ASC News

The National Institutes of Health provides funding to medical schools across the country for research every year, with Harvard University topping the 2022 U.S. News & World Reports list of most research grant money from NIH. 

Mississippi-based not-for-profit medical network Memorial Health System has entered an exclusive, multiyear agreement with HealthTrust Performance Group, a management advisory group serving over 57,000 ASCs, physician practices, long-term and alternate care sites. 

Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic is reopening its ASC after a $6 million expansion project.

U.S. News & World Report has named 161 medical schools in the U.S. with the most graduates practicing in rural areas. 

Site work has begun on a new 87-acre medical complex in Panama City Beach, Fla., that will include an ASC, facilities for orthopedic surgery and cardiology, a hospital, urgent care and primary care, according to an Aug. 29 report from…

Rhode Island is the state with the highest annual mean wage for physician assistants, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' occupational employment statistics survey released March 31.

An August study published in the JAMA Health Forum found that between 2008 and 2021, of the 146 drugs receiving fast-tracked approval from the FDA, 61 percent were shown to have low therapeutic value. 

North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell threw his support behind a lawsuit that eye surgeon Jay Singleton, MD, filed challenging the state's certificate of need laws, The North State Journal reported Aug. 25.

St. Louis-based physician Abdul Naushad, MD, has been sentenced to prison for injecting patients with cheaper osteoarthritis treatments that had not been approved by the FDA, local CBS affiliate KMOV4 reported Aug. 25. 

A study from U.S. News & World Report found that in 2022, Howard University ranked as the most diverse medical school for students.