HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $159.1 million in grants to health care workforce training programs. These grants build on the multimillion dollar investments made under the Affordable Care Act and Recovery Act to strengthen and grow our primary care workforce. The grants will target three types of programs: Nursing Workforce Development programs; interdisciplinary geriatric [...]

A team of surgeons from Kleinert Kutz and Associates and the University of Louisville have performed yet another hand transplant at the Jewish Hospital Hand Care Center. Surgeons document the surgery, which was the facility’s first double hand transplant, by using Twitter, to provide short, real-time updates as the procedure takes place. Breidenbach said, “The [...]