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Tri-City Medical Center says it's moving on from a losing four-year legal battle with competitor Scripps Health.
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Washington's healthcare revolving door is spinning fast as the new online health insurance marketplaces, a central provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, are set to open Oct. 1.
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The National Institutes of Health will award $25 million to four research projects that plan to look at how genomic sequencing in newborns may improve the health of babies.
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A legal fight between a hospital and an Amish family in Ohio over whether doctors can force their 10-year-old daughter to resume chemotherapy after her parents stopped treatment is again raising questions about what rights parents have in making medical decisions for their children.
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Financial relationships between the healthcare industry and the clinical community are a prevalent aspect of the healthcare landscape. A common financial interaction, for example, is when a physician receives a fee for consulting with a pharmaceutical...
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The rapidly declining costs of genomic sequencing may impose new obligations on researchers, according to a recent article on the ethics of genetic research published in the journal of the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute based in Garrison, N.Y.
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As the University of Texas prepares to open its medical school in Austin in 2016, it is negotiating the delicate agreements between public university and the religiously-affiliated health care provider who will train its doctors.
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Management of two LSU hospitals in north Louisiana is being turned over to a nonprofit research foundation that has never run a patient care facility, raising concerns about whether it has the experience and the financing needed to oversee the public hospitals.
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The healthcare world is populated by scores of legal experts who strive to keep up with the sprawling compendium of statutes, regulations and legal advisories known collectively as the “Stark law.” But the law's father, Fortney “Pete” Stark, is not one of them.
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While much attention was given to the decision to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate by one year, another ACA deadline quietly arrives this week.
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