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New Health Resource on the Web CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- An exciting new health-related resource is now available on the Web! Presented by Midwest Region of the Adventist Health [...]

LANSING, Mich., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- With the voluntary release of hospital specific data today, Michigan hospitals became the first sector of health care in the state to make relevant [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 1994, all United Hospital patients age 65 and older will be immunized with the flu vaccine unless [...]

DARBY, Pa., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mercy Health Corporation of Southeastern Pennsylvania announced plans to aggressively initiate primary care services in Montgomery County. These services, while providing care for [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center enters a new era in burn care at its nationally acclaimed center August 30 when the hospital marks the [...]

PITTSBURGH, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday morning, April 12, 1994, 4-year-old Apryl Purington from Kittanning, Pennsylvania, underwent a cord blood stem cell transplant (a form of bone marrow transplant) [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- United Hospital and the IMPACT (IMPlementing Advanced Cancer Treatments) Center of St. Paul are providing cancer patients with an alternative treatment to the [...]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles County hospitals have handled a tremendous flow of earthquake-related patients since yesterday's disaster. At noon today, the Emergency Operations Center totals stood [...]

CLEVELAND, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairview General Hospital will offer a free Community Forum on 'Coping With Holiday Depression' from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 22, at Our [...]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag Hospital became Orange County's first hospital to announce the availability of the most advanced video telephone technology specifically for patient use. Hoag [...]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag Hospital announced Tuesday it will restructure its program for cardiac transplantation. Hoag Hospital's transplant program will continue to provide preassessment evaluations as [...]

TUCSON, Ariz., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Tucson Companies Inc. (NASDAQ: STSN), today announced that the company instituted a new levels of care approach to the treatment of psychiatric and [...]

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in the Northeast, back-pain sufferers requiring spinal disc operations can choose endoscopic laser-TV surgery as an option. Such laser surgery, [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A prototype fiber-optic full- motion ultrasonography network, which links three medical centers operated by Group Health Association (GHA), is providing thousands of patients in the [...]

PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ESTABLISHES PSYCHIATRIC/ONCOLOGY LIAISON SERVICE PAOLI, Pa., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- To provide necessary mental support for certain cancer patients and their families when emotional conflicts arise due [...]

HUMAN FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION TREATMENT FOR DIABETES (DM), PARKINSON'S, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AVAILABLE TO U.S. PATIENTS IN MOSCOW MOSCOW, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Itar-Tass, the Russian News Agency, announced at a [...]

HAHNEMANN OPENS STATE-OF-THE-ART HEART TRANSPLANT CENTER Event: Hahnemann's new state of the art, computerized heart transplant facility opens with a special celebration for patients, families, hospital staff, nurses and doctors. [...]

SMALLER INCISIONS, SHORTER RECOVERY TIME WITH NEW ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL SURGERY ATLANTA, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Just when you thought you were at the peak of your life, your doctor [...]

A PROCEDURE USED TO CLEAR BLOCKAGE IN HEART CAN NOW CLEAR BLOCKAGE TO THE BRAIN; SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN PERFORMS SUCCESSFUL ANGIOPLASTY ON THE CAROTID ARTERY PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- [...]

HARPER HOSPITAL TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON MAMMOGRAM FACILITIES Harper Hospital in The Detroit Medical Center, 3990 John R, Detroit, will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. today in [...]

BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL: NEW OPTIONS FOR CHRONIC NON-HEALING WOUNDS NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Enormous strides are being made in the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds. A multi-tiered treatment [...]

FIRST EXCIMER LASER PROCEDURE PERFORMED ON PATIENT AT WILLS EYE HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Wills Eye Hospital was recently the site of what is believed to be the [...]

HAHNEMANN RECEIVES APPROVAL FOR PANCREAS TRANSPLANTS PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, has received permission to begin performing pancreas transplants from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the national [...]

CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA ACCEPTING MEDICARE ASSIGNMENT FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning Jan. 1, 1992, Cleveland Clinic Florida and its 63 doctors are accepting Medicare assignment for all [...]

PRESBYTERIAN'S PHILADELPHIA HEART INSTITUTE PIONEERS POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE TO HEART TRANSPLANT PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- For 56-year-old James A. Johnson Jr., of New Castle, Del., the new year could mean [...]

SCOTTISH RITE TO ANNOUNCE IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM WHAT: Press conference to announce a new immunization awareness and dose administration program to help the metro Atlanta area's indigent children get protection from [...]

FIRST BABY BORN AT UCI BIRTHING CENTER ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The UCI Birthing Center's first baby was born at 10:37 p.m. last night to Concepcion Alcazar of [...]

SEN. WOFFORD MAKES GOOD ON CAMPAIGN PLEDGE U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pa.) will fulfill a pledge he made when visiting Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh on Nov. 2, 1991, during the [...]

SHRINERS HOSPITALS: ART IS THERAPY FOR PATIENTS Troy Landy, a patient at the Philadelphia Unit of Shriners Hospitals, will unveil his artwork during the first annual 'One-man Art Show' and [...]

INJURED DETROIT LION MIKE UTLEY TRANSFERRED TO DENVER HOSPITAL DETROIT, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today, injured Detroit Lion Mike Utley was discharged from the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan and [...]

PARENTS OF TWIN TRAGEDY SEEK HELP TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Randy and Lucy Perretti are appealing for donors to save their nine-week old twin daughters, both born with [...]

COMPUTER-ASSISTED MICROSURGERY OFFERS ALTERNATIVE; PROJECT ILLUMINATES DETROIT LANDMARKS; RECYCLING PROGRAM SOLVES BATTERY DISPOSAL PROBLEM The following are news and story ideas from Detroit Unlimited, the communications program of the Detroit [...]

BLUE CROSS APPLAUDS HEALTH DEPARTMENT DECISION CLEVELAND, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ohio (BCBSO) commended the Ohio Department of Health today for acting in the [...]

PMH CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION LAB APPROVED PAOLI, Pa., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Paoli Memorial Hospital (PMH) recently was granted approval by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to establish a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. [...]

CMHA RELEASES REPORT DESCRIBING CRISIS IN AMERICA'S URBAN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM PITTSBURGH, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to show local, state and national policymakers that urban hospitals [...]

NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP. ANNOUNCES DIABETES ALERT DAY NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is proud to participate [...]

HOSPITALS EXPAND SERVICES DURING 'WRENCHING' DECADE OF CHANGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospitals expanded services but kept a tight rein on spending during the 1980s despite changes in public [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ SANITATION DONATES GIFTS TO HOSPITALIZED KIDS Sanitation Commissioner Brendan Sexton and Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the city's Health and Hospital Corporation will join with Santa Claus [...]

VHA METRO NEW YORK HOSPITALS INTRODUCE HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- VHA Metro New York, an alliance of 18 hospitals located throughout [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL'S POPCORN DAY TOMORROW Local media personalities and volunteers will sell 30,000 bags of popcorn tomorrow (Oct. 14) during Pennsylvania Hospital's 'Popcorn Day.' The bags will go [...]

/CAUTION: ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AYEMS FRIDAY, SEPT. 30/ CALIFORNIA NOT-FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS USE $1 BILLION IN PROFITS TO DAMAGE SMALL BUSINESSES /ADVANCE/ SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Not-for-profit hospitals are [...]

/ N E W S A D V I S O R Y / The Detroit Lions and Elias Brothers Restaurants have teamed to cheer children. Beginning this month, the [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ Under the banner, 'Harlem Hospital is Your Family Doctor and More,' Harlem Hospital Center will participate in this year's Harlem Week 'Family Day' festivities this Sunday by offering [...]

YORK FIRST-GRADER HAS LIVER TRANSPLANT AT ST. CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENAT ST. CHRISTOPHER'S PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A 7-year-old Dover Township (York, Pa.) first-grader, Ben Livingston, is in stable [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mid-Atlantic Heart and Vascular Institute of Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center has become the only center in the tri-state Pennsylvania area to offer a [...]

LITERACY PROGRAM AT AREA HOSPITAL BRINGS 'LIGHT' TO EMPLOYEES ATLANTA, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A revolutionary 'operation' is taking place at Georgia Baptist Medical Center. It has nothing to do [...]

>R A % TO CITY DESK AND FEATURE EDITOR: SHERATON UNIVERSITY CITY OFFERS FREE OVERNIGHT STAY FOR FAMILY VISITS TO PATIENTS IN TWO AREA HOSPITALS PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- [...]

MIAMI, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- State opposition to a general hospital in fast-growing West Kendall, has caused the Emergi-Centre of Kendale Lakes to begin 24 hour, seven-days a week service. [...]