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U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is resurrecting a bill he first introduced in 2007 to address the nursing shortage in United States.

With the death of Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy (D-Mass.) late Tuesday night goes one of the staunchest allies of health reform.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected 15 hospitals to participate in two new quality improvement programs as part of its Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

The Premier healthcare alliance has enhanced its ClinicalAdvisor quality benchmarking and regulatory reporting solution to include capabilities focused on Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program.

A comprehensive data set of all new chemical entities approved between 1982 and 2003 shows that Europe is pulling further ahead of the United States in pharmaceutical research productivity.

Leaders of three major nurses' organizations that are coming together to form the largest registered nurses union in U.S. history have said they will hold a founding convention Dec. 7-8 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The American Legion is pushing for a significant expansion of the healthcare systems administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

Healthcare costs are expected to increase on average 10.5 percent in the next 12 months, according to a new study released by Aon Consulting.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will provide tailored health and wellness information to its members through interactive, automated phone calls. The goal is to drive behavior change, officials said.

Saint Barnabas Health Care System, the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in New Jersey, has signed a long-term revenue cycle management deal.