Take a baby boom, add six decades, and what have you got? A booming market for home healthcare companies, which provide a low-cost, long-term alternative to hospitals at a time when medical costs are rising.
As if to illustrate the point, Amedisys surprised Wall Street Wednesday with better-than-expected earnings and an increase in its guidance for […]
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ — New research released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, holds promise of a new interventional imaging capability using advanced robotics provided by Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare), to improve the value of chemoembolization in treating cancer.
The research, presented by Dr. John Angle, Associate […]
OAKLAND, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ — Findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the largest weight loss maintenance study to date reinforce Kaiser Permanente’s approach to obesity prevention. The combination of both personal contact and web-based support are identified as the key to successful, long-term weight management. Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health […]
New York (PRWEB) February 7, 2008 — Johns Hopkins Health Alerts has just released a new free special report on memory loss and aging to help answer two common concerns as we live longer than ever before:
* Does memory loss signal the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, or another form of […]
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) January 7, 2008 — It was once a rarity in this country to find women in medical schools seeking to become physicians, and it was even more unusual to find women who actually practiced medicine after their medical-school training. Now the landscape appears to have changed dramatically. More than 50 percent […]
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Contrary to previous studies, married patients with lung cancer do not have longer survival, according to analysis of an extensive Mayo Clinic database in the December issue of “The Oncologist.”
However, the results suggest some other potentially important differences among patient subgroups — including the possibility that married patients receive […]
DULUTH, MN–(Marketwire - December 18, 2007) - St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Heart Center in Duluth, MN, plans to broadcast a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also called a coronary angioplasty, live on www.OR-Live.com. The webcast is slated for Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. The public will be able to watch doctors use a minimally […]
MEMPHIS, TN–(Marketwire - October 4, 2007) - Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare continues to be an innovator in the health care industry by being the first hospital in the Mid-South to launch a Virtual Welcome Center (VWC). The VWC is an innovative, web-based technology that gives patients and their families a visual tour of Methodist University […]
WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Millennium Research Group forecasts that growing demand for private health care in India will drive demand for more advanced diagnostic imaging equipment. As a result, the market will experience rapid growth, reaching a value of over $436 million by 2012, according to Millennium Research Group’s Indian Markets for Diagnostic […]
GRANITE BAY, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Medical decisions in hospitals are made by an astonishing amount of interdisciplinary team members, expert consultants and cost conscious third-party payers. How do patients effectively navigate through this medical mumbo jumbo?
“Now, What Do We Do? - Successfully Manage Your Hospital Stay,” is a just-released guided journal that enhances […]