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U.S. healthcare ranking is poor compared to other nations.
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Personal healthcare will likely be negatively impacted with those whom have retired and those getting ready to retire as the stock market continues to fluctuate and demonstrates its volatility.
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CMS is now having troubles with their own "never events" list.
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The punches keep coming from Senator Obama aimed at Senator McCain. In Obama's latest attack he is continuing to focus of McCain's healthcare plan
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"Handwashing with soap is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal disease and pneumonia, which together are responsible for approximately 3.5 million child deaths every year."
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A new X Prize Foundation competition for health care reform could pose the institute's most daunting challenge yet.
The foundation, which helped launch the first private manned space flight in 2004, is teaming with the insurer WellPoint Inc. to try to fix the U.S. health care system.
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"Nursing school is hard work. We all had our good days and our bad days, but we somehow made it through nursing school despite our bad hair days. Check out this picture. That’s me taking care of Snoopy back in 1977. Thank God I had my cap to cover that hideous perm! I got this picture out of my scho...
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"[M]any women still haven't gotten the message that heart attacks strike them as often as men—albeit usually a decade later. At an American Heart Association meeting held today, Yale researchers reported that women in their 40's and 50's who suffered heart attacks often delayed getting treatment bec...
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A new study that finds you have a 70 percent lower chance of dying at a facility that is top-ranked by HealthGrades compared to its lowest-ranked ones across 17 procedures and conditions that were the reasons for the hospital visits.
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But of all the reasons a nurse would leave the bedside, one of the biggest reasons must be injuries, and this was not mentioned anywhere at all.
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The term is called a "wallet biopsy". What is it? It is when your primary care provider or other physician looks at your health insurance first, before they see you or even look at your name on the medical chart.
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