News For: Major Medical Wisconsin DentalOakland County seeks medical leadership Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson announced Wednesday a major campaign to make the county a world-recognized destination for medical care, health care industry jobs and biotechnology research. Major study aims for new approaches to cardiovascular disease management The Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control COSEHC, headquartered at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, is launching a major five-year study designed to update current guidelines for treating cardiovascular diseases, improve disease management and reduce heart attacks and strokes in the Southeast. Healthcare Insurer Medical Mutual and VITAS Innovative Hospice Care Sign Multi-State Agreement VITAS Innovative Hospice Care�� and Medical Mutual have signed a national agreement to ensure access to quality hospice services for Medical Mutual members who reside in major metro markets served by VITAS. Patterson creates Oakland Medical consortium Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson spent weeks touring medical facilities in the county and saw two things: billions of dollars were being spent on expansions and no one was bragging about it. States, medical groups oppose abortion rule Several medical associations and 13 state attorneys general voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed federal rule that they fear would open the door for hospitals and physicians to deny access to contraception. Medical Center seeks to eliminate $33M in operating expenses The Medical Center of Central Georgia is seeking to eliminate $33 million from its operating expenses, more than three times the amount it had previously acknowledged. Man's death in Winnipeg ER 'preventable': chief medical examiner The death of a Winnipegger who waited more than 34 hours in a city emergency room without receiving care was preventable, the province's chief medical examiner said Wednesday. Westchester Medical Center rejuvenates ICU VALHALLA - Doctors and nurses at Westchester Medical Center yesterday not only transferred patients to a new unit, they took them to a new generation. Noted Medical Physicist To Document OSLD Superiority At 50th ASTRO Annual Meeting Landauer, Inc. NYSE: LDR, a recognized leader in personal and environmental radiation monitoring, announced that noted medical physicist, Paul A. Jursinic, Ph.D., will be presenting at ASTRO his findings on the superiority of Landauer's Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimetry OSLD for clinical dosimetric measurements. Dr. Surgery robot hired with DeKalb Medical donation DeKalb Medical has obtained a $1.6 million surgery robot, thanks to a $3.3 million donation. |

