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ECRMC offers free credit monitoring after X-ray theft
Staff WriterAfter the loss of thousands of X-rays, El Centro Regional Medical Center is offering free credit monitoring to patients whose records may have been compromised. The incident first surfaced last November, when a company contracted to digitize X-rays in...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Politics, Theft, X-rays, Medical Procedures and Tests
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An important reminder: Mammograms save lives
We all know someone who has had breast cancer. Breast cancer affects one out of eight women in their lifetime. On this special Sunday in May, when we celebrate the mothers and special women in our lives, we want to remind the women of Michiana to take...Tags: Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Death, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Challenges, changes and controversies: ECRMC deals with evolving medical climate
Staff WriterHealth care reform, budget cuts and ever more stringent governmental regulations are what El Centro Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Officer David Green finds as the main challenges the hospital faces. “So what are we going to have to do...Tags: Theft, Medicare, University of Chicago, Government Health Care, Economy, Business and Finance
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READER SUBMITTED: Hospital's breast program named Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence
Greater New BritainThe Hospital of Central Connecticut's comprehensive breast program recently became the first such program in Connecticut to be recognized as a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence in the National Quality Measures for Breast CentersTM (NQMBC)...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Radiation Therapy, Breast Cancer, Oncology, Nursing
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Magellan Reports Strong Earnings, Decreases Outlook Over Loss Of Arizona Contract
The Hartford CourantMagellan Health Services Inc. reported better earnings and stronger revenue for the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year, but the company lowered its outlook because it lost a multi-billion-dollar Medicaid contract in...Tags: Auto Trends, Magellan Health Services Incorporated, Government Health Care, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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West Boca Medical opens new breast cancer center
West Boca Medical Center has hired a breast specialist and nurse navigator and is adding additional diagnostic tests for the new Breast Center at West Boca Diagnostic Imaging in the Garden Shops at Boca. Half of the former imaging center at 7070 W....Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Biopsy, Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Why are prices for medical care such a mystery?
Ted Kamp wanted to make sure his daughter received the medical treatment she needed. That was his first priority. His second was making sure his insurance would cover things and that he'd pay a fair price for any procedures. The fact that this...
Tags: Google Inc., Prices, Insurance, X-rays, Networking
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Computer tool may not boost mammograms' accuracy
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using a computer tool to help doctors analyze mammography images increases the number of early, non-invasive breast cancers that are caught, but also means more women without cancer have to undergo follow-up ultrasounds and...Tags: Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Medicare, Government Health Care, X-rays
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John Ward Ross-Duggan, MD
John Ward Ross-Duggan, MD (nicknames “ John Ross, Doctor John, Rhino) Died at age of 57 drowned in a sailing accident on February 23, 2013. Residing in Honolulu, Hawaii. Born: Long Beach CALIF. On August 2, 1955 Son of Dr. John K Ross-Duggan,...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Parkland, Orlando, Human Interest
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Doctors don't often tell patients of CT scan risks
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only about a third of patients surveyed at one U.S. medical center said their doctors told them about the possible risks of a CT scan, such as radiation exposure, a new study finds. Researchers, who published their findings in...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), X-rays, Internal Medicine, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Magellan Health's Earnings Up For Quarter, Year
The Hartford CourantMagellan Health Services Inc. beat Wall Street analysts' expectations on earnings, but missed on revenue for the final quarter of 2012. The company's earnings, reported Thursday, leapt nearly 26 percent compared to the same quarter a year earlier, $37...Tags: Magellan Health Services Incorporated, Government Health Care, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Behavioral Conditions
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Closing deadly loopholes
In July, authorities discovered that a radiology technician who had worked in Maryland and several other states had been injecting himself with narcotics-filled syringes, refilling them with saline and leaving them behind for use on patients. More than 1,...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cosmetic Procedures, Pharmaceuticals, Justice System, Local Government
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