Category: Hospitals

MEwens
Also: Stem cell legislation in the House; Abbott ends an auction; NYC public hospitals prepare for some changes.
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MEwens
Also: NEJM editors say Meridia should be yanked; stem cell plaintiffs explain themselves to the WSJ; are hospital profits the driver of health-care costs?
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MEwens
Public hospitals are being sold amidst a general boom in hospital M&A activity.
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MEwens
Will the Pope sign off on a private-equity deal?
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Katherine Hobson
Also: Perils of Facebook for hospital workers; early puberty in girls; salmonella and pet food.
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Jonathan D. Rockoff
It’s not clear whether the trends Tenet is seeing are linked to some broader drop in the birth rate.
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Katherine Hobson
Why does the Mayo Clinic need a center devoted to explaining how to use blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube?
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Laura Landro
Also: hospitals using Tasers; cautious optimism over a possible HIV preventive; end of the line for swine flu pandemic?
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Katherine Hobson
Would you pick a doctor or a hospital if you knew they were more wired?
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MEwens
A long cover story in Washington Monthly has gotten people talking about group purchasing organizations again.
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