Senate Republicans delivered a serious setback to the community of Ground Zero responders and their families today by blocking the Zadroga bill from coming to a vote.
Researchers from Australia are using data mining techniques to treat and prevent depression.
From hotel-style room service to massage therapy to magnificent views, hospitals are increasingly advertise their luxury services in a bid to gain market share, particularly those in competitive urban markets.
Trading activity around a number of healthcare deals is being examined by the U.S. authorities as part of investigations into suspected insider trading by certain hedge fund players, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The American people did not vote for political gridlock in Washington, according to President Barack Obama who today met with Congressional leaders from both parties to discuss what they consider the main components of the national agenda.
Supporters of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act may be looking at the measure’s last best chance of becoming law.
Another section of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s massive overhaul of the American healthcare system, was wheeled out today, when Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius introduced a new regulation that will require insurers to spend between 80 and 85 percent of their customers’ premiums directly on their customers’ health care.
Thomson Reuters, the world's leading financial news and business information provider, is acquiring Pangea3, one of the largest legal outsourcing firms in India, for an undisclosed amount.
Swiss pharma giant Roche said it plans to cut 4,800 jobs worldwide over the next two years due to mounting cost pressures in healthcare -particularly in the US and Europe - and increasing hurdles for the approval and pricing of new medicines.
IBM will be leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop smart cloud storage architecture, which is likely to improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across boundaries of countries and vendors.
Five hundred million of a total of 1.4 billion smartphone users will be using mobile health applications in 2015, a report said. Both healthcare providers and consumers are embracing smartphones as a means for improving healthcare.
Company will look to help cities become smarter through technological innovation.
Indian equity markets are trading lower by 29.17 points or 0.14 percent on Thursday with consumer durables, metal, healthcare and auto sectoral indices are in the gaining side and telecom, IT and realty sectoral indices are in the negative side.
Republicans could keep their promises to stop healthcare reform even if they cannot repeal it, simply by blocking legislation needed to pay for it, one expert argued on Wednesday.
Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.
A report from the institute calls for an overhaul in the responsibility and training of nurses and says doing so is key to improving the fragmented and expensive U.S. healthcare system -- President Barack Obama's signature political initiative.
Johnson & Johnson's massive recall of popular medicines, including a stealthy recall of some Motrin packages, has eroded the company's reputation and put pressure on chief executive Bill Weldon who appears before a congressional committee on Thursday.
U.S. health regulators knew that Johnson & Johnson's McNeil unit was using a contractor to buy back potentially faulty batches of Motrin, although there was no formal agreement with the government, lawyers for the company told lawmakers.
President Barack Obama launched a new attempt to convince Americans of the advantages of his healthcare overhaul on Wednesday, just six weeks before an election in which the plan has proved more of a liability than a benefit for his fellow Democrats.
Many Americans this week are finally getting to try on for size the Affordable Care Act. September 23 marks, just for starters, the end of lifetime payment caps as well as the expansion of parents' benefits to childrenunder 26. Insurers can also no longer cancel coverage if a policyholder falls sick.
U.S. doctors increasingly are ditching pen and paper and sending prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, lured by up to $27 billion in government funds aimed at speeding the switch to electronic medical records.
According to a recent research published in journal of Health Affairs the US healthcare spending is growing at an average rate of 6.3 percent. By 2014 the spending will go up by 9.2 percent. It is projected to reach nearly $4.6 trillion by 2019.
