The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Promote Safe Holidays Using New Media
In an effort to keep the American people safe this holiday season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released a number of holiday health tips using various forms of media. The CDC...
Medical Assistants and Growing Opportunities in Eldercare and Pediatrics
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that through the next decade, over 160,000 new medical assistants will be needed to fill this important healthcare role. An aging population means that medical facilities...
New Stem Cell Therapy – Growing Human Blood Vessels for Bioengineered Tissue
Bioengineering techniques that grow transplant tissue have been around for years. However, the process of vascularizing the tissue has proven to be a tough challenge. Without a way for blood vessels to bring nutrients...
Digital Health Records Save Health Care Costs
Dgital health records can reduce healthcare spending
Six Healthcare Changes to Know for 2014
A new year always brings change – and that’s especially true in 2014 as many aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” take effect Jan. 1. Designed to increase health insurance’s quality and affordability,...
A Doctor’s Best Friend – How Dogs are being Trained to Help Diagnose Illness
McBaine is a one-year-old Springer Spaniel with floppy ears, a sweet face and maybe, the ability to sniff out cancer. This puppy is part of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center at the University of...
A Career as A Midwife May Be the Prescription for Improving Maternal Health
Recent report states that midwife services may increase maternal health outcomes and lower costs for Medicaid funded births.
Survey: Most Organizations are “Very Concerned” About Controlling Cost of Healthcare
Individuals aren’t the only people who are carefully monitoring healthcare costs. According to findings from the “State of Employee Benefits in the Workplace” survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 83 percent...
MBA Students from the University of Texas at Dallas Win Healthcare Competition
A team of MBA students from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas won the 2013 Humana Healthcare Case Competition. For the third year in a row, Humana challenged...
New Hampshire Patient Died of Rare Brain Disease, More Exposed
Medical Equipment Possibly to Blame Health officials across several states continue to monitor at least 13 cases of possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure after one patient in New Hampshire died of the rare disease in August. Rented...