The Advanced Medical Technology Association has issued a statement commending the U.S. House of Representatives passage of the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2011, according to a news release.
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Beverly Hospital at Danvers (Mass.) Pain Management Center is launching a new integrated care model that will combine traditional pain medication and injection services with behavioral health, physical and integrative medicine treatments.
Researchers at Xavier University suggest hospitals use chemicals that are not approved by the EPA to sanitize hospital beds, and most hospitals do not follow recommendations for appropriate use of these chemicals.
Neil Kirschen, MD, is an anesthesiologist with Pain Management Center of Long Island (N.Y.). He also serves as chief of pain management at the department of anesthesiology at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y.
Christian Ellison is senior vice president of corporate development at Health Inventures, which has brokered and managed physician and hospital joint ventures in ASCs and surgical hospitals for more than 15 years. Mr. Ellison has been instrumental in building Health…
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Patients who undergoing surgery for spinal stenosis face a higher risk of complication if the surgeon performs less than four such procedures each year, according to a study published in Neurosurgery.
Public and positive reinforcement may improve physicians' compliance with medication reconciliation, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
The Food and Drug Administration this week assigned oral opioid NKTR-181 to a fast-track development program for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain.
Commissioners in Flagler County in Florida this week voted unanimously to extend a temporary moratorium on new pain management clinics for an additional six months, according to a News-Journal report.
Digital medicine can have an alienating effect on the physician-patient relationship if relied on too heavily by physicians, according to an Atlantic editorial by John Henning Schumann, MD, who directs the internal medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma's School…