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…
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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…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal brought the first HIPAA action under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in a suit against Health Net of Connecticut, according to report by AHA News Now.
Journal Square Surgical Center in Jersey City, N.J., has named Jeffrey Shanton as its new director of business development, according to a JSSC news release.
In spite of recent reports that showed vertebroplasty was as effective as placebo, the Society of Interventional Radiology has come out in support of the procedure as an effective procedure for properly selected patients, as the society says was not…
The California Department of Managed Health Care has set maximum wait times for HMO patients who request appointments with physicians and is the first state to do so, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Patients that are obese should be aware of possible challenges when it comes to administering anesthesia during surgical procedures, according to a report in HealthDay.
Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Ill., has been awarded three-year certification as a Bariatric Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, according to a report by the Herald-News.