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Prospira PainCare in Mountain View, Calif., announced that it has acquired National Pain Institute, a pain management provider in Florida.

Thirty-seven percent of physicians sometimes or often give in to patients' demands for brand-name drugs when equivalent generic drugs are available, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine, formerly Archives of Internal Medicine.

The Minnesota Hospital Association offers a free anticoagulation agent adverse drug event gap analysis as part of its Medication Safety Road Map.

Coloplast U.S. today announced that the company has signed a three year agreement with Novation, the largest healthcare supply chain expertise and contracting company for the more than 65,000 acute and non-acute members of four U.S. national healthcare alliances.

Twenty-six percent of patients with a recent Clostridium difficile infection received only unnecessary antimicrobials, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

A Cook County Circuit Court judge has denied an attempt by Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington, Heights, Ill., to revoke the admitting privileges of a surgeon who planned to open a competing outpatient surgery center near the hospital's campus, according…

OrthoVirginia and the HCA Virginia Health System recently opened a 70,000-square-foot medical facility that includes an outpatient surgery center, according to a Richmond Magazine report.

Hudson (Wis.) Hospital Surgery & Procedure Center has hit all-time records with surgical volumes, offering nearly 150 surgical procedures each month, according to a Hudson Star-Observer report.

David Abraham, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, is a physician at the Reading Neck and Spine Center in Wyomissing, Pa. He offers operative and nonoperative surgical care as well as post-surgical services for spine patients.

The average physician spends 50.7 months, or roughly 11 percent, of a 40-year career with an unresolved and open malpractice claim, according to a new study from Health Affairs.