Public Citizen Health Research Group submitted a petition on April 25 asking the FDA to ban surgical and patient examination gloves containing cornstarch powder, according to an Occupational Health & Safety report.
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Drug maker Hospira has confirmed that the company is once again producing the anesthetic Propofol, following a voluntarily recall of the anesthetic in summer 2010, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
AAPC Physician Services Regional Director and ICD-10 instructor Betty Johnson was recently featured in For the Record magazine, encouraging coders to "bone up" on anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and pathophysiology education for ICD-10, according to an AAPC release.
Activation of the protein biomarker CTNNB1 in obese patients was associated with better survival from colorectal cancer and overall survival, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Compromised mental health may be associated with persistent post-operative pain after total knee replacement surgery, according to an Anesthesiology News report based on evidence from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Twenty-eight New England hospitals have formed a new purchasing coalition that aims to reduce costs by as much as 12 percent, according to a report by the New Hampshire Business Review. The Northeast Purchasing Coalition represents nearly 17,000 hospital beds,…
Federal agents have arrested two physicians and six others who are allegedly involved in a New Orleans fraud ring that allegedly submitted more than $12 million false Medicare and Medicaid claims, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau…
After New York City-based Forest Laboratories paid $313 million to settle a fraud case last year, the drugmaker’s chairman and CEO is now facing a ban from doing business with federal health programs, according to a Bloomberg report. Forest and…
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." That well known saying applies well to workflow processes at ambulatory surgery centers, says Jeff Blankinship, CEO of Surgical Notes in Dallas. Rather…
Healthcare Consultants International, a for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, has announced the appointment of Kristine Mighion, MD, MBA, as its managing director and CEO.