A Consumer Reports poll found that 77 percent of respondents had high or moderate concern that they or someone in their family might be harmed by a hospital-acquired infection, according to a Safe Patient Project news release.
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In 1980, female physicians comprised 11.6 percent of the physician workforce; by 2009, they had grown to 29.6 percent of the total physician population. According to a 2008 report titled "Gender Disparities in Physician Income and Advancement" by the American…
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association representatives are drafting comprehensive legislation to resolve issues facing the ASC community and give patients better access to ASCs, according to an ASC Association release.
HHS has released a 429-page proposed rule on Medicare accountable care organizations. Comments on the proposed rule will be accepted for 60 days. ACOs are slated to start in Jan. 2012.
CMS has made several changes which affect the reimbursement of drugs and biologics in ambulatory surgery centers, according a report from the ASC Association in its ASCA Government Affairs Update and documentation from CMS.
Propofol decreases toxic damage to cells from radiograph radiation through inhibition of gap junction activity, according to a study published in the April 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Medical-related bankruptcies spiked significantly from 2002-2007, according to David Himmelstein, professor of public health at City University in New York and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Supreme Court justices recently offered arguments over whether generic drug-makers should be held to the same level of accountability as brand-name prescription drug-makers on updating warning labels, according to a CNN news report.
Scott C. Bickman, an Anaheim Hills, Calif.-based anesthesiologist, will be barred from prescribing controlled substances following his alleged involvement in the purchase and illegal sale of a large number of addictive painkillers, according to an Orange County Register report.
Research findings showed the pool of 84 pain descriptors from the McGill Pain Questionnaire can be condensed into a subset of 36 descriptors that fit into 12 categories to describe chronic pain, according to a study published in The Journal…