Attendees at the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference (Oct. 27-29; Chicago) will have an easy way to find the sessions they want to attend and learn about speakers, sponsors and exhibitors thanks to an interactive conference application developed by…
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Here are the 50 states with the number of Medicaid fraud investigations from fiscal year 2010. Information is from the Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and is based on Medicaid Fraud Control Units. Investigations are…
The Ohio Patient Safety Institute provides a free, downloadable sample anesthesia awareness policy.
Belleville (Ill.) Hospital has joined the nationwide Silent Hospitals Help Healing campaign, which aims to reduce noise levels to 55 decibels — the equivalent to conversation noise levels, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report. Read the full report in…
A microbiology technical specialist at the Brant Community Healthcare System laboratory in Ontario, Canada, has discovered a possible new strain of vancomycin resistant enterococci-like bacterium, according to a news release.
The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium S'axt Hit Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka has added Ann D. Patterson, MD, to its medical staff, according to an Alaska Native News report.
For the first time, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were able to use mice to demonstrate that they can control opioid-induced itching without affecting the drug's ability to provide pain relief, a news release said.…
Spacelabs Healthcare will introduce Arkon, a new anesthesia system, as well as the Xprezzon patient monitor and a Multigas Analyzer, at the American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in October, according to a MarketWatch release.
The third and final phase of Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Public Health — which opened in Los Angeles on Oct. 7 — will include an outpatient ambulatory surgery center as well as a pharmacy and specialty clinics, according…
Scientists in Australia have developed a drug that could prevent blindness from cataracts by targeting a specific protein in the eye, according to a FOX News report.