A Las Vegas jury has ruled that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and two other drug makers must pay $162.5 million in punitive damages for selling the anesthetic propofol in a way that led three colonoscopy patients to contract hepatitis C, according…
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The first prospective, long-term controlled trial on gastric bypass surgery found that diabetes remission achieved after the surgery was maintained after six years, a MedConnect report said.
Four New York hospitals and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield are teaming together for a collaboration designed to reduce rates of C. difficile, according to a Democrat and Chronicle report.
A study of 340 patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in Boston found that the surgery increases the risk of new-onset alcohol abuse, Medscape Medical News reported.
U.S. District Judge James Mahan has placed a temporary retraining order on the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners' ability to report "negative information" on a physician to the National Practitioner Data Bank, according to a Las Vegas Sun report.
The lead researcher on a new study about pain treatment found that the presence and level of severity of pain symptom clusters affects treatment, Pain Medicine News reported.
Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colo., has closed several units in its psychiatric departments and is not accepting any new patients due to a gastrointestinal illness, according to a KDVR report.
During the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in measuring the effectiveness of medical care. [1] Clinical research in surgical subspecialties focused on physiological outcomes such as ambulation, muscle strength or deficits.[2-4] In recent years, however, there…
CMS has clarified the situations in which a pharmacy can bill for dispensing certain drugs, according to an AAPC release.
In a recent letter, the American Society of Anesthesiologists joined 19 other specialty physician associations in urging members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board as part of their broader deficit reduction package,…