Interventions by a critical care pharmacist in a surgical intensive care unit helped a hospital avoid spending almost $280,000 over four and a half months, and 85 percent of those interventions were judged to have prevented medication-related injury in patients, according to a study in Dec. [click link for full article] (more…)
A news agency reported from Kampala, capital city of Uganda, earlier this morning that an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the district of Bundibugyo in the western part of the country had killed 16 people. [click link for full article] (more…)
The New York Times on Wednesday published letters to the editor addressing a Nov. 25 editorial that discusses rising health care costs in the U.S. and possible ways to improve the nation’s health care system. [click link for full article] (more…)
States with higher rates of residents who lack health insurance have higher rates of depression and suicide, according to an unpublished study commissioned by Mental Health America and released to USA Today. For the study, sponsored by [click link for full article] (more…)
