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 […]

http://www.yournursing.com For most pregnant women, a key part of their birth plan involves how they’ll get to the hospital. But more and more moms-to-be are skipping that step and planning to deliver at home. Old-school birthing is back in style, with well-read women forsaking obstetricians for midwives and epidurals for warm baths. These women want […]

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

http://www.marketwatch.com A.M. Best Co. has released a new methodology, “Securitization of Period-Certain and Life-Contingent Structured Settlements,” which describes how A.M. Best rates securitizations collateralized by structured settlements. A structured settlement is an agreement between a claimant and a defendant, whereby the claimant agrees to settle a lawsuit in exchange for periodic payments to be made […]

Web posts offer insight into the profession, but also raise patient privacy issues. By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer For physicians of a certain age, the weekly teaching session known as grand rounds is a ritual steeped in formality and tradition. Presided over by the profession’s graybeards, grand rounds are attended with white […]

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