Health IT Information Technology

Why Health IT?   Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...

Healthcare

Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...

Palliative Care

Palliative care is the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is param...

Skin Care

Wound care

UH Case Medical Center awarded highest certification as Comprehensive Stroke Center

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) University Hospitals Case Medical Center has become the first hospital in Northeast Ohio and 19th in the nation to achieve The Joint Commission's standards f...

UC San Diego Health System receives Comprehensive Stroke Center designation

UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest is one of five facilities in the country, and the only center in San Diego County, to be recognized as one of the first Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSC), the ne...

The Joint Commission, AHA/ASA recognize HUP with Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has been recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) as meeting The Joint Commissio...

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania receives Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has been recognized by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Associatio...

CMS announces participation of PCPs in Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

The American College of Physicians (ACP) today praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its announcement of primary care practices to participate in a historic public-private p...

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Joins OncLive’s Strategic Alliance Partnership

OncLive Gives Partners a Forum for Their Research, Events & Initiatives OncLive® is pleased to announce that the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center has joi...

CMS Announces Initiative To Improve Primary Care

500 primary care practices from 7 U.S. regions have been chosen to form a new partnership to offer improved quality health care at affordable costs. The Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative is a 4-ye...

ITL, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center sign drug development collaboration

Immunovative (IMUN) has announced that Immunovative Therapies (ITL) and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have partnered for th...

Defining the benefits of desensitization therapy.

Deciphering the anticancer mechanisms of sunitinib.

Refractory epilepsy associated with microglial activation.

: Experimental and clinical studies support a pathogenic role of microglial activation and proliferation (MAP) in epileptogenesis.

To screen or not to screen women in their 40s for breast cancer: is personalized risk-based screening the answer?

Comprehensive assessment of depression and behavioral problems in long-term care.

ABSTRACTBackground: The IPA Taskforce on Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Care Homes seeks to improve mental health care in long-term care (LTC) homes. The aim of this paper is to provide recommendat...