Smith & Nephew has acquired Tenet Medical Engineering, a Canadian company that sells surgical patient positioning equipment for arthroscopic surgery, according to a news release from Smith & Nephew.
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In a survey of a wide range of pain management modalities, only about half of treated patients had a response and the pain was reduced only about 30 percent, according to a report in the Lancet.
Nearly half of hospital materials managers expect supply spending at their hospitals to decline over the next year, according to a news release from Novation.
Chicago — The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the national association for surgery centers, and ASC Communications, publisher of Becker's ASC Review, announce Eveia Health Consulting and Management Co., has been named a sponsor for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers…
Examining the mouth lining may detect risk of colon cancer, according to a report in Familial Cancer.
A review in the journal Spine found that spinal manipulative therapy has significant but very small benefits for patients with chronic low back pain, according to a news release by Wolters Kluwer Health, the publisher of Spine.
Combining white light endoscopy with magnifying narrow-band imaging shows promise for achieving accurate diagnosis of early gastric cancer, according to a report by Internal Medicine News.
Dan Laird, MD, an anesthesiologist based in Puyallup, Wash., has sued a local anesthesia group alleging he was rejected from the group because he is gay, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer report.
New York lawmakers reached a consensus on a less restrictive version of Sen. Kemp Hannon's insurance exchange bill, The New York Health Benefit Exchange Act, which asks the state to set up an exchange as a public benefit corporation with…
Mississippi health officials are determining how to most effectively set up and operate a health insurance exchange, a program that must be implemented by Jan. 1, 2014, based on the healthcare reform law, according to a Clarion Ledger report.