Insurance Journal Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. in Farmington has reported a 73.7 percent increase in net income for the second quarter and a 2.9 percent decrease in gross written premiums. Net income at the specialty insurer was $13.5 million or 79 cents a share for the three months ended June 30, compared with $7.8 million […]

http://www.union-bulletin.com Going to a hospital emergency room isn’t something anybody relishes. And, a new report by the Centers for Disease Control found that the already grim experience is growing worse across America — and that’s even before getting into the ER. The CDC report found that the wait time for service is rapidly growing. The […]

By John P. Kelly http://www.tauntongazette.com

Admission to Miami-Dade College’s trailblazing midwifery program was suspended Friday — a sign of the financial challenges afflicting MDC and other schools. BY ERIKA BERAS http://www.miamiherald.com In another sign of the hard times in higher education, Miami Dade College said Friday it was suspending its innovative midwifery program — because not enough students had paid […]

Doctors at Long Island College Hospital Dissent From Continuum Plan By E.B. SOLOMONT, Staff Reporter of the Sun http://www.nysun.com A cash-strapped Brooklyn hospital will stop delivering babies, aiming to regain its financial footing and reduce its escalating medical malpractice costs. Long Island College Hospital, in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, plans to shutter its obstetrics department […]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org Rural areas in Maryland likely will experience severe shortages of physicians by 2015 as physicians begin to retire and younger physicians decide to practice elsewhere, according to a report by the Maryland Hospital Association and MedChi, the state’s medical society, the AP/Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, the shortage would have the greatest […]

Sarah Juon , Editor, NewsoftheNorth.Net

Sarah Juon , Editor, NewsoftheNorth.Net It may seem like a step back in time when you look at the solo practice which Drs. Kim and Brian Erdmann, both internists, have established. There is no question they are bucking a trend of the past few decades in which physicians have abandoned solo practices en masse to […]

By JENNIFER BOOTH REED http://www.news-press.com When Barbara Lentz’s hip gave out, the 72-year-old self-proclaimed Cape Coral gym rat researched implant options and came to believe a metal part best suited her needs. Her surgeon said Lee Memorial Health System administrators asked doctors to use plastic implants in older patients, Lentz said. The plastic parts were […]