform law passed in March. The court offers no explanation when announcing decisions whether to accept or...
DiagnosticImaging.com | November 5 - A California neurosurgeon has launched what could turn into an epic legal battle over the rights to use diffusion tensor imaging, an MR technology that lately has begun to catch on as a diagnostic and neurosurgical planning tool. Claiming that he...
ImagingBiz.com | November 5 - Former and heavy smokers screened for lung cancer with low-dose helical CT are less likely to die of lung cancer than those screened with standard chest X-rays, according to initial results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) released yesterday. Sponsored...
AuntMinnie.com | November 5 - Point-of-care ultrasound conducted by emergency medicine physicians may be a useful screening tool for evaluating acute appendicitis in children, according to research from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. The research team found that point-of-care ultrasound yielded 85% accuracy...