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UCSF Medical Center is one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus following the unanimous approval by the University of California Board of Regents on...
Eclipsys Corp. based in Atlanta will acquire Medinotes, a privately-held physician software company based in Des Moines, Iowa. The announcement, made over the weekend at the 6th Annual Busine...
In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will award 16 agencies about $6.2 million in state and federal money starting in January 2009.The HIV preve...
International market analysis firm Datamonitor believes that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's pledge to increase investment in life science research will not only help the pharmaceutical and biotechnology...
Reformed payment policies that honor the "full scope" of a family physician's work are essential to changing the U.S. healthcare system for the better, according to a leader in the movement...
The standard Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $96.40 in 2009, the same as the Part B premium for 2008, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid announced Friday. This is the first year s...
House lawmakers took an aggressive approach to healthcare reform in two separate hearings held on September 18.The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health considered the...
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee is making plans to prevent veteran's healthcare funding from being interrupted due to the usual year's end bipartisan wrangling over the budget. On Thurs...
Though a relaxation of the so-called Stark law was expected to spur hospitals to help physicians buy electronic medical records, a new study finds hospitals are moving slowly and cautiously on that sc...
Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the U.S. public health system and improve its infrastructure at al...