The governing body accepted the company's Biologics License Application for prevention of vaso-occlusive crises.
Chronic ailing keeps them out of class, costs them jobs, robs them of lovers
Mobile phones can be transformative for community health workers (CHWs) in enhancing their influence and status and helping to solve practical problems. While formal intervention research can help advance mHealth application, most progress will come through a “diffusion of innovation” process<br>Community health workers (CHWs) have a key role to play if we are to achieve our ambitious goals to reduce child and maternal mortality globally…
The industry needs to choose one keystone habit to focus on.
Mary* was feeling great! She was no longer taking medications which made her feel emotionally numb and clouded. She felt clear-headed and stable, something she had not felt for a long time<br>The Truehope program was really working!<br>She felt energized and motivated, so she began to go jogging. She wanted to improve her health and lose some of the weight she had gained over the last year. All at once her symptoms began to backslide.<br>When Mary called Truehope, her support person…
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Partnerships with community organizations can lay the foundation for long-term sustainability and success.
It’s no secret that having happy, healthy employees significantly increases a company’s productivity while simultaneously reducing turnover. That’s why many organizations have created employee wellness plans to keep their team members as safe, happy, and engaged as possible. Does your company have a corporate wellness plan in place? At U.S. HealthWorks Medical Group, we work with countless companies on strategies to maintain employee well-being, and whether…
Healthcare executives recognize the importance of referral management; however, their ability to analyze and address patient leakage lags behind,
Researchers recently designed and tested a waiting room Visit Planner tool that aims to help patients identify and voice their top priorities for the visit before seeing their physician.
The Internet of Things will foster increased patient engagement in the next three years as providers look to the future of healthcare, a new survey says.
Electronic record systems enable companies to store and leverage corporate knowledge. However, these systems must meet FDA requirements. Read 7 tips!
Investing in better European health can save lives, build greater resilience, and underpin economic growth and prosperity.
Critics suggest the hospitals are exploiting desperate patients and profiting from trendy but unproven treatments.
One of the more bizarre twists in the amniotic “stem cell” scams out there is that certain physicians claim to be able to get an insurance company to reimburse for the procedure. I’ve also seen the same with the Lipogems system. Is this true? Nope, what’s really happening is an illegal misuse of billing codes that can … Continued
‘They want me to take my own system down. I’m not sick. I don’t need drugs’
An analysis of Medicare reimbursement shows that even with a 400% markup, hospitals will be hit with a financial loss.
This question and others like it are part of the conversations Minnesotans are having about ethics, costs and access.
The Department of Health and Human Services has a new plan to cut drug spending. But it’s not a change for the better.
The goal in a prelaunch environment is to shape the market to be more receptive for a new treatment. The focus is to build awareness of disease information and clinical data while trying to change providers’ attitudes. However, this approach often falls short of the potential to shape providers’ perceptions and address their knowledge and skills—aspects that are more likely to actually change behavior<br>Brand marketers…
People will do or pay almost anything to lessen their physical pain. Sometimes even going above the law to do so. But what ... Drug Crimes