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American Academy of Dermatology Commends Reclassification of Tanning Beds as Carcinogenic

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Dermatology (Academy) commends the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) for its re-categorization of indoor tanning devices as carcinogenic to humans. This classification places indoor tanning in t...

Tanning Beds Now Listed as Top Cancer Risk

Experts Available to Discuss Dangers of Tanning Beds and Warning Signs of Skin Cancer ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A study published in today's The Lancet Oncology concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75 percent when people start using tanning...

Tanning Beds Get Highest Carcinogen Rating

Melanoma risk rises 75 percent when device use begins before age 30, international panel says TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- The International Agency for Research on Cancer on Tuesday moved tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category -- "carcinogenic to humans," according to...

Specialty Hospitals of Washington Adds Additional Skilled Nursing Facility Beds at United Medical Center in South East DC

WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Specialty Hospitals of America (SHA) and the Specialty Hospital of Washington (SHW) announced today the official opening of new beds in the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) at UMC in South East DC. "All residents of Washington, no matter where t...

Island Sun Tanning Beds Launches Economy-Buster Sale on Healthier, More Eco-friendly Home Tanning Beds

SEA BRIGHT, N.J., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Among the risks of burns, skin cancer and premature aging, tanning beds haven't had the healthiest reputation. But with the founding of her new company, Island Sun Tanning Beds ( http://www.islandsuntanningbeds.com ), and this week's launch of an economy-...

Select Comfort Launches Entirely Redesigned Line Of Sleep Number Beds

Unique Bed Benefits, Plus New Series and Models, Mean Unbeatable Consumer Value Queen c2 Mattress Starts at $699.99; One of Three Queen Sets Now Under $1,500 Minneapolis, MN (Vocus) February 26, 2009 -- In today's uncertain economy, consumers are far more considered abo...

Chem Rx Corporation Surpasses 67,000 Beds Served

- Exhibits Growth In All Existing Markets - LONG BEACH, N.Y., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Chem Rx Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CHRX, CHRXU, CHRXW), a leading provider of institutional pharmacy services, today announced that it has surpassed 67,000 beds served, a five percent increas...

AUDIO from Medialink and Nationwide Children's Hospital: Bunk Beds Posing Safety Danger to Kids and Adults

NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Most of us take sleeping safely and soundly for granted. But for anyone who has ever slept in a bunk bed, the safe part may not be so much of a sure thing. Listen to this report from Nationwide Children's Hospital at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?st...

Bunk beds pose dangers to kids and adults

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) Bunk bed-related injuries are not an issue of concern solely for parents of young children according to a study conducted by investigators at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital. The study, published in the June iss...

MarketResearch.com Distributes Key Findings on Global Specialty Medical Beds and Therapeutic Surfaces Market

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- MarketResearch.com, a leading online provider of syndicated market research, announces the distribution of key findings on the global market for specialty medical beds and therapeutic surfaces from premier research publisher MarketStrat, Inc. Making available...

Indoor Tanning Association Fights Back Against Media Hype over Tanning Beds

WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Indoor Tanning Association will run a full-page ad in tomorrow's New York Post condemning the hype related to the recent categorization of tanning beds as a "Group 1" carcinogen. "The Indoor Tanning Association will not stand by and a...

DRE Medical Equipment Now Sells Reconditioned Hill-Rom Hospital Beds

A premier medical and surgical equipment supplier, DRE adds affordable, professionally refurbished Hill-Rom hospital beds to its extensive product lineup. (Vocus) January 27, 2009 -- DRE Medical Equipment — named by Business First of Louisville as a 2008 Company...

2020 Commission Supports Modernization Plans at Three Monroe County Hospitals, With 140 Additional Beds

More than 750 current beds would be in new or renovated rooms; Unity and Lakeside urged to combine in serving West-side patients ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state should support plans for three Monroe County hospitals to modernize and approve an additional 14...

Sutter Moves to Reduce Public Accountability, Slash Hospital Beds

Caregivers Denounce Threat to Not Rebuild Eden Medical Center CASTRO VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare workers condemned the recently publicized proposal from the Sutter Corporation to abolish public oversight at Eden Medical Center and cut the hospital's number of beds. ...

Victoria Hospital In Bangalore is Lacking Beds In Emergency wards

It sadly been noticed that patients who come for emergency treatment at Victoria Hospital in Bangalore were not always assured of immediate attention //. The emergency ward at the hospital is said to be struggling to accommodate cases during mass tragedies owing to lack of beds. This has been furth...

Apollo Hospitals to invest Rs 350 cr to add 1,800 beds

Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals Group plans to invest Rs 350 crore to add 1,800 beds over the next 18 months. With the planned new addition of 1800 beds, Apollo Group's total capacity would touch 7,200 beds, from the current 6,400 beds. // "There is a plan for adding 800 beds through management...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

SIDS is the sudden and unexplained death of an infant. It is the leading cause of death among infants who are 1 month to 1 year old. SIDS should be diagnosed only when all other possible causes of death have been ruled out by a detailed evaluation of the medical history//. There is no specific...

The Ensign Group Reports Second Quarter 2009 Earnings of $0.39 per Share; Reaffirms 2009 EPS Guidance

...he quarter was 66%. It was also affected by the temporary unavailability of beds at the company's Upland Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Southern ...l amortizing a portion of the acquired patient bases in the 670 operational beds at seven of its recent acquisitions. A discussion of the company's ...

OBP Medical Inc. to Raise the Bar in Patient Care and Satisfaction

... only address the issues of better patient care and comfort they also help to reduce the risk of contamination of hospital property such as chairs and beds by covering body parts previously left exposed. During your next hospital stay. . .ask for a pair of Under Johnnies(TM). About OBP Me...

MedCath Corporation Reports Third Quarter Earnings

...siana Medical Center and Heart Hospital, adding 79 beds to the hospital's infrastructure, and we are on pa... 7 7 7 Licensed beds ( c ) 588 449 588 449 Staffed and available beds ( d ) 542 449 542 ...

South Carolina-Based AnMed Health Selects CHS for Affiliation Agreement

...hroughout the Carolinas. These operations comprise more than 6,000 licensed beds and employ more than 44,000 employees. About AnMed Health AnMe...ickens, South Carolina. It operates an acute care hospital with 55 licensed beds and three medical office buildings. Opened in 1982, Cannon employs over 200...

RecoverCare and MedaSTAT USA Complete Transaction

...atients. RecoverCare's primary product lines include therapeutic mattresses for wound care, bariatric equipment for care of obese patients, specialty beds and patient transfer equipment for safe patient handling and negative pressure wound therapy equipment. In addition to the use of state of the art t...

Compirion and Anderson Surgery Center Reduce OR Inefficiencies and Improve Finances

...reduced by $10,000 per month. Physician and Staff Satisfaction improved, and lost revenue is being recovered. As productivity increased, more beds were needed. This increased communication between the floors. Physicians and hospital personnel across the board became a team. Bed hold times dropped...

Response Times Vary for In-Hospital Heart Attacks

...00 U.S. hospitals. The hospitals completed a detailed survey that included information about the location, hospital teaching status, number of patient beds and the availability of automatic external defibrillators. The rates of delayed defibrillation -- a delay being longer than two minutes -- varied f...

HCA Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

... 155 161 155 161 Weighted Average Licensed beds 38,817 38,419 38,814 38,413 Licensed beds at End of Period 38,793 38,448 38,793 38,448 Reported: ...

Universal Health Services, Inc. Reports Significant Increases In 2009 Second Quarter and Six-Month Earnings, Raises Full Year Guidance

... 83 0.0% Average licensed beds 5,465 5,453 0.2% 7,857 ...,832.6 -0.2% Occupancy- licensed beds 58.2% 58.8% -1.0% 74.1% ... 79 0.0% Average licensed beds 5,465 5,453 0.2% 7,611 ...

Kaiser Permanente Approves $11 Million in Community Benefit Grants

...atients following surgery. The grant, issued to the Recuperative Care Program at the Weingart Center, will be used to maintain five recuperative care beds for a year, and provide 24-hour nursing care and case management services to homeless persons recently discharged from area hospitals. Streng...

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota Receive Level III Trauma Designation

...ota Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is the seventh -largest pediatric health care organization in the United States, with 332 staffed beds at its two hospitals in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profit health care system, Children's of Minnesota provides care through mo...

Itanium Solutions Alliance Selects Sweden's Kiwok as the 2009 Innovation Awards Winner for Humanitarian Impact

...onitoring information is reliable, secure and highly available at all times, the BodyKom technology saves significant resources by freeing up hospital beds and providing immediate feedback on the effects of ongoing treatments. The following entries were category finalists and earned honorable menti...

Are Patients Becoming Victims in Hospital Overcrowding Turf Wars? Experts Ask

... Some hospitals have made the decision to move patients from ER hallways to hallways on unit floors, believing that will force nurses to find beds more quickly, according to experts Anthony Sanzo and Lisa Romano, CEO and Vice President, respectively, at TeleTracking Technologies, leading maker of...

Columbia leads national effort to develop early intervention for schizophrenia

...etime suicide rate for people with the disease is over ten percent. People with schizophrenia occupy approximately 25 percent of the nation's hospital beds (Wallis & Willwerth, 1992). ...

Study aims to induce recovery from ankylosing spondylitis

...s and researchers at West China Hospital. Located at Sichuan University, West China Hospital is the largest clinical center in the world, with 4600 beds and 2.5 million outpatients per year. It is also is the Chinese center for the worldwide Cochrane Collaboration in evidence-based medicine. The tre...

Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) Implements PNA FISH(R) Tests to Help Provide Better Care for Patients with Bloodstream Infections

...ut Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando Health's flagship medical center, ORMC, is a tertiary care center with 808 acute care beds and is recognized as having one of Florida's largest cardiac programs. ORMC is home to Central Florida's only Level One Trauma Center, which...

Good News for Seniors: California Lowest in Overall Medicare Cost Increases, Says MedicareSupplementPlans.com

... There, seniors can compare the best Medicare supplement rates as well as access insurance plan brochures and applications. Items such as hospital beds and sophisticated medical equipment appear to be the primary reason Medicare spending varies greatly in different regions of the country. According to...

More Drug Rehab for Less Violence in Mexico

...as invited to Mazatlan to present by Victor Capaceta, director of a rehab center named Una Luz en el Camino (A Light on the Way). "We have 5,000 rehab beds in Sinaloa," said Capaceta, "and a lot of lives under our care. Because of its long-term results, I asked Narconon to share its knowledge with us. The...

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Names Chadwick CFO

... University Physicians, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences. The system comprises 1,056 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and has been ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report since 1993. Wake Forest Baptist also holds the Gold Seal of A...

Baylor Dallas Recognized In U.S. News Media Group's 2009 - 2010 America's Best Hospitals

...gible to be ranked at all by requiring that it must meet any of three conditions: be a teaching hospital; have at least 200 beds; or have at least 100 beds plus at least four out of eight key medical technologies such as current-generation CT scanners and precision radiation therapy. 2. The seco...

The Mount Sinai Medical Center Named to "Honor Roll" in U.S. News's 2009-10 Edition of America's Best Hospitals

...gible to be ranked at all by requiring that it must meet any of three conditions: be a teaching hospital; have at least 200 beds; or have at least 100 beds plus at least four out of eight key medical technologies such as current-generation CT scanners and precision radiation therapy. 2.The second gat...

Lexington Health Care Names New Chief Executive Officer

...is-based company operating since 1983, manages nearly 2,000 skilled nursing beds in 10 different long-term care buildings, more than 600 independent living ...-owned health care company since 1983, manages nearly 2,000 skilled nursing beds in 10 different long-term care buildings, more than 600 independent retirem...

U.S. News Media Group Announces 2009-10 America's Best Hospitals

...e to be ranked at all by requiring that it must meet any of three conditions: be a teaching hospital; have at least 200 beds; or have at least 100 beds plus at least four out of eight key medical technologies such as current-generation CT scanners and precision radiation therapy. 2. The seco...