AKRON, Ohio Researchers, health care engineers and medical device experts gathered this week for the inaugural National Conference on Value-driven Engineering to Improve Medical Innovation for U.S. Global Competitiveness assembled by the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA) and sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Experts from some ...

(Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron) Researchers, health care engineers and medical device experts gathered this week for the inaugural National Conference on Value-driven Engineering to Improve Medical Innovation for US Global Competitiveness assembled by the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron and sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Experts from ...

More involvement by patients, clinicians and others in the health care community in developing comparative clinical effectiveness research studies will make such studies far more useful in clinical decision-making, according to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, in an article published in the April 18 issue of JAMA, a theme issue ...

TAMPA, FL Patients around the world will benefit from better training and testing of health professionals as USF Health opens its $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in downtown Tampa. Packed with learning tools that aren't found anywhere else in the world, ...

(Edelman) Patients around the world will benefit from better training and testing of health professionals as USF Health opens its $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in downtown Tampa.

The Peace Corps, PEPFAR and the Global Health Service Corps on Tuesday will announce a public-private partnership program to place U.S. health workers overseas to help address medical professional shortages, CQ HealthBeat reports (Bristol, 3/12).

The people we trust to take us or our loved ones from place to place struggle with sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation's (NSF) 2012 Sleep in America poll. It is the first poll to ask transportation professionals, including pilots, train operators, truck, bus, taxi and limo drivers ...

Doctors and nurses may be underestimating the value placed on internet chemotherapy information by cancer patients and missing out on opportunities to discuss this information with them, new research finds today.

The Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals (formerly the Dietary Managers Association) has launched its newly redesigned and renamed magazine, Nutrition & Foodservice Edge.

According to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, shortages of anti-infective medications used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk. Frequent shortages of these medications can considerably change clinical care and could result in worse outcomes for patients. Furthermore, the prevalence of ...

(Edelman Public Relations) Columbia University Medical Center's Program in Narrative Medicine is introducing a more collaborative approach to education with a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary, interprofessional seminar on teamwork in medicine.The semester-long seminar, titled "The Cultures of Health, Illness and Health Care," is supported by a $1 million, four-year grant from the ...

The conclusion of a report by the Commission on Assisted Dying that there is a strong case for providing the choice of assisted dying for terminally ill people' has been welcomed by Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD), as well as the way in which the conclusion was reached. The ...