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WILMINGTON, Del., March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Phillips & Cohen Associates, Ltd. announced that it has now expanded its deceased account care services to include some of the most important clients in the health care marketplace. As the deceased account specialist for renowned partners such as Cleveland Clinic, Baptist Hospital, and Schumacher Group, Phillips & Cohen has established a reputation as the preeminent partner in deceased healthcare receivables. Phillips & Cohen...
PHILADELPHIA, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Cleveland Clinic Physicians Contribute to Updates and Reviews of Elsevier's First Consult Topics Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home), a world leader in health care and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced a strategic relationship between First Consult (http://www.firstconsult.com/) and Cleveland Clinic ( http://my.clevelandclinic.org/default.aspx) to provide physician-author...
MDconnectME, a Pennsylvania based healthcare technology start-up, has developed a way to improve patient experience and health care efficiency through a secure and HIPAA compliant communication platform. Dr. Chad R. Gordon, the visionary and Co-founder of MDconnectME, was interviewed on DoctorRadio (SiriusXM radio) yesterday and discussed how one great innovation he was involved in (the first US face transplant) led him down the path to another innovation at the intersection of healthcare...
Suburban Chicago Patients Benefiting from Shared Best Practices WINFIELD, Ill., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It has been just short of a year since Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) announced an affiliation with Cleveland Clinic's cardiac surgery program and the clinical staff and patients have benefitted from the collaboration. (Logo: https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100715/DC35744LOGO) "At the launch, our goal was to combine the academic, clinical and research components of...
VIENNA, Austria and CLEVELAND, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Apeiron Biologics AG announced that it has entered into an exclusive option to license from the Cleveland Clinic a number of novel compounds. These compounds are currently in development at Cleveland Clinic as drug candidates for treatment of various cancers, designed to fight cancer based on stimulation of the immune system. In preclinical models, they have shown anti-cancer activity and a favourable toxicity profile as...
Postmenopausal women have a new health message to hear. Two annual dental checkups aren't enough. Older women need more, according to research findings from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic.That message comes from a comparison study of women on and off bone-strengthening bisphosphonate therapies for osteoporosis.Leena Palomo, assistant professor of periodontics from the dental school, and Maria Clarinda Beunocamino-Francisco from the...
Results from a study published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology reveal a close relationship between pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)"”exceedingly high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs"”and abnormalities of the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow (known as myeloid abnormalities).The study, which was conducted by a team of researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, showed that blood progenitor cells (cells that are...
CLEVELAND, Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinic has launched the Global Care Air Rescue and Evacuation (CARE) program, which provides paid program members immediate access to Cleveland Clinic's comprehensive critical care program if they are faced with a medical emergency while traveling more than 150 miles from their home. Global CARE members will receive access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to specialized care by Cleveland Clinic physicians, nurse practitioners...
CLEVELAND, Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinic, the City of East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and a collection of local health and social service agencies are launching the East Cleveland Teen Collaborative, a partnership focused on reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes of East Cleveland youth. Funded by a $750,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation, the collaborative will address the "social determinants of health" impacting adolescents in East Cleveland,...
Along with the CME program there will be an Educational CD developed specifically for pediatrician's offices and all in the health care industry. StopCAIDnow is committed to raising funds to get the CME program started. It is with YOUR SUPPORT that we can make this happen. With your donations you can be proud to know your funds helped make the CME program possible. It is important to have the general population aware of these debilitating diseases. However, it is our Dr.'s that need...
