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If you're a baby boomer healthcare worker in Augusta, Ga., Outliers suspects you don't like your co-workers much. At least that's the word in a new report from Payscale.com, which looked at more than 28,000 responses from the website's users.
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If someone asks Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO Chip Kahn what happened during his summer vacation, he can say he had a fowl time.
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The hunt for the Griffin, a ship built and once commanded by legendary French explorer La Salle, has taken an unlikely detour from northern Lake Michigan to a small-town hospital, where modern technology may help determine whether a wooden slab is wreckage from the 17th century vessel.
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Public health departments can add another tool to their arsenal in tracking food poisoning: Twitter.
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"Partners (HealthCare System) might claim they are more efficient. But does (a merger) add more services or boost up the price? One of the big issues is, when Partners gets hold of an entity, it also extracts bigger prices.''
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Afraid there may be peanuts or other allergens hiding in that cookie? Thanks to a cradle and app that turn your smartphone into a handheld biosensor, you may soon be able to run on-the-spot tests for food safety, environmental toxins, medical diagnostics and more.The handheld biosensor was...
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Nothing personal. But your physician really doesn't want you to e-mail him, according to a new study. Patients said e-mails save them time, and health groups reported improved patient-satisfaction scores when their doctors used e-mail to communicate with patients, according to research by a Weill...
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Walk onto any Hollywood studio lot, and you're likely to see a bevy of trailers serving as dressing rooms, mobile offices or even a cafeteria. But lately, there has been another kind of trailer seen outside soundstages, and at this one, a doctor will see you. Not Doogie Howser, mind you, but a real...
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Medical advances have made it possible for many of us to live to see our 100th birthdays, but more than half of adults don't think they want to blow out that many candles.
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine could hold the key to answering a controversy that's nearly 150 years old: Is President Lincoln's assassin actually buried in the historic Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore?
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