More than 125 pain management physicians came to Washington to persuade Congress to pass tighter restrictions on opioids and other addictive pain medications, according to a report by NPR.
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Minnesota's entire Congressional delegation has sent a letter to the FDA criticizing its review process for new medical devices, according to a report by MedCity.
The Senate Finance Committee has removed a provision from the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill that would have reduced Medicare reimbursement for imaging procedures, according to a news release by the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance.
To promote safe work practices, healthcare personnel need to have an awareness of the risk of injury throughout the time a sharp is exposed and use a combination of strategies to protect themselves and their co-workers throughout the handling of…
A subsidiary of GE Healthcare is developing a contrast agent that can help detect nearly invisible colon cancer polyps, according to a report by News Medical.
Married people had better outcomes than single people in a study of colon cancer patients, according to a report in Clinical Oncology.
Medical device sales representatives will have less access to physicians under accountable care organizations, according to a report by the Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $352 million in grants to help improve disaster preparedness of hospitals and health care systems.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a part of the CDC, offers a free, downloadable brochure on waste anesthetic gases.
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has lost thousands of names of applicants for medical aid, marking the second time the department has lost a large amount of data in the last year, according to a Denver…