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Premier Inc., an alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 67,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care, and Xoft, Inc., the leading provider of FDA-cleared Electronic Brachytherapy Systems, announced the execution of a group purchasing contract. Xoft was awarded an exclusive three-year contract for brachytherapy systems with Premier Purchasing [...]

July 29ST. THOMAS Schneider Regional Medical Center CEO Alice Taylor outlined plans to ensure that St. Thomas’ only hemodialysis provider will be able to continue accepting Medicare payments.Last month, a review by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services found serious deficiencies in the unit. Taylor said that she asked the reviewer how long [...]

Newly formed, the SERIO South Carolina physician group, which features physicians who are board certified in emergency medicine, began caring for patients in the emergency departments at Providence Hospital and Providence Hospital Northeast in early July 2010.(PRWEB) July 30, 2010 On July 5, 2010, Providence Hospitals welcomed SERIO South Carolina providers to the emergency [...]

New investigation results, ‘Spectrum and frequency of SLC26A4 mutations among Czech patients with early hearing loss with and without Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA),’ are detailed in a study published in Annals of Human Genetics. According to recent research from Prague, Czech Republic, "Mutations in SLC26A4 cause Pendred syndrome (PS) -hearing loss with goitre -or DFNB4 [...]

Data detailed in ‘Breast cancer in young women in a limited-resource environment’ have been presented. According to recent research from Cape Town, South Africa, "Despite the higher incidence of breast cancer in young women in developing countries, there is a paucity of data on their management. We present the clinicopathological features and outcome of treatment [...]

Research findings, ‘Quality of life of patients with ovarian cancer in Taiwan: validation and application of the Taiwan Chinese version of the EORTC QLQ-OV28,’ are discussed in a new report. According to recent research published in the journal Psycho-oncology, "The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Taiwan Chinese [...]

SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI: Malaysian state investor Khazanah trumped India s Fortis Healthcare in a takeover battle for Singapore s Parkway with an offer that values Asia s biggest listed hospital operator at $3.3 billion.The deal pitted a state investor and private enterprise in a rare asset tussle and ended two months of sometimes hostile wrangling over [...]

July 29BHOPAL The Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government have ordered separate probes into alleged illegal drug trials by doctors of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, Indore, on hundreds of patients.The probes followed a report in HT in its July 25 edition.Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) director-general Dr [...]

Current study results from the report, ‘The complex relation between bisphosphonate adherence and fracture reduction,’ have been published. "Real-world adherence to bisphosphonate therapy is poor. Consistent data support a relation between medication adherence and fracture reduction, but relatively little attention has been paid to the effect of the method used to measure adherence on this [...]

Data detailed in ‘Impact of alopecia and scalp cooling on the well-being of breast cancer patients’ have been presented. "Chemotherapy-induced alopecia, a common and distressing side effect of chemotherapy, may be prevented by scalp cooling, which reduces toxicity of cytostatics in hair root cells. This is the first study designed to assess the effect of [...]