News For: Small business Major MedicalSheriff: Husband shoots wife at Metairie medical clinic The husband of a receptionist who worked at a Metairie medical clinic barged into the business and shot her at least once in the leg before fleeing and being apprehended quickly, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand. Medical center gets patients ready for potential disaster With a hurricane churning in the Gulf of Mexico inching closer to the Texas coast line, Tomball and Magnolia residents are not the only people preparing for what could be a major storm. Tomball Regional Medical Center must also be ready to provide emergency services and protect its patients during potential disasters. Small Patients, Big Consequences in Medical Errors Overdoses and other medical mistakes can put young patients at risk. Medical business park may be coming to Fallon Churchill County will sell approximately 18 acres of land around the hospital to a local nonprofit corporation in an effort to develop a medical business park in that area of the city. Peddling prescriptions - Medical schools, journals fight industry influence Journal of the American Medical Association editor-in-chief Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis is seen in her office in Chicago, Ill. In a challenge unthinkable even two months ago, Dr. DeAngelis now compares the drug safety system to a dangerous building: "This building is on very shaky ground. Combining Advanced Medical and Information Technologies Offers Pathway to Lower Health Care Costs, Especially for ... WASHINGTON----Integrating sophisticated medical technologies for patient monitoring with advanced information systems and clinical expertise has the potential to significantly improve medical care while lowering treatment costs. Med center construction starts at Anson WHITESTOWN A 42,500-square-foot free-standing emergency room and medical facility will break ground today just off Ind. 334 in the retail and business section of the Anson development. Witham Health Services and St. Vincent Health have hired BremnerDuke to develop the ER that is expected to be complete this time next year, creating about 50 new jobs with salaries that average $75,000. The ER ... Judge tosses federal claims in parents' medical-rights suit A federal judge Monday threw out part of a lawsuit filed by a Sandy couple who claimed their constitutional right to decide the best course of medical treatment for their son was violated. House panel seeks stiffer penalties for medical malpractice, other medical offenses MANILA, Philippines - The House Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday sought to amend a law penalizing medical practitioners involved in improprieties such as the "Cebu canister scandal." High Blood Pressure Takes Big Toll On Small Filtering Units Of The Kidney Take a kidney out of the body and it still knows how to filter toxins from the blood. But all bets are off in the face of high blood pressure. "How does the kidney know how to do it and why does it break in hypertension?" says Dr. Edward W. Inscho, physiologist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies. |


