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Missouri insurance officials have delayed spending millions of federal dollars on the computer technology needed to implement a health insurance exchange as mandated under the federal healthcare law, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
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The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Foundation has received a $250,000 donation from ERBE USA to help construct a new training facility, according to an ASGE news release.
If U.S. obesity trends continue, 50 percent of American men and 45-52 percent of American women would be obese by 2030, according to a Lancet report.
Steven T. Nguyen, MD, an anesthesiologist specializing in pain management, has joined the New England Pain Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., according to an iBerkshires report.
The Medical Board of California is investigating charges that a Southern California physician withheld part of Demerol injections for pain patients and took them himself, according to a Lake Elsinore-Wildomar Patch report.
The Kentucky Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons and the Kentucky Medical Association are warning that proposed training standards for optometrists to perform eye surgery are inadequate, according to a joint news release from the organizations.
Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said the healthcare reform law's medical device tax, due to go into effect in 2013, could cut jobs in his state, according to a Medical Device Now report.