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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.

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Florida has indicted 32 people involved in four pain management clinics that have been cited as pill mills, according to a CBS Miami report.

Patients with uveitis, an eye condition leading to vision loss, responded equally well to two common medical and surgical treatments over a period of two years, according to a Penn Medicine report.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and CEO of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and the Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers (SIPMS); medical director of the Pain Management Center of Paducah (Ky.);…

The Advanced Medical Technology Association, or AdvaMed, the lobbying group for the medical device industry, spent about $366,000 in lobbying in the second quarter of 2011, according to an Associated Press report.

Recent data suggest the trend in infections for heart surgery (coronary artery bypass graft) is decreasing, while trends in infections for colon, hip and hysterectomy surgeries are increasing among Iowa hospitals, according to the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Read the full…