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…
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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…
A Newark, N.J., man has been charged with refusing to forward an insurance payment to Northwood Surgery Center in Lower Nazareth Township, N.J., according to a Lehigh Valley Live report.
The Michigan House has approved a bill that would cap a public emlployer'’s contribution at $15,000 for family coverage and $5,500 for individual policy coverage, according to an MLive report.
Health insurance rates will increase for more than 1.5 million California residents starting today, according to a Sacramento Bee report.
