Pennsylvania physicians Lawrence Wean, MD, and John Kotyo, MD, were found guilty of negligence in the care of a patient who later died of sepsis, according to a Delco Times report.
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People who regularly use certain applications on a mobile device are three times more likely to go online at least once a day for medical information than other Internet users, according to a Health Tech report.
A Beckman Coulter facility in Brea, Calif., has been issued an FDA warning letter for failing to follow required procedures in making design changes of its photometer boards, according to the warning letter.
Ron Anderson, MD, CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, says Parkland Memorial Hospital will fix the violations that threaten its Medicare status, telling the Dallas Business Journal, "We're going to fix this and go on…The stakes are…
Par Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay $154 million to five states to settle a lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of defrauding Medicaid programs in Texas and four other states, according to an American-Statesman report. Par, based in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., was…
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A Michigan program that features a checklist and other critical components helped drive down bloodstream infections while yielding savings of more than $1 million for each hospital, according to a Johns Hopkins release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital…
A recently discovered combination therapy worked so well against C. difficile that a team of researchers is preparing to test it in a clinical trial, according to a news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on C.…
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has partnered with Provista, a supply chain improvement company, to launch a new program aimed at aesthetic and reconstructive surgery-focused providers, according to a Provista news release.
Last year, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas sent letters to two separate groups of women, warning them of possible contact with dirty instruments, according to a Houston Chronicle report.