Business/Tech

Experimental Insecticide Explodes Mosquitoes, Not Honeybees

Dec 06, 2016 at 05:11 pm by Staff

In a new study, Vanderbilt pharmacologist Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Ohio State entomologist Peter Piermarini, Ph.D., and colleagues report an experimental molecule that inhibits ki.... Read More

TMA: Reject Proposed National Insurance Company Merger

Nov 23, 2016 at 12:02 am by Staff

Anthem-Cigna Deal is Bad for Healthcare in Tennessee Federal courts on Monday began hearing the trial in a lawsuit against the proposed $54 billion merger between health insur.... Read More

Overtime Rule Temporarily Blocked

Nov 23, 2016 at 12:02 am by Staff

A federal court injunction on impending overtime changes has put a temporary halt to the new rule that was set to go into effect Dec. 1. Sen. Lamar Alexander's reaction to thi.... Read More

National Rural Health Day Celebrates the Power of Rural America

Nov 16, 2016 at 04:13 pm by Staff

One in five Americans - 62 million people - live and work in rural areas. State Offices of Rural Health, other state and rural healthcare providers, industry partners, and age.... Read More

AMA Wraps Interim Meeting

Nov 15, 2016 at 03:47 pm by Staff

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates has wrapped the 2016 interim meeting in Orlando. During the Nov. 12-15 meeting, the organization adopted a number of.... Read More

Retail Clinics Do Not Decrease Emergency Department Visits

Nov 14, 2016 at 12:29 pm by Staff

WASHINGTON -- Despite being touted as a way to reduce emergency department visits, retail clinics opened near emergency departments had little effect on rates of low-acuity vi.... Read More

Amplion Study Finds Patients Might Not Be A Nurse's Only Important Customer

Nov 10, 2016 at 04:13 pm by Staff

There's an entirely new customer in today's patient care mix that nurses must address in their efforts to deliver a high quality patient experience. But new technology may hol.... Read More

Vanderbilt Research Explores Repositioning Existing Drugs to Prevent Epidemics

Nov 09, 2016 at 08:31 am by Staff

Emerging viral infections like Zika keep popping up around the world in such quick succession that medicine is having a hard time keeping up. It can take 15 years and more tha.... Read More

New Gallup, Healthways Research Shows Positive Impact of Active Living Environments

Nov 09, 2016 at 08:21 am by Staff

Nashville-based Healthways, a Sharecare company, and leading management consulting firm, Gallup, have released new research assessing active living factors within large and mi.... Read More

Who Do You Trust?

Nov 03, 2016 at 04:02 pm by Staff

The recently released 10th Annual ReviveHealth Trust Index™ surveyed hospital and health system executives, practicing physicians, and health plan executives to assess the con.... Read More