Vaccinating children aged two to four years against seasonal influenza resulted in a 34 percent decline in emergency visits for flu-like illnesses, according to research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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The Colorado Attorney General's office will assist the group responsible for setting up a state health insurance exchange as it fights to undo the federal healthcare reform law that created the exchanges, according to a Pueblo Chieftain report.
Ether Dome, a play about the discovery of anesthesia, premiered last Wednesday at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, according to a CultureMap Houston report.
The president of Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., recently explained the rationale behind the district's switch in anesthesia providers, a decision that has drawn some criticism from the local community, according to a Visalia Times-Delta report.
Neuraxial anesthesia provides better quality of recovery than general anesthesia for patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will issue an executive order today creating a health insurance exchange, according to a Providence Journal report.