The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced its support for new legislation which would grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the ability to take steps to help prevent drug shortages, including propofol.
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Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), MD, an anesthesiologist-turned-politician who centered his campaign on a planned repeal of the healthcare law, has said he will forego the government-subsidized insurance coverage provided by Congress in favor of keeping his own private plan, according…
The automatic Medicare physicians fee cut, which would go into effect if Congress did not come through with another physician fee fix, would rise to 29.5 percent on Jan. 1, 2012, according to a CMS letter to MedPAC.
The development of new microcameras may lead to disposable endoscopes, according to a news release from Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin, Germany, which has developed the devices with Awaiba GmbH.
The number of patients who required home healthcare after hospital discharge increased by 70 percent from 1997 to 2008, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report.
New York Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski has introduced a bill that would criminalize the reckless infection of patients, according to a Journal News report.
Just two days after Florida's House leaders moved to eliminate pain clinic regulations proposed by the Florida Board of Medicine, a Senate committee has moved to approve the new rules, stirring even more controversy in the debate over pain management…
The American Gastroenterological Association believes that all individuals should have access to the colorectal cancer screening option that works best for them, as decided by the patient and their physician, and advocates that patients should have access to colonoscopies through…
Patients of Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital after facility administrators admitted the hospital failed to properly sterilize an endoscope commonly used to perform colonoscopies, according to a WDSU news report.
Research findings suggest a more positive patient safety culture leads to fewer adverse events in hospitals, according to a study published in the Journal of Patient Safety.