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Practice Partners in Healthcare develops, manages and purchases a minority ownership interest in ambulatory surgery centers. The company was founded by Larry Taylor, president and CEO, in 2005.

Murphy Healthcare Group, based in Montvale, N.J., and New York, has developed more than 30 ambulatory surgery centers since 1990, with current ASC partners in states including New Jersey, Florida and Connecticut.  The company was founded by CEO Robert Murphy.

Greg DeConciliis, PA-C, CASC, an administrator and physician assistant at Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites in Waltham, Mass., describes four trends in outpatient orthopedic surgery.

A Food and Drug Administration panel of health experts unanimously voted for the approval of Optimer Pharmaceutical's antibiotic, which fights Clostridium difficile infections in patients, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek news report.

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