Hospitals profit when patients develop bloodstream infections

CLEVELAND "Although clinical trials are the key to developing new, better cancer treatments, less than 10 percent of cancer patients participate in them," says Neal J. Meropol Common barriers to patient enrollment in clinical trials include fear of ...

America's most celebrated "helpful place" is gearing up to help the community with the fifth annual Grill Your Ace Off grilling competition and fundraiser benefitting Children's Hospital Colorado. Local chefs will face off in grilling competitions ...

LOS ANGELES A dozen doctors who graduated in Latin America now serve their residencies in American hospitals thanks to UCLA's International Medical Graduate program. The IMG has given me one of the greatest opportunities of my life. Without this ...

The American Red Cross in New Mexico is preparing to send three emergency response vehicles, each with a two-person crew, to help with relief efforts in Oklahoma. New Mexico Red Cross volunteers also are on standby. The crews leaving this ...

An American missionary priest in Kenya who became embroiled in a legal dispute over the ownership of hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood. The Maryknoll Society suspended Father William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a lawsuit he ...

Dr Vivek Shah, who works at New England Baptist Hospital, was about to cross the finish line when he was put to the ultimate test.

Hyderabad, May 16 : For the first time in Andhra Pradesh, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute has set up Neuro Oncology facility in its premises. The facility would provide treatment services to brain, skull based, spinal chord ...

A new study conducted by American researchers suggests that people who suffer a heart attack in the hospital were 10 times more likely to die compared to those who suffer an attack somewhere else and are quickly taken to a hospital. That surprising finding ...

Want to know what your hospital bill will be in advance? PRESS RELEASE (05/10/20130 - Now you can, as the US government has recently released statistics on what the average hospital cost across various hospitals in the United States. This allows ...