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Wrong surgery down, close calls up at VA hospitalsMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:47PMCHICAGO -- Medical procedures and surgeries on the wrong patient and wrong body part have declined substantially at Veterans Affairs hospitals nationwide, while reports of close calls have increased, according to a study that credits ongoing quality improvement efforts.

Nation Digest: Surgical errors down at VA hospitalsMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:00PMNation Digest: Surgical errors down at VA hospitals

Daniel Benninghoff, Greenwich Hospital DoctorMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:14PMDr. Daniel Benninghoff, longtime director of pathology at Greenwich Hospital, died on Wednesday.

Delegation seeks to protect Frontier AmendmentMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 5:49PMNorth Dakota's congressional delegation has vowed to fight cutting the Frontier Amendment, which funnels millions in payments to North Dakota hospitals to offset low Medicare reimbursements.

Traumatic Brain Injury Among Veterans Returning From Afghanistan and IraqMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:10PMDr Capehart is Medical Director of the OEF/OIF program at the VA Medical Center in Durham, NC, and Assistant Professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. Dr Bass is Associate Research Professor in the department of biomedical engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University.

Big Brouhaha Over Obscure Medicare BoardMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:41PMRemember the debunked death panels? A new Medicare board that Republicans are calling a "rationing panel" could become the next boogeyman in the nation's hyperbolic health care debate. But don't look for the Independent Payment Advisory Board to start slashing … Continue reading →

Study: Brain injury raises dementia riskMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:19PMPARIS -- A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars. Even concussions seem to rais

eBay?s Topaz Data Center Uses GE Quad PAC Redundancy Control Solution for Mission Critical Uptime Requirement, Reduced ...Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:29PMCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA JULY 18, 2011 When one of the largest companies in the e-commerce industry, looks to increase the stability of its data center, a critical component to its business strategy, a central ?must-have? is continuous power. To that end, eBay chose a mission critical system...

Big brouhaha over obscure Medicare boardMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:13AMRemember the debunked death panels? A new Medicare board that Republicans are calling a “rationing panel” could become the next boogeyman in the nation’s hyperbolic health care debate. But don’t look for the Independent Payment Advisory Board to start slashing anytime soon. IPAB doesn’t even exist yet. Although the new health care law authorized the board [...]