Parkland Health & Hospitals cut readmissions nearly in half for patients trained to self-administer antibiotics, learn how to pick the right Medicare ACO program, and more.
Anne McTiernan, lead study author and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, says the findings suggest "there is no level of alcohol use that is completely safe in terms of breast cancer."
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Observers say the approval represents a major step in treating cancer with a precision medicine approach, which centers on determining courses of treatment based on genetic biomarkers rather than specific types of cancer.
MetroHealth is tapping a growing trend throughout the country by opening 12- and 16-bed "micro-hospitals" in their existing EDs in Cleveland Heights and Parma, Lydia Coutré writes for Crain's Cleveland Business.
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