A South Island pain specialist says euthanasia should be available for some people suffering from incurable pain.
Christchurch psychologist Dr Mark Ottley, who leads psychological pain management services at Southern Rehab, said the best medications, psychological help and palliative care did not always work for patients.
"Yes it might help a bit but not really to the extent that a patient really feels life is worth living . . . so in those cases and where we think the person is mentally compe...
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In a look-back study of medical records, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine concluded that a major operation to fuse the spines of children with a rare form of severe, early-onset scoliosis can be eliminated in many cases....
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2018 was a banner year for the Medicare-certified home health care industry. Big providers got even larger through creative mergers and acquisitions. Admissions and utilization numbers held strong. New telehealth opportunities started to emerge. And, in general, revenues remained high. The upcoming year brings much uncertainty, however, with the main culprit being the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). PDGM is likely going to dominate the home health care conversation for much of 2019, but d...
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It's taken nearly a year, but the Southern District Health Board's commissioner is holding her first SDHB committee meetings in public today, Wednesday.
Kathy Grant's health business for the SDHB has largely been done out of the public gaze until now.
The last of the Southern District Health Board meetings was held in June 2015, with those meetings largely open to the public to attend......
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Today leaders from Parkview Health broke ground on a new $35 million hospital in Wabash. The two-story, 80,000 square foot facility will create approximately 14 new jobs in Wabash....
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Foundation HealthCare, Inc. (OTCQB: FDNH), which is an owner and operator of surgical hospitals, announced today the Company has sold the non-controlling interests it owned in seven ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”) and substantially all the assets of Foundation Surgery Management, LLC (“FSM”) to Healthcrest Surgical Partners, LLC (“Healthcrest”). The principals of Healthcrest were the management of the Company’s ASC division prior to the transaction....
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