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Cleveland Clinic announces top ten innovations for 2008

For the third year in a row, Cleveland Clinic has picked what they think are the top ten innovations in medicine. The picks, which are ones that they think will have the most impact on medicine in... Read more...

Trend: More hospitals offering alternative, complementary treatments

While it's all well and good to give patients the latest in medical science, their mind and soul need attention, too. Increasingly, hospitals are addressing these needs by adding alternative and... Read more...

UPMC CEO's $3.95M pay draws attention

In a world where the bar keeps moving higher, it seems that bar has gone up yet again. It looks like University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CEO Jeffrey Romoff was paid almost $3.95 million in total... Read more...

Study: Older blood raises heart surgery risk

Right now, it's commonplace for patients getting heart surgery to get blood that has been waiting in a refrigerator for two weeks or longer. As it turns out, this may be raising their risk of... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Cleveland Clinic spends big on lobbying feds; Seattle hospitals going green; and much more...

> When it comes to lobbying, the Cleveland Clinic does it up. The multispecialty medical center spent more than $1.36 million during 2007 alone to lobby the federal government. Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Google testing medical data storage; Jarvik defends pulled Lipitor ads; and much more...

> Google has officially begun storing medical information on individual patients, working in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Right now it's a pilot project, but Google intends to roll out... Read more...

NJ AG investigating device maker

In recent weeks, observers have been challenging the results of a study on an artificial... Read more...

Ohio AG working to define charity care

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has kicked off an initiative under which he plans to better define what the state's not-for-profit hospitals must do to keep their state property tax exemption. Among... Read more...

Conflict questions raised in spinal disk study

Observers are raising tough challenges to a newly-released spinal disk study that suggests an artificial spinal disk, Prodisc, works better to improve patient functioning than conventional... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Tufts gives $500K to quality group; Cleveland clinic gets $5M for innovation; and much more...

> Boston's Tufts Health Plan has donated $500,000 to a local non-profit which measures physician performance. Read more...

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