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Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses Offer Coverage: Report
Title: Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses Offer Coverage: Report Category: Health News Created: 9/2/2010 12:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:28:52 -0700

Health care organizations should disclose medical errors that affect multiple patients: Researchers
Health care organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an AHRQ-funded research paper published in the September 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:57:32 -0700

Health Care Professionals and Advocates from 84 Countries to Issue Declaration that Access to Pain Management is a ...
MONTREAL, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Health care providers and researchers in the field of pain management are calling for governments worldwide to recognize the rights of people to the access of reasonable care for acute and chronic pain. Today, at the first annual International Pain Summit, delegates from 84 countries will issue a declaration asserting that access to pain management is a ...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:59:56 -0700

Local health care costs rising: Newly insured, Medicaid patients add to systems' burden
Federal health care reform and Medicaid expansion has LaCrosse's two health systems treating more patients while gettingpaid less, officials said.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:10:05 -0700

Health Care Among Nation's Top Industries For Jobs
Looking for a job? Focus on the health care industry – that’s where hiring is picking up.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:04:23 -0700