Endo Pharmaceuticals will undergo a rebranding initiative to expand from its core pain medicine business under the new name of Endo Health Solutions, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.
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National Medical Billing Services, a national healthcare revenue cycle management company specializing in servicing ambulatory surgery centers and their affiliated surgeons, has been named to the 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 service providers list by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.
Some Houston hospitals are now paying higher costs due to drug shortages, according to a Houston Business Journal report.
Healthcare centers and hospitals with unused prescriptions can turn to nonprofit startup Sirum for help, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
Most patients with gastroesophagel reflux disease can successfully step down from twice-daily proton pump inhibitor therapy to a daily dose of dexlansoprazole modified release, according to an MD News report.
Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has announced it has signed an agreement with Currie Medical Specialties for intermittent pneumatic compression garments, according to an Amerinet news release.
United Surgical Partners International has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, with revenues for the quarter of $162.0 million, an increase of 5 percent over the third quarter of 2011, according to a USPI…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the FluMist Quadrivalent, the first influenza vaccine to contain four strains of the influenza virus, two influenza A strains and two influenza B strains. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review…
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