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“Looking for connections and ways to make life easier” were the goals at UMass Memorial Medical Center when staff at a hospital in Worcester, Mass., began beefing up its social media presence.
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As Syria's civil war, now in its third year, grows deadlier by the week, the country's understaffed and inexperienced doctors are overwhelmed by the cases they see. To alleviate their shortfalls, aid organizations such as the Syrian American Medical Society have stepped up to provide training and...
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National economic policies that impose harsh cuts on social programs, especially healthcare safety nets, can be lethal, literally. That's the argument made by David Stuckler, a senior research leader at Oxford University, and Dr. Sanjay Basu, a Stanford University epidemiologist, in their recent...
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The U.K.’s state-run health system, often criticized for not funding innovative treatments, wants to build the country’s first football-field-sized proton-beam cancer therapy centers. Private investors may beat the government to it.
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Drugmakers operating in Europe must disclose payments made to doctors starting in 2016 in an effort to boost transparency and make patients aware of possible conflicts of interest.
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The National Health Service of England is looking to the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department for inspiration—and maybe a whole lot more—as it strives to expand on that nation's existing open-source software development programs to meet its health information technology needs.
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The nation's healthcare providers quickly weighed in on the sweeping immigration bill that the Senate passed on Thursday, with some applauding the measure's healthcare workforce provisions and others criticizing the bill for not addressing healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants and their...
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The healthcare spending slump isn't just a U.S. phenomenon.
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U.S. and international regulators have seized more than $41 million in illegal medicines worldwide and shut down 1,677 websites as part of their ongoing fight against counterfeit drugs sold over the Internet.
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Chinese factory workers on Thursday released their U.S. boss, held captive for a week, after a compensation dispute was resolved, a company official and union representative said. Chip Starnes, president of Specialty Medical Supplies, in the Beijing suburb of Huairou, was allowed to leave the...
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