U.S. deaths from opioids more than tripled from 1999-2007 and now surpass deaths from skin cancer, HIV and alcoholic liver disease, according to a BMJ report.
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A new form of nasal drug administration for pain medications could improve response time by directly affecting the central nervous system, according to a Anesthesia & Analgesia report.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests discharged patients from hospital ICUs are at greater risk of unintentional discontinuation of prescription medications than all discharged patients. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on…
Joseph Kubacki, MD, former ophthalmology chair at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, has been convicted of charging for $3 million in claims for care done by medical residents, according to an Associated Press report.
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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