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All Saints Healthcare, a multifacility system in Racine, WI, has adapted a pre-existing template for meeting structure to more closely mesh with its strategic goals, creating a more organized meeting process while at the same time reinforcing key mission and vision messages with staff personnel.
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A task force of leading internal medicine physicians is recommending significant changes to their profession and the health care industry so they can better serve patients while stemming chaos in the current health care system.
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Employees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), an academic facility in Lebanon, NH, that includes a 400-bed tertiary hospital, research and clinical space, work for an organization that places prime importance on sound environmental stewardship and they become aware of that fact their first day on the job.
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Michigan hospitals track bioterror; Ohio group issues surgical protocol; NFPA now allows hand-rub dispensers.
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Cardiovascular companies and cardiovascular topics captured much of the spotlight in healthcare investor conferences that took place last month a little more than a week apart at opposite ends of the country.
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Researchers from Harvard Medical Schools teaching hospital in Boston decided to test if they could encourage physicians to switch appropriate patients from intravenous (IV) to oral (PO) medications.
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Abbott Laboratories is not backing down from its decision to increase the price of ritonavir (Norvir) by 500% monthly for patients who take 100 mg a day. Ritonavir is used in almost all protease inhibitor combinations for treating HIV infection.
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ViaCell will begin to enroll patients in a Phase I/II clinical trial of CB001, a highly purified population of stem cells that has been isolated from umbilical cord blood and multiplied using the companys patented Selective Amplification technology.
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