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The pharmaceutical market for women's healthcare is poised to exceed $97 billion by 2013, according to estimates compiled by medical market research publisher Kalorama Information.

The American College of Physicians and other advocacy groups are urging the House of Representatives and the Senate to provide adequate funding for critical healthcare concerns as they meet in conference to craft the final version of the economic stimulus bill.

Medicare programs designed to boost the care of chronically ill patients while reducing hospital admissions and saving costs have largely failed, a new government-contracted study concludes.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said it will take more than what's in the stimulus package to reform U.S. healthcare.

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions announced on Tuesday it plans to sell its Medication Services business.

Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, will make public its compensation of U.S. healthcare professionals for consulting, speaking engagements and clinical trials.

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings on the University of Colorado Hospital Authority's approximately $542 million of bonds outstanding.

Publicly traded hospital systems are feeling the impact of rising unemployment in their communities, according to an analysis by Longbow Research.

President Barack Obama pushed the urgency of an economic stimulus package during his first televised national address Monday night.

Wages for registered nurses increased faster in California than elsewhere after the state began implementing legislation mandating minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in acute care hospitals.