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According to US Department of Health and Human Services, compared with urban Americans, rural residents have higher poverty rates, have fewer doctors, hospitals, and other health resources, and face more difficulty getting to health services. Beginning 2014, when health care reform becomes effective, an estimated 2.4 million Californians will be newly-eligible for Medi-Cal. However, many [...]

New investigation results, ‘Tracking a sample of patients lost to follow-up has a major impact on understanding determinants of survival in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Africa,’ are detailed in a study published in Tropical Medicine & International Health. According to recent research published in the journal Tropical Medicine & International Health, "To date, [...]

Research findings, ‘End-of-life decision making in the intensive care unit,’ are discussed in a new report. According to a study from the United States, "Increasingly in the United States and other countries, medical decisions, including those at the end of life, are made using a shared decision-making model. Under this model, physicians and other clinicians [...]

July 25Marin General Hospital, which recently returned to public management, has joined with the Marin IPA medical group, a network of local doctors, to form a nonprofit foundation that will aid it in future competition with Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente.No hospital or medical organization can succeed without talented physicians. State law, however, bars hospitals [...]

July 25A psychotic and desperate Linda Carol Clark repeatedly warned workers at a Placerville hospital that she was going to leave the hospital before she commandeered an ambulance and later was shot to death by police, a federal investigative report indicates.The report, released to The Bee on Friday under the federal Freedom of Information Act, [...]

July 24A psychotic and desperate Linda Carol Clark repeatedly warned workers at a Placerville hospital that she was going to leave the hospital before she commandeered an ambulance and later was shot to death by police, a federal investigative report indicates.The report, released to The Bee on Friday under the federal Freedom of Information Act, [...]

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPCM), a leading national hospitalist physician group practice company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine and its Center for the Health Professions to develop a leadership training [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, today announced the appointment of Richard B. Brewer as Executive Chairman. With over 35 years of biotech and pharmaceutical industry experience, Mr. Brewer brings a wealth of operational, financial, and business [...]

July 19A bitter battle over nurse staffing levels is now shifting to the Minnesota Legislature. As the nurses’ union begins its push for a bill mandating California-style staffing ratios, lawmakers need to realize they’ll be asked to support a costly, controversial measure that so far hasn’t been proven to improve patient safety.Fixed staffing ratios were [...]

Californians for Patient Care (CPC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting equitable access to safe, high quality and affordable health care for all Californians, announced that Carmella Gutierrez has joined the organization as president, effective immediately. Ms. Gutierrez will lead all public policy, advocacy and education efforts for the statewide organization dedicated to patient issues [...]