Florida's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, meant to stop unauthorized use of prescription painkillers, goes into effect on Sept. 1, according to a St. Petersburg Times report.
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Cook Endoscopy is recalling its Disposable Hemostasis Clip, DCH-7-230, according to a Total Recall report.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology is disputing a cost comparison between cataract surgery and a primary care office visit, calculated by a Washington analyst in the Wall Street Journal, according to an AAO news release.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology documentation, coding and image integration, according to a news release (pdf).
The Office of Inspector General conducted unannounced visits to 132 independent diagnostic testing facilities in the Los Angeles area, finding 46 of them to be noncompliant with selected Medicare standards, according to an OIG report. Of those that were noncompliant,…
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More than 60 percent of hospital nurses' and physicians' uniforms tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make the following 10 recommendations to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, according to a UCLA Health release.
Patients at hospitals in Tennessee are safer on several key measures today than they were three years ago, due in part to the work by the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety, according to a news release.