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Li Tiantian, a Chinese doctor turned tech entrepreneur, is a leading light of the country’s much-trumpeted healthcare reform drive. His medical networking platform DXY.com …has attracted funding from tech giants … reality is rather different… a lack of support by Beijing and obstacles working with China’s huge, fragmented public healthcare sector...

New York City officials have launched aggressive measures to stop the spread of Legionnaires' disease,...death toll in the outbreak, which has been concentrated in the South Bronx, has now hit double-digits, with 10 dead and 100 confirmed sick. Of those, 53 have been treated and released from hospitals..."We are doing everything that we can,"....

Hiring at hospitals continued its roller-coaster year, as healthcare's largest sector faces increased staffing competition. Hospitals added 15,700 positions in July, more than doubling June's increase, according to seasonally adjusted numbers....

As public hospitals like Harbor-UCLA try to cut costs and make patients happier, administrators have turned to an unlikely ally: Toyota. They are adapting the car maker’s production system to healthcare, changing longstanding practices such as how to store equipment, schedule surgeries and discharge patients. The philosophy, known as lean, depends on a continuous team effort to pare inefficiency and improve quality...

A revolutionary, high-throughput, robotic platform has been designed that automates and standardizes the process of transforming patient samples into stem cells. This unique platform for the first time gives researchers the scale to look at diverse populations to better understand the underlying causes of disease and create new individually tailored treatments, enabling precision medicine in patient care.

Like Hollywood, the Las Vegas entertainment industry places a strong emphasis on physical appearance… "Las Vegas has placed value on appearance," said plastic surgeon Dr. Samir Pancholi. "Studies have shown that better-looking people are favored, so individuals are willing to do anything that gives them an edge over the next person. It can become addictive in that process."

We continue series on fellowships with a look at a newer service provided by the Industry Pharmacists Organization , , we discuss FellowMatch, …match program that focuses on industry-based fellowships for recent pharmacy graduates. James Alexander, executive director and founder…

Venezuela transplant patients are left to take drugs for animals, not humans, since medication to avoid transplant organ rejection can no longer be found in the country, hit by endemic shortages of basic food and medication. (video)...

Pharmacists have many opportunities for collaborating with nurse practitioners and physician assistants on managing chronic and acute conditions commonly seen in the retail health practice setting… 8 clinically relevant areas, experts detailed the following opportunities where pharmacists can collaborate with clinicians...

1. Optimal collaborative care strategies for COPD
2. Role of collaborative care in allergic rhinitis
3. Collaborative approaches to asthma management
4. Recommendations to improve vaccinations
5. Opportunities for collaborative care for acne
6. Appropriate management of URTIs
7. Trends in T2DM collaborative care
8. Optimized collaborative care strategies for obesity

Hospitals are worried a new rule from the Federal Communications Commission that will allow unlicensed devices to use the same wireless band as patient monitors could cause dangerous interference with the medical systems… FCC will allow unlicensed devices developed in the future to communicate on the TV and 600 mhz bands, part of which is now used by wireless medical telemetry systems, which allows vital-sign sensors to communicate with patient monitors and nurse station monitors.