Generic drug manufacturer Teva ceased propofol production three weeks after a jury awarded $500 million to a patient who contracted hepatitis C from a procedure in which he received the anesthetic, according to a Fierce Pharma Manufacturing report.
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The federal health reform law will drastically cut the number of uninsured Wisconsin residents by 2016 while driving up premiums for some consumers, according to a Forbes report.
A New York-based study found unemployed obese patients are more likely to find jobs after bariatric surgery than those who don't get the surgery, according to a Crain's New York Business report.
U.S. deaths from opioids more than tripled from 1999-2007 and now surpass deaths from skin cancer, HIV and alcoholic liver disease, according to a BMJ report.
A new form of nasal drug administration for pain medications could improve response time by directly affecting the central nervous system, according to a Anesthesia & Analgesia report.
Researchers have mapped hydrogenotrophic microbes in the colon to help gastroenterologists and other clinicians better understand their density and locations, according to an International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal abstract.
Morphine and other strong pain medications may be directed to the central nervous system through a new approach to nasal drug administration, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests discharged patients from hospital ICUs are at greater risk of unintentional discontinuation of prescription medications than all discharged patients. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on…
Joseph Kubacki, MD, former ophthalmology chair at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, has been convicted of charging for $3 million in claims for care done by medical residents, according to an Associated Press report.
Pennsylvania physicians Lawrence Wean, MD, and John Kotyo, MD, were found guilty of negligence in the care of a patient who later died of sepsis, according to a Delco Times report.