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Although quality care has always been a point of interest for all medical specialties, including pain management, healthcare reform mandates are putting increased pressure on healthcare providers to deliver high-quality care and do so cost-efficiently. Ira Fox, MD, founder of…
Twenty people, including three physicians, have been charged in Florida for their alleged participation in a $200 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme, according to a Department of Justice news release. The 38-count indictment alleges that the defendants, who worked for…
Healthcare facilities in Indiana are investing in new medical equipment to make treatment of obese patients safer and easier, according to an Indiana News Center report.
Rep. Lynn Luker (R-Boise) of Idaho has proposed a bill to limit state-funded medical procedures for patients who don't pay their medical bills, according to an Idaho Reporter report.
The modified disposable laryngeal mask airway (OPLAC) performed better than the LMA Classic model in a study reported in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Epidrum, a device designed to refine identification of the epidural space, significantly increased success rates of epidural identification for inexperienced operators, according to a study presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Dental implants, facial injectables and new surgical techniques will dominate the medical technology market in terms of growth over the next five years, according to a Millennium Research Group study.
Christian Piccolo, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist who specializes in pain medicine, has joined Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., according to a hospital news release.
Olympus has selected Michael Woodford as president and CEO of the company to replace Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, who will become chairman of the company, according to a report from The Independent.