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Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse can even influence grave healthcare decisions and could prove complicated for women who fear they're at high risk for breast cancer after Angelina Jolie's disclosure that she underwent a preventive double...
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Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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With a $2.1 million federal grant, Ohio will expand a database for background checks allowing healthcare companies to be immediately notified if workers have been convicted of a crime that would ban them from the job.
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Cancer researchers are growing increasingly enthusiastic about harnessing the body's own immune system to fight tumors.
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President Barack Obama is planning a mental health conference next month in response to gun violence.
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New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man—clinically dead for 40 minutes—was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability.
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Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a double mastectomy.
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Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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State College, Pa.-based Mount Nittany Health joins a rising number of healthcare facilities nationwide in implementing a robust telemedicine program aimed at improving patient care and satisfaction, as evidenced by two programs that rolled out recently—TeleBurn and TeleStroke.
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