Health Care Provider News

Years ago, women enjoyed eating whatever they wanted and resting through their pregnancies like a nine-month sabbatical from their otherwise healthy lifestyles.

In Argentina, annual winter school breaks occur during the influenza season, providing an opportunity to study this intervention.

A new place for medical care opened in Mason today. It's designed to provide many of the same services you can get in an emergency room, without the same expensive co-pay. Local 12's Liz Bonis, asks the experts at TriHeath to tell us more about it.

Issue: Whether the Indiana statute that disqualifies a health care provider from participating in a government program because, outside that program and with wholly private funds, it provides abortion care imposes an unconstitutional condition in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

More than a quarter of the people in Franklin County suffer from obesity. This serious health problem can have deadly effects but is reversed with lifestyle changes and a commitment to health improvement.

Ministry Health Care plans to lay off several hundred employees, citing a drop in the number of patients and cuts in federal reimbursement levels.

Simplant , a long-acting reversible contraceptive , is a highly effective subdermal implant composed of two thin, flexible, silicone rods, each containing 75 mg levonorgestrel .

Dinah Dittman, a Grand Valley State University graduate who now works for a California-based health care provider, will discuss how the Affordable Care Act will affect "community-based health care providers and organized philanthropies." The discussion, open by invitation only, is taking place June 25 in downtown Grand Rapids at a GVSU building ... (more)

The information provided on battlediabetes.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional.

According to the Tulsa Health Department, following a fifth round of testing, only one new case of hepatitis B has been confirmed.

Health insurer Humana is selling a toxicology and clinical lab business, a division of its Concentra health care provider, to Quest Diagnostics Inc.

Consumers, business owners and health care provider are being asked to give the state some advice about how it should help them navigate the new federal health care overhaul law.

The Family and Medical Leave Act is a federal law administered by the Federal Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor.

OrthoCarolina has expanded its orthopedic urgent-care offerings with a new location in Ballantyne.

Dallas-based tech company Jericho Systems Corp. will work with the Health Information Technology program at the University of Texas at Austin in a national pilot program that explores ways to give patients control of their own health records.

Since 60 percent of Catalonia's population over 65 has chronic diseases and consumes 70 percent of the region's healthcare resources, the Catalonian government is tackling the problem through more coordinated chronic disease management.

Despite opposition and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's claim that it "has not used 'most favored nation' clauses in [its] new contracts and in fact [they are] not part of our strategy to use those clauses on contracts executed in the future," on May 8 North Carolina's Governor, Pat McCrory, signed into law legislation that outlaws the ... (more)

Temple health system's next ReadyCare center will open in Fort Washington this summer as part of a the Philadelphia health-care provider's latest suburban medical office.

Thanks to its profitable suburban locations and strong credit rating, Inova Health System has rarely encountered "business problems" as a non-health care provider might define them.

All 4 of these women are candidates for a labor induction. It is often necessary to deliver a baby before labor starts on its own.