Pulmonary embolisms are a common risk associated with hip and knee replacement procedures, and the risk is still relatively high even after patients are treated with blood thinners prior to and immediately following joint replacement surgery, according to a news…
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U.S. seniors who participate in the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan may achieve savings that extend beyond the cost of medications, according to a study published in the July 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Missouri's legislature ended this year's legislative session without passing a bill to create a state health insurance exchange, a system required by President Obama's healthcare law starting in 2014, according to a Heartland Institute report.
Protesters have been picketing a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pain clinic, claiming it is a pill mill that is responsible for the death of a 57-year-old nurse from a prescription drug overdose, according to a report by the Sun Sentinel.
A professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Medical Electronic Device Realization Center said upcoming medical devices would move a great deal of healthcare into the patient's home, according to a report by EE Times.
Giving children intravenous fluids early in the course of an E. coli O157:H7 infection lowered their risk of developing severe kidney failure, according to a news release by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
A new FDA draft guidance specifies what kinds of changes in existing medical devices would require new 510(k) submissions, according to an FDA release.
Physical inactivity and high body mass index are linked to an increased risk of chronic pain in the low back and neck, according to a report by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The drug idebenone improved the vision and perception of color in patients with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, which leads to loss of sight in both eyes, according to a report in Brain.
With lap-band surgery failing to induce weight loss in a growing number of patients, a Dallas bariatric surgeon said he has been successfully using gastric sleeve revision surgery for them, according to a report by San Francisco Chronicle.