At the tail end of 2011, a report in Bloomberg Businessweek highlighted a growing problem in the $300 billion pain market: the increase in severe and unexpected complications for patients who undergo transforaminal epidural steroid injections to treat pain. According…
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The following article is written by Tom Deas Jr., MD, FASGE, FACG , medical director of Fort Worth Endoscopy Center and president-elect of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has also served as a member of the advisory board…
John H. Peloza, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon, founder and medical director of the Center for Spine Care and founding physician partner of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Dallas, which was recently founded through a partnership between…
Mercy Regional Medical Center, based in Lorain, Ohio, is moving ahead with plans to build a new medical center in Avon, Ohio, that will include an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Sun Sentinel report.
Coordinated Health, which specializes in muscular and skeletal medicine and has locations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has announced plans to open a new outpatient surgery center in Hazle Township, Pa., according to a Standard Speaker report (subscription required for…
Coordinated Health, which specializes in muscular and skeletal medicine and has locations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has announced the opening of a new ambulatory surgery center in East Stroudsburg, Pa., according to the Coordinated Health website.
Rick Davis, CEO of Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, explains the hospital's position against a surgeon group's proposed surgery center for Kenai, Alaska, in a Radio Kenai recording.
At the end of 2010, state regulators documented that Abbott Northwestern Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., violated the Conditions of Participation of Anesthesia Services but did not issue any citations or other penalties because the hospital had implemented "adequate corrective…
The CDC has issued a clinical reminder that insulin pens should never be used for more than one person.
The Clorox Co. has announced it has acquired Aplicare and HealthLink, providers of infection control products for the healthcare industry, according to a Clorox news release.