The annual Iowa Employer Benefits Study showed a disparity growing between rural and urban Iowa in the cost, availability and quality of employer-based health insurance, according to a Des Moines Register report.
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Kearney County Health Services, based in Minden, Neb., provided a medication history/discharge order/patient instructions form for use in a medication reconciliation toolkit developed by the Critical Access Hospital Network and available on the website of the Nebraska Hospital Association.
Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, advisor to Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, has expressed his support for state health insurance exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The American Association of Physician Specialists has named four anesthesiologists to its board of directors for 2011-2012, according to an AAPS release.
Chuck Brown is administrator of Bidwell Surgery Center, a Health Inventures ASC in Middletown, Ohio.
Exercise regulates body weight apparently by influencing levels of hormones in the gut released before and after meals, according to a report by Medical News Today.
The U.S. Attorney's Office is seeking to dismiss one-third of its charges against a Utah orthopedic surgeon who was accused of prescribing millions of pain pills to patients without legitimate medical needs, according to a report by the Salt Lake…
Eyes of African-Americans who have glaucoma tend to have much higher oxygen levels than those of Caucasians with the disease, according to a news release by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
A German researcher is proposing to use energy from sugar and oxygen in the blood to power implantable devices, according to a report by News Medical.
As Florida's new pill mill legislation cuts off dealers and addicts from prescription painkillers, drug treatment centers in the state are bracing for a wave of new patients, according to a report by the Palm Beach Post.