The National Institutes of Health has issued rules on payments to physicians and other researchers by drug and device companies as a way to reduce conflicts of interest, according to a Washington Post report.
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Nissin Nahmias, MD, has joined New England Integrative Health Associates in West Hartford, Conn., as a specialist in bariatric procedures and gastrointestinal surgery, according to a West Hartford News report.
A new study finds exfoliation syndrome, an eye condition that can lead to glaucoma, is influenced by geographic factors such as ambient temperature, elevation and sunlight exposure, according to a Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary news release.
New research helps explain why men and women experience pain differently and have different reactions to some pain medications, according to a State University of New York Downstate news release.
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has launched Endoscopy Marketplace, an online practice resource for endoscopists.
Eighteen percent of Ohio adults have no health insurance, up from 12 percent who said they were uninsured in a similar poll five years ago, according to a report by The Republic.
The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a measure 6-3 that would give the state's insurance commissioner the authority to modify or reject "excessive" health insurance rate increases, according to an Insurance News Net report.
The Ohio Supreme Court recently set two new execution dates, despite uncertainties about how the executions will be performed as the state suffers from drug shortages, according to a Mansfield News Journal report.
ePAY Healthcare, a provider of personalized self-service payment applications for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has rolled its patient payment services to the Mirage Endoscopy Center, a Health Inventures-managed facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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