The Ziment Group, a US-based pharmaceutical market research agency, has announced that it has been acquired by WPP on behalf of WPP's Information and Consultancy group, Kantar...

Robert I. Grossman, MD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Radiology at NYU School of Medicine and Director of Radiology at NYU Hospitals Center. He also will hold the Lewis Marx Professorship...

Many children who have asthma aren't using helpful medications or speaking regularly with health care providers about their symptoms, according to a study from the University of Rochester's Children's Hospital at Strong. The findings were...

A survey released last week by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) shows that most people don't know the signs of osteoporosis...

Last Friday and Saturday, the Colonnade Hotel in Boston was the site of CleanMed 2001, a conference on how the careful selection of medical supplies can benefit both human health and the environment. The conference was organized by Health Care...

Medem, the secure online physician network founded by the American Medical Association (AMA) and various medical specialty societies, has announced the addition of Texas Medical Association (TMA), the nation's largest state medical society, to its...

The next eHealthcareWorld Conference, held May 23-25 at the San Diego Convention Center, will present an array of best practices, innovations, trends and business opinions. The organizer, eMarketWorld, bills this as the healthcare industry's "only...

Medscape, a provider of digital health records (DHR) and online health information, has announced that healthcare technology veteran David Kirshenbaum has been named Senior Vice President, Data Management. Kirshenbaum comes to Medscape from Aetna...

Dying is never easy -- not for an individual, not for a family, not for the medical staff who administer the care. But the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking new steps to ease the process for everyone...

Training nursing home doctors and nursing staff to treat chronic pain from osteoarthritis and other disorders through safer means than nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) could reduce the incidence of drug-induced complications and even...