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Physicians Practice And All Children's Hospital To Improve Patient Care In St. Petersburg, FL
Physicians Practice and All Children's Hospital have joined forces to help provide area physicians and their staff more time to devote to patient care. This new partnership is a unique program designed to help doctors in the St. Petersburg area better handle the cumbersome and time-consuming issues of managing a busy practice. Through this new alliance, All Children's Hospital will use ...

Every Patient First: New health equity initiative aims to reduce disparities in access to health care in the U.S.
Medtronic, Inc. today introduced Every Patient First, a health equity initiative that, in partnership with health care providers, professional societies and patient advocacy groups, aims to reduce disparities in access to health care in the United States. The announcement was made at the 59th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta.

Stressful but vital: Picking a nursing home
The decision is one of the hardest you will ever make. Your spouse, parent or another loved one needs care that assisted living or home health care simply cannot provide. You need to choose a nursing home.

Crawfish boil for American Cancer Society April 10
The American Cancer Society's junior executive board will host the Bite the Tail Off Cancer Crawfish Boil from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 10 at the Riverwalk Ampitheater in Montgomery.

Lasik Patient Seeks $180M in Damages
TLC LASIK Centers Accused of Performing Procedures on Patients With Pre-Existing Conditions

Orting-area medical marijuana patient dies of injuries
Pierce County sheriff’s detectives are trying to learn who killed a medical marijuana patient who had been growing 150 pot plants on his Orting-area property and been the victim of attempted robberies in the past.

‘Young Minds’ program for graduate and post-doctoral students
The Regenerative Medicine Foundation is pleased to announce a special "Young Minds" graduate student registration rate for its annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem.

Use of insanity defense in Maine on the rise
AUGUSTA, Maine -- For years, life for William Bruce was defined by mounting paranoia.

Patient Advocacy Group Asks FDA To Enhance Its Enforcement Of Unapproved Drugs Initiative
The National Minority Quality Forum (The Forum) is launching a new public information campaign aimed to help educate consumers, physicians, and policymakers about the risks associated with prescribing and taking unapproved drugs that have not been subjected to the rigorous Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) review and approval process. Unapproved drugs can be dangerous - or even deadly - to ...

At area hospitals: Domestic violence services improving with team
In one 24-hour period in the United States, more than 65,000 victims of domestic violence and their children receive life-saving services from local domestic violence programs, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence.