1,000 surgeries outsourced in Vancouver
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VANCOUVER - A hospital in downtown Vancouver has been so badly hit by a nursing shortage that it&#39;s contracting out nearly 1,000 surgeries to private clinics.
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A Southern California physicians group has become one of the first and largest health organizations in the nation to make prices for procedures easily available to the public.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - It's a daily grind for the thousands of junkies living in the city's eastside slum.
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That&#39;s about one percent of the total work force for the world&#39;s largest automotive supplier. The Troy, Michigan-based company had set the same goal for this year and exceeded it through attrition.
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DENVER Bob Hickey is making history on the operating table today -- becoming the first patient who obtained an organ via a for-profit Web site.
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VANCOUVER - One of two Vancouver hospitals hit with an outbreak of the highly infectious Norwalk-type virus believe they have it under control.
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One of Australia&#39;s major hospitals fears its operating rooms may have been contaminated with a fatal brain-wasting disease. Royal Melbourne Hospital is contacting over a thousand patients who had brain or spinal surgery there in the past 18 months.
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DETROIT -- Fifteen-hundred doctors at a conference in Bombay, India, watch a three-dimensional broadcast of a two-hour prostate surgery at a Michigan hospital.
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Nearly 1,500 workers at Volkswagen's largest factory in Brazil are accepting voluntary redundancy.
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One of the most successful businesses in the Washington area isn't technically a business at all -- it's a not-for-profit named Inova Health System. Over the past 40 years, what started out as a loose affiliation of three community hospitals in Fairfax County has transformed itself into the dominant...
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals, Royal Melbourne, is contacting 1056 people who have undergone brain or spinal surgery in the past 18 months after a patient died this year of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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Customers are getting Botox shots in settings that are   more salon than  doctorâs office.
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.
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Last year, an estimated 150,000 foreigners visited India for medical procedures, and the number is increasing at the rate of about 15 percent a year, according to a health care specialist at the Confederation of Indian Industries.
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The business racked up nearly $1 billion in losses since 2001.
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ICANN Puerto Rico 2007 Over 1 billion served