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News'Nurse navigators' guide patients through complicated care system
Dedicated to helping patients go through a sometimes extremely complicated healthcare system, a new breed of "nurse navigators" aims to guide cancer patients through explanations, scheduling, Read more...
Smartphone app helps doctors detect cancer
Doctors might soon be able to detect cancer faster and more accurately with their smartphones, reports FierceMobileHealthcare. Researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a Read more...
Cancer misdiagnosis leads to lawsuit against hospital
A Long Island woman who spent the last two years in in-home hospice care doped up on morphine plans to sue Brookhaven Memorial Hospital for misdiagnosing her with cancer, the UPI reports. Ramona Read more...
Millions of cancer survivors report having put off care for financial reasons
A new analysis has found that two million cancer survivors did not get needed medical services in the previous year because of concerns about cost, reports a study published in Cancer, a Read more...
Racial disparities found in how often dying wishes are respected
In yet another of the reminder that there are huge ethnic variations present in our healthcare system, researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have concluded that dying white cancer Read more...
Study: Depression in aging cancer patients should be treated in primary care
Far too often, primary-care doctors miss classic signs of depression when screening patients for other conditions. This week, a study makes note that one particularly vulnerable group is elderly Read more...
Report:12 million Americans rejected by health plans
A new report from HHS concludes that the current health insurance system rejected 12.6 million non-elderly adults, or 36 percent of those who attempted to buy health coverage, during the past year. Read more...
Brigham and Women's begins personalized medicine project
Brigham and Women's Hospital has become the latest to immerse itself in the business of conducting personalized genetic research on treatments for cancer, brain and heart disease. Working with GE Read more...
Hospitals fight penalties for delaying reports of cancer cases to state
The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) is fighting a proposed penalty that would charge hospitals as much as $1,000 a day for delaying reports of cancer cases to the state's tumor registry. CHA Read more...
Suit claims mold killed FL cancer patients
A Tampa, FL-based hospital is battling claims that mold released by renovations, rather than their illness, killed three young cancer patients last year. The hospital has argued that the three Read more...
| Press ReleasesNew Release of NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Colon Cancer; Updated NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Prostate CancerNew NCCN Guidelines for Patients™: Colon Cancer and Updated NCCN Guidelines for Patients™: Prostate Cancer are now available on-line at NCCN.com. The same authoritative source referenced by Read more >> AT&T Makes Donation to Support Children's Cancer Charity Camp QualitySYDNEY, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T Inc.* continues to support Australian charities and has donated US$29,000 to Camp Quality, a charity that supports children living with cancer and their Read more >> Capital Health Will be First in U.S. to Offer GE Molecular Breast ImagingGE Healthcare’s Discovery NM 750b Is a Specialized Breast Scanner That Enables Advanced Functional Imaging of Breast Cancer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. & WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Capital Read more >> Fourth German Hospital Selects IntraOp Medical Corporation’s MobetronSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IntraOp Medical Corporation (OTC: IOPD.PK - News) today announced that Helios Berlin Buch became the fourth German hospital and the nineteenth European hospital Read more >> 2011 Achievements and 2012 Prospects BioAlliance Pharma Confirms the Dynamics of Its Core BusinessPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News: BioAlliance Pharma SA (Paris:BIO) (Euronext Paris - BIO), a company dedicated to specialty and orphan oncology products, today announces its 2011 Read more >> |
