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As the days get longer and temperatures rise, so do incidences of outdoor-related injuries.

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First-ever national grassroots movement to end asthma deaths in the united states.

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Practitioners get benefits of electronic records without doing time-consuming entry themselves.

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When Peter von Dyck founded e-Zassi.com, he realized his online business network for the medical device industry would help connect a wide range of companies to commercialize products more efficiently. What he did not realize was how useful the site would be for those in the industry looking for employment.

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Though the healthcare bill was fought long and hard, and the fight is not over yet, the focus within the healthcare industry is now moving towards delivering more services to more people. This means more medical information, needed more quickly, and without duplication or error. As a result, there should soon be a dramatic increase in the hiring of people with technical skills in information technology services, clinical development, and medical and regulatory affairs.

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Health educators nationwide who run youth smoking cessation programs now have access to a free toolkit to evaluate their programs at www.HYSQ.org.

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Head-to-toe examinations will mark the beginning of Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month in May.

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A new poll indicates that middle-aged Americans are much more likely to approve of the health care bill. A national University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released today suggests that 53 percent of 35- to 54-year-olds are in favor of the legislation. This support is despite the fact that only 28 percent of the age group believes the reform will improve quality of coverage, and 63 percent expect it to increase their out-of-pocket medical costs.

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Health-care workers from five downtown Toronto hospitals will come together on Wednesday to kick off the city’s first-ever Inter-Hospital Health Challenge — an initiative designed to encourage greater daily physical activity levels, healthier eating habits and awareness of how overall wellbeing can enhance work performance.

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System invented by clinical researchers at School of Medicine displays up-to-the-minute analytical data on a patient from laboratory tests.

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), the genetic disease in which the muscle of the heart thickens in the absence of an apparent cause, is the leading cause of sudden death in children and young adults. HCM accounts for 40 percent of all deaths on athletic playing fields across the U.S.

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10 tips on how to be your own personal healthcare manager.

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Awareness of cancer health disparities, the burden of the current economic crisis on these inequities, and interventions and policy initiatives to improve health disparities will be explored during a three-day forum hosted by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

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Shoulder and upper extremity injuries are very common according to Non-Surgical Orthopaedics, P.C. Many of them result from years of cumulative injuries punctuated by a trauma such as a motor vehicle accident, falls, or sports injuries. These injuries cost consumers, their employers and insurance companies billions of dollars a year in treatment and productivity losses.

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The American Medical Group Association announced that the first two meetings in a series of regional meetings focused on accountable care organizations (ACOs) were unqualified successes, drawing healthcare leaders together to network in an intimate setting and to learn from leading medical groups and organized systems of care that are exemplars of the ACO model. AMGA and its members developed the ACO model based on the experiences of its members in the CMS Physician Group Practice Demonstration and the practice patterns of high-performing health care organizations.

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The George Washington University and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launch Health Reform GPS, a Web portal that will help key stakeholders understand and operationalize health reform legislation.

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The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released the “Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit,” which was prepared for AHRQ by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The toolkit, which can be downloaded as a PDF from the AHRQ website, is designed to help primary care doctors and their staffs learn how to communicate more effectively with their patients.

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RENCI (the Renaissance Computing Institute) is working with the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Health Center to build an easy-to-use data analysis dashboard to help doctors quickly determine the best treatment options for their patients.

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) have come up with innovative ways to provide parenting tips to new parents of all demographics.

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Motivated clinicians and an Internet connection combined with computers and e-mail access have the power to transform pediatric cancer treatment in the most remote corners of earth.