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Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill., has begun offering music therapy in its cardiac and cancer care units, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report.

An increasing number of medical schools are adopting longitudinal integrated clerkship programs to train medical students while promoting patient-centered care, according to an American Medical News report.

Here are five best practices for pain management practices.

Five pain management physicians discuss what procedures have been the most beneficial for patients in their practice in 2011.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will soon decide whether vision care will be available only from comprehensive medical insurers and would exclude stand-alone plans like VSP, which covers a third of all Californians, according to a Mercury…

A recent study found the Covidien Endo Stitch reduced overall hospitalization costs by approximately $1,800 and cut operating room time by roughly 40 minutes during laparoscopic hysterectomies, according to a MedGadget report.

SmallCellLungCancer.net created an infographic depicting how medical technology has changed the medical industry by fostering diagnoses, creating less invasive treatments and shortening hospital stays, according to the infographic.

Four pharmaceutical companies are in the final stages of development for a new painkiller that is 10 times stronger than Vicodin and contains a pure version of hydrocodone, and experts are worried it could lead to increased abuse, according to…

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University examined curriculum of North American medical schools and found pain education is "limited, variable and often fragmentary," according to findings published in The Journal of Pain.

More than 230,000 medical device-related adverse events were reported to the Food and Drug Administration in 2010 alone, approximately 30,000 of which had "very serious" outcomes such as hospitalization or death, according to research conducted by Clarimed.