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Edward H. Livingston, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and contributing editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association, wrote in a JAMA editorial that BMI is not always an adequate indicator for bariatric surgery.
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A new endoscopy center has opened in the New York borough of Manhattan, according to a news release.
The management of Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, is lobbying against a surgeon group's proposed surgery center for Kenai, Alaska, according to a press release from the hospital.
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GE Healthcare has paid $30 million to settle allegations that its subsidiary, Amersham Health, violated the False Claims Act by providing misleading information to Medicare that resulted in overpayments, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Amersham…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Vioguard's self-sanitizing computer keyboard for use in healthcare settings.
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