Abiomed, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technlogies, today reported that the first patient was successfully supported for six days by the Impella Right Peripheral at the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 9 Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota was awarded a five-year $1.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health Cancer Education Grants Program. Children's will use the funds to develop a training program to improve access to, and quality of, pediatric palliative care for children with advanced can
Sept. 09A hospital floor that has been mostly unused and gutted for more than seven years will be renovated into 31 private rooms in a $10.9 million plan Southeast Georgia Health System has for its Brunswick hospital. Pending final approval from the state, the system hopes to begin work on the third floor of the St. Simons Tower in late December.
Sept. 09Eighty-hour workweeks, 16-hour shifts and five days off a month may sound like a sweat shop to most of us. But for many medical residents who toil long hours at hospitals around the nation, those working conditions would be a real improvement over what they've got now.
MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 9 Language Line Services, the leading provider of language-based solutions and the number one provider of over-the-phone interpreting services for the healthcare industry, announced a program of support, instructional materials and consultations to help ensure compliance for hospitals as they gear up for the new Joint Commis
09/09/10 TomoTherapy Incorporated, maker of advanced, integrated radiation therapy solutions for cancer care, today announced that its technology will soon be used to treat cancer patients in Nottingham, England.
Fresh data on internal medicine are presented in the report 'Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.'
New research, 'Scintigraphic findings of growth arrest lines after bisphosphonate administration in a steroid-induced osteoporosis patient: a case study,' is the subject of a report. "We describe the case of a 14-year-old boy with steroid-induced osteoporosis, who was treated by pamidronate.
Sept. 08VALDOSTA Area folks can help people battling cancer during this weekend's Inaugural Partnership Cancer Fund Run. The run will benefit the Partnership Cancer Fund. The fund does not go to pay doctors or hospital bills. Requirements for receiving Partnership Cancer Fund grants are: Be a Lowndes County resident or currently treated for
Johannesburg, Sep 09, 2010 THE Gauteng provincial government is considering a proposal to have public hospitals declared national security points, a move that could protect patients in the event of an emergency such as a strike.
Scientists discuss in 'Physical activity levels after treatment for breast cancer: one-year follow-up' new findings in breast cancer. "Patients with a primary operable breast cancer filled in the Physical Activity Computerised Questionnaire before breast surgery and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months post-operatively.
Current study results from the report, 'The consequences of a new software package for the quantification of gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion studies,' have been published. "In this study the performances of two systems, quantitative gated SPECT and 4D-MSPECT, in the processing of clinical patient data and phantom data were compared.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 9 RadarFind, a subsidiary of TeleTracking Technologies, has developed a tamper-resistant version of its real time locating system's plug-in readers to further address hospital patient safety needs.
Author: Constantinos Ioannou. PAINTINGS by seven Turkish Cypriot artists were yesterday donated to the Nicosia general hospital as a token of gratitude to medical staff for the service provided to Turkish Cypriot patients. "All Cypriot patients regardless of ethnicity are treated equally by the ministry of health and by state hospitals."
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the lead institution in a national clinical trial of technology that will allow artificial heart patients to recuperate, rehabilitate and wait in the comfort of their own homes until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
Sept. 08Chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, unsafe staffing's got to go," registered nurses and others at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center staged an informational picket Wednesday to protest what they say is a lack of staffers and unreasonable reassignments.
CALGARY - Alberta Health Services plans to open 132 new beds in three Calgary hospitals this fall. Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky announced today that the beds will open at the Foothills, Peter Lougheed and Rockyview General hospitals at a cost of $15.7 million annually. A combination of 153 full- and part-time nursing and care staff is being hired
Boston Software Systems, winner of the 2010 McKesson Automation Supplier of the Year Award for Customer Focus, today announced that Product Manager Thom Blackwell and Reese Walker, financial systems analyst at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, will deliver four presentations at InSight 2010 Annual Conference, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
Columbus, Ind. Columbus Regional Hospital is bringing the nation's largest health information exchange to the Columbus, Ind. area to better serve patients.
Scientists discuss in 'Clinical characteristics and hematologic responses to Imatinib in patients with chronic phase myeloid leukemia at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital' new findings in imatinib therapy. "In a period of 6 years, we included 53 patients with chromosome Philadelphia positive and/or BCR-ABL positive chronic phase CML.
New research, 'The Infrascanner, a handheld device for screening in situ for the presence of brain haematomas,' is the subject of a report. "This study included 35 TBI patients aged 17-76, admitted to the neurosurgical intensive care unit and observation unit of a University Hospital in a Level 1 trauma centre.
Scientists discuss in 'A retrospective study of Octaplex in the treatment of bleeding in patients with haemophilia A complicated by inhibitors' new findings in serine endopeptidases. "Retrospective data were collected from 15 haemophilia A patients with FVIII inhibitors who had been treated with Octaplex.
New Delhi, Sep 8: Around 1200 doctors of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital continued to be on strike for the second day on Wednesday after their talks with the authorities were inconclusive.
The eight more patients of gastroenteritis were admitted in the DHQ Hospital Pakpattan among whom a patient died yesterday. As per details the gastroenteritis is spreading in the area, while eight patients of this disease including Jalal Din, Ayesha Bibi, Aamir, Ghaza Bibi, Falak Sher, Muhammad Ejaz, Akaas and Allah Rakhi were admitted in the DHQ H
RESIDENT doctors of Rajasthan's government hospitals called off their strike on Tuesday. Majority of the deaths have been reported from Jodhpur where 30 patients died in the government hospitals, allegedly because of lack of medical care. Jaipur and Kota reported 18 and five deaths respectively. Out of the five deaths reported from Kota hospitals,
