Rush University Medical Center's new $654 million patient tower in Chicago will be able to handle a pandemic or an outbreak of infectious disease when it opens early next year, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
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SourceMedical, a provider of clinical and business software solutions for ambulatory surgery centers, has published the fall 2011 issue of its ASC client newsletter TheSource.
Gwendolyn Washington, MD, a primary care physician based in Southfield, Mich., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following a conviction for corruption, healthcare fraud and prescription drug trafficking, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
Each year, there are nearly 100,000 emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in elderly patients, and a small group of blood thinners and diabetes medications cause two-thirds of those emergency hospitalizations, according to research by the Centers for Disease Control…
Stage three or four pressure ulcer was the most-reported hospital-acquired condition in 2010 among Indiana hospitals, according to the Indiana State Department of Health's Medical Error Report for 2010.
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A new pillow has been invented that may help reduce the risk of patients acquiring hospital-acquired infections through the use of technology found in heart stents, according to an Irish Times report.
Cataract surgery is gaining popularity for patients with glaucoma because it is less risky than glaucoma surgery, according to an OSN SuperSite report.
Merrill Goozner, the author of the author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, questions the assumption that a greater push toward compliance has reduced off-label drug promotion in an editorial in MassDevice.
GE unveiled the Discovery IGS 730 interventional imaging system at the Radiological Society of North America meeting, according to a MedGadget report.
The FDA has approved Philips' whole body scanning system that uses both PET, or positron emission tomography, and MRI, to detect cancer, according to a Washington Post report.