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Launched with a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, it aims to apply cutting-edge research to improve health care ...

Texas Tech System Chancellor Dr. Tedd Mitchell will retire within a year following 15 years serving the system and TTUHSC.

In an ideal world, every piece of food we eat would be free of pathogens at all times. In the real world, though, where 600 ...

The Blanchard Valley Health System Board of Trustees nominated new Board and Committee members at the recent annual meeting.

Objectives This paper reports on findings from a systematic review designed to investigate the state of systems science research in public health. The objectives were to: (1) explore how systems ...

Advocates say Mayor Daniel Lurie's proposed 2-hour parking limit for RVs will hurt homeless people living in them, including ...

Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone ...

St. Louis-based SSM Health, which operates 23 hospitals across four states, unveiled a program July 9 designed to produce 400 additional nursing graduates annually.  The new direct-placement training ...

Radical advances in medical science and technology have greatly improved patient outcomes over the past decades. Today, with ...

In the realm of political science, network governance has gained prominence as an influential concept in the restructuring of ...