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B. Braun recently took over Medinic commercial operations and founded B. Braun Serbia, which recently opened and began marketing medical devices under the B. Braun name, according to a B. Braun news release.

St. Joseph Health System in Orange, Calif., has awarded $74,250 to PDI Surgery Center in Windsor, Calif., according to a North Bay Business Journal report.

Jen Johnson, CFA, has been promoted to partner of VMG Health.

Citing a worsening overdose rate, drug treatment counselors are urging drug oversight agencies to tighten controls over hydrocodone, the second most-abused medicine, according to a Bloomberg Business Week report.

A new microscope can see details at the nanoscale by combining X-rays and an algorithm similar to one used to sharpen images from the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a UC San Diego news release.

A new program at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., seeks to recruit and train Spanish-speaking medical students to improve medical services and communication delivered to the Spanish-speaking population, according to a Californian report. Read the full report in Becker’s…

More than half of glaucoma patients experience temporary but sometimes severe vision loss after getting a trabeculectomy, surgery that drains fluid from the eye, according to an Archives of Ophthalmology report.

In a study of pharmaceutical ads in medical journals, only 18 percent followed FDA guidelines for drug ads, according to a PLoS One journal report.

CMS plans to proceed with a program requiring suppliers of durable medical equipment to bid to be able to sell their products to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a Bloomberg report.

After adjusting for pain intensity, a new study finds few significant differences in characteristics of chronic and subacute back pain, according to a Journal of Pain report.