The American Academy of Pain Medicine urged the public to carefully weigh the role of pain medications in recent deaths of military personnel, according to a release by the academy.
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Medicaid will stop paying reimbursing states for providing medical care for provider-preventable events, including healthcare-acquired conditions, effective July 1, according to a CMIO report.
Otis Brawley, MD, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, discussed potential treatments for tailbone pain in a CNN blog post.
Health insurer WellPoint announced Wednesday it plans to buy CareMore, a California company that provides Medicare Advantage plans, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Patient safety expert Peter J. Pronovost, MD, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named director of the newly established Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, according to…
Physicians' Surgery Center in Carbondale, Ill., recently achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
Merck and Intercell have ended clinical trials testing the efficacy of a potential staph infection vaccine, according to a BusinessWeek news report.
Two anesthesiologists debated using nerve blocks to treat chronic pain at the Canadian Pain Society's 2011 Annual Meeting, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
Delaware state congressman Sen. Michael Katz has accused Rep. Bryon Short of plagiarizing a bill that Sen. Katz says he wrote with other medical professionals, according to a WBOC report.
Five U.S. senators have asked the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to launch a probe into physician-owned distributorships to determine their legality, according to a Wall Street Journal report. PODs, which exist in at least…