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...

Wound care

Skin Care

Ulcer care

Duke University Medical Center Study Finds Prodigy Blood Glucose Monitor System Ranks Highest In Quality Among Leading Brands

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Diabetes Care (Prodigy) announced today that a recent study conducted by the Duke University revealed that the Prodigy AutoCode® blood gl...

Prodigy Generics and eVenus Announce the Launch of Oncology Injectable Irinotecan.

AUSTIN, Texas, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Generics, a division of Prodigy Health Supplier Corporation (PHS), has launched injectable irinotecan. Irinotecan is the generic equivalent of...

Prodigy Generics launches injectable irinotecan

Prodigy Generics, a division of Prodigy Health Supplier Corporation (PHS), has launched injectable irinotecan. Irinotecan is the generic equivalent of the branded drug Camptosar by Pfizer.

Prodigy Generics and eVenus launch injectable generic Camptosar in USA

Prodigy Generics, a division of Prodigy Health Supplier Corp (PHS), has launched injectable irinotecan, a generic equivalent of the branded cancer drug Camptosar from pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) i...

Prodigy Diabetes Care and OK Biotech Align Ownership

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Diabetes Care (Prodigy) announced today that its current manufacturing partner, OK Biotech Co., Ltd., (OK Biotech) has purchased a minority stak...

Prodigy Health Supplier Partners with Stason Pharmaceuticals to Help Relieve U.S. Drug Shortages

AUSTIN, Texas, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodigy Health Supplier entered a Joint Venture with Stason Pharmaceuticals to bring a diverse line of quality generic pharmaceuticals to the U.S. market....

Music for Hearts in Yunnan Province, China

LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What does a child prodigy do a few years after all the hoopla has died down? Marc Yu's answer is, "You know about fame, hard work, and the b...

Clearing The Fog: Cloud Computing For Beginners

Précis:  Paul Shawah, VP CRM Strategy and Ted Wallach, Senior Product Manager at Veeva Systems discuss cloud security and why moving into the cloud c...

Hearing Bad News.

Personal reports of receiving bad news provide data that describes patients' comprehension, reflections, experienced emotions, and an interpretative commentary with the wisdom of hindsight. Analysis o...

Breaking bad medical news in a dental care setting.

/st> Dental care providers may diagnose diseases and conditions that affect a patient's general health. The authors reviewed issues related to breaking bad medical news to dental practice patients and...

Better care.

SPIKES: A Framework for Breaking Bad News to Patients With Cancer.

SPIKES is an acronym for presenting distressing information in an organized manner to patients and families. The SPIKES protocol provides a step-wise framework for difficult discussions such as when c...

The goals of communicating bad news in health care: do physicians and patients agree?

Background  Communicating bad news serves different goals in health care, and the extent to which physicians and patients agree on the goals of these conversations may influence their process and ou...