The TIGR system was recently named one of the top 10 technologies of 2011 for empowering patients and their families through the recovery process. With “meaningful use” and patient satisfaction policies changing hospital reimbursements, hospitals have begun expanding the use of these systems to address other challenges such as readmissions, ...

How many people do you know who have been affected by heart disease or stroke? How many have been your family members? Fifty-five-year-old Gail had lost nearly everyone in her family to cardiovascular disease and when she lost her father, too, she fell into poor eating habits that made her ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed what they believe to be the first clinical application of a new imaging technique to diagnose brain tumors. The unique test could preclude the need for surgery in patients whose tumors are located in areas of the brain too dangerous to biopsy. This ...

TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient engagement solutions, is partnering with Piedmont Healthcare (PHC) in implementing a comprehensive, customized patient-centered environment designed to improve patient education and provide interactive communication. These technological and process enhancements will help speed patient recovery, reduce readmissions and length ...

While only one person could be named the official winner of the 25th Annual Nautica Malibu Triathlon, all who showed up to Zuma Beach left with a sense of victory as the competition raised more than $1.1 million for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. With attendees and competitors including celebrities, athletes, ...

Are you currently cut out for caregiving? Is Alzheimer’s disease within your midst, prodding ideas on how very best to soothe your degenerating mother or father? Whether or not the latter resides with you, or at assisted-living or nursing residences, each of you require sustenance. Getting been her full-time caregiver, I'm ...

Among the issues that is essential to think about whenever you leave company America for your freedom of one's personal company is inexpensive wellness insurance coverage. Actually, the reason most often cited for NOT taking the plunge into self-employment will be the absence of cheap wellness insurance options for people ...

Giselle Singh is a 28 year-old single mom who struggled with her weight for years, trying nearly every weight-loss approach including dieting, exercise and weight-loss pills before changing her life with the Lap-Band® procedure. "Starting at around 21, I began to gain weight, and it kept increasing each year," she says. ...

LUNGevity Foundation applauds the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent approval of XALKORI® (crizotinib) to treat lung cancer. The drug, introduced by Pfizer, Inc. showed such promise in early trials that it was given "fast track" status by the FDA. LUNGevity Foundation President Andrea Stern Ferris called the FDA's approval ...

"In preparation for Hurricane Irene and for the safety of Duane Reade's associates and customers, Duane Reade stores will begin closing at noon on Saturday, August 27, 2011. Selected locations will remain open until 9pm ET and all store locations will remain closed throughout the weekend. Please contact your local ...

Saying the nation's Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) sector has contributed substantially to advancing well being care reform and deficit reduction in the encounter of serious state Medicaid funding pressures along with other main budgetary problems, the Alliance for High quality Nursing House Care these days expressed alarm about the Centers ...

TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions, today announced a master agreement with Sentara Healthcare as part of the health system’s strategy to advance the patient experience and quality of healthcare in their facilities. Striving to enhance their patient-centered model, the Virginia-based not-for-profit ...

This afternoon, the Virginia Autism Project joined families and communities in Virginia in applauding Governor Robert McDonnell in signing Home Bill 2467 and Senate Bill 1062, which will become law effective January 1, 2012. This new law demands insurance companies to offer evidence-based, medically necessary autism therapies for children ages ...

The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an Order that settles charges that NBTY, NatureSmart, and Rexall Sundown made false and unsupported claims that their Disney and Marvel Heroes line of children’s multivitamins contained a significant amount of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid, an Omega-3 fatty acid) and promoted healthy brain and eye ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, via a request by the FTC, has asked a federal district court to impose civil penalties upon an herbal products company named "Daniel Chapter One (DCO)" and its principal, James Feijo, for allegedly violating an FTC Order. The civil penalty action also seeks a preliminary injunction ...

According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark, "Dispense as Written" Prescriptions costs the health care system up to $7.7 billion annually. About 5 percent of prescriptions submitted by CVS Caremark Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) members in a 30-day period during ...

Topamax (topiramate), when taken by pregnant women, greatly increases the risk that their babies will develop birth defects, like cleft lips and cleft palates, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned recently. Alternative medications have lower risks of causing birth defects, and women treated with Topamax during pregnancy whose children ...

TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions, today announced an extended partnership with Beloit Health System. Building upon a service relationship that TeleHealth acquired in their acquisition of SVI, Beloit has chosen TeleHealth Services as their interactive patient education and entertainment partner ...

The alluring prize of the $25,000 marketing program awaits a health care organization through a unique initiative provided by the Stevens & Tate Marketing agency. Via its “Lend-A-Hand Marketing Giveaway” contest, the agency will blend its marketing and media strategies, Internet strategies, creative, ad messaging, website development, social media, competitive ...

TeleHealth Solutions, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient training solutions, lately told Well being Plan Information that it has partnered with Nash Well being Care Methods as part of the hospital’s strategy to increase patient satisfaction and advance their interactive healthcare initiatives. In an work to ...