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Thirty states and New York City reported that influenza-like illness activity was higher than average for the second week of the 2012 to 2013 flu season, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Operating room teams were 74 percent less likely to miss a critical process of care during a surgical crisis when they used checklists than when they did not, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The number of central line-associated bloodstream infections dropped 44 percent at Pennsylvania hospitals from 2008 to 2010, according to a Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania report.

The following article was written by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants.

Here are fives steps for struggling surgery centers to pull themselves out of debt.

Orthopedic surgeon David M. Joyner, MD, will remain director of intercollegiate athletics at Penn State University, a position he has filled on a temporary basis since the previous director left amid scandal in late 2011.

Orthopedic surgeon Michael Shin, MD, of St. Margaret's Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Princeton, Ill., recently contributed a chapter in the surgical textbook "Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee," according to a News Tribune report.

This article was written by Chance Sherer and Nikolaus Melder of VMG Health.For each of the past five years, VMG has distributed the Intellimarker: Ambulatory Surgical Center Financial & Operations Benchmarking Study (the "Intellimarker") that compiles the financial and operational…

Medline Industries announced an agreement in which it will provide its full line of endoscopic procedure packs, care supplies and accessories to members of HealthTrust, a group purchasing organization.

Medline Industries announced that Kristofer Howard is its new CFO.