Health Care Provider News

Marcus Greatens enters the classroom carrying a white bucket. The third-year UW medical student proceeds to remove two hearts, one lung, two brains and various other human organs seeped in alcohol solution, and he arranges everything on two beige cafeteria trays.

Two proposed constitutional amendments under legislative debate would further complicate future state budgets by giving special treatment to four health care provider groups, the Louisiana Budget Project said Friday.

The passage of Senate Bill 1792 eliminates a litigant's right to use expert testimony from a health care provider whose practice is similar to that of the defendant's. It's just another case of the constant erosion of the civil justice system for medmal victims, according to attorney Kenneth J. Sobel.

Charges of sexual misconduct have led state health officials to immediately suspend the license of Kennewick massage practitioner Donald A. Brandsma, MA00021370.

Perryman, who took over as CEO of the company when it was near bankruptcy in 1987, is the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's Women in Business Career Achievement winner.

Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Vitas Hospice Services, LLC, and related entities, alleging that Vitas fraudulently billed the Medicare program in violation of the False Claims Act .

Pharmagen, Inc. , and wholly owned subsidiaries and operating divisions Pharmagen Laboratories, Inc., Pharmagen Distribution, LLC and Pharmagen Nutraceuticals, Inc.

Legislation introduced by State Senator John Marty in the last hours of this year's legislative session is the latest hope that universal, single payer health care can be achieved in Minnesota.

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.