January 15, 2009
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Research conducted by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. shows that job cuts in health care rank in "the middle of the pack" among industries but that health care had the highest turnover among CEOs in 2008.
Dedication ceremony for office in Costa Rica; training center in Panama.
Digital mammograms take longer to interpret than film-screen mammograms, according to a study performed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Because hand-held X-rays require operators and patients to be closer to the devices, manufacturers must take extra precautions, FDA says.
The economic recession is having a dramatic impact on California's hospitals, according to a new report by the California Hospital Association.
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Having dense breasts - areas that show up light on a mammogram - is strongly associated with increased breast cancer risk, but "why" remains to be answered. Now, by examining dense and non-dense tissue taken from the breasts of healthy volunteers, researchers from Mayo Clinic have found several potential links.
Calls for industry-wide adoption of standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards with potential savings to providers estimated at $1 billion per year.
A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK has invented a credit-card-machine-sized device that reduces the time of diagnosis for diseases to 15 minutes.
Minister aims for autonomy and dignity in new legislation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled a plan that establishes a set of five-year national prevention targets to reduce and possibly eliminate health care-associated infections (HAIs).
American Society of Clinical Oncology recommends routine KRAS gene testing to guide treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer.
A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients.
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Tawam Hospital Simplifies Radiology Image and Information Management
Taps Philips iSite solution.
Philips and Hansen Medical Team
Companies to integrate X-ray Imaging and Robotic Catheter to advance treatment of irregular heartbeats.
Letter From the Editor
A Dose of Reality
Today's DOTmed News provides some foreboding reports on the real impact of the economy on the health care sector in the U.S.
We spoke with the experts at Challenger, Gray & Christmas who found that, while health care is doing better than most industries given the economy, it ranks about in the middle in terms of job loss for 2008. Interestingly, CEO turnover was higher in health care organizations than in any other sector.
Looking West for what's next, California hospitals report an extremely dramatic economic impact as people lose their job-linked health insurance and hospitals strain to care for them. The report is notable for its clarity, brevity and gravity.
Stay tuned to this site for a unique mix of exclusive reports and headlines in health care, updated daily.
See you tomorrow.
Barbara Kram, Editor
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- Management Changes at MedaSorb Technologies
- MedaSorb Technologies Corporation announces management changes.
- California Medical Device Firm Receives $7.2 Million
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- GE Healthcare to Back Cytori's Adipose Cell Tissue System
- The device extracts and makes a dose of a patient's own adipose tissue-derived adult stem and regenerative cells, which can be used for a variety of medical indications.
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- Abbott Laboratories said it would acquire Advanced Medical Optics Inc. for $1.36 billion, boosting Abbott's already formidable presence in the eye care business.
