In a Dec. 2009 online survey, 51.9 percent of members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology cited anti-vascular endothelial growth factors for "wet" age-related macular degeneration as the most significant advancement in treatment over the past decade, according to an…
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The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would allow parents of adult children to sue medical providers for pain and suffering if their children died as a result of medical negligence, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.
A survey of more than 1,500 opinion leaders from the healthcare industry, academia and government found that an overwhelming majority of the leaders believe nurses should have more influence in health reform.
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The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing has elected Linda Brixey, RN, as its national president-elect for 2010-2011, according to an AAACN news release.
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The election of Republican Scott Brown, an opponent of the Democrats' health reform bill, as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts has left Congressional Democrats divided on how to complete the reform process, according to a report by the New…
A study from the University of Pittsburgh found significant overuse in surveillance colonoscopy among patients at low-risk for colorectal cancer but significant under-use in patients at high-risk, according to a report in Reuters Health.
The Glaucoma Research Foundation has named January as Glaucoma Awareness Month, according to the GRF.
Medline Industries, the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, has been named the exclusive distributor for ClearCount Medical Solutions' SmartWand-DTXTM and SmartSponge System, the only FDA-cleared systems using radio-frequency identification to both count and locate surgical…