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The Joint Commission has announced it has released the fifth in a series of animated videos to encourage patients to become active participants in their healthcare, with the latest 60-second video focusing on children and how they should feel confident…
Zoll Medical Corp. has received an FDA warning letter for allegedly failing to validate the battery life of its automated external defibrillators, according to the warning letter.
The American Pain Society lauded a call for multidisciplinary pain care and improved pain training for all clinicians in a recent Institute of Medicine report, according to a release by the society.
The world market for electron and scanning probe microscopes will exceed $2.1 billion a year by 2017, due in part to increasing demand in the healthcare sector for precise, high-resolution imagery, according to a release by MarketResearch.com.
A new study shows massage therapy can help relieve some people who suffer from chronic back pain, but benefits lasted no more than a year, according to a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
A new study has found that food and dietary supplements rich in folates appeared to reduce colorectal cancer risk, according to a release by the American Gastroenterological Association.
The incidence of colorectal cancer among the target population of older Americans declined from 2003-2007, especially in states with higher screening rates, according to a release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Research findings from Lifespan health system in Providence, R.I., showed that a molecular method detects significantly more patients with positive cases of C. diff than other methods, according to a health system news release.
Research findings suggest approximately 40 percent of patient days of fluoroquinolone antibiotics are unnecessary, according to a study published in BMJ Infectious Diseases.