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Women having radiation treatment for breast cancer experienced lasting improvements in mental and physical health and quality of life after participating in five sessions of art therapy, Swedish researchers report...

Traditional IT powers are betting that hosting electronic medical records will make for big business, and they are achieving some successes. This week, Google is announcing another deal with a pharmacy chain, as Microsoft’s system goes live at a major hospital. Right now, healthcare is big business. It’s one of the few segments of the economy that has been largely untouched ...

In 1995, a California doctor took responsibility for thousands of unwanted embryos. He's still figuring out what to do with them. Crazy!

According to a new report by congressional investigators, an insurance company practice of retroactively canceling health insurance is fairly common, and it saves insurers a lot of money.   Terrible!

I am not surprise of people in Healthcare trying cheat the GOVT for more money for Medicare and Medicade Patients. No one should be surprise because its been going for years. The bad part of this situation is not all DR"s, Nursing or others do the stealing. All I say what go around will come back. Thanks

The frailty of life and the healing powers of music are closely intertwined constants for David Hurley. By day, this North County native works as a trauma unit nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital, where he helps care for everyone from gunshot and stabbing wound victims to senior citizens who have fallen and broken a hip or an arm. By night ...

ATLANTA - Americans spend about $34 billion annually on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such out-of-pocket spending in more than a decade. Chiropractors, acupuncturists and herbal remedies are commanding more consumer dollars as people seek high-touch care in a high-tech society, the report released Thursday by the government shows. "We are talking about a very wide range ...

NEW YORK – With health care costs high on the national agenda, advocates of home births are challenging the medical and political establishments to give midwives a larger role in maternity care and to ease the state laws that limit their out-of-hospital practice. Pending bills to further this goal have significant backing in several states, which home-birth supporters want to add ...

ATLANTA – Just like their parents, kids are taking herbal supplements from fish oil to ginseng, a sign of just how mainstream alternative medicine has become. More than one in nine children and teens try those remedies and other nontraditional options, the government said Wednesday in its first national study of young people's use of these mostly unproven treatments. Given that ...

WASHINGTON – Chief Warrant Officer James Brad Smith broke five ribs, punctured a lung and shattered bones in his hand and thigh after falling more than 20 feet from a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad last month. While he was recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, his doctor suggested he add acupuncture to his treatment to help with ...

Does anyone know how to find someone to prepare an updated CV when entering different position, even though still in healthcare?I'm going back to college to get Master's in different area of healthcare. I'm 48, will need to update CV, and have it look very professional. I've been a medical tech for 25 years, am now going to master's in business administration ...

I am going into nursing this summer and was wondering what field of nursing I wanted to join and saw this. Forensic Nursing I have never heard of this and was very excited both of my most favorite subjects.  The Sience of nursing and the sience of the forensic study.  Omg.  I loved the artical.  It was very informative and interesting ...

BALTIMORE - At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive. They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible ...

NEW YORK -- Fashion is the last thing on Donna Karan's mind at the moment. When she says the designer's role is "not only to dress people but to address them as well," it is clear she will not be chatting about her latest wardrobe creations. A longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation, she has contributed $850,000 to the Beth Israel ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island would be the third state in the nation and the first on the East Coast to allow nonprofit stores to sell marijuana to medical patients under legislation approved Tuesday by state lawmakers. The state Senate voted 30-2 to adopt a measure permitting three stores to sell marijuana to more than 680 patients registered with the state ...

Two infants who died and one who was sickened at Miami Children's Hospital in March were infected with a common yet deadly bacteria, a county health department investigation concluded Wednesday.  

SACRAMENTO • Sen. George Runner Tuesday slammed a proposal by President Barack Obama that he said would hamper a doctor’s right to decline performing abortions for moral reasons.