The following is written by Bobby Hillert, executive director of the Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society. The Dec. 16 edition of the Texas Register will include a new rule for Chapter 601 — Informed Consent. The rule, which will…
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The ECRI Institute provides a free, downloadable poster describing emergency procedures for extinguishing fires and caring for patients if a surgical fire should occur.
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Pain Specialists of Austin opened new treatment centers in Kyle and Killeen, Texas, according to a news release.
Scott Strassels, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, assistant professor of pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, says community pharmacists can play an active role in the treatment of pain, according to a Modern Medicine report.
Researchers from Wayne State University, the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered a way to treat macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa by attaching steroids to dendrimer nanoparticles and delivering the drug directly to the retina, according to a…
Daniel Carpenter, a professor of government at Harvard and the author of "Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the F.D.A.", says the decision by Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius to block FDA approval of selling…
Bipartisan legislation that would require medical device manufacturers to track the performance of such products after they were approved for sale was introduced in the Senate yesterday, according to a New York Times report.
HHS has awarded $218 million to 26 hospital organizations, which have been tapped as Hospital Engagement Networks to help identify and spread solutions to reduce healthcare-acquired conditions.
A proposed CMS rule would require manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program to report payments or other transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals to…