Dr. Ivo Aaron Miller has joined the Center for Oral and Facial Surgery in Chattanooga and Ft. Oglethorpe, Tenn., according to a report from WTVC NewsChannel 9.
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Recalled alcohol wipes responsible for at least two patient deaths may still be in use, according to a Journal Sentinel news report.
Dr. Henry Rosenberg, president of Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States, discusses preventing exposure for a malignant hyperthermia-susceptible patient to potent gas anesthetics that may trigger an MH episode in his latest blog entry on the MHAUS website.
Excela Health may face 72 lawsuits filed by coronary patients who claim two of the Greensburg, Pa.-based system’s physicians performed unnecessary heart surgeries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
A former cardiologist from Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., is on trial over allegations that he unnecessarily implanted hundreds of stents into patients’ healthy arteries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
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The owners of a healthcare business in Palos Hills, Ill., and a suspended podiatrist were arrested yesterday and charged with illegally accepting more than $1.5 million in fraudulent Medicare payments, according to a local ABC 7 News report. Bahir Haj…
A woman has been awarded more than $525,000 in a lawsuit that alleged clinicians at Lower Bucks Hospital in Bucks County, Pa., had acted negligently when they left a sponge in her abdomen during surgery, according to a Courier Times…
London-based AstraZeneca will face a Sept. 2012 trial over a lawsuit filed by Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. State officials claim the pharmaceutical company defrauded the state’s Medicaid program by failing to outline a drug’s risks, according to a Bloomberg…
Backed by the likes of Johnson & Johnson and Mayo Clinic, Nevro Corp. has raised $58 million to prepare for a hoped-for U.S. launch of its spinal cord stimulator for chronic pain, according to a report by Mass Device.
The FDA has unveiled proposed rules to regulate mobile health applications, such as smartphones and tablets, as medical devices that need agency approval, according to an FDA draft guidance.