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Hospitals face rising threat of mortality as shortage of beds poses substantial risk to vulnerable patients, warns expert? Jeremy Hunt admits pressure is mounting on A&E services
LONDON Accenture has completed the deployment of a cloud-based Radiology Information System for five hospitals and 23 facilities within the National Health Service in Southwest England. The deployment project from signing contracts to going live took just 10 weeks and included migration of data from the old systems to the new Accenture soluti
This was the main finding from pre-planned subgroup analyses of data from the PrimoTinA- asthmaTM Phase III studies being presented for the first time at the 2013 American Thoracic Society congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.1. Professor Huib A M Kerstjens of the University Medical Centre, Groningen, The Netherlands. Reporting on the...
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week Patients with advanced bladder cancers that are surgically removed might need additional therapy to prevent recurrence in certain situations, a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggests. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed in men, according to the American Cancer S
The American Coalition for Healthcare Claims Integrity issued the following statement from spokesperson Amanda Keating after submitting comments to CMS on the Medicare Part B Inpatient Billing in Hospitals proposed rule. "After carefully reviewing the proposed rule, we are gravely concerned about the implications it could have for beneficiaries an
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week Investigators publish new report on Transplantation. We used the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research database to study the outcome of 202 patients with refractory MCL who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation using either myeloablative or...
According to news reporting originating from Guangdong, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "This study was undertaken to analyze the correlation between primary gross tumor volume and prognosis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing intensity-modulated radiation therapy. The news editors report that
A MERSEYSIDE hospital is carrying out a review after an elderly dementia patient was groped by a pervert. The ECHO reported yesterday that Edward Deevy, 56, from Aigburth, was jailed for two years after admitting he had carried out the sickening act in the Royal Liverpool Hospital's A&E department earlier in April. Today the hospital's chief operat
Queen Mary Hospital has apologised for an incident in which a blood type mismatch was made, the Hospital Authority reported today. Secretary for Food& Health Dr Ko Wing-man said the authority will conduct a full and detailed investigation into the underlying cause of such a serious mistake. The hospital reported the incident to the Hospital Authori
The target challenges all hospitals in England to admit or discharge 95% of patients within four hours of them attending A&E. Dr Mike Clancy, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, said: "The deterioration in four-hour performance, which is a process measure and not a quality measure, has reflected the pressure the system is under. Health
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week Current study results on Dermatology have been published. According to news originating from Rotterdam, Netherlands, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Infantile haemangioma is a benign, common and self-limiting tumour of infancy; only a minority of cases need active treatment.
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week NeoTract, Inc., announced the successful results of the 206- patient L.I.F.T. IDE Study, a multi-center, randomized, blinded study in patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Claus Roehrborn, Professor and Chair, Department of Urology UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas and co-principal..
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from St Elizabeth's Medical Center, "For cancer patients initiating chemotherapy, there is currently no approved treatment for the primary prevention of venous thromboembolism risk. Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Habib, St Elizabeth'
May 22 MOORE Most of the second floor of Moore Medical Center is now gone, and dozens of the cars owned by patients and caregivers are crumpled beyond repair, some piled in a heap at the center of the facility's parking lot, stacked by the force of Monday's tornado. "It's just all hands on deck right now," said Kelly Wells, public information
It s been estimated that between 33% and 69% of all medication-related hospital admissions are related to poor medication adherence a reality that costs the American health-care system approximately $100 billion annually. Indeed, so dire is the degree of medication non-adherence and the consequences therefrom that the World Health Organ
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering A new study released by the Ponemon Institute finds that the use of pagers and other outdated communication technologies decreases clinician productivity and increases patient discharge times, collectively costing U.S. hospitals more than $8.3 billion annually. The Ponemon Institute..
David Russell, one of the patients treated by Mr Mainds who gave evidence at the tribunal, said: "He made more in a year than many people will earn in a lifetime. While many surgeons work for both the NHS and the private sector, Mr Mainds left the NHS completely in 2005. He did, however, treat NHS patients who were sent to BMI Ross Hall hospital in
WASHINGTON, May 22 The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department' Medical Center, Hampton, Va., has issued a pre-solicitation notice for radiology clinic services for providing outpatient routine x-ray films for eligible Veteran beneficiaries as referred by the Lynchburg Community Based Outpatient Clinic. It was posted on May 20 with a response date of Ju
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week New research on Nervous System Diseases and Conditions is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Valencia, Spain, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Patients with limbic encephalitis and related cortical syndromes develop neurologic and psychiatric symptoms du
A multicenter phase II study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of S-1 and docetaxel combination chemotherapy regimen for the treatment of advanced or recurrent gastric cancer patients with peritoneal dissemination. " Oral S-1 at 80 mg/m/ day was administered twice daily for 2 weeks, followed by 1 drug-free week. Docetaxel infus
Shady Grove Radiology-Shady Grove Breast Center, located at 9711 Medical Center Drive, Suite 201, Rockville, Maryland, has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology. Shady Grove Breast Center has been awarded the status of Breast Center of Excellence by seeking and earning accreditation in all of the
DISGRACED NHS chief Sir David Nicholson last night sparked outrage after announcing he will quit next year- when his pension pot hits Pounds 2 million. After months of pressure to resign over his role in the Stafford Hospital scandal- which left 1,200 patients dead after neglect or abuse- he revealed he will walk away from his Pounds 211,000- a- ye
DISGRACED NHS chief Sir David Nicholson last night sparked outrage after announcing he will quit next year- when his pension pot hits Pounds 2 million. After months of pressure to resign over his role in the Stafford Hospital scandal- which left 1,200 patients dead after neglect or abuse- he revealed he will walk away from his Pounds 211,000- a- ye
DISGRACED NHS chief Sir David Nicholson last night sparked outrage after announcing he will quit next year- when his pension pot hits Pounds 2 million. After months of pressure to resign over his role in the Stafford Hospital scandal- which left 1,200 patients dead after neglect or abuse- he revealed he will walk away from his Pounds 211,000- a- ye
