Hospitals switch from Baxter heparin to APP: report
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Some major hospitals are switching  from using a heparin blood thinner product made by Baxter  International Inc  to one produced by its rival APP  Pharmaceuticals Inc , the Wall Street Journal reported  on Tuesday.
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The Medicare program is rethinking its blanket coverage for all uses of drug-coated heart stents, a potential blow to Boston Scientific Corp. , Johnson &amp; Johnson, and others in the $6 billion-a-year industry.
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IBM and the Army make plans to replace bureaucratic papers with electronic forms Also: Microsoft gives out free anti-spyware, for now & hellip;.  Pfizer's Celebrex fizzes your heart like Vioxx & hellip;. and more.
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LifePoint Hospitals has agreed to acquire rival Province Healthcare for $1.125 billion in cash and stock to broaden its geographic reach.
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By The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 25--The Hospital Compare Web site is www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. The Web site address was incorrect in a story headlined "St. Joseph on par with hospitals around U.S." on page B1 in the Whatcom section of the June 23 edition of The Bellingham Herald.
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For 10 years, Ellen Zane oversaw community doctors for Partners HealthCare, the parent organization of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals and the biggest and most profitable hospital and physician network in Massachusetts. Then in December, she became chief executive of a very different institution: Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood. Tufts-NEMC is not only smaller, it's ...
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Garmin subsidiary and the Mayo Clinic have developed software for mobile phones users to aid them in medical emergencies.
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Patients who were switched from the prescription pain reliever Vioxx, taken off the market in September, to Celebrex or Aleve want to know what they should do now that the safety of both alternatives is being questioned.
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PORTLAND, Maine - Whether its blue or spotted or stripped, the standard issue hospital gown is drafty and revealing. It's embarrassing for just about anyone who's spent a night in a medical center...
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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BUFFALO, NY A growing number of hospitals are adopting &quot;enhanced intensive care&quot; technology -- or &quot;eICU.&quot;. The technology allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals
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Boston Scientific announced an investment in Â and strategic partnership with Â REVA Medical, which is working on a polymer successor to todayÂs metal stents that would be biodegradable in the body.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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Nine lots of heparin blood thinner -- the medicine at the center of a lawsuit filed by actor Dennis Quaid over an overdose given to his newborn twins -- were recalled by Baxter International Inc after an increase in reports of adverse reactions in patients.
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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. hospitals that switched from using doctors&#39; handwritten prescriptions to computerized drug ordering systems had a 66 percent drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that looked at the results of 12 studies.
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By Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jan. 31--Today is a notable date in the move toward increased technology at Mayo Clinic.  "As of Jan. 31, film will no longer be printed at Mayo Clinic Rochester," says the employee newsletter This Week at Mayo Clinic.
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NEW YORK  -The notoriously long hours worked in hospitals by newly graduated doctors, known as residents, were recently cut back in the U.S., and the move seems to have improved death rates for certain medical conditions at Veterans Affairs hospitals.