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ProVation Medical will host a free webinar on Sept. 29 at 11:00 a.m. CDT titled "Closing the Quality Gap: Evidence to Improve Care."

Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic seeks a new market CEO.

Medical Facilities Corp., which owns controlling interest in four specialty surgical hospitals and one ambulatory surgery center, has announced it will be added to the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index, effective after the close of trading on Sept. 16, according to an…

An ongoing national pediatric quality improvement program launched in 2006 has so far prevented 2,964 central line infections; saved 355 children’s lives, and saved nearly $104 million that would have gone toward treating complications stemming from invasive blood-stream infections, according…

A new survey shows that 44% of patients in U.S. outpatient settings received potentially inadequate relief of moderate-to-severe acute pain, according to a Janssen Pharmaceuticals news release (pdf).

Jafar Hasan, MD, a Chicago plastic surgeon, is developing a new medical device that would close wounds without traditional sutures and leave less scarring than staples, according to a MedCity report.

As Kentucky gets closer to authorizing optometrists to perform certain eye surgeries, the actual scope of their new privileges was outlined by a legislative committee that recently allowed the authorization to proceed, according to a Glasgow Daily Times report.

Several members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called for tightening a 1938 law so that the FDA could improve the safety of imported drugs, according to a Star-Ledger report.

As authorities clamp down on abuse of prescription painkillers and similar substances, more physicians are receiving criminal charges for involvement in fatal overdoses of patients, according to a Reuters report.

Shawn Lunney is vice president of sales and marketing for GMD in Gig Harbor, Wash., which develops generic medical devices.