Recent budget cuts may decrease the effectiveness of California's prescription drug database, a longtime tool for pain management physicians to curb prescription drug abuse, according to an NPR report.
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A Las Vegas anesthesiologist has launched a traveling business that promises to cure patients' hangovers in less than an hour, according to a CBS News report.
Due to a range of economic factors and insurance challenges, the ambulatory surgery center industry has seen less than one percent volume growth each of the last two years. In this climate, ASCs must be increasingly strategic when identifying sources…
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An anesthesiologist from the Chicago suburbs will spend two weeks providing medical support and delivering donated equipment to a children's hospital in Niger, according to a Northwest Herald report. Lawrence Lavine, MD, of Crystal Lake, has taken part in medical…
Employment of registered nurses is expected to grow by 22 percent through 2018, with much of the demand concentrated in physician offices, according to a Healthcare Finance News report.
U.S. physicians trail physicians in other countries when it comes to social media use, according to a study reported in InformationWeek, and malpractice liability concerns may be the culprit.
Michael Romansky, JD, is a senior lobbyist and vice president of corporate development for the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.
John Caruso, MD, has more than 16 years of neurological surgery experience and currently offers his medical expertise at Neurosurgical Specialists and serves as founder, chairman of the board and medical director of Parkway Surgery Center and Parkway Neuroscience &…
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is adding productivity analysis and error rate tools to its sterile processing benchmarks tool. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on AAMI’s sterile processing benchmarking tool.