Shares of surgical device maker Kips Bay Medical continue to decrease, dropping sharply following news that the Food and Drug Administration wants more data before it will allow the company's eSVS surgical mesh to undergo clinical trials, according to a…
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HCA, which operates 164 hospitals and 111 ambulatory surgery centers, announced that two veteran HCA division presidents will undertake new responsibilities for surgery centers in various states, according to a MarketWatch report.
Advanced Sterilization Products has launched a new education website — hosted at www.aspjj.com/us/prof-ed — that provides access to scientific evidence, practice guidance, government regulations and standards to help protect healthcare patients and workers against infection.
Sharps are objects that can penetrate a worker’s skin, such as needles, scalpels, broken glass, capillary tubes and the exposed ends of dental wires. If blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM), as defined in the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard…
Facing a "stagnant" U.S. market, the medical supplies industry is focusing more on international operations, according to a Paragon Report news release.
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The former office manager of a shuttered Columbus, Ohio, pain clinic has received a 10-year, 10-month sentence in federal prison for illegally distributing prescriptions, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
A New York podiatrist will pay $800,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that he submitted claims to Medicare for services that could not have been performed in the time period reported, according to a news release from the…
Former Rep. Phil English (R-Pa.) has been named coordinator of the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative, according to a Health Industry Group Purchasing Association news release (pdf).
Johns Hopkins researchers found a 6.9 percent rate of hospitalization within 30 days of prostate biopsy, compared to a 2.9 percent hospitalization rate among a control group of men who did not have a prostate biopsy, according to a Johns…
The National Quality Forum Board of Directors has endorsed three measures focused on child health, as well as one measure focused on improving patient safety, according to an NQF release.