LabCorp Is Scheduled To Present at the Wachovia Securities 2007 Healthcare Conference.
BURLINGTON, N.C., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Laboratory Corporation of America(R) Holdings (LabCorp(R)) today announced that David P. King, Chief Executive Officer, William (Brad) Hayes, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Bradford T. Smith, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, are scheduled to speak at the Wachovia Securities 2007...

Gentiva(R) Health Services Schedules Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2006 Earnings Call and Web Cast for Thursday, February 15, 2007.
MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. , the nation's largest provider of comprehensive home health and related services, today announced that it has scheduled a conference call and web cast on Thursday, February 15, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss operating results for the...

Gentiva(R) Updates 2007 Financial Outlook to Reflect New Medicare Rates and Other Assumptions.
MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. , the nation's largest provider of comprehensive home health and related services, today announced its 2007 financial outlook anticipating full-year net revenues in a range between $1.24 billion and $1.27 billion versus its previously announced range of $1.23 billion...

Kawasaki cases lead to RotaTeq label changes.
Several postmarketing reports of Kawasaki disease in recipients of the RotaTeq vaccine have prompted changes in the vaccine's label, but to date there is no known cause-and-effect relationship between the vaccine and these reports, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Last month, the FDA approved the...

Big gains in blood pressure control since JNC-7.
CHICAGO -- Hypertension control has improved markedly in the United States since spring of 2003--and the JNC-7 guidelines deserve most of the credit, James Jackson, Pharm.D., said at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association. The improvement in blood pressure control since release of JNC-7...

Balancing ethics in an unethical marketplace.
Sometimes we get ethics confused with what should be done or with what is illegal or legal. It is easy to be confused when emotional issues confront us almost daily. For example, the Virginia Tech massacre could have been prevented if the killer's parents had admitted him into a...

Accountable to whom?
Elementary math covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Equations and numbers confused many of us, and we questioned the value of the math exercises. As teenagers we questioned the limits our parents attempted to set on our time and behaviors. During times of sadness and grief over the loss...

Menactra vaccine deemed to reach target populations: aimed at preteen visit, high school entry.
KANSAS CITY, MO. -- The strategy of immunizing all children at the 11- to 12-year preadolescent visit and those entering high school with the new meningococcal conjugate vaccine appears to be working, according to preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Uptake of Menactra vaccine was...

Reports of Kawasaki disease spur rotavirus vaccine label changes.
Several postmarketing reports of Kawasaki disease in recipients of the RotaTeq vaccine have prompted changes in the vaccine's label, but to date there is no known cause-and-effect relationship between the vaccine and these reports, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Last month, the FDA approved the...

HMOs report lower profits; Fallon income drops $2M.
Byline: Bob Kievra Three of the state's four largest managed health care organizations yesterday reported lower operating income for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Worcester-based Fallon Community Health Plan, Wellesley-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan of Watertown all reported declines in...