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Alfredo Dubra, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and biophysics, and the Medical College of Wisconsin received a $250,000, four-year grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to study diseases impacting the retina and the optic nerve, according to a university news…

St. Jude Medical plans to more than double its Plymouth, Minn. location with a 3-floor, 275,000 square foot addition, according to a news release.

Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery, received FDA clearance to market its EndoWrist One Vessel Sealer instrument for use with the da Vinci Surgical System, according to a news release.

Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis assigned pharmacists to check patients' discharge orders before they were released from the hospital and reduced its medication error rate from 92 percent to nearly zero, according to a Star Tribune report.

Advanced Pain Management, based in Greenfield, Wis., and operating nearly 40 clinics in Wisconsin and Minnesota, opened a clinic inside Aspirus Wausau Hospital, in Wausau, Wis., according to a Wausau Daily Herald report.

Endo Pharmaceuticals will pay up to $180 million, plus royalties, to BioDelivery Sciences International in a licensing and development agreement to manufacture, distribute, market and sell BEMA Buprenorphine on a global scale, according to a MarketWatch report.

The physicians of Wilton Surgery Center in Westport, Conn., are promoting National Glaucoma Awareness Month by reaching out to patients about early detection, diagnosis and treatment, according to an Open Press report.

An analysis by the Office of Inspector General showed hospitals reported and recognized only one in seven patient harm events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries.

At the tail end of 2011, a report in Bloomberg Businessweek highlighted a growing problem in the $300 billion pain market: the increase in severe and unexpected complications for patients who undergo transforaminal epidural steroid injections to treat pain. According…

John H. Peloza, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon, founder and medical director of the Center for Spine Care and founding physician partner of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Dallas, which was recently founded through a partnership between…