Bobby Hillert is an Austin-based healthcare lobbyist and trade association manager. One of his clients is the Texas ASC Society, for which he serves as the executive director. Q: How would you summarize the Texas ASC market in 2011?…
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Physicians at the Texas Eye and Laser Center in Hurst announced they have performed one of the first blade-free cataract surgeries in North Texas, according to a WFAA report.
M.E.Z. Distributors, a medical distribution company, purchased Sterling Surgical Supply, a medical supply, equipment, service and repair company based in Sterling, Va., according to a news release.
Medical device companies and industry groups spent $31.56 million lobbying Congress in Washington, D.C., during the third quarter, according to a MassDevice report.
Richard Meelia, former president and CEO of Covidien, stepped down as the chairman of the company's board of directors after serving less than one year following his retirement last July, according to a MassDevice report.
An expert panel of pain management physicians determined that ziconotide, a non-opioid and non-NSAID analgesic, should be the first-line spinal treatment of nociceptive and neuropathic chronic pain at the 2011 Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference, according to a news release.
Jack D'Angelo, MD, past president of the Richmond County Medical Society in New York, says patient safety is the most important thing to prevent opioid misuse, abuse and diversion, according to a Staten Island Advance report.
The marketing firm 1-800-GET-THIN has promised to make Lap-Band surgery risks more prominent in future ads after receiving a warning letter from the FDA last week, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Five pain management physicians discuss what legislators can do regarding current healthcare legislation to positively impact pain management.
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