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Healthcare experts from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Safe Injection Practices Coalition and other organizations spoke at a teleconference on safe injection practices, urging healthcare professionals to do more in order to protect patients from infection and injury.

The overall rate of infections reported by Pennsylvania hospitals decreased by approximately 6 percent from 2009-2010, according to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's executive summary of its 2010 Annual Report.

A judge has rejected a plea agreement that would have sent Chicago surgeon Mark Weinberger, MD, — nicknamed “The Nose Doctor” — to prison for four years on 22 counts of fraud, according to a Chicago Tribune report. U.S. District…

The state of Tennessee has made a drug database available to help physicians determine which patients seek prescription drugs for their pain and which patients seek medications for drug abuse, according to a Tennessean news report.

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