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Wake Forest Baptist offers ways to minimize risks of motorcycle accidents

Riding a motorcycle, like most thrilling activities, comes with its own set of dangers. The Emergency Department at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center alone treated 166 motorcycle-related cases during fiscal year 2013. Fifteen of those patients died from their injuries.

13 May 2014

Health law adds to financial squeeze for rural hospitals

The Wall Street Journal reports on how a number of policies and market forces are combining to put added pressure on rural hospitals. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on the challenge of making the health system affordable and the health law's new options for pregnant women.

13 May 2014

Nursing Program at Akron Campus of Bryant & Stratton College receives accreditation from ACEN

The Nursing Program at the Akron Campus of Bryant & Stratton College has received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) for the maximum period of five years.

13 May 2014

Sports Authority, MRA partner to educate public about melanoma

Sports Authority, one of the nation's largest full-line sporting goods retailers, today announced that they have partnered with the Melanoma Research Alliance, the largest private funder of melanoma research, to inform the public about this deadly form of skin cancer and to raise funds to support studies aimed at its treatment and cure. This is the fourth consecutive year Sports Authority has participated in and supported the effort.

12 May 2014

Esaote gets FDA clearance to market Virtual Navigator fusion imaging technology for ultrasound

Esaote North America announced today that it has received FDA clearance to market and sell its Virtual Navigator fusion imaging technology for ultrasound.

12 May 2014

Political cartoon: 'Failure To Launch?'

Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Failure To Launch?" by Gary McCoy.

12 May 2014

Valley General Hospital to replace AS/400 based product with Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS system

Stockell Healthcare Systems is pleased to announce that Valley General Hospital, a full-service community hospital located in Monroe, Washington, has selected the company's InsightCS Revenue Cycle Information system.

12 May 2014

NPS MedicineWise welcomes ABC’s decision to take down Catalyst program on statins, heart disease

NPS MedicineWise has welcomed the ABC’s ruling — published today — that its Catalyst program aired in October 2013 on statins and heart disease breached its own standards on impartiality.

12 May 2014

Leadless pacemaker technology shows promising performance after 12 months

Vivek Reddy, MD, Director of Arrhythmia Services for The Mount Sinai Hospital, reported his promising12-month follow-up data showing the world's first leadless pacemaker is demonstrating overall device performance comparable to conventional pacemakers. Dr. Reddy presented the one-year LEADLESS study data findings during his late-breaking clinical trial presentation on May 9 at Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society's 35th Annual Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, CA.

12 May 2014

Foundation Medicine obtains CE mark for FoundationOne

Foundation Medicine, Inc. today announced that it has obtained a CE mark for FoundationOne®. The CE mark allows FoundationOne to be placed on the market in the European Economic Area.

12 May 2014

State highlights: N.Y. Medicaid change and cash; Conn. mental health cops; Conn. mental health school outreach

A selection of health policy stories from New York, Connecticut and Minnesota. When Hurricane Sandy flooded two adult homes in Queens, hundreds of disabled, elderly or mentally ill residents were caught in the surge.

12 May 2014

Hospital patients now see improved quality of nutrition health care by CMS’ new rule

Hospital patients may now see improved quality and timeliness of nutrition health care and hospitals will save hundreds of millions of dollars annually because of a new rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

12 May 2014

Viewpoints: House chairman calls for Shinseki resignation; Hagan's case for Obamacare

Since January of 2013, I've served as the chairman of the House Veterans' Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, which is tasked with the oversight responsibility of making sure that the VA meets all of our nation's obligations to our veterans.

12 May 2014

NSHOA and Caris Life Sciences collaborate to establish personalized cancer care program

North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates and Caris Life Sciences today announced a collaboration to establish a personalized cancer care program for patients in the greater Long Island area.

12 May 2014

First Edition: May 12, 2014

Today's headlines include news about the inner-workings of some state-based health exchanges. Reporting for Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with NPR, Richard Knox writes: "Previous drug treatments didn't clear the virus from Bianco's system. But it's almost certain that potent new drugs for hep-C could cure him.

12 May 2014

FDA approves Bayer's Kogenate FS antihemophilic factor VIII to prevent bleeding episodes in adults with hemophilia A

Bayer HealthCare announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for Bayer's Kogenate® FS antihemophilic factor VIII (recombinant), for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adults with hemophilia A.

12 May 2014

Obama's pick to head HHS draws praise from Democrats and Republicans during first confirmation hearing

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who has been nominated by the White House to become the next Health and Human Services secretary, also faced tough questions about the health law's implementation and the trouble-plagued healthcare.gov. Her answers revealed some policy positions and what her priorities will be if she wins the Senate's OK.

12 May 2014

VA secretary Shinseki subpoenaed in VA wait list probe

The subpoena asks for all email and other correspondence to look into the alleged secret wait list that sought to make wait times at a Phoenix VA hospital seem shorter than they really were.

12 May 2014

Mass. plan for new health insurance exchange has estimated price tag of $121 million

After millions of dollars have already been spent on attempts to fix Massachusetts' online marketplace, known as the Health Connector, insurers and some exchange board members say the cost is too high.

12 May 2014

Research roundup: Unearthing factors in hospital readmissions; dissecting the enrollment surge

Using inpatient data from an urban teaching hospital, we examined how elements of individual characteristics and neighborhood socioeconomic status influenced the likelihood of readmission ... Patients living in high-poverty neighborhoods were 24 percent more likely than others to be readmitted, after demographic characteristics and clinical conditions were adjusted for. Married patients were at significantly reduced risk of readmission, which suggests that they had more social support than unmarried patients. These and previous findings that document socioeconomic disparities in readmission raise the question of whether CMS's readmission measures and associated financial penalties should be adjusted for the effects of factors beyond hospital influence at the individual or neighborhood level, such as poverty and lack of social support (Hu, Gonsahn and Nerenz, May 2014).

12 May 2014

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Wake Forest Baptist offers ways to minimize risks of motorcycle accidents

Health law adds to financial squeeze for rural hospitals

Nursing Program at Akron Campus of Bryant & Stratton College receives accreditation from ACEN

Sports Authority, MRA partner to educate public about melanoma

Esaote gets FDA clearance to market Virtual Navigator fusion imaging technology for ultrasound

Political cartoon: 'Failure To Launch?'

Valley General Hospital to replace AS/400 based product with Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS system

NPS MedicineWise welcomes ABC’s decision to take down Catalyst program on statins, heart disease

Leadless pacemaker technology shows promising performance after 12 months

Foundation Medicine obtains CE mark for FoundationOne

State highlights: N.Y. Medicaid change and cash; Conn. mental health cops; Conn. mental health school outreach

Hospital patients now see improved quality of nutrition health care by CMS’ new rule

Viewpoints: House chairman calls for Shinseki resignation; Hagan's case for Obamacare

NSHOA and Caris Life Sciences collaborate to establish personalized cancer care program

First Edition: May 12, 2014

FDA approves Bayer's Kogenate FS antihemophilic factor VIII to prevent bleeding episodes in adults with hemophilia A

Obama's pick to head HHS draws praise from Democrats and Republicans during first confirmation hearing

VA secretary Shinseki subpoenaed in VA wait list probe

Mass. plan for new health insurance exchange has estimated price tag of $121 million

Research roundup: Unearthing factors in hospital readmissions; dissecting the enrollment surge

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