Patients on the waiting list for a heart transplant may soon have added options, thanks to a new device being developed in the US by the Texas Heart Institute in collaboration with two University of Houston (UH) professors. As...
Hospitals across the country are working together to make their patients safer. They are joining a national movement to standardize the color coding of hospital bracelets designed to alert hospital staff of potential risks the...
Professor Vivek Agarwal and his student N C S Ramachandran from the Applied Power Electronics Lab in the Electrical Engineering department of IIT-Bombay have developed a device that allows doctors to inspect patients suffering...
A breast cancer survivor finds herself healed of fourth-stage cancer after setting out on a mission to help other cancer survivors cope with the disease. ON a beautiful day in August, cancer survivor Shery Lim received the best...
anti aging technique. The beauty business is thriving, as evidenced by breakthrough upon breakthrough of surgical and topical types of anti aging technique. Before jumping into the bandwagon of the most popular anti aging...
A surgeon's negligent act of leaving cotton and broken bone chips inside a patient's foot has landed him in trouble with the Delhi Consumer Commission directing him to pay Rs 50,000 to the hapless man who was forced to undergo...
Seniors in long-term hospital care will be forced to find new homes By LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA Of The Gazette Staff COLUMBUS - When she was able to return, she moved into a long-term bed at Stillwater Community Hospital. The...
The numbers are grim and the picture gets gloomier each day. Consumers are dwindling, car sales are recording their worst numbers in 15 years, and the US economy lost 159,000 jobs last month. And the pain is real.
HealthBridge, the Blue Ash company that allows hospitals and labs to electronically share test reports and images with doctors around the region, is testing the expansion of the model to other cities.
If you have questions about the practices of your managed-care coverage, ask the experts at the state Department of Managed Health Care. They take up issues ranging from difficulties getting an appointment to denial of a...