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November 21, 2014
Patients struggle to get curative Hepatitis C drugs
Medication therapies are hitting the market that can cure Hepatitis C in the vast majority of patients — and with fewer side effects and treatment risks, as compared with past therapies.
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November 16, 2014
Program helps special needs children transition into adulthood
Most parents approach their child's 21st birthday with a sense of celebration for the exciting possibilities ahead and a dash of apprehension. But for the parents of severely disabled children, who lose many government-funded services at 21, it's a whole different story.
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November 16, 2014
Mercy Health's in harmony with professional, amateur musicians
Walk into a Mercy Health — Cincinnati hospital and chances are good that a volunteer pianist will be entertaining in the lobby.
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November 16, 2014
Through Crossroads, at-risk youth find route to productive lives
Until three months ago, Juan Flores, just 19, was already living a life of regret. "I was at home, doing nothing, going nowhere. I wanted to get a high school diploma, get a job, even go to college, but I just wasn't making the effort," says Flores, who lives in Compton, a city in southern Los Angeles County notorious for gang violence.
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November 16, 2014
Holy Cross Health opens hospital on community college campus
Holy Cross Health of Silver Spring, Md., has opened a $200 million, 93-bed hospital in Germantown, Md., in the same county about 20 miles northwest of the regional health system's 443-bed Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
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November 15, 2014
Patients become consumers in new models of health financing
In shaping health reform, health policy makers built in economic incentives and disincentives intended in part to give rise to an informed and value-conscious health care consumer.
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November 15, 2014
Kids hop, skip and jump for fitness
About 650 Los Angeles-area schoolchildren played their way through a circuit of interactive activities — and got a healthy dose of exercise in the process — at the "Cardio Carnival" organized by Providence Health & Services of Southern California.
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November 15, 2014
Mental health program helps seniors deal with life's losses
The years of young adulthood and middle age are generally times of adding things — a spouse, a degree, a new job, a new house. But for many people, the senior years are a time of subtraction.
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November 15, 2014
Holy Spirit Health System affiliates with Geisinger Health System
Holy Spirit Health System of Camp Hill, Pa., has become an affiliate of Geisinger Health System of Danville, Pa., in a deal that closed early last month. No money changed hands with the affiliation; nor did the organizations merge assets.
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November 15, 2014
Collaboration aims to lower costs, improve outcomes for knee and hip replacements
The Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford is one of three project leaders on a collaborative organized by Harvard Business School faculty and staff and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to improve the value of care by reducing costs and improving outcomes for knee and hip replacement procedures.