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WINFIELD, Ill., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Cadence Health, the health system created through the merger of Central DuPage Health and Delnor Community Health System, recently appointed Joseph Cacchione, M.D., to serve on the Board. Cacchione, an interventional cardiologist, is the Chairman of Operations and Strategy for the Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic. "We are honored to have Dr. Cacchione join the Cadence Health Board of...

RED BANK, N.J., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Steven H. Landers, M.D., M.P.H., former Director of the Center for Home Care and Community Rehabilitation at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, has been named President and CEO of VNA Health Group, the largest nonprofit visiting nurse association in New Jersey and second largest in the country. Dr. Landers, a certified family practitioner and geriatrician, will be the first physician to lead the century-old VNA, which has...

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaborating under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine, CEOs and senior executives from 11 leading hospitals and health systems have developed a comprehensive checklist to promote high-value health care -- care that delivers better results at reduced cost. Released today, the CEO Checklist for High-Value Health Care is a discussion paper from the Institute of Medicine in which the authors present a Checklist of 10 strategies that have...

Central DuPage Hospital and Delnor Hospital Patients will have Access to Top Ranked Research and Resources in Heart Care WINFIELD, Ill., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cadence Health, the health system created through the merger of Central DuPage Health and Delnor Community Health System, announced an expansion of its relationship with the Cleveland Clinic to include cardiology services. With this expansion, Cadence Health will offer the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular...

CLEVELAND, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gmail creator and alumnus Paul Buchheit (CWR '98; GRS '98, computer engineering) advised 1,750 Case Western Reserve University graduates to pursue their own dreams during Sunday's Commencement exercises. "You will find a lot of voices telling you which way to go or what to do and who to be," he said. "But the ultimate answer is to answer to one's own life." A year after graduating from Case Western Reserve, Buchheit himself left a...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Remedy Informatics, Inc., the leading provider of registries for Life Science and Translational research, announced that Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute ("HVI") has selected Remedy's Mosaic(TM) Platform to implement a cardiovascular registry to track Heart and Vascular research efforts at the Institute in order to improve patient outcomes. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120206/SF47874LOGO) "Cleveland Clinic is...

Research is the first to examine soda and stroke risk Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute and Harvard University have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke. Conversely, consumption of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee was associated with a lower risk. The study – recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – is the first to examine soda's effect on stroke risk....

Pregnant women with preeclampsia lack key enzyme Researchers have identified an enzyme linked to pregnancy-induced hypertension – also known as pre-eclampsia – a pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure and swelling due to fluid retention. The findings could be used to better screen for – and treat – this condition. Pregnancy-induced hypertension, which occurs in approximately 10 percent of pregnancies, is a major cause of maternal and fetal deaths, yet the...

The promotion promises guys a free pizza and a guilt-free way to watch the NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, with their wives' blessings. The only thing they have to do to take advantage of the offer? Get a vasectomy. According to Jessica Pilot of the New York Daily News, the special offer comes courtesy of a Cape Cod, Massachusetts urology clinic, which is encouraging men to undergo the sterilization operation during a time where they can spend the two-to-seven days of required...

Dr. Martin Newman of Weston, FL has been ranked among the top physicians in the nation based on patient reviews. WESTON, Fla., March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A select few physicians were honored with the prestigious 2011 Patients' Choice Award, and this year they include Dr. Martin Newman. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120308/DC67208) Only doctors who have received top scores by their patients and pass other quality measures are awarded the Patients'...